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I knew,
men of the jury, that I should find the whole contest centring about the
deposition inserted in the record, and that it would be regarding the truth or
falsehood of this that you would cast your votes, and I therefore determined
that the first step for me to take was to offer Aphobus a challenge. What, then,
did I do? I offered to surrender to him for examination by torture a slave who
knew how to read and write, and who had been present when Aphobus made the
admission in question, and who wrote down the statement of the witness. This man
had been ordered by me not to use any fraud or trickery, nor to write down some
and suppress others of the statements made by the plaintiff regarding the
matters at issue, but simply to write the absolute truth, and what Aphobus
actually said.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
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