[20]
I summoned Aphobus to
give evidence against Demo, his uncle and a partner in his crimes. I wrote out
the testimony which he now attacks as false and ordered him to make a deposition
to it. At first he brazenly refused, but when the arbitrator bade him depose, or
deny the fact under oath, he deposed, sorely against his will. And yet if the
man was a slave, and had not been already admitted by Aphobus here to be free,
what in the world induced him to make this deposition? Why did he not deny it on
oath, and so get free of the affair?
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.