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Having accepted
the oath, since he was aware that many would know that he had perjured himself,
he did not present himself for the swearing, but, as though he could get free of
the oath by an action, he summoned Parmeno into court. When both actions had
been instituted, on the advice of persons present they proceeded to an
arbitration, and after drawing up an agreement they submitted the matter to one
common arbitrator, Phocritus, a fellow-country-man of theirs; and each one
appointed one man to sit with Phocritus, Apaturius choosing Aristocles of
Oea,1 and Parmeno choosing me.
1 A deme of the tribe Oeneïs.
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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