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Further, it has been
testified to you by witnesses that Parmeno forbade Aristocles to give judgement
against him without the concurrence of his co-arbitrators. When, therefore, it
is shown that the same person has made away with the document in accordance with
the terms of which the arbitration was to be made, and declares that he has made
the decision without his co-arbitrators, and in defiance of the notice
forbidding him to do so, how can you with any fairness credit the fellow and
condemn me? Consider this, men of the jury:
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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