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For is it not an outrageous
thing, men of tlie jury, that he should state—as he will presently in
his speech—that he is an adopted son, while in his affidavit he did
not dare to write this? Or that, while in the affidavit the protest is made as
though for a son of the body, the speech that will presently be made will be on
behalf of an adopted son? If they are going to make their defence conflict with
the affidavit, surely either what they say, or what they swore, is false. It was
with good reason that they did not add to the affidavit mention of the adoption,
for in that case they would have had to add the words “ adopted by
so-and-so.” But Archiades never did adopt them; they adopted
themselves, in order to rob us of the inheritance.
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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