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Stop reading. Bear in mind that the words are
“of the will of Pasio.” Now persons who wished to bear
witness to the truth—assuming that it is absolutely established that
the challenge was tendered, which it was not—ought to have given their
testimony in the following way.Read the
deposition again from the beginning.“Deposition. . . depose
that they were present before the arbitrator Teisias . . .”We do depose; for we were present. Read on.“. . . when Phormio
challenged Apollodorus . . .”This,
too, they might properly have stated, assuming that he really tendered the
challenge.“. . . if he
declared that the document was not a copy of the will of Pasio . . .”
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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