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Now the proof that what I am saying is true, and that Theophemus
began the assault, needs, I think, nothing else for its establishment than the
testimony of the woman whom these witnesses have stated that Theophemus was
ready to deliver up. By means of this testimony Theophemus, whose case came
first into court, seeing that I did not enter a special plea or an affidavit for
delay, since these measures had once been a disadvantage to me in a former suit,
deceived the jurors, saying that the witnesses whom I had brought forward gave
false testimony, but that this woman would tell the truth if she were put to the
torture.
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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