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For when they might
have got rid of all trouble, and have avoided the risk which they run in coming
into your court, by establishing in fact the truth of their testimony, they have
refused to deliver up the woman, whom they have testified that Theophemus was
ready to deliver up, and had offered to deliver up before the arbitrator,
Pythodorus of Cedae,1 but whose surrender I, in fact, demanded,
as the witnesses who were then present in court testified, and will now testify.
And Theophemus has not impeached them for giving testimony that was not true,
nor does he proceed against them for false witness.
1 Cedae was a deme of the tribe Erectheïs.
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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