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observe this also, that many worthy citizens were friends of the defendant and
looked after his affairs while Timotheus was abroad in the service of the king,
and yet not one of these has dared to testify on his behalf either that
Philondas did not receive from the bank the freight of the timber, or that,
having received it, he paid it back; or, again, that any one of them settled for
the freight of the timber which Philondas brought and which had been given to
the defendant by Amyntas. For they deem it a matter of higher import to
themselves to preserve their character as worthy and honorable men than to do a
favor to Timotheus by giving false testimony.
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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