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He asserts that my
mother is a vendor of ribbons and that everybody has seen her. Well then, there
ought to be many to testify from knowledge who she is, and not from hearsay
only. If she was an alien, they ought to have examined the market-tolls, and
have shown whether she paid the alien's tax, and from what country she came; and
if she were a slave, then the one who had bought her should by all means have
come to give evidence against her, or the one who sold her, or in default of
them, someone else to prove that she had lived as a slave or had been set free.
But as it is, Eubulides has proved not one of these things; he has merely, in my
opinion, indulged in every form of abuse. For this is what a blackmailer is; he
makes all manner of charges, but proves nothing.
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