Demosthenes, Against Stephanus I, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 17

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[17] Well, my father died at Athens, the arbitration took place in the Painted Stoa,¹ and these men have deposed that Amphias produced the document before the arbitrator. Then, if it was genuine, the document ought to have been put into the box,² and the one producing it should have so testified, in order that the jurymen might have reached a decision in accordance with the truth and after an inspection of the seals; and I, on my part, if anyone was wronging me, might have proceeded against him.

Against Stephanus I. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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Apollodorus Against Stephanus, Charged with False Testimony I (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 2. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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κατὰ Στεφάνου ψευδομαρτυριῶν α΄ Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 17 focus

[17] Ἀθήνησιν μὲν τοίνυν ὁ πατὴρ ἐτελεύτησεν οὑμός, ἐγίγνετο δʼ ἡ δίαιτʼ ἐν τῇ ποικίλῃ στοᾷ, μεμαρτυρήκασι δʼ οὗτοι παρέχειν τὸ γραμματεῖον Ἀμφίαν πρὸς τὸν διαιτητήν. οὐκοῦν εἴπερ ἀληθὲς ἦν, ἐχρῆν αὐτὸ τὸ γραμματεῖον εἰς τὸν ἐχῖνον ἐμβαλεῖν καὶ τὸν παρέχοντα μαρτυρεῖν, ἵνʼ ἐκ τῆς ἀληθείας καὶ τοῦ τὰ σημεῖʼ ἰδεῖν οἱ μὲν δικασταὶ τὸ πρᾶγμʼ ἔγνωσαν, ἐγὼ δʼ εἴ τις ἠδίκει με, ἐπὶ τοῦτον ᾖα.

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Against Stephanus I

1. The Painted Stoa was the largest and finest of the porticoes surrounding the agora. It got its name from the famous paintings with which its walls were adorned.

2. See Aristot. Ath. Pol. 53.2

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