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(To the clerk.)
To prove that this is so, take, please, the plea itself. Read it.The Complaint and Counter-Plea
Apollodorus, son of Pasio, of Acharnae, sues Stephanus, son of Menecles, of Acharnae, for false testimony; damages one talent.
Stephanus gave false testimony against me in testifying to that which is contained in the record.
I gave true testimony in testifying to that which is contained in the record.
This is the plea which the defendant himself has entered. You must keep it in mind, and not regard the deceitful language which will soon be addressed to you as being more worthy of credence than the laws and what the defendant has written in his own plea.
Against Stephanus I. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.
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