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Moreover, consider this too, whether you would suffer
me in your presence to take the document and add to it. Of course you would not.
Well, then, neither is it fitting to suffer him to strike out any of its
contents. For who will ever be convicted of giving false testimony, if he is to
depose to what he pleases, and be accountable only for what he pleases? No, the
law does not thus make a distinction in these matters, and you ought not to
listen to such a thing either. The straightforward and honest course is this:
“What stands written? To what have you deposed? Show that this is
true. For you have written in your plea in answer to the complaint these words,
'I have given true testiniony in testifying to what is contained in the
deposition'—not 'to this or that in the deposition.'”
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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