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for this he brings suit against me, alleging that I had
collected a debt due to my father from the city of the Mytileneans. In this he
was seeking to serve Cammys,1 tyrant of Mytilene, who is an enemy of
Athens and a private enemy of mine.But to prove
that my father at the time received in person the reward which the people of
Mytilene voted him, and that no debt was owing to him in Mytilene, I will
produce a deposition of your friends.“
Deposition
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1 A tyrant of Mytilene, otherwise unknown.
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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