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 1      I, 15|         are five in number: laws, witnesses, contracts, tortures, oaths.~
 2      I, 15|        probably sufficient.~As to witnesses, they are of two kinds,
 3      I, 15|           the trial. By "ancient" witnesses I mean the poets and all
 4      I, 15|        father commands him.~These witnesses are concerned with past
 5      I, 15|           to avenge him.~"Recent" witnesses are well-known people who
 6      I, 15|  scoundrel". There are also those witnesses who share the risk of punishment
 7      I, 15| pronounced false. These are valid witnesses to the fact that an action
 8      I, 15|          case; they are not valid witnesses to the quality of an action,
 9      I, 15|          of all are the "ancient" witnesses, since they cannot be corrupted.~
10      I, 15|      dealing with the evidence of witnesses, the following are useful
11      I, 15|         arguments. If you have no witnesses on your side, you will argue
12      I, 15|           of perjury. If you have witnesses, and the other man has not,
13      I, 15|           without the evidence of witnesses altogether if we need do
14      I, 15|      either side.~The evidence of witnesses may refer either to ourselves
15      I, 15|          same as for dealing with witnesses, for the credit to be attached
16     II, 20|           they have the effect of witnesses giving evidence, and this
17     II, 23|           slay no boar, but to be witnesses~Of Meleager’s prowess unto