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You will
observe, gentlemen of the jury, that whereas in the first law the public plaint
may be lodged against those who violate the laws of the festival, in the latter
law you have sanctioned plaints against those who exact money from defaulting
debtors or seize any property or use violence to that end. So far from thinking
it right that any man's person should be outraged on those days, or that any
equipment should be damaged which a citizen provides out of his private means
for a public service, you have even conceded that what by law and by verdict
belongs to the winner of a suit should remain the property of the loser and
original owner, at any rate during the festival.
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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