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When they have got him, they are to be allowed to torture
him, or maltreat him, or extort money from him. Yet the next ensuing statute
directly and distinctly forbids such treatment even of men convicted and proved
to be murderers. Read to the jury the statute that follows.“LawIt shall be lawful to
kill1
murderers in our own territory, or to arrest them as directed on the first
turning-table,2 but not to maltreat or amerce them, on penalty of a payment
of twice the damage inflicted. The Archons, according to their several
jurisdictions, shall bring cases into court; for any man who so desires and
the court of Heliaea shall adjudicate.”
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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