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That is made clear both in the earlier
statute and in this one; for in the former, after the words “if any
man kill,” the legislator directs the Council to take cognizance, and
here, after designating the man as “the murderer,” he has
directed what is to be done to him. That is to say, when it is a question of
accusation, he has ordered a trial, but when the culprit, being found guilty, is
liable to this designation, he has specified the penalty. Therefore he should be
speaking only of persons found guilty. Well, what does he direct? That it shall
be lawful to kill them and to put them under arrest.
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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