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”If any man,“ he says, shall kill a
murderer, or shall cause him to be killed, so long as he absents himself from
the frontier-market, the games, and the Amphictyonic sacrifices, he shall be
liable to the same penalty as if he killed an Athenian citizen; and the Criminal
Court shall adjudicate.” What does this mean? In his opinion it was
just that, if a man who had gone into exile, when convicted on a charge of
murder, should make good his flight and escape, he should be excluded from the
country of the murdered man; but that it was not righteous to put him to death
anywhere and everywhere. His view was that, if we put to death people who have
gone into exile elsewhere, others will put to death people who have come into
exile here;
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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