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If they are
pursued or violently seized, he says, “outside the
frontier.” What is the significance of “outside the
frontier”? For all homicides alike the “frontier”
implies exclusion from the country of the person slain. From that country he
permits them to be pursued and seized; but outside of it he permits neither
seizure nor pursuit. For anyone who contravenes this rule he orders the same
punishment as if he had done the man wrong at home, in the words,
“shall incur the same penalty as if he had so acted at
home.”
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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