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Again, “if in battle
unwittingly”—the man who so slays is free of
bloodguiltiness. Good: If I have destroyed a man supposing him to be one of the
enemy, I deserve, not to stand trial, but to be forgiven. “Or in
intercourse with his wife, or mother, or sister, or daughter, or concubine kept
for the procreation of legitimate children.” He lets the man who slays
one so treating any of these women go scot-free; and that acquittal, men of
Athens, is the most righteous of
all.
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