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In addition to all these provisions for legal redress
there is a sixth, which the defendant has equally defied in his decree. Suppose
that a man is ignorant of all the processes I have mentioned, or that the proper
time for taking such proceedings has elapsed, that for any other reasons he does
not choose to prosecute by those methods; if he sees the homicide frequenting
places of worship or the market, he may arrest him and take him to jail; but
not, as you have permitted, to his own house or wherever he chooses. When under
arrest he will suffer no injury in jail until after his trial; but, if he is
found guilty, he will be punished with death. On the other hand, if the person
who arrested him does not get a fifth part of the votes, he will be fined a
thousand drachmas.
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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