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“Laws Concerning Theft,
Maltreatment of Parents, and DesertionIf a man has recovered the property lost, the penalty shall
be twice the value of such property; if he has not recovered it, ten times
the value in addition to the lawful amercement. The thief shall be kept in
the stocks for five days and five nights, if an additional penalty is
awarded by the court; and such additional penalty may be proposed by anyone,
when the question of sentence is raised.—If any man be put under
arrest after being found guilty of ill-treating his parents or of shirking
service, or for entering any forbidden place after notice of outlawry, the
Eleven shall put him into prison and bring him before the Court of Heliaea,
and any person being a lawful prosecutor may prosecute him. If he be found
guilty, the Court shall determine what penalty, corporal or pecuniary, he
shall suffer; and if the penalty be pecuniary, he shall be kept in prison
until he has paid the fine.”
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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