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You must
punish crime, not encourage it by your own teaching. Do not let them make a
grievance of going to prison with your money in their pockets, but bring them
under the yoke of law. People convicted under the alien acts do not think
themselves aggrieved when they are kept in yonder building1 until the trial for false evidence is over; they simply stay
there without expecting to get the freedom of the streets by putting in bail.
1 οἴκημα is a common euphemism for δεσμωτήριον. There seems to have been only one prison at Athens, and this passage suggests that it was in view of the Agora; but τούτῳ is not necessarily deictic.
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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