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Let me now say a word,
gentlemen of the jury, about the statute which, as I am informed, he intends to
cite as a precedent and which he will claim to have followed in his own
proposal. I mean the statute which contains these words: “Nor will I
imprison any Athenian citizen who offers three sureties taxed in the same class
as himself, except any person found guilty of conspiring to betray the city or
to subvert popular government, or any tax-farmer or his surety or collector
being in default.” Listen to my reply.
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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