[145]
I will say nothing about Androtion himself dragging people
to prison and putting them in irons after the enactment of this law, but I must
inform you to whom it really applies. This statute, gentlemen of the Jury, is
not intended for the protection of people who have stood their trial and argued
their case, but for those who are still untried and its purpose is that they
shall not plead at a disadvantage, or even without any preparation at all,
because they have been sent to jail. But Timocrates is going to speak to you of
regulations made for untried culprits, as though they had been framed to include
everybody.
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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