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But as
matters stand you must accept these facts as proving that imprisonment is
lawful, otherwise penal sentences would at once have been entirely inoperative.
In the second place, gentlemen of the jury, the formula, “I will not
imprison any Athenian citizen,” is not in itself a statute; it is
merely a phrase in the written oath taken by the Council, to prevent politicians
who are in the Council from caballing to commit any citizen to prison.
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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