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If, gentlemen of the
jury, you will turn over in your minds the question what is the difference
between being a slave and being a free man, you will find that the biggest
difference is that the body of a slave is made responsible for all his misdeeds,
whereas corporal punishment is the last penalty to inflict on a free man. These
men reversed that principle, and applied punishment to the bodies of their
victims, as though they were bondservants.
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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