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Why, it looks
as though Timocrates were compiling evidence of his own transgressions; for at
the very outset of his law he makes a proposal exactly contrary to these
provisions. The legislator does not permit any question once decided by
judgement of the court to be put a second time; the law of Timocrates reads
that, if any penalty has been inflicted on a man in pursuance of a law or a
decree, the Assembly must reconsider the matter for him, in order that the
decision of the court may be overruled, and sureties put in by the person
amerced. The statute forbids any magistrate even to put the question contrary to
these provisions; Timocrates proposes that, if sureties are nominated, the
Commissioners shall be obliged to submit their names, and adds the phrase,
“whenever any debtor wishes.”—
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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