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You hear that,
gentlemen of the jury?—Read those words again.“LawIf the penalty
assessed be pecuniary he shall be imprisoned until he has paid the full
amount—”That will
do.—Could a man possibly propose two more contradictory enactments
than these,—that convicted malefactors shall be kept in jail until
they have paid their fines, and that these same malefactors may put in sureties,
but must not be imprisoned. Here, then, is an accusation brought against
Timocrates by Timocrates, not by Diodorus nor by any other of the great
multitude of citizens.
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