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See what a long stride he
has taken from the court of justice and its sentences! Even to the Assembly; for
he steals the person of the criminal, as well as the right to hand him over to
the Eleven. What magistrate will ever hand over the delinquent? What member of
the Eleven will ever accept custody? The order of Timocrates is that sureties
are to be nominated in the Assembly; it is impossible for the Assembly and the
Courts to be in session on the same day; and there is no injunction to keep the
man in custody until he has named his sureties.
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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