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Again, after making
such a big hole in the laws by juggling with words, he adds: “the
Commissioners1 are required to put the question whensoever
any debtor wishes to nominate sureties,” for right through his law he
thinks it his business to rescue the criminal who has been convicted in this
court. By allowing the nomination of sureties to take place at the pleasure of
the delinquent, he puts it into his power never to pay, and never to go to
prison.
1 See Dem. 24.22 above.
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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