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Of course he will put forward men of
straw, and by the time you have rejected them, he will be out of your reach. For
if anyone demands his retention in jail for failing to produce sureties, he will
reply that he has done so, and intends to do so; and then he will point to the
statute of Timocrates, which bids him nominate sureties whenever he likes, but
says nothing about custody in the meantime, which gives no instruction for
imprisonment in case you reject the sureties, which is, in short, a sort of
universal talisman for would-be evil-doers.
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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