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“The debtor who has given
sureties,” he goes on, “shall be released from the penalty
of imprisonment on payment to the State of the money in respect of which he gave
sureties.” Here again he persisted in the trick I mentioned just now;
he had not forgotten it; he enacted that the man shall be released from prison
on payment, not of the accruing penalty, but of the original debt.
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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