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For the
point to be argued and decided is not whether all his debts are unpaid, but
whether he is still in debt. Otherwise it would be hard on those who are
registered for a debt of one drachma, if their indebtedness is to tell against
them, because they have done some trifling wrong or even no wrong at all,
whereas if a man has committed serious wrongs, he is to regain his civic rights
by paying one or two instalments. Moreover, there are three distinct debts
registered and forming the ground of the information. Two Aristogeiton has
entered in the register;1 the third he has not
registered, but he is prosecuting Aristo of Alopece for malicious entry.
1 The defendant admitted these two debts by mortgaging his land for them.
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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