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Now take the statutes, that
concerning assault and that concerning highway robbers. You will see that the
defendant is amenable to them both. Read.“
Laws
”By both these statutes, then, the
defendant Conon is amenable for what he
has done; for he committed both assault and highway robbery. If I on my part
have not chosen to proceed against him under these statutes, that should fairly
prove that I am a peaceful and inoffensive person, not that he is any the less a
villain.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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