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You hear the
law, men of the jury, hear that it expressly declares that, if any one of those
indebted to the treasury shall have his name erased without having discharged
his debt to the state, an indictment for non-insertion in the register may be
brought against him before the Thesmothetae, but not against a debtor who has
not been registered. Against persons of this class it ordains that there shall
be a criminal information and other legal penalties. But why do you, Theocrines,
try to teach me all the ways in which one may avenge oneself upon one's enemies,
instead of making a defence in the action in which you have come into court?
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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