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This law, men of
the jury, expressly prescribes for those who undertake either to prefer
indictments or lodge denunciations or do any other of the acts specified in the
law, the conditions under which each one of these things is to be done. These
are, as you have heard from the law itself, that, if a man prosecutes and does
not receive the fifth part of the votes,1 he shall
pay a fine of a thousand drachmae, and if he does not prosecute, Theocrines, he
shall pay another thousand, to the end that no one may bring forward baseless
charges, or with impunity make profit for himself or compromise the interests of
the state.I declare, then, that in accordance
with this criminal information Theocrines is liable for having denounced Micon
of Cholleidae,2 and then having accepted money and sold the case instead of
prosecuting it.
1 The ἐπωβελία(see note a on Dem. 27.67) was exacted also in criminal suits, and the prosecutor who did not receive the fifth part of the votes was also fined a thousand drachmae.
2 Cholleidae, a deme of the tribe Leontis.
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