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For when he uses the phrase,
“that no Athenian citizen shall be sent to jail,” do not
forget that he is lying. That is not his proposal; it is that you jurors shall
lose your control over penalties. He is trying to establish the right of appeal
against a verdict returned on oath, after argument and trial. Do not let him
pick out of his law and read a few phrases that have a benevolent sound to the
ear let him produce the whole statute, clause by clause, and allow you to
consider its effects. You will find that it is what I describe, not what he
pretends.
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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