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So much for the legislator; but what of the author of the decree?
“If any man kill Charidemus,” he says. So he defines the
injury in the same phrase, “if any man kill,” as the
legislator; but the sequel is not the same. He struck out submission to trial,
and made the culprit liable to immediate seizure; he passed by the tribunal
appointed by law, and handed over to the accusers, to be dealt with as they
chose, a man untried, a man whose guilt is not yet proven.
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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