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Aristocrates dismisses those persons scot-free, and takes no account of them
whatever, but proposes to put under a ban those who, in obedience to that common
law of mankind which enjoins hospitality to a fugitive, have harbored the
culprit, who, as I will assume, has already gone into exile, if they refuse to
surrender their suppliant. Thus, by omitting to specify the mode of the
homicide, by not providing for a trial, by omitting the claim of redress, by
permitting arrest in any place whatsoever, by punishing those who harbor the
fugitive, and by not punishing those in whose house the death took
place,—in every respect I say that his proposal is in manifest
contravention of this statute also.
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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