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“LawMoved by
Timocrates: if any Athenian citizens are now in jail or shall hereafter be
imprisoned on impeachment by the Council, if the judgement against such
prisoners be not delivered to the Judges by the Secretary of the Presidency
in pursuance of the law of impeachment, be it enacted that the Eleven shall
bring them before the Court within thirty days of the day on which they
receive them into custody, unless prevented by public business, and, if so
prevented, as soon as possible. Any Athenian qualified as a prosecutor may
prosecute. If the culprit be convicted, the Court of Heliaea shall assess
such penalty, pecuniary or otherwise, as he appears to deserve. If the
penalty assessed be pecuniary, he shall be imprisoned until he has paid the
full amount of the fine inflicted.”
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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