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He was not satisfied with
destroying the authority of this court in respect of additional penalties, but
you will find that even the proceedings which he has prescribed in his law, and
imposed upon culprits who have been condemned, have not been drafted with
honesty and sincerity, but as though his main purpose was to mislead and
overreach you. Observe the phrasing: “Moved by Timocrates that, if the
additional penalty of imprisonment has been or shall hereafter be inflicted in
pursuance of any law or decree upon any person in debt to the treasury, it shall
be competent for him or for any other person on his behalf to nominate as
sureties for the debt such persons as shall be approved on vote by the
Assembly.”
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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