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“LawIf anyone assaults any
child or woman or man, whether free or slave, or commits any unlawful act
against anyone of these, any Athenian citizen who desires so to do, being
qualified, may indict him before the Judges; and the Judges shall bring the
case before the Heliastic Court within thirty days from the date of the
indictment, unless some public business prevents, in which case it shall be
brought on the earliest possible date. Whomsoever the Court shall condemn,
it shall at once assess the punishment or the fine which he is considered to
deserve. In all cases where an indictment is entered, as the law directs, if
anyone fails to prosecute, or after prosecution fails to obtain one fifth of
the votes of the jury, he shall pay a thousand drachmas to the Treasury. If
he is fined for the assault, he shall be imprisoned until the fine is paid,
provided that the offence was committed against a freeman.”
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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