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Note that in this manner the law lays down not only how the
murderer or convict is to be punished, but also where, for it specifies the
country of the person injured, and it directly prescribes that the penalty is to
be inflicted in that way and in no other, in that place and in no other. Yet the
author of the decree is far indeed from making this distinction,—his
proposals are exactly contrary. After the words, “if anyone shall kill
Charidemus,” he adds, “he shall be liable to seizure
everywhere.”—
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