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If he had merely advised us of the right course for
the future, there would have been no harm in it but, when a court of justice has
given its verdict and determined the issue, is it not outrageous to introduce a
law by which that verdict is to be rescinded? It is as though, after allowing
the law of Timocrates to become operative, someone should draft a second law to
this effect: “if any persons being indebted, and having had the
further penalty of imprisonment passed upon them, shall have put in sureties as
the law directs, they shall not be entitled to such bail, and it shall not be
lawful hereafter to release anyone on bail.”
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