[33]
Here he brings
against me in one mass a host of dreadful charges; for he accuses me of assault
and battery, outrage, and of violent wrongs even against heiresses.1 But for each of these wrongdoings actions
are separate; they do not come before the same magistrates and they are not for
the recovery of the same penalties. Assault and battery and crimes of violence
come before the Forty2; cases of outrage before the
Thesmothetae; and all crimes against heiresses before the Archon.3 And the laws
grant the filing of pleas to bar action also in case of charges brought before
magistrates who have not due competency.Read them
this law.“
Law
”
1 See Dem. 37.45; and compare the oration against Meidias （Dem. 21.79）.
2 “The Forty” were circuit judges.
3 That is, the chief archon.
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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