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[10] and if they be adjudged guilty, that they be punished with death and handed over to the Eleven,1 and that their property be confiscated and the tenth thereof belong to the goddess.”2

1 A Board which had charge of condemned prisoners and of the execution of the death sentence.

2 Athena, the state deity, into whose treasury a tenth part of the revenue derived from confiscations was regularly paid.

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