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and that, in that event, the only
chance of salvation left for all those who are unfortunate will be destroyed,
that is to say, the power of migrating from the country of those whom they have
injured to a country where no one has been wronged by them, and there dwelling
in security. To avert that misfortune, and to prevent an endless succession of
retributions, he wrote: “if any man kill a murderer, so long as he
absents himself from the frontier-market,”—meaning thereby
the confines of the man's own country. It was there, I suppose, that in old
times borderers of our own and neighboring countries used to forgather; and so
he speaks of a “frontier-market.”
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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