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And when the senate was going into a division on the question
whether it should remand him to a jury-court or sentence him to a fine of five
hundred drachmae, the highest penalty which the law allowed it to inflict, while
all these men were making pleas and entreaties and sending any number of people
to intercede for them, and offering us right there in the senate-chamber the
inventory of the equipment due, and promising to submit the question of the
assault to any one of the Athenians whom I should name, I consented that a fine
of twenty-five drachmae1 should be imposed upon Theophemus.
1 The text would naturally mean an additional fine, but the speaker is emphasizing his reasonableness in his treatment of his opponents. This was shown by his consenting to a fine of merely 5 drachmae, whereas it might have been 500 drachmae with confiscation of the defendant's property. I think the προς- means a fine in addition to the other charges to which the defendant was already liable.
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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