Demosthenes, Against Aristocrates, section 37

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Against Meidias

Against Androtion

Against Aristocrates

Against Timocrates

Against Aristogeiton 1

Against Aristogeiton 2

Against Aphobus 1

Against Aphobus 2

Against Aphobus 3

Against Onetor 1

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Read the statutes that come next in order.“Law

If any man shall kill a murderer, or shall cause him to be killed, so long as the murderer absents himself from the frontier-market, the games, and the Amphictyonic sacrifices, he shall be liable to the same penalty as if he killed an Athenian citizen;and the Criminal Court shall adjudicate.”

You must be informed, men of Athens, of the intention with which the legislator enacted this statute. You will find that all his provisions were cautious and agreeable to the spirit of the law.

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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