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It
is just to allot a lesser penalty for involuntary than for willful homicide; it
is quite right, before ordering a man to go into exile, to provide for his safe
departure; and the provisions for the reinstatement of the returning exile, for
his purification by customary rites, and so forth, are excellent. Well, everyone
of these ordinances, so righteously enacted by the original legislators, has
been transgressed by the defendant in drafting his decree. So we have now two
tribunals, of great antiquity and high character, and usages handed down from
time immemorial, which he has insolently overridden.
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