The law, men of
Athens, ordains that actions for
merchants and shipowners shall be before the Thesmothetae1 if they have been in any way wronged in the market
either in connection with a voyage from Athens to any point, or from some other port to Athens; and it fixes imprisonment as the
penalty for wrongdoers until such time as they shall have paid the amount
adjudged against them, so that no one may lightly do wrong to any merchant.
1 The Thesmothetae were the six archons （other than the Eponymus, the Basileus, and the Polemarch）, and were empowered to administer justice in cases not specifically within the province of any other magistrate.
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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