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These are two laws, then, which this man, who indicts
others for illegal acts, has himself violated. There is a third law also, which
enacts that any one of the citizens who pleases may lodge criminal informations
against those who owe money to the treasury, or if any man is indebted to Athena
or to any one of the rest of the gods, or of the eponymous heroes.1 In this class
the defendant will be shown to belong; for he owes, and has not paid, seven
hundred drachmae, which he was condemned at the audit to pay to the eponymus of
his tribe.Read that part of the law.“
Law
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1 The legendary figures after whom the various tribes were named. They each had their tribal shrines.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by Norman W. DeWitt, Ph.D., and Norman J. DeWitt, Ph.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1949.
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