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The statutes enacted by Solon, a very different legislator
from the defendant, provided that if a man is convicted of theft, and not
punished with death, he shall suffer imprisonment; that if a man found guilty of
ill-treating his parents intrudes upon the market-place, he shall go to jail;
and that if a man, having been convicted of shirking military service, behaves
as though he were not disfranchised, he also shall be imprisoned. Timocrates
gives impunity to all these offenders, for he abolishes imprisonment if they put
in bail.
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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