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Now with what object have these regulations been made so
carefully? The man who drew them up accounted it equally irreligious to let slip
the guilty, and to cast out the innocent before trial. But if such great pains
are taken in the case of persons already adjudged to be homicides, to ensure for
them a hearing, a trial, and fair treatment in every respect upon any subsequent
accusation, surely it is most outrageous to provide that a man who has not yet
been found guilty, and of whom it is still undecided whether he committed the
act or not, and whether the act was involuntary or willful, should be handed
over to the mercy of his accusers.
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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