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So, first of all, go up on the dais.1 Tell me, sir, are you a resident alien? Yes. Do you reside as an alien to obey the city's laws, or to do just as you please? To obey. Must you not, then, expect to be put to death, if you have committed a breach of the laws for which death is the penalty? I must. Then answer me: do you acknowledge that you bought up corn in excess of the fifty measures2 which the law sets as the limit? I bought it up on an order from the magistrates.
1 One of the corn-dealers is made to go up on the ”bema“ and is questioned. Cf. Lys. 12.25; Lys. 13.30.
2 A “basket” or measure was about a bushel and a half.
Lysias. Lysias with an English translation by W.R.M. Lamb, M.A. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1930.
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