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Then there is a fifth
tribunal which he has overruled,—and I beg you to take note of its
character; I mean the court held in the precinct of Phreatto. In that court, men
of Athens, the law orders every man
stand his trial who, having gone into exile on a charge of unintentional
homicide, and being still unreconciled to the persons who procured his
banishment, incurs a further charge of willful murder. The author of the several
rules of court did not let such a man alone, on the ground that he was unable to
return to Athens, nor did he,
because the man had already committed a like offence, treat the similarity of
the accusation as proof positive against him;
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