[78]
he found a way of satisfying the requirements of religion without depriving
the culprit of a fair hearing and a trial. How did he manage it? He conveyed the
judges who were to sit to a place to which the accused was able to repair,
appointing a place within the country but on the sea-coast, known as the
precinct of Phreatto. The culprit approaches the shore in a vessel, and makes
his speech without landing, while the judges listen to him and give judgement on
shore. If found guilty, the man suffers the penalty of willful murder as he
deserves; if acquitted, he goes his way scot-free in respect of that charge, but
still subject to punishment for the earlier homicide.
Demosthenes. Demosthenes with an English translation by A. T. Murray, Ph.D., LL.D. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1939.
The Annenberg CPB/Project provided support for entering this text.
Purchase a copy of this text (not necessarily the same edition) from Amazon.com
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.