Demosthenes, On the Trierarchic Crown, Augustus Taber Murray (Translator), 12

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[12] More than this, it seems to me to be absurd that, when a man says anything contrary to law, he should, if he is convicted, be deprived of one third of his personal rights,¹ while those guilty not of words but of acts that are illegal should pay no penalty. Surely, men of Athens , you would all say that leniency in regard to such offences merely trains up others to commit them.

On the Trierarchic Crown. Demosthenes. Augustus Taber Murray (Translator). London. 1939.

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On the Trierarchic Crown, by an Unknown Pleader (English) (Demosthenes, Vol. IV: Private Orations, Vol 3. Murray, A. T., translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1939 (printing).)

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περὶ τοῦ Στεφάνου τῆς τριηραρκίας Perseus (Demosthenes. Orationes, Vol. III. Rennie, W., editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1931.) — 12 focus

[12] ἔτι τοίνυν ἔμοιγε δοκεῖ κἀκεῖνʼ ἀλόγως ἔχειν, τὸν μὲν εἰπόντα τι μὴ κατὰ τοὺς νόμους, ἐὰν ἁλῷ τὸ τρίτον, μέρος ἠτιμῶσθαι τοῦ σώματος, τοὺς δὲ μὴ λόγον, ἀλλʼ ἔργον παράνομον πεποιηκότας μηδεμίαν δοῦναι δίκην. καὶ μήν, ὦ ἄνδρες Ἀθηναῖοι, πάντες ὑμεῖς φήσετε τὸ πρὸς τὰ τοιαῦτα πράως ἔχειν προδιδάσκειν ἑτέρους ἀδικεῖν εἶναι.

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On the Trierarchic Crown

1. Precisely what this partial ἀτιμία (disfranchisement) was, it is impossible to state definitely.

Demosthenes On the Trierarchic Crown 12

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