Archæologiæ Græcæ, or, The antiquities of Greece by John Potter ...

Laws concerning Punishments.

THE Judges are not to proceed so strictly to the rigour of their Sen∣tence, as that Corporal, and Pecuniary Punishments shall be in∣flicted at one and the same time.

They, who run into errors unwittingly, shall not be call'd in Que∣stion, but some adhortatory Lessons of their Duty are to be privately inculcated.

The most sufficient and wealthiest of the Athenians shall be exil'd by Ostracism for ten Years, least they should rise up and rebell.

No one is to harbour an Exile, he, that do••h, is to participate of the same Fate with him.

Let both Delinquent, and Abettor receive punishments alike.

He, that professeth himself guilty before arraignment, shall be con∣demn'd.

Debtors, who have been found to owe money, shall be oblig'd to pay from the very day the debt was due, whether they are registred in the Debt-book, or no; and he that doth not make payment within the ninth Prytanie, shall be oblig'd to pay double.

No one indebted to the City shall enter on any Office.

That Debtor, who hath been convicted of making an Oration to the People, shall be put into the Court of the Eleven.

Debtors, till they have clear'd off all, shall be disfranchis'd; but if they die, not having fully discharg'd the Debts, their Heirs shall be di••fran∣chis'd, till they make satisfaction.

After payment is made, the Debtor's Name shall be eras'd out of the Debt-book.

The Thirds of the Debtor's Goods, which are forefeited to the Exche∣quer, shall fall to any private Person, that informs against him.

Let those, who are Debtors to the Publick, and have not their Names enroll'd, be sued by the Action call'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.

They, who have been unjustly registred as Debtors, shall be struck out, and their Names, who registred them, be put in their place.

If any Debtor shall be blotted out of the Albe, or Register, before he hath discharg'd his Debt, let the Action call'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 be brought against him in the Court of the Thesmothetae.

Whosoever hath been branded with Infamy before Solon's Archon-ship, shall be reprivileg'd, except those, whom the Areopagites, Ephetae, or Prytanes have banisht, by the appeal of the 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, for Murther, Bur∣glary, or Treason, when this Law was promulg'd.

No intercession shall be made for any disfranchis'd Person, nor for any one indebted to the publick Exchequer, or the Gods, towards the investing the former with his Privileges, and erasing the latter's Name out of the Debt-book, unless the Athenian People by six-thousand private Votes permit it. If any one puts up an address to the Senate, or People for them, whom the Judges, Senate, or People have already cast, or the Debtor supplicate for himself before payment be made; let the Writ call'd 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 be issued out against him after the same manner, as against those, who, tho' indebted, presume to act as Judges; if any other body, before restitution of the Debt be made, intercede for the Debtor, let all his Goods be expos'd to Sale, and if a P••oedrus give a Debtor, or any Person on his account leave to propose the petition to be voted before Accounts are made up, he shall be 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.