Against Timocrates
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Against Timocrates
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"Against Timocrates" was a speech given by Demosthenes in Athens in which he accused Timocrates of proposing an illegal decree. The speech provides our best evidence about the use of imprisonment as a punishment in Classical Athens. Timocrates' law would have allowed debtors to the state to go free on providing a surety, rather than being imprisoned until they paid their debts. Democrates' speech criticises this law on the grounds that it would unfairly advantage wealthy citizens at the expense
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Speech given by Demosthenes in Athens
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Against_Timocrates
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2024-03-06T09:57:11Z
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