<TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0" xmlns:py="http://codespeak.net/lxml/objectify/pytype" py:pytype="TREE"><text><body><div type="translation" n="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0027.tlg001.perseus-eng2" xml:lang="eng"><div type="textpart" subtype="part" n="Proof"><div type="textpart" subtype="section" xml:base="urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0027.tlg001.perseus-eng2" n="78"><p><quote type="decree" rend="center; merge">all who before that date had been disfranchised as debtors: or had been found guilty of maladministration by the Auditors and their assessors at the Auditors’ offices: or had been indicted for maladministration, but had not as yet been publicly tried: or 〈had been condemned to suffer〉 specific disabilities: or had been condemned as sureties for a defaulter; and all who were recorded as members of the Four Hundred: or who had recorded against them any act performed under the oligarchy—alway excepting those publicly recorded as fugitives: those who have been tried for homicide by the Areopagus, or by the Ephetae, whether sitting at the Pryaneum or the Delphinium, under the Presidency of the Basileus, and are now in exile or under sentence of death<note resp="Loeb" anchored="true">The Areopagus tried cases of wilful murder. The fifty-one Ephetae sat in different courts according to the nature of the offence which they were trying, but always in the open air for religious reasons. Sitting <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἐπὶ Πρυτανείῳ</foreign>, in the precincts of the Prytaneum, they heard cases of justifiable homicide ( <foreign xml:lang="grc">φόνος δίκαιος</foreign>): sitting <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἐπὶ Δελφινίῳ</foreign>, in the precincts of the temple of Apollo Delphinius, they heard cases of homicide where the criminal was a person or persons unknown or where death had been caused by an inanimate instrument. They further met <foreign xml:lang="grc">ἐπὶ Παλλαδίῳ</foreign> to try cases of <foreign xml:lang="grc">φόνος ἀκούσιος</foreign> and <foreign xml:lang="grc">βούλευσις φόνου ἀκουσίου</foreign>(cf. Antiphon, <title>Choreutes</title>, lntrod.); and in Phreatto, a quarter of Peiraeus on the sea-shore, to try persons already in exile for homicide and charged with a second murder, committed before they quitted Attica. The accused pleaded from a boat. These last two courts are not mentioned here. See also Antiphon, <title>Tetralogies</title>, Gen. Introd.</note>: and those guilty of massacre or attempted tyranny—</quote></p></div></div></div></body></text></TEI>