All the charges which I can remember, gentlemen, I have answered; and for your own sakes I think that you should acquit me. A verdict saving my life will alone enable you to comply with the law and your oath; for you have sworn to return a lawful verdict; and while the crime with which I am charged can still be tried legally, the laws under which I was arrested do not concern my case.Another reference to the argument that his case could be preperly tried only by a δίκη φόνου before the Areopagus. The laws under which I was arrested are of course the νόμοι τῶν κακούργων defining the scope of ἀπαγωγή for the κακουργία. If two trials have been made out of one, it is not I, but my accusers, who are to blame; and I cannot suppose that if my bitterest enemies have involved me in two trials, impartial ministers of justice like yourselves will prematurely find me guilty of murder in the present one.