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That in regard to the criminal information, therefore, neither Theocrines nor anyone of those who speak in his behalf will have any just argument to advance, I take it you are all pretty well assured. I fancy, however, that they will try to maintain that criminal informations may not be lodged against those who are not registered on the Acropolis,The names of those who were debtors to the state were inscribed on pillars set up in the Acropolis. and that it is not right to consider those as debtors whose names no one has given over to the collectors,
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just as though you were unaware of the law which declares a man a debtor from the day on which the penalty has been imposed or on which he has transgressed the law or the decree; or as if it were not clear to everybody that there are many ways in which people who wish to obey the laws become debtors to the treasury and meet the obligation. This is plain from the law itself.
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(To the clerk.) Take this law again, please.
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The Law
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Do you hear, you abominable beast, what the statute says? From the day on which the penalty shall be imposed or on which he transgresses the law.