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THIRD ATHENIAN
At last you are going to pay the penalty!
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FOURTH ATHENIAN
I will prove that you have committed horrible crimes!
FIFTH ATHENIAN
Empanel my jury first!
SIXTH ATHENIAN
Come to court with me, scoundrel!
SEVENTH ATHENIAN
Stop choking me!
JUSTICE
Do you know what we ought to do, Hermes? Let us put off the rest of. the cases until to-morrow, and to-day let us provide only for those entered by professions or pursuits or sciences against men. Pass me up the writs of that description.As Hermes gives each writ to Justice, he reads the heading and she tells him how many jurors are to be drawn. Her orders are carried out in silence, and the juries are all in readiness when the first case is called, which is not until she has filled the docket for the day (§ 15).
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HERMES
Intemperance v. the Academy in re Polemo: kidnapping.Polemo, intemperate in his youth, went to a lecture by Xenocrates to create a disturbance, but was converted to philosophy by what he heard. He succeeded Xenocrates as ead of the Academy (Diog. L. iv. 1 ff.).
JUSTICE
Draw seven jurors.
HERMES
Stoa v. Pleasure: alienation of affections— because Pleasure coaxed away her lover, Dionysius.Dionyaius the Convert was a pupil of Zeno, but became a Cyrenaic, “being converted to pleasure; for sore eyes gave him so much trouble that he could not bring himself to μaintain any longer that pain did not matter” (Diog. L. vii. 1, 31; cf. vii. 4).
HERMES
High-living v. Virtue, re Aristippus.Follower of Socrates; later, founder of the Cyrenaic School.
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JUSTICE
Let five sit in this case too.
