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Hume's Political Discourses

Note 35 — OF SOME REMARKABLE CUSTOMS.

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Plutarchus in vita decem oratorum. Demosthenes gives a different account of this law. (Contra Aristogiton, Orat. II.) He says that its purport was to render the ατιμοι επιτιμοι, or to restore the privilege of bearing offices to those who had been declared incapable. Perhaps these were both clauses of the same law.

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