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Be it known to all men that we purpose on this seventh day of March to hold a court of justice, and Fortune defend the right / All litigant parties to assemble on Areopagus, where Fustice will assign the juries and preside over the trials in person. The juries to be taken from the whole Athenian people; the pay to be sixpence for each case s the number of jurors to vary with the nature of the accusation. Any parties who had commenced legal proceedings and have died in the interim to be sent up by Aeacus. Any party doubting the justice of bis sentence may appeal; the appeal to be heard by Zeus.
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Talk about noise! how they shout! And what a hurry they are in to get here! See how one hales another up the hill! Here comes Hermes himself. Well, I leave you to your juries and your evidence; you are accustomed to it. I will return to my cave, and there play over one of those amorous ditties with which I love to upbraid Echo. As to rhetoric and law-pleadings, I hear enough of those every day in this very court of Areopagus.
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We had better summon the parties, Justice.
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True. Only look at the crowd, bustling and buzzing about the hilltop like a swarm of wasps!
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I've got you, curse you.
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Pooh! a trumped-up charge.
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At last! you shall get your deserts this time.
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Your villany shall be unmasked.
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My jury first, Hermes.
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Come along: into court with you, rascal.
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You needn’t throttle me.
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Do you know what I think we had better do, Hermes? Put off all the other cases for to-morrow, and only take to-day the charges brought by Arts, Professions, and Philosophies. Pick me out all of that kind.
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Drink v. the Academy, re Polemon, kidnapped.
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Seven jurors.
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Porch v. Pleasure. Defendant is charged with seducing Dionysius, plaintiffs admirer.
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Five will do for that.
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Luxury v. Virtue, re Aristippus.
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Five again.
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Bank v. Diogenes, alleged to have run away from plaintiffs service.
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Three only.
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Painting v. Pyrrho. Desertion from the ranks.
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That will want nine.
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What about these two charges just brought against a thetorician?
