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Excerpt from The Journal of Philology, 1879, Vol. 8 Attic soil and the throwing of the bodies of criminals down the barathrum, without attempting to determine when the one was done rather than the other. It seems to me, however, that we are not without evidence to settle this-point. These two practices existed side by side at the time the generals were brought to trial after the battle of Arginusae. For Euryptolemus quotes two laws by which they could be tried the decree of Cannonus1 ordering, that if any one wrong the people of the Athenians, he shall plead his cause in chains before the people and, if condemned as guilty, shall be put to death and thrown into the barathrum, ' and the law against traitors and sacrilegious men, which orders that such should be tried in a court of justice and if condemned, shall be refused burial in Attica. But since the practice of casting into the barathrum is not mentioned after that trial, whilst the law against traitors, refusing them burial in Attica, was in force shortly before (in 411) and continued to be so ever after that time, the conclusion may be drawn, that some time after the trial of the generals the practice of throwing the bodies of criminals into the barathrum was discontinued. Other cir cumstances which point to the same conclusion, will present themselves in the course of our inquiry. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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