Against Timocrates
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Against Timocrates was a speech given by Demosthenes in which he accused Timocrates of proposing an illegal decree.[1] The speech provides our best evidence about the use of imprisonment as a punishment in Classical Athens.[1] The law proposed by Timocrates would have allowed debtors to the state to go free on providing a surety, rather than being imprisoned until they could pay their debts.[2] Democrates' speech criticises this law on the grounds that it would unfairly advantage wealthy citizens at the expense of the poor.[3]
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