State-debtors
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debtors · state-debtor · defaulters · all such · debtor · debtors to the treasury · men in debt to the treasury · person in debt to the treasury · persons indebted · persons indebted to the Gods or to the treasury
in the texts
Against Aristogeiton I
Persons owing public debts to Athens and subject to legal disabilities until payment or erasure.
Yes, says he, for he has registered my name as a debtor unjustly.
For the point to be argued and decided is not whether all his debts are unpaid, but whether he is still in debt.
Well, of Aristogeiton’s debt to the State the terms still exist, namely the laws under which all defaulters are registered;
Against Timocrates
Persons owing money to the treasury or gods, especially those facing imprisonment after penalties.
The debtor who has given sureties shall be released from the penalty of imprisonment on payment to the State of the money, in respect of which he gave such sureties;
Here is another law which forbids any proposal in respect of disfranchised or indebted persons, for remission or composition, to be made or put to the vote, except after permission granted, and that only if at least six thousand citizens have voted aye.
The Law nor in respect of disfranchised citizens, for restoration of their franchise, nor in respect of persons indebted to the Gods or to the treasury of the Athenians, for remission or composition of their debt, unless permission be granted by not less than six thousand citizens giving an affirmative vote by ballot.
Against Aristogeiton II
Persons owing public debt and subject to civic disabilities in the argument.
It has been conclusively proved, men of Athens, that the defendant, Aristogeiton, is a state-debtor and disfranchised, and that the laws expressly forbid all such to address the Assembly.