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The rich, as Plutarch fays, approved of him readily, as he was rich ; and the poor, becaufe he was honeft. SOLON releafed the debtors, and gave the citizens a power of making teftaments. E 2 HE * Dracon puniflied even the fmalleft faults with death ; he went fo far as to profecute inanimate things . Thus a ftatue, for exam- ple, which had hurt a perfon by falling upon him, was baniflied the city. 6H DISSERTATION IV. HE allowed that fuch women, as had the plea of impotency againft their huflband...s, might chufe them- ielves others from among their relations. THESE laws inflicted punifhments on idlenefs, they acquitted thofe who killed an adulterer ; and probi- ted the committing the wardfhip of children to their next relations, IF a man had but one eye, he who put out the o- ther, was fentenced to lofe both his ; and men of de- bauched morals were not fuffered to fpeak in public allemblies. SOLON made no law againft parricide ; as this crime had never been heard of among the Athenians, he thought that to forbid it, would be rather giving them a notion of committing it.
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