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If the defendant was convicted, he had to pay a fine of 500 drachmas to the plaintiff. (Isocr. c. Loch. § 3; Lys. c. Theomn. § 12.) Plutarch, however, mentions that, according to one of Solon's laws, whoever spoke evil of a person in the temples, courts of justice, public offices, or in public festivals, had to pay five drachmas; but as Platner (Process bei den Attikern, vol. ii. p. 192) has observed, the law of Solon was probably changed, and the heavier fine of 500 drachmas substituted in the place of the smaller sum. Demosthenes, in his oration against Meidias (p. 543.89), speaks of a fine of 1000 drachmas; but this is probably to be explained by supposing that Demosthenes brought two actions κακηγορίας: one on his own account, and the other on account of the insults which. Meidias had committed against his mother and sister. This action was probably brought before the thesmothetae (Dem. c. Mid. p. 544.93), to whom the related ὕβρεως γραφὴ belonged. The two speeches of Lysias against Theomnestus were spoken in an action of this kind.
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