CHAPTER II

The Draconian Code: restored inscription of 409/8 B.C. and author’s explanation: other Draconian homicide-laws derived from Demosthenes: Plato’s code confirms and supplements these data: classification of Attic homicide-laws as follows: (_a_) those relating to accidental homicide, to death caused by animals or inanimate objects, and to homicide by persons unknown: (_b_) those relating to justifiable and to justifiably accidental homicide: (_c_) those relating to manslaughter: (_d_) those relating to wilful murder: some problems suggested by these laws: origin of confiscation of property: evolution of State-execution: parricide and kin-slaying: historicity of Plato’s legislation regarding homicide 191-242