As to the initiation of private suits, let the manner of deciding causes
between all citizens be the same as in cases in which any freeman is
disobedient to the state in minor matters, of which the penalty is not
stripes, imprisonment, or death. But as regards attendance at choruses or
processions or other shows, and as regards public services, whether the
celebration of sacrifice in peace, or the payment of contributions in war - in
all these cases, first comes the necessity of providing remedy for the loss;
and by those who will not obey, there shall be security given to the officers
whom the city and the law empower to exact the sum due; and if they forfeit
their security, let the goods which they have pledged be, and the money given
to the city; but if they ought to pay a larger sum, the several magistrates
shall impose upon the disobedient a suitable penalty, and bring them before
the court, until they are willing to do what they are ordered.
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