In regard to pleas and charges of manslaughter, we hope to show that there is a very substantial agreement amongst the ancient authorities. Once more[61] we must call attention to the possibility of local as distinct from central jurisdiction. Demosthenes[62] quotes a law of Dracon relating to the ‘appeasement’ of the relatives of the slain, which is practically identical with the law which we have quoted from the restored inscription. ‘Proclamation to (or against) the slayer shall be made in the market-place (by all relatives of deceased) within the degrees of cousinship and by cousins; in the prosecution there shall act jointly with these, the sons of cousins, the sons-in-law (γαμβρούς) and the fathers-in-law (πενθερούς), the cousins-in-law, the sons of such cousins and the phrateres. If “appeasement” is prescribed (δέῃ), if there is a father or (and) brother(s) or (and) sons, let all (these) be appeased or let one objector hold the field: if there are none of these, and (the accused) slays involuntarily, and the Fifty-one, the Ephetae, decide that he slew involuntarily, let ten phrateres decide about appeasement, if (all) consent. These let the Fifty-one choose according to birth (or merit).’ We give below[63] the Greek version of the latter portion of the law, so that it may be the more easily compared with the corresponding portion of the Draconian inscription. In this inscription, there are two lines which are not found in Demosthenes, namely those which refer to the rôle of the ‘cousins’ in accepting ‘appeasement.’ We must not, however, conclude that the cousins had ceased to have a voice in ‘appeasement’ in the time of Demosthenes, or from the year 403/2 B.C. onwards, or in Solon’s time. We are convinced that the omission is due either to the negligence of a scribe or to the deliberate excision by Demosthenes of unnecessary elements of law in a legal quotation which included extracts from different laws, most of which are only remotely relevant to his main purpose in the speech. It would be absurd to suppose that a legal innovator jumped from the ‘small family’ to the neighbour-brethren (phrateres) and ignored the cousins in an enactment involving the transfer of property which constituted ‘appeasement.’ Surely if any change were made in the personnel of the recipients, the ‘neighbours’ would have been first omitted. And we cannot suppose that cousins had become obsolete since Dracon’s time!