If any person shall kill another accidentally in a contest or in an ambush or in a battle by mistake or having caught him (in adultery) with his wife or with his mother, or sister, or daughter, or a concubine kept to beget free children, he shall not be put on trial (_or_ he shall not be exiled) (φεύγειν) for such homicide: and if anyone resisting unlawful seizure or violence shall immediately kill the aggressor his death shall not be punishable,[93] and it shall be lawful to kill murderers (found after conviction) in our territory, but not to illtreat or amerce them, under pain of paying[94] double damage inflicted: no person shall be liable to any legal proceedings for homicide who gives information against (and therefore causes the death of) exiles who return when it is not lawful.[95] _Plato_ If any person shall kill a citizen accidentally in a contest at public games ... or during a war or the practice of military exercises ... let him be purified according to the law brought from Delphi about these matters, and be immune from punishment: and, regarding physicians, should any person who is attended by them die without their intending it, let such physicians be immune by law.[96] If anyone catches a thief entering his house by night, with intent to steal ... and kills him, let him be immune. If anyone commits rape ... let him be slain with impunity: if a man finds his wife being ravished and kills the offender, let him be immune by law. If anyone shall kill a person, warding off unjust death from his father, mother, children or brothers ... let him be immune.[97] If any such persons (wilful murderers) set foot upon the civic territory of the slain, let him who first meets him ... kill him with impunity.[97] We have elsewhere[98] cited a Delphic law which concerned justifiable slaying, and which, in its completeness, we regard as the common parent of both these legislations. These excerpts are strikingly similar, especially if we remember that they are a number of extracts which we have put together with the object of eliciting a complete list of cases. No better proof than this could be adduced of the ‘historicity’ of Platonic legislation[99] regarding homicide. Antiphon[100] refers to the legal immunity of physicians, and we may therefore consider this Platonic law to be also Draconian (or Solonian).[101] To both the above quotations our triple classification of cases of justifiable homicide can without difficulty be applied. Confining our attention to the Demosthenic account, we may point out that the reference to accidental slaying in a contest, ambush, or battle, is covered by our first category: the infliction of death for adultery or seduction is included in our second category: and the slaying of unjust aggressors, and of murderers _en rupture de ban_, in our third category.