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| 20 | 70 | View more quotes about already">Already in the tiers many six-digited paws were clasped about the handles of their knives, but, Cabot noted, many jurors were crouched down, knuckles on the tiers, their knives untouched. |
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| 20 | 67 | "Is a simple majority required?" asked Cabot. |
| 20 | 68 | "No," said Peisistratus, "innocence or guilt must be clear, so a clear, significant majority is required, and in a trial such as this, involving charges of high treason, guilt must be exceedingly clear, this requiring that nine out of every ten jurors draw the knife". |
| 20 | 69 | "If more than one out of ten do not unsheathe their blades?" "Then the defendant is acquitted," said Peisistratus. |
| 20 | 70 | Already in the tiers many six-digited paws were clasped about the handles of their knives, but, Cabot noted, many jurors were crouched down, knuckles on the tiers, their knives untouched. |
| 20 | 71 | "Hold!" called the voice of the unseen judge. |
| 20 | 72 | The jurors looked about themselves, but the location of the judge, as the voice emanated from a diversity of locations, was not clear. |
| 20 | 73 | "Pyrrhus," called the voice. |