[sc. This is the term for what happens] when both the plaintiff and the defendant swear, [in the course of] bringing a charge of theft against certain people. But this often was seen to be in vain. So [the] Athenians laid down a law against those hauling off certain people into prison in a case of theft, [ordering] the convicted to pay [a fine of] a thousand drachmas. But in addition [it ordered that] those denouncing citizen property as belonging to the state,[1] if they were convicted of "sykophancy",[2] these too would be fined the thousand [drachmas].