[1] Timocrates' law would have allowed debtors to the state to go free on providing a surety, rather than being imprisoned until they paid their debts.
[2] Demosthenes' speech criticises this law on the grounds that it would unfairly advantage wealthy citizens at the expense of the poor.
Three Athenians in 355 BC, including Androtion, whilst sailing as ambassadors to Mausolus, the King of Caria, captured a merchant ship near Naucratis, claiming lawful seizure of enemy property.
[4] Euctemon was acquitted, however Timocrates, a friend of the ambassadors, then proposed his law that any debtor of the state should remain at liberty until the ninth prytany on the condition that they provided a surety.
The action of the graphe paranomon suspended the effect of Timocrates' law, and the ambassadors were forced to pay the money.