Laws
Translated by Henry Davis and George Burges Henry Cary
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The opening
BOOK I.
Has a god, or some man, obtained from you, O guests, (the fame of being) the cause of the laying down of laws?
Clin. A god, O guest, a god, to say what is most just; with us indeed, Zeus; but amongst the Lacedemonians, from whose country is this person here, I think, they mention Apollo.’ Is it not so?
Megil. It is.
Athen. Say you then, according to Homer, that Minos did constantly on the ninth year go to a conference with his father, and according to the oracular responses given by him, lay down the laws found in your states?
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- Notes and pages added by translators, editors or publishers, in 4 places
- The title page and opening pages before chapter 1, in 2 places
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