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    Plato, Laws

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    [624a] Athenian

    To whom do you ascribe the authorship of your legal arrangements, Strangers? To a god or to some man?

    Clinias

    To a god, Stranger, most rightfully to a god. We Cretans call Zeus our lawgiver; while in Lacedaemon, where our friend here has his home, I believe they claim Apollo as theirs. Is not that so, Megillus?

    Megillus

    Yes.

    Athenian

    Do you then, like Homer,1 say that

    1 Cp. Hom. Od. 19.178f.

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    Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.
    OCLC: 19445554
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