Chapter

 1 I     |        What harm can it do to the laws, supreme in their domain,
 2 II    |    justice, even against the very laws themselves. For, unless
 3 II    |          am greatly mistaken, the laws enjoin offenders to be searched
 4 II    |            of the emperor, of the laws, of good morals, of all
 5 II    |           fast and loose with the laws. You wish him to deny his
 6 IV    |      points, the authority of the laws as a last resort is set
 7 IV    |      first, in this matter of the laws grapple with you as with
 8 IV    |          Lacedaemonians amend the laws of Lycurgus himself, thereby
 9 IV    |         and rugged forest of your laws? Has not Severus, that most
10 IV    |    repealed the ridiculous Papian laws which compelled people to
11 IV    |        children before the Julian laws allow matrimony to be contracted,
12 IV    |       upon their side? There were laws, too, in old times, that
13 IV    |          to pour it out. How many laws lie hidden out of sight
14 V     |          word about the origin of laws of the kind to which we
15 V     |      their accusers. What sort of laws are these which the impious
16 VI    | protectors and vindicators of the laws and institutions of their
17 VI    |            What has become of the laws repressing expensive and
18 VI    |           to women, indeed, those laws of your fathers, which used
19 VI    |      consequence of marriage. The laws, too, your fathers in their
20 XI    |      system working under certain laws for the performance of its
21 XXXVII|        partly in obedience to the laws! How often, too, the hostile
22 XLV   |          you know that these very laws also of yours, which seem
23 XLV   |           real authority of human laws, when it is in man's power
24 XLVI  |       made some emendation of his laws: the Christian, even when