Chapter

 1 Int   |     were prosecuted under the laws, and persecuted by a panic-stricken
 2 Ana   |     examine the nature of the laws under which we are condemned (
 3 I     |     request derogatory to the laws, supreme in their own sphere,
 4 II    |     in opposition to the very laws themselves. For, unless
 5 II    |     unless I am mistaken, the laws order evil-doers to be unearthed,
 6 II    |       to the emperors, to the laws, to morals, to all the dictates
 7 II    |       collusion to defeat the laws. You wish him to deny that
 8 IV    |     examine the nature of the laws under which we are condemned. ~
 9 IV    |   resort the authority of the laws is set up as a barrier against
10 IV    |      to be reopened after the laws have once decided it, or
11 IV    | argument on this point of the laws, regarding you as their
12 IV    |    repealing it? Were not the laws of Lycurgus himself revised
13 IV    |     old and tangled forest of laws? Did not Severus, that steadiest
14 IV    |       those ridiculous Papian laws which bade children be brought
15 IV    | Julian law enforced marriage,—laws whose antiquity gave them
16 IV    |     authority? But there were laws also formerly which authorized
17 IV    |       life-blood 10. How many laws needing amendment yet lie
18 V     |      concerning the origin of laws of this kind. There was
19 V     |    what kind, then, are those laws of yours, which only the
20 VI    |     guardians and devotees of laws and ancestral institutions
21 VI    |     pray, has become of those laws which checked extravagance
22 XIX   |      originator alike of your laws and of your studies in law
23 XXXVII|    partly in obedience to the laws? How often, again, does
24 XLV   |      you know that those very laws of yours, which seem to
25 XLV   |     is the authority of human laws, when it can happen to a
26 XLVI  |      the Spartans altered his laws : a Christian, even when
27 XLVII |       was banished by certain laws,—the Theban, Spartan, and