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  1 1 |        THE DIALOGUE: An ATHENIAN STRANGER; CLEINIAS, a Cretan; MEGILLUS,
  2 1 |         a Lacedaemonian~Athenian Stranger. Tell me, Strangers, is
  3 1 |      your laws?~Cleinias. A God, Stranger; in very truth a, God: among
  4 1 |     conversation.~Cleinias. Yes, Stranger, and if we proceed onward
  5 1 |         arms.~Cleinias. I think, Stranger, that the aim of our institutions
  6 1 |      Athenian. You appear to me, Stranger, to have been thoroughly
  7 1 |        say?~Cleinias. O Athenian Stranger—inhabitant of Attica I will
  8 1 |           Cleinias. Your remark, Stranger, is a paradox, and yet we
  9 1 |          Cleinias. What you say, Stranger, is most true.~Megillus.
 10 1 |     suppose that there is truth, Stranger, in that remark of yours;
 11 1 |      only fourth rate.~Cleinias. Stranger, we are degrading our inspired
 12 1 |          You ought to have said, Stranger—The Cretan laws are with
 13 1 |    ambition. This is the spirit, Stranger, in which I was and am desirous
 14 1 |  Cleinias. How shall we proceed, Stranger?~Athenian. I think that
 15 1 |       Excellent, O Lacedaemonian Stranger. But how ought we to define
 16 1 |          I was able to tell you, Stranger, many laws which were directed
 17 1 |        are quite right, Athenian Stranger, and we will do as you say.~
 18 1 |   present.~Cleinias. Exactly so, Stranger; and like a diviner, although
 19 1 |        seems to be a difficulty, Stranger, with regard to states,
 20 1 |        happy.~Megillus. I admit, Stranger, that your words are well
 21 1 |        Athenian. O Lacedaemonian Stranger, these festivities are praiseworthy
 22 1 |         from impropriety. When a stranger expresses wonder at the
 23 1 |        answer him:—Wonder not, O stranger; this is our custom, and
 24 1 |      Cleinias. What do you mean, Stranger, by this remark? Explain;
 25 1 |        last remark is very true, Stranger; and I see quite clearly
 26 1 |       the Gods not given to man, Stranger; but I shall be very happy
 27 1 |          Cleinias. Your opinion, Stranger, about the questions which
 28 1 |        law?~Megillus. O Athenian Stranger, let me tell you what perhaps
 29 1 |      have to say.~Cleinias. Yes, Stranger; and when you have heard
 30 1 |      child?~Cleinias. Well said, Stranger.~Athenian. Is there any
 31 1 |          But has such a draught, Stranger, ever really been known
 32 1 |   Cleinias. He would be certain, Stranger, to use the potion.~Athenian.
 33 1 |       the potion.~Cleinias. Yes, Stranger, in that last case, too,
 34 2 |                 BOOK II~Athenian Stranger. And now we have to consider
 35 2 |    education.~Cleinias. I think, Stranger, that you are quite right
 36 2 |     There is a great difference, Stranger, in the two kinds of education.~
 37 2 |       But do you really imagine, Stranger, that this is the way in
 38 2 |    voluntarily.~Cleinias. Truth, Stranger, is a noble thing and a
 39 2 |         compose the third choir, Stranger? for I do not clearly understand
 40 2 |         strain?~Cleinias. Truly, Stranger, we of Crete and Lacedaemon
 41 2 |     states.~Cleinias. Once more, Stranger, I must complain that you
 42 2 |          this were not required, Stranger, we should all of us be
 43 2 |        the body.~Cleinias. That, Stranger, is precisely what was said.~
 44 2 |     their employments. And this, Stranger, shall be the crown of my
 45 3 |                BOOK III~Athenian Stranger. Enough of this. And what,
 46 3 |           Megillus. If some God, Stranger, would promise us that our
 47 3 |  argument.~Cleinias. Pray go on, Stranger;—compliments are troublesome,
 48 3 |     states. You will understand, Stranger, that I am speaking of something
 49 3 |      Megillus. What do you mean, Stranger?~Athenian. I suppose that
 50 3 |          of our words?~Cleinias. Stranger, I think that I see how
 51 4 |                 BOOK IV~Athenian Stranger. And now, what will this
 52 4 |      Cleinias. I should imagine, Stranger, that the city of which
 53 4 |    Cleinias. Excellent harbours, Stranger; there could not be better.~
 54 4 |      possible, I admit; and yet, Stranger, we Cretans are in the habit
 55 4 |    companion virtue of which the Stranger speaks, must be temperance?~
 56 4 |         what possible arguments, Stranger, can any man persuade himself
 57 4 |       should.~Megillus. And yet, Stranger, I perceive that I cannot
 58 4 |         confer.~Cleinias. Truly, Stranger, you see with the keen vision
 59 4 |          Cleinias. I should say, Stranger, that the double way is
 60 4 |      Megillus. The shorter form, Stranger, would be more in accordance
 61 4 |     think is most true. And now, Stranger, without delay let us return
 62 5 |                  BOOK V~Athenian Stranger. Listen, all ye who have
 63 5 |        done to citizens; for the stranger, having no kindred and friends,
 64 5 |        genius and the god of the stranger, who follow in the train
 65 5 |      without sinning against the stranger. And of offences committed,
 66 5 |         and in what concerns the stranger. We will now consider what
 67 5 |   Cleinias. Your words, Athenian Stranger, are excellent, and I will
 68 6 |                 BOOK VI~Athenian Stranger. And now having made an
 69 6 |      thing.~Cleinias. Excellent, Stranger.~Athenian. Yes; and I will
 70 6 |          you.~Cleinias. But why, Stranger, do not you and Megillus
 71 6 |       bonds, if he be a slave or stranger; but if he be a citizen
 72 6 |         like what you have said, Stranger—and I particularly like
 73 6 |   recollect at the right moment, Stranger, and do not miss the opportunity
 74 6 |   Megillus. I do not understand, Stranger, what you mean.~Athenian.
 75 6 |        to do in our own country, Stranger, seeing that there are,
 76 6 |     Cleinias. What is the cause, Stranger, of this extreme hesitation?~
 77 6 |          both of us like better, Stranger, than to hear what you have
 78 6 |         very pertinent question, Stranger.~Athenian. And therefore
 79 6 |       shall be sure to remember, Stranger.~Athenian. Very good. Then
 80 7 |   Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian. Stranger. Am I not right in maintaining
 81 7 |      nourishment?~Cleinias. But, Stranger, are we to impose this great
 82 7 |        of music.~Cleinias. Well, Stranger, and what is the reason
 83 7 |  cheerful?~Cleinias. To be sure, Stranger—more especially if we could
 84 7 |          need not, ask Megillus, Stranger, which of us has most truly
 85 7 |        Cleinias. It is not easy, Stranger, to put aside these principles
 86 7 |  Cleinias. What have you to say, Stranger?~Athenian. I say that in
 87 7 | perplexity.~Cleinias. Excellent, Stranger; let us do as you propose.~
 88 7 |          low opinion of mankind, Stranger.~Athenian. Nay, Megillus,
 89 7 |         has been asserted by us, Stranger is contrary to the custom
 90 7 |       Cleinias? Shall we allow a stranger to run down Sparta in this
 91 7 |     Cleinias. What troubles you, Stranger? and why are you so perplexed
 92 7 |        Cleinias. I do not think, Stranger, that we have wandered out
 93 7 |        Such a want of education, Stranger, is certainly an unseemly
 94 7 |          of knowledge are there, Stranger, which are divine and not
 95 7 |      contend.~Cleinias. I think, Stranger, that what you have now
 96 7 |        them.~Cleinias. You seem, Stranger, to be afraid of our habitual
 97 7 |       Cleinias. About what? Say, Stranger, what you mean.~Athenian.
 98 7 |   Assuredly: but may we not now, Stranger, prescribe these studies
 99 7 |  wanderers.~Cleinias. Very true, Stranger; and in the course of my
100 8 |               BOOK VIII~Athenian Stranger. Next, with the help of
101 8 |        The way which you mention Stranger, would be the only way.~
102 8 |   Cleinias. We are quite agreed, Stranger, that we should legislate
103 8 |          Then that is one cause, Stranger; but you spoke of another.~
104 8 |          Cleinias. What is this, Stranger, that you are saying? For
105 8 |     Megillus?~Megillus. I think, Stranger, that you are perfectly
106 8 |         to be, as he truly is, a stranger. Let this law, then, whether
107 8 |        Megillus. I, for my part, Stranger, would gladly receive this
108 8 |          we had better allow the Stranger to proceed with his laws.~
109 8 |    extremity of the land, of any stranger who is conterminous with
110 8 |         god of strangers, of the stranger, and when aroused, terrible
111 8 |          may gather it; but if a stranger is passing along the road,
112 8 |       blows. Of these fruits the stranger may partake, just as he
113 8 |          spot, let him, like the stranger, be allowed to partake of
114 8 |         right course; and if any stranger profess two arts, let them
115 8 |    slaves, nor again that of the stranger; but let the distribution
116 8 |         portion of the corn;—the stranger shall purchase corn for
117 8 |        of a citizen; but let the stranger sell them in the market
118 8 |          their servants. Let any stranger who likes buy fuel from
119 9 |    Cleinias. Very good.~Athenian Stranger. There is a sense of disgrace
120 9 |     temples, if he be a slave or stranger, shall have his evil deed
121 9 |    Cleinias. What makes you say, Stranger, that a theft is all one,
122 9 |         is something ridiculous, Stranger, in our proposing such an
123 9 |       just.~Cleinias. Very true, Stranger.~Athenian. Then now, Cleinias,
124 9 |        Megillus, say to me—Well, Stranger, if all this be as you say,
125 9 |      crime?~Cleinias. Very good, Stranger; and what shall we say in
126 9 |      Cleinias. I agree with you, Stranger; for one of two things is
127 9 |       them.~Cleinias. Very true, Stranger; there cannot be two opinions
128 9 |         And if the dead man be a stranger, the homicide shall be kept
129 9 |          from the country of the stranger during a like period. If
130 9 |           according to law. If a stranger unintentionally kill a stranger
131 9 |  stranger unintentionally kill a stranger who is dwelling in the city,
132 9 |      year, or if he be an entire stranger, in addition to the purification,
133 9 |          whether he have slain a stranger, or a metic, or a citizen,
134 9 |   returns, let him suffer as the stranger was to suffer in a similar
135 9 |     citizen kill a citizen, or a stranger a stranger. Or if a stranger
136 9 |         citizen, or a stranger a stranger. Or if a stranger kill a
137 9 |     stranger a stranger. Or if a stranger kill a citizen or a citizen
138 9 |         a citizen or a citizen a stranger in self–defence, let him
139 9 |        the former; and whether a stranger shall kill a citizen, or
140 9 |          citizen, or a citizen a stranger, or a slave a slave, there
141 9 |      shall keep his hands from a stranger, whether he be an old inhabitant
142 9 |           If he thinks that some stranger has struck him out of wantonness
143 9 |         not strike him, that the stranger may be kept far away from
144 9 |       Strangers, and in case the stranger appears to have struck the
145 9 |         shall be final. But if a stranger or metic smite one who is
146 9 |          such a suit, if he be a stranger but not resident, shall
147 9 |   already said, and the metic or stranger who comes to the rescue
148 9 |      strike a freeman, whether a stranger or a citizen, let any one
149 10|          these persons?~Athenian Stranger. My good friend, let us
150 10|         pleasure.~Cleinias. Why, Stranger, what other reason is there?~
151 10|    Cleinias. One such teacher, O Stranger, would be bad enough, and
152 10|       enactments.~Cleinias. Yes, Stranger; but then how often have
153 10|           Cleinias. Our address, Stranger, thus far, is excellent.~
154 10|         What a dreadful picture, Stranger, have you given, and how
155 10|        as he can?~Cleinias. Why, Stranger, if such persuasion be at
156 10|          of time?~Cleinias. Why, Stranger, shall we, whose patience
157 10|          of his power.~Megillus. Stranger, I like what Cleinias is
158 10|       Cleinias. Do not hesitate, Stranger; I see that you are afraid
159 10|       body.~Cleinias. Excellent, Stranger, and I hope that you will
160 10|          Some one says to me, “O Stranger, are all things at rest
161 10|         from what has been said, Stranger, there would be impiety
162 10|          Gods?~Cleinias. No one, Stranger, would be such a madman.~
163 10|          Certainly—quite enough, Stranger.~Athenian. Then to them
164 10|   greater only.~Cleinias. Never, Stranger, let us admit a supposition
165 11|          a freedman or any other stranger has a property greater than
166 11|       been delivered to him by a stranger, within five months, of
167 11|       What do you mean?~Athenian Stranger. Dear Cleinias, the class
168 11|      must be either a metic or a stranger. And a third law shall be:—
169 11|      Cleinias. What do you mean, Stranger?~Athenian. O Cleinias, a
170 11|          fortune!~Cleinias. Well Stranger, and may he not very fairly
171 11|         them.~Cleinias. And how, Stranger, can we act most fairly
172 11|        of money, in case he be a stranger, he shall leave the country,
173 12|      convict in a court of law a stranger or a slave of a theft of
174 12|        also a good one?~Athenian Stranger. In this way: In the first
175 12|           In the next place, the stranger who comes from abroad should
176 12|      they shall take care that a stranger, whoever he be, duly receives
177 12|         agora. The third kind of stranger is he who comes on some
178 12|      Cleinias. That is very good Stranger; but I wish you would tell
179 12|          I am not quite certain, Stranger; but I have a suspicion
180 12|     things look.~Cleinias. Then, Stranger, our former assertion will
181 12|        you?~Cleinias. We cannot, Stranger.~Athenian. Well, but ought
182 12|  guardian power?~Cleinias. What, Stranger, is the drift of your comparison?~
183 12|         I bow to your authority, Stranger; let us proceed in the way
184 12|           Cleinias. We must not, Stranger, by the God of strangers
185 12|         help.~Cleinias. I agree, Stranger, that we should proceed
186 12|          What then are we to do, Stranger, under these circumstances?~
187 12|        either we must detain the Stranger, and by supplications and