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  1 1 |         with a view to war, and the legislator appears to me to have looked
  2 1 |             intention of the Cretan legislator; all institutions, private
  3 1 |          the best sort of judge and legislator.~Athenian. And yet the aim
  4 1 |           also be the desire of the legislator?~Cleinias. Certainly.~Athenian.
  5 1 |             will he ever be a sound legislator who orders peace for the
  6 1 |            maintain that the divine legislator of Crete, like any other
  7 1 |           divine excellence;—at the legislator when making his laws had
  8 1 |           is the order in which the legislator must place them, and after
  9 1 |              In the next place, the legislator has to be careful how the
 10 1 |          gymnasia, invented by your legislator with a view to war?~Megillus.
 11 1 |         have hit the meaning of the legislator, and to say what is most
 12 1 |          young men present, and the legislator has given old men free licence,
 13 1 |        Greek or barbarian, whom the legislator commanded to eschew all
 14 1 |             their subjects. Now the legislator ought to have considered
 15 1 |           the discrimination of the legislator. I am not speaking of drinking,
 16 1 |          Athenian. And does not the legislator and every one who is good
 17 1 |             have been of use to the legislator as a test of courage? Might
 18 1 |           not go and say to him, “O legislator, whether you are legislating
 19 2 |      statesmanlike, how worthy of a legislator! I know that other things
 20 2 |              And similarly the true legislator will persuade, and, if he
 21 2 |             the rule, whether he be legislator or father, will be in a
 22 2 |      pleasant? Certainly not, sweet legislator. Or shall we say that the
 23 2 |             with the designs of the legislator, and is, in his opinion,
 24 2 |        especially in childhood, the legislator will try to purge away the
 25 2 |          sowing of teeth, which the legislator may take as a proof that
 26 2 |         their youth, viz., the good legislator; and that he ought to enact
 27 3 |           Now, in general, when the legislator attempts to make a new settlement
 28 3 |         first, that a statesman and legislator ought to ordain laws with
 29 3 |            And if this be true, the legislator must endeavour to implant
 30 3 |           making of laws, “you see, legislator, the principles of government,
 31 3 |             what measures ought the legislator to have then taken in order
 32 3 |          and harmonious, and that a legislator ought to legislate with
 33 3 |  continually proposing aims for the legislator which appear not to be always
 34 3 |          what, in your opinion, the legislator should aim.~Athenian. Hear
 35 3 |            this, I say, is what the legislator has to consider, and what
 36 3 |         Athenian. And ought not the legislator to determine these classes?~
 37 3 |            and property. And it any legislator or state departs from this
 38 4 |        advantage to the colonist or legislator, in another point of view
 39 4 |            the colony, who is their legislator, finds them troublesome
 40 4 |             the state, yet the true legislator must from time to time appear
 41 4 |           course.~Athenian. And the legislator would do likewise?~Cleinias.
 42 4 |             would.~Athenian. “Come, legislator,” we will say to him; “what
 43 4 |             contemporary of a great legislator, and that some happy chance
 44 4 |             I am supposing that the legislator is by nature of the true
 45 4 |     punished as an evil–doer by the legislator, who calls the laws just?”~
 46 4 |             and must be said by the legislator who is of my way of thinking,
 47 4 |            surely be the aim of the legislator in all his laws.~Cleinias.
 48 4 |             addressed to him by the legislator, when his soul is not altogether
 49 4 |        little conversation with the legislator, and say to him—”O, legislator,
 50 4 |      legislator, and say to him—”O, legislator, speak; if you know what
 51 4 |           just now saying, that the legislator ought not to allow the poets
 52 4 |          not the case in a law; the legislator must give not two rules
 53 4 |          Now you in the capacity of legislator must not barely say “a moderate
 54 4 |           not.~Athenian. And is our legislator to have no preface to his
 55 4 |            them, so we will ask the legislator to cure our disorders with
 56 4 |             conciliation, which the legislator has been uttering in the
 57 4 |             to each separately, the legislator should prefix a preamble;
 58 5 |            word and approval of the legislator, he indulges in pleasure,
 59 5 |         sorrows and pains which the legislator approves, but gives way
 60 5 |    according to the standard of the legislator, and abstain in every possible
 61 5 |        which is the business of the legislator; and he, I suspect, would
 62 5 |             reverential. A sensible legislator will rather exhort the elders
 63 5 |         highest importance; and the legislator should make enquiries, and
 64 5 |         most difficult of them, the legislator, if he be also a despot,
 65 5 |             able to effect; but the legislator, who, not being a despot,
 66 5 |         state, are sent away by the legislator in a friendly spirit as
 67 5 |          termed a colony. And every legislator should contrive to do this
 68 5 |             standing among them, no legislator of any degree of sense will
 69 5 |           of parts up to ten. Every legislator ought to know so much arithmetic
 70 5 |            view to use. Whether the legislator is establishing a new state
 71 5 |          not to be disturbed by the legislator; but he should assign to
 72 5 |    constitution is ill adapted to a legislator who has not despotic power.
 73 5 |           your friend, nor will the legislator; and indeed the law declares
 74 5 |             be the object of a good legislator, namely, that the state
 75 5 |       inconsistently, that the true legislator desires to have the city
 76 5 |             happy and good, and the legislator will seek to make him so;
 77 5 |         wrong. Wherefore, also, the legislator ought often to impress upon
 78 5 |           both these evils. Now the legislator should determine what is
 79 5 |      impaired in any case. This the legislator gives as a measure, and
 80 5 |           by more and less. And the legislator shall divide the citizens
 81 5 |          and other things which the legislator, as is evident from these
 82 5 |        about;—all this is as if the legislator were telling his dreams,
 83 5 |           say. Once more, then, the legislator shall appear and address
 84 5 |           to it; you must allow the legislator to perfect his design, and
 85 5 |             go round and round. The legislator is to consider all these
 86 5 |            such things, if only the legislator, by other laws and institutions,
 87 5 | acquisitions, whether some unworthy legislator theirs has been the cause,
 88 5 |            To all these matters the legislator, if he have any sense in
 89 6 |     difficulty, by any state or any legislator in the distribution of honours:
 90 6 |      hereafter founded. To this the legislator should look—not to the interests
 91 6 |            creatures. Wherefore the legislator ought not to allow the education
 92 6 |             every way best; him the legislator shall do his utmost to appoint
 93 6 |           And is not the aim of the legislator similar? First, he desires
 94 6 |       imagine that there ever was a legislator so foolish as not to know
 95 6 |           in our united opinion the legislator and guardian of the law
 96 6 |             and minute details, the legislator must leave out something.
 97 6 |        quite sufficient; and if the legislator be alive they shall communicate
 98 6 |           with the others which the legislator originally gave them, and
 99 6 |           when first enacted by the legislator in your parts of the world,
100 6 |     executed; and would be like the legislator “combing wool into the fire,”
101 6 |           without regulation by the legislator, which is a great mistake.
102 6 |             be far too much for the legislator. And therefore, as I said
103 7 |             to the intention of the legislator, and make the characters
104 7 |           which is established. The legislator must somehow find a way
105 7 |           to them the wishes of the legislator in order that they may regulate
106 7 |             them. And therefore the legislator must assign to these also
107 7 |             greater mistake for any legislator to make than this?~Cleinias.
108 7 |          must say what I think. The legislator ought to be whole and perfect,
109 7 |             some impropriety in the legislator determining minutely the
110 7 | sufficiently declared to you by the legislator. Attend, then, to what I
111 7 |     becoming name. These things the legislator should indicate in general
112 7 |             it is difficult for the legislator to begin with these studies;
113 7 |        claim our attention. For the legislator appears to have a duty imposed
114 7 |        obedient to the words of the legislator, both when he is giving
115 7 |             a citizen; and the true legislator ought not only to write
116 7 |             against armies. Now the legislator, in laying down laws about
117 7 |      praises and injunctions of the legislator rather than the punishments
118 8 |       ordain those things which the legislator of necessity omits; and
119 8 |       equally to men and women. The legislator may be supposed to argue
120 8 |           than boxers? And will the legislator, because he is afraid that
121 8 |            declared by the original legislator; and his successors ought
122 8 |       principle which we say that a legislator should always observe; for
123 8 |            right in saying that the legislator who wants to master any
124 8 |          this makes the task of the legislator less difficult—half as many
125 8 |            necessary that the great legislator of our state should determine
126 8 |       beneath the wisdom of an aged legislator. These lesser matters, as
127 9 |           many kinds, ought not the legislator to adapt himself to them,
128 9 |             Athenian. And ought the legislator alone among writers to withhold
129 9 |             just or unjust; but the legislator has to consider whether
130 9 |             work of law. But if the legislator sees any one who is incurable,
131 9 |             in such cases only, the legislator ought to inflict death as
132 9 |         conveniently divided by the legislator into two sorts: there is
133 9 |       strength, will be held by the legislator to be the source of great
134 9 |             his being, and whom the legislator will command to endure any
135 9 |       according to the law. Now the legislator may easily show that these
136 9 |             enactments. The poorest legislator will have no difficulty
137 9 |           And then, again, that the legislator should not permit them to
138 9 |           courts of law; others the legislator must decide for himself.~
139 9 |        Cleinias. And what ought the legislator to decide, and what ought
140 9 |           the necessity exists, the legislator should only allow them to
141 9 |            pay for the harm, for no legislator is able to control chance.
142 9 |        about to utter; for them the legislator legislates of necessity,
143 10|        others, and above all of the legislator. In the meantime take care
144 10|           Gods. For the duty of the legislator is and always will be to
145 10|             at all possible, then a legislator who has anything in him
146 10|      undermined by bad men, but the legislator himself?~Megillus. There
147 10|    Assuredly God will not blame the legislator, who will enact the following
148 11|      children and regardless of the legislator, taking up that which neither
149 11|     themselves and to others. Now a legislator ought not to leave the matter
150 11|       succour of adversity. And the legislator ought always to be devising
151 11|          anxiety and trouble to the legislator.~Cleinias. In what way?~
152 11|            this hour. Now I, as the legislator, regard you and your possessions,
153 11|             him, let him pardon the legislator if he gives them in marriage,
154 11|              say, shall forgive the legislator if he disregards this, which
155 11|          Persons may fancy that the legislator never thought of this, but
156 11|           the latter to forgive the legislator, in that he, having to take
157 11|        there are cases in which the legislator will be imposing upon him
158 11|      marriage, and asserts that the legislator, if he were alive and present,
159 11|         this, the reply is that the legislator left fifteen of the guardians
160 11|          censure and blame from the legislator, which, by a man of sense,
161 11|         experience the wrath of the legislator. But he who is disobedient,
162 11|         will be of opinion that the legislator should enact that they may,
163 11|            children, compelling the legislator and the judge to heal the
164 11|            a fellow–worker with the legislator, whenever the law leaves
165 11|        shall suffer or pay; and the legislator, like a painter, shall give
166 11|            and does not do what the legislator commands. And if in any
167 11|           government. Wherefore the legislator may safely make a law applicable
168 11|        litten to the request of the legislator and go away into another
169 12|           son of a God; of this the legislator ought to be better informed
170 12|             About these matters the legislator has to consider, and he
171 12|             matters which the elder legislator has omitted may be supplied
172 12|         test is the writings of the legislator, which the righteous judge
173 12|             Now we must believe the legislator when he tells us that the
174 12|             the Gods below. But the legislator does not intend moderation
175 12|             anything greater to the legislator and the guardian of the