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1 1 | Tell me, Strangers, is a God or some man supposed to
2 1 | of your laws?~Cleinias. A God, Stranger; in very truth
3 1 | Stranger; in very truth a, God: among us Cretans he is
4 1 | is wealth, not the blind god [Pluto], but one who is
5 1 | will show, by the grace of God, that the institutions of
6 1 | good, for they came from God; and any one who says the
7 1 | pleasures by the practice of the god whom they believe to have
8 1 | certain sacrifices which the God commanded. The Athenians
9 1 | must travel onwards to the God Dionysus.~Cleinias. Let
10 1 | receiving the same from some god or from one who has knowledge
11 1 | Athenian. Suppose that some God had given a fear–potion
12 2 | however, must be the work of God, or of a divine person;
13 2 | who will call upon the God Paean to testify to the
14 3 | require any use of iron: and God has given these two arts
15 3 | he speaks the words of God and nature; for poets are
16 3 | discussion.~Megillus. If some God, Stranger, would promise
17 3 | Megillus. What?~Athenian. A God, who watched over Sparta,
18 3 | into a tyranny. Now that God has instructed us what sort
19 3 | when they rebelled against God, leading a life of endless
20 4 | What is it?~Athenian. That God governs all things, and
21 4 | this has been accomplished, God has done all that he ever
22 4 | Athenian. Then let us invoke God at the settlement of our
23 4 | called by the name of the God who rules over wise men.~
24 4 | Cleinias. And who is this God?~Athenian. May I still make
25 4 | over them. In like manner God, in his love of mankind,
26 4 | some mortal man and not God is the ruler, have no escape
27 4 | Friends,” we say to them,—”God, as the old tradition declares,
28 4 | say, is left deserted of God; and being thus deserted,
29 4 | one of the followers of God; there can be no doubt of
30 4 | what life is agreeable to God, and becoming in his followers?
31 4 | the things which have. Now God ought to be to us the measure
32 4 | he who would be dear to God must, as far as is possible,
33 4 | temperate man is the friend of God, for he is like him; and
34 4 | polluted, neither good man nor God can without impropriety
35 5 | also is second [or next to God] in honour; and third, as
36 5 | dependent on the protection of God, than wrongs done to citizens;
37 5 | able is the genius and the god of the stranger, who follow
38 5 | in the train of Zeus, the god of strangers. And for this
39 5 | is the greatest. For the god who witnessed to the agreement
40 5 | befall them in the future God will lessen, and that present
41 5 | settled. But that they to whom God has given, as he has to
42 5 | Delphi, or Dodona, or the God Ammon, or any ancient tradition
43 5 | the several districts some God, or demi–god, or hero, and,
44 5 | districts some God, or demi–god, or hero, and, in the distribution
45 5 | after that, by the grace of God, we will complete the third
46 5 | can be avoided; but even God is said not to be able to
47 5 | For then neither will the God who gave you the lot be
48 5 | against the law and the God. How great is the benefit
49 5 | names, and dedicate to each God their several portions,
50 6 | we will, by the grace of God, if old age will only permit
51 6 | permit us.~Cleinias. But God will be gracious.~Athenian.
52 6 | vote to the altar of the God, writing down on a tablet
53 6 | people; and so we invoke God and fortune in our prayers,
54 6 | election will be committed to God, that he may do what is
55 6 | Delphi, in order that the God may return one out of each
56 6 | some temple, and calling God to witness, shall dedicate
57 6 | assigning to each portion some God or son of a God, let us
58 6 | portion some God or son of a God, let us give them altars
59 6 | when chastened by a soberer God, receives a fair associate
60 6 | children to be the servants of God in his place for ever. All
61 6 | at the festivals of the God who gave wine; and peculiarly
62 6 | beginning, which is also a God dwelling in man, preserves
63 6 | precede the marriage if God so will, and afterwards
64 7 | inspiration rightly ascribe to God. Now, I say, he among men,
65 7 | order; for very possibly, if God will, the exposition of
66 7 | not be, serious; and that God is the natural and worthy
67 7 | made to be the plaything of God, and this, truly considered,
68 7 | heart, but other things God will suggest; for I deem
69 7 | things their Genius and God will suggest to them—he
70 7 | who made the proverb about God originally had this in view
71 7 | he said, that “not even God himself can fight against
72 7 | knowledge at all cannot be a God, or demi–god, or hero to
73 7 | cannot be a God, or demi–god, or hero to mankind, or
74 7 | against which we say that no God contends, or ever will contend.~
75 7 | enquire into the supreme God and the nature of the universe,
76 7 | every way acceptable to God, he cannot abstain from
77 8 | sacrifice daily to some God or demi–god on behalf of
78 8 | daily to some God or demi–god on behalf of the city, and
79 8 | difficulty, concerning which God should legislate, if there
80 8 | they are unholy, hated of God, and most infamous; and
81 8 | realized in all states, and, God willing, in the matter of
82 8 | be the law of Zeus, the god of boundaries. Let no one
83 8 | neighbours; for Zeus, the god of kindred, is the witness
84 8 | the citizen, and Zeus, the god of strangers, of the stranger,
85 8 | everywhere together with the God who presides in each of
86 9 | selected, and him whom the God chooses they shall establish
87 9 | the result be good, and if God be gracious, it will be
88 9 | ours, like an oracle of God, be only spoken, and get
89 9 | the interpreters whom the God appoints shall be authorized
90 9 | and any others which the God commands in cases of this
91 9 | and the prophets, and the God, shall determine, and when
92 9 | purification and burial God knows, and about these the
93 9 | forgetting their duty to the God of Strangers, and in case
94 9 | under the curse of Zeus, the God of kindred and of ancestors,
95 10| as they say, or of any God, or from art, but as I was
96 10| every man to be deemed a God.~Cleinias. Yes, by every
97 10| just one.~Athenian. Surely God must not be supposed to
98 10| this way, whether he be God or man, must act from one
99 10| great or small, which a God or some inferior being might
100 10| and carelessness is any God ever negligent; for there
101 10| Let us not, then, deem God inferior to human workmen,
102 10| and the same art; or that God, the wisest of beings, who
103 10| say of the Gods, then will God help you; but should you
104 10| they can propitiate the God secretly with sacrifices
105 10| is deserved. Assuredly God will not blame the legislator,
106 11| at the hands of the Gods, God only knows; but I would
107 11| Delphi, and, whatever the God answers about the money
108 11| without any respect for God or man. Certainly, it is
109 11| Magnetes, whose city the God is restoring and resettling—
110 11| time, not reverencing the God who gives him the means
111 11| fellow, that he is his own God and will let him off easily,
112 11| suffer at the hands of the God, and in the second place,
113 11| and its mother.~Neither God, nor a man who has understanding,
114 11| honours, the heart of the God rejoices, and he is ready
115 11| shall be dedicated to the God who presides over the contests.
116 12| the law, is never either a God or the son of a God; of
117 12| either a God or the son of a God; of this the legislator
118 12| up the temple of any war–god whom he likes, adding an
119 12| Thessalian, was changed by a God from a woman into a man;
120 12| and shall present to the God three men out of their own
121 12| showing respect to Zeus, the God of hospitality, not forbidding
122 12| must not, Stranger, by the God of strangers I swear that
123 12| along the road in which God is guiding us; and how we
124 12| Magnetes, or whatever name God may give it, you will obtain
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