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 1 1 |           shall we say?~Cleinias. O Athenian Stranger—inhabitant
 2 1 |        this question of Tyrtaeus: O most divine poet, we will
 3 1 |     endless.~Athenian. Excellent, O Lacedaemonian Stranger.
 4 1 |       happens among us.~Athenian. O Lacedaemonian Stranger,
 5 1 |           answer him:—Wonder not, O stranger; this is our custom,
 6 1 |          and Scythians.~Megillus. O best of men, we have only
 7 1 |        question of law?~Megillus. O Athenian Stranger, let me
 8 1 |           not go and say to him, “O legislator, whether you
 9 2 |   happiest. And to that I rejoin:—O my father, did you not wish
10 3 |         would make a state happy, O Megillus and Cleinias, we
11 3 |          is to be committed. For, O my friends, how can there
12 3 |         follow and obey; and yet, O thou most wise Pindar, as
13 3 |          we not most justly say: “O Darius, how came you to
14 3 | considered by us. Justly may you, O Lacedaemonians, be praised,
15 4 |       legislator, and say to him—”O, legislator, speak; if you
16 5 |           appear and address us:—”O my friends,” he will say
17 5 |         must not fail to observe, O Megillus and Cleinias, that
18 6 |           our new city?~Athenian. O, Cleinias, Athens is proud,
19 6 |         seldom as possible.~Thus, O my friends, and for the
20 6 |     Athenian. We will say to them—O friends and saviours of
21 6 |           is born of good parents—O my son, you ought to make
22 7 |          are unworthy of freemen, O Megillus and Cleinias.~I
23 7 |           have not as yet spoken, O illustrious guardian of
24 7 |           them: all these things, O my friend, have not yet
25 7 |       what will you do with them, O most excellent guardians
26 7 |          great charges?~Athenian. O my friend, there will be
27 7 |      tragedy, come to us and say—”O strangers, may we go to
28 7 |    publication or not. Wherefore, O ye sons and scions of the
29 7 |  ignorance do you mean?~Athenian. O my dear Cleinias, I, like
30 7 |         might we not say to them:—O ye best of Hellenes, is
31 7 |            Athenian. I will. For, O my good friends, that other
32 7 |         prayer for their welfare: O friends, we will say to
33 9 |       admonition and exhortation:—O sir, we will say to him,
34 9 |           injure. For I maintain, O my friends, that the mere
35 10|  irreverent speech of this sort:—”O inhabitants of Athens, and
36 10|       Cleinias. One such teacher, O Stranger, would be bad enough,
37 10|        him, smothering our anger:—O my son, we will say to him,
38 10|    follows:—Some one says to me, “O Stranger, are all things
39 10|      human affairs: To him we say—O thou best of men, in believing
40 10|           is none.~Athenian. And, O most excellent and best
41 10|        Gods who inhabit Olympus.~ O youth or young man, who
42 11|         mean, Stranger?~Athenian. O Cleinias, a man when he
43 11|           Such as what?~Athenian. O ye Gods, he will say, how
44 11|         Cleinias. What?~Athenian. O my friends, we will say
45 11|        Athenian. I will tell you, O my friend, for such things
46 12|          what you mean.~Athenian. O Cleinias, many things of
47 12|           we will ask a question:—O wonderful being, and to
48 12|          and explained.~Athenian. O Megillus and Cleinias, about