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 1 1 |    will relate to contracts of marriage which they make one with
 2 4 |      back to the connection of marriage?~Cleinias. Very true.~Athenian.
 3 4 |    order, the laws relating to marriage should be those which are
 4 4 |       me first give the law of marriage in a simple form; it may
 5 4 |        be the simple law about marriage. The double law would run
 6 5 |      shall give the females in marriage according to the law to
 7 5 |      In marrying and giving in marriage, no one shall give or receive
 8 6 |     those to whom they give in marriage; in such matters, as far
 9 6 |        himself to have found a marriage connection which is to his
10 6 |       you ought to make such a marriage as wise men would approve.
11 6 |        neither to avoid a poor marriage, nor specially to desire
12 6 |    shall follow, not after the marriage which is most pleasing to
13 6 |        compelled to enter into marriage with the quicker, and the
14 6 |        temperate drink. Yet in marriage no one is able to see that
15 6 |      desirous of making a rich marriage we should endeavour to turn
16 6 |     our exhortation concerning marriage, and let us remember what
17 6 |      prelude about the duty of marriage. But if a man will not listen
18 6 |      and a bad citizen. Of the marriage portion I have already spoken;
19 6 |   drachmae as the price of the marriage garments if he be of the
20 6 |        satisfied. Touching the marriage festival, they shall assemble
21 6 |     engaged in the business of marriage; at such a crisis of their
22 6 |        on the day and night of marriage should a man abstain from
23 6 |        house shall precede the marriage if God so will, and afterwards
24 6 |       to the regulations about marriage; but at present we are only
25 6 |      the subjects which follow marriage in the order of legislation.~
26 6 |     life during the year after marriage, before children are born,
27 6 |        just as they did before marriage. This was a singularity
28 6 |   influx.~But to return:—After marriage let us speak of the birth
29 6 |     Then let us now proceed to marriage, and teach persons in what
30 6 |   longer, during the time when marriage is fruitful. But if any
31 7 |        who have authority over marriage], whom the guardians of
32 7 |        who have authority over marriage, one out of each tribe;
33 8 |        and upwards until their marriage shall continue to share
34 8 |        for example, respecting marriage and the procreation and
35 11|     shall agree to make such a marriage as his former master approves.
36 11| legislator if he gives them in marriage, he have a regard only to
37 11|       unsuitableness of age in marriage; he shall make an inspection
38 11|  especially in what relates to marriage, and asserts that the legislator,
39 11|        to marry or be given in marriage, to do either—and some kinsman
40 11|      the women who superintend marriage, and let both together do
41 11|      the women who superintend marriage into another country, and