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1 1 | say that Apollo is their lawgiver: would they not, Megillus?~
2 1 | are degrading our inspired lawgiver to a rank which is far beneath
3 1 | female; the duty of the lawgiver will be to take charge of
4 1 | honours of the dead. And the lawgiver reviewing his work, will
5 1 | believe to have been their lawgiver. Leaving the story, we may
6 1 | I think that the Spartan lawgiver was quite right in forbidding
7 1 | Athenian. Let us return to the lawgiver, and say to him:—”Well,
8 1 | and say to him:—”Well, lawgiver, there is certainly no such
9 2 | because showing that a lawgiver may institute melodies which
10 2 | island. And, if I were a lawgiver, I would try to make the
11 2 | argument has proven, still the lawgiver, who is worth anything,
12 3 | laws, and who was their lawgiver.~Cleinias. And thus far
13 3 | were arguing that the good lawgiver ought to order all with
14 3 | the divine and inspired lawgiver has not originally commanded
15 3 | were maintaining that the lawgiver ought to have three things
16 4 | I consider that the true lawgiver, like an archer, aims only
17 4 | and originates in a good lawgiver and an orderly tyrant, and
18 4 | already given.~Cleinias. The lawgiver, if he asks my opinion,
19 4 | present instance, of the lawgiver.~Cleinias. That I think
20 7 | the law? or how can the lawgiver rightly direct you about
21 9 | purpose, for him the earthly lawgiver legislates as follows:—There
22 10| but then what should the lawgiver do when this evil is of
23 10| argument will not discredit the lawgiver.~Athenian. After the prelude
24 11| sometimes be a hardship in the lawgiver commanding the kinsman of
25 11| prelude on behalf of the lawgiver and of his subjects, the
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