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 1 1 |       Athenian. But surely the lawgivers of Crete and Lacedaemon
 2 1 |      merits and defects of the lawgivers themselves. Let us then
 3 2 |        that you depreciate our lawgivers.~Athenian. Not intentionally,
 4 3 |       could hardly have wanted lawgivers as yet; nothing of that
 5 4 |    would have been needed, and lawgivers more than mortal, if you
 6 8 |    exercising the functions of lawgivers, shall devise a second law
 7 10|     and atoning for them. When lawgivers profess that they are gentle
 8 11|       guardians of the law are lawgivers and fathers to them, not
 9 11|       we must also believe the lawgivers, who tell us that these
10 12| interpreters, the teachers the lawgivers, the guardians of the other