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Title: Laws
Author: Plato
Translator: Benjamin Jowett
Release date: May 1, 1999 [eBook #1750]
Most recently updated: October 29, 2008
Language: English
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LAWS
By Plato
Translated By Benjamin Jowett
INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS.
The genuineness of the Laws is sufficiently proved (1) by more than twenty citations of them in the writings of Aristotle, who was residing at Athens during the last twenty years of the life of Plato, and who, having left it after his death (B.C. 347), returned thither twelve years later (B.C. 335); (2) by the allusion of Isocrates
(Oratio ad Philippum missa, p.84: To men tais paneguresin enochlein kai pros apantas legein tous sunprechontas en autais pros oudena legein estin, all omoios oi toioutoi ton logon (sc. speeches in the assembly)
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