Volume 10

Plato : with an English translation.

  • Plato.
Date:
1914-1935
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Licence: In copyright

Credit: Plato : with an English translation. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ments,—orphans,—family disputes,—divorce,—the honour due to age,—injuries by means of drugs and witchcraft,—thefts and acts of violence,—insanity,— abusive language,—public ridicule,—mendicancy,— the responsibility of masters for the acts of their slaves,—witnesses in courts of law,—the employment of professional advocates. Book XII.—Regulations and observations concern- ing the duties of ambassadors,—the wickedness of theft, especially of State property,—the benefit to the State of habits of discipline in the citizens,— hence military service, with carefully adjudged rewards and penalties, must be universally com- pulsory—the Court of Examiners, their appointment and their duties,—oaths forbidden in the law-courts, —promptness in executing sentences,—foreign travel by the citizens, when permissible, and in what respect beneficial to the State. Various minor regulations are added respecting stolen goods, rights of search, property-holdings, etc. Then follows a review of the judicial arrangements, including appeals, with further observations on the importance of the study of Law, and on executions. After some supplementary rules have been given concerning funerals and tombs, we come to a description of the Nocturnal Synod, its function and constitution, and the training of its members; and with this the work concludes. It will be clear from this analysis that the title of Lmvs is a very insufficient—not to say mislead- ing—description of its contents. Barely one-third of the work consists of “ laws ” in the literal sense of the term ; the rest is a far-ranging discussion of all