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Diodorus Siculus, Library | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Pausanias, Description of Greece | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Thucydides, The Peloponnesian War | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Aristotle, Politics | 6 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Demosthenes, Speeches 11-20 | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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P. Vergilius Maro, Aeneid (ed. Theodore C. Williams) | 2 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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Now Zaleucus was by birth a Locrian of Italy,As distinguished
from the two Locri in Greece. a man of noble family, admired for his education, and a pupil of
the philosopher Pythagoras. Having been accorded high favour in his native city, he was chosen
lawmaker and committed to writing a thoroughly novel system of law, making his beginning, first
of all, with the gods of the heavens. For at the outset in the
introduction to his legislation as a whole he declared it to be necessary that the inhabitants
of the city should first of all assume as an article of their creed that gods exist, and that,
as their minds survey the heavens and its orderly scheme and arrangement, they should judge
that these creations are not the result of Chance or the work of men's hands; that they should
revere the gods as the cause of all that is noble and good in the life of mankind; and that
they should keep the soul pure from every kind of evil, in the belie