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Contents of the Twelfth Book of Diodorus
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It remains for us to speak of the death of Charondas, in
connection with which a peculiar and unexpected thing happened to him. He had set out to the
country carrying a dagger because of the robbers, and on his return the Assembly was in session
and the commons in an uproar, whereupon he approached it because he was curious about the
matter in dispute.
[2]
But he had made a law that no man should
enter the Assembly carrying a weapon, and since he had forgotten he was carrying the dagger at
his side, he provided certain of his enemies with an occasion to bring an accusation against
him. And when one of them said, "You have annulled your own law," he replied, "Not so, by Zeus,
I will uphold it," and drawing the dagger he slew himself. Some historians, however, attribute
this act to Diocles, the lawgiver of the Syracusans.1
[3]
But now that we have discoursed
at sufficient length upon Charondas the lawmaker, we wish to speak briefly also of the lawmaker
Zaleucus, since the two men not only followed similar principles of life but were also natives
of neighbouring cities.
1 See Book 13.33.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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