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[627d] but “self-superior” if they were defeated; for our present reference to the usage of ordinary speech is not concerned with the propriety or impropriety of verbal phrases but with the essential rightness or wrongness of laws.

Clinias
Very true, Stranger.

Megillus
And finely spoken, too, up to this point, as I agree.

Athenian
Let us also look at this point: the brothers we have just described would have, I suppose, a judge?

Clinias
Certainly.

Athenian
Which of the two would be the better—a judge who destroyed

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