Plato, Laws, Book 7, section 805b

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[805b] for a lawgiver to commit.

Clinias
So it would seem; yet truly a vast number of the things now mentioned, Stranger, are in conflict with our ordinary polities.

Athenian
Well, but I said¹ that we should allow the argument to run its full course, and when this is done we should adopt the conclusion we approve.

Clinias
In this you spoke most reasonably; and you have made me now chide myself for what I said. So say on now what

1 Cp. Plat. Laws 746c, Plat. Laws 799e.

Plato. Plato in Twelve Volumes, Vols. 10 & 11 translated by R.G. Bury. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1967 & 1968.

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