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The double method, Stranger, is by far the better.Athenian
Do you wish us to examine the double method and the single as applied also to actual legislation?Clinias
Most certainly I wish it.Athenian
Come, tell me then, in Heaven's name,—what would be the first law to be laid down by the lawgiver? Will he not follow the order of nature, and in his ordinances regulate
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- Raphael Kühner, Bernhard Gerth, Ausführliche Grammatik der griechischen Sprache, KG 1.3.1
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- Plato, Laws, Plat. Laws 6.772e
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