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Ἐνθυμηθέντι γὰρ κτλ. The construction is grammatically incomplete: one would expect δόξειεν ἄν, or the like, to govern the dative. It is not till we get to 183 C (ταύτῃ μὲν οὖν κτλ.) that we find the sense resumed.

παρὰ πάντων. Jowett's “all the world” is misleading: the treatment is here confined to Athenian νόμος.


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