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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
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.
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