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Lacedaemon (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 624a
AthenianTo whom do you ascribe the authorship of your legal arrangements, Strangers? To a god or to some man?CliniasTo a god, Stranger, most rightfully to a god. We Cretans call Zeus our lawgiver; while in Lacedaemon, where our friend here has his home, I believe they claim Apollo as theirs. Is not that so, Megillus?MegillusYes.AthenianDo you then, like Homer,Cp. Hom. Od. 19.178. say that
Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 625c
and meadows too, where we may rest ourselves and talk.AthenianYou say well.CliniasYes, indeed: and when we set eyes on them we shall say so still more emphatically. So let us be going, and good luck attend us.AthenianAmen! And tell me now, for what reason did your law ordain the common meals you have, and your gymnastic schools and military equipment?CliniasOur Cretan customs, Stranger, are, as I think, such as anyone may grasp easily. As you may notice, Crete, as a whole,
Thessaly (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 625d
is not a level country, like Thessaly: consequently, whereas the Thessalians mostly go on horseback, we Cretans are runners, since this land of ours is rugged and more suitable for the practice of foot-running. Under these conditions we are obliged to have light armour for running and to avoid heavy equipment; so bows and arrows are adopted as suitable because of their lightness. Thus all these customs of ours are adapted for war,
Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 626b
in the conviction that without victory in war nothing else, whether possession or institution, is of the least value, but all the goods of the vanquished fall into the hands of the victors.AthenianYour training, Stranger, has certainly, as it seems to me, given you an excellent understanding of the legal practices of Crete. But tell me this more clearly still: by the definition you have given of the well-constituted State
Attica (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 626d
AthenianAnd must each individual man regard himself as his own enemy? Or what do we say when we come to this point?CliniasO Stranger of Athens, for I should be loth to call you a man of Attica, since methinks you deserve rather to be named after the goddess Athena, seeing that you have made the argument more clear by taking it back again to its starting-point; whereby you will the more easily discover the justice of our recent statement that, in the mass, all men are both publicly and privately the enemies of all, and individually also each man is his own enemy.
Athens (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 626d
AthenianAnd must each individual man regard himself as his own enemy? Or what do we say when we come to this point?CliniasO Stranger of Athens, for I should be loth to call you a man of Attica, since methinks you deserve rather to be named after the goddess Athena, seeing that you have made the argument more clear by taking it back again to its starting-point; whereby you will the more easily discover the justice of our recent statement that, in the mass, all men are both publicly and privately the enemies of all, and individually also each man is his own enemy.
Lacedaemon (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 628e
rather than his peace legislation for war.CliniasThis statement, Stranger, is apparently true; yet, unless I am much mistaken, our legal usages in Crete, and in Lacedaemon too, are wholly acted towards war.AthenianVery possibly; but we must not now attack them violently,
Crete (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 628e
rather than his peace legislation for war.CliniasThis statement, Stranger, is apparently true; yet, unless I am much mistaken, our legal usages in Crete, and in Lacedaemon too, are wholly acted towards war.AthenianVery possibly; but we must not now attack them violently,
880 BC (search for this): book 1, section 629a
but mildly interrogate them, since both we and your legislators are earnestly interested in these matters. Pray follow the argument closely. Let us take the opinion of Tyrtaeus (an Athenian by birth and afterwards a citizen of Lacedaemon), above all men, was keenly interested in our subject. This is what he says: Tyrt. 12 (Bergk). Tyrtaeus wrote war-songs at Sparta about 880 B.C. Though a man were the richest of men,Tyrtaeus 12 Bergk
Lacedaemon (Greece) (search for this): book 1, section 629a
but mildly interrogate them, since both we and your legislators are earnestly interested in these matters. Pray follow the argument closely. Let us take the opinion of Tyrtaeus (an Athenian by birth and afterwards a citizen of Lacedaemon), above all men, was keenly interested in our subject. This is what he says: Tyrt. 12 (Bergk). Tyrtaeus wrote war-songs at Sparta about 880 B.C. Though a man were the richest of men,Tyrtaeus 12 Bergk
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