BOOK I - To Be Added.

BOOK II -

On the Judgment of the Choruses (655a-671a)

What is Beauty in the Chorus (655a-655b)
Taking Joy in the Choruses (655b-656c)
Fine Laws Censor the Poets (656c-657c)
On the old and the young (656d ff):
The Correct in Music and Play (657c-660d)
The relativity of pleasures to groups (ages) (658b-e)
That Kl does not have a criterion other than pleasure (e.g. categories) (658c)
“Almost the finest Muse is she who pleases the best men and the adequately educated men, and
especially finest is she who pleases the one man who is distinguished in virtue and education”
(658e-659a)
Courage to oppose the corrupt pleasures of the many as correct judge (659a)
Educating Kleinias (660d-663d)
Cross-examining the gods of Crete and Sparta (662c-d)
“I don’t want such a thing to be put by me in the mouth of the gods” (662e)
Cross-examining fathers and lawgivers (662e)
Myth (663d-664d; 645b)
The Three Choruses (664d-667b)
The most beautiful song (666e-667a)
More on Correctness and Charm (667b-671a)
Restatement In Favor of the Dionysian Chorus (671a-672a)
Awe and shame: fear accompanied by justice (671d)
The leaders of the drinking parties are not the same as the Dionysian leaders (671d-e)
The benefit of properly established and properly run drinking parties: friendship (671e-672a)
To what degree has this conclusion been tailored to fit the answer as to the best judge of the brothers?
More on Behalf of the Gift of Dionysus (672a-672e)
Distinguishing Music from Gymnastic (672e-673d)
Bodily Movement: Rhythm and Posture (672e)
Vocal Movement: Rhythm and Melody (673a)
Vocal Aspect is Education in Virtue and is Called Virtue (673a)
Bodily Aspect If It Instills the Virtue of the Body is Called Gymnastic (673a)
Capstone (673d-674b)
Wine drinking must be used in conformity with laws and order, in order to habituate the citizens to and
to encourage moderation. If it will not be implemented seriously, it should be banned with a degree of
strictness greater than even that obtaining among the Dorians.

BOOK III - GYMNASTIC TRAINING IN UNDERSTANDING THE LAW

Topic and Method (676a-c)

The Original Source of the Political Regime (676a) [implicit denial of God as arche]
Looking from Infinite Time (676b):
Once Time is a Factor, not just Origins but Transformations Matter
The Origin and Transformation of Political Regimes: Grasping the Cause of Change (676c-e)
No Progression in the Rise and Fall of Cities Over Time: A Cyclical Account
Progress and Decline in Virtue and Vice (676a)
Transformations (677a-682c)
From the Flood (677a) to the Dynasty (680b) to the City (681a) to the City in the Foothills (681d) to the
City by the Water (682c)
From the Flood to the Dynasty (677a-680b)
Mountain Herdsmen Survive (677b)
 They Lack Experiences in the Arts (677b)
Cities in the Plains and Along the Sea Were Destroyed By The Flood (677c)
All Tools Perished; All Arts Were Destroyed (677c)
The Arts of the Interlocutors' Time Are Complete (677c): Innovation is Possible Only After A
Destruction, A Loss, A Forgetting: All Knowing is Remembering
Abundant Land, Scarcity of Livestock (677e)
No Recollection of Cities, Regimes, Law-giving (678a)
Cities, Arts and Laws Develop Post-Flood (678a)
The Man Lack Experience of Beautiful Things and Ugly Things; They Do Not Become Either Perfectly
Virtuous Or Perfectly Vicious (678b)
The Herdsmen Fear Descent into the Valleys (678c)
Iron, Copper, Metals Disappear, Together with the Arts that Depend on Them (678c-e)
Civil War and War: None (678e)
They are delighted with one another and full of goodwill
No Lack of Pasture Land, Hence No Fights About Food (Except at the Start) (679a)
A God had Provided Them with the Molding and Weaving Arts (679a)
They Were Neither Rich Nor Poor (679b-c) [i.e. these conditions are not sufficient to produce virtue,
a good way of life]
They Were Good Too Because Of Naive Simplicity (679c)
They believed it when they heard that something was noble or base: nobody was so
wise as to be always on the lookout for lies.
They Lacked The Arts of War on Land, Sea and in Cities (Lawsuits and Civil Wars) (679d)
These Men Were Simpler, More Courageous, More Moderate, and More Just Than Others (679e)
Nevertheless, they are not perfectly virtuous. Missing from this list: Prudence, Intelligence.]
All This Has Been Said In Order To Discuss What Need They Had Of Laws (680a)
From the Dynasty to the City (680b-681c)
Before There is Writing, There is The Ancestral Law
Megillus Thinks That Homer's Portrayal of Dynasty Attributes The Cyclops' Ancient Ways to Savagery
[i.e. the simple are savage, too; no deliberative assembles, no themis/divine justice] (680d)
Rule of the Eldest, Who Receives Authority From Both Parents (680e)
Rule of Paternal Laws and The Most Just Monarchy (680e)
From the City To The City in the Foothills (681a-681d)
The Foothills Turn To Farming (681a)
To Ward Off Beasts, They Erect Walls of Stone, Forming Themselves Into One Large Dwelling (681a)
More and More Groups Arrive With Their Own Particular Customs (681a-b)
Each is More Pleased by his Own Laws than by the Laws of Others (681c)
The Origin of Legislation (681c)
Some Men Select Among the Customs Those They Find Most Agreeable And Present Them For
Approval To The Leaders and Chiefs (681c-d): They Are Called Law-Givers
The Law-Givers Rule During the Transition (681d)
Even though the rulers have been appointed.
The regime of the elected rulers is an aristocracy or monarchy, born from the dynasty.
From the City in the Foothills To The City in the Plains (681d-682c)
Homer Speaks According To A God and According to Nature (682a)
Cities in the Plains No Longer Fear the Sea and Make War on Each Other (682c)
When Troy Was Being Besieged, Revolutions Befell the Cities at Home (682d)

A Case Study: Lacedaimon (682e-701d)

Back to the Beginning: The Settling of Lacedaimon (682e) [Ath: As if according to a god]
The Dorians are Achaeans Who Had Besieged Troy And Been Exiled by the Men At Home (682e)
The Settling of Lacedaimon is the Fourth City - or Nation (683a)
Target Concepts: The Noble and Ignoble in Settlement, Laws that Preserve and Destroy, What Changes
Make a City Happy (683b)
Argos, Messene and Lacedaimon (683d-693b)
Divided From a Common Source And Made Into Separate Cities (683d)
Each Swears to Come to the Aid of the Others if Anyone Should Subvert the Monarchy (683e)
In the Name of Zeus! (683e)
All Monarchies Are Dissolved By The Rulers Themselves (683e) [dismissing popular uprising because
people are bound by oaths]
The Three Monarchies Swore an Oath: One, Never To Make Their Ruler Harsher; The Others, Never To
Dissolve The Monarchies or Let Them Be Dissolved (684a)
What The Many Call Pleasant Is Not Always Good (684c)
A Rough Equality of Property And No Debt Preserved Them From the Ill-Received Effects of
Redistribution And Bankruptcy (684d)
This Moderate Old Man's Game Concerning Laws (685a)
The Assyrian Empire of Ninos and the Trojan War (685c): An Unjust Empire
How Was The Empire of the Three Kingdoms Destroyed? (686b)
A Common Desire to Have Things Go The Way You Want Them To (686c-688a)
Prudence and Intelligence (687d-e) (prayer)
Prudence, Intelligence and Opinion, With Eros and Desire (688b)
The Cause of Destruction (Then and Now): Ignorance Regarding the Greatest of Human Affairs (688c-
d)
Prudence and the Lack of Intelligence (688e)
The Greatest Sort of Ignorance (689a-c)
The Greatest Consonance is the Greatest Wisdom (689d)
Titles to Rule and be Ruled (690a)
(1) Parents over children
(2) The well-born over the not well-born
(3) The elderly over the younger
(4) Masters over slaves (690b)
(5) The stronger over the weaker (kl. Believes that this is “compellingly necessary.”) (the issue of
what we mean by “strong.”)
(6) The greatest title: the prudent over the ignorant, or as he elaborates, "the natural rule exercised by
the law over willing [NOT RATIONAL FREEDOM, BUT
FREEDOM BASED ON FEAR/AWE “manufacturing consent”] subjects,
without violence."
(7) Dear to the gods and lucky: rule by lot
The Cause of Corruption: First Among the Kings or the People? (691a) (pleonexia of monarchs)
What Should Have Been Done? (691b, “in the name of the gods!” – because correcting them)
The Young, Irresponsible Soul Can Never Bear The Greatest Rule (691c-d)
The Cause of Preservation: The Mixed Regime (691a-692a)
The First Saviour: A God Was Taking Care Of The Empire of Three Kingdoms And Brought
Them Twin King Brothers (691d-e)
The Second Saviour: A Human Nature Mixed With Divine Power Mixes The Power of Old Age
With That Of Family Lineage in The Council of the Twenty-Eight (691-692a)
The Third Savior: The Ephors Stem Spiritedness By Lot (692a)
A God Has Shown The Model (692b-c)
Two Shameful Cities (692d-e)
A Dig At the Persian Empire: Barbarian Melting Pot (693a)
The Ends of Legislation: Freedom, Prudence, A Friend To Itself (693b)
Explaining A Confusion Of Ends (693c)
Different names for identical ends.

Two Mothers of Regimes - Monarchy and Democracy (not in the sense of self-governance) (Persia and Athens) (693d-
698b/698b-701d)

Persian Monarchy:
 Freedom, Friendship and Prudence Require Them Both (693d-e)
The Dorians Have More Measure Than Either The Persians Or The Athenians (693e)
The Persians Were Measured Under Cyrus (694a): freedom, intelligence, friendship (a-b)
Cause of Decline: Cyrus Failed To Grasp What True Education Is And Did Not Direct His Mind To
Household Management (694c)
He left his children in the hands of women and was preoccupied with military matters (694d).
The women raised the children without the proper balance between pleasure and pain.
A happy education was their great corrupter (695b).
Darius Had A Different Education (695c) But Failed To Give Xerxes The Proper Education (695d-e)
No Honours to Men Without Virtue; Nor To Men With Virtue But Without Moderation (696b)
What About The Moderate Man, Lacking The Other Virtues? (696d)
Moderation is not worthy of talk, but of a silent sign (696e).
Honours Should Be Given In The Rank of Their Usefulness When Coupled With Moderation (696e):
The Lawmaker's Task
A Threefold Distinction of Goods (679a): Soul, Body, Property/Money.
The Persians Were Too Despotic And No Longer Ruled For The Good Of The People (697c-d)
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX [698a: fill in the consequences]
Athenian Democracy (698b) (Spartan revision of Athenian regime)
Four Classes and Awe For The Laws (698b) (regime of Solon)
The Seize of Eretria (698c-e)
The Persians Are Coming (699a-b)
Taking Refuge In Themselves and in the Gods (699b)
Awe Unites The Athenians (699c-d)
Voluntary Servitude To The Ancient Laws (700a)
Music: The Origin Of Excessive Freedom (700a-d)
Hymns, dirges, paeans, dithyrambs (about the birth of Dionysus), nomoi.
The educated listen in silence; the children, attendants and the mob are kept in order by threat of
beating.
Until the poets became the rulers and held sway over unmusical lawlessness (700d)
The poets were ignorant about the just and the lawful (700d-e): Rhizome, Free-Jazz .
In Place of Aristocracy, A Wretched Theatocracy (701a)
Kleineis's Colony: A City In Speech, In Deed (702b-702e)
Crete is Founding A Colony; The Knossians Have Delegated To Kl. and Nine Others (702a)

BOOK IV -

The Lay of the Land (704a-707e)

Sea or Inland? (704b)
Harbours or no?
Is the Land Productive? (704c)
Are There Neighbouring Cities?
What is the Terrain?
Another Geographical Nature Would Have Required A Great Savior and Divine Lawmakers To Keep It
From Many Vices (704d)
Proximity to a Sea Infects A Place With Money-Making and Commerce and Lessens Trust and
Friendship Among Citizens and Toward All Humanity (705a)
Rough Terrain Protects Against Overabundance of Production, Hence of Export Trade (705b)
Correct Laws:The Aim Of The Legislation is Virtue Almost As A Whole (?), or The Noble (705d-706a)
A Jab At Minos's Vice On The Seas (706b)
A Jab At The Athenian Marines: Habituating Flight From Battle (706c)
A Regime Cannot Be Correct Unless It Honours The Right People Correctly (707b)
Salamis, Marathon, Plataea, Artemisium: Not Every Victory Makes A City Better (707c)
Not Preservation and Mere Existence, But Excellence Is What Is Honourable For Human Beings (707d)
The Colonists (707e-708d)
 The Open Society Rejected (707e)
Unity Creates A Certain Friendship, But Makes The Adoption of New/Foreign Laws More Difficult
(708c)
Law-giving and Founding: The Most Perfect Of All Tests Of Manly Virtue (708d)
Lawmaking as a Test of Virtue (708e-709e)
Chance Legislates Everything (709a)
War, Poverty, Disease, Epidemic, Weather: They Overturn Regimes and Transform Laws
Chance Legislates Almost Everything (709a): God and the Gentler Thing: Art (709c)
A Happy City Needs A Truth-Possessing Lawgiver
What Chance Things/Conditions Would The Lawgiver Pray For? (709e)
A Tyrannized City
A Young Tyrant, With a Good Memory, Who Learns Easily, and is Courageous and Magnificent
By Nature, And Good and Virtuous (709e-710a)
**Moderation or Prudence? : The Popular Sort of Moderation (710a)
Speaking in a Solemn Way, One Would Compel Prudence To Be Moderation
The Argument For The Tyrannized City: It Is According To Nature (710c)
Kl: Do You Mean Tyranny with a Good Lawgiver Is Best, Then Oligarchy, Then Democracy?
(710e)
Ath: Not At All: Tyranny with a Good Lawgiver, Then Monarchy, Then Democracy, Then
Oligarchy
Oligarchy Is Most Difficult To Bring About Since It Has The Greatest Number of Powerful
Rulers
The Tyrant As A Model of Virtue Or Vice (711b-c)
A Good City With Good Laws Originates Most Quickly and Easily Through Tyranny (712a)
**Elderly Children Fashion A City In Speech (712b)
Invoking A God (712b)
The Regime (712c-715e)
What Kind Of Regimes Are Sparta And Crete?
Megillus Speaks First, Because He Is The Eldest (For Megillus, Eldest=Just Title To Speak First)
Regimes Versus City Administrations of Despots (712e)
The Despot God Over The Intelligent (713a)
The Myth of Kronos: (713b)
The Best Arrangements Of The Day Imitate The Reign of Kronos
Kronos Sets Demons To Rule Over Humans (713c)
They Provide Peace, Awe, Good Laws and Justice
Only a God Can Save Us (713e)
Law: The Distribution Ordained By Intelligence (714a)
On Kl's Soul: Presumably It Is Necessary...(714b) [Kl. does not take the argument as demonstrative.]
Justice: The Interest of the Stronger, Some Say (714c)
The Athenian says that this is one of the worthy titles to rule (714d); (see 690a).
When Rule And Law Are Not For The Benefit Of All, What Obtains Is Not A Regime (715b)
Partisans vs. Citizens (715b)
The Despotic Law (In Which No One Is Above The Law) Is Good (715d)
Compare The Nocturnal Council!

Note: The Previous Arguments Have Not Been Made In The Presence Of The Colonists (715e)

Addressing the Colonists (715e-718a)

God and Justice (716a-b)
God: The Measure Of All Things (716c)
The Good/Pious Man Should Serve The Gods; The Bad Man Should Not. (716e)
Order Of Worship: (717b)
Olympians
 The Gods Of The City
The Gods Of The Underworld
The Demons
The Heroes
The Ancestral Gods, According To The Law
Living Parents
Order of Laws: (718a-b)
Offspring
Relatives
Friends
Citizens
Strangers

Persuasion: Persuading the Citizens and the Lawmaker (718b-720e)

The Poets Respond To The Law-Giver (719b-c)
Poets Can Contradict Themselves, Law-Givers Cannot (719c-d)
The Poet Tells The Law-Giver To Include In His Laws A Preface (719e)
The Image Of The Two Doctors (720a-e)
Two Types Of Doctor: The Helper, Who Learns By Experience and Imitation; The Master, Who
Follows Nature
Two Types Of Sick: Free and Slave
The Sick Doctor Treats The Sick Slave Like A Headstrong Tyrant (720c)
The Free Doctor Treats Free Men According To Nature, Learning From And Teaching His Patients,
And Does Not Order Without Persuasion (720d)
The Double-Method in Law-Giving (720e)

The First Law: On Marriage (720e-721e)

The Laws Begin With The Origin Of Childbirth: Partnership Between Married Couples
The Simple Formula: Marry After Thirty And Before Thirty-Five, Or Face Fines And Dishonours
The Double Formula: The Desire For Immortality; Immortality Through Coming-Into-Being (721c)

Preludes (722a-724b)
None Of The Law-Givers Has Ever Made Use Of The Double-Method (722b-c)
A Third Way Of Handling The Laws (722c)
Noon: All Has Been A Prelude (722c-d)
Prelude, Not Argument (723a-b)
Not Every Law Should Have A Prelude, Contra Kleinias (723c)
But There Is A Prelude By Nature For Every Law (723d)
Covered Ground: Gods, Heroes, Family, Living and Dead
Ground Yet To Cover: How To Be Serious, How To Relax in Body, Soul and Property (724b).

BOOK V

A New Beginning: Preludes (726a-734e)

The Most Divine Of The Things That Belong To One (726a-727a)

(1) The Gods
(2) The Soul
Superior (Masterful) and Inferior (Slavish) Classes Of Possessions
The Gods
Those Who Follow The Gods
The Soul
Honour: A Divine Good (727b-730b)
Honouring Makes The Soul Better (727a-c)
Dishonourable Actions: (727b-728a)
 Allowing the soul to do what it will
Refusing to take responsibility for errors and evils, always blaming others instead
Delighting in pleasures that are contrary to the law
Failure to endure the hardships, etc. that are praised
Considering survival to always be good (fearing Hades)
Honouring beauty more than virtue
Erotic passion for ignoble gains (giving the soul gifts) (728a)
Judicial Penalty and Retribution (728b-728d)
The Worst Penalty Is To Become Like Unto Bad Man And Estranged From Good Men
Suffering As A Consequence Of Justice is A Judicial Penalty; Of Injustice, Retribution.
(3) The Body (728d-e)
The Moderate Body Is Best: Extremes Make Souls Boastful and Rash or Humble and
Unfree (728e)
(4) Money and Property: Honour the Moderate (729a)
Bequeath Awe, Not Gold (729b)
Not Precepts, But Exemplification (729c)
Do Not Seek To Make Children Ashamed Before Elders, But Vice Versa (729c)
Honour And Reverence Family Ties, Family Gods, The Natural Blood-Community and
Friendship (729c-d)
The Law-Abiding Citizen Is Best (729d-e)
Contracts With Strangers Are Hallowed (729e)
Zeus - God of Strangers (730a)

The Most Noble Sort Of Life (730b-732b): The Divine Things

Speak Not Of Laws, But Of Praise and Blame, Education to Obedience To The Laws (730b)
*Truth Is The Leader Of All Good Things For Gods And Of All Things For Humans (730c)
The Man Led By Truth Is Trustworthy
The Man Who Finds The Voluntary Lie Congenial Is Untrustworthy
The Man Who Finds The Involuntary Lie Congenial Is Unintelligent
Both Are Friendless, Because Discovered, Eventually
The Man Who Is Both Just And Who Does Not Allow Unjust Men To Act Unjustly Is More Than Twice
As Honourable As The Man Who Is Merely Just (730d)
But The Great, Perfect Man, Victor In Virtue Is The Man Who Assists The Magistrates In
Inflicting Punishment (730d)
Moderation, Prudence And All Good Things Capable Of Being Possessed And Given Away (730e-731a)
The Giver Is First In Order Of Honour
The Willing To Give, Second
*The One Who Does Not Share Certain Goods In Common, "Out Of Friendship", Is To
Be Blamed (730e-731a)
Love Victory In Virtue, But Do Not Envy (731a)
The Real Man: Spirited And Gentle (731b)
Fighting Against Impossible-to-Cure Injustices
Gentle Against Curable Injustices: No Man Is Unjust Willingly: Pity This Man (731c)
The Greatest Of All Evils: Excessive Friendship For Oneself (731e)
Honouring One's Own vs. Honouring The Truth
Recollect Admonitions To Virtue, In Play And In Earnest (732b-c)

The Most Noble Sort Of Life: The Human Things (732e-734e)

The Human By Nature: Pleasures, Pains, Desires
The Noble Life Is Not Only More Praiseworthy, It Is More Pleasurable, Less Painful (733a)
Permutations Of Pleasure And Pain
Four Lives: (733e)
The Moderate
 The Prudent
The Courageous
The Healthy
Their Opposites:
The Imprudent
The Cowardly
The Unrestrained
The Sickly
Conclusion: The Unrestrained Man Lives So Involuntarily

Here Ends The Prelude To The Laws (734e)

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Offices and Laws:

The Outline Of The Laws Of A Political Regime (735a)

Warp And Woof: Educated/Tested, Uneducated/Untested
Two Fundamental Parts Of A Regime: The Men To Fill The Offices, The Laws Of The Offices
Purging the City (735b-736c)
Picking Out The Healthy And The Well-born
The Tyrant Lawgiver Employs The Harshest And Best Purges (735d)
The Lawgiver Sans Tyrant Is Lucky Is He Can Purify At All
Best: Justice, Retribution, Death, Exile (735e)
Ours: Gentler: Expelling The Impoverished Masses: "Colonization" (735e-736a)
In Speech: Assume The Deed Done (736b)
Distribution (736c-739a)
Prayer And Gradual Transformation, In An Old City (736d)
Poverty: Not Lack Of Property, But Excess Of Avarice
The Key To The City's Preservation! (736e)
Pick A Number Of Citizens
Enough To Defend Themselves And To Protect Others, If They Suffer Injustice
Divide Land And Houses Equally
5040 (1*2*3*4*5*6*7)
A Lawgiver Should Not Change The Laws About Gods, Sacrifices And Temples (738b)
A Lawgiver Should Set A God, Demon Or Hero Over Each Group (738d)
This Allows The Inhabitants To Get To Know Each Other
The Greatest Good For A City: The Inhabitants Are Known To Each Other

The (Second) Best Regime (739a-747e)

The Second Best Regime Is The One To Construct
The Three Regimes:
First Best: Everything Common, Nothing Private: Women, Children, Property, Opinion: Unity
(Extreme Virtue - A City For Gods And Sons Of Gods) (739d-e)
Second Best: The Colony In Speech (739e)
Divided Land And Households (740a)
No Common Farming
This Would Be Too Demanding For The Birth, Nurture, Education Specified
But He Should Think Of His Land As Common, As A Goddess
The Number Of Households Should Never Be Increased Or Decreased (740b)
One Heir Only Per Household
Other Sons Should Be Adopted Out To Son-less Families
The Most Honoured Magistrate Is Responsible For Population Control (740d)
No Sales Or Purchases Of Lots (741c)
No Private Possession Of Gold And Silver (742a)
Tokens Circulate Privately
Gold And Silver Are Possessed Only By The City Itself (742b)
 No Dowries (742c)
No Money Lent At Interest
Why The Richest Men Cannot Be The Happiest (742e-743c)
The Most Just Man Is Happiest
Just+Unjust Means=Higher Rewards Than Just Means Alone
Unjust Hoarding=Higher Retained Earnings Than Just and Noble Spending
More Income And Less Spending Makes The Unjust Man Richer Than The Just
The Aim: Happy, Friendly Citizens (743c)
Four Property Classes:
Excessive Poverty and Excessive Wealth Both Breed Civil War (744d)
The Limit Of Poverty: The Initial Allocation (744e-745a)
The Limit Of Wealth: Four Times The Initial Allocation: Surpluses to the Gods and the City
Those Who Denounce Excess Get Half The Surplus
Divisions:
Divide The City Into Twelve Parts (745a-c)
Acropolis: For Hestia, Zeus and Athena
Twelve Parts Of Territory, Equal With Respect To The Ratio Quality of Land/Quantity Of Land
5040 Allotments, In Two (1080): One Near To The Centre, One Far From It (745c)
Twelve Parts Of Men, Equal With Respect To Their Property (745d)
Twelve Parts To The Twelve Gods, "Tribes"
Dreams and Citizens Of Wax (746a)
Dividing the Twelve Into 5040 Parts, Creating Clans, Districts, Villages, Military Units, Weights
and Measures (746d-e)
The Power Of The Study Of Numbers (747b)
The Mischief-Making Egyptians (And Phoenicians) and their Miserable Law-Giver Or Bad Luck (747c)
Geographical Determinism (747d-e)

BOOK VI

The Establishment of Offices (751a-768c)

Offices and Laws
Offices First: Testing and Selecting the Magistrates (751c)
Offices First: Testing and Selecting the Selectors
Mythic Discourse and the Founding (751e)
Overcoming Old Age (752a)
Courage and Willingness to Take Risks (752b)
Training the Children (752c)
Selecting the First Guardians of the Laws (752d-753a)
Thirty-seven Men: Nineteen Colonists, Eighteen Knossians (752e)
Knossians Involved, Because They're The Oldest Of The Cities
Persuading or Compelling Kleinias (753a)
Athens and Sparta Think Big - Too Big For The Colony (753a)
Eligibility To Share In The Selection Of Magistrates (753b-e):
Those Who Possess Heavy Weapons, Those Who Have Fought In War
The Selection To Be Carried Out At The City's Most Honourable Temple
Golden Tablet: Candidate's Name, Father's Name, Tribe's Name, District Name
For Thirty Days, Anyone Can Remove The Tablets That Displease Him
From Those Remaining, The First Three Hundred Are Displayed To The City
More Voting, Until One Hundred Remain
More Voting, Until Thirty-Seven Remain, Are Scrutinized and Appointed to Office
Who Will Set This Up? (753e): The Beginning Is More Than Half The Whole
Repetition or Modification? (754c): 200 Overseers: 100 Knossians and 100 Colonists, Selected By the
Knossians
The Thirty-Seven (754d-
 (1) Guards Over The Laws
(2) Guards Of Written Property Records
(3) Overseers Of Trials Against Those Who Break Property Laws (754e)
Minimum Age: Fifty Years (755a)
Maximum Age: Seventy Years (755b)
Maximum Reign: Twenty Years (755a-b)
Other Offices (755b-768c):
Generals
Guardians Pick 100 Nominees,Those Of Whom Fought In War Then Choose (755c)
The Top Three Are Made Generals and Supervisors Of The Affairs of War, After They
Undergo The Same Scrutiny As Did The Guardians (755d)
Generals Nominate Twelve Rank Commanders: One Per Tribe (755e)
Appoint Leaders And Auxiliaries (756a)
Cavalry Commanders: Nominated By Those Who Nominate The Generals (756a), But The
Infantry Don't Vote
Tribe Commanders - Elected By The Entire Cavalry (756a)
Rank Commanders (See Generals Above), But Compare (756a: Elected By Those Who Bear Shields)
The Council of Three-Hundred Sixty (756b)
Ninety-Councilmen Per Class (756c)
The Highest Class Is Compelled To Vote (756c)
The Lowest Class Is Free Not To (756d)
Lot And Scrutiny (756e)
The Aim: A Mean Between Democracy and Monarchy (756e)
"Equality Produces Friendship" (757a)
Two Equalities:
(1) Measure, Weight, Number;
(2) According to Nature / Virtue and Education (757c)
This is "political justice."
But necessity forces one to confuse the two from time to time (757d)
Equity and Forgiveness: Enfeebling Perfection and Exactness (757e)
Each Part (1/12) Of The Council Keeps Guard A Month At A Time (758c)
Temple Custodians / Priests and Priestesses (One Year Reign) (759a-b; 759d)
City Regulators (Three: 763c)
Market Regulators (Ten: 763e)
Keep Order In The Marketplace (764b)
Judging Authority For Infractions Of Up to 100 Drachma, Then Defer To City
Regulators (764c)
Interpreters (759d-e)
Treasurers
Field Regulators/Officers Of The Guard/Secret Service (760b-764a)
One Tribe Per Section Per Year
Five Men Select Twelve Between Twenty-Five and Thirty Years of Age (760c)
Circulate Monthly Dawn-ward One-Year, Then Opposite; Two Year Terms
Task: Fortify, Defend, Preserve, Adorn, Maintain Baths (761a-c)
Hold Court For Claims of Injustice Against Friends and Enemies (761e)
Small Matters: Five Judge
Large Matters: Seventeen Judge
Matters Against The Regulators: (761e-762b)
Common Meals
Those Who Miss Them Can Be Beaten With Impunity (762c)
If One Fails To Prosecute An Officer Who Misses A Common Meal, He's To Be
Punished and Cannot Serve In Any Office That Pertain To The Young (762d)
Noble Enslavement, Noble Rule (762e)
Enslavement to the Laws/Gods
Enslavement to Elders
 Enslavement to Those Who Have Lived Honourably
The Most Important Pursuit: Knowledge Of All Districts (763a-b)
On Compulsory and Voluntary Attendance for Votes, Again (764a)
Magistrates For Music And Gymnastic (764c-765d)
One Set For Education, One For Competition
Supervisor Of Education (765d)
"The Greatest Of The Highest Offices In The City"
Must Be A Father, Over Fifty Years Old
Chosen From Among The Guardians Of The Law By The Other Magistrates (766b)
Five-Year Reign
Regulator Of The Games (835a)
Courts (766d-768c)
Court of Neighbours
Secondary Court
Tertiary/Common Court (767c-768d)
The Law-Givers Successors (769d-770b)
Address to the Guardians Of The Laws (770b-771a)

The Laws (771a-785b)

Sacred Processions
Marriage (773a-776b)
Property (776-785b)
Slaves (776c-778b)
Housing (778b-779d)
The Life of a Bride and Groom (779e-785b)
Common Meals for Women
Desires: Food, Drink, Sex (782e-783a)
Checks: Fear, Law, True Reason (783a) + Muses and the Gods of Contests
A Lacuna? "The Women We Have Chosen" (784a)
The Temple of Eileithuia: Enforcing Marriage Sacrifices and Rites (784a-b)
Childless After Ten Years? Divorce (Ten Guardians of the Law Decide The Matter, If
Need Be)
Blows With Impunity and Loss of Eligibility for Honours For Law-Breakers (784d)
Girls Marry From 16-20, Men From 30-35 (785b)
Men Serve In War From 20-60 (785b)
Women Serve As Needed From After Delivery to 50 (785b)

BOOK VII

On The Upbringing and Education of Children (788a-

Admonition, Not Laws (788b)
Since The Actions Are Small And In Private, Legislating Against Them Could Inculcate
The Habit Among The Citizens Of Breaking The Law In Small Matters
The Most Exercise Is Best For Those Growing Most: Foetuses! (789a)
Laws for Pregnant Women and Nurses (789e)
"Unless The Private Homes Within Cities Are Correctly Regulated It Is Vain For
Someone To Suppose The Common Things Will Stand On A Firm Legal Footing."
(790b)
Nursing and Motion: As Continuous As Possible (790c)
External Motion Overpowers Mad Inner Motion (Fear) (i.e. Practice in Courage) (791a; 791c)
Producing Sleep In Babies and Prudent Habits In the Slightly Older (791a-b)
Pursuing the Middle Course (792d)

Unwritten Customs, Ancestral Laws (793b)

"The Bonds Of Every Regime"
 Laws, Customs, Habits: All Three Make A Regime Stable (793d)

(Children Continued)
Games, Punishments Years 3-6 (793e)
Nurses Watch The Kids, One of Twelve Women Watches The Nurses (794c)
The Oversees Can Punish Slaves and Servants, But Most Take Citizens To Court Before
The City Regulator
Sex Separation At Six (794c)
Habituating Ambidexterity (794e-795d)
Gymnastic:
Dancing (795e)
(1) For A Free And Magnificent Demeanour: Imitating The Speech Of The Muse
(2) For Health, Agility and Beauty:
Wrestling
Always Arrayed With Weapons And Horses (796c)
THE DISCUSSION OF GYMNASTIC PROMISED IN BOOK 2 ENDS HERE (796d)

ON WHAT WAS OMITTED IN THE DISCUSSION OF MUSIC (796e)

Change Is Bad In Everything Except The Bad (797e)
Habituation Of Thought and Soul (798a)
Prevent Changes In The Games Of The Young (798c)
The Egyptians (799a)
A Calendar of Holidays
Set Songs To Sing
How To Legislate These Things Without Becoming Ridiculous (800b)
Molds for Songs
Auspicious Speech (801a)
Prayers To The Gods Receiving Sacrifices (801a)
Prayers Must Be Fashioned By The Poets Intelligently (801a-b)
The Poet May Not Create What Falls Outside Of The City's Conventional
And Just Version Of The Beautiful Or Good (801c-d)
The Poet Has To Present His Poem To The Guardian First, Never To The
Non-Experts First
Encomia: (801a)
To The Gods
To The Demons and Heroes
To Old Men Obedient To The Laws Who Have Performed Noble Deeds
Selecting Songs and Dances (802a-d)
The Masculine: Courage and Magnificence (803b)
The Feminine: The Orderly and Moderate
Man's Unfortunate Condition (803b)
Take Divine Things Seriously, Human Things Playfully (803c)
How To Play The Noblest Games (803c)
War and Peace (803d)
Puppets Of The Gods, Mostly (804b)
Megillus Exclaims (804b)

Buildings For Gymnastic and Instruction, Three In The Centre, Three Around The City (804c)
Equal Training For Men and Women
Mandatory Training
War And Music
The Regulation Of Days Of Nights Of Freemen (807e)
The Importance Of Moderate Or Little Sleep (808b-c)

On Teachers and Tutors (808d)

 Punish Boys and their Teachers And Tutors Like Slaves For Doing Wrong
Blame Those Who See And Do Not Punish Such Wrong Doing (809a)
Address To The Guardian Of The Laws (809b):
Written Things, The Lyre, Arithmetic (809c), Astronomy (809d)
Written Things: From Ten To Thirteen (809e)
Should Children Learn The Poets? (810e-811a)
There Is A Danger Of Imbuing Children With Ignoble Things (811b)
What Model Should They Follow? (811c)
The Model Of The Speeches Of This Very Dialogue (811c-811e)
Lyre: From Thirteen To Sixteen
Lyre: (812b-813a)
Songs That Mimic Singing Are OK, Fast, Chaotic Songs Are Banned
Dance (814e)
Noble and Ignoble
Noble (814e-816d)
Pyrrhic and Peaceful Dancing (814e-815a)
Peaceful
Controversial and Uncontroversial (815c)
Bacchic: Neither Peaceful Not Pyrrhic: Non Political (815d)
Dances That Convey An Opinion Of Prosperity (815e)
(1) Fleeing Into The Good
(2) Preserving In And Augmenting The Good
Ignoble (816d-e)
A Prudent Man Must Know Both The Serious And The Laughable
But The Laughable Only In Order To Avoid Doing It (816e)
Comedy: No Free Man Should Engage In Comedy Plays (816e)
Only Slaves And Strangers For Hire
Tragedy (817b)
The Laws Is The Most Beautiful And Best Tragedy (817b)
The Most Beautiful And Best Way Of Life Is The Truest Tragedy (817b)
Educating Free Men (817e-822d):
Number
Geometry
Astronomy
These Are Necessary For Rulers To Learn To Be Rulers (818c)
Kl Thinks The Athenian Fears The Dorian Interlocutors' Lack Of Familiarity With These;
The Athenian Says He Fears Those Who Have Slight But Bad Experience In Them (819a)
Between Law and Admonition: Hunting (823b-824a)

BOOK VIII

Festivals (828a-d)
Delphic Oracle: Who, What + Legislator: When, How Many
How Many: Three-Hundred Sixty Five
How Many: Twelve For The Twelve Gods
Men's Festivals And Women's Festivals
Underworld Rites In The Twelfth Month, The Month Of Pluto (828d)
Pluto: To Be Honoured As "Being Always The Best For The Human Race" (828d)
Dissolution Is Better Than (Or Equal To) Community For Soul And Body
If One Is Supremely Good, No Injustice Is Done To One (829a)
Military Exercises: Once A Month, Minimum (829b)
Games That Imitate Battles (829c)
Poems That Praise And Blame
The Poet: At Least Fifty Years Old
The Poet: Must Have Performed Noble And Conspicuous Deeds
 The Character Of The Poet Is More Important Than The Quality Of The Poem (829d)
The Poet: The Educator And Guardians Of The Laws Will Select Him
The Poet: Only He Will Have Freedom Of Speech In Musical Compositions
Practice: With Sparring Partners, With A Dummy, With Shadows (830a-c)
Military Exercises: Creating Noble Fear, Forgiving Accidental Murders (830c-831b)
Why Don't Cities Do These Things?
Not Because Of The Ignorance Of The Law-Givers And The Many (831b-c)
(1) Erotic Love Of Wealth
(2) Non-Regimes, Factions: Democracy, Oligarchy, Tyranny (832c)
Voluntary Rule Over Involuntary Subjects
Contests For Armed Runners (833a)
(1) For Children
(2) Youth
(3) Men
Girls and Women (833c-d)

The Outspoken Man Of Reason: Taking Precautions Against Erotic Lust (835c-842b)
Against Homosexuality (836c)
Hardly Anyone With True Law In His Mind Would Legislate Such A Practice (836e)
The Friendship Of Equals In Virtue (Gentle, Mutual: 837b)
The Friendship Of Unequals In Wealth (Terrible, Savage: 837b)
Either Becomes Erotic When Vehement
The Love That Seeks To Possess A Body
That Love That Seeks To Possess A Noble, Virtuous Soul
Megillus Is Convinced (837e)
Kleinias: Not Yet Persuaded (837e)
The Unwritten Law Against Incest (838b)
How Does It Work: The Agreement, Repetition, Presentation (In Drama) (838d)
The Athenian's Art (838e-842b):
Outlawed: Homosexuality, Abortion, Wasting Sperm, Inseminating Unworthy Women
Benefits: Prevents Erotic Frenzy, Adultery, Excess In Food And Drink, Makes Husbands
And Wives More Familiar To One Another (839a-b)
The Problem: Young Men Full Of Sperm Would Not Like The Speech
The Problem: People Disbelieve That Such A Law Can Be Practised (839c-d)
The First Law: Persuasion About The Victory Over Pleasures (839e-840e)
The Second Law: Shame Them Into Doing The Practice In Private (841b)
Opposing The Licentious:
Reverence For Gods
Love of Honour
Desire For Souls, Not Body
These Laws, Should They Pass, Would "Bring About By Far The Best Effects In
All Cities" (841c)
Two Ordinances (841d-e)
The Farming Laws (842e-846d)
The Craftsmen (846d-847e)
Food Supply (847e-848c)
Housing (848c-849b)
Commodities (849b-850a)
Resident Aliens (850a-c)

BOOK IX - Punishments

Against The Gods:

Against Temple Robberies (853d)
Prelude: Exorcism, Supplication, Good Company, Suicide (854b-c)
 Law: Crime To Be Written On Face, Criminal To Be Lashed and Sent Out Of The City, Naked
(854d)
Injustice Against Gods, Parents, City: Death
But Honour The Children And Family If They Flee From Evil To Good (855a)
Capital Offences (855c)
Dissolution Of The Regime (856b)
The Greatest Enemy Of The Whole City: The One Who Seeks To Make The Law Subservient to
Men, Subjecting The City To A Faction
The Next Greatest Enemy: The One Who Fails To Notice This Or Fails To Punish It (856c)
On The Children Of Criminal Fathers (856d)
Theft (857a-864e)
Pay Double, Be Imprisoned, Or Persuade The Successful Prosecutor (857b)
Kleinias Asks: Why One Law For All Thefts?
The Athenian: Slave Doctors vs. Free Doctors (On Education) (857c-e)
????
An Oath (858c)
On Poets and Law-Givers (858e-859a)
On The Shape Of The Law-Giver's Writings
How Do The Interlocutors Differ Among Themselves In Regard To The Noble And Just?
(859c)
Justice And The Just Things Are Noble, Maybe (859d-e)
Both Just Actions And The Receipt Of Just Actions Is Just And Noble (859e)
All Bad Men Are Bad Involuntarily (860d)
Everyone Does Injustice Involuntarily
Injuries vs. Injustices (861e-)
Injury: Recompense; Curable Injustice: Education and Compulsion;
Incurable Injustice: Death (862c-863a)
On The Soul: Spiritedness, Pleasure, Ignorance 1, Ignorance 2 (863b-d)
DEFINITION OF JUSTICE AND INJUSTICE (863e-864a)
Injustice: Tyranny In The Soul Of Spiritedness, Fear, Pleasure, Pain, Etc.
Justice: When Opinions About What Is Best Hold Sway In The Soul
(1) Pain: Spiritedness And Fear (864b)
(2) Pleasure and Desire
(3a) Expectations and True Opinion Concerning What Is Best
(3b) ?
(3c) ?
Laws Made To Address: (1) Open Violence, Open Deeds (2) Darkness, Trickery,
Secrecy (864c)
Murder: (865a)
Violent and Involuntary: (865a-866d)
Violent and Voluntary: (866d-869e)
Spontaneous (Image of Involuntary) (866e)
Premeditated (Image of Voluntary) (866e)
Voluntary and Totally Unjust (Prelude) (869e-870e)
Stemming from Incorrect Love of Money
Stemming from The Habit Of The Honour-Loving Soul
Stemming From Cowardly and Unjust Fears (870d)
Voluntary and Totally Unjust (Law) (871a-873d)
Murders That Do Not Pollute (874c-d)
(1) Killing A Thief Entering Your House
(2) Killing A Highwayman In Self-Defence
(3) Killing One Who Uses Violence For The Sexual Conquest of a Free Woman or Boy,
Where The Killer Is The Offended Party, Husband, Brother, Etc.
(4) Killing The Attacker Of One's Wedded Wife
(5) Killing While Protecting One's Father or Family From Death, When They're Not
 Acting Impiously
Acts of Violence (874e-879b)
Wounds and Maimings
The Difficulty Of Knowing That The True Political Art Legislates For The Common Good
"No Law Or Order Is Stronger Than Knowledge" (875c)
Assaults (879c-882c)

BOOK X

Acts of Violence in General (884a)

The Unrestrained, Insolent Acts of the Young (884a-885a)
(1) Public Offences Against Sacred Things
(2) Private Offences Against Sacred Things
(3) Insolence Against Parents
(4) Insolence Against Rulers
(5) Insolence Against the Political Rights of a Citizen
Exhortation Against Insolence Towards the Gods (885b-910d)
Those Who Offend Against The Gods Either
(1) Don't Believe In The Necessity of Pious, Lawful Worship (885b)
(2) Believes The Gods Exist But Don't Care For Human Things
(3) Believes The Gods Are Easily Persuaded By Prayer and Sacrifice
And Respond:
(1) Convince Us That There Are Gods (885d)
(2) We've Learned These Things From The Poets
Kleineis Offers A Proof, The Athenian Responds (886a-888a)
(1) Proof From The Heavenly Bodies
(2) Refuted By Ancient and Modern Poets (886c-e)
(3) A Defence Speech (886e-887b)
(4) Kl: This Would Be "Just About Our Noblest And Best Prelude On Behalf Of All The
Laws (887b-c)
(5) The Athenian's Speech To The Unbelievers (888a-d)

The Athenian Speaks To Himself, Invoking The Gods, About The Gods' Existence, By Demonstrating
The Priority Of Soul To Body (893b-899d)

The Athenian Speaks To The Group, Which Believes The Gods Exists But Don't Care About Human
Things (899d-905e)

The Athenian Speaks To The Third Group, Which Believers The Gods Can Be Placated With
Prayers And Offerings (905e-907b)

The Law Against Impiety (907d-910d)

BOOK XI

Business Transactions (913a-922a)

Don't Touch What's Not Yours (913a)
Don't Pray To Find Treasure That's Not Yours (913b)
Don't Move Treasure If You Do Find It
Don't Take The Council of Diviners To Take It
There's A Greater Benefit To A Better Part Of You If You Act Justly Rather Than Enrich
Yourself (913b)
Believe The Myth That Such Actions Make It More Difficult To Generate Children (913c)
Punishment:
According to Delphic Oracle (914a)
 The Free Informer Is Honoured For Virtue; The Non-Informer, For Vice
The Slave Informer Is Made Free; The Slave Non-Informer, Killed
Lost Items Or Items Left Behind (914b)
Punishment If Taken:
Slave: Whipped Many Times By Passersby
Freeman: Reputation For Illiberality, Pay Ten Times The Value (914c)
If A Accuses B If Having His Property: (914c-d)
Possessor Produces The Good, Magistrates Check The Written Lists
If It Is Listed Under A or B, A or B Take It And Go
If It Is Not Listed Under Either, Someone Delivers It To The Owner
If It Is Not Registered, The Magistrates Hold It And Deliver A Ruling Within
Three Days
A Man Can Do To His Slave What He Will, Provided It Is Pious (914e)
A Man May Seize To Keep Safe A Runaway Slave Of A Friend Or Relative
A Man May Try To Free A Slave By Three Worth Guarantors
If By Other Means, He's Liable For Assault And Must Pay Damages (915a)
Freed Men Must Pay Homage:
By Visiting The Hearth Of The Man Who Freed Him Thrice A Month And Marrying In
A Way That Is Pleasing To His Former Master
Freed Men Must Not Make More Money Than Their Former Masters, Paying Them The Excess (915b)
Strangers and Freed Men Who Have More Property Than The 3rd Class Allows Are To Leave The City
Within Thirty Days Or Be Punished With Death (915b-c)
No Sales Or Purchases On Credit (915e)
Exchanges Done Other Than As Set Down In Law Are At One's Own Risk (915e)
Sellers Of Goods Under Fifty Drachmas Must Stay In The City For Ten Days (916a)
Return and Refusal (916a-d)
Of Sick Slaves
Currency Exchange (916d-918a)
Prelude (916d-917b)
Law (917c-918a)
Retail Trade (918a-920c)
Prelude (918a-919d)
Law #1: (919d-920a)
Law #2: Only Strangers And Resident Aliens May Engage In Retail Trade (920a)
Law #3: The Guardians Of The Law Are To Meet With Experienced Retail Traders To Set Out What Is
To Count As A Well-Measured Gain (920a-c)
Contracts (920d-922a)
Courts Of Arbitrators, Neighbours, Then Tribal Courts
Craftsmen:
If The Craftsmen Cheats/Lies: Craftsmen Must Pay A Penalty To The Gods, Pay The Price Of The
Goods, And Produce The Goods For Free (921a)
If The Client Doesn't Pay: Must Pay Double (921c)
After A Year, One Obol On The Drachma Per Month (921d)
Craftsmen Of Security Through War (921d)
Are Second In Honour Behind Those Who Honour The Writings Of The Good
Lawgivers (922a)
Orphans (922a-928d)
Wills (922b-926d)
Prelude (922b-923c)
Law (923c-926d)
Dealing With Complaints (926c-d)
The Fifteen Eldest Guardians Of The Law Decide
Or The Disputants Take The Guardians Before Judges
The Loser Wins The Approbation Of The Lawgiver
Re-Education (926e-928d)
 Guardians Of The Law Become the New Fathers
Prelude: (927a-c)
Law: (927d-928d)
Disowning (928d-939e)
Half The Citizens Must Vote For It
A Citizen Can Adopt The One Proclaimed Disowned
If No One Adopts Him, He Is Sent With The Other Extra Children To A Colony (929d)
If A Parent Is Deranged, The Offspring Can Bring The Matter Up To The Guardians: If They
Advise Him To Bring Suit, They Will Be Witnesses In The Trial (929d-e)
Husband And Wife (929e-930e)
If Fighting, Ten Male Guardians Of The Law And Ten Women Supervise Them (930a)
If It Doesn't Fix The Problem, They Split Up And Find Better Mates
If A Women Dies With Children, The Man Is Counselled Not To Remarry (930b)
If A Women Dies Without Children, The Man Must Remarry (930c)
If A Man Dies With Children, The Women Must Raise Them
Unless She Is Seen To Be Too Young To Live Well Without A Man
In Which Case The Women Will Do What Seems Best
The Children Of Slaves: (930d-e)
"It" (930e)
Parents (930e)
Prelude: (930e-932a)
Law: (932b-e)
Poisons (932e-933e)
Physical Poisons
Spells and Sorceries (933a)
Punishment: For A Convicted Doctor, Death (933d)
Punishment: For A Layman: Decided By The Court
If A Diviner Uses Spells And Sorceries, The Punishment Is Death (933e)
Theft and Violence (933e- 936a)
Madness
Abusive Speech (934e-c)
With Spiritedness: Forbidden
Without Spiritedness (Comedy) (935d)
Permitted And Forbidden Variants
It Is Forbidden To Make A Comedy About Any Citizen (935e)
Punishment: To Be Driven Out Of The City That Very Day (936a)
Begging (936b)
When Slaves Injure (936d-e)
Conspiracy (936d)
Summonses And Testimony (936e-937d)
On Evil Judicial Procedure and Evil Judicial Advocacy (937d-938c)
If Convicted: (1) Out Of A Desire For Victory
If Once: No More Suits For Some Period Of Time
If Twice: Death.
(2) Out Of A Desire For Money
Strangers: Depart From The City
Citizen: Death

BOOK XII

Ambassadors and Heralds (941a)

Public Theft and Rapacity (941b-
Punishments Do Not Differ Based On The Size Or Sum Of The Thing Stolen, But On The
Curability Of The Thief (941d)
Slaves and Strangers Are Presumed Curable
 Citizens Who Steal Are Subject To Death (942a)
Military Organization (942a-
Preludes (942a-943a):
(1) No One Should Ever Be Without A Ruler
(2) No Soul Should Acquire The Habit, Whether In Play Or Seriously, Of Doing
Something "On Its Own And Alone"
(3) Remove Anarchy From Humans and the Beasts They Rule
(4) Inculcate All Manner Of Endurance For Victory In War
Laws: (943a-945b)
(1) Mandatory Service
Punishment: Brought Before A Court Of Peers
Punishment: If Convicted, He Is Never To Be A Contender For A Prize In
Excellence
Punishment: If Convicted, He Is Never To Prosecute Or To Accuse Another On
This Charge
(2) Judges For Excellence (943c)
(3) Punishments For Those Who Return Before Their Appointed Time (943d)
Awe and Justice Hate Falsehood (943e)
(4) On Throwing Away Arms (943e)
Myth: (943e-944c)
Law: (944c-945b)
(1) No Longer Allowed To Fight
(2) Payment Of A Penalty
Audit of Magistrates (945b-
Voting Procedures (946a-946c)
The Auditor's: The City's Three Best Men, Dedicated To Apollo And The Sun (946b-c)
Year One: Twelve Such Men Chosen, Until Each Has Reached Age 75
Then, Three Added Each Year
The Auditor's May Be Tried (946d-e)
The Auditor's Take Front Seat At All Festivals (947a)
From Them Are Sent Out The Officers In Charge Of Overseeing Common Sacred Ceremonies
The Auditors Are Alone Adorned With Laurel Wreaths
The Auditors Are Priests Of Apollo and The Sun
Special Funeral (947b-947e)

Gods And The Laws: (948b-

Rhadamanthus's Art: Cannot Be Practices, Because Of The Three Incorrect Beliefs About The Gods
(948b-c)
Remove The Oaths So As Not To Have The Citizens Swear Falsely (948d-e)
Oath-Takers: (949a)
(1) A Judge About To Give A Judgement
(2) The One Who Appoints Common Magistrates
(3) Judge Of Choruses and Musical Events
(4) Supervisors of Gymnastic and Equestrian Events
Non-Oath-Takers: (949a-949c)
The Lesser Infractions Of Free Men (949c-e)
On Cities Mixing (949e-
No Travel For Men Under Forty (950d)
No Private Travel
Heralds, etc. To Apollo, Zeus, Nemea, Isthmus
Observer Missions Occasionally Allowed (951a)
On The Friendship Of Certain Divine Human Beings (951b)
Observers: Men Of Repute Between Fifty and Sixty Years Of Age (951c-d)
Observers: Report To The Council That Watches Over The Laws
The Council: (951d-
 A Mix Of Young and Elderly Men
Meets Each Day
Composition:
(1) Priests Who've Won Prizes For Excellence (951d-e)
(2) Ten Eldest Guardians Of The Law
(3) The Supervisors Of Education, Past and Present
(4) Each Brings A Young Men Of 30-40 With Him
Visitors From Abroad (952d-953e)
(1) The Summer Visitor (952e-953a)
To Be Met By Magistrates At The Marketplaces, Etc. Guarding Against The
Introduction Of Innovations
(2) The Real Observer of Spectacles of the Muses
Lodgings Prepared For Them
Let Them Come, Observe, And Go
If There's An Injustice Under 50 Drachmas, The Priests Judge It
If There's An Injustice Over 50 Drachmas, The Market Regulators Judge It
(3) The Man On Public Business From Another City (953b-c)
To Be Met By Generals, Cavalry Commanders, and Rank Commanders
(4) The Observer of Good and Bad Laws (953c)
Must Be Over Fifty
Must Act To See Something Beautiful That Is Different From Other Cities
He May Visit The Rich and Wise Unsupervised (953d)

Final Laws: (953e-960b)

The Pledging Of Security (953e-954a)

Searching Another Person's Premises (954a-c)
Time Limits On Claims (954c-e)
Preventing Someone From Attending Trial (954e-955b)
Receiving Stolen Goods Knowingly (955b)
Harbouring A Fugitive (955b) : Death
Making Peace Or War Privately (Individually or in Factions) (955c) : Death
No Serving The Fatherland For Gifts (955d) : Death
Communal Money Revenues (955d-e)
Votive Offerings To The Gods (955e-956b)
Judicial Procedure (956b-958c)
Verdicts (958a-c)
Burials:
Prelude: (958c-959d)
Law: (959d-960b)

What Is The End? (960b-969d)

The Discovery of a Perfect and Permanent Safeguard: The Nocturnal Council
(960b-c;961a-969d)