BOOK IX Next to all the matters which have preceded in the natural orderof legislation will come suits of law. Of suits those which relateto agriculture have been already described, but the more importanthave not been described. Having mentioned them severally under theirusual names, we will proceed to say what punishments are to beinflicted for each offence, and who are to be the judges of them. Cleinias. Very good. Athenian Stranger. There is a sense of disgrace in legislating, aswe are about to do, for all the details of
cheap jordans crime in a state which,as we say, is to be well regulated and will be perfectly adapted tothe practice of virtue. To assume that in such a state there willarise some one who will be guilty of crimes as
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cheap jordan shoes and strangers' servants may be guilty of many impieties.And with a view to them especially, and yet not without a providenteye to the weakness of human nature generally, I will proclaim the lawabout robbers of temples and similar incurable, or almost incurable,criminals. Having already agreed that such enactments ought alwaysto have a short prelude, we may speak to the criminal, whom sometormenting desire by night and by day tempts to go and rob a temple,the fewest possible words of admonition and exhortation:-O sir, wewill say to him, the impulse which moves you to rob temples is notan ordinary human malady, nor yet a visitation of heaven, but amadness which is begotten in a man from ancient and unexpiatedcrimes of his race, an ever-recurring curse;-against this you mustguard with all your might, and how you are to guard we will explain toyou. When any such thought comes into your mind, go and performexpiations, go as a suppliant to the temples of the Gods who avertevils, go to the society of those who are called good men among you;hear them tell and yourself try to repeat after them, that every manshould honour the
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