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Plato, Laws
Plato's Laws
also: de legibus, Leges
Plato's late dialogue on legislation, set as a walking conversation among the Athenian, Clinias the Cretan, and Megillus the Spartan; the structural model Cicero adapts throughout De Legibus.
Reading notes
- On the Nature of the Gods §1.30 the books of the \textit{Laws}
Plato's last dialogue, the Laws, on the constitution and legislation of an ideal city. Cotta cites it (with the Timaeus) to convict Plato of inconsistency about the gods.