Legislator
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
lawgiver · legislator · author of the statute
in the texts
Against Aristocrates
The lawgiver or statutory author whose homicide rules are interpreted as authoritative.
You must be informed, men of Athens, of the intention with which the legislator enacted this statute.
The legislator, while he presumes the killing, has nevertheless directed a judicial inquiry before specifying what is to be done to the culprit, and thereby has shown a just respect, men of Athens, for the religious feeling of the whole city.
Yet mark how righteously and admirably these distinctions are severally defined by the lawgiver who defined them originally.
Against Aristogeiton II
The figure who expels savagery from the soul through wise legal purposes.
For as the distempers of the body are arrested by the discoveries of physicians, so savagery is expelled from the soul by the wise purposes of the legislator.