Laws, cited

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1. Stromata Clement of Alexandria 6 authority · 1 neutral · 3 extended 10 citations · 17 passages

   book 1 3 passages anchored here · book 2 3 passages anchored here · book 3 · book 5 6 passages anchored here · book 7 4 passages anchored here

   The work is explicitly named 'the Laws' and attributed to Plato, described as drawing on Hebrew teaching.

   In the Laws, indeed, Plato — that philosopher sprung from the Hebrews — bids the farmers neither to draw water for irrigation nor to take it from others, unless they have first dug for themselves down to the so-called virgin soil and found the ground without water.

2. The Rights of War and Peace Hugo Grotius 3 authority 3 citations

   ch. 9 · ch. 12 · ch. 36

   Explicitly cited by title as source for the doctrine on ancient punishment.

   Plato has established this in his laws, and the same rule prevailed in Greece, as appears from the following passage in Euripides, “our fathers of old did well in banishing from their intercourse and sight any one that had shed another’s blood;

3. Adversus Marcionem Tertullian 3 authority 3 citations

   book 2 3 passages anchored here

   The law's commands to love and fear God are invoked as authoritative definitions applied respectively to the obedient and the transgressor.

   So in the rest too you reproach Him with contrarieties of precepts, as fickle and unstable, forbidding work on the sabbath and commanding the ark to be carried round for eight days, that is, even on the sabbath, in the storming of the city of Jericho.

4. De Anima Tertullian 1 neutral · 1 endorsed 2 citations

   de anima 2 passages anchored here

   The Laws is cited as further Platonic authority for the claim that a region's character shapes the talents of its inhabitants.

   whence too in the Laws he himself prescribes to Megillus and Clinias to provide a place for the city to be founded.

5. On the Nature of the Gods Cicero, Marcus Tullius 1 refuted 1 citation

   book 1

   Plato's Laws is explicitly named as a distinct work whose claims are contrasted with the Timaeus to show contradiction.

   It would be long to speak of Plato's inconsistency, who in the Timaeus denies that the father of this world can be named, while in the books of the Laws he holds that we ought not to inquire at all what god is.

6. Against Stephanus I Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation · 2 passages

   against stephanus i 2 passages anchored here

   The laws are explicitly invoked as authoritative norms.

   for I am well aware that for you who are citizens by birth it is sufficient to perform public services as the laws require;

7. Apollodorus Against Callippus Demosthenes 1 authority 1 citation · 3 passages

   ch. 1 3 passages anchored here

   The law is explicitly invoked and read to authorize the oath procedure.

   And that I was ready on my father’s behalf to take the oath which the law prescribes when an heir is sued in court on a charge brought against one who is dead,— that, namely, I believed that my father never agreed to pay the plaintiff the money which Lycon left, and that the plaintiff was not introduced to my father by Lycon;

8. Institutes of Roman Law Gaius 1 neutral 1 citation

   commentarivs qvartvs

   Directly quoted in Greek as a comparative parallel.

   We have something similar in the Laws of Plato:

9. Dissertations on Early Law and Custom Henry Sumner Maine 1 authority 1 citation

   ch. 8

   Explicitly cited by title and passage reference as an early authority for the theory.

   Plato (‘Laws,’ iii.

10. Lectures on the Early History of Institutions Henry Sumner Maine 1 neutral 1 citation

    ch. 10

    Identified as containing a parallel institution, reported neutrally.

    Poste for the observation that the ideal institutions of Plato’s Laws include something strongly resembling the Roman Pignoris Capio;

11. Letters to Lucilius Seneca, Lucius Annaeus 1 neutral 1 citation

    letter 94

    Plato's laws are named explicitly as the work whose prologues are under discussion.

    'I disapprove that prologues were added to the laws of Plato.

12. Cyropaedia Xenophon 1 authority 1 citation

    book 2

    The laws are cited as an authoritative force shaping citizens' justice.

    At any rate, fathers develop self-control in their sons by making them weep, and teachers impress good lessons upon their pupils in the same way, and the laws, too, turn the citizens to justice by making them weep.