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the best of those ordinances come? Do you know?Companion
From Crete, so they say.Socrates
Then the people there use the most ancient laws in Greece?Companion
Yes.Socrates
Then do you know who were their good kings? Minos and Rhadamanthus, the sons of Zeus and Europa; those laws were theirs.Companion
Rhadamanthus, they do say, Socrates, was a just man; but Minos was a savage sort of person, harsh and unjust.Socrates
Your tale, my excellent friend, is a fiction of Attic tragedy.
From Crete, so they say.Socrates
Then the people there use the most ancient laws in Greece?Companion
Yes.Socrates
Then do you know who were their good kings? Minos and Rhadamanthus, the sons of Zeus and Europa; those laws were theirs.Companion
Rhadamanthus, they do say, Socrates, was a just man; but Minos was a savage sort of person, harsh and unjust.Socrates
Your tale, my excellent friend, is a fiction of Attic tragedy.