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[685b] painlessly, as we said1 when we first started out.

Megillus
Certainly, we must do as you say.

Athenian
Well, what laws would offer a better subject for investigation than the laws by which those States were regulated? Or what larger or more famous States are there about whose settling we might enquire?

Megillus
It would be hard to mention better instances than these.

Athenian
It is fairly evident that the men of that age intended this organization of theirs to serve as an adequate protection

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