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[828a]

Athenian
Our next task is, with the help of the Delphic oracles, to arrange and ordain by law the festivals, prescribing what sacrifices, and to what deities, it will be good and right for the State to offer: the times and the number of them, however, it is, no doubt, our own business to ordain by ourselves.

Clinias
Very likely, as regards the number of them.

Athenian
Then let us first state the number. There shall be

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