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Did we not say1 that we must have in our State a synod of the following kind:—The ten senior members, at the moment, of the body of Law-wardens shall form the synod, in company with all who have won the award of merit; and, moreover, those inspectors who have gone abroad2 to discover if they could hear of anything pertinent to the safekeeping of laws, and who, in the belief that they have succeeded, have come safely home again, shall, after undergoing a searching test, be deemed worthy to take part in the synod? In addition to these,
1 Cp. Plat. Laws 951d ff.
2 Cp. Plat. Laws 951a ff.
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- Plato, Letters, Plat. L. 7
- Plato, Laws, Plat. Laws 10.908a
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- LSJ, ἀξιο-κοινώνητος
- LSJ, νομοφυ^λα^κ-ία
- LSJ, συλλέγω