The Dialogues of Plato, Vol. 5 of 5 (Classic Reprint)

INTRODUCTION. The genuineness of the Laws is sufficiently proved (i) by more than twenty citations of them in the writings of Aristotle, who was residing at Athens during the last years of the life of Plato, and who returned to Athens after the death of Plato, at the time when he was himself writing his Politics and Constitutions; (2) by the allusion of Isocratcs1 -writing 346 b. c, a year after the death of Plato, and not more than two or three years after the composition of the Laws-who speaks of the Laws and Republics written by philosophers (sophists); {3) by the reference (Athen. 226 A) of the comic poet Alexis, a younger contemporary of Plato (fl. b.c. 356-306), to the enactment about prices, which occurs in Laws, xi. 917 13, viz. that the same goods should not be sold at two prices on the same day'2; (4) by the unanimous voice of later antiquity and the absence of any suspicion among ancient writers 1 Oratio ad Philippum Missa, p. 85: lb fiiv rats Travrjyvpeaiv ivox^-t'v tt/

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