{"schemaVersion":2,"id":"tlg0059.tlg034.local001","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/","urn":"urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg034.local001","title":"Νόμοι","titleGreek":"Νόμοι","alternateTitles":["Laws","Lois","Νόμοι"],"author":"Plato","authorityName":"PLATO Phil.","authorUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","authorityUrl":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/authors/tlg0059-plato/","editors":["John Burnet"],"publication":{"digitalPublisher":"Trustees of Tufts University","sourceTitle":"Platonis Opera","edition":null,"publisher":"Clarendon Press","place":"Oxford","date":"1915","volume":"5.1","series":null,"citation":null,"citationShort":null},"rights":{"text":null,"url":null},"provenance":{"authority":"Perseus Project","sponsors":["Perseus Project, Tufts University"],"funders":["The Annenberg CPB/Project"],"principal":"Gregory Crane","responsibilities":[{"role":"Prepared under the supervision of","names":["Lisa Cerrato","William Merrill","Elli Mylonas","David Smith"]}]},"corpus":{"version":"2.2.0","date":"2026-08-29"},"revisionDate":"2026-08-15","sourceUrl":"https://archive.org/details/p1platonisopera05platuoft/page/624/mode/1up","sourceLinkType":null,"sourceRights":null,"citation":"Plato. Νόμοι. ed. John Burnet. Platonis Opera, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1915. urn:cts:greekLit:tlg0059.tlg034.local001","excerpt":"ΑΘ. θεὸς ἤ τις ἀνθρώπων ὑμῖν, ὦ ξένοι, εἴληφε τὴν αἰτίαν τῆς τῶν νόμων διαθέσεως; ΚΛ. θεός, ὦ ξένε, θεός, ὥς γε τὸ δικαιότατον εἰπεῖν· παρὰ μὲν ἡμῖν Ζεύς, παρὰ δὲ Λακεδαιμονίοις, ὅθεν ὅδε ἐστίν, οἶμαι φάναι τούτους Ἀπόλλωνα. ἦ γάρ; ΜΕ. ναί. ΑΘ. μῶν οὖν καθʼ Ὅμηρον λέγεις ὡς τοῦ Μίνω φοιτῶντος πρὸς τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς ἑκάστοτε συνουσίαν διʼ ἐνάτου ἔτους καὶ κατὰ τὰς παρʼ ἐκείνου φήμας ταῖς πόλεσιν ὑμῖν θέντος τοὺς νόμους; ΚΛ. λέγεται γὰρ οὕτω παρʼ ἡμῖν· καὶ δὴ καὶ τὸν ἀδελφόν γε αὐτοῦ Ῥαδάμανθυν—ἀκούετε γὰρ τὸ ὄνομα—δικαιότατον γεγονέναι. τοῦτον οὖν φαῖμεν ἂν ἡμεῖς γε οἱ Κρῆτες, ἐκ τοῦ τότε διανέμειν τὰ περὶ τὰς δίκας, ὀρθῶς τοῦτον τὸν ἔπαινον αὐτὸν εἰληφέναι. ΑΘ. καὶ καλόν γε τὸ κλέος ὑεῖ τε Διὸς μάλα πρέπον. ἐπειδὴ δὲ ἐν τοιούτοις ἤθεσι τέθραφθε νομικοῖς σύ τε καὶ ὅδε, προσδοκῶ οὐκ ἂν ἀηδῶς περί τε πολιτείας τὰ νῦν καὶ νόμων τὴν διατριβήν, λέγοντάς τε καὶ ἀκούοντας ἅμα κατὰ τὴν πορείαν,…","divisions":[{"label":"Book 1","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/1-book-1/"},{"label":"Book 2","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/2-book-2/"},{"label":"Book 3","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/3-book-3/"},{"label":"Book 4","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/4-book-4/"},{"label":"Book 5","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/5-book-5/"},{"label":"Book 6","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/6-book-6/"},{"label":"Book 7","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/7-book-7/"},{"label":"Book 8","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/8-book-8/"},{"label":"Book 9","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/9-book-9/"},{"label":"Book 10","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/10-book-10/"},{"label":"Book 11","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/11-book-11/"},{"label":"Book 12","url":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/12-book-12/"}],"formats":{"html":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001/","json":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/api/works/tlg0059.tlg034.local001.json","compressedReadingDocument":"https://thegreeklibrary.org/works/tlg0059/tlg034/local001.json.gz"}}