Plato · Leg.

Laws

Νόμοι

Traditionally dated to Plato’s late period.

An Athenian stranger, Cleinias, and Megillus frame the laws of a new Cretan city — Plato’s longest and last work.

This edition presents the original Greek (Burnet (OCT, 1907)) side by side with an English translation (R. G. Bury) — with click-to-parse morphology, dictionary entries, and exact Stephanus citation. 12 books, 327 pages.

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• Bury Greek & English · R. G. Bury (Loeb, 1926)

Books

• Book I 27 pages · 624a–650a
• Book II 23 pages · 652a–674a
• Book III 27 pages · 676a–702a
• Book IV 21 pages · 704a–724a
• Book V 22 pages · 726a–747a
• Book VI 35 pages · 751a–785a
• Book VII 37 pages · 788a–824a
• Book VIII 23 pages · 828a–850a
• Book IX 30 pages · 853a–882a
• Book X 27 pages · 884a–910a
• Book XI 26 pages · 913a–938a
• Book XII 29 pages · 941a–969a

Greek text & translations

Greek: J. Burnet, ed. Platonis opera, vol. 5. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907 (repr. 1967).
Translation: R. G. Bury (Loeb, 1926).
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