Farther civil and political regulations for the Magnetic community. No evidence that Plato had studied the working of different institutions in practice 397 Modes of acquiring property--legitimate and illegitimate _ib._ Plato's general regulations leave little room for disputes about ownership 398 Plato's principles of legislation, not consistent--comparison of them with the Attic law about Eranoi 399 Regulations about slaves, and about freedmen 400 Provisions in case a slave is sold, having a distemper upon him 401 Retailers. Strict regulations about them. No citizen can be a retailer _ib._ Frauds committed by sellers--severe punishments on them 402 Comparison with the lighter punishment inflicted by Attic law 403 Regulations about Orphans and Guardians: also about Testamentary powers 404 Plato's general coincidence with Attic law and its sentiment 406 Tutelage of Orphans--Disagreement of Married Couples--Divorce _ib._ Neglect of Parents 407 Poison--Magic--Incantations--Severe punishment _ib._ Punishment is inflicted with a view to future prevention or amendment 408 Penalty for abusive words--for libellous comedy. Mendicity forbidden 409 Regulations about witnesses on judicial trials _ib._ Censure of forensic eloquence, and the teachers of it. Penalties against contentious litigation 410 Many of Plato's laws are discharges of ethical antipathy. The antipathy of Melêtus against Sokrates was of the same character 411 Penalty for abuse of public trust--wrongful appropriation of public money--evasion of military service 412 Oaths. Dikasts, Judges, Electors, are to be sworn: but no parties to a suit, or interested witnesses, can be sworn 413 Regulations about admission of strangers, and foreign travel of citizens 414 Suretyship--Length of prescription for ownership, &c. 415 Judicial trial--three stages. 1. Arbitrators. 2. Tribe-Dikasteries. 3. Select Dikastery _ib._ Funerals--proceedings prescribed--expense limited _ib._ Conservative organ to keep up the original scheme of the lawgiver. Nocturnal Council for this purpose--how constituted _ib._ This Council must keep steadily in view the one great end of the city--Mistakes made by existing cities about the right end 417 The one end of the city is the virtue of its citizens--that property which is common to the four varieties of Virtue--Reason, Courage, Temperance, Justice _ib._ The Nocturnal** Council must comprehend this unity of Virtue, explain it to others, and watch that it be carried out in detail 418 They must also adopt, explain, and enforce upon the citizens, an orthodox religious creed. Fundamental dogmas of such creed 419 Leges close, without describing the education proper for the Nocturnal Counsellors. _Epinomis_ supplying this defect 420 The Athenian declares his plan of education--Arithmetic, Geometry, Astronomy _ib._