Plato and the Other Companions of Sokrates, 3rd ed. Volume 4

Note 146 — Chapter XXXIX · LEGES AND EPINOMIS.

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Cicero (De Legg. ii. 6) professes to follow Plato in this practice of prefixing proëms to his Laws. He calls the proëm an encomium upon the law, which in most cases it is — “ut priusquam ipsam legem recitem, de ejus legis laude dicam”.

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