4. Laws 781, 737e; Republic 423a.

5. Laws 704 ff., 735a ff., 747d, 842c–e, 848a ff. and various other passages deal with these topics. Plato is not in fact inattentive to foreign affairs: see 737d, 758c, 949e ff.; cf. Jaeger (in Select Bibliographies) 288 ff.

6. I.e. of contact with the outside world, from which Plato’s state in the Laws was largely insulated.

7. Koinos: literally, ‘the common life of the state’.