14. See Laws 693e ff., 701e and esp. 756e.

15. Laws 751–68 is the chief discussion.

16. Laws 764a.

17. E.g. Laws 763de.

18. Laws 756b–e. The procedure is complex: see G. R. Morrow, Plato’s Cretan City (Princeton, 1960), p. 166 ff. (In 1266a17 I read τούς, not τοῖς: see my note in Liverpool Classical Monthly, 3 [1978], pp. 179–80.)