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But force, the negation of law, what is that, Pericles? Is it not the action of the stronger when he constrains the weaker to do whatever he chooses, not by persuasion, but by force?
That is my opinion.
Then whatever a despot by enactment constrains the citizens to do without persuasion, is the negation of law?
I think so: and I withdraw my answer that whatever a despot enacts without persuasion is a law.
But force, the negation of law, what is that, Pericles? Is it not the action of the stronger when he constrains the weaker to do whatever he chooses, not by persuasion, but by force?
That is my opinion.
Then whatever a despot by enactment constrains the citizens to do without persuasion, is the negation of law?
I think so: and I withdraw my answer that whatever a despot enacts without persuasion is a law.
Memorabilia. Xenophon. Edgar Carew Marchant (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1923.
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