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In the Laws there is hardly anything but laws; not much is said

about the constitution. This, which he had intended to make more

of the ordinary type, he gradually brings round to the other or

ideal form. For with the exception of the community of women and

property, he supposes everything to be the same in both states;

there is to be the same education; the citizens of both are to

live free from servile occupations, and there are to be common

meals in both. The only difference is that in the Laws the common

meals are extended to women, and the warriors number about 5000,

but in the Republic only 1000.'

(2) by Plato in the Laws (Book v.), from the side of the

Republic:-