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Charillus the king, being asked why Lycurgus enacted so few laws, replied that people who used few words had no need of many laws. 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 232 B, infra, and Plutarch's Life of Lycurgus, chap. xx. (52 D).
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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