We'll be continuing from Book VIII, 828a (the previous meeting started at Book VII, 817e)

The dramatic action is as follows: Three elders—an Athenian, a Spartan, and a Cretan—walk the path of Minos and discuss laws and law-giving.

Meeting link: [https://meet.jit.si/CPM-Saturday-Afternoon-Meetings](https://meet.jit.si/CPM-Saturday-Afternoon-Meetings)

No particular edition is required but we can discuss what we want to use during the meeting. Because of this, sharing some editions that are generally available digitally in the comments may be helpful. I'll also try to keep the Greek text handy (probably through a Loeb edition, but anyone can look at Perseus as well).

If you want to familiarize yourself with the text in advance here are some different editions:

On Perseus, Shorely (HTML): [https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0166](https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus:text:1999.01.0166)

Plato's Complete Works:

PDF: [https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B670E9AEA7C9F52B2D40D63FF84F5600](https://libgen.is/book/index.php?md5=B670E9AEA7C9F52B2D40D63FF84F5600)

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