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INTRODUCTION
fruits of many years of experience and of reflection; and, as he himself would have us believe, the principles it enunciates are valid for all time.
The only English commentary on the Laws is that by E. B. England, a work of fine scholarship and most valuable, the text being based on Burnet's. Schanz's text contains only the first six books. Of other recent contributions to the study of the work, those of C. Ritter (1896) and O. Apelt (1916) are the most important. The text here printed is based on that of the Zurich edition of Baiter, Orelli, and Winckelmann (1839), the chief deviations from which are indicated in the foot-notes.
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