Assertion: cicero's law | /r/Synonym | law
Facets:
value: correctly
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Q: I understand very clearly, and I now think that any other law must be neither recognized as nor even called a law.
text: [Those who more precisely inquire about these things] teach that all law that can correctly be called law is praiseworthy, by arguments such as these: It is surely settled that laws have been invented for the health of citizens, the safety of cities, and the quiet and happy life of human beings, and that those who first sanctioned resolutions of this sort showed to their peoples that they would write and provide those things by which, when they were received and adopted, they would live honorably and happily, and that they would of course name “laws” those things that were thus composed and sanctioned.