And now our three points are proven; and we are agreed (1) that there are Gods, (2) that they care for men, (3) that they cannot be bribed to do injustice.  I have spoken warmly, from a fear lest this impiety of theirs should lead to a perversion of life.  And our warmth will not have been in vain, if we have succeeded in persuading these men to abominate themselves, and to change their ways.  ‘So let us hope.’  Then now that the preamble is completed, we will make a proclamation commanding the impious to renounce their evil ways; and in case they refuse, the law shall be added:—­If a man is guilty of impiety in word or deed, let the bystander inform the magistrates, and let the magistrates bring the offender before the court; and if any of the magistrates refuses to act, he likewise shall be tried for impiety.  Any one who is found guilty of such an offence shall be fined at the discretion of the court, and shall also be punished by a term of imprisonment.  There shall be three prisons—­one for common offences against life and property; another, near by the spot where the Nocturnal Council will assemble, which is to be called the ’House of Reformation’; the third, to be situated in some desolate region in the centre of the country, shall be called by a name indicating retribution.  There are three causes of impiety, and from each of them spring impieties of two kinds, six in all.  First, there is the impiety of those who deny the existence of the Gods; these may be honest men, haters of evil, who are only dangerous because they talk loosely about the Gods and make others like themselves; but there is also a more vicious class, who are full of craft and licentiousness.  To this latter belong diviners, jugglers, despots, demagogues, generals, hierophants of private mysteries, and sophists.  The first class shall be only imprisoned and admonished.  The second class should be put to death, if they could be, many times over.  The two other sorts of impiety, first of those who deny the care of the Gods, and secondly, of those who affirm that they may be propitiated, have similar subdivisions, varying in degree of guilt.  Those who have learnt to blaspheme from mere ignorance shall be imprisoned in the House of Reformation for five years at least, and not allowed to see any one but members of the Nocturnal Council, who shall converse with them touching their souls health.  If any of the prisoners come to their right mind, at the end of five years let them be restored to sane company; but he who again offends shall die.  As to that class of monstrous natures who not only believe that the Gods are negligent, or may be propitiated, but pretend to practise on the souls of quick and dead, and promise to charm the Gods, and to effect the ruin of houses and states—­he, I say, who is guilty of these things, shall be bound in the central prison, and shall have no intercourse with any freeman, receiving only his daily rations of food from the public slaves; and when he dies, let him be cast beyond