by the younger; who are to be specially watched by the rest of the citizens, and shall receive honour, if they are deserving of honour, or dishonour, if they prove inferior.  This is the assembly to which the visitor of foreign countries shall come and tell anything which he has heard from others in the course of his travels, or which he has himself observed.  If he be made neither better nor worse, let him at least be praised for his zeal; and let him receive still more praise, and special honour after death, if he be improved.  But if he be deteriorated by his travels, let him be prohibited from speaking to any one; and if he submit, he may live as a private individual:  but if he be convicted of attempting to make innovations in education and the laws, let him die.

Next, as to the reception of strangers.  Of these there are four classes:—­ First, merchants, who, like birds of passage, find their way over the sea at a certain time of the year, that they may exhibit their wares.  These should be received in markets and public buildings without the city, by proper officers, who shall see that justice is done them, and shall also watch against any political designs which they may entertain; no more intercourse is to be held with them than is absolutely necessary.  Secondly, there are the visitors at the festivals, who shall be entertained by hospitable persons at the temples for a reasonable time; the priests and ministers of the temples shall have a care of them.  In small suits brought by them or against them, the priests shall be the judges; but in the more important, the wardens of the agora.  Thirdly, there are ambassadors of foreign states; these are to be honourably received by the generals and commanders, and placed under the care of the Prytanes and of the persons with whom they are lodged.  Fourthly, there is the philosophical stranger, who, like our own spectators, from time to time goes to see what is rich and rare in foreign countries.  Like them he must be fifty years of age:  and let him go unbidden to the doors of the wise and rich, that he may learn from them, and they from him.

These are the rules of missions into foreign countries, and of the reception of strangers.  Let Zeus, the God of hospitality, be honoured; and let not the stranger be excluded, as in Egypt, from meals and sacrifices, or, (as at Sparta,) driven away by savage proclamations.

Let guarantees be clearly given in writing and before witnesses.  The number of witnesses shall be three when the sum lent is under a thousand drachmas, or five when above.  The agent and principal at a fraudulent sale shall be equally liable.  He who would search another man’s house for anything must swear that he expects to find it there; and he shall enter naked, or having on a single garment and no girdle.  The owner shall place at the disposal of the searcher all his goods, sealed as well as unsealed; if he refuse, he shall be liable in double the value