Plato's 'It's Fine a Wooden Statue'

He is representing them as laughable, ye? All right. And by the way, i just want a highlight at the end yere, how strange it might seem, in some ways, that he is appealing to precedentin. A law is kind of all about precedent. Looking to people like plato, who lived, what, 600 years before him, way before the roman empire existed. Why that would have any bearing on what' in in a roman law court, it is something that we would question these days. But as i say, he's using that to build a picture of himself as having this immense culture. And that is a big part of his defence. I