If men and women live soberly, the enactments of law may be left to slumber; punishment is necessary only when there is great disorder of manners.
The first year of children's lives is to be registered in their ancestral temples; the name of the archon of the year is to be inscribed on a whited wall in every phratry, and the names of the living members of the phratry close to them, to be erased at their decease.

The proper time of marriage for a woman shall be from sixteen years to twenty; for a man, from thirty to thirty-five (compare Republic).

The age of holding office for a woman is to be forty, for a man thirty years.

The time for military service for a man is to be from twenty years to sixty; for a woman, from the time that she has ceased to bear children until fifty.
BOOK VII.

Now that we have married our citizens and brought their children into the world, we have to find nurture and education for them.
This is a matter of precept rather than of law, and cannot be precisely regulated by the legislator.