Lastly, he observes the tendency to hyperbata or transpositions of words, and to rhythmical uniformity as well as grammatical irregularity in the structure of the sentences.
For nearly all the expressions which are adduced by Zeller as arguments against the genuineness of the Laws, Stallbaum finds some sort of authority.

There is no real ground for doubting that the work was written by Plato, merely because several words occur in it which are not found in his other writings.

An imitator may preserve the usual phraseology of a writer better than he would himself.

But, on the other hand, the fact that authorities may be quoted in support of most of these uses of words, does not show that the diction is not peculiar.
Several of them seem to be poetical or dialectical, and exhibit an attempt to enlarge the limits of Greek prose by the introduction of Homeric and tragic expressions.

Most of them do not appear to have retained any hold on the later language of Greece.