The connection is often imperfect; and there is a want of arrangement, exhibited especially in the enumeration of the laws towards the end of the work.

The Laws are full of flaws and repetitions.

The Greek is in places very ungrammatical and intractable.

A cynical levity is displayed in some passages, and a tone of disappointment and lamentation over human things in others.

The critics seem also to observe in them bad imitations of thoughts which are better expressed in Plato's other writings.