And yet I observe that to your country settlers have come from Argos and Aegina and other parts of Hellas.

Tell me, then, whence do you draw your recruits in the present enterprise?
CLEINIAS: They will come from all Crete; and of other Hellenes, Peloponnesians will be most acceptable.

For, as you truly observe, there are Cretans of Argive descent; and the race of Cretans which has the highest character at the present day is the Gortynian, and this has come from Gortys in the Peloponnesus.
ATHENIAN: Cities find colonization in some respects easier if the colonists are one race, which like a swarm of bees is sent out from a single country, either when friends leave friends, owing to some pressure of population or other similar necessity, or when a portion of a state is driven by factions to emigrate.

And there have been whole cities which have taken flight when utterly conquered by a superior power in war.

This, however, which is in one way an advantage to the colonist or legislator, in another point of view creates a difficulty.
There is an element of friendship in the community of race, and language, and laws, and in common temples and rites of worship; but colonies which are of this homogeneous sort are apt to kick against any laws or any form of constitution differing from that which they had at home; and although the badness of their own laws may have been the cause of the factions which prevailed among them, yet from the force of habit they would fain preserve the very customs which were their ruin, and the leader of the colony, who is their legislator, finds them troublesome and rebellious.