Lycurgus would never reduce his laws into writing; nay, there is a Rhetra expressly to forbid it.
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"If the people should opine perversely, the elders and the princes shall dissent." Such was an addition to the Rhetra of Lycurgus.
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"'Bhishma said, "Eternal regions of felicity become his, who, having properly commenced a Vrata (vow) completes its observance according to the scriptures, without a break.