The reign of Cronos, who is the divine ruler (Laws), is a reminiscence of the Statesman.

It is remarkable that in the Sophist and Statesman (Soph.), Plato, speaking in the character of the Eleatic Stranger, has already put on the old man.

The madness of the poets, again, is a favourite notion of Plato's, which occurs also in the Laws, as well as in the Phaedrus, Ion, and elsewhere.

There are traces in the Laws of the same desire to base speculation upon history which we find in the Critias.

Once more, there is a striking parallel with the paradox of the Gorgias, that 'if you do evil, it is better to be punished than to be unpunished,' in the Laws: 'To live having all goods without justice and virtue is the greatest of evils if life be immortal, but not so great if the bad man lives but a short time.' The point to be considered is whether these are the kind of parallels which would be the work of an imitator.