And the constant reference in the Laws of Plato to the lawgiver is altogether in accordance with Greek modes of thinking and speaking.
There is also, as in the Republic, a Pythagorean element.

The highest branch of education is arithmetic; to know the order of the heavenly bodies, and to reconcile the apparent contradiction of their movements, is an important part of religion; the lives of the citizens are to have a common measure, as also their vessels and coins; the great blessing of the state is the number 5040.

Plato is deeply impressed by the antiquity of Egypt, and the unchangeableness of her ancient forms of song and dance.

And he is also struck by the progress which the Egyptians had made in the mathematical sciences--in comparison of them the Greeks appeared to him to be little better than swine.

Yet he censures the Egyptian meanness and inhospitality to strangers.