[Footnote 17: Zaleucus, whose existence has been rashly
attacked, had the merit and glory of converting a band of
outlaws (the Locrians) into the most virtuous and orderly of
the Greek republics. (See two Memoirs of the Baron de St.
Croix, sur la Legislation de la Grande Grece Mem. de
l'Academie, tom. xlii. p. 276 - 333.) But the laws of
Zaleucus and Charondas, which imposed on Diodorus and
Stobaeus, are the spurious composition of a Pythagorean
sophist, whose fraud has been detected by the critical
sagacity of Bentley, p. 335 - 377.]