Plato, Laws 712b

πειρώμεθα προσαρμόττοντες τῇ πόλει σοι, καθάπερ παῖδες πρεσβῦται, πλάττειν τῷ λόγῳ τοὺς νόμους. ἴωμεν δὴ καὶ μὴ μέλλωμεν ἔτι. θεὸν δὴ πρὸς τὴν τῆς πόλεως κατασκευὴν ἐπικαλώμεθα· ὁ δὲ ἀκούσειέν τε, καὶ ἀκούσας ἵλεως εὐμενής τε ἡμῖν ἔλθοι συνδιακοσμήσων τήν τε πόλιν καὶ τοὺς νόμους. ἔλθοι γὰρ οὖν. ἀλλὰ τίνα δή ποτε πολιτείαν ἔχομεν ἐν νῷ τῇ

Let us apply the oracle to your State, and so try, like greybeard boys, to model its laws by our discourse. Yes, let us proceed, and delay no longer. Let us invoke the presence of the God at the establishment of the State; and may he hearken, and hearkening may he come, propitious and kindly to us-ward, to help us in the fashioning of the State and its laws. Yes, may he come! Well, what form of polity is it that we intend to impose