How cleverly indeed Anacharsis used to compare laws with spider-webs! Just a web catches weaker creatures and lets the stronger ones get...

Darius, like Hammurabi, laid special weight on the rules for evidence. Like his predecessors, he insisted on the incorruptibility of the royal judges. Herodotus has a tale in point. One judge, Sisamnes, had given an unjust judgment in return for a bribe; Cambyses slaughtered him like a sheep and flayed him. Then from the skin he caused leather strips to be tanned and with them covered the judgment seat of the son Otanes, who was appointed to the father's office with the grim

Do not underestimate the importance of political leaders. Solon observed: