Here's the line that Homer writes, they live without the Greek word is nomoi, which we would translate as laws, but before they become laws they are the customary norms of society, in other words, civilization.

荷马有如下描写,他们的的生活脱离于nomoi,我们可以将其翻译为法律,但是在这些成为法律之前,它们是社会约定俗成的标准,换言之,就是文明

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