_Aristotle on living Law_ (Vol. ix., p. 373).--Your correspondent H. P.
asks where Aristotle says that a judge is a living law, as the law itself
is a dumb judge. The first part of this antithesis is in _Eth. Nic._, v. 4.
s. 7.:
"[Greek: Ho gar dikastes bouletai einai hoion dikaion empsuchon.]"
"The judge wishes to be justice incarnate."
Your correspondent, however, probably had in his mind the passage of
Cicero, _de Leg._, iii. 1.:
"Videtis igitur, magistratus hanc esse vim, ut praesit, praescribatque
recte et utilia et conjuncta cum legibus;--vereque dici, magistratum
legem esse loquentem, legem autem mutum magistratum."
The commentators compare an antithetical sentence attributed to
Simonides,--that a picture is a silent poem, and that a poem is a speaking
picture.