Charondas appears to have legislated for some of the cities of Sicily and Southern Italy. The law here spoken of is ascribed by Demosthenes to the Locrians. It is curious that the names of Charondas and Zaleucus were attached to two fictitious compilations of laws, praised by Sir W. Temple in his Treatise on Ancient and Modern Learning, and a large part of Bentley's Dissertation is taken up with exposing the baselessness of the stories current about them. Swift wrote the present treatise between the composition and publication of the Battle of the Books, and after the appearance of the Dissertation; but Bentley's opposition would not tend to make him doubt the genuineness of the Charondas legend.