 Such a social tendency is, according to what is reported of the opening of Chrysippus’ lost treatise On Law, transformed into a political relationship by means of law: “Law is king of all things human and divine. Law must preside over what is honourable and base, as ruler and as guide, and thus be the standard of right and wrong, prescribing to animals whose nature is political what they should do, and prohibiting them from what they should not do” (SVF 3.314, as translated in LS 67R). Yet, in keeping with some tendencies in Platonism and Cynicism, such law might have to be radically different from existing laws if it is to be in full conformity with nature and reason. For Chrysippus, even certain forms of incest are said to have been “discredited without reason” (SVF 3.753, as translated in LS 67F): a comparison with animals would license them.