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@Oliver Schick
I know. Of course there are aspects of Plato's dialogues that are not immediately apparent. However, a perfectly simple account can be given of all of this, and would you believe it, Plato actually tells his readers a lot of it himself. (No need to use the Seventh Letter at all.) :)
Thanks for the link. I've just had a quick scan of the article and it's exactly what I expected. The choice of dialogues that he looks at is perfectly predictable, too. So, I stay with my contention that it's absolute and utter nonsense. Showing it up to be such in detail will of course be hard work for scholars who could really use their time more productively. :(
This sort of thing will come back time and time again and isn't terribly exciting. It merely represents a failure of reading Plato.
Apologies for just making these claims and not backing them up here. I'd certainly be up for a reading group, as I've never read the Laws much. I'm afraid my Ancient Greek is extremely rusty by now, though.