tructive, as the
Lydian of all others seems chiefly to be-These then are as it were the
three boundaries of education, moderation, possibility, and decorum.

INDEX

ACHILLES, 76

Act of the city, what, 69

Actions, their original spring, i

Administration, 76;
whether to be shared by the whole community, 203

AEsumnetes, 96

AEthiopia, in what manner the power of the state is there regulated, 112

Alterations in government, whence they arise, 142;
what they are, 143

Ambractia, the government of, changed, 151

Andromadas Reginus, a lawgiver to the Thracian Calcidians, 65

Animals, their different provisions by nature, 14;
intended by nature for the benefit of man, 14;
what constitutes their different species, 113

Animals, tame, why better than wild, 8

Arbitrator and judge, their difference, 49

Architas his rattle, 248

Areopagus, senate of, 63

Argonauts refuse to take Hercules with them, 93

Aristocracies, causes of commotions in them, 157;
chief cause of their alteration, 158;
may degenerate into an oligarchy, 79

Aristocracy, what, 78;
treated of, 120;
its object, 121

Art, works of, which most excellent, 20

Artificers and slaves, their difference, 24

Assemblies, public, advantageous to a democracy, 134

Assembly, public, its proper business, 133

Athens, different dispositions of the citizens of, 149

Barter, its original, 15

Being, what the nature of every one is, 3

Beings, why some command, others obey, 2

Body by nature to be governed, 8;
requires our care before the soul, 232

Calchis, the government of, changed, 151

Calcidians, 65

Carthaginian government described, 60

Census in a free state should be as extensive as possible, 131;
how to be altered, 162

Charondas supposed to be the scholar of Zaleucus, 64

Child, how to be managed when first born, 235;
should be taught nothing till he is five years old, 235;
how then to be educated, 236

Children, the proper government of, 22;
what their proper virtues, 23;
what they are usually taught, 240

Cities, how governed at first, 3;
what, 3;
the work of nature, 3;
prior in contemplation to a family, or an individual, 4

Citizen, who is one? 66, 68;
should know both how to command and obey, 73

Citizens must have som