e things in common, 26;
should be exempted from servile labour, 51;
privileges different in different governments, 68;
if illegally made, whether illegal, 69;
who admitted to be, 75;
in the best states ought not to follow merchandise, 216
City, may be too much one, 27, 35;
what, 66, 82;
when it continues the same, 70;
for whose sake established, 76;
its end, 83;
of what parts made up, 113;
best composed of equals, 126
City of the best form, what its establishment ought to be, 149;
wherein its greatness consists, 149;
may be either too large or too small, 209;
what should be its situation, 211;
whether proper near the sea, 211;
ought to be divided by families into different sorts of men, 218
City and confederacy, their difference, 37;
wherein it should be one, 27
Command amongst equals should be in rotation, 101
Common meals not well established at Lacedaemon-well at Crete, 56;
the model from whence the Lacedaemonian was taken, 56;
inferior to it in some respects, 56
Community, its recommendations deceitful, 34;
into what people it may be divided, 194
Community of children, 29, 30;
inconveniences attending it, 31
Community of goods, its inconveniences, 28;
destructive of modesty and liberality, 34
Community of wives, its inconveniences, 27
Contempt a cause of sedition, 146
Courage of a man different from a woman's, 74
Courts, how many there ought to be, 140
Courts of justice should be few in a small state, 192
Cretan customs similar to the Lacedasmonian, 57;
assembly open to every citizen, 58
Cretans, their power, 58;
their public meals, how conducted 58
Crete, the government of, 57;
description of the island of 57
Customs at Carthage, Lacedse-mon, and amongst the Scythians and
Iberians, concerning those who had killed an enemy, 204, 205
Dadalus's statues, 6.
Delphos, an account of a sedition there, 150
Demagogues, their influence in a democracy, 116.
Democracies, arose out of tyrannies, 100;
whence they arose, 142;
when changed into tyrannies, 153;
their different sorts, 184, 188;
general rules for their establishment, 185;
should not be made too perfect, 191
Democracy, what, 79, 80;
its definition, 112, 113;
different sorts
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