how many species of it, in;
why a part of education, 240;
how far it should be taught, 242, 243;
professors of it considered as mean people, 244;
imitates the disposition of the mind, 246;
improves our manners, 246;
Lydian, softens the mind, 247;
pieces of, difficult in their execution, not to be taught to children, 249

Nature requires equality amongst equals, 101

Naval power should be regulated by the strength of the city, 212

Necessary parts of a city, what, 215

Nobles, the difference between them, no;
should take care of the poor, 193

Oath, an improper one in an oligarchy, 166

Officers of state, who they ought to be, 135;
how long to continue, 135;
who to choose them, 136

Offices, distinction between them, 67;
when subversive of the rights of the people, 130

Offspring, an instance of the likeness of, to the sire, 30

Oligarchies arise where the strength of the state consists in horse, no;
whence they arose, 142

Oligarchy admits not hired servants to be citizens, 75;
its object, 79;
what, 79, 81;
its definition, 112;
different sorts of, 117, 119;
its object, 122;
how it ought to be founded, 195

Onomacritus supposed to have drawn up laws, 64

Ostracism, why established, 93, 146;
its power, 93;
a weapon in the hand of sedition, 94

Painting, why it should be made a part of education, 241

Particulars, five, in which the rights of the people will be undermined, 130

Pausanias wanted to abolish the ephori, 143

People, how they should be made one, 35;
of Athens assume upon their victory over the Medes, 64;
what best to submit to a kingly government, 104;
to an aristocratic, 104;
to a free state, 104;
should be allowed the power of pardoning, not of condemning, 135

Periander's advice to Thrasy-bulus, 93, 169

Pericles introduces the paying of those who attended the court of justice, 64

Philolaus, a Theban legislator, quits his native country, 64

Phocea, an account of a dispute there, 150

Physician, his business, 86

Physicians, their mode of practice in Egypt, 98;
when ill consult others, 102

Pittacus, 65

Plato censured, 180

Poor excused from bearing arms and from gymnastic exercises in
an oligarchy, 131;
paid for attending the public assemblies in a democ