racy, 131

Power of the master, its object, 77

Power, supreme, where it ought to be lodged, 84;
why with the many, 85, 87

Powers of a state, different methods of delegating them to the citizens,
132-134

Preadvisers, court of, 135

Priesthood, to whom to be allotted, 217

Prisoners of war, whether they may be justly made slaves, 9

Private property not regulated the source of sedition, 42;
Phaleas would have it equal, 42;
how Phaleas would correct the irregularities of it, 43;
Plato would allow a certain difference in it, 43

Property, its nature, 12;
how it should be regulated, 32, 33;
the advantages of having it private, 34;
what quantity the public ought to have, 44;
ought not to be common, 219

Public assemblies, when subversive of the liberties of the people, 130

Public money, how to be divided, 193

Qualifications necessary for those who are to fill the first departments
in government, 164

Quality of a city, what meant by it, 129

Quantity, 129

Rest and peace the proper objects of the legislator, 230

Revolutions in a democracy, whence they arise, 152;
in an oligarchy, 156

Rich fined in an oligarchy for not bearing arms and attending the
gymnastic exercises, 131;
receive nothing for attending the public assemblies in a democracy, 131

Rights of a citizen, whether advantageous or not, 203

Seditions sometimes prevented by equality, 45;
their causes, 144-146;
how to be prevented, 163

Senate suits a democracy, 185

Shepherds compose the second-best democracy, 189

Slave, his nature and use, 6;
a chattel, 7;
by law, how, 9

Slavery not founded in nature but law, as some think, 6

Slaves, an inquiry into the virtues they are capable of, 23;
difficult to manage properly, 51;
their different sorts, 73

Society necessary to man, 77

Society, civil, the greatest blessing to man, 4;
different from a commercial intercourse, 82

Socrates, his mistakes on government, Book II. passim;
his division of the inhabitants, 38;
would have the women go to war, 38;
Aristotle's opinion of his discourses, 38;
his city would require a country of immeasurable extent, 39;
his comparison of the human species to different kinds of metals, 40;
his account of the different orders of men in a city imperfect