Abydos, revolution in the govern- ment of, v. 6, § 6; power of the clubs, ib. §§ 6, 13. Account, power of calling magis- trates to, in Sparta exercised by the Ephors, ii. 9, § 26; given by Solon to the people, ib. 12, § 5; iii. II, 8; and justly claimed by them, iii. 11; when exercised by all, a mark of democracy, iv. 14, §§ 4-6; vi. 2, § 5; 4, § 5. Accountants, vi. 8, § 17. Achaea [in Peloponnesus]; treach- ery of the Achaeans to the Troe- zenians at the foundation of Sy- baris, v. 3, § 11. Achaea [Pthiotis]; wars of the Achaeans with the Thessalians, ii. 9, § 3.
Achaeans, the (in Colchis), said to be cannibals, viii. 4, § 3. Achilles, complaint of, against Aga- memnon (Il. ix. 648), quoted, iii. 5, $9.
Acquisition, the art of, (i) the natural, i. 9, § 12; 11, §§ 1, 2; includes war in certain cases] and hunting, i. 7, § 5; 8, § 12; vii. 14, § 21; a part of household management, i. 4, § 1; 8, §§ 13- 15; 9, §§ 1-8; 10, §§ 1-4; 11, § 2 ; has a limit, ib. 8, § 14; 9, §§ 13- 18: (ii) that which is contrary to nature, including (a) exchange which goes beyond the need of life, i. 9, §§ 2-5; 10, § 4; 11, § 3; (b) usury, ib. 10, § 4; 11, § 3; (c) trade, ib. 9, § 4; 10, § 4; 11, §3; (d) service for hire, ib. 11,
3: (iii) the intermediate kind, ib. § 4. Action, the slave a minister of, i. 4, §§ 4-6; 5, § 9; the life of,-is it the best? ii. 6, § 8; vii. 2; 3.
Actions, divided into a superior and an inferior class, vii. 14, §§ 10-14. Adamas, aided in the murder of Cotys, v. 10, § 18.
Admiral, office of (at Sparta), ii. 9, § 33.
Adoption, laws of, enacted by Philolaus at Thebes, ii. 12, § 10. Adultery, punishments for, caused revolutions at Heraclea and Thebes, v. 6, § 15; law which should be adopted about, vii. 16, § 18.
Ægina, number of merchant sea- men at, iv. 4, § 21; plot of Chares to overturn the government, v. 6, § 9. Enos, in Thrace, v. 10, § 18. Æsymnetes, the, or dictators of ancient Hellas, iii. 14, §§ 8-10, 14; iv. 10, § 2 ; always received a guard, iii. 15, § 16. Affection, would be destroyed by communism, ii. 4, §§ 5-9; the two qualities which chiefly in- spire, ib. § 9.
Agamemnon, iii. 5, § 9; 14, § 4; 16, § 10.
Age, offices to be divided among
the citizens, according to, vii. 9, §§ 4-9; 14, §§ 4, 5; the poets not (?) right in dividing ages by sevens, ib. 16, § 17; 17, § 15; propriety of different kinds of music for different ages, viii. 7, §§ 13-15.
Age for gymnastic exercises, the, vii. 12,5; for marriage, ib. 16, §§ 1-11; to sit at the public tables, ib. 17, § 11.
Age, old, tells upon the mind as well as the body, ii. 9, § 25. Agesilaus, King of Sparta, v. 7, § 3. Agriculture, the employment fol- lowed by the greater part of man- kind, i. 8, §7; works upon, ib.
II, §7; ancient legislation to encourage, vi. 4, §§ 8-10. Air, pure, necessity of, vii. 11, § 4. Alcaeus, songs of, against Pittacus, iii. 14, § 10.
Alcyone, mother of Diocles the Corinthian, ii. 12, § 8. Aleuadae, the, at Larissa, v. 6, § 13. Aliens, resident, how distinguished from citizens, iii. 1, § 4; obliged to have a patron, ib.; enrolled by Cleisthenes in the tribes, ib. 2, §3; admitted to citizenship at Syracuse, v. 3, § 13.
All, fallacy in the word, ii. 3, § 3 (cp. vii. 13, § 10). Alliance, an, how different from a state, ii. 2, § 3; iii. 9, §§ 6-8. Almsgiving, demoralizing effects of, vi. 5, § 7.
Alternation in office, characteristic of constitutional governments, i. 1, § 2; 12, § 2 ; ii. 2, §§ 4-7 ; iii. 4, §§ 10, 14-17; 6, §§ 9, 10; 16, §§ 2, 3; 17, § 4; vi. 2, §§ 2, 5; vii. 14, §§ 1-5. Amadocus (?king of the Odrysians), conspiracy of Seuthes against, v. 10, § 24.
Amasis, king of Egypt, story of, i. 12, § 2.
Ambassadors, enmities between, fostered by Spartan state policy, ii. 9, § 30; not to be considered magistrates, iv. 15, § 3. Ambition, a cause of crime, ii. 7, §§ 10-14, 18; 9, § 28; encour- aged by the Spartan law-giver, ib. 9, § 28; a motive of revo- lutions, ii. 7, §§ 10, 18 ; v. 7, § 4 ; 10, § 5.
Ambracia, democratical revolution at, and expulsion of the tyrant Periander, v. 3, § 10; 4, § 9; 10, § 16.
Amphipolis, the citizens of, ex- pelled by a Chalcidian colony, v. 3, § 13; 6, § 8.
Amyntas the Little(?father of Philip), conspiracy of Derdas against, v. 10, § 16.
Analysis, the method of knowledge, i. 1, § 3; 2, § 1; 8, § 1. Anaxilaus, tyranny of, at Rhegium, v. 12, §.13.
Andria, ancient name of the com- mon meals at Sparta, ii. 10, § 5. Androdamas, of Rhegium, gave cer- tain laws to the Chalcidian cities of Thrace, ii. 12, § 14. Andros; affair of the Andrians, ii. 9, § 20.
Anger, is insensible to reason, v. 10, § 34; 11, § 31; most bitter against friends who have done a wrong, vii. 7, §7; exists even in very young children, ib. 15, § 10. Animals, the, intention of Nature in denying speech to, i. 2, §§ 10-12; under the dominion of man, ib. 5, §7; tame better than wild, ib.; only differ from slaves in not being able to apprehend reason, ib. 9; their various modes of life, ib. 8, §§ 4-6; supply their offspring with food in different ways, ib. § 10; created for the sake of man, ib. §§ 9-12; pro- duce offspring resembling their parents, ii. 3, §9; cannot form a state, iii. 9, §6; lead a life of nature, not of reason, vii. 13, § 12; the parts of animals an illustra- tion of the parts of the state, iv. 4, §§ 7-9; the offspring of young animals often small and ill-de- veloped, vii. 16, § 6.
Antileon, tyrant at Chalcis, v. 12, $12.
Antimenides, brother of Alcaeus, iii. 14, § 9.
Antissa, in Lesbos, quarrel at, be- tween the old citizens and the Chian refugees, v. 3, § 12. Antisthenes, his fable of the lion and the hares, iii. 13, § 14. Aphrodite, why connected with Ares in mythology, ii. 9, § 8. Aphytaeans, the (in Pallene), agra- rian legislation among, vi. 4, § 10. Apollodorus of Lemnos, author of a work on Agriculture, i. 11, § 7. Apollonia (on the Adriatic), early government of, iv. 4, § 5. Apollonia (on the Euxine), quarrels at, between the old and new citizens, v. 3, § 13; in the oli- garchy, ib. 6, § 9.
Appeal, a court of, allowed by Hippodamus, ii. 8, § 4.
Appetitive principle, the, of the soul, i. 5, §6; iii. 4, § 6; 16, § 5 ; vii. 15, §§ 9, 10. Arbitrator, the judge should not be made into an, ii. 8, § 13; the middle class the arbitrators of the state, iv. 12, § 5.
Arcadia; the Arcadians not distri- buted (?) into villages, ii. 2, § 3; their wars with the Lacedae- monians, ib. 9, §§ 3, 11. Archelaus, king of Macedonia, con- spiracy of Crataeus and Décam- nichus against, v. 10, §§ 17, 20. Archias, of Thebes, pilloried in the Agora, v. 6, § 15.
Archilochus, quoted, vii. 7, § 6. Archons, the duties of, vi. 8, § 20; the single Archon at Epidamnus, iii. 16, § 1; v. 1, § 12. Archytas, of Tarentum, invented the children's rattle, viii. 6, § 2. Areopagus, the, at Athens (see Council of Areopagus).
Ares, why connected with Aphro- dite in mythology, ii. 9, § 8. Argo, the, refused to take Heracles, iii. 13, § 16.
Argos, use of ostracism at, v. 3, § 3; the political changes after Heb- dome,' ib. 3, §7; the oligarchical revolution after the battle of Man- tinea, ib. 4, § 9; the tyranny of Pheidon, ib. 10, §6; enmity of the Argives to the Lacedaemonians, ii. 9, §§ 3, 11.
Ariobarzanes, conspiracy of Mithri-
dates against, v. 10, § 25. Aristocracy, characterized by elec- tion for merit, ii. 11, §§ 9, 11; iv. 8, §7; v. 7, § 1; distinguished from the perfect state, as being a government of men who are only good relatively to the constitu- tion, iv. 7, § 2 (but cp. iii. 4, § 5); so called because the best rule or the best interests of the state are consulted, iii. 7, § 3; not a per- version, iv. 8, § 1; analogous to oligarchy (1) because the few rule, v. 7, § 1; (2) because birth and education commonly accompany wealth, iv. 8, § 3;-to royalty as a government of the best, ib. 10, §2; preferable to royalty, be-
cause the good are more than one, iii. 15, §10; how distinguished from oligarchy and constitutional government, iv. 7; 8; 14, § 10; v. 7, §§ 5-9 (cp. ii. 11, §§ 5-10); usually degenerates into oligar- chy, iii. 7, § 5; 15, § 11; iv. 2,
2; v. 7, §7; 8, § 7;—causes of revolutions in aristocracies, v. 7; the means of their preservation, ib. 8, §§5-7; aristocracy less stable than constitutional government, ib. 7, §6; liable to danger because the rich have too much power, ib. 12, § 6; might be combined with democracy if the magistrates were unpaid and office open to all, ib. 8, § 17 (cp. vi. 4, § 6);-magistracies peculiar to aristocracy, iv. 15, $10: vi. 8, §§ 22, 24; aristocratical modes of appointing magistrates and judges, iv. 15, §§ 20, 21; 16, $8; practice of trying all suits by the same magistrates, aristo- cratical, ii. 11, § 8; iii. 1, § 10 ;- the people naturally suited to an aristocracy, iii. 17. §§ 3-7. Aristogeiton, conspiracy of Harmo- dius and, v. 10, § 15.
Aristophanes, speech of, in the Symposium, quoted, ii. 4, § 6. Arrhibaeus, king of the Lyncestians, war of, against Archelaus, v. 10, § 17.
Art, works of, wherein different from realities, iii. 11, § 4.
Artapanes, conspiracy of, against Xerxes, v. 10, § 21.
Artisan, the employments of the,
devoid of moral excellence, i. 13, §§ 13, 14; iii. 5, § 5 ; vi. 4, § 12; vii. 9, §§ 3, 7; artisans sometimes public slaves, ii. 7, § 22; only ad- mitted to office in democracies, iii. 4, § 12; often acquire wealth, ib. 5, 6; the question whether they are citizens, ib. 5; necessary to the existence of the state, iv. 4, §§ 9, 21; not a part of the state, vii. 4, § 6; should be de- barred from the Freemen's Agora,' ib. 12, § 3. Arts, the, require instruments, both living and lifeless, i. 4; some arts subservient to others, ib. 8, § 2;
10, §§ 1-4; the arts have a limit in their means though not in their end, ib. 8, § 14; 9, § 13; both the means and the end ought to be within our control, vii. 13, § 2; amount of knowledge which a freeman is permitted in the arts, i. 11, § 1; viii. 2, § 5; degrees of excellence in them, i. 11, § 6; viii. 2, §§ 5,6; changes in, advan- tageous, ii. 8, § 18; iii. 15, § 4 ; the analogy of, not to be extended to the laws, ii. 8, § 24; iii. 15, §4; exist for the benefit of those under them, iii. 6, §§ 7-9; by whom should the artist be judged? ib. 11, §§ 10-14 (cp. viii. 6, §§ 1–4) ; the arts aim at some good, iii. 12, §1; justice of the different claims to political superiority illustrated from the arts, ib. 12, §§ 4-8 ; law of proportion in the arts, ib. 13, §21; the problems of the arts, an illustration of the problems of politics, iv. 1, §§ 1-4; the arts have to supply the deficiencies of Nature, vii. 17, § 15.
Asia, ii. 10, § 3; iv. 3, § 3; the Asiatics
better fitted for slavery than the Hellenes, iii. 14, § 6; vii. 7, § 2; cannibal tribes in Asia, viii. 4, § 3. Assembly, the, payment of, evil
effects of the practice, ii. 7, § 19; iv. 6, § 5; vi. 2, § 6; how they may be counteracted, vi. 5, § 5; -power monopolised by, in ex- treme democracies, iv. 6, § 5; 14, § 7; v. 5, § 10; 6, § 17; 9, § 14; vi. 2, § 5; 4, § 15 (cp. ii. 12, § 4; v. 11, §§ 11, 12); meet- ings should be infrequent, vi. 5, § 5 (cp. iv. 14, §§ 4, 5); charac- ter of, in the different kinds of democracies, iv. 14, §§ 4-7; vi. 2, §§ 5-7; in oligarchies, iv. 14, §§ 8-11 (cp. iii. 1, § 10); pro- vision in case of equal voting in assemblies, vi. 3,§6:-at Carthage, ii. 11, §§ 5-6; in Crete, ib. 10, §7; 11, § 6; at Sparta, ib. 11,
Astyages, dethroned by Cyrus, v. 10, 24.
Atarneus (in Mysia), siege of, ii. 7, § 17.
Athene, story of, and the flute, viii. 6, § 13.
Athens; payment of the dicasteries commenced by Pericles, ii. 12, § 4 (cp.iv.6, §5; vi. 2, §6); evil effects of the practice, ii. 7, § 19; plan introduced by Diophantus for the regulation of the public slaves, ib. § 23; maintenance at the pub- lic expense of the children of citi- zens who had fallen in battle, ib. 8, §6; the Solonian constitution, ib. 7, §6; 12, §§ 1-6; iii. 11, §8; the Areopagus (see Council of Areo- pagus); the Court of Phreatto, iv. 16, § 3; effect of the Persian war upon Athens, ii. 12, § 5; v. 4, § 8; viii. 6, § 11; introduction of flute-playing at Athens after the Persian war, viii. 6, § 11; the legislation of Draco, ii. 12, § 13; the expulsion of the tyrants, iii. 2, §3; v.12,5; the use of ostracism, v. 3, §3 (cp. iii. 13, § 15); number of sailors in the population, iv. 4, § 21; new citizens introduced by Cleisthenes, iii. 2, § 3; the tribes redivided by him,vi. 4, §17; treat- ment of the subject cities by Athens, iii. 13, § 19; democrati- cal governments forced upon the allies by the Athenians, iv. 11, § 18; v. 7, § 14; great losses of the nobility in the Peloponnesian War, v. 3, §7; difference of sen- timent between the Athenians and the citizens of the Piraeus, ib. § 15; origin of the war be- tween Athens and Mitylene, ib. 4, § 6; defeat of the Athenian expedition to Sicily, ib. § 9; government of the Four Hundred, ib. § 13; 6, §6; of the Thirty, ib. 6, § 6; rise of Peisistratus to the tyranny, ib. 5, § 9; 10, § 6; his trial before the Areopagus, ib. 12, § 2; conspiracy of Har- modius and Aristogeiton, ib. 10, §15; magistracy of the Eleven, vi. 8, § II.
Athlete, the temperament of an, not suited to the life of the citizen, vii. 16, § 12; viii. 4.
Athletics see Gymnastic Exer- cises.
Attalus (the favourite of Philip of Macedon), v. 10, § 16. Auditors, vi. 8, §§ 17, 21. Ausones, the, or Opici, in southern Italy, vii. 10, § 5. Authority, the supreme, varies with each form of government, iii. 6; 7; 13, § 5; iv. 8, §7; difficulties upon the subject, iii. 10-13; vi. 3; how to be divided among the young and the old, vii. 9, §§ 4- 10; 14, § 5. Autophradates, satrap of Lydia, story of his siege of Atarneus, ii. 7, § 17.
Avarice, encouraged at Sparta, ii. 9, §§ 13, 28, 37; at Carthage, ib. 11, § II; a frequent cause of crime, ib. 7, § 19; 9, § 28; of revolution, v. 2, § 5; 3, § 1.
Babylonia, ii. 6, § 6; Babylon, iii. 3,5; Babylonians, ib. 13, § 19. Bacchiadae, the, at Corinth, ii. 12, $8. Barbarians, the, do not distinguish the female and the slave, i. 2, § 4; generally under kingly rule, ib. §6 (cp. iii. 14, § 6); regarded by the Hellenes as natural slaves, i. 6, § 6; their nobility not re- cognised by the Hellenes, ib. § 7; prevalence of barter among them, ib. 8, § 5.
Barter: see Exchange.
Basilidae, the, an oligarchy at Ery-
Benevolence, identified by some
with justice, i. 6, § 4. Bequest, freedom of, at Sparta, ii. 9, § 14; should be forbidden by law, v. 8, § 20.
Birth, the Gods who preside over, vii. 16, § 14. Birth, good: see Nobility. Birth, illegitimate, not a disqualifi- cation for citizenship in extreme democracies, iii. 5, §7; vi. 4, § 16.
Blest, the Islands of the, vii. 15, § 4.
Body, the, ruled according to nature by the soul, i. 5, §§ 4-7; the body of the freeman not always dis-
tinguished by nature from that of the slave, ib. § 10; the beauty of the body more obvious than that of the soul, ib. § 11; the in- terest of, identical with that of the soul, ib. 6, § 10; the goods of, for the sake of the soul, vii. 1, §§ 8, 9; prior to the soul, ib. 15, § 10; must not be educated at the same time as the mind, viii. 3, § 13; 4, § 9. Body, habit of, to be required in the citizen, vii. 16, § 12; viii. 3, § 13. Boys, love of, prevalent among war- like races, ii. 9, § 8; encouraged in Crete, ib. 10, § 9. Bribery, common at Sparta, ii. 9, §§ 19, 26; 10, § 12. Byzantium, number of fishermen at, iv. 4, § 21; quarrel between old and new colonists there, v. 3, §12.
Camicus, death of Minos at, ii. 10, § 4. Cannibal tribes in Pontus, viii. 4, §3.
Carthage, the constitution of, ana- logous to those of Lacedaemon and Crete, ii. 11, §§1, 5; an aristo- cracy with oligarchical and demo- cratical features, ib. §§ 5-10; iv. 7, § 4; v. 12, § 14; never had a revolution, ii. 11, §§ 2, 15 ; v. 12, §14; never under a tyranny, ii. 11, § 2 (but cp. v. 12, § 12); the kings partly chosen for ability, ii. 11, §§ 4, 9; influence of wealth, ib. §§ 9-13; plurality of offices, ib. 13; the magistrates judges in criminal cases, ib. § 7; iii. I, §§ 10, 11; honours paid to mili- tary merit, vii. 2, § 10; the con- spiracy of Hanno, v. 7, § 4; cus- tom of sending out the poorer citizens to the colonies, ii. 11, § 15; vi. 5, § 9; treaties between the Carthaginians and the Tyr- rhenians, iii. 9, § 6.
Caste, an Egyptian institution, vii. 10, §§ 1-7.
Catana, received laws from Cha- rondas, ii. 12, § 6.
Catapults, invention of, vii. 11, § 9. Cavalry, importance of, in the an-
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