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Plato and Benjamin Jowett
Paeanian, Charmantides the, 1. 328 B.
Pain, cessation of, causes pleasure, 9. 583 D [cp. Phaedo 60 A; Phil. 51 A]; a motion of the soul, ib. E.
Painters, 10. 596, 597; are imitators, ib. 597 [cp. Soph. 234]; painters and poets, ib. 597, 603, 605: —‘the painter of constitutions,’ 6. 501.
Painting, in light and shade, 10. 602 C.
Palamedes and Agamemnon in the play, 7. 522 D.
Pamphylia, Ardiaeus a tyrant of some city in, 10. 615 C.
Pandarus, author of the violation of the oaths, 2. 379 E; wounded Menelaus, 3. 408 A.
Panharmonic scale, the, 3. 399.
Panopeus, father of Epeus, 10. 620 B.
Pantomimic representations, not to be allowed, 3. 397.
Paradox about justice and injustice, the, 1. 348.
Parental anxieties, 5. 465 C [cp. Euthyd. 306 E].
Parents, the oldest and most indispensable of friends, 8. 574 C; parents and children in the state, 5. 461.
Part and whole, in regard to the happiness of the state, 4. 420 D; 5. 466; 7. 519 E; in love, 5. 474 C, 475 B; 6. 485 B.
Passionate element of the soul, 4. 440; 6. 504 A; 8. 548 D; 9. 571 E, 580 A. See Spirit.
Passions, the, tyranny of, 1. 329 C; fostered by poetry, 10. 606.
Patient and agent equally qualified, 4. 436 [cp. Gorg. 476; Phil. 27 A].
Patroclus, cruel vengeance taken by Achilles for, 3. 391 B; his treatment of the wounded Eurypylus, ib. 406 A. 365
Pattern, the heavenly, 6. 500 E; 7. 540 A; 9. 592 [cp. Laws 5. 739 D].
Paupers. See Poor.
Payment, art of, 1. 346.
Peirithous, son of Zeus, the tale of, not to be repeated, 3. 391 D.
Peleus, the gentlest of men, 3. 391 C.
Perception, in the eye and in the soul, 6. 508 foll.
Perdiccas [King of Macedonia], 1. 336 A.
Perfect state, difficulty of, 5. 472; 6. 502 E [cp. Laws 4. 711]; possible, 5. 471, 473; 6. 499; 7. 540 [cp. Laws 5. 739]; manner of its decline, 8. 546 [cp. Crit. 120].
Periander, the tyrant, 1. 336 A.
Personalities, avoided by the philosopher, 6. 500 B [cp. Theaet. 174 C].
Personification; the argument compared to a search or chase, 2. 368 C; 4. 427 C, 432; to a stormy sea, 4. 441 B; to an ocean, 5. 453 D; to a game of draughts, 6. 487 B; to a journey, 7. 532 E; to a charm, 10. 608 A; —‘has travelled a long way,’ 6. 484 A; —‘veils her face,’ ib. 503 A; —‘following in the footsteps of the argument,’ 2. 365 C; —‘whither the argument may blow, thither we go,’ 3. 394 D; —‘a swarm of words,’ 5. 450 B; —the three waves, ib. 457 C, 472 A, 473 C.
Persuasion [or Faith], one of the faculties of the soul, 6. 511 D; 7. 533 E.
Philosopher, the, has the quality of gentleness, 2. 375, 376; 3. 410; 6. 486 C; ‘the spectator of all time and all existence,’ 6. 486 A [cp. Theaet. 173 E]; should have a good memory, ib. D, 490 E, 494 A; 7. 535; has his mind fixed upon true being, 6. 484, 485, 486 E, 490, 500 C, 501 D; 7. 521, 537 D; 9. 581, 582 C (cp. 5. 475 E; 7. 520 B, 525, and Phaedo 82; Phaedr. 249; Theaet. 173 E; Soph. 249 D, 254); his qualifications and excellences, 6. 485 foll., 490 D, 491 B, 494 B [cp. Phaedo 68]; corruption of the philosopher, ib. 491 foll.; is apt to retire from the world, ib. 496 [cp. Theaet. 173]; does not delight in personal conversation, ib. 500 B [cp. Theaet. 174 C]; must be an arithmetician, 7. 525 B; pleasures of the philosopher, 9. 581 E: —Philosophers are to be kings, 5. 473 (cp. 6. 487 E, 498 foll., 501 E foll.; 7. 540; 8. 543; 9. 592); are lovers of all knowledge, 5. 475; 6. 486 A, 490; true and false, 5. 475 foll.; 6. 484, 491, 494, 496 A, 500; 7. 535; to be guardians, 2. 375 (see Guardians); why they are useless, 6. 487 foll.; few in number, ib. E, 496, 499 B, 503 B [cp. Phaedo 69 C]; will frame the state after the heavenly pattern, ib. 501; 7. 540 A; 9. 592; education of, 6. 503; philosophers and poets, 10. 607 [cp. Laws 12. 967].
Philosophic nature, the, rarity of, 6. 491; causes of the ruin of, ibid.
Philosophy, every headache ascribed to, 3. 407 C; = love of real knowledge, 6. 485 (cp. supra 5. 475 E); the corruption of, 6. 491; philosophy and the world, ib. 494; the desolation of, ib. 495; philosophy and the arts, ib. E, 496 C (cp. supra 5. 475 D, 476 A); true and false philosophy, 6. 496 E, 498 E; philosophy and governments, ib. 497; time set apart for, ib. 498; 7. 539; commonly neglected in after life, 6. 498; prejudice against, ib. 500, 501; why it is useless, 7. 517, 535, 539; the guardian and saviour of virtue, 8. 549 B; philosophy and poetry, 10. 607; aids a man to make a wise choice in the next world, ib. 618. 366
Phocylides, his saying, ‘that as soon as a man has a livelihood he should practise virtue,’ 3. 407 B.
Phoenician tale, the, 3. 414 C foll.
Phoenicians, their love of money, 4. 436 A.
Phoenix, tutor of Achilles, 3. 390 E.
Phrygian harmony, the, 3. 399.
Physician, the, not a mere money maker, 1. 341 C, 342 D; the good physician, 3. 408; physicians find employment when luxury increases, 2. 373 C; 3. 405 A. Cp. Medicine.
Pigs, sacrificed at the Mysteries, 2. 378 A.