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Plato and Benjamin Jowett
ABDERA, Protagoras of, 10. 600 C.
Abortion, allowed in certain cases, 5. 461 C.
Absolute beauty, 5. 476, 479; 6. 494 A, 501 B, 507 B; —absolute good, 6. 507 B; 7. 540 A; —absolute justice, 5. 479; 6. 501 B; 7. 517 E; —absolute swiftness and slowness, 7. 529 D; —absolute temperance, 6. 501 B; —absolute unity, 7. 524 E, 525 E; —the absolute and the many, 6. 507.
Abstract ideas, origin of, 7. 523. Cp. Idea.
Achaeans, 3. 389 E, 390 E, 393 A, D, 394 A.
Achilles, the son of Peleus, third in descent from Zeus, 3. 391 C; his grief, ib. 388 A; his avarice, cruelty, and insolence, ib. 390 E, 391 A, B; his master Phoenix, ib. 390 E.
Active life, age for, 7. 539, 540.
Actors, cannot perform both tragic and comic parts, 3. 395 A.
Adeimantus, son of Ariston, a person in the dialogue, 1. 327 C; his genius, 2. 368 A; distinguished at the battle of Megara, ibid.; takes up the discourse, ib. 362 D, 368 E, 376 D; 4. 419 A; 6. 487 A; 8. 548 E; urges Socrates to speak in detail about the community of women and children, 5. 449.
Adrasteia, prayed to, 5. 451 A.
Adultery, 5. 461 A.
Aeschylus, quoted:— S. c. T. 451, 8. 550 C; ″ 592, 2. 361 B, E; ″ 593 ib. 362 A; Niobe, fr. 146, 3. 391 E; ″ fr. 151, 2. 380 A; Xanthians, fr. 159, ib. 381 D; Fab. incert. 266, ib. 383 B; ″ ″ 326, 8. 563 C.
Aesculapius, see Asclepius.
Affinity, degrees of, 5. 461.
Agamemnon, his dream, 2. 383 A; his gifts to Achilles, 3. 390 E; his anger against Chryses, ib. 392 E foll.; shown by Palamedes in the play to be a ridiculous general, 7. 522 D; his soul becomes an eagle, 10. 620 B.
Age, for active life, 7. 539, 540; —for marriage, 5. 460; —for philosophy, 7. 539.
Agent and patient have the same qualities, 4. 437.
Aglaion, father of Leontius, 4. 439 E.
Agriculture, tools required for, 2. 370 C.
Ajax, the son of Telamon, 10. 620 B; the reward of his bravery, 5. 468 D; his soul turns into a lion, 10. 620 B.
Alcinous, ‘tales of,’ 10. 614 B.
Allegory, cannot be understood by the young, 2. 378 E.
Ambition, disgraceful, 1. 347 B (cp. 7. 520 D); characteristic of the timocratic state and man, 8. 545, 548, 550 B, 553 E; easily passes into avarice, ib. 553 E; assigned 340 to the passionate element of the soul, 9. 581 A; —ambitious men, 5. 475 A; 6. 485 B.
Ameles, the river ( = Lethe), 10. 621 A, C.
Amusement, a means of education, 4. 425 A; 7. 537 A.
Anacharsis, the Scythian, his inventions, 10. 600 A.
Analogy of the arts applied to rulers, 1. 341; of the arts and justice, ib. 349; of men and animals, 2. 375; 5. 459.
Anapaestic rhythms, 3. 400 B.
Anarchy, begins in music, 4. 424 E [cp. Laws 3. 701 B]; in democracies, 8. 562 D.
Anger, stirred by injustice, 4. 440.
Animals, liberty enjoyed by, in a democracy, 8. 562 E, 563 C; choose their destiny in the next world, 10. 620 D [cp. Phaedr. 249 B].
Anticipations of pleasure and pain, 9. 584 D.
Aphroditè, bound by Hephaestus, 3. 390 C.
Apollo, song of, at the nuptials of Thetis, 2. 383 A; Apollo and Achilles, 3. 391 A; Chryses’ prayer to, ib. 394 A; lord of the lyre, ib. 399 E; father of Asclepius, ib. 408 C; the God of Delphi, 4. 427 A.
Appearance, power of, 2. 365 B, 366 C.
Appetite, good and bad, 5. 475 C.
Appetites, the, 8. 559; 9. 571 (cp. 4. 439).
Appetitive element of the soul, 4. 439 [cp. Tim. 70 E]; must be subordinate to reason and passion, 4. 442 A; 9. 571 D; may be described as the love of gain, 9. 581 A.
Arcadia, temple of Lycaean Zeus in, 8. 565 D.
Archilochus, quoted, 2. 365 C.