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Plato and Benjamin Jowett
Sacrifices, private, 1. 328 B, 331 D; —in atonement, 2. 364; —human, in Arcadia, 8. 565 D.
Sailors, necessary in the state, 2. 371 B.
Sarpedon, 3. 388 C.
Sauces, not mentioned in Homer, 3. 404 D.
Scamander, beleaguered by Achilles, 3. 391 B.
Scepticism, danger of, 7. 538, 539.
Science (ἐπιστήμη), a division of the intellectual world, 7. 533 E (cp. 6. 511); —the sciences distinguished by their object, 4. 438 [cp. Charm. 171]; not to be studied with a view to utility only, 7. 527 A, 529, 530; their unity, ib. 531; use hypotheses, ib. 533; correlation of, ib. 537.
Sculpture, must only express the image of the good, 3. 401 B; painting of, 4. 420 D [cp. Laws 2. 668 E].
Scylla, 9. 588 C.
Scythian, Anacharsis the, 10. 600 A; —Scythians, the, characterized by spirit or passion, 4. 435 E.
Self-indulgence in men and states, 4. 425 E, 426; —self-interest the natural guide of men, 2. 359 B; —self-made men bad company, 1. 330 C; —self-mastery, 4. 430, 431. 370
Sense, objects of, twofold, 7. 523; knowledge given by, imperfect, ibid.; 10. 602; sense and intellect, 7. 524: —Senses, the, classed among faculties, 5. 477 C.
Seriphian, story of Themistocles and the, 1. 329 E.
Servants, old family, 8. 549 E.
Sex in the world below, 10. 618 B; —sexes to follow the same training, 5. 451, 466 [cp. Laws 7. 805]; equality of, advantageous, ib. 456, 457; relation between, ib. 458 foll. [cp. Laws 8. 835 E]; freedom of intercourse between, in a democracy, 8. 563 B. Cp. Women.
Sexual desires, 5. 458 E [cp. Laws 6. 783 A; 8. 835 E].
Shadows, 6. 510 A; —knowledge of shadows (εἰκασία), one of the faculties of the soul, 6. 511 E; 7. 533 E.
Shepherd, the analogy of, with the ruler, 1. 343, 345 [cp. Pol. 275].
Shopkeepers, necessary in the state, 2. 371 [cp. Laws 11. 918].
Short sight, 2. 368 D.
Sicily, ‘can tell of Charondas,’ 10. 599 E; —Sicilian cookery, 3. 404 D.
Sight, placed in the class of faculties, 5. 477 C; requires in addition to vision and colour, a third element, light, 6. 507; the most wonderful of the senses, ibid.; compared to mind, ib.508; 7. 532 A; illusions of, 7. 523; 10. 602, 603 D: —the world of sight, 7. 517.
Sign, the, of Socrates, 6. 496 C.
Silver, mingled by the God in the auxiliaries, 3. 415 A (cp. 416 E; 8. 547 A); —[and gold] not allowed to the guardians, 3. 416 E; 4. 419, 422 D; 5. 464 D (cp. 8. 543).
Simonides, his definition of justice discussed, 1. 331 D–335 E; a sage, ib. 335 E.
Simplicity, the first principle of education, 3. 397 foll., 400 E, 404; the two kinds of, ib. 400 E; of the good man, ib. 409 A; in diet, 8. 559 C (cp. 3. 404 D).
Sin, punishment of, 2. 363; 10. 614 foll. Cp. Hades, World below.
Sirens, harmony of the, 10. 617 B.
Skilled person, the, cannot err (Thrasymachus), 1. 340 D.
Slavery, more to be feared than death, 3. 387 A; of Hellenes condemned, 5. 469 B.
Slaves, the uneducated man harsh towards, 8. 549 A; enjoy great freedom in a democracy, ib. 563 B; always inclined to rise against their masters, 9. 578 [cp. Laws 6. 776, 777].
Smallness and greatness, 4. 438 B; 5. 479 B; 7. 523, 524; 9. 575 C; 10. 602 D, 605 C.
Smell, pleasures of, 9. 584 B.
Snake-charming, 1. 358 B.
Socrates, goes down to the Peiraeus to see the feast of Bendis, 1. 327; detained by Polemarchus and Glaucon, ibid.; converses with Cephalus, ib. 328–332; trembles before Thrasymachus, ib. 336 D; his irony, ib. 337 A; his poverty, ib. D; a sharper in argument, ib. 340 D; ignorant of what justice is, ib. 354 C; his powers of fascination, 2. 358 A; requested by Glaucon and Adeimantus to praise justice per se, ib. 367 B; cannot refuse to help justice, ib. 368 C; 4. 427 D; his oath ‘by the dog,’ 3. 399 E; 8. 567 E; 9. 592 A; hoped to have evaded discussing the subject of women and children, 5. 449, 472, 473 (cp. 6. 502 E); his love of truth, 5. 451 A; 6. 504; his power in argument, 6. 487 B; not unaccustomed to speak in parables, ib. E; his sign, ib. 496 C; his earnestness in behalf of philosophy, 7. 536 B; his reverence for Homer, 10. 595 C, 607 (cp. 3. 391 A). 371
Soldiers, must form a separate class, 2. 374; the diet suited for, 3. 404 D (cp. Guardians); —women to be soldiers, 5. 452, 466, 471 E; —punishment of soldiers for cowardice, ib. 468 A. Cp. Warrior.
Solon, famous at Athens, 10. 599 E; —quoted, 7. 536 D.
Son, the supposititious, parable of, 7. 537 E.
Song, parts of, 3. 398 D.
Sophists, the, their view of justice, 1. 338 foll.; verbal quibbles of, ib. 340; the public the great Sophist, 6. 492; the Sophists compared to feeders of a beast, ib. 493.