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Plato and Benjamin Jowett
Pilot, the, and the just man, 1. 332 (cp. 341); the true pilot, 6. 488 E.
Pindar, on the hope of the righteous, 1. 331 A; on Asclepius, 3. 408 B; —quoted, 2. 365 B.
Pipe, the, (σύριγξ), one of the musical instruments permitted to be used, 3. 399 D.
Piraeus, 1. 327 A; 4. 439 E; Socrates seldom goes there, 1. 328 C.
Pittacus of Mitylene, a sage, 1. 335 E.
Plays of children should be made a means of instruction, 4. 425 A; 7. 537 A [cp. Laws 1. 643 B].
Pleasure, not akin to virtue, 3. 402, 403; pleasure and love, ibid.; defined as knowledge or good, 6. 505 B, 509 B; the highest, 9. 583; caused by the cessation of pain, ib.D [cp. Phaedo 60 A; Phil. 51]; a motion of the soul, ib. E; —real pleasure unknown to the tyrant, ib. 587; —pleasure of learning, 6. 486 C (cp. 9. 581, 586, and Laws 2. 667); —sensual pleasure, 7. 519; 9. 586; a solvent of the soul, 4. 430 A [cp. Laws 1. 633 E]; not desired by the philosopher, 6. 485 E: —Pleasures, division of, into necessary and unnecessary, 8. 558, 559, 561 A; 9. 572, 581 E; honourable and dishonourable, 8. 561 C; three classes of, 9. 581; criterion of, ib. 582; classification of, ib. 583; —pleasures of smell, ib. 584 B; —pleasures of the many, 585; of the passionate, ib. 586; of the philosopher, ib. 586, 587.
Pluto, 8. 554 B.
Poetry, styles of, 3. 392–394, 398; in the state, ib. 392–394, 398; 8. 568 B; 10. 595 foll., 605 A, 607 A [cp. Laws 7. 817]; effect of, 10. 605; feeds the passions, ib. 606; poetry and philosophy, ib. 607 [cp. Laws 12. 967]: —‘colours’ of poetry, ib. 601 A.