ACHILLES, 76

Act of the city, what, 69

Actions, their original spring, i

Administration, 76;
whether to be shared by the whole community, 203

AEsumnetes, 96

AEthiopia, in what manner the power of the state is there regulated, 112

Alterations in government, whence they arise, 142;
what they are, 143

Ambractia, the government of, changed, 151

Andromadas Reginus, a lawgiver to the Thracian Calcidians, 65

Animals, their different provisions by nature, 14;
intended by nature for the benefit of man, 14;
what constitutes their different species, 113

Animals, tame, why better than wild, 8

Arbitrator and judge, their difference, 49

Architas his rattle, 248

Areopagus, senate of, 63

Argonauts refuse to take Hercules with them, 93

Aristocracies, causes of commotions in them, 157;
chief cause of their alteration, 158;
may degenerate into an oligarchy, 79

Aristocracy, what, 78;
treated of, 120;
its object, 121

Art, works of, which most excellent, 20

Artificers and slaves, their difference, 24

Assemblies, public, advantageous to a democracy, 134

Assembly, public, its proper business, 133

Athens, different dispositions of the citizens of, 149

Barter, its original, 15

Being, what the nature of every one is, 3

Beings, why some command, others obey, 2

Body by nature to be governed, 8;
requires our care before the soul, 232

Calchis, the government of, changed, 151

Calcidians, 65

Carthaginian government described, 60

Census in a free state should be as extensive as possible, 131;
how to be altered, 162

Charondas supposed to be the scholar of Zaleucus, 64

Child, how to be managed when first born, 235;
should be taught nothing till he is five years old, 235;
how then to be educated, 236

Children, the proper government of, 22;
what their proper virtues, 23;
what they are usually taught, 240

Cities, how governed at first, 3;
what, 3;
the work of nature, 3;
prior in contemplation to a family, or an individual, 4

Citizen, who is one? 66, 68;
should know both how to command and obey, 73

Citizens must have some things in common, 26;
should be exempted from servile labour, 51;
privileges different in different governments, 68;
if illegally made, whether illegal, 69;
who admitted to be, 75;
in the best states ought not to follow merchandise, 216

City, may be too much one, 27, 35;
what, 66, 82;
when it continues the same, 70;
for whose sake established, 76;
its end, 83;
of what parts made up, 113;
best composed of equals, 126

City of the best form, what its establishment ought to be, 149;
wherein its greatness consists, 149;
may be either too large or too small, 209;
what should be its situation, 211;
whether proper near the sea, 211;
ought to be divided by families into different sorts of men, 218

City and confederacy, their difference, 37;
wherein it should be one, 27

Command amongst equals should be in rotation, 101

Common meals not well established at Lacedaemon-well at Crete, 56;
the model from whence the Lacedaemonian was taken, 56;
inferior to it in some respects, 56

Community, its recommendations deceitful, 34;
into what people it may be divided, 194

Community of children, 29, 30;
inconveniences attending it, 31

Community of goods, its inconveniences, 28;
destructive of modesty and liberality, 34

Community of wives, its inconveniences, 27

Contempt a cause of sedition, 146

Courage of a man different from a woman's, 74

Courts, how many there ought to be, 140

Courts of justice should be few in a small state, 192

Cretan customs similar to the Lacedasmonian, 57;
assembly open to every citizen, 58

Cretans, their power, 58;
their public meals, how conducted 58

Crete, the government of, 57;
description of the island of 57

Customs at Carthage, Lacedaemon, and amongst the Scythians and
Iberians, concerning those who had killed an enemy, 204, 205

Dadalus's statues, 6.

Delphos, an account of a sedition there, 150

Demagogues, their influence in a democracy, 116.

Democracies, arose out of tyrannies, 100;
whence they arose, 142;
when changed into tyrannies, 153;
their different sorts, 184, 188;
general rules for their establishment, 185;
should not be made too perfect, 191

Democracy, what, 79, 80;
its definition, 112, 113;
different sorts of, 115, 118;
its object, 122;
how subverted in the Isle of Cos, 152

Democracy and aristocracy, how they may be blended together, 163

Democratical state, its foundation, 184

Despotic power absurd, 205

Dion, his noble resolution, 171

Dionysius, his taxes, 175

Dissolution of kingdoms and tyrannies, 169

Domestic employments of men and women different, 74

Domestic government, its object, 77

Domestic society the first, 3

Draco, 65

Dyrrachium, government of, 101

Economy and money-getting, difference, 17

Education necessary for the happiness of the city, 90;
of all things most necessary to preserve the state, 166;
what it ought to be, 166;
the objects of it, 228, 229;
should be taken care of by the magistrate, and correspond to
the nature of government, 238;
should be a common care, and regulated by laws, 238

Employment, one to be allotted to one person in an extensive government, 136

Employments in the state, how to be disposed of, 88-90;
whether all should be open to all, 216

Ephialtes abridges the power of the senate of Areopagus, 63

Ephori, at Sparta, their power too great, 54;
improperly chosen, 54;
flattered by their kings, 54;
the supreme judges, 55;
manner of life too indulgent, 55

Epidamnus, an account of a revolution there, 150

Equality, how twofold, 143;
in a democracy, how to be procured, 186

Euripides quoted, 72

Family government, of what it consists, 5

Father should not be too young, 232

Females and slaves, wherein they differ, 2;
why upon a level amongst barbarians, 3

Forfeitures, how to be applied, 192

Fortune improper pretension for power, 91

Freemen in general, what power they ought to have, 86

Free state treated of, 121;
how it arises out of a democracy and oligarchy, 122, 123

Friendship weakened by a community of children, 31

General, the office of, how to be disposed of, 98

Gods, why supposed subject to kingly government, 3

Good, relative to man, how divided, 201

Good and evil, the perception of, necessary to form a family and a city, 4

Good fortune something different from happiness, 202

Government should continue as much as possible in the same hands, 28;
in what manner it should be in rotation, 28;
what, 66;
which best, of a good man or good laws, 98;
good, to what it should owe its preservation, 124;
what the best, 225

Government of the master over the slave sometimes reciprocally useful, ii

Governments, how different from each other, 67;
whether more than one form should be established, 76;
should endeavour to prevent others from being too powerful—
instances of it, 93;
how compared to music, in;
in general, to what they owe their preservation, 160

Governments, political, regal, family, and servile, their difference
from each other, i

Governors and governed, whether their virtues are the same or different, 23;
whether they should be the same persons or different, 227

Grecians, their superiority over other people, 213

Guards of a king natives, 96,168;
of a tyrant foreigners, 96, 168

Gymnastic exercises, when to be performed, 223;
how far they should be made a part of education, 242, 243

Happiness, wherein it consists, 207

Happy life, where most likely to be found, 202

Harmony, whether all kinds of it are to be used in education, 251

Helots troublesome to the Lacedaemonians, 87

Herdsmen compose the second-best democracy, 189

Hippodamus, an accou

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