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Money, how it made its way into commerce, 16;
first weighed, 16;
afterwards stamped, 16;
its value dependent on agreement, 16;
how gained by exchange, 19

Money - getting considered at large, 17, 18

Monopolising gainful, 21; sometimes practised by cities, 21

Monopoly of iron in Sicily, a remarkable instance of the profit of it, 21

Music, how many species of it, in;
why a part of education, 240;
how far it should be taught, 242, 243;
professors of it considered as mean people, 244;
imitates the disposition of the mind, 246;
improves our manners, 246;
Lydian, softens the mind, 247;
pieces of, difficult in their execution, not to be taught to children, 249

Nature requires equality amongst equals, 101

Naval power should be regulated by the strength of the city, 212

Necessary parts of a city, what, 215

Nobles, the difference between them, no;
should take care of the poor, 193

Oath, an improper one in an oligarchy, 166

Officers of state, who they ought to be, 135;
how long to continue, 135;
who to choose them, 136

Offices, distinction between them, 67;
when subversive of the rights of the people, 130

Offspring, an instance of the likeness of, to the sire, 30

Oligarchies arise where the strength of the state consists in horse, no;
whence they arose, 142

Oligarchy admits not hired servants to be citizens, 75;
its object, 79;
what, 79, 81;
its definition, 112;
different sorts of, 117, 119;
its object, 122;
how it ought to be founded, 195

Onomacritus supposed to have drawn up laws, 64

Ostracism, why established, 93, 146;
its power, 93;
a weapon in the hand of sedition, 94

Painting, why it should be made a part of education, 241

Particulars, five, in which the rights of the people will be undermined, 130

Pausanias wanted to abolish the ephori, 143

People, how they should be made one, 35;
of Athens assume upon their victory over the Medes, 64;
what best to submit to a kingly government, 104;
to an aristocratic, 104;
to a free state, 104;
should be allowed the power of pardoning, not of condemning, 135

Periander's advice to Thrasy-bulus, 93, 169

Pericles introduces the paying of those who attended the court of justice, 64

Philolaus, a Theban legislator, quits his native country, 64

Phocea, an account of a dispute there, 150

Physician, his business, 86

Physicians, their mode of practice in Egypt, 98;
when ill consult others, 102

Pittacus, 65

Plato censured, 180

Poor excused from bearing arms and from gymnastic exercises in
an oligarchy, 131;
paid for attending the public assemblies in a democracy, 131

Power of the master, its object, 77

Power, supreme, where it ought to be lodged, 84;
why with the many, 85, 87

Powers of a state, different methods of delegating them to the citizens,
132-134

Preadvisers, court of, 135

Priesthood, to whom to be allotted, 217

Prisoners of war, whether they may be justly made slaves, 9

Private property not regulated the source of sedition, 42;
Phaleas would have it equal, 42;
how Phaleas would correct the irregularities of it, 43;
Plato would allow a certain difference in it, 43

Property, its nature, 12;
how it should be regulated, 32, 33;
the advantages of having it private, 34;
what quantity the public ought to have, 44;
ought not to be common, 219

Public assemblies, when subversive of the liberties of the people, 130

Public money, how to be divided, 193

Qualifications necessary for those who are to fill the first departments
in government, 164

Quality of a city, what meant by it, 129

Quantity, 129

Rest and peace the proper objects of the legislator, 230

Revolutions in a democracy, whence they arise, 152;
in an oligarchy, 156

Rich fined in an oligarchy for not bearing arms and attending the
gymnastic exercises, 131;
receive nothing for attending the public assemblies in a democracy, 131

Rights of a citizen, whether advantageous or not, 203

Seditions sometimes prevented by equality, 45;
their causes, 144-146;
how to be prevented, 163

Senate suits a democracy, 185

Shepherds compose the second-best democracy, 189

Slave, his nature and use, 6;
a chattel, 7;
by law, how, 9

Slavery not founded in nature but law, as some think, 6

Slaves, an inquiry into the virtues they are capable of, 23;
difficult to manage properly, 51;
their different sorts, 73

Society necessary to man, 77

Society, civil, the greatest blessing to man, 4;
different from a commercial intercourse, 82

Socrates, his mistakes on government, Book II. passim;
his division of the inhabitants, 38;
would have the women go to war, 38;
Aristotle's opinion of his discourses, 38;
his city would require a country of immeasurable extent, 39;
his comparison of the human species to different kinds of metals, 40;
his account of the different orders of men in a city imperfect, 3

Sojourners, their situation, 66

Solon's opinion of riches, 14;
law for restraining property, 43;
alters the Athenian government, 63

Soul by nature the governor over the body, and in what manner, 8;
of man how divided, 228, 231

Speech a proof that man was formed for society, 4

State, each, consists of a great number of parts, 109;
its disproportionate increase the cause of revolutions, 147;
firm, what, 159

Stealing, how to be prevented, 44

Submission to government, when it is slavery, 206

Supreme power should be ultimately vested in the laws, 101

Syracuse, the government of, languid, 151

Temperance in a man different from a woman, 74

Temples, how to be built, 223

Thales, his contrivance to get money, 21;
supposed to be the companion of Onomacritus, 64

Things necessary to be known for the management of domestic affairs, 19, 20;
necessary in the position of a city, 220

Tribunals, what different things they should have under their
jurisdictions, 137

Tyrannies, how established, 168;
how preserved, 174, 176;
of short duration, 180;
instances thereof, 180

Tyranny, what, 79;
not natural, 103;
whence it arises, 108;
treated of, 124;
contains all that is bad in all governments, 125

Tyrant, from whom usually chosen, 167;
his object, 168;
his guards, 168

Tyrants, many of them originally enjoyed only kingly power, 168;
the causes of their being conspired against, 169, 170;
always love the worst of men, 175

Uses of possessions, two, 15

Usury detested, 19

Venality to be guarded against, IDS

Village, what, 3

Virtue of a citizen has reference to the state, 71;
different in different governments, 71

Virtues different in different persons, 23, 24;
whether the same constitute a good man and a valuable citizen, 71

Walls necessary for a city, 222

War, what is gained by it in some degree a natural acquisition, 14;
not a final end, 205, 229

Wife, the proper government of, 22

Women, what their proper virtue, 23;
not to be indulged in improper liberties, 52;
had great influence at Lacedaemon, 52;
of great disservice to the Lacedemonians, 52;
why indulged by them, 53;
their proper time of marrying, 233;
how to be managed when with child, 234

Zaleucus, legislator of the Western Locrians, 64;
supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64

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