Cratylus
   Part
 1 Text | Trojans to be wiser than their wives?~HERMOGENES: To be sure.~


Critias
   Part
 2 Intro|     the ten kings and of their wives; there was an altar too,
 3 Intro|    nothing of the community of wives and children.~It is singular
 4 Text |     the ten kings and of their wives, and there were many other


The First Alcibiades
   Part
 5 Intro|        Then, when husbands and wives perform their own special
 6 Text |       Spartan kings? And their wives are under the guardianship
 7 Text | required in us as our enemies’ wives and mothers have of the


Gorgias
   Part
 8 Intro|      think that this is an old wives’ fable. But you, who are


Laws
   Book
 9 6    |       necessaries of life, and wives will be less likely to be
10 8    |      en masse, including their wives and their children, when
11 8    |      good friends to their own wives. And innumerable other benefits


Lysis
   Part
12 Text |      these are the sort of old wives’ tales which he sings and


Menexenus
   Part
13 Text |        care and nurture of our wives and children, they will


Phaedrus
   Part
14 Intro|      choice of friends than of wives—you may have more of them


The Republic
   Book
15 5    |        our guardians and their wives ought to have the same pursuits. ~
16 5    |    music and gymnastics to the wives of the guardians-to that
17 5    |      best. ~And will not their wives be the best women? ~Yes,
18 5    |    State? ~True. ~Then let the wives of our guardians strip,
19 5    |    following effect, "that the wives of our guardians are to
20 5    |        great utility of having wives and children in common;
21 5    |   attendants. ~You suppose the wives of our guardians to have
22 5    |        State are to have their wives and families in common.
23 5    |          Then the community of wives and children among our citizens
24 5    |      brave man is to have more wives than others has been already
25 8    |      that in the perfect State wives and children are to be in
26 8    |      spend large sums on their wives, or on any others whom they
27 8    |      for what do they or their wives care about the law? ~Yes,


The Seventh Letter
   Part
28 Text |   years, who have children and wives at home, and, as far as


Theaetetus
   Part
29 Intro|       But many live in the old wives’ fable of appearances; they
30 Text |    only a repetition of an old wives’ fable. Whereas, the truth


Timaeus
   Part
31 Text |       to be forgotten? for all wives and children were to be