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1501      I, VIII |        carnivorous or herbivorous or omnivorous: and their habits are determined
1502     II, IV   |             and that it is your only one-neither can exist in such a state
1503    VII, VII  |            for some of them are of a one-sided nature, and are intelligent
1504     II, XII  |             attempt to make out that Onomacritus was the first person who
1505      V, IV   |            Euthycrates the father of Onomarchus; this was the beginning
1506    VII, XVII |              the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty.
1507      V, I    |          Here then, so to speak, are opened the very springs and fountains
1508     II, VII  |             to consider how long the operation would take, and then reckon
1509    VII, X    |          towards Tyrrhenia dwelt the Opici, who are now, as of old,
1510   VIII, II   |              our training; all three opinions have been entertained. Again,
1511     IV, V    |      encroaching a little upon their opponents. The laws which existed
1512      V, X    |         contemptible, and offer many opportunities to their assailants. Anger,
1513      V, III  |              in a city. The greatest opposition is confessedly that of virtue
1514      V, VI   |            First, when the oligarchs oppress the people, for then anybody
1515      V, X    |            people against insult and oppression. Whereas a tyrant, as has
1516    III, XVI  |            at Epidamnus, and also at Opus, but in the latter city
1517      I, VI   |            impeach, as they would an orator who brought forward an unconstitutional
1518      V, V    |        generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion.
1519     IV, VI   |         their own hands, and the law ordains that the son shall succeed
1520    VII, IV   |            great multitude cannot be orderly: to introduce order into
1521      V, X    |           hanging Darius against his orders-he having been under the impression
1522      V, III  |           the highest offices, as at Oreum, where, upon the accession
1523    VII, VIII |            whole are not necessarily organic parts of it, so in a state
1524     II, VI   |             always exhibit grace and originality and thought; but perfection
1525      I, V    |             but not in them only; it originates in the constitution of the
1526    VII, XI   |         should be taken to make them ornamental, as well as useful for warlike
1527     II, VIII |           flowing hair and expensive ornaments; but these were worn on
1528     II, VIII |         public, of strangers, and of orphans. These are the most striking
1529    III, XVII |             not be right to kill, or ostracize, or exile such a person,
1530    III, XIII |              aim, and therefore they ostracized and banished from the city
1531      I, II   |          Homer denounces—the natural outcast is forthwith a lover of
1532     VI, VIII |      particular penalties due to the outgoing magistrates should be exacted
1533     IV, VI   |            day, when cities have far outgrown their original size, and
1534      V, II   |           and we have now to give an outline of each. We want to know (
1535     IV, IV   |              masters of the rich who outnumber them, no one would ever
1536     IV, XIII |      provided only that they are not outraged or deprived of their property,
1537      I, III  |               as I was saying at the outset, are all the same. Others
1538      I, XII  |            to create a difference of outward forms and names and titles
1539     IV, XI   |           shrink from rule, or to be over-ambitious for it; both of which are
1540    VII, IV   |            not to be. Besides, in an over-populous state foreigners and metics
1541    III, VI   |             existence do not greatly overbalance the good) mankind meet together
1542    III, XV   |           individual is liable to be overcome by anger or by some other
1543     VI, I    |      combinations make constitutions overlap one another, so that aristocracies
1544     IV, III  |         compare the severer and more overpowering modes to the oligarchical
1545     IV, XII  |           rich, but in attempting to overreach the people. There comes
1546     IV, IV   |            the decrees of the people override the laws, by referring all
1547      V, X    |         ambition of kings wanting to overstep the limits of their hereditary
1548      V, X    |             the way the citizens who overtop the rest. And so, as I have
1549      I, VIII |              this the vermiparous or oviparous animals are an instance;
1550     II, VIII |            decide that the defendant owes nothing, but that he does
1551     II, V    |           themselves the question of ownership will give a world of trouble.
1552      I, XI   |           sort of horses or sheep or oxen or any other animals are
1553     VI, IV   |            similar law attributed to Oxylus, which is to the effect
1554      V, IV   |          with the Athenians in which Paches took their city. A wealthy
1555   VIII, IV   |              avoiding severe diet or painful toil, lest the growth of
1556      V, X    |            reason, whereas hatred is painless.~In a word, all the causes
1557     II, XI   |              colonies. This is their panacea and the means by which they
1558      V, XI   |            or at any rate should not parade his vices to the world;
1559      I, XI   |           for example, by Chares the Parian, and Apollodorus the Lemnian,
1560      I, XIII |             virtues also; all should partake of them, but only in such
1561     II, VI   |            liberally; if the two are parted, liberally will combine
1562      V, VII  |             Lacedaemon the so-called Partheniae, who were the [illegitimate]
1563    VII, I    |           happy who has not in him a particle of courage or temperance
1564    VII, I    |        dispute the propriety of that partition of goods which separates
1565     II, V    |          having common property. The partnerships of fellow-travelers are
1566    VII, II   |            patients, nor a pilot the passengers in his ship. Yet most men
1567    III, XV   |           innate. Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway
1568     VI, IV   |              respects similar, are a pastoral people, who live by their
1569      I, VIII |          place to place in search of pasture, they are compelled to follow
1570     VI, IV   |           the ancient tyrannies were patiently endured by them, as they
1571    VII, II   |            to persuade or coerce his patients, nor a pilot the passengers
1572    III, I    |           they are obliged to have a patron, so that they do but imperfectly
1573    III, XIV  |              answer best to the true pattern; but there the royal power
1574   VIII, V    |            look, not at the works of Pauson, but at those of Polygnotus,
1575     II, X    |              in Lacedaemon every one pays so much per head, or, if
1576     VI, VIII |   characteristic of states which are peaceful and prosperous, and at the
1577     II, VIII |         given by the use of a voting pebble, but that every one should
1578      V, VIII |             class. In order to avoid peculation of the public money, the
1579     II, XII  |             existed, and there is no peculiarity in them which is worth mentioning,
1580     II, X    |              end is not far from the Peloponnese, the other almost reaches
1581      V, III  |          infantry at the time of the Peloponnesian War, the notables were reduced
1582    III, III  |           for you might surround all Peloponnesus with a wall. Like this,
1583     II, XII  |             that is to say, from the pentacosio-medimni, or from the class called
1584      V, X    |        friends attacked and slew the Penthilidae, as they were going about
1585      V, X    |           torn away from his wife by Penthilus, slew him. In the conspiracy
1586     II, VII  |           living either in luxury or penury. Clearly, then, the legislator
1587    III, XI   |             they meet together their perceptions are quite good enough, and
1588     IV, IV   |            mouths, and stomachs, and perceptive and locomotive organs—the
1589      I, II   |           benefactors. For man, when perfected, is the best of animals,
1590    VII, III  |           virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we
1591      V, X    |            the people; he afterwards perished himself.~There are two chief
1592    III, VI   |               the rule of the master perishes with him. On the other hand,
1593     II, VIII |            acquittal or condemnation perjures himself, if the indictment
1594     II, IV   |         intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between
1595     II, X    |               whereas the Helots are perpetually revolting. But when lately
1596   VIII, II   |             The existing practice is perplexing; no one knows on what principle
1597     II, IX   |            the neighboring Achaeans, Perrhaebians, and Magnesians. Besides,
1598    VII, II   |         physician is not expected to persuade or coerce his patients,
1599      V, IV   |           other cases the people are persuaded at first, and afterwards,
1600    VII, XIII |        nature, if rational principle persuades them that they ought. We
1601      V, IV   |               by a repetition of the persuasion, their goodwill and allegiance
1602    VII, X    |            that their interests will pervert their judgment. For the
1603    III, XVI  |              wild beast, and passion perverts the minds of rulers, even
1604      V, X    |           ended by becoming tyrants; Phalaris, on the other hand, and
1605     II, III  |             as was the case with the Pharsalian mare called Honest.~
1606      V, VI   |             we may see an example at Pharsalus, for there, although the
1607      V, X    |           was not with child by him. Philip, too, was attacked by Pausanias
1608   VIII, VII  |             among other things, that Philoxenus, having attempted to compose
1609      V, IV   |            about an heiress arose at Phocis between Mnaseas the father
1610     IV, XI   |              safely. Wisely then did Phocylides pray—"Many things are best
1611      V, IV   |            with the notables, killed Phoxus the tyrant, and then seized
1612     IV, XVI  |         return; such as the Court of Phreatto is said to be at Athens.
1613      V, VI   |         courting the Thirty, that of Phrynichus by courting the Four Hundred);
1614      V, I    |              partial. For instead of phylarchs or heads of tribes, a council
1615    VII, IX   |            so far as these i.e., the physical and the employments are
1616    VII, XVII |        clearly we should also banish pictures or speeches from the stage
1617      I, II   |              compared to an isolated piece at draughts.~Now, that man
1618      V, III  |           their army had been cut to pieces on the seventh day of the
1619      V, VI   |              of them and so had them pilloried in the agora. Many oligarchies
1620    VII, VII  |           words:~For surely thou art plagued on account of friends.~ ~
1621     II, VIII |              who invented the art of planning cities, and who also laid
1622    VII, XI   |          should therefore adopt both plans of building: it is possible
1623    VII, XI   |           irregularly, as husbandmen plant their vines in what are
1624      I, VI   |         other views have no force or plausibility against the view that the
1625    III, XII  |               When a number of flute players are equal in their art,
1626     II, XII  |              the people who were now playing the tyrant the old constitution
1627     VI, IV   |           they find their employment pleasanter than the cares of government
1628   VIII, V    |             that music is one of the pleasantest things, whether with or
1629      I, IV   |          shuttle would weave and the plectrum touch the lyre without a
1630     IV, XI   |            rich; and as they neither plot against others, nor are
1631      V, X    |              power; and also because plots against them are contrived
1632     IV, XI   |           others, nor are themselves plotted against, they pass through
1633      I, II   |           and wife and an ox for the plough,~ ~for the ox is the poor
1634    VII, III  |              assume that robbers and plunderers attain the chief good. But
1635    VII, XVII |          barbarians have a custom of plunging their children at birth
1636      V, VII  |              this is proved from the poem of Tyrtaeus, entitled "Good
1637      I, VIII |         although Solon in one of his poems says that~No bound to riches
1638      V, II   |      considering how dissensions and poltical revolutions arise, we must
1639      V, XI   |        Peisistratidae, and the great Polycratean monuments at Samos; all
1640   VIII, V    |              Pauson, but at those of Polygnotus, or any other painter or
1641     VI, VI   |       require the greatest care. The populousness of democracies generally
1642    VII, VI   |            of intercourse with their ports; and any harm which is likely
1643     II, III  |            about this he will not be positive; for it is impossible to
1644     IV, XI   |           they either lie beyond the possibilities of the greater number of
1645      V, VIII |        accomplished when there is no possibility of making money out of the
1646     VI, VIII |             fines from those who are posted up according to the registers;
1647    III, X    |           the offices of a state are posts of honor; and if one set
1648     VI, V    |              such help is like water poured into a leaky cask. Yet the
1649      V, XI   |     overthrow a tyranny, if they are powerless. Under these three heads
1650      I, XI   |            but to be engaged in them practically is illiberal and irksome.
1651    III, XI   |         kinds: there is the ordinary practitioner, and there is the physician
1652    III, XIV  |          with one voice shouting his praises."~These forms of government
1653    VII, V    |             every one would agree in praising the territory which is most
1654      V, VIII |               In oligarchies special precautions should be used against this
1655    VII, XV   |            care of the body ought to precede that of the soul, and the
1656      I, IV   |            an instrument which takes precedence of all other instruments.
1657    VII, XVI  |              and they are right. The precepts of physicians and natural
1658      V, I    |           does not accord with their preconceived ideas, stir up revolution.
1659     II, VII  |              if it is of a sort that predisposes men to avarice, or ambition,
1660    III, XIII |             time those who seemed to predominate too much through their wealth,
1661     IV, XI   |            transgresses the mean and predominates, draws the constitution
1662    VII, I    |           much may suffice by way of preface: for I could not avoid touching
1663   VIII, V    |              remarks will serve as a prelude to this or any other discussion
1664     IV, XVI  |            are of various kinds, (a) premeditated, (b) involuntary, (c) cases
1665     II, II   |         stated. I am speaking of the premise from which the argument
1666    VII, III  |            some one, accepting these premises, may still maintain that
1667     II, VII  |         their amount. Further, if he prescribe this moderate amount equally
1668     II, IV   |      greatest good of states and the preservative of them against revolutions;
1669     VI, V    |           which will contain all the preservatives of states. He must not think
1670    III, XIV  |          took the command in war and presided over the sacrifices, except
1671     VI, VIII |       Recorders or Sacred Recorders, Presidents, and the like.~Next to these
1672     VI, VIII |        measures, or at all events it presides, in a democracy, over the
1673      V, X    |            Elymeia, when he was hard pressed in a war against Sirrhas
1674     VI, V    |           when there are no revenues presses hardly upon the notables (
1675      I, VI   |           Theodectes says:~Who would presume to call me servant who am
1676    VII, IV   |          life. And therefore we must presuppose many purely imaginary conditions,
1677      I, X    |       business? viz., that wealth is presupposed by them. For as political
1678      V, XI   |            the first place he should pretend a care of the public revenues,
1679      V, IV   |      sacrificing, and then slew him, pretending that he had been robbing
1680     II, VIII |            of Hippodamus; for, under pretense of doing a public service,
1681    VII, XI   |           say that cities making any pretension to military virtue should
1682      V, II   |           less than their inferiors; pretensions which may and may not be
1683      V, X    |          Crataeas made this slight a pretext for attacking Archelaus,
1684     VI, IV   |              of government have been pretty fully considered. In order
1685      I, II   |            kingly form of government prevailed because they were of the
1686     IV, XIV  |     democracy, according to the most prevalent notion of it (I am speaking
1687     II, III  |              Nor is there any way of preventing brothers and children and
1688     II, VII  |           necessities of life, which preys upon them; nay, this is
1689      V, IV   |            they themselves, in their pride of superiority, are unwilling
1690    VII, XI   |             may see the cities which prided themselves on this fancy
1691    III, XIV  |        except those which required a priest. They also decided causes
1692    III, VI   |            is nevertheless exercised primarily with a view to the interest
1693      I, IX   |            this is not its proper or primary purpose, for a shoe is not
1694    VII, IX   |              are suited to different primes of life, for the one requires
1695     II, VIII |           their fathers had. But the primeval inhabitants, whether they
1696      V, X    |          officers of state and royal princes by whom they have been injured.
1697   VIII, IV   |        should not be exclusively, or principally, directed to this end. And
1698    III, XIII |          their former greatness.~The problem is a universal one, and
1699     IV, XV   |              the word, although such problems have a speculative interest.~
1700     VI, VIII |             and also all preliminary proceedings. This office again is sometimes
1701    VII, VIII |          There must be husbandmen to procure food, and artisans, and
1702    VII, IX   |           other class which is not a producer of virtue have no share
1703      V, V    |          confidence of the masses by professing their hatred of the wealthy,
1704   VIII, V    |          made music the business and profession of their lives will be better
1705    III, XI   |             physician; and so in all professions and arts. As, then, the
1706    III, XI   |             them quite as much as to professors of the art. Secondly, does
1707      V, XI   |          among his subjects; he must prohibit literary assemblies or other
1708     II, VII  |             made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing
1709     IV, XIV  |            they respect and obey the prohibitions of the law without altering
1710    III, XIII |     disabling and banishing the most prominent citizens. Great powers do
1711      V, X    |           lover, did not fulfill his promise of restoring him to his
1712    VII, X    |             the name of Italy to the promontory of Europe lying within the
1713      I, IX   |            to be the end, and to the promotion of the end they think all
1714     II, IX   |            for all warlike races are prone to the love either of men
1715    VII, VI   |              by the laws, which will pronounce and determine who may hold
1716   VIII, VII  |     connoisseurs of music offer many proofs, saying, among other things,
1717     II, XII  |         lived in the exercise of his prophetic art; that Thales was his
1718      V, I    |             two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness
1719     II, VIII |             else.~The first of these proposals to which objection may be
1720    VII, XIII |              all the means, but they propose to themselves a bad end;
1721     II, I    |      property in common, as Socrates proposes in the Republic of Plato.
1722    VII, I    |             child or a madman. These propositions are almost universally acknowledged
1723    VII, I    |              no one will dispute the propriety of that partition of goods
1724     II, III  |            word "mine" of one who is prospering or the reverse, however
1725     VI, VIII |        states which are peaceful and prosperous, and at the same time have
1726     II, XI   |          legislator does not care to protect the good from poverty, he
1727   VIII, V    |            of past toil, but also as providing recreation. And who can
1728     IV, I    |           fragmentary way, it is the province of a single art or science
1729      V, VII  |             guard for their military prowess, despising the magistrates
1730      V, IV   |            Athenians (of whom he was proxenus) to interfere. A similar
1731     VI, VIII |       sometimes kings, and sometimes prytanes.~These, then, are the necessary
1732      V, V    |             out of the office of the Prytanis, who had supreme authority
1733      V, XII  |      Periander forty and a half, and Psammetichus the son of Gorgus three.
1734    VII, XVII |             from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age
1735   VIII, III  |         making mistakes in their own purchases, or in order that they may
1736     II, XI   |          have been at the expense of purchasing their places will be in
1737   VIII, VII  |         lightened and delighted. The purgative melodies likewise give an
1738   VIII, VII  |              and all are in a manner purged and their souls lightened
1739    III, XI   |             provided out of a single purse. For each individual among
1740     II, III  |          becomes a source of logical puzzles. That all persons call the
1741      V, XI   |       prevented from conspiring. The Pyramids of Egypt afford an example
1742    VII, XII  |           rites which the law or the Pythian oracle has restricted to
1743      V, X    |             the wantonness of power. Pytho, too, and Heracleides of
1744     VI, V    |           poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase
1745    VII, XI   |              lines, but only certain quarters and regions; thus security
1746    VII, XI   |    established for the collection of rainwater, such as will not fail when
1747     IV, XI   |       extreme—either out of the most rampant democracy, or out of an
1748    VII, XI   |          seeking for safety behind a rampart when an enemy is similar
1749     VI, VIII |              officers, and should be ranked first; next in order follow
1750     IV, XI   |         others into rogues and petty rascals. And two sorts of offenses
1751     VI, VIII |             the introduction and the ratification of measures, or at all events
1752     II, X    |            ecclesia, but it can only ratify the decrees of the elders
1753      V, VIII |             times less than when the ratings recognized by the constitution
1754      V, I    |              the second, equality of ratios. For example, the excess
1755      V, VII  |              generals should only be re-elected after an interval of five
1756     VI, VI   |        oligarchy; until at length we reach the most cliquish and tyrannical
1757    VII, XVI  |             of life, and have nearly reached their term of three-score
1758     VI, VIII |         another’s wants; this is the readiest way to make a state self-sufficing
1759     II, VIII |             given by time, so that a readiness to change from old to new
1760     II, I    |           those who are most able to realize their ideal of life. We
1761    VII, IV   |              the universe. Beauty is realized in number and magnitude,
1762    VII, VI   |             thus situated manifestly reap the benefit of intercourse
1763    VII, XVI  |             takes place soon, as may reasonably be expected, will succeed
1764     II, IX   |      alliance with rebellious serfs, rebellions not being for their interest,
1765     II, IX   |          never form an alliance with rebellious serfs, rebellions not being
1766              | recent
1767     II, VIII |            nothing: how is the final reckoning to be taken? Again, no one
1768    VII, XVII |             to have the privilege of reclining at the public tables, should
1769     II, III  |           and mothers from sometimes recognizing one another; for children
1770    III, XIII |              has been stirred by the recollection of their former greatness.~
1771     VI, VIII |              courts of law, with the records of contracts, with execution
1772    VII, III  |           violates the law can never recover by any success, however
1773    III, XVII |            to which I will once more recur. But first of all, I must
1774      V, VIII |          state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time
1775      V, VII  |             war and wanted to have a redistribution of the land. Again, revolutions
1776     IV, IV   |         people override the laws, by referring all things to the popular
1777   VIII, V    |             promote cheerfulness and refined intellectual enjoyment,
1778    VII, I    |        matter of experience, but, if reflected upon, will easily appear
1779    VII, II   |           others by custom. Yet to a reflecting mind it must appear very
1780    III, V    |              of the community. These reflections carried a little further
1781     II, VII  |              of it. The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize
1782     IV, I    |         quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as
1783    III, XV   |            may be able to coerce the refractory? If not, how will he administer
1784   VIII, V    |             times to let them find a refreshment in music. It sometimes happens
1785    III, III  |     democracy. In such cases persons refuse to fulfill their contracts
1786      V, IV   |     inheritance; one of two brothers refused to give an account of their
1787      I, XIII |            us speak at another time. Regarding, then, our present inquiry
1788      V, XI   |              assault others they are regardless of themselves. As Heracleitus
1789    VII, XI   |            only certain quarters and regions; thus security and beauty
1790     IV, XIII |          states all citizen who have registered themselves are allowed to
1791     IV, XIII |             the fines they may avoid registering themselves, and then they
1792     IV, XIII |             try causes; but if after registration they do not attend either
1793    VII, XI   |       convenient, if the streets are regularly laid out after the modern
1794     IV, XV   |             the same with that which regulates contracts in the market.~
1795     II, VII  |             the opinion of some, the regulation of property is the chief
1796      V, X    |      destroyed from within, when the reigning family are divided among
1797      V, IV   |           War, seemed to tighten the reins of government. On the other
1798   VIII, VII  |      Socrates, and with justice, for rejecting the relaxed modes in education
1799   VIII, VII  |           and the more so because he rejects the flute; for the Phrygian
1800   VIII, V    |               and virtue consists in rejoicing and loving and hating aright,
1801     II, VI   |             says that they should be related as the warp and the woof,
1802    III, XVI  |              principal controversies relating to monarchy.~
1803      V, VIII |              in a night watch, never relax their attention. He should
1804   VIII, VI   |              instruction, but at the relief of the passions. And there
1805    III, XIV  |             but at a later date they relinquished several of these privileges,
1806     IV, I    |            he should be able to find remedies for the defects of existing
1807     VI, I    |             of democracy, or only to remodel an existing one. Founders
1808     II, V    |        companions, which can only be rendered when a man has private property.
1809      I, VI   |             between the two classes, rendering it expedient and right for
1810    III, XVII |          freemen by men whose virtue renders them capable of political
1811    VII, III  |              practicing it. For some renounce political power, and think
1812      V, IV   |          state, increase in power or renown. Thus at Athens the reputation
1813     VI, VIII |              to the preservation and repair of the temples of the Gods
1814     VI, VIII |       buildings, the maintaining and repairing of houses and roads, the
1815     II, XI   |              will be in the habit of repaying themselves; and it is absurd
1816     II, VII  |             the owners are unable to repel the invaders; nor yet so
1817      V, XII  |             his military ability. If report may be believed, he crowned
1818    III, XIII |             the action, but came and reported what he had seen to Thrasybulus,
1819      V, X    |              the confidence which he reposes in them breeds contempt,
1820     VI, IV   |              offices, except through representatives elected in turn out of the
1821    VII, XVII |         there be no image or picture representing unseemly actions, except
1822      I, XI   |        reputation for wisdom. He was reproached for his poverty, which was
1823    III, XIV  |              Pittacus tyrant, for he reproaches his fellow-citizens for "
1824    VII, XIV  |              the present day who are reputed to be best governed, and
1825    VII, X    |           the poor to contribute the requisite sum out of their private
1826   VIII, V    |             taste or touch, have any resemblance to moral qualities; in visible
1827     II, III  |        tendency to produce offspring resembling their parents, as was the
1828    VII, XI   |            deficiency of them, great reservoirs may be established for the
1829    III, XI   |               For the power does not reside in the dicast, or senator,
1830     II, X    |             they are allowed also to resign before their term of office
1831     II, IX   |           women under his laws, they resisted, and he gave up the attempt.
1832      V, X    |            he fail. He must have the resolution of Dion, who, when he made
1833      V, XI   |              sending to any place of resort or meeting; for the fear
1834      V, X    |         appointment of a king is the resource of the better classes against
1835    VII, XVI  |          this was the meaning of the response once given to the Troezenians—
1836     VI, IV   |            man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the
1837   VIII, VII  |            the soul to mystic frenzy—restored as though they had found
1838     VI, IV   |         allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent
1839    III, IV   |    loquacious if she imposed no more restraint on her conversation than
1840      I, V    |           subject. We will therefore restrict ourselves to the living
1841      V, VIII |             useful; for example, the restriction of the tenure of offices
1842   VIII, V    |             raised; these we may now resume and carry further; and our
1843    VII, XVII |              to that produced by the retention of the breath in violent
1844     II, II   |           that equals should in turn retire from office and should,
1845    III, XIII |            them: they would probably retort what, in the fable of Antisthenes,
1846     II, VI   |         enemies, whether invading or retreating.~There is another point:
1847    VII, XIII |                                 XIII~Returning to the constitution itself,
1848     II, X    |              Cretan constitution was revealed. Enough of the government
1849      V, VII  |               But the process may be reversed, and aristocracy may change
1850      V, XII  |           according to him it should revert to the first and best, and
1851     II, X    |           the Helots are perpetually revolting. But when lately foreign
1852      V, II   |              and chief cause of this revolutionary feeling has been already
1853      V, VII  |         passed into the hands of the revolutionists, who established a dynastic
1854      V, VI   |            with Chares endeavored to revolutionize the state. Sometimes a party
1855    III, XII  |              that such excellence is rewarded. Whereas the rival claims
1856      V, V    |             our day, when the art of rhetoric has made such progress,
1857    VII, XVII |       festivals the law permits even ribaldry, and whom the law also permits
1858    III, IV   |      children of kings instructed in riding and military exercises?
1859      V, XII  |              their property they are ripe for revolution; but, when
1860   VIII, VI   |            to impede the business of riper years, or to degrade the
1861     II, IX   |       Thessalian Penestae have often risen against their masters, and
1862      V, I    |             desire of equality which rises in rebellion.~Now equality
1863    III, XII  |             is rewarded. Whereas the rival claims of candidates for
1864    III, IV   |             be approached by another road, from a consideration of
1865     VI, VIII |              repairing of houses and roads, the prevention of disputes
1866     VI, II   |           they are paid even this is robbed of its power; for the people
1867    VII, III  |             a view if we assume that robbers and plunderers attain the
1868      V, IV   |          pretending that he had been robbing the temple. At Mytilene,
1869     VI, IV   |              trained of any for war, robust in body and able to camp
1870     IV, XI   |             violence, the other from roguery. Again, the middle class
1871     IV, XI   |           criminals, the others into rogues and petty rascals. And two
1872      V, III  |             had to be taken from the roll of citizens. Revolutions
1873     VI, IV   |             is inferior; there is no room for moral excellence in
1874   VIII, III  |              who creates in them the roper habit of body, and to the
1875     VI, VI   |             sickly constitutions and rotten ill-manned ships are ruined
1876    III, IV   |      functions, for one of them is a rower, another a pilot, and a
1877    III, XIV  |           This, then, is one form of royalty-a generalship for life: and
1878      V, VIII |              unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant
1879    III, III  |             a tyranny. This question runs up into another: on what
1880    VII, V    |          because men are inclined to rush into one of two extremes,
1881      V, IV   |           his offerings while he was sacrificing, and then slew him, pretending
1882   VIII, V    |          each. Some of them make men sad and grave, like the so-called
1883    VII, XIV  |            these military states are safe only while they are at war,
1884      V, I    |             to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of
1885    VII, IV   |         still be a ship, but bad for sailing. In like manner a state
1886      V, IV   |           other hand, the victory of Salamis, which was gained by the
1887     II, XI   |        features; their being without salary and not elected by lot,
1888   VIII, VI   |              heptagon," "triangle," "sambuca," the like—which are intended
1889      V, XI   |             Polycratean monuments at Samos; all these works were alike
1890      V, IX   |     neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the
1891     II, IX   |    respecting property; for the city sank under a single defeat; the
1892      V, X    |          contempt, as in the case of Sardanapalus, whom some one saw carding
1893     IV, IV   |            ingeniously, has not been satisfactorily treated in the Republic.
1894      I, II   |             most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most
1895    III, XIV  |              stretching out of their sceptre. In ancient times their
1896     II, II   |           ascribes to the state, the scheme, taken literally is impracticable,
1897      I, I    |             another, and whether any scientific result can be attained about
1898      V, X    |     delivered him to Euripides to be scourged; for the poet had been irritated
1899    VII, XVII |            check the loud crying and screaming of children, for these contribute
1900     VI, VIII |              called by various names—Scrutineers, Auditors, Accountants,
1901     VI, II   |           most important—such as the scrutiny of accounts, the constitution,
1902   VIII, V    |              or any other painter or sculptor who expresses moral ideas.
1903    VII, XIV  |              their subjects, such as Scylax affirms to be found among
1904    VII, X    |              Europe lying within the Scylletic and Lametic Gulfs, which
1905     IV, IV   |             selling; another are the seafaring class, whether engaged in
1906     IV, IV   |         triremes at Athens, merchant seamen at Aegina and Chios, ferrymen
1907      I, VIII |        wander from place to place in search of pasture, they are compelled
1908    VII, XVII |            not even if he were quite second-rate, to enter before himself,
1909      V, X    |         notables and destroying them secretly or openly, or of exiling
1910     VI, IV   |          principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest
1911     II, X    |           has many ingenious ways of securing moderation in eating, which
1912     II, VII  |         often found to be a cause of sedition and revolution. And the
1913      V, IV   |            and he to revenge himself seduced the other’s wife. They then
1914     IV, XI   |             that the middle class is seldom numerous in them, and whichever
1915      V, IX   |           For there may be a want of self-discipline in states as well as in
1916     IV, XIV  |            power of deliberation are self-elected, and son succeeds father,
1917     II, II   |              self-sufficing. If then self-sufficiency is to be desired, the lesser
1918     II, V    |              given in vain, although selfishness is rightly censured; this,
1919      I, XI   |              to buy, he was the only seller, and without much increasing
1920     VI, VIII |             inevitably be buyers and sellers who will supply one another’
1921    III, XI   |             reside in the dicast, or senator, or ecclesiast, but in the
1922     VI, V    |              is from time to time to send some of them into their
1923     II, XI   |              it and not appointed by senority—this is far better. Such
1924    VII, XVI  |             the question of life and sensation.~And now, having determined
1925     IV, IV   |         business of political common sense-these are more essential to the
1926     VI, V    |             worthy of a generous and sensible nobility to divide the poor
1927     II, IX   |             the secret indulgence of sensual pleasures.~Again, the council
1928      V, XI   |          dawn and pass whole days in sensuality, but want other men to see
1929      V, VIII |            on their guard, and, like sentinels in a night watch, never
1930      I, IV   |             an instrument of action, separable from the possessor.~
1931    VII, I    |             partition of goods which separates them into three classes,
1932     IV, VIII |            which I place last in the series because I am inquiring into
1933     IV, XIII |            in those who are actually serving, but also in those who have
1934     VI, IV   |              people are compelled to settle in the country, and even
1935     IV, IV   |           who were also the earliest settlers, were held in chief honor,
1936      V, X    |            was worn out. Thus again, Seuthes the Thracian conspired against
1937    VII, XVII |             poets who divide ages by sevens are in the main right: but
1938      V, XII  |         thirty years he reigned only seventeen; and his sons reigned eighteen-altogether
1939    VII, XVI  |            limited within the age of seventy years in the case of a man,
1940      V, XII  |             at Corinth, which lasted seventy-three years and six months: Cypselus
1941      V, VIII |              should be punished more severely than if he had wronged one
1942     IV, III  |       government: we may compare the severer and more overpowering modes
1943     II, XII  |             except the greatness and severity of the punishments.~Pittacus,
1944      V, XI   |          towards the young of either sex who are his subjects, and
1945      I, IX   |          that coined money is a mere sham, a thing not natural, but
1946     II, IX   |       legislator rightly holds up to shame the sale or purchase of
1947      V, IX   |            snub may still be of good shape and agreeable to the eye;
1948     IV, VI   |       sharing in the government. The sharers in the government being
1949      V, XI   |           raised, that they may look sharply after one another. If after
1950      I, XI   |               what sort of horses or sheep or oxen or any other animals
1951    VII, XI   |    healthfulness are those which are sheltered from the north wind, for
1952     IV, I    |        equally holds in medicine and shipbuilding, and the making of clothes,
1953      V, XII  |           forms of government are so short-lived as oligarchy and tyranny.
1954     II, VII  |       established; and that then the shortest way of compassing the desired
1955      V, V    |              Heraclea was overthrown shortly after the foundation of
1956    III, XIV  |       ill-fated city, with one voice shouting his praises."~These forms
1957     II, V    |          traces of such a principle, showing that it is not impracticable,
1958     VI, VIII |         public worship, guardians of shrines, treasurers of the sacred
1959     IV, XI   |             class is least likely to shrink from rule, or to be over-ambitious
1960      I, VIII |           way that the art of making shuttles is instrumental to the art
1961     II, III  |        according to Socrates, is the sign of perfect unity in a state.
1962    III, IV   |   handicraftsmen, who, as their name signifies, live by the labor of their
1963   VIII, V    |              are not imitations, but signs, of moral habits, indications
1964      I, XIII |              the poet says of women,~Silence is a woman’s glory,~ ~but
1965      V, VI   |             happened at Larissa when Simos the Aleuad had the government,
1966      I, IX   |            been inferred, out of the simpler. When the inhabitants of
1967    III, XIII | chorus-master will allow any one who sings louder or better than all
1968    VII, X    |               in the district called Siritis, the Chones, who are likewise
1969      V, X    |             pressed in a war against Sirrhas and Arrhabaeus, and the
1970     IV, XVI  |           important civil cases; the sixth tries cases of homicide,
1971    VII, VIII |             commonly called worship; sixthly, and most necessary of all
1972     II, VI   |           may have been of different sizes: but in the Laws the opposite
1973    III, XIV  |           not say—"When I find a man skulking apart from the battle, nothing
1974     II, IV   |            involuntary, quarrels and slanders, all which are most unholy
1975      V, V    |              and Theagenes at Megara slaughtered the cattle of the wealthy,
1976      V, III  |            may be facilitated by the slightness of the change; I mean that
1977      V, III  |           great change may sometimes slip into the constitution through
1978    III, XII  |             the arts. For if some be slow, and others swift, that
1979     IV, XIV  |              the tribes and the very smallest divisions of the state,
1980      V, X    |          with clubs. At a later date Smerdis, who had been beaten and
1981      V, XI   |              their hard-won earnings snatched from them and lavished on
1982      V, IX   |            straightness to a hook or snub may still be of good shape
1983    VII, IV   |              multitude of slaves and sojourners and foreigners; but we should
1984      I, VI   |          have been taken captive and sold. Wherefore Hellenes do not
1985    VII, XI   |              wall will be the truest soldierly precaution, more especially
1986      V, XII  |        number of this figure becomes solid); he conceives that nature
1987      I, VIII |           are gregarious, others are solitary; they live in the way which
1988    VII, IV   |      community: it may indeed, if it somewhat exceed this number, be a
1989   VIII, V    |              songs; as Musaeus says:~Song to mortals of all things
1990    III, IX   |          another of justice," as the sophist Lycophron says, and has
1991     II, I    |             we are anxious to make a sophistical display at any cost; we
1992     II, VIII |        proposal which has a specious sound, but cannot safely be enacted
1993    III, III  |            scale containing the same sounds is said to be different,
1994   VIII, III  |             springs from the noblest sources. It is clear then that there
1995      V, XI   |              art of the tyrant is to sow quarrels among the citizens;
1996      V, XI   |              may be referred: (1) he sows distrust among his subjects; (
1997    VII, IV   |               a ship which is only a span long will not be a ship
1998      V, III  |             the rest of the body two spans; and, should the abnormal
1999    III, XIV  |          life and death, except in a specified case, as for instance, in
2000     VI, VIII |       contests, and of other similar spectacles. Some of these are clearly
2001   VIII, VI   |            bad. The vulgarity of the spectator tends to lower the character