King's power, what it should be 100; when unequal, 143 Kingdom, what, 78 Kingdoms, their object, 167; how bestowed, 168; causes of their dissolution, 173; how preserved, 173 Kingly government in the heroic times, what, 96 Kingly power regulated by the laws at Sparta in peace, 95; absolute in war, 95 Kings formerly in Crete, 58; their power afterwards devolved to the kosmoi, 58; method of electing them at Carthage, 60 Knowledge of the master and slave different from each other, ii Kosmoi, the power of, 58; their number, 58; wherein inferior to the ephori, 58; allowed to resign their office before their time is elapsed, 59 Lacedamonian customs similar to the Cretan, 57 Lacedaemonian government much esteemed, 41; the faults of it, 53-56; calculated only for war, 56; how composed of a democracy and oligarchy, 124 Lacedaemonian revenue badly raised, 56, 57 Lacedaemonians, wherein they admit things to be common, 33 Land should be divided into two parts, 219 Law makes one man a slave, another free, 6; whether just or not, 9; at Thebes respecting tradesmen, 75; nothing should be done contrary to it, 160 Law and government, their difference, 107, 108 Laws, when advantageous to alter them, 49,50, 52; of every state will be like the state, 88; whom they should be calculated for, 92; decide better than men, 101; moral preferable to written, 102; must sometimes bend to ancient customs, 117; should be framed to the state, 107; the same suit not all governments, 108 Legislator ought to know not only what is best, but what is practical, n Legislators should fix a proper medium in property, 46 Liberty, wherein it partly consists, 184, 185 Life, happy, owing to a course of virtue, 125; how divided, 228 Locrians forbid men to sell their property, 43 Lycophron's account of law, 82 Lycurgus gave over reducing the women to obedience, 53; made it infamous for any one to sell his possessions, 53; some of his laws censured, 54; spent much time at Crete, 57; supposed to be the scholar of Thales, 64 Lysander wanted to abolish the kingly power in Sparta, 143 Magistrate, to whom that name is properly given, 136 Magistrates, when they make the state incline to an oligarchy, 61; when to an aristocracy, 61; at Athens, from whom to be chosen, 64; to determine those causes which the law cannot be applied to, 88; whether their power is to be the same, or different in different communities, 137; how they differ from each other, 138; in those who appoint them, 138; should be continued but a short time in democracies, 161; how to be chosen in a democracy, 185; different sorts and employments, 196 Making and using, their difference, 6 Malienses, their form of government, 131 Man proved to be a political animal, 4; has alone a perception of good and evil, 4; without law and justice the worst of beings, 5 Master, power of, whence it arises, as some think, 5 Matrimony, when to be engaged in, 232 Meals, common, established in Crete and Italy, 218; expense of, should be defrayed by the whole state, 219 Mechanic employments useful for citizens, 73 Mechanics, whether they should be allowed to be citizens, 74, 75; cannot acquire the practice of virtue, 75; admitted to be citizens in an oligarchy, 75 Medium of circumstances best, 126 Members of the community, their different pretences to the employments of the state, 90; what natural dispositions they ought to be of, 213 Men, some distinguished by nature for governors, others to be governed, 7; their different modes of living, 13; worthy three ways, 226 Merchandise, three different ways of carrying it on, 20 Middle rank of men make the best citizens, 127; most conducive to the preservation of the state, 128; should be particularly attended to by the legislators, 130 Military, how divided, 194 Mitylene, an account of a dispute there, 150 Monarch, absolute, 100 Monarchies, their nature, 95, 96; sometimes elective, 95; sometimes hereditary, 95; whence they sometimes arise, 146; causes of corruption in them, 167; how preserved, 173 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 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