INDEX
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, Lacedse-mon, and amongst the Scythians and
Iberians, concerning those who had killed an enemy, 204, 205
Dadalus's statues, 6.
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