L.
Labour, division of, 2. [370], [374 A]; 3. [394 E], [395 B], [397 E]; 4. [423 E], [433 A], [435 A], [441 E], [443], [453 B] [cp. Laws 8. 846, 847].
[Lacedaemon], owes its good order to Lycurgus, 10. [599 E];
—constitution of, commonly extolled, 8. [544 D]; a timocracy, ib. [545 B]:
—Lacedaemonians first after the Cretans to strip in the gymnasia, 5. [452 D].
Lachesis, turns the spindle of Necessity together with Clotho and Atropos, 10. [617 C]; her speech, ib. [D]; apportions a genius to each soul, ib. [620 D].
Lamentation over the dead, to be checked, 3. [387].
Lands, partition of, proclaimed by the would-be tyrant, 8. [565 E], [566 E].
Language, pliability of, 9. [588 D] [cp. Soph. 277 B].
Laughter not to be allowed in the guardians, 3. [388] [cp. Laws 5. 732; 11. 935]; nor represented in the gods, ib. [389].
[Laws], may be given in error, 1. [339 E]; supposed to arise from a convention among mankind, 2. [359 A]; cause of, 3. [405]; on special subjects of little use, 4. [425], [426] [cp. Laws 7. 788]; treated with contempt in democracies, 8. [563 E]; bring help to all in the state, 9. [590].
Lawyers, increase when wealth abounds, 4. [405 A].
Learning, pleasure of, 6. [486 C] (cp. 9. [581], [586]).
Legislation, cannot reach the minutiae of life, 4. [425], [426]; requires the help of God, ib. [425 E]. Cp. [Laws].
Leontius, story of, 4. [439 E].
Lethe, 10. [621].
Letters, image of the large and small, 2. [368]; 3. [402 A].
Liberality, one of the virtues of the philosopher, 6. [485 E].
Liberty, characteristic of democracy, 8. [557 B], [561]–563.
Licence, begins in music, 4. [424 E] [cp. Laws 3. 701 B]; in democracies, 8. [562 D].
Licentiousness forbidden, 5. [458]. 360
Lie, a, hateful to the philosopher, 6. [490 C] (cp. supra [486 E]);
—the true lie and the lie in words, 2. [382];
—the royal lie (γενναίον ψεῦδος), 3. [414];
—rulers of the state may lie, 2. [382]; 3. [389 A], [414 C]; 5. [459 D];
—the Gods not to be represented as lying, 2. [382];
—lies of the poets, ib. [377] foll.; 3. [386], [408 B] (cp. 10. [597] foll.).
Life in the early state, 2. [372];
—loses its zest in old age, 1. [329 A]; full of evils, 2. [379 C]; intolerable without virtue, 4. [445]; shortness of, compared to eternity, 10. [608 D];
—the life of virtue toilsome, 2. [364 D];
—the just or the unjust, which is the more advantageous? ib. [347] foll.;
—three kinds of lives among men, 9. [581];
—life of women ought to resemble that of men, 5. [451] foll. [cp. Laws 7. 804 E];
—the necessities of life, 2. [369], [373 A];
—the prime of life, 5. [460 E].
Light, 6. [507 E]. Cp. [Sight], [Vision].
Light and heavy, 5. [479]; 7. [524].
Like to like, 4. [425 C].
Literature (λόγοι), included under ‘music’ in education, 2. [376 E].
Litigation, the love of, ignoble, 3. [405].
[Logic]; method of residues, 4. [427];
—accidents and essence distinguished, 5. [454];
—nature of opposition, 4. [436];
—categories, πρός τι, 4. [437]; quality and relation, [ibid.];
—fallacies, 6. [487]. For Plato’s method of definitions, see [Knowledge], [Temperance]; and cp. [Dialectic], [Metaphysic].
Lotophagi, 8. [560 C].
Lots, use of, 5. [460 A], [462 E]; election by, characteristic of democracy, 8. [557 A].
Love of the beautiful, 3. [402], [403] [cp. 1 Alcib. 131]; bodily love and true love, ib. [403]; love and the love of knowledge, 5. [474] foll.; is of the whole, not of the part, ib. C, [475 B]; 6. [485 B]; a tyrant, 9. [573 B], [574 E] (cp. 1. [329 B]):
—familiarities which may be allowed between the lover and the beloved, 3. [403 B]:
—lovers’ names, 5. [474]:
—lovers of wine, ib. [475 A]:
—lovers of beautiful sights and sounds, ib. [476 B], [479 A], [480].
Luxury in the state, 2. [372], [373]; a cause of disease, 3. [405 E]; would not give happiness to the citizens, 4. [420], [421]; makes men cowards, 9. [590 B].
Lycaean Zeus, temple of, 8. [565 D].
Lycurgus, the author of the greatness of Lacedaemon, 10. [599 E].
Lydia, kingdom of, obtained by Gyges, 2. [359 C]:
—Lydian harmonies, to be rejected, 3. [398 E] foll.
Lying, a privilege of the state, 3. [389 A], [414 C]; 5. [459 D].
Lyre, the instrument of Apollo, and allowed in the best state, 3. [399 D].
Lysanias, father of Cephalus, 1. [330 B].
Lysias, the brother of Polemarchus, 1. [328 B].