N.

Narration, styles of, 3. [392], [393], [396].

National qualities, 4. [435].

Natural gifts, 2. [370 A]; 5. [455]; 6. [491 E], [495 A]; 7. [519], [535].

Nature, recurrent cycles in, 8. [546 A] (cp. [Cycles]); divisions of, 9. [584] [cp. Phil. 23].

Necessities, the, of life, 2. [368], [373 A].

Necessity, the mother of the Fates, 10. [616], [617], [621 A].

Necessity, the, ‘which lovers know,’ 5. [458 E];
—the ‘necessity of Diomede,’ 6. [493 D].

Nemesis, 5. [451 A].

Niceratus, son of Nicias, 1. [327 C].

Nicias, 1. [327 C].

Nightingale, Thamyras changed into a, 10. [620].

Niobe, sufferings of, in tragic poetry, 2. [380 A].

νόμος, strain and law, 7. [532 E] [cp. Laws 7. 800 A].

Not-being, 5. [477].

Novelties in music and gymnastic to be discouraged, 4. [424].

Number, said to have been invented by Palamedes, 7. [522 D];
—the number of the State, 8. [546].