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Objects and ideas to be distinguished, 5. [476]; 6. [507]. 364
Odysseus and Alcinous, 10. [614 B]; chooses the lot of a private man, ib. [620 D].
[Odyssey], 3. [393 A]. Cp. [Iliad].
Office, not desired by the good ruler, 7. [520 A].
Old age, complaints against, 1. [329]; Sophocles quoted in regard to, [ibid.]; wealth a comforter of age, [ibid.;]
—old men think more of the future life, ib. [330]; not students, 7. [536] [cp. Laches 189];
—the older to bear rule in the state, 3. [412] [cp. Laws 3. 690 A; 4. 714 E]; to be over the younger, 5. [465 A] [cp. Laws 4. 721 D; 9. 879 C; 11. 917 A].
Oligarchy, a form of government which has many evils, 8. [544], [551], [552]; origin of, ib. [550]; nature of, [ibid.]; always divided against itself, ib. [551 D], [554 E]
—the oligarchical man, 8. [553]; a miser, ib. [555]; his place in regard to pleasure, 9. [587].
Olympian Zeus, the Saviour, 9. [583 B].
Olympic victors, happiness and glory of, 5. [465 D], [466 A] (cp. 10. [618 A]).
One, the, study of, draws the mind to the contemplation of true being, 7. [525 A].
Opinion and knowledge, 5. [476]–478; 6. [508 D], [510 A]; 7. [534]; the lovers of opinion, 5. [479], [480]; a blind guide, 6. [506]; objects of opinion and intellect classified, 7. [534] (cp. 5. [476]);
—true opinion and courage, 4. [429], [430] (cp. [Courage]).
Opposites, qualification of, 4. [436]; in nature, 5. [454], [475 E]. Cp. [Contradiction].
Oppositions in the soul, 10. [603 D].
Orpheus, child of the Moon and the Muses, 2. [364 E]; soul of, chooses a swan’s life, 10. [620 A];
—quoted, 2. [364 E].