The Republic of Plato

by Plato

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Tactics, use of arithmetic in, 7. [522 E], [525 B].

Tartarus ( = hell), 10. [616 A].

Taste, good, importance of, 3. [401], [402].

Taxes, heavy, imposed by the tyrant, 8. [567 A], [568 E].

Teiresias, alone has understanding among the dead, 3. [386 E].

Telamon, 10. [620 B].

[Temperance] (σωφροσύνη), in the state, 3. [389]; 4. [430] foll. [cp. Laws 3. 696]; temperance and love, 3. [403 A]; fostered in the soul by the simple kind of music, ib. [404 E], [410 A]; a harmony of the soul, 4. [430], [441 E], [442 D], [443] (cp. 9. [591 D], and Laws 2. 653 B); one of the philosopher’s virtues, 6. [485 E], [490 E], [491 B], [494 B] [cp. Phaedo 68].

Temple-robbing, 9. [574 D], [575 B].

Territory, devastation of Hellenic, not to be allowed, 5. [470];
—unlimited, not required by the good state, 4. [423] [cp. Laws 5. 737].

Thales, inventions of, 10. [600 A].

Thamyras, soul of, chooses the life of a nightingale, 10. [620 A].

Theages, the bridle of, 6. [496 B].

Themis, did not instigate the strife with the gods, 2. [379 E].

Themistocles, answer of, to the Seriphian, 1. [330 A].

Theology of Plato, 2. [379] foll. Cp. [God].

Thersites, puts on the form of a monkey, 10. [620 C].

Theseus, the tale of, and Peirithous not permitted, 3. [391 C].

Thetis, not to be slandered, 2. [381 D]; 376 her accusation of Apollo, ib. [383 A].

Thirst, 4. [437 E], [439]; an inanition (κένωσις) of the body, 9. [585 A].

Thracians, procession of, in honour of Bendis, 1. [327 A]; characterised by spirit or passion, 4. [435 E].

Thrasymachus, the Chalcedonian, a person in the dialogue, 1. [328 B]; described, ib. [336 B]; will be paid, ib. [337 D]; defines justice, ib. [338 C] foll.; his rudeness, ib. [343 A]; his views of government, [ibid.] (cp. 9. [590 D]); his encomium on injustice, 1. [343 A]; his manner of speech, ib. [345 B]; his paradox about justice and injustice, ib. [348 B] foll.; he blushes, ib. [350 D]; is pacified, and retires from the argument, ib. [354] (cp. 6. [498 C]); would have Socrates discuss the subject of women and children, 5. [450].

[Timocracy], 8. [545] foll.; origin of, ib. [547]:
—the timocratical man, described, 8. [549]; his origin, [ibid.]

Tinker, the prosperous, 6. [495], [496].

Tops, 4. [436].

Torch race, an equestrian, 1. [328 A].

Touch, 7. [523 E].

Traders, necessary in the state, 2. [371].

Traditions of ancient times, their truth not certainly known to us, 2. [382 C] (cp. 3. [414 C], and Tim. 40 D; Crit. 107; Pol. 271 A; Laws 4. 713 E; 6. 782 D).

Tragedy and comedy in the state, 3. [394] [cp. Laws 7. 817].

Tragic poets, the, eulogizers of tyranny, 8. [568 A]; imitators, 10. [597], [598].

Training, dangers of, 3. [404 A]; severity of, 6. [504 A] (cp. 7. [535 B]).

Transfer of children from one class to another, 3. [415]; 4. [423 D].

Transmigration of souls, 10. [617]. See [Soul].

Trochaic rhythms, 3. [400 B].

[Troy], 3. [393 E]; Helen never at, 9. [586 C]:
—Trojan War, 2. [380 A]: treatment of the wounded in, 3. [405 E], [408 A]; the army numbered by Palamedes, 7. [522 D].

Truth, is not lost by men of their own will, 3. [413 A]; the aim of the philosopher, 6. [484], [485], [486 E], [490], [500 C], [501 D]; 7. [521], [537 D]; 9. [581], [582 C] (cp. supra 5. [475 E]; 7. [520], [525]; and Phaedo 82; Phaedr. 249; Theaet. 173 E; Soph. 249 D, 254 A); akin to wisdom, 6. [485 D]; to proportion, ib. [486 E]; no partial measure of, sufficient, ib. [504]; love of, essential in this world and the next, 10. [618];
—truth and essence, 9. [585 D].

Tyranny, 1. [338 D]; = injustice on the grand scale, ib. [344] [cp. Gorg. 469]; the wretchedest form of government, 8. [544 C]; 9. [576] [cp. Pol. 302 E]; origin of, 8. [562], [564]:
—the tyrannical man, 9. [571] foll.; life of, ib. [573]; his treatment of his parents, ib. [574]; most miserable, ib. [576], [578]; has the soul of a slave, ib. [577].

[Tyrant], the, origin of, 8. [565]; happiness of, ib. [566] foll.; 9. [576] foll. [cp. Laws 2. 661 B]; his rise to power, 8. [566]; his taxes, ib. [567 A], [568 E]; his army, ib. [567 A], [569]; his purgation of the city, ib. [567 B]; misery of, 9. [579]; has no real pleasure, ib. [587]; how far distant from pleasure, [ibid.]:
—Tyrants and poets, 8. [568]; have no friends, [ibid.]; 9. [576] [cp. Gorg. [510 C]]; punishment of, in the world below, 10. [615] [cp. Gorg. 525].