W.
War, causes of, 2. [373]; 4. [422] foll.; 8. [547 A]; an art, 2. [374 A] (cp. 4. [422], and Laws 11. 921 E); men, women, and children to go to, 5. [452] foll., [467], [471 E]; 7. [537 A]; regulations concerning, 5. [467]–471; a matter of chance, ib. [467 E] [cp. Laws 1. 638 A]; distinction between internal and external, ib. [470 A] [cp. Laws 1. 628, 629]; the guilt of, always confined to a few persons, ib. [471 B]; love of, especially characteristic of timocracy, 8. [547 E]; cannot be easily waged by an oligarchy, ib. [551 E]; the rich and the poor in war, ib. [556 C]; a favourite resource of the tyrant, ib. [567 A].
[Warrior], the brave, rewards of, 5. [468]; his burial, ib. [E]; the warrior must know how to count, 7. [522 E], [525]; must be a geometrician, ib. [526].
Waves, the three, 5. [457 C], [472 A], [473 C].
Weak, the, by nature subject to the strong, 1. [338] [cp. Gorg. 489; Laws 3. 690 B]; not capable of much, either for good or evil, 6. [491 E], [495 B].
[Wealth], the advantage of, in old age, 1. [329], [330]; the greatest blessing of, ib. [330], [331]; the destruction of the arts, 4. [421]; influence of, on the state, ib. [422 A] [cp. Laws 4. 705; 5. 729 A]; the ‘sinews of war,’ [ibid.]; all-powerful in oligarchies and timocracies, 8. [548 A], [551 B], [553], [562 A]; an impediment to virtue, 378 ib. [550 E] [cp. Laws 5. 728 A; 742 E; 8. 831, 836 A]; should only be acquired to a moderate amount, 9. [591 E] [cp. Laws 7. 801 B]:
—the blind god of wealth (Pluto), 8. [554 B]:
—Wealthy, the, everywhere hostile to the poor, 4. [423 A]; 8. [551 E] [cp. Laws 5. 736 A]; flattered by them, 5. [465 C]; the wealthy and the wise, 6. [489 B]; plundered by the multitude in democracies, 8. [564], [565].
Weaving, the art of, 3. [401 A]; 5. [455 D].
Weep, the guardians not to, 3. [387 C] (cp. 10. [603 E]).
Weighing, art of, corrects the illusions of sight, 10. [602 D].
Whole, the, in regard to the happiness of the state, 4. [420 D]; 5. [466 A]; 7. [519 E]; in love, 5. [474 C], [475 B]; 6. [485 B].
Whorl, the great, 10. [616].
Wicked, the, punishment of, in the world below, 2. [363]; 10. [614]; thought by men to be happy, 1. [354]; 2. [364 A]; 3. [392 B] (cp. 8. [545 A], and Gorg. 470 foll.; Laws 2. 66 1; 10. 899 E, 905 A).
Wine, lovers of, 5. [475 A].
Wisdom (σοφία, φρόνησις) and injustice, 1. [349], [350]; in the state, 4. [428]; akin to truth, 6. [485 D]; the power of, 7. [518], [519]; the only virtue which is innate in us, ib. [518 E].
Wise man, the, = the good, 1. [350] [cp. 1 Alcib. 124, 125]; definition of, 4. [442 C]; alone has true pleasure, 9. [583 B]; life of, ib. [591];
—‘the wise to go to the doors of the rich,’ 6. [489 B];
—wise men said to be the friends of the tyrant, 8. [568].
Wives to be common in the state, 5. [457] foll.; 8. [543].
Wolves, men changed into, 8. [565 D]; ‘wolf and flock’ (proverb), 3. [415 D].
[Women], employments of, 5. [455]; differences of taste in, ib. [456]; fond of complaining, 8. [549 D]; supposed to differ in nature from men, 5. [453]; inferior to men, ib. [455] [cp. Tim. 42; Laws 6. 781]; ought to be trained like men, ib. [451], [466] [cp. Laws 7. 805; 8. 829 E]; in the gymnasia, ib. [452], [457] [cp. Laws 7. 813, 814; 8. 833]; in war, ib. [453] foll., [466 E], [471 E] [cp. Laws 6. 785; 7. 806, 814 A]; to be guardians, ib. [456], [458], [468]; 7. [540 C]; (and children) to be common, 5. [450 E], [457] foll., [462], [464]; 8. [543] [cp. Laws 5. 739]. See supra s. v. [State], p. 374.
World, the, cannot be a philosopher, 6. [494 A].
[World below], the, seems very near to the aged, 1. [330 E]; not to be reviled, 3. [386] foll. [cp. Crat. 403; Laws 5. 727 E; 8. 828 D]; pleasure of discourse in, 6. [498 D] [cp. Apol. 41]; punishment of the wicked in, 2. [363]; 10. [614] foll.; sex in, 10. [618 B];
—[heroes] who have ascended from the world below to the gods, 7. [521 C].