Δεινός, meaning, ii. [145 n.]
[Dekad], the Pythagorean perfect number, i. [11].
Δεκτικόν, τό, see [Matter].
[Delphian oracle], reply to Sokrates, i. [413];
maxim, Know thyself, ii. [11], [25];
to be consulted for religious legislation, iv. [34], [137 n.], [325].
[Demetrius Phalereus], Alexandrine librarian, i. [274 n.];
chief agent in establishment of Alexandrine library, [280];
history and character, [279];
Apology, [111 n.]
[Demiurgus], opposed to ἰδιώτης, ii. [272 n.];
of kosmos, iii. [265 n.];
postulated, iv. [220];
is not a creator, [ib.];
produces kosmos, by persuading Necessity, [ib.], [222];
on pattern of ideas, [227];
evolved the four elements from primordial chaos, [240];
addresses generated gods, [233];
prepares for man’s construction, places a soul in each star, [ib.];
conjoins three souls and one body, [234];
how conceived by other philosophers of same century, [254];
little noticed in Aristotle, [255];
degeneracy of man originally intended by, [263].
[Demochares], law against philosophers, i. [111 n.]
[Democracy], least bad of unscientific governments, iii. [270], [278];
origin, iv. [80];
monarchy and, the mother-polities, [312];
dissent of Aristotle, [ ib. n.];
Plato’s second ideal state a compromise of oligarchy and, [333], [337].
[Demokritus], life and travels, i. [65];
Plato’s antipathy to, [66 n.], [82 n.], ii. [118], iv. [355 n.];
often mentioned in Aristotle, [ib.];
opinions of ancients on, i. [82 n.];
his universality, [82];
relation to Parmenidean theory, [66];
plena and vacua, ens and non-ens, [67], iii. [243 n.];
his absolute and relative, i. [71], [80];
atoms differ only in magnitude, figure, position, and arrangement, [69];
different from Plato’s Idea, and Aristotle’s materia prima, [72];
not really objects of sense, [ib. n.];
inherent force, [73];
his ultimatum, the course of nature, [ib.];
primary and secondary qualities, iv. [243 n.];
air, i. [76], [78];
theory of colour, [77];
theory of vision, combated by Theophrastus, [78 n.];
hearing and taste, [78];
motions of planets, iv. [355 n.];
blamed by Aristotle for omitting final causes, i. [73 n.];
chance, [ ib.];
φύσις, [70 n.];
mind is heat throughout nature, [75];
parts of the soul, [76];
on its immortality, ii. [425 n.];
truth obtainable by reason only, i. [72];
thought produced by influx of atoms, [79];
on Homo mensura, [82], iii. [152];
knowledge is obscure, or sensation, and genuine, or thought, i. [80];
the gods, [81];
ethical views, [82];
treatise on Pythagoras, [ib. n.];
researches in zoology and animal generation, [75];
influence on growth of dialectic, [82];
works of, [65];
in Alexandrine library, [276];
divided into Tetralogies by Thrasyllus, [273 n.], [295 n.]
[Dêmos], in state, analogous to appetite in individual mind, iv. [39];
Plato more anxious for good treatment of, than Xenophon and Aristotle, [183];
in Aristotle adjuncts, not members, of state, [184];
Plato’s scheme fails from no training for, [186];
see [State].