Menedêmus the Eretrian, i. [148];
disallowed negative predications, [170].
Menexenus, its authenticity, i. [316], [338], iii. [412 n.];
date, i. [307], [309], [313], [324];
anachronism, iii. [411];
scenery and persons, [401];
funeral harangues at Athens, [ib.], [404];
Sokrates recites harangue learnt from Aspasia, [402];
framed on the established type, [405];
excited much admiration, [407];
probable motives of Plato, [ib.], [410];
contrast with Leges, iv. [315 n.], [318];
Gorgias, ii. [374], iii. [409].
Menon, date, i. [306-7], [308-10], [313], [315], [325 n.], ii. [228 n.], [246 n.];
purpose, [235];
gives points in common between Sokrates and Sophists, [257];
scenery and persons, [232];
is virtue teachable, [ib.], [239], iii. [330 n.];
plurality of virtues, ii. [233];
search for common property, [234];
how is process of search useful, [237];
Sokrates’ cross-examination like effect of torpedo, [ib.];
analogies, definitions of figure and colour, [235];
Menon’s definition, refuted, [236];
theory of reminiscence, [237];
illustrated by questioning Menon’s slave, [238], [249 n.], [251];
metempsychosis, [249];
little said of the Ideas, [253], [255 n.];
virtue is knowledge, [239];
and so teachable, [240];
relation of opinion to knowledge, [241], [255 n.], [392 n.], iii. [172 n.];
right opinion of good statesmen, from inspiration, ii. [242];
highest virtue teachable, but all existing virtue is from inspiration, [ib.];
virtue itself remains unknown, [ib.], [245];
Sokrates’ doctrine, universal desire of good, [243];
compared with Phædrus and Phædon, [249];
Protagoras, [244];
Politikus, iii. [283];
Timæus, Gorgias, Republic, ii. [254 n.]
[Mentiens], sophism, i. [128], [133].
Messênê, bad basis of government, iv. [310].
[Metaphor], Herakleitus’ exposition by, i. [28], [30], [37 n.];
Plato’s tendency to found arguments on, [343], [353], n., ii. [337 n.], iii. [65 n.], [173], [207], [351], [364];
doctrine of Ideas derived its plausibility from, i. [343];
waxen memorial tablet in the mind, iii. [169];
pigeon-cage, [171];
souls’ κνῆσις compared to children’s teething, [399 n.];
the steersman, iv. [53];
Idea of Good in intellectual, as sun in visible, [63];
the cave, iii. [257 n.], iv. [ 67-70];
analogy of state and individual, [11], [20], [39], [79-84], [96];
exaggerated, [115], [121], [124];
kosmos, absolute height and depth, [87].
[Metaphysics], see [Ontology].
[Meteorology], of Anaxagoras, i. [58];
Diogenes of Apollonia, [64];
Sokrates avoided, [376].
[Metempsychosis], included in all ancient speculations, ii. [390], [425 n.];
belief of Empedokles, i. [46];
included in Plato’s proof of soul’s immortality, ii. [414];
theory of, [237], [247], iv. [234];
of ordinary men only, ii. [390], [416], [425];
mythe, iii. [12], [14 n.];
general doctrine in Virgil, ii. [425 n.]