[Silanus], Decimus Junius, stepfather of Marcus Brutus, consul (62), aedile, [ii, 57].
Slaves, duty toward, [i, 41]; [iii, 89].
Social Instinct, man and beast, [i, 12], [50]; bees, [i, 157]; leads to justice, [i, 157]; weighed against justice, [i, 159 fg].
Society, principles of, [i, 50-57]; [iii, 53]; rights of, [i, 21]; service to, [i, 153], [155].
Socrates (469-399), the great philosopher and teacher, [ii, 43]; his ethics, [iii, 11], [77]; his perfect poise, [i, 90]; brilliant dialectician, with a profound meaning in every word, [i, 108]; personal eccentricities, [i, 148]. "The noblest, ay, and the wisest and most righteous man that we have ever known."
Socratic, following Socrates, [i, 104], [134]; [ii, 87]; most schools of philosophy are based on the teaching of Socrates—the Academy, [i, 2]; the Peripatetic, [i, 2]; [iii, 20]; the Cynic, [i, 128]; the Cyrenaic, [iii, 116]; the Stoic, [i, 6]; etc.
[Sol], the sun-god, father of Phaëthon, [iii, 94].
Solon, the great lawgiver of Athens (638-558 ca.), poet, soldier, statesman; his feigned madness and the acquisition of Salamis, [i, 108]; his constitution and the reorganized Areopagus, [i, 75].
Sophocles, the great tragic poet (495-406), supreme on the Athenian stage (468-441); general in the war against Samos (440), [i, 144].
[Sparta], capital of Lacedaemon in the south-eastern part of the Peloponnesus, [iii, 99]; constitution of Lycurgus, [i, 76]; national character, [i, 64]; position at end of Persian wars, [i, 76]; at end of Peloponnesian war, [i, 76]; her arsenal, [iii, 49]; disasters, [i, 84]; despotic, [ii, 26]; cause of her fall, [ii, 77], [80].