Athlete, Atalanta chooses the soul of an, 10. [620 B]; athletes, obliged to pay excessive attention to diet, 3. [404 A]; sleep away their lives, [ibid.]; are apt to become brutalized, ib. [410], [411] (cp. 7. [535 D]);
—the guardians athletes of war, 3. [403 E], [404 B]; 4. [422]; 7. [521 E]; 8. [543] [cp. Laws 8. 830].
Atridae, 3. [393 A].
Atropos (one of the Fates), her song, 10. [617 C]; spins the threads of destiny, and makes them irreversible, ib. [620 E].
Attic confections, 3. [404 E].
Audience, see [Spectator].
Autolycus, praised by Homer, 1. [334 A].
[Auxiliaries], the young warriors of the state, 3. [414]; compared to dogs, 2. [376]; 4. [440 D]; 5. [451 D]; have silver mingled in their veins, 3. [415 A]. Cp. [Guardians].
Avarice, disgraceful, 1. [347 B]; forbidden in the guardians, 3. [390 E]; falsely imputed to Achilles and Asclepius by the poets, ib. [391 B], [408 C]; characteristic of timocracy and oligarchy, 8. [548 A], [553].
B.
Barbarians, regard nakedness as improper, 5. [452]; the natural enemies of the Hellenes, ib. [469 D], [470 C] [cp. Pol. 262 D]; peculiar forms of government among, 8. [544 D].