Diet, 3. [404]; 8. [559 C] [cp. Tim. 89].

Differences, accidental and essential, 5. [454].

Diomede, his command to the Greeks (Iliad iv. 412), 3. [389 E]; ‘necessity of,’ (proverb), 6. [493 D].

Dionysiac festival (at Athens), 5. [475 D].

Discord, causes of, 5. [462]; 8. [547 A], [556 E]; the ruin of states, 5. [462]; distinguished from war, ib. [470] [cp. Laws 1. 628, 629].

Discourse, love of, 1. [328 A]; 5. [450 B]; increases in old age, 1. [328 D]; pleasure of, in the other world, 6. [498 D] [cp. Apol. 41].

Disease, origin of, 3. [404]; the right treatment of, ib. [405] foll.; the physician must have experience of, in his own person, ib. [408]; disease and vice compared, 4. [444]; 10. [609] foll. [cp. Soph. 228; Pol. 296; Laws 10. 347 906]; inherent in everything, 10. [609].

Dishonesty, thought by men to be more profitable than honesty, 2. [364 A].

Dithyrambic poetry, nature of, 3. [394 B].

Diversities of natural gifts, 2. [370]; 5. [455]; 7. [535 A].