Property, to be common, 3. [416 E]; 4. [420 A], [422 D]; 5. [464 C]; 8. [543]; restrictions on the disposition of, 8. [556 A] [cp. Laws 11. 923]:
—property qualifications in oligarchies, ib. [550], [551].
Prophets, mendicant, 2. [364 C].
Proportion, akin to truth, 6. [486 E].
Prose writers on justice, 2. [364 A].
Protagoras, his popularity as a teacher, 10. [600 C].
Proteus, not to be slandered, 2. [381 D].
Proverbs: ‘birds of a feather,’ 1. [329 A]; ‘shave a lion,’ ib. [341 C]; ‘let brother help brother,’ 2. [362 D]; ‘wolf and flock,’ 3. [415 D]; ‘one great thing,’4. [423 E]; ‘hard is the good,’ ib. [435 C]; ‘friends have all things in common,’ 5. [449 C]; ‘the useful is the noble,’ ib. [457 B]; ‘the wise must go to the doors of the rich,’ 6. [489 B] (cp. 2. [364 B]); ‘what is more than human,’ 6. [492 E]; ‘the necessity of Diomede,’ ib. [493 D]; ‘the she-dog as good as her mistress,’ 8. [563 D]; ‘out of the smoke into the fire,’ ib. [569 B]; ‘does not come within a thousand miles’ (οὐδ’ ἴκταρ βάλλει), 9. [575 D].
Public, the, the great Sophist, 6. [492]; compared to a many-headed beast, ib. [493]; cannot be philosophic, ib. [494 A] [cp. Pol. 292 D]. See [Many], [Multitude].
Punishment, of the wicked, in the world below, 2. [363]; 10. [614]. Cp. [Hades], [World below].
Purgation of the luxurious state, 3. [399 E];
—of the city by the tyrant, 8. [567 D];
—of the soul, by the tyrannical man, ib. [573 A].