Rhetoric, professors of, 2. [365 D].
Rhythm, 3. [400]; goes with the subject, ib. [398 D], [400 B]; its persuasive influence, ib. [401 E]; 10. [601 B].
Riches. See [Wealth].
Riddle, the, of the eunuch and the bat, 5. [479 C].
Ridicule, only to be directed against folly and vice, 5. [452 E]; danger of unrestrained ridicule, 10. [606 C] [cp. Laws 11. 935 A].
Riding, the children of the guardians to be taught, 5. [467]; 7. [537 A] [cp. Laws 7. 794 D].
Right and might, 1. [338] foll.
[Ruler], the, in the strict and in the popular sense, 1. [341 B]; the true ruler does not ask, but claim obedience, 6. [489 C] [cp. Pol. 300, 301]; the ideal ruler, ib. [502]:
—Rulers of states; do they study their own interests? 1. [338 D], [343], [346] (cp. 7. [520 C]); are not infallible, 1. [339]; how they are paid, ib. [347]; good men do not desire office, [ibid.]; 7. [520 D]; why they become rulers, 1. [347]; present rulers dishonest, 6. [496 D]:
—[in the best state] must be tested by pleasures and pains, 3. [413] (cp. 6. [503 A]; 7. [539 E]); have the sole privilege of lying, 2. [382]; 3. [389 A], [414 C]; 5. [459 D] [cp. Laws 2. 663]; must be taken from the older citizens, 3. [412] (cp. 6. [498 C]); will be called friends and saviours, 5. [463]; 6. [502 E]; must be philosophers, 2. [376]; 5. [473]; 6. [484], [497] foll., [501], [503 B]; 7. [520], [521], [525 B], [540]; 8. [543]; the qualities which must be found in them, 6. [503 A]; 7. [535]; must attain to the knowledge of the good, 6, [506]; 7. [519]; will accept office as a necessity, 7. [520 E], [540 A]; will be selected at twenty, and again at thirty, from the guardians, ib. [537]; must learn arithmetic, ib. [522]–526; geometry, ib. [526], [527]; astronomy, ib. [527]–530; harmony, ib. [531]; at thirty must be initiated into philosophy, ib. [537]–539; at thirty-five must enter on active life, ib. [539 E]; after fifty may return to philosophy, ib. [540]; when they die, will be buried by the state and paid divine honours, 3. [414 A]; 5. [465 E], [469 A]; 7. [540 B]. Cp. [Guardians].
S.
Sacrifices, private, 1. [328 B], [331 D];
—in atonement, 2. [364];
—human, in Arcadia, 8. [565 D].