Command amongst equals should be in rotation, 101 Common meals not well established at Lacedaemon-well at Crete, 56; the model from whence the Lacedaemonian was taken, 56; inferior to it in some respects, 56 Community, its recommendations deceitful, 34; into what people it may be divided, 194 Community of children, 29, 30; inconveniences attending it, 31 Community of goods, its inconveniences, 28; destructive of modesty and liberality, 34 Community of wives, its inconveniences, 27 Contempt a cause of sedition, 146 Courage of a man different from a woman's, 74 Courts, how many there ought to be, 140 Courts of justice should be few in a small state, 192 Cretan customs similar to the Lacedasmonian, 57; assembly open to every citizen, 58 Cretans, their power, 58; their public meals, how conducted 58 Crete, the government of, 57; description of the island of 57 Customs at Carthage, Lacedaemon, and amongst the Scythians and Iberians, concerning those who had killed an enemy, 204, 205 Dadalus's statues, 6. Delphos, an account of a sedition there, 150 Demagogues, their influence in a democracy, 116. Democracies, arose out of tyrannies, 100; whence they arose, 142; when changed into tyrannies, 153; their different sorts, 184, 188; general rules for their establishment, 185; should not be made too perfect, 191 Democracy, what, 79, 80; its definition, 112, 113; different sorts of, 115, 118; its object, 122; how subverted in the Isle of Cos, 152 Democracy and aristocracy, how they may be blended together, 163 Democratical state, its foundation, 184 Despotic power absurd, 205 Dion, his noble resolution, 171 Dionysius, his taxes, 175 Dissolution of kingdoms and tyrannies, 169 Domestic employments of men and women different, 74 Domestic government, its object, 77 Domestic society the first, 3 Draco, 65 Dyrrachium, government of, 101 Economy and money-getting, difference, 17 Education necessary for the happiness of the city, 90; of all things most necessary to preserve the state, 166; what it ought to be, 166; the objects of it, 228, 229; should be taken care of by the magistrate, and correspond to the nature of government, 238; should be a common care, and regulated by laws, 238 Employment, one to be allotted to one person in an extensive government, 136 Employments in the state, how to be disposed of, 88-90; whether all should be open to all, 216 Ephialtes abridges the power of the senate of Areopagus, 63 Ephori, at Sparta, their power too great, 54; improperly chosen, 54; flattered by their kings, 54; the supreme judges, 55; manner of life too indulgent, 55 Epidamnus, an account of a revolution there, 150