Nobles, the difference between them, no; should take care of the poor, 193 Oath, an improper one in an oligarchy, 166 Officers of state, who they ought to be, 135; how long to continue, 135; who to choose them, 136 Offices, distinction between them, 67; when subversive of the rights of the people, 130 Offspring, an instance of the likeness of, to the sire, 30 Oligarchies arise where the strength of the state consists in horse, no; whence they arose, 142 Oligarchy admits not hired servants to be citizens, 75; its object, 79; what, 79, 81; its definition, 112; different sorts of, 117, 119; its object, 122; how it ought to be founded, 195 Onomacritus supposed to have drawn up laws, 64 Ostracism, why established, 93, 146; its power, 93; a weapon in the hand of sedition, 94 Painting, why it should be made a part of education, 241 Particulars, five, in which the rights of the people will be undermined, 130 Pausanias wanted to abolish the ephori, 143 People, how they should be made one, 35; of Athens assume upon their victory over the Medes, 64; what best to submit to a kingly government, 104; to an aristocratic, 104; to a free state, 104; should be allowed the power of pardoning, not of condemning, 135 Periander's advice to Thrasy-bulus, 93, 169 Pericles introduces the paying of those who attended the court of justice, 64 Philolaus, a Theban legislator, quits his native country, 64 Phocea, an account of a dispute there, 150 Physician, his business, 86 Physicians, their mode of practice in Egypt, 98; when ill consult others, 102 Pittacus, 65 Plato censured, 180 Poor excused from bearing arms and from gymnastic exercises in an oligarchy, 131; paid for attending the public assemblies in a democracy, 131 Power of the master, its object, 77 Power, supreme, where it ought to be lodged, 84; why with the many, 85, 87 Powers of a state, different methods of delegating them to the citizens, 132-134 Preadvisers, court of, 135 Priesthood, to whom to be allotted, 217 Prisoners of war, whether they may be justly made slaves, 9 Private property not regulated the source of sedition, 42; Phaleas would have it equal, 42; how Phaleas would correct the irregularities of it, 43; Plato would allow a certain difference in it, 43 Property, its nature, 12; how it should be regulated, 32, 33; the advantages of having it private, 34; what quantity the public ought to have, 44; ought not to be common, 219 Public assemblies, when subversive of the liberties of the people, 130 Public money, how to be divided, 193 Qualifications necessary for those who are to fill the first departments in government, 164 Quality of a city, what meant by it, 129 Quantity, 129