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Labour, division of, 2. 370, 374 A; 3. 394 E, 395 B, 397 E; 4. 423 E, 433 A, 435 A, 441 E, 443, 453 B [cp. Laws 8. 846, 847].

Lacedaemon, owes its good order to Lycurgus, 10. 599 E;
—constitution of, commonly extolled, 8. 544 D; a timocracy, ib. 545 B:
—Lacedaemonians first after the Cretans to strip in the gymnasia, 5. 452 D.

Lachesis, turns the spindle of Necessity together with Clotho and Atropos, 10. 617 C; her speech, ib. D; apportions a genius to each soul, ib. 620 D.

Lamentation over the dead, to be checked, 3. 387.

Lands, partition of, proclaimed by the would-be tyrant, 8. 565 E, 566 E.

Language, pliability of, 9. 588 D [cp. Soph. 277 B].

Laughter not to be allowed in the guardians, 3. 388 [cp. Laws 5. 732; 11. 935]; nor represented in the gods, ib. 389.

Laws, may be given in error, 1. 339 E; supposed to arise from a convention among mankind, 2. 359 A; cause of, 3. 405; on special subjects of little use, 4. 425, 426 [cp. Laws 7. 788]; treated with contempt in democracies, 8. 563 E; bring help to all in the state, 9. 590.

Lawyers, increase when wealth abounds, 4. 405 A.

Learning, pleasure of, 6. 486 C (cp. 9. 581, 586).

Legislation, cannot reach the minutiae of life, 4. 425, 426; requires the help of God, ib. 425 E. Cp. Laws.

Leontius, story of, 4. 439 E.

Lethe, 10. 621.

Letters, image of the large and small, 2. 368; 3. 402 A.

Liberality, one of the virtues of the philosopher, 6. 485 E.

Liberty, characteristic of democracy, 8. 557 B, 561–563.

Licence, begins in music, 4. 424 E [cp. Laws 3. 701 B]; in democracies, 8. 562 D.

Licentiousness forbidden, 5. 458. 360

Lie, a, hateful to the philosopher, 6. 490 C (cp. supra 486 E);
—the true lie and the lie in words, 2. 382;
—the royal lie (γενναίον ψεῦδος), 3. 414;
—rulers of the state may lie, 2. 382; 3. 389 A, 414 C; 5. 459 D;
—the Gods not to be represented as lying, 2. 382;
—lies of the poets, ib. 377 foll.; 3. 386, 408 B (cp. 10. 597 foll.).

Life in the early state, 2. 372;
—loses its zest in old age, 1. 329 A; full of evils, 2. 379 C; intolerable without virtue, 4. 445; shortness of, compared to eternity, 10. 608 D;
—the life of virtue toilsome, 2. 364 D;
—the just or the unjust, which is the more advantageous? ib. 347 foll.;
—three kinds of lives among men, 9. 581;
—life of women ought to resemble that of men, 5. 451 foll. [cp. Laws 7. 804 E];
—the necessities of life, 2. 369, 373 A;
—the prime of life, 5. 460 E.

Light, 6. 507 E. Cp. Sight, Vision.

Light and heavy, 5. 479; 7. 524.

Like to like, 4. 425 C.

Literature (λόγοι), included under ‘music’ in education, 2. 376 E.

Litigation, the love of, ignoble, 3. 405.

Logic; method of residues, 4. 427;
—accidents and essence distinguished, 5. 454;
—nature of opposition, 4. 436;
—categories, πρός τι, 4. 437; quality and relation, ibid. ;
—fallacies, 6. 487. For Plato’s method of definitions, see Knowledge, Temperance; and cp. Dialectic, Metaphysic.

Lotophagi, 8. 560 C.

Lots, use of, 5. 460 A, 462 E; election by, characteristic of democracy, 8. 557 A.

Love of the beautiful, 3. 402, 403 [cp. 1 Alcib. 131]; bodily love and true love, ib. 403; love and the love of knowledge, 5. 474 foll.; is of the whole, not of the part, ib. C, 475 B; 6. 485 B; a tyrant, 9. 573 B, 574 E (cp. 1. 329 B):
—familiarities which may be allowed between the lover and the beloved, 3. 403 B:
—lovers’ names, 5. 474:
—lovers of wine, ib. 475 A:
—lovers of beautiful sights and sounds, ib. 476 B, 479 A, 480.

Luxury in the state, 2. 372, 373; a cause of disease, 3. 405 E; would not give happiness to the citizens, 4. 420, 421; makes men cowards, 9. 590 B.

Lycaean Zeus, temple of, 8. 565 D.

Lycurgus, the author of the greatness of Lacedaemon, 10. 599 E.

Lydia, kingdom of, obtained by Gyges, 2. 359 C:
—Lydian harmonies, to be rejected, 3. 398 E foll.

Lying, a privilege of the state, 3. 389 A, 414 C; 5. 459 D.

Lyre, the instrument of Apollo, and allowed in the best state, 3. 399 D.

Lysanias, father of Cephalus, 1. 330 B.

Lysias, the brother of Polemarchus, 1. 328 B.