O.
Objects and ideas to be distinguished, 5. 476; 6. 507. 364
Odysseus and Alcinous, 10. 614 B; chooses the lot of a private man, ib. 620 D.
Office, not desired by the good ruler, 7. 520 A.
Old age, complaints against, 1. 329; Sophocles quoted in regard to,
ibid.
; wealth a comforter of age,
ibid.
;
—old men think more of the future life, ib.
330; not students, 7. 536 [cp. Laches 189];
—the older to bear rule in the state, 3. 412 [cp. Laws 3. 690 A; 4. 714 E]; to be over the younger, 5. 465 A [cp. Laws 4. 721 D; 9. 879 C; 11. 917 A].
Oligarchy, a form of government which has many evils, 8. 544, 551, 552; origin of, ib.
550; nature of,
ibid.
; always divided against itself, ib.
551 D, 554 E
—the oligarchical man, 8. 553; a miser, ib.
555; his place in regard to pleasure, 9. 587.
Olympian Zeus, the Saviour, 9. 583 B.
Olympic victors, happiness and glory of, 5. 465 D, 466 A (cp. 10. 618 A).
One, the, study of, draws the mind to the contemplation of true being, 7. 525 A.
Opinion and knowledge, 5. 476–478; 6. 508 D, 510 A; 7. 534; the lovers of opinion, 5. 479, 480; a blind guide, 6. 506; objects of opinion and intellect classified, 7. 534 (cp. 5. 476);
—true opinion and courage, 4. 429, 430 (cp. Courage).
Opposites, qualification of, 4. 436; in nature, 5. 454, 475 E. Cp. Contradiction.
Oppositions in the soul, 10. 603 D.
Orpheus, child of the Moon and the Muses, 2. 364 E; soul of, chooses a swan’s life, 10. 620 A;
—quoted, 2. 364 E.
