F.

Fact and ideal, 5. , .

Faculties, how different, 5. ;
—faculties of the soul, 6. 511 E; 7. 533 E.

Faith [or Persuasion], one of the faculties of the soul, 6. 511 D; 7. 533 E.

Falsehood, alien to the nature of God, 2. [cp. Laws 11. 917 A]; a medicine, only to be used by the state, ibid.; 3. 389 A, 414 C; 5. 459 D [cp. Laws 2. 663]; hateful to the philosopher, 6. , .

Family life in the state, 5. ;
—families in the state, ib. ;
—family and state, ib. ;
—cares of family life, ib. 465 C.

Fates, the, 10. , 620 E.

Fear, a solvent of the soul, 4. 430 A; fear and shame, 5. 465 A.

Fearlessness, distinguished from courage, 4. 430 B [cp. Laches 197 B; Protag. 349 C, 359 foll.].

Feeling, community of, in the state, 5. .

Festival of the Bendidea (at the Piraeus), 1. 327 A, 354 A; of Dionysus (at Athens), 5. 475 D.

Fiction in education, 2. foll.; 3. ; censorship of, necessary, 2. foll.; 3. –391, 401 A, 408 C; 10. foll.; not to represent sorrow, 3. foll. (cp. 10. ); representing intemperance to be discarded, 3. ;
—stories about the gods, not to be received, 2. foll.; 3. foll., 408 C [cp. Euthyph. 6, 8; Crit. 109 B; Laws 2. 672 B; 10. 886 C; 12. 941];
—stories of the world below, objectionable, 3. foll. (cp. Hades, World below).

Final causes, argument from, applied to justice, 1. .

Fire, obtained by friction, 4. 434 E.

Flattery, of the multitude by their leaders, in ill-ordered states, 4. (cp. 9. 590 B).

Flute, the, to be rejected, 3. ;
—flute players and flute makers, ib. D; 10. .

Folly, an inanition (κένωσις) of the soul, 9. 585 A.

Food, the condition of life and existence, 2. 369 C.

Forgetfulness, a mark of an unphilosophical nature, 6. 486 D, 490 E:
—the plain of Forgetfulness (Lethe), 10. 621 A.

Fox, the emblem of subtlety, 2. 365 C.

Fractions, 7. 525 E.

Freedom, the characteristic of democracy, 8. 557 B, –563.

Friend, the, must be as well as seem good, 1. , ;
—the friends of the tyrant, 8. 567 E; 9. .

Friendship, implies justice, 1. foll.; in the state, 5. , .

Funeral of the guardians, 5. 465 E, 468 E; 7. 540 B;
—corpses placed on the pyre on the twelfth day, 10. .

Future life, 3. ; 10. foll.; punishment of the wicked in, 2. ; 10. [cp. Phaedo 108; Gorg. 523 E, 525; Laws 9. 870 E, 881 B; 10. 904 C]. See Hades, World below.