N.

Narration, styles of, 3. , , .

National qualities, 4. .

Natural gifts, 2. 370 A; 5. ; 6. 491 E, 495 A; 7. , .

Nature, recurrent cycles in, 8. 546 A (cp. Cycles); divisions of, 9. [cp. Phil. 23].

Necessities, the, of life, 2. , 373 A.

Necessity, the mother of the Fates, 10. , , 621 A.

Necessity, the, ‘which lovers know,’ 5. 458 E;
—the ‘necessity of Diomede,’ 6. 493 D.

Nemesis, 5. 451 A.

Niceratus, son of Nicias, 1. 327 C.

Nicias, 1. 327 C.

Nightingale, Thamyras changed into a, 10. .

Niobe, sufferings of, in tragic poetry, 2. 380 A.

νόμος, strain and law, 7. 532 E [cp. Laws 7. 800 A].

Not-being, 5. .

Novelties in music and gymnastic to be discouraged, 4. .

Number, said to have been invented by Palamedes, 7. 522 D;
—the number of the State, 8. .