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Objects and ideas to be distinguished, 5. ; 6. .

Odysseus and Alcinous, 10. 614 B; chooses the lot of a private man, ib. 620 D.

Odyssey, 3. 393 A. Cp. Iliad.

Office, not desired by the good ruler, 7. 520 A.

Old age, complaints against, 1. ; Sophocles quoted in regard to, ibid.; wealth a comforter of age, ibid.;
—old men think more of the future life, ib. ; not students, 7. [cp. Laches 189];
—the older to bear rule in the state, 3. [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. , , ; origin of, ib. ; nature of, ibid.; always divided against itself, ib. 551 D, 554 E
—the oligarchical man, 8. ; a miser, ib. ; his place in regard to pleasure, 9. .

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. –478; 6. 508 D, 510 A; 7. ; the lovers of opinion, 5. , ; a blind guide, 6. ; objects of opinion and intellect classified, 7. (cp. 5. );
—true opinion and courage, 4. , (cp. Courage).

Opposites, qualification of, 4. ; in nature, 5. , 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.