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Q.

Quacks, 5. .

Quarrels, dishonourable, 2. ; 3. 395 E; will be unknown in the best state, 2. 378 B; 5. 464 E [cp. Laws 5. 739];
—quarrels of the Gods and heroes, 2. .

Rational element of the soul, 4. –442; 6. 504 A; 8. 550 A; 9. , 580 E, [cp. Tim. 69 E–72]; ought to bear rule, and be assisted by the spirited element against the passions, 4. 441 E, ; characterized by the love of knowledge, 9. 581 B; the pleasures of, the truest, ib. ; preserves the mind from the illusions of sense, 10. .

Rationalism among youth, 7. [cp. Laws 10. 886].

Reaction, 8. 564 A.

Read, learning to, 3. 402 A.

Reason, a faculty of the soul, 6. 511 D (cp. 7. 533 E); reason and appetite, 9. (cp. 4. –442, and Tim. 69 E foll.); reason should be the guide of pleasure, 9. –587.

Reflections, 6. 510 A.

Relations, slights inflicted by, in old age, 1. .

Relative and correlative, qualifications of, 4. foll. [cp. Gorg. 476]; how corrected, 7. .

Relativity of things and individuals, 5. ; fallacies caused by, 9. , ; 10. , 605 C.

Religion, matters of, left to the god at Delphi, 4. 427 A (cp. 5. 461 E, 469 A; 7. 540 B).

Residues, method of, 4. 427 E.

Rest and motion, 4. .

Retail traders, necessary in the state, 2. [cp. Laws 11. 918].

Reverence in the young, 5. 465 A [cp. Laws 5, 729; 9. 879; 11. 917 A].

Rhetoric, professors of, 2. 365 D.

Rhythm, 3. ; goes with the subject, ib. 398 D, 400 B; its persuasive influence, ib. 401 E; 10. 601 B.

Riches. See Wealth.

Riddle, the, of the eunuch and the bat, 5. 479 C.

Ridicule, only to be directed against folly and vice, 5. 452 E; danger of unrestrained ridicule, 10. 606 C [cp. Laws 11. 935 A].

Riding, the children of the guardians to be taught, 5. ; 7. 537 A [cp. Laws 7. 794 D].

Right and might, 1. foll.

Ruler, the, in the strict and in the popular sense, 1. 341 B; the true ruler does not ask, but claim obedience, 6. 489 C [cp. Pol. 300, 301]; the ideal ruler, ib. :
—Rulers of states; do they study their own interests? 1. 338 D, , (cp. 7. 520 C); are not infallible, 1. ; how they are paid, ib. ; good men do not desire office, ibid.; 7. 520 D; why they become rulers, 1. ; present rulers dishonest, 6. 496 D:
—[in the best state] must be tested by pleasures and pains, 3. (cp. 6. 503 A; 7. 539 E); have the sole privilege of lying, 2. ; 3. 389 A, 414 C; 5. 459 D [cp. Laws 2. 663]; must be taken from the older citizens, 3. (cp. 6. 498 C); will be called friends and saviours, 5. ; 6. 502 E; must be philosophers, 2. ; 5. ; 6. , foll., , 503 B; 7. , , 525 B, ; 8. ; the qualities which must be found in them, 6. 503 A; 7. ; must attain to the knowledge of the good, 6, ; 7. ; will accept office as a necessity, 7. 520 E, 540 A; will be selected at twenty, and again at thirty, from the guardians, ib. ; must learn arithmetic, ib. –526; geometry, ib. , ; astronomy, ib. –530; harmony, ib. ; at thirty must be initiated into philosophy, ib. –539; at thirty-five must enter on active life, ib. 539 E; after fifty may return to philosophy, ib. ; when they die, will be buried by the state and paid divine honours, 3. 414 A; 5. 465 E, 469 A; 7. 540 B. Cp. Guardians.