ABDERA, Protagoras of, 10. 600 C.
Abortion, allowed in certain cases, 5. 461 C.
Absolute beauty, 5. 476, 479; 6. 494 A, 501 B, 507 B;
—absolute good, 6. 507 B; 7. 540 A;
—absolute justice, 5. 479; 6. 501 B; 7. 517 E;
—absolute swiftness and slowness, 7. 529 D;
—absolute temperance, 6. 501 B;
—absolute unity, 7. 524 E, 525 E;
—the absolute and the many, 6. 507.
Abstract ideas, origin of, 7. 523. Cp. Idea.
Achaeans, 3. 389 E, 390 E, 393 A, D, 394 A.
Achilles, the son of Peleus, third in descent from Zeus, 3. 391 C; his grief, ib. 388 A; his avarice, cruelty, and insolence, ib. 390 E, 391 A, B; his master Phoenix, ib. 390 E.
Active life, age for, 7. 539, 540.
Actors, cannot perform both tragic and comic parts, 3. 395 A.
Adeimantus, son of Ariston, a person in the dialogue, 1. 327 C; his genius, 2. 368 A; distinguished at the battle of Megara, ibid.; takes up the discourse, ib. 362 D, 368 E, 376 D; 4. 419 A; 6. 487 A; 8. 548 E; urges Socrates to speak in detail about the community of women and children, 5. 449.
Adrasteia, prayed to, 5. 451 A.