D; common notions about, mistaken, ib. E; an excellent instrument of education, ib. 526 [cp. Laws 5. 747]; employed in order to express the interval between the king and the tyrant, 9. 587. Cp. Mathematics.
Armenius, father of Er, the Pamphylian, 10. 614 B.
Arms, throwing away of, disgraceful, 5. 468 A; arms of Hellenes not to be offered as trophies in the temples, ib. 470 A.
Army needed in a state, 2. 374.
Art, influence of, on character, 3. 400 foll.;
—art of building, ib. 401 A; 4. 438 C; carpentry, 4. 428 C; calculation, 7. 524, 526 B; 10. 602; cookery, 1. 332 C; dyeing, 4. 429 D; embroidery, 3. 401 A; exchange, 2. 369 C; measurement, 10. 602; money-making, 1. 330; 8. 556; payment, 1. 346; tactics, 7. 522 E, 525 B; weaving, 3. 401 A; 5. 455 D; weighing, 10. 602 D;
—the arts exercised for the good of their subject, 1. 342, 345–347 [cp. Euthyph. 13]; interested in their own perfection, 1. 342; differ according to their functions, ib. 346; full of grace, 3. 401 A; must be subject to a censorship, ib. B; causes of the deterioration of, 4. 421; employment of children in, 5. 467 A; ideals in, ib. 472 D; chiefly useful for practical purposes, 7. 533 A;
—the arts and philosophy, 6. 495 E, 496 C (cp. supra 5. 475 D, 476 A);
—the handicraft arts a reproach, 9. 590 C;
—the lesser arts (τεχνύδρια), 5. 475 D; (τέχνια), 6. 495 D;
—three arts concerned with all things, 10. 601.
Art. [Art, according to the conception of Plato, is not a collection of canons of criticism, but a subtle influence which pervades all things animate as well as inanimate (3. 400, 401). He knows nothing of ‘schools’ or of the history of art, nor does he select any building or statue for condemnation or admiration. [Cp. Protag. 311 C, *where Pheidias is casually mentioned as the typical