Courage, required in the guardians, 2. 375; 3. 386, 413 E, 416 E; 4. 429; 6. 503 E; inconsistent with the fear of death, 3. 386; 6. 486 A; = the preservation of a right opinion about objects of fear, 4. 429, 442 B (cp. 2. 376, and Laches 193, 195); distinguished from fearlessness, 4. 430 B; one of the philosopher’s virtues, 6. 486 A, 490 E, 494 A:
—the courageous temper averse to intellectual toil, ib. 503 D [cp. Pol. 306, 307].
Courtesans, 3. 404 D.
Covetousness, not found in the philosopher, 6. 485 E; characteristic of timocracy and oligarchy, 8. 548, 553; = the appetitive element of the soul, 9. 581 A.
Cowardice in war, to be punished, 5. 468 A; not found in the philosopher, 6. 486 B.
Creophylus, ‘the child of flesh,’ companion of Homer, 10. 600 B.
Crete, government of, generally applauded, 8. 544 C; a timocracy, ib. 545 B;
—Cretans, naked exercises among, 5. 452 C; call their country ‘mother-land,’ 9. 575 E;
—Cretic rhythm, 3. 400 B.
Crimes, great and small, differently estimated by mankind, 1. 344 (cp. 348 D); causes of, 6. 491 E, 495 B; 8. 552 D; 9. 575 A.
Criminals, are usually men of great character spoiled by bad education, 6. 491 E, 495 B; numerous in oligarchies, 8. 552 D.
Croesus, 2. 359 C; ‘as the oracle said to Croesus,’ 8. 566 C.
Cronos, ill treated by Zeus, 2. 377 E; his behaviour to Uranus, ibid.
Cunning man, the, no match for the virtuous, 3. 409 D.