Dactylic metre, 3. 400 C.
Daedalus, beauty of his works, 7. 529 E.
Damon, an authority on rhythm, 3. 400 B (cp. 4. 424 C).
Dancing (in education), 3. 412 B.
Day-dreams, 5. 458 A, 476 C.
Dead (in battle) not to be stripped, 5. 469; judgment of the dead, 10. 615.
Death, the approach of, brings no terror to the aged, 1. 330 E; the guardians must have no fear of, 3. 386, 387 (cp. 6. 486 C); preferable to slavery, 3. 387 A.
Debts, abolition of, proclaimed by demagogues, 8. 565 E, 566 E.
Delphi, religion left to the god at, 4. 427 A (cp. 5. 461 E, 469 A; 7. 540 B).
Demagogues, 8. 564, 565.
Democracy, 1. 338 D; spoken of under the parable of the captain and the mutinous crew, 6. 488; democracy and philosophy, ib. 494, 500; the third form of imperfect state, 8. 544 [cp. Pol. 291, 292]; detailed account of, ib. 555 foll.; characterised by freedom, ib. 557 B, 561–563; a ‘bazaar of constitutions,’ ib. 557 D; the humours of democracy, ib. E, 561; elements contained in, ib. 564. —democracy in animals, ib. 563: —the