—stories about the gods, not to be received, 2. 378 foll.; 3. 388 foll., 408 C [cp. Euthyph. 6, 8; Crit. 109 B; Laws 2. 672 B; 10. 886 C; 12. 941]; —stories of the world below, objectionable, 3. 386 foll. (cp. Hades, World below).
Final causes, argument from, applied to justice, 1. 352.
Fire, obtained by friction, 4. 434 E.
Flattery, of the multitude by their leaders, in ill-ordered states, 4. 426 (cp. 9. 590 B).
Flute, the, to be rejected, 3. 399;
—flute players and flute makers, ib. D; 10. 601.
Folly, an inanition (κένωσις) of the soul, 9. 585 A.
Food, the condition of life and existence, 2. 369 C.
Forgetfulness, a mark of an unphilosophical nature, 6. 486 D, 490 E:
—the plain of Forgetfulness (Lethe), 10. 621 A.
Fox, the emblem of subtlety, 2. 365 C.
Fractions, 7. 525 E.
Freedom, the characteristic of democracy, 8. 557 B, 561–563.
Friend, the, must be as well as seem good, 1. 334, 335;
—the friends of the tyrant, 8. 567 E; 9. 576.
Friendship, implies justice, 1. 351 foll.; in the state, 5. 462, 463.
Funeral of the guardians, 5. 465 E, 468 E; 7. 540 B;
—corpses placed on the pyre on the twelfth day, 10. 614.