theology of the Republic is repeated and amplified in the Laws; the theses that God is not the author of evil and will not accept the gifts of the wicked or favour the unjust, are maintained with equal earnestness in both. The Republic is less pessimistic in tone than the Laws; but the thought of the insignificance of man and the briefness of human life is already familiar to Plato’s mind [cp. 6. 486 A; 10. 604; and see s. v. Man]. The conception of God as the Demiurgus or Creator of the universe, which is prominent in the Timaeus, Sophist, and Statesman, hardly appears either in the Republic or the Laws (cp.* Rep. 10. 596 foll.; Laws 10. 886 foll.).]
Gold, mingled by the God in the auxiliaries, 3. 415 A (cp. 416 E; 8. 547 A);
—[and silver] not allowed to the guardians, 3. 416 E; 4. 419, 422 D; 5. 464 D (cp. 8. 543).
Good, the saving element, 10. 609:
—the good = the beautiful, 5. 452 [cp. Lys. 216; Symp. 201 B, 204 E foll.]; the good and pleasure, 6. 505, 509 A [cp. Gorg. 497; Phil. 11, 60 A]; the good superior to essence, ib. 509; the brightest and best of being, 7. 518 D;
—absolute good, 6. 507 B; 7. 540 A;
—the idea of good, 6. 505, 508; 7. 517, 534; is the highest knowledge, 6. 505; 7. 526 E; nature of, 6. 505, 506;
—the child of the good, ib. 506 E, 508:
—good things least liable to change, 2. 381;
—goods classified, ib. 357, 367 D [cp. Protag. 334; Gorg. 451 E; Phil. 66; Laws 1. 631; 3. 697];
—the goods of life often a temptation, 6. 491 E, 495 A.
Good man, the, will disdain to imitate ignoble actions, 3. 396: —Good men, why they take office, 1. 347; = the wise, ib. 350 [ cp. 1 Alcib. 124, 125]; unfortunate (Adeimantus), 2. 364; self-sufficient, 3.