Models (or types), by which the poets are to be guided in their compositions, 2. 379 A.
Moderation, necessity of, 5. 466 B [cp. Laws 3. 690 E; 5. 732, 736 E].
Momus (god of jealousy), 6. 487 A.
Monarchy, distinguished from aristocracy as that form of the perfect state in which one rules, 4. 445 C (cp. 9. 576 D, and Pol. 301); the happiest form of government, 9. 576 E (cp. 580 C, 587 B).
Money, needed in the state, 2. 371 B [cp. Laws 11. 918]; not necessary in order to carry on war, 4. 423;
—love of, among the Egyptians and Phoenicians, ib. 435 E; characteristic of timocracy and oligarchy, 8. 548 A, 553, 562 A; referred to the appetitive element of the soul, 9. 580 E; despicable, ib. 589 E, 590 C (cp. 3. 390 E).
Money-lending, in oligarchies, 8. 555, 556.
Money-making, art of, in Cephalus’ family, 1. 330 B; evil of, 8. 556; pleasure of, 9. 581 C, 586 E.
Money-qualifications in oligarchies, 8. 550, 551.
Moon, reputed mother of Orpheus, 2. 364 E.
Motherland, a Cretan word, 9. 575 E [cp. Menex. 237].
Mothers in the state, 5. 460.
Motion and rest, 4. 436;
—motion of the stars, 7. 529, 530; 10. 616 E.
Multitude, the, the great Sophist, 6. 492; their madness, ib. 496 C. Cp. Many.