B; 10. 595 foll., 605 A, 607 A [ cp. Laws 7. 817]; poets and tyrants, 8. 568; thrice removed from the truth, 10. 596, 597, 598 E, 602 B, 605 C; imitators only, ib. 600, 601 (cp. 3. 393, and Laws 4. 719 C); poets and painters, 10. 601, 603, 605; —‘the poets who were children and prophets of the gods’ (? Orpheus and Musaeus; cp. supra 364 E), 2. 366 A.
Polemarchus, the son of Cephalus, 1. 327 B; ‘the heir of the argument,’ ib. 331; intervenes in the discussion, ib. 340; wishes Socrates to speak in detail about the community of women and children, 5. 449.
Politicians, in democracies, 8. 564.
Polydamas, the pancratiast, 1. 338 C.
Poor, the, have no time to be ill, 3. 406 E; everywhere hostile to the rich, 4. 423 A; 8. 551 E [cp. Laws 5. 736 A]; very numerous in oligarchies, 8. 552 D; not despised by the rich in time of danger, ib. 556 C.
Population, to be regulated, 5. 460.
Poverty, prejudicial to the arts, 4. 421; poverty and crime, 8. 552.
Power, the struggle for, 7. 520 C [cp. Laws 4. 715 A].
Pramnian wine, 3. 405 E, 408 A.
Priam, Homer’s delineation of, condemned, 3. 388 B.
Prisoners in war, 5. 468–470.
Private property, not allowed to the guardians, 3. 416 E; 4. 420 A, 422 D; 5. 464 C; 8. 543.
Prizes of valour, 5. 468.
Prodicus, a popular teacher, 10. 600 C.