Retail traders, necessary in the state, 2. 371 [cp. Laws 11. 918].
Reverence in the young, 5. 465 A [cp. Laws 5, 729; 9. 879; 11. 917 A].
Rhetoric, professors of, 2. 365 D.
Rhythm, 3. 400; goes with the subject, ib. 398 D, 400 B; its persuasive influence, ib. 401 E; 10. 601 B.
Riches. See Wealth.
Riddle, the, of the eunuch and the bat, 5. 479 C.
Ridicule, only to be directed against folly and vice, 5. 452 E; danger of unrestrained ridicule, 10. 606 C [cp. Laws 11. 935 A].
Riding, the children of the guardians to be taught, 5. 467; 7. 537 A [cp. Laws 7. 794 D].
Right and might, 1. 338 foll.
Ruler, the, in the strict and in the popular sense, 1. 341 B; the true ruler does not ask, but claim obedience, 6. 489 C [cp. Pol. 300, 301]; the ideal ruler, ib. 502: —Rulers of states; do they study their own interests? 1. 338 D, 343, 346 (cp. 7. 520 C); are not infallible, 1. 339; how they are paid, ib. 347; good men do not desire office, ibid.; 7. 520 D; why they become rulers, 1. 347; present rulers dishonest, 6. 496 D: —[in the best state] must be tested by pleasures and pains, 3. 413 (cp. 6. 503 A; 7. 539 E); have the sole privilege of lying, 2. 382; 3. 389 A, 414 C; 5. 459 D [cp. Laws 2. 663]; must be taken from the older citizens, 3. 412 (cp. 6. 498 C); will be called friends and saviours, 5. 463; 6. 502 E; must be philosophers, 2. 376; 5. 473; 6. 484, 497 foll., 501, 503 B; 7. 520, 521, 525 B, 540; 8. 543; the qualities which must be found in them, 6. 503 A; 7. 535; must attain to the knowledge of the good, 6, 506; 7. 519; will accept office as