Silver, mingled by the God in the auxiliaries, 3. 415 A (cp. 416 E; 8. 547 A);
—[and gold] not allowed to the guardians, 3. 416 E; 4. 419, 422 D; 5. 464 D (cp. 8. 543).
Simonides, his definition of justice discussed, 1. 331 D–335 E; a sage, ib. 335 E.
Simplicity, the first principle of education, 3. 397 foll., 400 E, 404; the two kinds of, ib. 400 E; of the good man, ib. 409 A; in diet, 8. 559 C (cp. 3. 404 D).
Sin, punishment of, 2. 363; 10. 614 foll. Cp. Hades, World below.
Sirens, harmony of the, 10. 617 B.
Skilled person, the, cannot err (Thrasymachus), 1. 340 D.
Slavery, more to be feared than death, 3. 387 A; of Hellenes condemned, 5. 469 B.
Slaves, the uneducated man harsh towards, 8. 549 A; enjoy great freedom in a democracy, ib. 563 B; always inclined to rise against their masters, 9. 578 [cp. Laws 6. 776, 777].
Smallness and greatness, 4. 438 B; 5. 479 B; 7. 523, 524; 9. 575 C; 10. 602 D, 605 C.
Smell, pleasures of, 9. 584 B.
Snake-charming, 1. 358 B.
Socrates, goes down to the Peiraeus to see the feast of Bendis, 1. 327; detained by Polemarchus and Glaucon, ibid.; converses with Cephalus, ib. 328–332; trembles before Thrasymachus, ib. 336 D; his irony, ib. 337 A;