his kingdom of philosophers, or that it remained to himself an ideal, rather than a state which would ever ‘play her part in actual life’ (Tim. 19, 20). It is at least significant that he never finished the Critias, as though he were unable to embody, even in a mythical form, the ‘city of which the pattern is laid up in heaven.’*]
Statesmen in their own imagination, 4. 426.
Statues, polished for a decision, 2. 361 D; painted, 4. 420 D.
Steadiness of character, apt to be accompanied by stupidity, 6. 503 [cp. Theaet. 144 B].
Stesichorus, says that Helen was never at Troy, 9. 586 C.
Stories, improper, not to be told to children, 2. 377; 3. 391. Cp. Children, Education.
Strength, rule of, 1. 338.
Style of poetry, 3. 392;
—styles, various, ib. 397.
Styx, 3. 387 B.
Suits, will be unknown in the best state, 5. 464 E.
Sumptuary laws, 4. 423, 425.
Sun, the, compared with the idea of good, 6. 508; not sight, but the author of sight, ib. 509;
—‘the sun of Heracleitus,’ ib. 498 A.
Supposititious son, parable of the, 7. 538.