War, causes of, 2. 373; 4. 422 foll.; 8. 547 A; an art, 2. 374 A (cp. 4. 422, and Laws 11. 921 E); men, women, and children to go to, 5. 452 foll., 467, 471 E; 7. 537 A; regulations concerning, 5. 467–471; a matter of chance, ib. 467 E [cp. Laws 1. 638 A]; distinction between internal and external, ib. 470 A [cp. Laws 1. 628, 629]; the guilt of, always confined to a few persons, ib. 471 B; love of, especially characteristic of timocracy, 8. 547 E; cannot be easily waged by an oligarchy, ib. 551 E; the rich and the poor in war, ib. 556 C; a favourite resource of the tyrant, ib. 567 A.
Warrior, the brave, rewards of, 5. 468; his burial, ib. E; the warrior must know how to count, 7. 522 E, 525; must be a geometrician, ib. 526.
Waves, the three, 5. 457 C, 472 A, 473 C.
Weak, the, by nature subject to the strong, 1. 338 [cp. Gorg. 489; Laws 3. 690 B]; not capable of much, either for good or evil, 6. 491 E, 495 B.
Wealth, the advantage of, in old age, 1. 329, 330; the greatest blessing of, ib. 330, 331; the destruction of the arts, 4. 421; influence of, on the state, ib. 422 A [cp. Laws 4. 705; 5. 729 A]; the ‘sinews of war,’ ibid.; all-powerful in oligarchies and timocracies, 8. 548 A, 551 B, 553, 562 A; an impediment to virtue, ib. 550 E [cp. Laws 5. 728 A; 742 E; 8. 831, 836 A]; should only be acquired to a moderate amount, 9. 591 E [cp. Laws 7. 801 B]:
—the blind god of wealth (Pluto), 8. 554 B:
—Wealthy, the, everywhere hostile to the poor, 4. 423 A; 8. 551 E [cp. Laws 5. 736 A]; flattered by them, 5. 465 C; the wealthy and the wise, 6. 489 B; plundered by the multitude in democracies, 8. 564, 565.
Weaving, the art of, 3. 401 A; 5. 455 D.