Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 2 (of 5)

INDEX.

A.
“A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush,” a proverb among the Greeks, iv. 229.
“Abstain from beans,” meaning of the aphorism, i. 29.
Achelous, a river in Aetolia, v. 504.
Acrotatus, apothegm of, i. 400.
Actaeon, a beautiful youth of Corinth, murdered, iv. 313-315.
Ada, queen of Caria, sends delicacies to Alexander, i. 199.
Adimantus, admiral of the Corinthian fleet at the battle of Salamis, iv. 362;
his courage vindicated, 364.
Adrastus, anecdote of, i. 288.
Advice to a new-married couple, ii. 486-507.
Aeacus, his two sons, v. 466.
Aemilius Censorinus, v. 475.
Aemilius of Sybaris, v. 464.
Aemilius Paulus, sayings of, i. 232; iv. 202.
Aeolus, king of Etruria, v. 467.
Aeschines, quoted, Prom., i. 40;
anecdote of, 55;
Eumen., 59;
Frag., 163;
Prom., 299;
Ctesiphon, 334;
his early life, and concern in public affairs, v. 34;
incurs the hostility of Demosthenes, ib.;
accused by Demosthenes and acquitted, 34, 35;
impeaches Ctesiphon, is fined and exiled, 35;
his school at Rhodes, ib.;
his death, ib.;
his orations, ib.;
his public employments, 36.
Aeschylus, quoted, Septem, i. 210, 286, 315, 329, 493;
quoted, ii. 47;
anecdote of, 77, 160;
Frag., 48, 83, 127, 165, 374, 431, 458, 463, 474, 477;
quoted, iii. Frag., 24, 222;
quoted, iv. 20, 54, 385;
Frag., 276, 279;
quoted, v. Frag., 170;
Prom., 241, 320, 398.
Aesop, murdered by the citizens of Delphi, iv. 160;
their punishment, 161.
See Esop.
Agamedes and Trophonius built the temple at Delphi, i. 313.
Agasicles, apothegms of, i. 385.
Agatharchides the Samian, his Persian History, v. 451.
Agatho the Samian, v. 474.
Agathocles, anecdote of, i. 46; ii. 317.
Aged Men, Shall they meddle in State Affairs?, v. 64-96.
Agesianax quoted, v. 235, 236.
Agesilaus, reply of, i. 73, 219, 220;
his sayings and great actions, 385-397;
his upright character, ii. 109, 115, 319, 455;
his punishment, iii. 46, 79;
anecdote of, v. 67;
his faults, 118; 457;
his Italian History, 468.
Agesipolis, two of the name, apothegms of, i. 397, 398.
Agis, king of Sparta, his sayings, i. 218, 221;
anecdote of, v. 95.
Agis, son of Archidamus, apothegm of, i. 398.
Agis the Argive, ii. 125.
Agis the Last, apothegm of, i. 400.
Agis the Younger, apothegms of, i. 400.
Ajax’s soul, her place in Hell, iii. 442.
Alba, king of, torn in pieces by horses, v. 455.
Albinus, a Roman general, v. 453.
Alcaeus quoted, ii. 298; iii, 264.
Alcamenes, apothegm of, i. 400.
Alcibiades, i. 143;
his sayings, 211;
his lustful conduct, 489;
the prince of flatterers, ii. 108, 471;
failure of, 460;
spoke with hesitation, v. 110, 112.
Alcippus, a Lacedaemonian, banished for his virtue; his wife slays herself and her daughters, iv. 320-322.
Alcmaeon, saying of, i. 288;
philosophical opinions;
of the planets, iii. 140;
of hearing, 170;
of smelling, 170;
of taste, 170;
of the barrenness of mules, 182;
of embryos, 184;
of the formation of the body, 184;
of the cause of sleep, 188;
of health, sickness, and old age, 192.
Alcmaeonidae, unfairly represented by Herodotus, iv. 338, 347.
Alcman, quoted; Frag., i. 494; iii. 16; v. 279.
Aleuas the Thessalian, iii. 67.
Alexander of Macedon, and Porus, i. 45;
lament of, 140;
and Criso the runner, 152;
his sayings, 198-202;
the Fortune or Virtue of, 475-516;
anecdotes of, ii. 125, 138, 473;
his moderation, 475; iii. 29;
was he a great drinker, 219;
his purpose to attack the Romans, iv. 219; v. 140.
Alexander, tyrant of Pherae, his cruel temper softened by a play, i. 492.
Alexandridas, apothegm of, i. 401.
Alexarchus, his Italian History, v. 456.
Alexidemas, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41.
Alexinus the sophist, i. 76.
Alexis quoted, ii. 58.
Alpha, why placed first in the Alphabet, iii. 438.
Alpheus, a river in Arcadia, v. 501.
Amasis, king of Egypt, required to drink the ocean dry, ii. 13;
questions of, 16.
Ammonius, teacher of Plutarch, anecdote of, ii. 147.
Amphiaraus, quoted, i. 317;
his lance turned into a laurel, v. 455.
Amphidamas, poets meet at his grave in Chalcis, ii. 19.
Amphion, first invented playing on the harp and lyric poesy, i. 105.
Anarcharsis, and Eumetis, ii. 8;
his utterances at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 12, 15, 20, 21, 27, 39.
Anatole, a mountain, v. 482.
Anaxagoras, saying of, i. 159;
said the sun was red-hot metal, 179;
anecdote of, 332; ii. 357; iii. 35, 37;
philosophical opinions;
Homoeomeries, 108;
of the origin of bodies, 119;
how bodies are mixed, 126;
of fortune, 131;
of the world’s inclination, 136;
of the stars, 138, 140;
of the sun, 142, 143;
of the moon, 145, 147;
of the milky way, 149;
of shooting stars, 150;
of thunder, lightning and hurricanes, 151;
of the rainbow, 153;
of earthquakes, 157;
of the sea, 158;
of the overflow of the Nile, 160;
of the voice, 172;
of generation, 178;
of the generation of animals, 186;
of reason in animals, 187;
of sleep, 190; v. 145, 255.
Anaxander, apothegm of, i. 401.
Anaxilas, apothegm of, i. 402.
Anaximander, philosophical opinions;
of principles, iii. 107;
the stars were heavenly deities, 121;
of the stars, 140;
of the essence and magnitude of the sun, 141, 142;
of eclipses of the sun, 144;
of the moon, 145;
of fire from clouds, 150;
of winds, 154;
of the earth, 155;
of the sea, 158;
of the generation of animals, 186.
Anaximenes, philosophical opinions;
air is the principle of all beings, iii. 107;
of heaven, 137;
of the stars, 139, 140;
cause of summer and winter, 141;
of the shape of the sun and summer and winter solstice, 143;
of the moon, 146;
of clouds, 151;
of the rainbow, 153;
of the earth, 155;
of earthquakes, 157; v. 313.
Ancients, suppers of the, iii. 255-259.
Andocides, one of the ten Attic orators, v. 21-23;
of a noble family, 21;
accused of impious acts, 22;
his adventures in Cyprus, 22, 23;
his exile, 23;
his orations, ib.
Androclidas, apothegm of, i. 402.
Anecdotes of
Aeschylus, ii. 458.
Agathocles, i. 46.
Agesilaus, i. 73, 219, 220; v. 67, 118.
Agis, king of Sparta, v. 95.
Alcibiades, ii. 108, 109.
Alexander the Great, i. 45; ii. 473.
Ammonius, ii. 147.
Anaxagoras, i. 332.
Antigonus, i. 44, 47, 67, 202, 205, 334; iv. 231.
Antimachus, i. 307.
Antiochus Hierax, iii. 60.
Antipater, i. 64, 197, 205, 215.
Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 127.
Apelles the painter, i. 16, 153; ii. 122, 133.
Appius Claudius, v. 89.
Arcesilaus and Apelles, ii. 133.
Archelaus of Macedon, i. 67, 193.
Archidamus, i. 74.
Archimedes, ii. 174; v. 71.
Archytas of Tarentum, i. 18, 24.
Aristippus, i. 11, 55, 147, 459; ii. 55.
Athenian barber, iv. 238.
Attalus and Eumenes, iii. 61.
Augustus Caesar and Fulvius, iv. 235, 236.
Bocchoris, i. 63.
Brasidas, ii. 458.
Caesar, i. 293; iv. 204, 205; v. 67.
Cato, i. 295; ii. 490.
Cato and Catulus, i. 73.
Cleon, v. 100, 116.
Corinna, v. 404.
Crassus, i. 288, 290.
Croesus and Solon, ii. 122.
Demades and Phocion, ii. 298.
Demaratus and Philip, ii. 146.
Demetrius Phalereus, ii. 145; iii. 21.
Demosthenes, i. 15, 65, 334; ii. 460; v. 43-53.
Diogenes, i. 51, 67, 141, 142, 166, 283, 285, 311, 487; ii. 455, 458; iii, 21, 29.
Diogenes and Philip, ii. 147.
Diogenes and the mouse, ii. 453.
Dion, i. 64, 333.
Dionysius of Syracuse, i. 83, 152, 493; ii. 108, 140; iv. 238.
Epaminondas, v. 72, 95, 101, 120, 121, 125, 401.
Euclid, i. 55.
Eudoxus, ii. 174.
Eumenes, iii. 61; iv. 232.
Fulvius and Augustus, iv. 235, 236.
Hiero, i. 291.
Hyperides, v. 55, 56.
Isocrates, v. 31.
Leaena, iv. 229, 230.
Lucretia, i. 355.
Lycurgus, the lawgiver, i. 7.
Lycurgus, the orator, v. 39.
Lysander, i. 72; ii. 495.
Lysias, iv. 226.
Magas, i. 45.
Menander, v. 403.
Nasica, i. 285.
Nero, v. 123.
Nicias, the Athenian general, i. 177.
Nicias, the painter, ii. 173; v. 71.
Nicostratus and Archidamus, i. 74.
Olympias, ii. 494, 495.
Pericles, i. 15, 18, 66, 211, 332; ii. 309, 315; v. 67, 106.
Philip of Macedon, i. 305; ii. 146, 147, 494.
Phocion, ii. 298; v. 118.
Pindar, v. 404.
Pisistratus, iii. 41.
Plato, i. 71.
Plato and Socrates, ii. 148.
Polemon, i. 55.
Pompey, v. 70.
Postumia, i. 290.
Priest of Hercules, iii. 90.
Prometheus, i. 289.
Ptolemy Lagus, i. 45.
Pythagoras, ii. 174.
Roman Senator and his wife, iv. 233-235.
Scaurus, i. 295.
Scilurus, a Scythian king, iv. 244.
Seleucus Callinicus, iv. 237.
Seneca, i. 53.
Simonides, v. 68.
Socrates, i. 11, 13, 23, 26, 38, 53, 141, 150.
Socrates and Plato, ii. 148.
Solon, v. 89.
Solon and Croesus, ii. 122.
Sophocles, v. 68.
Stasicrates, i. 495.
Stilpo the philosopher, ii. 468.
Stratonicus, iii. 21.
Sylla, v. 72.
Terpander, i. 91, 92.
Themistocles, i. 73, 290, 296; iii. 21; v. 120.
Theramenes, i. 306.
Timotheus the musician, i. 92.
Valeria, i. 356.
Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, i. 53, 292.
Xenocrates, i. 71.
Xenophon, i. 333.
Xerxes and Ariamenes, iii. 59, 60.
Zeno, i. 72, 142, 283; ii. 455; iii. 25; iv. 225.
Anger, concerning the cure of, i. 33-59.
Animal Food, shall it be eaten? Of Eating of Flesh, v. 3-16.
Animals, generation of, iii. 186;
how many species of, 187;
appetites and pleasures of, 191;
ails and cures of, 510;
their intelligence, v. 157-217.
Anius, king of the Tuscans, v. 475.
Antalcidas, his sayings, i. 222, 402;
his reply to a railing Athenian, v. 125.
Anthes, the first author of hymns, i. 105.
Anthias, the sacred fish, v. 208.
Anthipphus, Lydian harmony first used by, i. 114.
Antichthon, the, iii. 155.
Antigonus, anecdote of, i. 25;
saying of, 44, 47, 67, 202, 205, 334, 484; iv. 231.
Antigonus the Second, his sayings, i. 205; ii. 319.
Antimachus, anecdote of, i. 308.
Antiochus and Charicles, iii. 49.
Antiochus and Seleucus, iii. 60.
Antiochus, apothegm of, i. 403.
Antiochus Hierax, anecdotes of, i. 206; iii. 60.
Antiochus Sidetes, anecdotes of, i. 207.
Antiochus the Spartan, his saying, i. 221.
Antiochus the Third, anecdotes of, i. 206.
Antipater, anecdotes of, i. 64, 197, 205, 215; ii. 135, 298; iii. 517; v. 49.
Antiperistasis of motion, v. 435.
Antiphanes, witty saying of his, ii. 456.
Antiphon, one of the ten Attic orators, ii. 142; v. 17-21;
his birth, education, &c., 17;
wrote speeches for others, ib.;
a man of great talent and learning, 18;
concerned in the revolution which subverted the popular government, ib.;
on the overthrow of the oligarchical party he was involved in their ruin, ib.;
number of his orations, 19;
decree of the senate against him, 20;
his condemnation and punishment, 21;
opinion concerning the moon, iii. 146;
of the sea, 158.
Antisthenes quoted, i. 77, 289, 496; v. 125.
Antony and Cleopatra, ii. 127.
Apelles, the painter, anecdotes of, i. 16, 153;
his picture of Alexander, 494;
and Megabyzus, ii. 122;
and Arcesilaus, 133.
Aphareus, adopted son of Isocrates, wrote orations and tragedies, v. 32.
Apis, the sacred bull of the Egyptians, iv. 68;
slain by Ochus, king of Persia, 74, 92.
Apollo and the dragon Python, iv. 20.
Apollo, inventor of the flute and harp, i. 113.
Apollo, temple of, iv. 478-498;
the inscription ει over its gate, 479.
Apollodorus, first invented the mixing of colors and the softening of shadows, v. 400.
Apollonides, of shadow, v. 265;
of spots in the moon, 269.
Apollonis of Cyzicum, iii. 41.
Apollonius, consolation to, i. 299-339.
Apollonius, the Peripatetic, iii. 57.
Apothegms of Kings and Great Commanders, i. 185-250.
Agathocles, sayings of, i. 193.
Agesilaus, 219.
Agis, 218-221.
Alcibiades, 211.
Alexander the Great, 198-202.
Antalcidas, 222.
Antigonus, 202.
Antigonus the Second, 205.
Antiochus Sidetes, 207.
Antiochus the Spartan, 221.
Antiochus the Third, 206.
Antipater, 205.
Archelaus, 193.
Archidamus, 218.
Aristides, 210.
Artaxerxes Longimanus, 187.
Artaxerxes Mnemon, 188.
Ateas, 189.
Augustus Caesar, 248-250.
Brasidas, 218.
Caecilius Metellus, 239.
Caius Fabricius, 227.
Caius Marius, 239.
Caius Popilius, 240.
Cato the Elder, 233-235.
Chabrias, 213.
Charillus, 217.
Cicero, 244.
Cneus Domitius, 231.
Cneus Pompeius, 241-244.
Cotys, 189.
Cyrus the Elder, 186.
Cyrus the Younger, 188.
Darius, 186.
Demetrius, 204.
Demetrius Phalereus, 217.
Dion, 193.
Dionysius the Elder, 191.
Dionysius the Younger, 192.
Epaminondas, 222-226.
Eudaemonidas, 221.
Eumenes of Pergamus, 206.
Fabius Maximus, 227-228.
Gelo, 190.
Hegesippus, 213.
Hiero, 190.
Idathyrsus, 189.
Iphicrates, 212.
Lucullus, 241.
Lycurgus, 217.
Lysander, 219.
Lysimachus, 205.
Manius Curius, 226.
Memnon, 189.
Nicostratus, 221.
Orontes, 188.
Parysatis, 188.
Paulus Aemilius, 232.
Pelopidas, 225.
Pericles, 211.
Philip of Macedon, 194-198.
Phocion, 213, 216.
Pisistratus, 216.
Poltys, 189.
Ptolemy Lagus, 202.
Pyrrhus the Epirot, 207.
Pytheas, 213.
Scilurus, 190.
Scipio Junior, 235-239.
Scipio the Elder, 229.
Semiramis, 187.
Teres, 189.
Themistocles, 208.
Theopompus, 217.
Timotheus, 212.
Titus Quinctius, 230.
Xerxes, 187.
Appius Claudius, anecdote of, v. 89.
Apple tree, of the, iii. 333.
Arar, a river in Gaul, v. 484.
Aratus, quoted, iii. 116;
of the stars, 141;
quoted, 334, 497; iv. 98; v. 112;
quoted, 177.
Araxes, a river in Armenia, v. 506.
Arcadian prophet in Herodotus, iii. 38.
Arcadio the Archaean, saying of, i. 44.
Arcesilaus, i. 53, 148;
quoted, 258, 315;
and Battus, ii. 115;
his kindness to Apelles, 133; v. 371.
Archelaus, king of Macedon, anecdote of, i. 67, 193.
Archelaus, his opinions concerning principles, iii. 109.
Archias, ii. 379 et seq.; iv. 314, 315.
Archidamidas, apothegms of, i. 404.
Archidamus, i. 4, 74, 218, 404; ii. 379 et seq.
Archilochus the poet, banished from Sparta, i. 96;
quoted, 97;
his improvements in music, 122, 123, 177;
phrase of, ii. 17, 61, 84; iii. 26; v. 108, 216, 320.
Archimedes, of the sun’s diameter, v. 71;
anecdote of, ii. 173, 174.
Archytas of Tarentum, anecdotes of, i. 18, 24.
Ardalus, a minstrel at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 11, 12.
Aregeus, apothegm of, i. 403.
Aretades Cnidus, his Macedonian History, v. 458;
his Second Book of Islands, 467.
Aretaphila, her fortitude and virtue, i. 367.
Argive women, their repulse of the Spartan army, i. 346.
Argives, wrestling matches of, i. 121;
imposed a fine for playing with more than seven strings, 130;
combat of the, with the Lacedaemonians, v. 452.
Ariamenes yields the throne of Persia to his younger brother Xerxes, iii. 59.
Arion and the dolphins, ii. 33-36.
Aristarchus, iii. 36;
concerning the eclipse of the sun, 144; v. 246.
Aristides, his Persian History, v. 453.
Aristides, his sayings, i. 210.
Aristides Milesius, his Italian History, v. 451, 452, 453, 458, 459, 460, 462, 463, 465, 466, 469, 473, 474, 475, 476;
Italian Commentaries, 461;
quoted, 462.
Aristippus, anecdotes of, i. 11, 55, 79, 147; ii. 295, 459.
Aristo of Chios, ii. 369.
Aristobolus, his Third Book of Italian History, v. 470.
Aristocles, Third Book of his Italian History, v. 466, 476.
Aristoclia, a beautiful maiden, iv. 312, 313.
Aristodemus, his Third Collection of Fables, v. 472.
Aristodemus, king of Messenia, i. 177.
Aristodemus the Epicurean, ii. 158, 159, 180.
Aristomenes, preceptor of Ptolemy, ii. 149.
Ariston, apothegm of, i. 403; iii. 18;
his opinion of moral virtue, 462; v. 111.
Aristonicus the musician, i. 494.
Aristonymus, a woman hater, v. 468.
Aristophanes, his comedy of “The Clouds,” i. 23;
quoted, 79, 125, 500;
quoted, ii. 78, 149, 429;
his coarseness and buffoonery, iii. 11;
compared with Menander, 11-14;
quoted, iv. 196, 273;
quoted, v. 42, 405.
Aristotinus, tyranny of, i. 357-363; v. 172.
Aristotle, quoted, i. 37; 50;
on harmony, 119; 155, 272, 326;
the teacher of Alexander, 478, ii. 302, 319;
letter of, 455;
his philosophical opinions; of nature, 105;
of principles and elements, 106;
of God, 121;
of matter, 123;
of ideas, 123;
of causes, 124;
of a vacuum, 127;
of motion, 128;
of fortune, 131;
of the world, 133, 134, 135;
of vacuum, 137;
of the world, 137;
of heaven, 137;
of the stars, 140;
of the sun, 142;
of the summer and winter solstices, 143;
of the moon, 146;
of the milky way, 148, 149;
of comets, 149;
of thunder and lightning, 151;
of earthquakes, 157;
of tides, 159;
of the motion of the soul, 164;
of the senses, 166;
of the voice, 172;
of generative seed, 177;
of the sperm, 177;
of emission of women, 177;
of conception, 178;
of generation, 179;
of the first form in the womb, 184;
of seven months’ children, 185;
of the species of animals, 187;
of sleep, 189;
of plants, 190;
quoted, 225, 226;
opinions concerning the soul, 465;
opinion concerning a plurality of worlds, iv. 33;
concerning prophetic inspiration, 54; v. 189, 253, 262, 313, 316, 355;
quoted, 439;
the Second Book of Paradoxes, 468.
Aristoxenus, of music, i. 114, 115, 125, 134.
Arsinoe, Queen, i. 319.
Artaxerxes Longimanus, his sayings, i. 187.
Artaxerxes Mnemon, his sayings, i. 188.
Aruntius and Medullina, v. 463.
Asclepiades, opinions: of the soul, iii. 161;
of respiration, 174;
of two or three children at one birth, 180;
animals in the womb, 188;
of health, sickness, and old age, 193.
Aster the archer, v. 456.
Astycratidas, apothegm of, i. 405.
Ateas, saying of, i. 189; ii. 177.
Atepomarus, king of the Gauls, v. 469.
Atheism and superstition compared, i. 168 et seq.
Athenian citizens, their number, v. 42;
their temper and disposition, 100.
Athenians, whether they were more renowned for their warlike achievements, or for their learning, v. 399-411.
Athenodorus, memorable action of, iii. 50.
Athens, was a democracy, v. 397;
the nurse of history, of painting, and poetry, 400, 401;
not renowned for epic or lyric verse, 404.
Atoms, doctrine of, v. 345-348.
Atreus and Thyestes, v. 470, 471.
Attalus and Eumenes, their kindness and fidelity to each other, iii. 61, 62.
Attica, invasion of, by Datis, v. 450, 451.
Augustus Caesar, his sayings, i. 248-250;
the favored son of Fortune, iv. 205; v. 67.
Augustus Caesar and Fulvius, anecdote of, iv. 235, 236.
Autobulus, v. 156 et seq.
Autumn, dreams in, iii. 432.
B.
Baccho, iv. 256, 264, 269.
Bacchus, ii. 12, 29.
Ballenaeus, mount, v. 492.
Banishment, or flying one’s country, iii. 15-35.
Banquet of the Seven Wise Men; Solon, Bias, Thales, Anacharsis, Cleobulus, Pittacus, Chilo, ii. 3-41.
Barley, sow, in dust, iii. 505.
Barrenness in women, iii. 181.
Barrenness of mules, iii. 182.
Bashfulness, i. 60-77.
Basilocles, iii. 69, 70.
Baths, hot and cold, iii. 512.
Battus, ii. 115.
Bear, cunning of the, v. 185.
Bears, flesh of, iii. 509.
Beasts, flesh of sacrificial, iii. 361.
Bees, cannot abide smoke, iii. 515;
stinging of, 516.
Bellerophon, fable of, i. 351.
Berecyntus, mount, v. 490.
Berosus concerning the eclipse of the moon, iii. 146.
Bewitching, power of, iii. 327.
Bias, quoted, i. 17, 406;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 4, 14, 128.
Bion, saying of, i. 76;
his opinion concerning the punishment of children for the sins of their fathers, iv. 171;
saying of, v. 170.
Bird or the egg, which was first, iii. 242-246.
Birds, prophetic nature of, v. 193.
Birth, two or three at one, iii. 180.
Birthdays of famous men, iii. 400.
Biton and Cleobis, their filial piety, i. 313.
Boar and the toil, iii. 512.
Bocchoris, anecdote of, i. 63.
Bodies, of, iii. 124;
division of, 126;
how mixed with one another, 126.
Body, passions of the, iii. 175;
what part is first formed, 184;
diseases of the, iv. 504-508.
Boedromion, month of, iii. 444.
Boethus, his opinion concerning comets, iii. 150.
Book of Rivers, v. 455.
Brasidas, apothegm of, i. 218; ii. 458.
Brennus, king of the Gauls, v. 460.
Britain, longevity in, iii. 193.
Brixaba, mount, v. 494.
Brotherly love, iii. 36-68.
Brute animals, ails and cures of, iii. 510;
their intelligence; which are the more crafty, water or land animals? v. 157-217.
Brute beasts make use of reason, v. 218-233.
Bucephalus, the horse, v. 183.
Bulimy, or the greedy disease, iii. 355.
Busiris, king of Egypt, strangers murdered by, v. 474.
C.
Caecilius Metellus, apothegm of, i. 239.
Caesar, Augustus, his sayings, i. 248-250;
anecdote of, iv. 205;
and Fulvius, 235, 236; v. 67, 132.
Caesar, C. Julius, his sayings, i. 246-248;
his magnanimity, 293;
his reliance on fortune, iv. 205.
Caesar, Tiberius, sayings of, i. 277; ii. 126; iii. 23.
Caicus, a river, v. 503.
Caius Fabricius, apothegm of, i. 227.
Caius Gracchus, i. 40; v. 99.
Caius Marius, apothegm of, i. 239.
Caius Maximus, and his two sons, v. 466.
Caius Popilius, apothegm of, i. 240.
Callicratidas, apothegms of, i. 412;
saying of, ii. 187.
Callimachus, saying of, i. 323; iii. 23, 118, 321.
Callisthenes, saying of, i. 37;
his Book of Transformations, v. 454;
Third Book of the Macedonics, 456;
Third Book of History of Thrace, v. 469.
Calpurnius Crassus, liberated from captivity, v. 465.
Calpurnius and Florentia, v. 467.
Calydon, mount, v. 505.
Camillus, anecdote of, iv. 204.
Camma, the Galatian, her revenge, i. 372.
Canus the piper, v. 71.
Caphene and Nymphaeus, i. 348.
Caphisias, ii. 379 et seq.
Carneades, i. 160;
a striking observation of his, ii. 123.
Cassius, a Roman traitor, v. 457.
Castor and Pollux, iii. 48.
Cato and Catulus, anecdotes of, i. 73.
Cato, saying of, i. 61;
and Catulus, 73; 261;
his integrity, 295;
his sayings, ii. 42, 72, 76, 318; v. 10, 66, 67;
anecdotes of, 83, 112, 120, 123, 144, 155.
Cato the Elder, apothegms of, i. 233-235;
anecdote of, ii. 490.
Catoptrics, doctrine of the, v. 257.
Cattle, salt given to, iii. 497.
Catulus, v. 457.
Caucasus, mount, v. 483.
Caudine Forks, defeat of the Romans at the, v. 452, 453.
Causes, of, iii. 123.
Causes of sleep and death, iii. 188.
Celtic women, virtue of the, i. 347.
Cephisocrates, ii. 133.
Cephisophan, a rhetorician, i. 98.
Ceres, mistress of earthly things, v. 285, 286.
Chabrias, his sayings, i. 213.
Chaeremon quoted, Frag., ii. 475.
Chameleon, the, v. 202.
Chaplet of flowers at table, iii. 260-265.
Charicles and Antiochus, iii. 49.
Charillus, his sayings, i. 217, 432; ii. 97, 116.
Charon, the Theban, ii. 381.
Chasms in the earth closed by men leaping into them, v. 454.
Chersias at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41.
Chian women, virtue of the, i. 344.
Children, training of, i. 3-32;
similitude to their parents, iii. 180;
similitude to strangers, 181.
Chilo, i. 280;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41.
Chilon, saying of, i. 471.
Chiomara of Galatia, i. 374.
Chorus of the Aeantis, iii. 226-228.
Chorus of the Leontis, iii. 226.
Chromatic scale, in music, i. 117.
Chrysermus, his Peloponnesian History, v. 452;
Second Book of Histories, 457.
Chrysippus, ii. 87;
his opinion concerning fate, iii. 130;
of moral virtue, 462;
his doctrines refuted, 488; iv. 372 et seq., 428-477; v. 205;
his opinion concerning the cause of cold combated, 324;
First Book of Italian History, 468.
Cicero, apothegm of, i. 244; ii. 310; v. 96.
Cilician geese, v. 175.
Cinesias, the lyric poet, i. 180.
Cinna stoned to death, v. 469.
Cios, maids of, i. 354.
Circe, her supposed conversation with Ulysses, v. 218-219.
Cithaeron, mount, v. 479.
Cleanthes, his opinion concerning the stars, iii. 139, 140; v. 176, 420.
Cleobis and Biton, i. 313.
Cleobulus at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41.
Cleodemus, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
first brought the cupping-glass into request, 20.
Cleodorus, the physician, ii. 16.
Cleombrotus, i. 413; iv. 3, 4, 26.
Cleomenes, v. 161.
Cleomenes, apothegms of, i. 346, 413, 416.
Cleon, anecdotes of, v. 100, 116.
Clisthenes, vindicated from the aspersions of Herodotus, iv. 343.
Clitonymus, his Italian History, v. 458;
Second Book of his Sybaritics, v. 464.
Clitophon, his First Book of Gallican History, v. 460.
Cloelia and Valeria, i. 356.
Clonas, a musical composer, i. 107, 109.
Clouds, eruption of fire out of the, iii. 150;
rain, hail, and snow, 151.
Cneus Domitius, apothegm of, i. 231.
Cneus Pompeius, apothegms of, i. 241-244.
Cocles, the Roman, v. 145.
Codrus, king of Athens, v. 462.
Coeranus and the dolphins, v. 215.
Cold, First Principle of, v. 309-330.
Color, does it exist in the dark, v. 344, 345.
Colors, of, iii. 125.
Colotes, the Epicurean, ii. 187;
book written by, v. 338;
misrepresents Democritus, 341;
his doctrines, 349;
misrepresents Plato, 355, 356;
falls at the feet of Epicurus, 360;
disparagement of Socrates, 361;
against Stilpo, 367;
assaults the Philosophers, 367;
condemns the opinion of Epicurus, 368;
Cyrenaic philosophers ridiculed, 369;
treats Arcesilaus unfairly, 371;
absurdity of Epicureanism, 373;
opinions of Epicurus, 374;
danger of his doctrines, 377, 378, 338-385.
Comets and shooting fires, iii. 149.
Comminius Super, a Laurentine, v. 472.
Common conceptions against the Stoics, iv. 372-427.
Comparison between the actions of the Greeks and Romans, v. 450-476.
Comparison betwixt Aristophanes and Menander, iii. 11-14.
Conception, how it is made, iii. 178.
Concerning Music, i. 102-135.
Concerning such whom God is slow to punish, iv. 140-188.
Concerning the fortune of the Romans, iv. 198-219.
Concerning the virtues of women, i. 340-384.
Conciseness of speech, recommended, iv. 243;
examples given, 243, 244.
Conjugal Precepts; Advice to a New-married Couple, ii. 486-507.
Consolation to Apollonius, i. 299-339.
Consolatory Letter from Plutarch to his Wife, Timoxena, on Occasion of the Death of their Daughter, two years old, v. 386-394.
Contingent and possible defined, v. 299.
Contradictions of the Stoics, iv. 428-477.
Cora and Proserpine, v. 285.
Corinna, anecdote of, v. 404.
Corinthian Hall at Delphi, iii. 80-82.
Cornelius Scipio, consul, v. 96, 112, 114, 136.
Cotys, his sayings, i. 189.
Crabs charmed by fifes, v. 163.
Cranes, flight of, v. 175, 203.
Crantor, quoted, i. 300, 304, 324, 326;
his opinion of the soul, ii. 327, 328, 345, 349, 360.
Crassus, anecdotes of, i. 288, 290; v. 125.
Crassus Calpurnius, v. 465.
Crassus’s mullet, v. 196.
Crates, i. 141;
saying of, 495; ii. 145, 321;
opinion of the stars, iii. 140; v. 419, 423.
Cratinus the comic poet, v. 410.
Crato, iii. 198.
Creon’s daughter, i. 472.
Cretinus, the Magnesian, v. 121.
Criticism on passages in Homer, ii. 69-72, 74-84, 89, 90, 91.
Criticism on Sophocles, ii. 72.
Critolaus, his History of the Epirots, v. 455;
Fourth Book of Celestial Appearances, 457.
Crocodile, story of a, v. 196, 206, 210.
Croesus, ii. 122; iii. 85; iv. 339.
Cronium, mount, v. 501.
Ctesiphon, his Third Book of the Boeotian History, v. 458.
Ctesiphon the Pancratiast, i. 42.
Curatii and Horatii, v. 461.
Cure of anger, i. 33-59.
Curiosity, of, ii. 424-445;
mischiefs of vain, iv. 236.
Cuttle-fish, sign of a storm, iii. 505;
wariness of the, v. 200.
Cyanippus, a Syracusan, v. 462.
Cyanippus, a Thessalian, v. 463.
Cyclades islands, iii. 24.
Cycloborus, a brook near Athens, v. 110.
Cynaegirus, an Athenian commander, story of, v. 450.
Cyprus, female parasites of, called Steps, ii. 103.
Cyrus the Elder, his sayings, i. 186; ii. 319;
enlarges the Persian empire, iv. 85.
Cyrus the Younger, his sayings, i. 188.
D.
Daemon of Socrates, Discourse concerning the, ii. 378-423.
Daemons, their nature, attributes, and actions, iv. 14 et seq.;
some of them are malignant and cruel, 19;
they are mortal, 15, 23, 24;
vainglorious, 28;
have the care of oracles, 21, 27;
sometimes have quarrels and combats with one another, 27;
our souls are by nature endued with similar powers, 50 et seq.;
in the Moon, v. 289;
will of the, 304;
providence of the, 307, 308.
Damindas, apothegm of, i. 407.
Damis, apothegm of, i. 406.
Damonidas, apothegm of, i. 406.
Darius, his sayings, i. 186, 502; v. 458.
Darkness, whether visible, iii. 169.
Datis, a Persian commander, his invasion of Attica, v. 450.
Daughters who had carnal knowledge of their fathers, v. 464.
Death appertains to soul or body, iii. 189.
Death a reward for distinguished piety; illustrated by the cases of Biton and Cleobis, of Agamedes and Trophonius, of Pindar and Euthynous, i. 313, 314.
Death of fire is the generation of air, v. 316.
Death the brother of sleep, i. 311.
Debates at entertainments, iii. 394.
Debt, Evils of. Against running in Debt, or Taking up Money upon Usury, v. 412-424.
Debt of nature, i. 309.
Decius of Rome, v. 462.
Decrees proposed to the Athenians, v. 58.
Deity, knowledge of a, whence derived, iii. 115.
Delay of Providence in Punishing the Wicked. De sera Numinis Vindicta, iv. 140-188.
Delight in hearing the passions of men represented, iii. 314.
Delphi, a walk in, iii. 69;
the statues there, 70;
atmosphere of, 72;
ancient oracles of, 73;
Corinthian Hall at, 80-82;
statue of Phryne, 83.
Delphic Oracle, inscription on the, Know thyself, and Nothing too much, i. 328.
Demades and Phocion, anecdotes of, ii. 298; v. 108, 141.
Demaratus and Philip, anecdote of, ii. 146.
Demaratus, apothegm of, i. 407, 482;
his Second Book of Arcadian History, v. 461.
Demetrius Phalereus, his saying, i. 217;
anecdotes of, ii. 145; iii. 21; v. 145.
Demetrius, his sayings, i. 204.
Demetrius of Tarsus, comes to Delphi, iv. 3.
Demochares, a nephew of Demosthenes, procures a statue to be set up for his uncle, v. 58-60;
a decree for a statue for himself, 60, 61.
Democracy and Oligarchy, v. 395-398.
Democrates, saying of, v. 109.
Democritus, saying of, i. 22, 263, 275; ii. 440; iii. 7;
his philosophical opinions, 121, 123, 126, 127, 128, 129, 132, 133, 135, 139, 140, 142, 145, 149, 155, 156, 157, 160, 162, 163, 164, 166, 168, 169, 171, 176, 177, 179, 183, 187, 227;
his opinions misrepresented, v. 341;
his doctrine concerning atoms, 345, 346, 381.
Demodocus, i. 105.
Demonides, the cripple, ii. 51.
Demosthenes, the orator, anecdotes of, i. 15, 65;
quoted, 67, 286, 325;
anecdote of, 334, 481;
quoted, ii. 145, 300, 312, 313;
anecdote of, 460;
quoted, iv. 212;
quoted, v. 34, 35;
sketch of his life, 43-53;
his birth, education, and early years, 43;
calls his guardians to account, ib.;
is chosen choregus, 44;
his methods to obtain excellence in speaking, ib.;
opposes the designs of Philip, 45;
describes “action” as of supreme importance in oratory, ib.;
his early failures as an orator, ib.;
defends the Olynthians, 46;
is admired by Philip, though an enemy, ib.;
his magnanimity, 47;
his conduct at Chaeronea, ib.;
his patriotism, ib.;
the oration for the Crown, ib.;
accused of receiving a bribe, 48;
his exile, ib.;
recalled, ib.;
returns to the administration of public affairs, 49;
leaves Athens to avoid being delivered up to Antipater, ib.;
his death, 50;
his family, ib.;
honors paid to his memory, 51;
anecdotes of him, 49, 50-53;
his great temperance, 53;
his public services recounted in a decree, 58-60;
quoted, 69, 109, 110, 124, 138, 146, 409, 411, 447, 448.
Dercyllidas, apothegm of, i. 407.
Dercyllus, his First Book of Foundations, v. 461;
Third Book of Italian History, 474.
Destiny, or fate, iii. 130.
Deucalion [like Noah] sent forth a dove from the ark, and with like purpose, v. 179.
Diagoras the Melian, iii. 118.
Diana Orthia, rites of, i. 98.
Dicaearchus, opinion concerning the soul, iii. 161;
of divination, 176; v. 93.
Dignity of places at table, iii. 210, 212.
Dinarchus, an Athenian orator, v. 57, 58;
becomes rich, 57;
his exile in Chalcis, 58;
restored, ib.;
his orations, ib.
Diocles, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
his philosophical opinions, iii. 179, 182, 185, 192.
Diogenes Laertius quoted, i. 77.
Diogenes, quoted, i. 4, 12;
anecdotes of, 51, 67, 141, 142, 166, 283, 285, 311, 487;
quoted, ii. 58, 155, 193; 455, 458, 465, 466;
story of the mouse, 453; iii. 21, 27, 29, 31;
his philosophical opinions, 132, 136, 138, 143, 148, 163, 183, 187, 189, 494; iv. 311; v. 8, 65.
Diogenes and Philip, ii. 147.
Diogenianus, iii. 71, 73, et seq.
Diomedes, ii. 41;
liberated from captivity, v. 465.
Dion, example of, i. 64, 193, 333.
Dionysius, tyrant of Sicily, does not relish the Lacedaemonian broth, i. 83;
his unreasonable anger, 152;
his sayings, 449, 484, 491;
his ungenerous behavior, 493;
parasites of, ii. 166; 314;
anecdote of, iv. 238.
Dionysius and Plato, ii. 108, 140.
Dionysius the Elder, his sayings, i. 191; v. 84.
Dionysius the Younger, his sayings, i. 192, 501.
Diophantus, saying of, i. 4.
Diorphus, mount, v. 507.
Discourse to an Unlearned Prince, iv. 323-330.
Diseases of the body, iv. 504-508.
Divination, of, iii. 176; iv. 59.
Dog, habit of biting of stones, iii. 516;
affection for his master, v. 180, 182, 184;
docility of the, 191.
Dolphin, sagacity of the, v. 200;
nature of the, 204;
story of a, 213;
its love of music, 214;
stories of affection of, 215, 216.
Dolphin and Arion, ii. 33-36;
and the lad of Jasus, v. 215.
Domitian is mentioned [which fixes the era of Plutarch], ii. 443.
Domitius, anecdote of, i. 288, 295; v. 125.
Dorian Mood of music, i. 109, 115.
Dorians pray for bad making of their hay, iii. 504.
Dorotheus, his First Book of Transformations, v. 466;
his Fourth Book of Italian History, v. 463.
Dositheus, his Third Book of Sicilian History, v. 463, 471, 472, 474;
Third Book of Lydian History, 469;
his Pelopidae, 471;
First Book of Italian History, 475.
Dream, a romantic, ii. 407-411.
Dreams and Omens, ii. 401, 402.
Dreams in Autumn, iii. 432.
Dreams, whence do they arise, iii. 176.
Drink either five or three, iii. 282-284.
Drink passeth through the lungs, iii. 363.
E.
Earth, its nature and magnitude, iii. 154;
figure of the, 155;
site and position of the, 155;
inclination of the, 155;
motion of the, 156;
zones of the, 156;
exhalations from the, iv. 53;
its form and its place, v. 247;
an instrument of time, 439.
Earthquakes, of, iii. 157.
Echo, what gives the, iii. 172.
Eclipse of the moon, iii. 146.
Eclipses of the sun, iii. 144.
Ecphantus, his opinion concerning the motion of the earth, iii. 156.
Egg or the bird, which was first, iii. 242-246.
Egypt, its Religion and Philosophy; of Isis and Osiris, or of the Ancient Religion and Philosophy of Egypt, iv. 65-139.
Egyptian skeleton at feasts, ii. 7.
Egyptians in Ethiopia, iii. 20.
Ει at Apollo’s temple at Delphi, iv. 479-498.
Eleans, the, v. 426.
Elements, mixture of the, iii. 126.
Elephant, understanding of the, v. 178;
stories of, 178;
of King Porus, 183;
most beloved by the Gods, 187;
amour of the, 188;
chirurgery of the, 192.
Elephas, mount, v. 478.
Elysian fields in the moon, v. 289.
Elysius the Terinean, vision of, i. 314.
Embryo, how nourished, iii. 183;
is an animal, ib.
Empedocles, i. 59;
saying of, 158, 469;
quoted, ii. 49, 195; 357;
quoted, iii. 34, 81;
his philosophical opinions, 112, 114, 125-129, 131, 132, 136-138, 143, 145, 147, 154, 158, 163, 165, 168-170, 173, 178-184, 188-191;
quoted, 209, 262, 293, 333, 497, 509, 518;
quoted, iv. 21, 52, 85, 87, 108, 273;
quoted, v. 169, 239, 246, 249, 252, 255, 318, 348, 350, 351;
misunderstood by Colotes, 351;
quoted, 381, 420, 421, 439.
Emprepes, apothegm of, i. 408.
Enemies, how a man may profit by his, i. 280-298.
Entertainment, late to an, iii. 417.
Envy and Hatred, ii. 95-99.
Epaminondas, his sayings, i. 222-226, 277;
his great actions, 225;
his consistency of character, ii. 109; 182, 185, 309, 313, 319, 381, 396, 399, 414; iii. 6; v. 72, 75, 95, 101, 121, 125;
his invasion of Laconia, 401, 407, 458.
Epaminondas, son of, beheaded, v. 458.
Ephorus, his opinion concerning the overflowing of the Nile, iii. 161.
Epicharmus, quoted, i. 315, 496; ii. 141; iv. 242.
Epicureans, misrepresentations of the, v. 352-354.
Epicurus, quoted, i. 138, 139, 159;
famous sentence of, ii. 92;
his doctrine; refutation of it; pleasure is not attainable, 157-203;
reverence of his brothers, iii. 57;
his philosophical opinions, 111, 122, 124, 127, 128, 131, 134, 135, 139, 142, 143, 151, 163, 164, 165, 169, 177, 183;
opinions of, v. 350, 374;
danger of his doctrines, 377, 378;
disciples of, 383, 385.
Epigenes, opinion concerning comets, iii. 150.
Epimenides, long sleep of, v. 66; 279.
Erasistratus, his opinion of the soul, iii. 163;
of superfetation, 180;
his definition of a fever, 192.
Eratosthenes, his philosophical opinions: of time, iii. 128;
of the sun, 147; v. 456.
Erectheus, sacrifice of his daughter, v. 463.
Eryxo of Cyrene, i. 378.
Esop, fable of, ii. 11, 12, 16, 19-22, 23;
dog of, 25;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 3-41; iii. 63, 202.
Eteocles the Theban, i. 257.
Euboea, king of, drawn in pieces by horses, v. 455.
Euboidas, apothegm of, i. 408.
Euclid, anecdote of, i. 55; ii. 173.
Euclides, his brotherly love, iii. 61.
Euctus and Eulaeus, ii. 146.
Eudaemonidas, his sayings, i. 221.
Eudamidas, apothegm of, i. 408.
Eudemus, of matter, ii. 334.
Eudorus, system of numbers, ii. 343, 345.
Eudoxus, anecdotes of, ii. 174;
his opinion of the cause of winter and summer, iii. 141;
of the overflow of the Nile, 161.
Euemerus, his opinion of God, iii. 118.
Eumenes of Pergamus, his sayings, i. 206;
anecdotes of, iii. 61, iv. 232.
Eumetis at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
her riddle, 20.
Euphorion quoted, iii. 321.
Euphranor, the painter, v. 400.
Euphrates, the river, v. 502.
Eupolis, saying of, ii. 112.
Euripides, quoted, i. 3, 158, 291, 300, 301, 302, 308, 320, 329, 330, 335, 458;
Hippol., 4, 14, 471;
Protesilaus, 23;
Dictys, 26, 58;
Bellerophon, 63, 141;
Frag., 287, 472;
Pirithous, 70;
Orestes, 37, 137, 140, 165, 170, 286;
Medea, 64, 71, 255;
Iph. Aul., 152, 302;
Bacchae, 163;
Troad, 170;
Phoeniss, 257, 303, 327;
Danae, 307;
Adrastus, 288;
Stheneboea, 301;
Ino, 303, 304;
Alcestis, 310;
Suppliants, 316;
Cresphontes, 316;
Erectheus, 500;
Hypsipyle, 317, 465; ii. 54, 56, 62, 87, 92, 121, 148, 150, 251, 300, 306, 357, 363, 391, 472;
Cresphontes, 93;
Hippol., 73, 108, 173, 198, 373, 374;
Frag., 86, 181, 318, 437, 501;
Orestes, 143, 443;
Medea, 66;
Iph. Aul., 49, 85;
Phoeniss, 51, 61, 66, 130, 151;
Ion, 102, 144;
Ino, 131;
Erectheus, 132;
Electra, 85;
Aeolus, 66, 85, 88, 175;
Herc. Furens, 151;
Hecuba, 197;
Iph. Taur., 447; iii. 27, 99, 116, 194;
Frag., 3, 19, 33, 41, 42, 94, 230, 458, 475, 512;
Hippol., 483;
Orestes, 168, 437;
Phoeniss, 16, 32, 43, 49, 257;
Stheneboea, 217;
Iph. Taur., 21;
Androm., 232;
Hipsipyle, 291, iv. 17, 128, 142, 270, 308, 450, 478, 497;
Frag., 47, 220, 233, 251, 272, 273, 292, 301, 325, 392, 461, 475;
Bacchae, 223, 272, 422, 506;
Hippol., 294, 298;
Cyclops, 56;
Aeolus, 105;
Troad, 132;
Orestes, 141, 507;
Ino, 158, 231;
Alcestis, 197;
Danae, 274, 283;
Stheneboea, 288;
Androm., 401;
Herc. Furens, 459, 467; v. 126, 128, 157, 172;
Frag., 15, 79, 105, 108, 118, 345;
Aeolus, 71;
Hippol., 158;
Iph. Taur., 374;
Orestes, 77, 380;
Troad, 440;
Erectheus, 463;
Meleager, 466.
Eurotas, a river in Laconia, v. 497.
Eurycratidas, apothegm of, i. 410.
Eurydice of Hierapolis, her epigram, i. 32.
Euthrymenes, his opinion of the overflow of the Nile, iii. 160.
Euthynous and Pindar, i. 313.
Eutropion, anecdote of, i. 25.
Evenus quoted, ii. 102, 192.
Evenus, son of Mars, v. 475.
Exercises, different kinds of, iii. 248-250.
Exile, consolations of, iii. 15-35.
Eyes, images of the, iii. 169.
F.
Fabius Maximus, his sayings, i. 227, 228;
in the Punic war, v. 453.
Fable of Minerva, i. 41.
Fable of the defeat of Neptune, iii. 444.
Fable of the Fox and Leopard, ii. 21.
Fable of the Lydian Mule, ii. 11.
Fabricianus, v. 474.
Fabricius, iv. 201.
Face appearing in the moon, v. 234-292.
Fasting creates more thirst than hunger, iii. 339.
Fate, or destiny, iii. 130;
nature of, 130; v. 293-308.
Faunus, king of Italy, strangers murdered by, v. 474.
Fever, cause of a, iii. 192.
Fig-trees, of, iii. 250, 335.
Figures, of, iii. 125.
Filial treachery in Persian and Roman history, v. 458.
Fire or water, which is more useful, v. 331-337.
Firmus and Nuceria, v. 471.
Fish called the fisherman, v. 201.
Fish, eating of, iii. 422.
Fisherman’s nets, rotting of, iii. 503.
Fishes, of; the labrax, mullet, scate, anthias, dolphin, cuttle-fish, star-fish, torpedo, the fisherman, tunny, amiae, pionetras, sponge, porphyrae, hegemon, whale, pinoterus, gilthead, phycides, galeus, tortoise, v. 195, 209.
Fittest time for a man to know his wife, iii. 274-279.
Fives, we reckon by, iv. 43-47.
Five tragical histories of Love, iv. 312-322.
Flattery: How to know a Flatterer from a Friend, ii. 100-156.
Flattery fatal to whole kingdoms, ii. 118.
Flesh exposed to the moon, iii. 284-287.
Flute girls, whether they are to be admitted to a feast, iii. 387.
Folly of Seeking Many Friends, i. 464-474.
Food, digesting of, iii. 289-295.
Fortune, of, ii. 475-481; iii. 131;
is a cause by accident, v. 302;
not the same as chance, 303;
relates to men only, 303.
Fortune of the Romans, iv. 198-219.
Fox, cunning of the, v. 179.
Fresh water washes clothes better than salt, iii. 224-226.
Friends, folly of seeking many, i. 464-474.
Frogs, croaking of, v. 210.
Frost makes hunting difficult, iii. 510.
Fruit, salt not found in, iii. 498.
Fulvius and Augustus, anecdotes of, iv. 235, 236.
Fulvius Stellus, v. 468.
Fundanus, i. 34, 35.
G.
Galaxy, or milky way, iii. 148.
Galeus, affection of, for their young, v. 209.
Ganges, the river, v. 481.
Garlands at sacred games, iii. 411.
Garrulity, or Talkativeness, iv. 220-253.
Gauran, mount, v. 508.
Gelo, his saying, i. 190.
Generation and corruption, iii. 128.
Generation of males and females, iii. 178;
of animals, 186;
of the Gods, 400.
Generative seed, iii. 177.
Geniuses and heroes, opinions concerning, iii. 122.
Germanicus, ii. 96.
Gnatho the Sicilian, iii. 3.
Gobryas, a Persian noble, ii. 104.
God always plays the Geometer, saying attributed to Plato, iii. 402.
God bade Socrates act the midwife’s part, v. 425.
God, Father and Maker of all things, v. 428.
God, what is, iii. 118.
Gods, generation of the, iii. 400.
Gorgias, i. 340;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41; 44, 134; ii. 502; v. 405.
Government. Of the Three Sorts of Government, Monarchy, Democracy, and Oligarchy, v. 395-398.
Gracchus, Caius, example of, i. 40.
Greek music, principles of, i. 102, 103.
Greek Questions, ii. 265-293.
Groom, saying of the king’s, i. 21.
Gryllus, v. 218 et seq.
Guests, should the entertainer seat the, iii. 203-210;
to a wedding supper, 300;
that are called shadows, iii. 381.
Gylippus, his dishonesty, i. 23.
H.
Habits of animals, v. 173-177.
Halcyon, of the, v. 211.
Halo, of the, iii. 160.
Hannibal and Fabius, i. 228.
Hares, cunning of the, v. 185.
Harp, an invention of Apollo, i. 113.
Hart, tears of the, iii. 507.
Health, preservation of, i. 251-279.
Health, sickness, and old age, iii. 192.
Hearing, of, i. 441-463; iii. 170.
Heaven, its nature and essence, iii. 137;
division of, 137.
Hebrus, a river of Thrace, v. 480.
Hedgehog, ingenuity of the, v. 186.
Hedgehog of the sea, v. 203.
Hegemon, of the fish, v. 206.
Hegesippus, sayings of, &c., i. 213.
Hegesistratus, an Ephesian, v. 476.
Helicon the mathematician, i. 57.
Hephaestion, the friend of Alexander, i. 489, 505.
Heracleo, v. 194.
Heraclides, his compendium of music, i. 105; ii. 158;
his philosophical opinions, iii. 139, 149, 156, 159, 165.
Heraclides the wrestler, iii. 220.
Heraclitus, i. 44, 79, 276, 308, 448, 453; ii. 74, 165, 330, 358, 477; iii. 26, 74;
his philosophical opinions, 111, 125, 128, 130, 131, 143, 144, 145, 146, 162;
apothegm, v. 9;
quoted, 73, 169, 425.
Hercules and Iole, v. 459.
Hercules in Antisthenes, precept of, i. 77.
Hercules, ridiculous representation of, v. 70;
and King Faunus, 474.
Hercules the woman-hater, his temple in Phocis, iii. 90;
singular anecdote, ib.
Hermes, iv. 74.
Hermias, v. 121.
Hermogenes, ii. 194.
Herodotus, quoted, i. 80, 441;
saying of, ii. 202, 489;
Arcadian prophet, iii. 38;
quoted, iv. 248, 335 et seq.;
malice of, iv. 331-371; v. 397.
Herondas, apothegm of, i. 410.
Herons, artifices of the, v. 176.
Herophilus, opinion of, iii. 128, 163.
Hesianax, his Third Book of African History, v. 465.
Hesiod, quoted, Works and Days, i. 22, 65, 70, 138, 156, 178, 261, 296, 307, 325;
Works and Days, ii. 24;
spare diet recommended by, 27;
and the dolphin, 36, 37;
Works and Days, 63, 64, 65, 73, 87, 92, 302, 303, 449, 452, 480, 483;
Theogony, 102;
Works and Days, iii. 64, 210, 382, 416, 436, 438;
Theogony, 118, 324, 458; iv. 15;
Works and Days, 48, 49, 68, 87, 154, 173, 264, 385, 442, 457;
Theogony, 53;
Works and Days, v. 153, 168, 172, 279.
Hicetes, his opinion of the earth, iii. 154.
Hiero, his sayings, i. 190;
anecdote of, 291.
Hiero the Spartan, statue of, iii. 76.
Hiero the Tyrant, statue of, iii. 75.
Hieronymus, saying of, i. 38, 50, 462.
Himerius, an Athenian parasite, ii. 126.
Hippasus, opinions of, iii. 111.
Hippocrates, saying of, i. 40;
quoted, 261, 292; ii. 165, 185;
his magnanimity, ii. 466.
Hippocratidas, apothegm of, i. 412.
Hippodamus, apothegm of, i. 411.
Hippolytus, son of Theseus, v. 471, 472.
Hippomachus, ii. 294.
Hipponax, i. 108.
History of music, i. 104 et seq.
History of wind instruments, i. 108.
Homer, passages in, criticised, ii. 69-72, 74-84, 89, 90.
Homer quoted: Iliad, i. 34, 38, 39, 51, 52, 55, 62, 104, 132, 133, 134, 138, 141, 151, 153, 154, 156, 161, 165, 178, 180, 181, 200, 236, 251, 292, 303, 305, 306, 310, 324, 325, 329, 330, 331, 385, 466, 469, 475, 486, 490, 507, 508, 510, 511; ii. 25, 32, 41, 44, 47, 48, 49, 52, 53, 55, 56, 59, 62, 63, 65, 67, 68, 74, 75, 77, 79, 81, 82, 84, 88, 89, 90, 91, 108, 114, 115, 120, 123, 131, 140, 142, 145, 150, 151, 152, 154, 185, 197, 198, 200, 237, 295, 305, 310, 311, 314, 317, 319, 413, 501, 505; iii. 25, 26, 47, 53, 54, 107, 120, 152, 206, 207, 221, 231, 248, 255, 285, 301, 313, 317, 321, 323, 325, 336, 354, 364, 381, 394, 401, 413, 418, 437, 442, 447, 448, 449, 450, 480, 486, 492, 493, 515; iv. 16, 65, 108, 111, 152, 191, 194, 195, 216, 237, 238, 280, 285, 291, 327, 329, 383, 386, 401, 405, 434, 462, 483, 490, 499, 504; v. 78, 79, 85, 88, 90, 92, 96, 104, 119, 122, 123, 134, 135, 138, 146, 147, 171, 182, 200, 208, 214, 266, 276, 281, 315, 339, 350, 371, 386, 394, 400, 418, 443, 444, 447;
Odyss. i. 52, 134, 138, 154, 236, 252, 305, 310, 318, 325, 452, 469; ii. 41, 43, 47, 48, 52, 53, 54, 56, 59, 63, 65, 67, 70, 71, 82, 83, 108, 110, 114, 115, 127, 149, 158, 159, 162, 184, 195, 304, 316, 317, 320, 371, 427, 463, 467, 478; iii. 10, 42, 45, 72, 81, 101, 196, 201, 207, 226, 232, 233, 249, 259, 280, 333, 359, 365, 395, 419, 425, 437, 438, 451, 466, 477, 499; iv. 5, 30, 86, 97, 191, 200, 219, 224, 226, 230, 231, 289, 307, 325, 401, 405; v. 3, 11, 105, 106, 143, 171, 184, 281, 285, 290, 315, 323, 403, 416, 422, 423, 446.
Horatii and Curatii, v. 460, 461.
Horatius Cocles, v. 456.
Horsehair for fishing lines, iii. 505.
Horses, called λυχοσπάδες, iii. 253.
Horus, son of Osiris, iv. 80, 114 et seq.
Hounds that hunt hares, v. 184.
How a man may praise himself without being envied, ii. 306.
How a man may receive advantage and profit from his enemies, i. 280-298.
How animals are begotten, iii. 186.
How a young man ought to hear poems, ii. 42.
How plants grow, and whether they are animals, iii. 190.
How to know a flatterer, ii. 100-156.
Hunger, cause of, iii. 341;
allayed by drinking, 345.
Hurricanes, of, iii. 150.
Hyagnis, first that sung to the pipe, i. 107.
Hydaspes, a river in India, v. 477.
Hyperides, the Athenian orator, ii. 140; v. 53-57;
his part in public affairs, 53;
his friendship for Demosthenes, 54;
this friendship broken, ib.;
demanded by Antipater, he escapes to Aegina, ib.;
is apprehended, tortured, and put to death, 55;
an excellent orator, ib.;
his amorous propensities, 55, 56;
his patriotism, 56;
sent as ambassador, 56, 57.
Hypsipyle, foster-child of, i, 465.
I.
Ibis, habits of, imitated by the Egyptians, v. 192.
Ibycus, the poet, iv. 240.
Ichneumon, of the, v. 174.
Ida, mount, v. 493.
Idathyrsus, his sayings, i. 189.
Ideas, of, iii. 123.
Images presented to our eyes in mirrors, iii. 169.
Imagination, imaginable and phantom, difference between, iii. 167.
Immortality of the soul, argument for it, iv. 169, 170.
Impotency in men, iii. 181.
Improbabilities of the Stoics, iii. 194-196.
Inachus, a river in Argolis, v. 498.
Incest, case of, v. 467.
Indus, the river, v. 508.
Infants, seven months’, iii. 184.
Inquisitiveness, or vain curiosity; of curiosity, or an over-busy inquisitiveness into things impertinent, ii. 424-445.
Iole, the beloved of Hercules, v. 459.
Ion the tragedian, i. 322, 328; v. 186, 254.
Iphicrates, his saying, i. 80, 212; v. 105.
Iphigenia at Aulis, v. 459, 460.
Irascible faculty, v. 441.
Isaeus, an Athenian orator, v. 33;
considered by some equal to Lysias, ib.;
the teacher of Demosthenes, ib.;
number of his orations, ib.
Isis and Osiris, iv. 66-139.
Ismenodora, iv. 256, 264, 269, 311.
Ismenus, a river of Boeotia, v. 478.
Isocrates, an Athenian orator, iii. 198; v. 27-33;
his parentage, birth, and education, 27;
composed orations for others, 28;
his school at Chios, ib.;
his great success as a teacher of rhetoric, ib.;
lived to a great age, 29;
his death and burial, 30;
number of his orations, 31;
his timidity, 27, 31;
his description of the use of rhetoric, 31;
the two suits against him, 32, 409;
his Panegyric, 410.
Isthmian games, iii. 318.
Ivy, nature of, iii. 265-268.
J.
Jason, saying of, v. 140.
Jewish religion, statements and conjectures respecting it, iii. 307-312.
Jews, their fatal inaction in war because it was their Sabbath day, i. 178.
Juba, his third Book of Lybian History, v. 465.
L.
Lacedaemonians, their laws and customs, i. 82-101;
their currency, 99;
influx of gold and silver, 100;
refuse to assist Philip and Alexander in their designs against Persia, 101;
lose all their ancient glory, 101;
combat with the Argives, v. 452.
Lachares, tyranny of, ii. 166.
Laconic answers, iv. 243.
Laconic Apothegms, of, i. 385-440.
Acrotatus, 400.
Agasicles, 385.
Agesilaus, 385-397.
Agesipolis, 397, 398.
Agis, son of Archidamus, 398.
Agis the Last, 400.
Agis the Younger, 400.
Alcamenes, the son of Teleclus, 400.
Alexandridas, 401.
Anaxander, 401.
Anaxilas, 402.
Androclidas, 402.
Antalcidas, 402.
Antiochus, 403.
Archidamidas, 403.
Archidamus, son of Agesilaus, 404.
Archidamus, son of Zeuxidamus, 404.
Aregeus, 403.
Ariston, 403.
Astycratidas, 405.
Bias, 406.
Callicratidas, 412.
Charillus, 432.
Cleombrotus, 413.
Cleomenes, son of Cleombrotus, 413, 416.
Damindas, 407.
Damis, 406.
Damonidas, 406.
Demaratus, 407.
Dercyllidas, 407.
Emprepes, 408.
Euboidas, 408.
Eudamidas, son of Archidamas, 408.
Eurycratidas, 410.
Herondas, 410.
Hippocratidas, 412.
Hippodamus, 411.
Leonidas, the son of Anaxandrias, 417.
Leo, the son of Eucratidas, 417.
Leotychides, 416.
Lycurgus the Lawgiver, 419-425.
Lysander, 425.
Namertes, 427.
Nicander, 427.
Paedaretus, 429.
Panthoidas, 427.
Pausanias, son of Cleombrotus, 428.
Pausanias, son of Plistoanax, 428.
Phoebidas, 431.
Plistoanax, 430.
Polycratidas, 431.
Polydorus, 430.
Soos, 431.
Telecrus, 431.
Thectamenes, 411.
Themisteas, 410.
Theopompus, 410.
Thorycion, 411.
Zeuxidamus, 410.
Lacydes, King of the Argives, i. 290.
Lais, murder of, iv. 302.
Lampis, a sea commander, v. 73.
Lampsace, anecdote of, i. 366.
Lamps and tables of the ancients, iii. 372.
Land, food of the, iii. 302-306.
Lasus, his innovation upon ancient music, i. 123.
Leaena, anecdote of, iv. 229, 230.
Least things in nature, iii. 125.
Leo, apothegm of, i. 417.
Leo Byzantinus, saying of, i. 288;
and his wife, v. 110.
Leonidas, apothegm of, i. 417;
vindicated from the statements of Herodotus, iv. 354; v. 157;
at Thermopylae, 453.
Leotychides, apothegm of, i. 422.
Leprosy caused by dewy trees, iii. 500.
Leptis, custom in, ii. 499.
Leucippus, his opinions of the world, iii. 135;
of the earth, 155;
of the senses, 165.
Light and darkness, of, v. 325.
Lightning, of, iii. 150.
Light, of reflected, iii. 168, 169; v. 236 et seq.
Lilaeus, mount, v. 508, 509.
Linus, elegies of, i. 105.
Lions, of, v. 187.
Liquids, of, iii. 359.
Live concealed, whether’t were rightly said, iii. 3-10.
Lives of the ten Attic orators, v. 17-63.
Love: Five tragical histories of, iv. 312-322.
Love, of, iv. 254-311;
makes a man a poet, iii. 217-219.
Love of wealth, ii. 294-305.
Lucretia, the Roman matron, i. 355.
Lucullus, apothegm of, i. 241;
quoted, iii. 51; v. 84.
Lugdunum, mount, v. 485.
Lyaeus and choraeus, i. 54.
Lybian crows, v. 175.
Lycastus and Parasius, v. 473.
Lycian women, virtue of the, i. 351.
Lycormas, a river in Aetolia, v. 487.
Lycurgus, an Athenian orator, v. 36-42;
treasurer of the commonwealth, 36;
his great public services, 37;
his fidelity in office and great reputation, 37;
his justice and integrity, 37, 38;
useful laws procured by his influence, 38;
his diligence in the study and practice of oratory, 39;
his incorruptible honesty, 40;
his death, ib.;
honors paid to his memory, ib.;
his family, 40, 41;
his orations and success as an orator, 41;
his benevolence, 42;
a decree for honors to be paid to his memory, 61-63.
Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, anecdote of, i. 7;
his institutions, 82 et seq.;
their final overthrow, 101, 217, 419-425;
his sayings, ii. 22; v. 12, 92.
Lydian mood of music, i. 109, 114.
Lyric nomes, i. 106.
Lysander, i. 72;
his great victory over the Athenians, 99;
introduces gold and silver into Lacedaemon, 100;
the results, ib.;
his sayings, 219, 425;
saying of, ii. 149;
anecdote of, 495; iii. 100; v. 92.
Lysias, the Athenian orator, his remarks on music, i. 104;
anecdote of, iv. 226; v. 24-26;
his birth, early residence in Athens, residence in Thurii, and return to Athens, 24;
banished by the Thirty Tyrants, 25;
return after their overthrow, ib.;
death, ib.;
number of his orations, ib.;
his other works, 26;
his eloquence, ib.; v. 33.
Lysimache, the priestess, i. 73.
Lysimachus, his sayings, i. 205, 259.
Lysippus, his statue of Alexander, i. 494.
M.
Madness of animals, v. 167.
Maeander, a river in Asia, v. 488.
Magas, anecdote of, i. 45.
Magpie, story of a, v. 189.
Maimactes, king of the gods, i. 45.
Man, perfection of a, iii. 189;
most unhappy of all creatures, iv. 504;
compounded of three parts, v. 286.
Maneros, the foster-son of Isis, iv. 79.
Manius Curius, apothegm of, i. 226.
Manlius, son of, beheaded, v. 458.
Man’s progress in virtue, ii. 446-474.
Mantinea, battle of, v. 401.
Marius, sacrifice of his daughter, v. 463.
Mars, some bad actions of his, v. 466, 467.
Marsyas, a river in Phrygia, v. 490.
Marsyas, the musician, i. 41, 108.
Massinissa, his vigorous old age, v. 83.
Mathematics, applied to Music, i. 118-121;
affords unspeakable delight, ii. 172, 174.
Matter, of, iii. 122.
Medius, the parasite, ii. 137.
Megasthenes, saying of, v. 275.
Megisto and Micca, and other women of Elis, i. 357-363.
Meilichius, king of the gods, i. 45.
Melanippides, quoted, iv. 278.
Melanthius, quoted, i. 35, 449; ii. 103; iv. 147.
Melian women, virtue of the, i. 348.
Melisponda and Nephalia, i. 59.
Melissus, his opinion of generation, iii, 128.
Memnon, his saying, i. 189.
Menalippides, i. 114, 123.
Menander, quoted, i. 70, 139, 158, 161, 164, 335, 470;
quoted, ii. 52, 57, 65, 86, 87, 124, 192, 297;
his superiority to Aristophanes, iii. 11-14;
quoted, 38, 65, 196, 488; iv. 290;
anecdote of, v. 403;
saying of, 425.
Mendesian goat, v. 225.
Menedemus, i. 77; ii. 115, 464;
his opinion of the nature of moral virtue, iii. 461.
Menelaus, the mathematician, v. 257.
Men, impotency in, iii. 181;
elements of, 188;
have better stomachs in autumn, 240;
temper of, 270-272;
when asleep are never thunderstruck, 295-300;
having carnal knowledge of brutes, 468.
Menon, his definition of virtue, i. 464.
Menyllus, his First Book of Boeotic History, v. 460;
Third Book of Italian History, 467.
Messenians, saying among the, v. 416.
Metellus, quoted, iii. 53; iv. 202; v. 459, 461.
Meteors, of, which resemble rods, iii. 153.
Metiochus, his misuse of power, v. 127.
Metius Fufetius, king of Alba, torn in pieces, v. 455.
Metrocles, i. 144.
Metrodorus, ii. 158, 160, 161, 167, 169, 175, 180, 183, 496;
his philosophical opinions, iii. 115, 127, 132, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158; v. 378, 383, 384.
Micca and Megisto, and other women of Elis, i. 357-363.
Midas, i. 326; v. 454.
Miletus, maidens of, i. 354.
Mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind fine, iv. 143.
Miltiades, v. 407-411.
Mimnermus, quoted, iii. 475.
Mind, tranquillity of the, i. 136-167.
Minerva, admonished by a satyr, i. 41; iii. 195;
temple of, v. 461.
Mirrors, causes and reasons of, iii. 169; v. 236 et seq.
Mithridates, i. 204; ii. 121;
story of, iii. 219.
Mixture of the elements, iii. 126.
Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses, i. 22.
Mnesarete, statue of, iii. 83.
Mnesiphilus, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41.
Mnesitheus, the physician, iii. 511.
Monarchy, Democracy, and Oligarchy, v. 395-398.
Money upon usury, v. 412-424.
Monstrous births, of, iii. 179.
Moon: essence of the, iii. 145;
magnitude of the, 145;
figure of the, 145;
whence her light, 145;
eclipses of the, 146;
phases of the, 147;
distance from the sun, 147;
of the face appearing within the orb of the moon, v. 234-292;
its distance from the earth, 246;
its nature, 253-260;
its size, 261;
why called Glaucopis, 267;
is it inhabited, 274, 275.
Moot point in Homer’s Iliad, iii. 446.
Moral virtue, essay on, iii. 461-494.
Moschio, dialogue on health, i. 251, 252.
Motherland a Cretan expression, v. 85.
Motion, of, iii. 128.
Mount Athos’ shade, v. 270.
Mule and the salt, v. 184.
Mule, superannuated, v. 182.
Mules, barrenness of, iii. 182.
Mullet, of the, v. 213.
Muses, number of the, iii. 450.
Mushrooms produced by thunder, iii. 295-300.
Music, treatise concerning, i. 102-135;
pleasures from bad, iii. 376;
for entertainments, 389.
Musonius, his rule of health, i. 35.
Must, sweet, iii. 511.
Mycenae, mount, v. 501.
N.
Namertes, apothegm of, i. 427.
Names of rivers and mountains, and of such things as are to be found therein, and the fables connected therewith, v. 477-509.
Nasica, his saying, i. 285.
Natural affection towards one’s offspring, iv. 189-197.
Natural philosophy, iii. 105.
Natural Questions, Plutarch’s, iii. 495-518.
Nature, of, iii. 131;
what is, 105;
things that are least in, 125;
animated, v. 160.
Necessity, of, iii. 129;
nature of, 129;
defined, v. 299.
Nephalia and Melisponda, i. 59.
Neptune, ii. 38, 39, 41.
Nero, i. 53; iv. 228, 229;
anecdote of, v. 123.
New diseases and how caused, iii. 426.
New-married couple, advice to, ii. 486-507.
New wine, of, iii. 279.
Nicander, apothegm of, i. 427, 441.
Nicias Maleotes, quoted, v. 459.
Nicias, the Athenian general, superstition of, i. 177; v. 107.
Nicias, the painter, anecdote of, ii. 173; v. 71.
Nicostratus and Archidamus, i. 74;
apothegm of, 221.
Niger, anecdote of, i. 267.
Nightingale, of the, v. 189.
Nile, the river, v. 495;
overflow of the, iii. 160;
water of the, 415.
Niloxenus, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41.
Niobe, i. 328.
Noises in the night and day, iii. 406.
Numa, of the reign of, iv. 208-210.
O.
Oenopides, his discovery of the obliquity of the Zodiac, iii. 138.
Ogygia, an island west from Britain and its neighbor islands, described, v. 281-283.
Oil, top of the, iii. 370;
on the sea, 503;
is transparent, v. 318;
does not easily freeze, 319.
Old age, health, and sickness, iii. 192.
Old men, love pure wine, iii. 221;
read best at a distance, 222-224;
easily foxed, 268-270;
in state affairs, v. 64-96.
Oligarchy, Monarchy, and Democracy, v. 395-398.
Olympias, anecdotes of, ii. 494, 495.
Olympus, a Phrygian player, i. 107, 108, 110, 112, 115, 116, 123.
Omens and dreams, ii. 401, 402.
Onesicrates, banquet of, i. 103, 133.
Onomademus, wisdom of, i. 295; v. 129.
Opinions of philosophers, iii. 104-193.
Optatus, v. 171.
Oracle in Cilicia, iv. 55.
Oracles of Delphi, iii. 73.
Oracles, why they cease to give answers, iv. 3-64.
Orestes slays his mother, v. 474.
Origin of things, opinions concerning the, iii. 107-113.
Orontes, his saying, i. 188.
Orpheus never imitated any one, i. 107.
Orphic Fragments, iv. 59, 404.
Oryx, fables of the, v. 193.
Osiris, iv. 75-135;
story about his birth, 74;
great actions of, 75;
his death, 76;
his body torn in pieces by Typhon, 80;
is identical with Serapis and Bacchus, 89;
with the bull Apis, 90;
sacred vestments of, 135.
Othryadas, iv. 338.
Otus, the bird, v. 163.
Oxen, teaching of, v. 193.
P.
Paeans, makers of, i. 110.
Paedaretus, apothegm of, i. 429.
Painter, neat saying of a, ii. 378.
Painting is silent poetry, v. 402.
Palladium in Ilium and in Rome, v. 461.
Palm tree, of the, iii. 514.
Panaetius, sayings of, i. 57.
Pancrates, i. 117.
Pandora’s box, i. 306.
Pangaeus, mount, v. 480.
Panthoidas, apothegm of, i. 427.
Papirius Tolucer, v. 468.
Parallels, or a comparison between the actions of Greeks and Romans, v. 450-476.
Parmenides, v. 357;
his philosophical opinions: of generation and corruption, iii. 128;
of necessity, 129;
of the world, 135;
of the moon, 145;
of the galaxy, 149;
of the earth, 155;
of earthquakes, 157;
of the soul, 163;
defended from the misrepresentations of the Epicureans, v. 352-354;
quoted, 357, 359, 381.
Partridge, cunning of the, v. 185.
Parysatis, her saying, i. 188.
Passions of the body, iii. 175.
Passions of the soul, or diseases of the body: which are worse, iv. 504, 508.
Paulus Aemilius, apothegm of, i. 232.
Pausanias, the Spartan traitor, v. 457.
Pausanius, i. 305;
apothegm of, 428.
Pauson the painter, iii. 73.
Pederasty, or the love of boys, iv. 259;
defended, 259, 260;
instances of its power, 284-286;
severely condemned, 304;
the connection is uncertain and short-lived, 307;
it ceases on the sprouting of the beard, 307.
Pelopidas, his saying, i. 225.
Pelops and his two sons, v. 470, 471.
Pemptides, iv. 272, 275, 279.
Pergamus, woman of, i. 374.
Periander, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
tyrant of Corinth sends three hundred boys to be castrated, iv. 341;
the crime prevented, 342.
Pericles, anecdotes of, i. 15, 18, 66, 211, 332; ii. 309, 315; v. 67, 102;
his absolute sway over the Athenians, 106;
his soliloquy when about to address the people, 130, 131, 410, 413.
Periclitus, a Lesbian harper, i. 108.
Persaeus, anecdote of, i. 70.
Perseus, king of Macedonia, his sorrow on losing his kingdom, i. 160.
Persian Magi, killers of mice, ii. 96.
Persian women, virtue of the, i. 347.
Persians had a monarchy, v. 397.
Pestilence, relief from, a virgin sacrificed for, v. 472.
Petron, doctrine of, iv. 30.
Phaedimus, v. 171, 194.
Phaeton, i. 141.
Phalaris, brazen cow of, v. 474.
Pharnaces, of the moon, v. 265.
Phasis, a river of Thrace, v. 482.
Phayllus, iv. 282.
Phemius, the poet, i. 105.
Pherecrates, fragment of, i. 124.
Phidias, statue of Venus, ii. 498; iv. 133.
Philammon, verses in honor of Latona, Diana, and Apollo, i. 105.
Philemon and Magas, i. 45.
Philinus, iii. 69, 70.
Philip of Macedonia, examples from, i. 44, 45;
sayings of, 194-198, 305;
anecdotes of, ii. 141, 146, 147, 494; iii. 22; v. 115.
Philippides the comedian, ii. 430.
Philippus, his demonstration of the figure of the moon, ii. 173.
Philolaus, his philosophical opinions: of the nutriment of the world, iii. 134;
of the essence of the sun, 142;
of the position of the earth, 155;
of the motion of the earth, 156.
Philosophers ought chiefly to converse with great men, ii. 368-377.
Philosophers, their various opinions. Of those sentiments concerning nature with which philosophers were delighted, iii. 104-193.
Philosophical discourses at merry meetings, iii. 198-203.
Philosophy, threefold division of, iii. 104.
Philotas and Antigona, i. 504.
Philotas, son of Parmenio, i. 504.
Philotimus, the physician, i. 452; ii. 153.
Philoxenus, i. 125;
sayings of, ii. 42; iii. 3; iv. 289; v. 423.
Phocian women, virtue of the, i. 343, 355.
Phocion, his saying on the death of Alexander, i. 49;
his sayings, 70;
wife of, 102, 216; ii. 135, 298, 311, 321, 328; v. 83, 109, 118;
his magnanimity, 122;
his reply to Demades, 125, 142, 149.
Phocus, a story of love respecting him, iv. 319.
Phocylides the poet, quoted, i. 9, 462.
Phoebidas, apothegm of, i. 431.
Phoenix, tutor to Achilles, i. 9; ii. 150.
Phrygian mood of music, i. 109.
Phryne, the statue of, iii. 83.
Phrynis, the musician, ii. 470.
Pieria and other women of Myus, i. 363, 364.
Pierus, the first that wrote in praise of the Muses, i. 105.
Pindar and Euthynous, i. 314.
Pindar, his sayings, i. 77, 114;
quoted, 143, 173, 174, 286, 293, 303, 304, 310, 313, 328;
his description of the state of the blessed, 336;
quoted, ii. 57, 143, 177, 193, 306;
quoted, iii. 9, 23, 74, 93, 95, 96, 194, 207, 218, 377, 455, 458, 491, 516;
quoted, iv. 10, 15, 96, 138, 145, 150, 163, 260, 289, 405;
quoted, v. 64, 111, 117, 148, 194, 197, 202, 214, 316, 331, 404;
anecdote of, 404, 440.
Pine, sacred to Neptune and Bacchus, iii. 318.
Pine trees, of, iii. 250.
Pinoteras, the fish, v. 205.
Pisias, of love, iv. 270 et seq.
Pisistratus, i. 216;
anecdote of, iii. 41, 200.
Pittacus, sayings of, i. 31, 151;
his reply to Myrsilus, ii. 5;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 3-41; iii. 50; iv. 231; v. 145.
Pitwater, of, iii. 514.
Place at table called Consular, iii. 210-212.
Place, of, iii. 127.
Plague in Falerie and in Lacedaemon, v. 472.
Plain of truth, iv. 29.
Planetiades, iv. 9, 11.
Plants, grow how, iii. 190;
nourishment and growth of, 191.
Plato, quoted, i. 9, 19, 24, 26;
saying of, 27;
quoted, 41, 57, 71, 74, 79;
on harmony, 115, 118;
quoted, 141, 173, 256, 264, 279, 287;
laws, 292;
quoted, 297, 311, 314, 321, 337, 339, 456;
quoted, ii. 49, 92, 100, 104, 106;
at the court of Dionysius, 108, 109, 141, 146;
and Socrates, 148, 150, 168, 174, 326;
concerning the soul, 328 et seq., 334;
quoted, 344, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 364, 455, 456, 457, 492, 496, 504;
quoted, iii. 19, 81;
his philosophical opinions: of the universe, 112, 114, 115;
of the understanding, 116;
what is God, 119;
of God, 121;
of matter and ideas, 123;
of causes and of bodies, 124;
of colors, 125;
of bodies, 126;
of place and time, 127, 128;
of motion, 128;
of necessity, 129;
of fate, 130;
of fortune, 131;
of the world, 134, 135, 137;
of the stars, 137-141;
of the sun, 142, 143;
of the moon, 145, 146;
of the rainbow, 152;
of earthquakes, 158;
of the sea, 159;
of the soul, 161-165;
of sight, 168;
of hearing, 170;
of the voice, 171;
of the echo, 172;
of divination, 176;
of generative seed, 177;
of the embryo, 183;
of reason in animals, 187;
of sleep, 189;
that plants are animals, 190;
quoted, 200, 201, 213, 221, 223, 243, 365, 368-370, 401, 462, 464, 499; iv. 18, 28, 30, 41, 45;
his opinion about daemons, 86, 87, 109, 115-117, 119, 146, 254, 261, 292, 305;
quoted, v. 10, 82, 103, 116, 120, 172, 257, 276, 288, 293, 295, 297, 302, 305, 306, 338, 355, 364, 377, 381, 412, 425-433, 435, 440, 441, 444.
Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, ii. 157-203.
Pleasures from bad music, iii. 376.
Plistoanax, apothegm of, i. 430.
Plurality of worlds, iv. 29-39.
Plutarch, his rules for the preservation of health, i. 251-279;
his Symposiacs, iii. 197-460;
his natural questions, 495-518;
on the immortality of the soul, iii. 164, iv. 169; v. 393;
consolatory letter to his wife, 386-394;
his Platonic questions, 425-449;
his spurious remains, 450-509.
Poet, love makes a man a, iii. 217-219.
Poetry, essay on. How a young man ought to hear poems, ii. 42-94.
Polemon, his kind reply, i. 55.
Policy or government defined, v. 396.
Political precepts, v. 97-156.
Poltys, saying of, i. 189.
Polus the tragedian, v. 69.
Polybus, of seven-months’ infants, iii. 185.
Polycephalus, the nome, i. 108.
Polycratidas, apothegm of, i. 431.
Polycrita, a woman of Naxos, i. 364, 366.
Polydorus, apothegm of, i. 430.
Polyhistor, his Third Book of Italian History, v. 476.
Polymnestus, his improvements in music, i. 107, 110, 112, 123.
Polypus, why it changes color, iii. 506;
many-colored, v. 202.
Polysperchon’s treachery, i. 64, 71.
Pompey, his great actions and sayings, i. 241 et seq., 290;
statues of, 293, v. 70, 102, 112, 114;
owed his success to Sylla, 115.
Porsena of Clusium, war with the Romans, v. 451, 456.
Porus, an Indian king, i. 202.
Posidonius, his opinion of fate, iii. 130;
of a vacuum, 137;
of eclipses, v. 262.
Possible and contingent defined, v. 299.
Postumia, chastity of, i. 290.
Power, necessity, &c., defined, v. 300.
Praise, inordinate, a sign of a flatterer, ii, 116, 117, 120;
young people are often spoiled by it, 123.
Preservation of health, rules for, i. 251-279.
Priam and Polydore, v. 465.
Price of peace, women given as the, v. 468.
Priest of Hercules, iii. 90.
Principle and element, difference between, iii. 106.
Principle of cold, v. 309-330.
Principles, what they are, iii. 106.
Prize for poets at the games, iii. 316.
Procles, tyrant of Epidaurus, puts Timarchus to death, iii. 89;
his own unhappy end, ib.
Procreation of the soul as discussed in the Timaeus of Plato, ii. 326-367.
Progress in virtue, how it may be ascertained, ii. 446-474.
Prometheus, anecdote of, i. 289.
Proserpine, the same as Isis, iv. 88;
and Cora, v. 285, 286.
Prosodia, songs called, i. 106.
Protagoras quoted, i. 332.
Protogenes, iv. 257, 258, 260-265.
Providence, of God, iv. 140-188; v. 305;
of the inferior gods, 306;
of the daemons, 307, 308.
Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, i. 25.
Ptolemaeus Soter, iv. 88.
Ptolemy Lagus, anecdote of, i. 45;
his saying, 202; ii. 177.
Publius Decius, his dream, v. 462.
Publius Nigidius, v. 96.
Punishment of the wicked, why so long delayed, iv. 140-188.
Pupius Piso, the rhetorician, iv. 245.
Purple shell fish, v. 205.
Pylades and Orestes, their friendship, i. 465.
Pyraechmes’s horses, v. 455.
Pyrander, his Fourth Book of Peloponnesian Histories, v. 474.
Pyrandrus, the commissary, v. 469.
Pyrrhon, the Stoic philosopher, anecdote of, ii. 467.
Pyrrhus the Epirot, his saying, i. 207.
Pythagoras, his aphorisms, i. 28, 29;
of music, 130;
quoted, 175;
aphorism, 179, 294;
symbols of, 454, 471;
his unseasonable reproof, ii. 148;
his joy on discovering the relation to each other of the three sides of a right-angled triangle, 174;
his philosophical opinions: of the principles of things, iii. 109;
of the unity of God, 121;
of geniuses and heroes, 122;
of matter, 123;
of causes, 124;
of bodies, 126;
of time, 127;
of motion, 128;
of generation and corruption, 129;
of the world, 132-137;
of the zodiac, 138;
of the summer and winter solstice, 143;
of the moon, 145;
of the zones, 156;
of the soul, 161-164;
of the voice, 172;
of divination, 176;
of generative seed, 177;
of reason in animals, 187;
precepts of, derived his philosophy from Egyptian priests, iv. 72.
Pythagorean philosophy of dreams, daemons, ii. 412, 413.
Pythagoreans, precept of, iii. 22;
why they do not eat fish, 422-426.
Pytheas, his saying, i. 213; iii. 159;
apothegm of, v. 107, 110.
Pythes, the Lydian, i. 382.
Pythian games, iii. 316.
Pythian priestess, iv. 8, 9, 62, 63;
why she now ceases to deliver her oracles in verse, iii. 69-103.
Pythocles, his Third Book of Italian History, v. 460;
Third Book of the Georgics, 476.
Pythoclides the flute player, i. 114.
Python of Aenos, ii. 314.
Q.
Quarry of Carystus, iv. 54.
Questions or Causes, Second Book of, v. 475.
R.
Raillery, of, iii. 229-240.
Rainbow, of the, iii. 151.
Rain, snow, and hail, of, iii. 151.
Rational faculty, of the, v. 441.
Reason, beasts make use of, v. 218-233.
Reason, habit of our, iii. 166.
Remarkable speeches of some obscure men amongst the Spartans, i. 432-440.
Remora or Echeneis, iii. 252.
Reproof, how to be administered, ii. 138-156.
Respiration or breathing, iii, 173.
Rhesus and Similius, v. 466.
Rhodope and Haemus, mountains, v. 491.
Riddles and their solutions, ii. 19, 20.
Roman questions, ii. 204-264.
Roman senator and his wife, iv. 233-235.
Romans, fortune of the, iv. 198-219.
Rome, saved by the cackling of geese, iv. 217;
favored by fortune, 219.
Romulus, his birth and education, iv. 206-208;
murdered in the senate, v. 470;
and Remus, suckled by a she-wolf, 473.
Rules for the preservation of health, i. 251-279.
Rutilius the usurer, v. 419.
S.
Sabinus of Galatia, iv. 308.
Sacadas, a flute player, i. 109, 110, 112.
Sacred games, garlands of, iii. 411.
Sacrificed beasts, iii. 361.
Sagaris, a river in Phrygia, v. 492.
Salmantica, women of, i. 352.
Salt and cummin, why does Homer call it divine, iii. 336.
Salt given to cattle, iii. 497;
not found in fruit, 498.
Sappho, i. 42, 114; ii. 506;
quoted, iii. 95, 263;
quoted, iv. 260.
Sappho’s measures, grace in, iii. 74.
Sardanapalus, his luxury and lust, i. 497.
Sardians and Smyrnaeans, v. 468.
Saturn and his four children, v. 456, 457.
Satyrus the orator, i. 47.
Scamander, a river in Troas, v. 493.
Scaurus, his magnanimity, i. 295.
Scilurus, anecdote of, iv. 244.
Scipio the Elder, apothegm of, i. 229; ii. 475; iv. 201; v. 96, 112, 114, 136.
Scipio the Younger, his sayings and great actions, i. 235-239.
Scopas, saying of, ii. 303.
Scythinus, verses of, iii. 86.
Sea calves, of, v. 210.
Sea, of the, iii. 158;
ebbing and flowing of the, 159;
food of the, 302-306;
made hot by wind, 501.
Sea-sickness, iii. 502.
Sea water nourishes not trees, iii. 495;
upon wine, 502;
oil on the, 503.
Seed, nature of generative, iii. 177;
that fall on the oxen’s horns, 368;
watering of, 496;
watered by thunder showers, 498.
Seleucus the mathematician, iii. 159.
Seleucus Callinicus, anecdote of, iv. 237.
Self-praise. How a man may inoffensively praise himself without being liable to envy, ii. 306-325.
Semiramis, her saying, i. 187, 497; iv. 85.
Seneca, anecdote of, i. 53.
Senses, of the, iii. 164;
represent what is true, 165;
number of the, 165;
actions of the, 166.
Sentiments concerning Nature with which Philosophers were delighted, iii. 104-193.
Serapio, iii. 74, 79, 81, 82.
Serapis is Pluto, iv. 88, 89.
Serpent and the Aetolian woman, v. 188.
Seven months’ infants, of, iii. 184.
Seven Wise Men, Banquet of the, ii. 3-41.
Servius Tullius, his birth, elevation, and prosperous reign, iv. 212, 213.
Shadows, guests called, iii. 381.
Sheep bitten by wolves, iii. 254.
She-wolves, of, iii. 517.
Ships in winter, sailing of, iii. 500.
Shoe pinches, where the, ii. 494.
Sibyl with her frantic grimaces, iii. 74.
Sight, of our, iii. 168.
Silence commended, iv. 230, 243.
Simonides, quoted, i. 149, 257, 295, 305, 309, 318;
quoted, ii. 44, 101, 136, 436, 457, 471;
quoted, iii. 22, 87, 259, 409, 451, 459, 473;
quoted, iv. 158;
saying of, v. 66, 68, 71, 121.
Sipylus, mount, v. 489.
Siramnes, saying of, i. 185.
Sleep or death, causes of, iii. 188;
whether it appertains to the soul or body, 189.
Smelling, of, iii. 170.
Smyrna and Cinyras, v. 464.
Snow, preservation of, iii. 350.
Soclarus, iv. 292; v. 156, 158, 160, 166, 169, 170, 171, 216.
Socrates, anecdotes of, i. 11, 13, 23, 26, 38, 53, 141, 150, 162;
rules of health, 255;
quoted, 307, 310, 312, 337; ii. 46, 148, 150, 338, 441;
his Daemon, 378-423, 441, 495; iii. 4, 19, 35, 112, 121, 123; iv. 249; v. 93, 359, 361, 362-364, 377, 381.
Socrates, his Second Book of Thracian History, v. 462.
Soil, deep, for wheat, iii. 504;
lean soil for barley, 504.
Solon and Croesus, anecdote of, ii. 122.
Solon, quoted, i. 155, 297;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
quoted, 297, 454, 487;
quoted, iii. 50; iv. 72;
quoted, 260;
anecdote of, 304; v. 89, 113, 117, 118, 131.
Sophocles, quoted, i. 46, 57, 244, 288;
Thamyras, 39;
Frag., 58, 63;
Tyre, 206, 467;
Antig., 51, 462;
Oed. Tyr., 179, 470;
quoted, ii. 45, 57, 61, 72;
criticisms on, 72;
Frag., 173, 241, 244, 298, 431, 452, 456, 470, 495;
Oed. Tyr., 60, 172, 442, 476, 495;
Antig., 110;
Trachin., 311;
Electra, 440;
quoted, iii. 97, 210, 222;
Frag., 7;
Antig. 45;
Oed. Tyr., 235, 474;
Oed. Col., 232;
Electra, 437;
quoted, iv. 87, 246, 287, 304;
Oed. Tyr., 197, 202;
Trachin., 281;
Antig., 239, 283, 404;
Frag., 221, 226, 274, 284, 301;
quoted, v. 69, 76, 158, 216;
Oed. Col., 68;
Frag., 75, 84;
anecdote of, 68.
Sostratus, his Second Book of Tuscan History, v. 468.
Sotades, jest of, i. 25.
Soterichus, the musician, i. 103, 112.
Soul of Ajax, her place in hell, iii. 442.
Soul or body, death appertains to, iii. 189.
Soul, procreation of the, ii. 326-367;
its nature and essence, iii. 161, 163;
parts of the, 162;
in what part of the body it resides, 163;
motion of the, 163;
immortality of the, 164;
principal part of the, 173;
three sorts of motion in the, v. 371;
state of, after death, 393, 394;
ancienter than the body, 432.
Souls dispersed into the earth, moon, &c., v. 438.
Sounds in the night and day, iii. 406.
Sows, tame and wild, iii. 508.
Space, of, iii. 127.
Sparta had an oligarchy, v. 397.
Speech composed of nouns and verbs, v. 444.
Speech of a statesman, what it should be, v. 107.
Sperm, whether it be a body, iii. 177.
Spermatic emission of women, iii. 177.
Sphodrias, v. 118.
Spiders, labor of the, v. 174.
Sponge, of the, v. 205.
Spurious remains of Plutarch, v. 450-509.
Star-fish, subtlety of the, v. 201.
Stark drunk, those that are, iii. 281.
Stars, essence of the, iii. 138;
what figure they are, 139;
order and place of, 139;
motion and circulation of, 140;
whence do they receive their light, 140;
which are called the Dioscuri, the twins, or Castor and Pollux, 141;
how they prognosticate, 141;
number of the, whether odd or even, 446.
Stasicrates proposes to turn Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander, i. 495.
Stesichorus, i. 109, 112; iv. 497.
Steward of a feast, iii. 212-216.
Stilpo, the philosopher, i. 13, 76, 144, 161;
anecdote of, ii. 468;
defended, v. 365-367.
Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets, iii. 194-196;
their opinions concerning daemons, iv. 24;
common conceptions against the, 372-427;
contradictions of the, 428-477.
Strabo, quoted, i. 27.
Strato, i. 155; iii. 163; v. 161.
Stratonica of Galatia, i. 373.
Stratonicus, anecdote of, ii. 298; iii. 21.
Strymon, a river in Thrace, v. 491.
Summer and winter, cause of, iii. 141.
Summer and winter solstice, iii. 143.
Sun, essence of the, iii. 141;
magnitude of the, 142;
figure or shape of the, 143;
turning and returning of the, 143;
eclipses of the, 144.
Superstition of the Gauls, Scythians, and Carthaginians, i. 182, 183.
Superstition, or indiscreet devotion, i. 168-184;
folly of, ii. 387.
Supper, many guests at, iii. 323.
Supper-room, why too narrow at first for guests, iii. 326.
Suppers of the ancients, iii. 255-259.
Swallows in the house, iii. 419;
intelligence of the, v. 174.
Sylla, i. 32-35;
anecdote of, v. 72, 115, 135.
Symposiacs, or table discourses, iii. 197-460.
Synorix and Camma, iv. 302.
T.
Table, dignity of places at, iii. 210-212.
Tables and lamps of the ancients, iii. 372.
Talkativeness, or garrulity, iv. 220-253.
Talk, deliberate or tumultuous, iii. 395.
Tanais, a river in Scythia, v. 494.
Tarpeia, a virgin, the story of, v. 460.
Taste, of, iii. 170.
Taxiles of India, i. 201.
Taygetus, mount, v. 498.
Tears of the hart, iii. 507.
Tears of wild boars, iii. 507.
Telamon and Periboea, v. 467.
Telamon and Phocus, v. 466.
Telecrus, apothegm of, i. 431.
Telegonus, son of Ulysses, v. 476.
Telephanes of Megara, i. 117.
Telephus, i. 289.
Telesias the Theban, an eminent flute-player, i. 125.
Telesphorus, in an iron cage, iii. 31.
Temple of Apollo, iv. 478-498.
Teres, his saying, i. 189.
Teribazus, anecdote of, i. 176.
Terpander, the musician, fined by the Ephori, and why? i. 91, 92;
an inventor of ancient music, 102, 105, 109;
an excellent composer to the harp, 106, 112;
added the octave to the heptachord, 102, 122.
Teuthras, mount, v. 504.
Thales, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
first of philosophers; the Ionic sect took its denomination from him, iii. 107;
his philosophical opinions; difference between a principle and an element, 106;
that the intelligence of the world was God, 121;
of geniuses and heroes, 122;
of division of bodies, 126;
of necessity, 129;
of the division of heaven, 137;
of the eclipses of the sun, 144;
that the moon borrows her light from the sun, 146;
that the earth is globular, and the centre of the universe, 155;
of earthquakes, 157;
of the overflow of the Nile, 160;
of the soul, 161; iv. 337, 480.
Thaletas, a composer, i. 110, 112;
power of his music, 133.
Thamyras, the singer, i. 105.
Theanor, ii. 395, 396.
Thebes, liberation of, ii. 414-423.
Thectamenes, apothegm of, i. 411.
Themisteas, apothegm of, i. 410.
Themistocles, quoted, i. 73;
his saying, 208;
suspected of treason, 290, 296, 480;
quoted, ii. 97, 311, 471;
his kind reception by the Persian king, iii. 21, 30; iv. 208, 361, 365; v. 101, 116, 120, 121, 127.
Theo, iii. 70, 71, 74, 88.
Theocritus, his remark and death, i. 25, 73; ii. 380; iii. 516.
Theodorus, saying of, i. 142; ii. 321, 349; iii. 31;
his Book of Transformations, v. 464.
Theognis, i. 473; ii. 59; iii. 506.
Theon, ii. 157 et seq.; v. 273-275.
Theophilus, his Third Book of Italian History, v. 459;
Second Book of Peloponnesian Histories, 470.
Theophrastus, sayings of, i. 276, 304, 442; ii. 303; iii. 45, 64, 218, 219, 334; v. 202, 427.
Theopompus, his sayings, i. 217, 410; v. 137.
Theotimus, his Italian History, v. 456.
Theramenes, anecdote of, i. 306.
Thermodon, a river in Scythia, v. 495.
Thero, anecdote of, iv. 286.
Theseus and his son Hippolytus, v. 471.
Thespesius, iv. 177, 182 et seq., 188.
Thirst, cause of, iii. 341.
Thorycion, apothegm of, i. 411.
Thrasonides quoted, ii. 297.
Thucydides, quoted, i. 70, 76, 472, 490;
quoted, ii. 98, 117, 149, 152, 458;
quoted, iii. 88;
quoted, iv. 141;
quoted, v. 65, 106, 403.
Thunder, of, iii. 150.
Thymbris, and his son Rustius, v. 466.
Tides, of, iii. 159.
Tigris, the river, v. 507.
Timaeus, his opinion of tides, iii. 159.
Timesias, the oracle and, i. 471;
anecdote of, v. 127.
Time, essence and nature of, iii. 127, 128.
Timoclea, at the taking of Thebes, i. 376.
Timoleon, ii. 314.
Timotheus, the musician, anecdote of, i. 92, 106, 112; ii. 83, 306; v. 76.
Titus Quinctius, apothegm of, i. 230.
Tmolus, mount, v. 486.
Torpedo, or crampfish, v. 201.
Torquatus and Clusia, v. 459.
Tortoise, their care for their young, v. 209.
Training of children, i. 3-32.
Tranquillity of the mind, the, i. 136-167.
Transmutation of bodies, v. 14.
Trees and seeds, watering of, iii. 496.
Trees not nourished by sea-water, iii. 495.
Triangles, of, v. 433.
Trisimachus, his book of Foundations of Cities, v. 455.
Trochilus and crocodile, v. 206.
Troilus wept less than Priam, i. 323.
Trojan women, virtue of the, i. 342.
Trophonius and Agamedes, i. 313.
True friendship, of, i. 464-474; ii. 100-134.
True happiness, of, v. 392.
Tullus Hostilius, v. 455.
Tunnies, dim sight of the, v. 204.
Typhon, in Egyptian mythology, iv. 80, 81, 86, 88, 91, 92, 99, 101, 105, 110, 114, 118, 122.
Tyrrhene women, virtue of the, i. 349.
U.
Ulysses, i. 160;
in the island of Circe, v. 218 et seq.
Unity of God. Of the word εἰ engraven over the gate of the temple of Apollo at Delphi, iv. 478-498.
Universe, whether it is one, iii. 114;
division of the, v. 429.
Unlearned Prince, Discourse to an, iv. 323-330.
Usurers, what sort of men they are, 417.
Usury, evils of, v. 412-424.
V.
Vacuum, of a, iii. 126;
there can be none in nature, iv. 33;
suppose there were, it would have no beginning, middle, or end, 34.
Valeria and Cloelia, i. 356.
Valeria Tusculanaria, v. 464.
Valerius Conatus swallowed up alive, v. 455.
Venus’s hands wounded by Diomedes, iii. 441.
Verses seasonably and unseasonably applied, iii. 436.
Vice and virtue, ii. 482-485.
Vice, whether it is sufficient to render a man unhappy, iv. 499-503.
Vines irrigated with wine, iii. 513;
rank of leaves, iii. 513.
Virtue and vice, ii. 482-485.
Virtue may be taught, i. 78-81.
Virtue or fortune, to which of these was due the greatness and glory of Rome? iv. 198-219.
Virtue, progress in, ii. 446-474.
Virtues of women, i. 340-384.
Vision, doctrine of, iii. 168; v. 236 et seq.
Voice is incorporeal, iii. 172.
Voice, of the, iii. 171.
Vowels and semi-vowels, iii. 438.
W.
Water made colder by stones and lead, iii. 348.
Water or fire, which is more useful? v. 331-337.
Water, white and black, iii. 518.
Wealth, the love of, ii. 294-305.
Well water, change of the temperature in, iii. 347.
West wind the swiftest, iii, 515.
Whale, of the, v. 207.
Wheat, sow, in clay, iii. 505.
Whether an aged man ought to meddle in state affairs, v. 64-96.
Whether the passions of the soul, or diseases of the body, are worse, iv. 504-508.
Whether ’twere rightly said, “Live concealed,” iii. 3-10.
Whether vice is sufficient to render a man unhappy, iv. 499-503.
Whirlwinds, of, iii. 150.
Why the oracles cease to give answers, iv. 3-64.
Wicked, delay of Providence in punishing the, iv. 140-188.
Widows in India, iv. 502.
Wild beasts, steps of, iii. 509;
their tracks, 509.
Wild boars, tears of the, iii. 507.
Winds, of, iii. 154.
Wine, whether it is potentially cold, iii. 272-274;
straining of, 351;
middle of, 370;
sea water upon, 502;
irrigation with, 513.
Winter and summer, cause of, iii. 141, 154.
Winter, ships in, iii. 500;
sea least hot in, 501.
Wise Men, the Seven, Banquet of, ii. 3-41;
their names, iv. 480.
Woman, of Pergamus, i. 374.
Woman of Thessaly torn in pieces by dogs, v. 463.
Women, the virtues of, i. 340-384;
barrenness in, iii. 181;
are hardly foxed, 268-270;
temper of, 270-272;
given as the price of peace, v. 468.
Word ει at Apollo’s temple at Delphi. iv. 478-498.
World, how it was brought into its present order, iii. 113.
World, of the, iii. 132;
figure of the, 133;
whether it be an animal, 133;
whether it is eternal and incorruptible, 133;
its nutriment, 134;
from what element was it raised, 134;
in what form and order was it composed, 135;
cause of its inclination, 136;
thing which is beyond the, 136;
what parts on the right and left hand, 137.
Worlds, plurality of, iv. 29-38.
Wrestling, of, iii. 246.
X.
Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, anecdotes of, i. 53, 292.
Xenaenetus, v. 109.
Xenocrates, anecdote of; i. 71, 442;
his opinions concerning the soul, ii. 327, 439;
of triangles, iii. 24, 139, 494;
his opinion about daemons, iv. 17, 87;
saying of, v. 10, 494.
Xenocritus, a composer, i. 110, 380.
Xenodamus, a composer, i. 110.
Xenophanes, his reply, i. 65, 183;
his philosophical opinions, iii. 134, 138, 141, 144, 145, 150, 155;
quoted, ii. 49; iv. 291.
Xenophon, quoted, i. 137;
maxim of, 281, 333, 447; ii. 115, 144, 178, 307;
the scene of his old age, iii. 24; v. 67, 72, 121, 139.
Xerxes, his saying, i. 39, 187;
and Arimanes, iii. 59, 60;
invasion of Greece, v. 451, 452.
Y.
Year, length of, in different planets, iii. 147.
Z.
Zaleucus, laws of, ii. 315.
Zaratas, ii. 327.
Zeno, saying of, i. 56;
anecdotes of, 72, 142, 283; ii. 321, 365, 455;
quoted, 467, 481; iii. 25, 113, 125, 128;
his definition of virtue, 462;
anecdote of, iv. 225; v. 382.
Zenocrates, v. 288, 377, 441.
Zeuxidamus, apothegm of, i. 410.
Zeuxippus, dialogue on health, i. 251-279; ii. 157 et seq.; iv. 270, 278, 288.
Zeuxis, reply of, i. 468.
Zopyrus Byzantius, his Third Book of Histories, v. 473.
Zoroaster, ii. 357; iv. 106.

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