INDEX
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Miller, Walter
Minos, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and king of Crete; because of his upright life he was made judge with Aeacus (q.v.) in Hades, i, 97.
Moderation, defined, i, 142.
Modesty, i, 126-129.
Mucius; see Scaevola.
Mummius; Lucius Mummius Achaicus, as consul (146) broke up the Achaean League, razed Corinth to the ground, i, 35; ii, 46; carried to Italy untold treasures of wealth and art, ii, 76.
Naples, the beautiful Greek city of Campania, i, 33.
Nasica; see Scipio.
Neptune, god of the sea, i, 32; iii, 94.
New Academy; see Academy.
Nicocles, tyrant of Sicyon, ii, 81.
Nola, a city in Campania, loyal to Rome, i, 33.
Norbanus, Gaius, tribune (95), impeached (94) for treason, ii, 49; consul (83).
Numantia, the capital of Celtiberia, razed to the ground after a long siege by the younger Scipio, i, 35, 76; treacherously treated by Rome, iii, 109.
Numicius, Tiberius, colleague of Quintus Maelius (q.v.), iii, 109.
Oath, significance of, i, 39, 40; iii, 102 fg.; fidelity to, i, 39, 40; iii, 99-112; violation of, iii, 113 fg.; see Perjury.
Octavius, Gnaeus, as praetor commanded the fleet against Perseus (168) and gained a triumph; consul (165), i, 138.
Octavius, Marcus, tribune (120); had the corn law of Gaius Gracchus repealed and secured the passage of a new and more conservative one, ii, 72.
Old Age, duties peculiar to, i, 123; worst vices of, i, 123.
Old Comedy, that of Aristophanes, Cratinus, Eupolis, etc., the comedy of personal abuse, i, 104.
Orata, Gaius Sergius Silus, praetor (97), iii, 67.
Oratory, a division of speech, i, 132; divisions of, ii, 49; a means for winning favour, ii, 48; a means for service, ii, 65-71; a power to save, ii, 51.
Orderliness, defined, i, 142; of action, i, 142-145.
Orestes; Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes Aurelianus, consul (71), ii, 58.
Palamedes, the inventor; exposed Ulysses's trick, iii, 98; treacherously done to death in revenge.
Palatine, the hill above the forum on the south; east of the capital, i, 138.
Panaetius, of Rhodes (180-111 ca.), Stoic philosopher, disciple of Diogenes and Antipater (q.v.) at Athens, close friend of Laelius (q.v.) and Scipio, i, 90; ii, 76; popularized philosophy, ii, 35; wrote a book on moral duty, iii, 7; failed to define duty, i, 7; classification of duty, i, 9; omits third division, i, 152, 161; ii, 88; reasons for omission, iii, 7-18, 34; how it would have been met, iii, 33; other omissions, ii, 86; on co-operation, ii, 16; defends lawyer's efforts in a bad case, ii, 51; on expensive public buildings, ii, 60; Cicero's model, ii, 60; iii, 7; Hecaton's teacher, iii, 63.
Papius, Gaius, as tribune (65), revived the law of Pennus (q.v.), iii, 47.
Patriotism, i, 83; duty to country, i, 160; iii, 90, 95; to die for country, i, 57; sacrifice for, i, 84; iii, 100; right to do wrong for one's country, i, 159; iii, 93, 95.
Paulus, Lucius Aemilius, consul (216), defeated and slain at Cannae, i, 114.
Paulus; Lucius Aemilius Paulus Macedonicus, son of the preceding; in his second consulship he conquered Perseus of Macedon at Pydna (168) and enriched Rome with spoils, ii, 76; the father of the younger Africanus, i, 116, 121.
Pausanias, king of Sparta, commander-in-chief of the forces of Greece at Plataea (479) to the glory of Sparta, i, 76.
Peloponnesian War, the death-struggle of Athens with Sparta (431-404), i, 84.
Peloponnesus, the lower peninsula of Greece, in which Sparta was the chief city, i, 84.
Pelops, son of Tantalus and king of Mycenae, father of Atreus and Thyestes, iii, 84.
Pennus, Marcus Junius; as tribune (126) he secured a law expelling all foreigners from Rome, iii, 47.
Pericles, the peerless statesman of Athens, ii, 16; philosopher, friend of Anaxagoras and Socrates; orator of mighty power, serious and deep, i, 108; general, i, 144; his administration made Athens unequalled in the splendour of her public buildings, ii, 60.
Peripatetics, followers of Aristotle (q.v.), empiricists, ii, 16; students of exact science; lack the poetry and eloquence of Plato but not very different from the New Academy, i, 2; iii, 20; followers of Socrates and Plato, i, 2; their right to teach ethics, i, 6; seek the golden mean, i, 89; moral rectitude the supreme good, iii, 11; moral wrong the supreme evil, iii, 106; young Cicero their follower, i, 1; ii, 8.
Perjury, iii, 106-108, 113.
Perseus, the last king of Macedon, conquered by Paulus (q.v.), i, 37.
Persians, the people of Persia, the great empire of western Asia; under Darius they invaded Greece and were beaten back at Marathon (490), i, 61; under Xerxes were overwhelmingly defeated at Salamis (480), i, 61; iii, 48, 49; and at Plataea (479), i, 61.