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Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Miller, Walter
Euripides (480-406), tragic poet of Athens; disciple of Anaxagoras and friend of Socrates; wrote 75 to 90 plays; 17 are extant; Cicero quotes from the Hippolytus, iii, 82; the Phoenissae, iii, 108.
Evil, the supreme, i, 5; iii, 119; not pain, i, 5; iii, 105, 117; but moral wrong, iii, 105, 106; the only, iii, 106.
Expediency, definition, ii, 1, 11; indispensable, iii, 101; identical with Moral Rectitude, ii, 9-10; iii, 20, 35, 49, 83, 85, 110; conflict with Moral Rectitude impossible, iii, 9, 11, 18, 34, 40, 48, 72; incompatible with immorality, iii, 35, 77, 81, 82, 87; ii, 64; one standard for both, iii, 75; relative, ii, 88 fg.; possible change of, iii, 95; occasion for doubt, iii, 19; apparent conflict with justice, iii, 40, 86; apparent political expediency vs. humanity, iii, 46-49; in business, iii, 50 fg.; apparent conflict with Fortitude, iii, 97-115; apparent conflict with Temperance, iii, 116.
Fabius; see Maximus.
Fabricius; Gaius Fabricius Luscinus, hero of old Rome, famed for integrity and moral dignity; called "the Just," iii, 16, 87; consul (282); served against Pyrrhus (280); ambassador to Pyrrhus to negotiate exchange of prisoners; Pyrrhus tried to gain his favour by appeals to his ambition, avarice, and fears—in vain, i, 38; consul again (278), he sent back to Pyrrhus the traitor, i, 40; iii, 86-87; a rigorous censor (275); lived and died in poverty.
Fame; see Glory.
Fear, the wretchedness of, ii, 25-26; vs. love, ii, 23-26; dangerous to the one who employs it, ii, 26.
Fetial Law, the laws of the Fetiales, a college of four priests who served as guardians of the public faith; they conducted the ceremonies attendant upon demands for redress, declarations of war, ratification of treaties, establishment of peace; i, 36; iii, 108.
Fides; see Good Faith; the goddess, iii, 104; etymology of, i, 23.
Fimbria, Gaius Flavius, colleague of Marius in his second consulship (104); orator and jurist, iii, 77.
Finance, ii, 87; reform of currency, iii, 80-81.
Fortitude, the third Cardinal Virtue, i, 15, 61-92; its characteristics, i, 66; in the light of justice, i, 62, 157; dangers attending, i, 46, 62-63; vs. expediency, iii, 97-115; in Epicurus's system, iii, 117.
Fraud, criminal, iii, 60 fg.
Friendship, motives to, i, 55-56; acquisition of friends, ii, 30; ideal, i, 56; iii, 45-46; vs. duty, iii, 43-44.
Fufius, Lucius, an orator of no great ability, ii, 50.
Furius; Lucius Furius Philus, consul (136), proconsul in Spain, iii, 109; a learned interlocutor in Cicero's Republic.
Galus, Gaius Sulpicius; see Sulpicius.
Gaul, an inhabitant of Gaul, the land north of the Apennines, iii, 112.
Generosity, divisions of, ii, 52; close to nature, iii, 24; must not harm its object, i, 42-43; in proportion to one's means, i, 42-44; ii, 55; to the recipient's merits, i, 45-60; motives to, i, 47-49; iii, 118; means to winning popularity, ii, 32; gifts of money, ii, 52-60; personal service, ii, 52, 53; to individuals, ii, 65-71; to the state, ii, 72 fg.; when most appreciated, ii, 63.
Glory, a means to popularity, ii, 31, 43; preferred to wealth, ii, 88.
Gods, favour of, won by piety, ii, 11; do no harm, ii, 12; iii, 102; free from care, iii, 102; slow to anger, iii, 102, 104, 105.
Golden Mean, i, 89; in generosity, ii, 58, 59, 60; in personal adornment, i, 130.
Good, the supreme, i, 5, 7; iii, 52, 119; not pleasure, i, 5; iii, 116, 117, 118; but moral goodness, iii, 11, 35; living in harmony with nature, iii, 13; the only, moral goodness, i, 67; iii, 12.
Good faith, iii, 104; even to an enemy, iii, 86 fg., 111, 113.
Good man, what constitutes a, iii, 63, 75-77.
Gracchus, Gaius Sempronius, brother of the younger Tiberius; a more radical reformer; tribune (123 and 122); fell (121) a martyr to his reforms for the restoration of the public lands and the reduction of the cost of living, ii, 72, 80; his death applauded by Cicero, ii, 43.
Gracchus, Publius Sempronius, father of the elder Tiberius, ii, 43.
Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius, father of the tribunes, ii, 43; in his own tribuneship he defended Scipio (187); a great soldier, ii, 80; twice consul, triumphed twice; a just ruler in Spain; son-in-law of the elder, father-in-law of the younger Africanus, an ardent aristocrat; hence Cicero's praise, ii, 43.
Gracchus, Tiberius Sempronius, son of the foregoing; a persuasive orator; friend of the people and helper of the poor and oppressed; murdered for attempting as tribune (133) to reform agrarian abuses and build up a class of small farmers, i, 76, 109; ii, 80; his death applauded by Cicero, ii, 43.
Gratidianus, Marcus Marius; see Marius.
Gratitude, how won, ii, 63.
Greece, the land of liberty, letters, art, and civilization, ii, 60; iii, 48, 73, 99; cause of fall, ii, 80.
Greek, belonging to or a native of Greece, i, 108, 111; ii, 83; iii, 82; leaders in literature, i, 3; masters of philosophy, i, 8, 51, 142, 153; ii, 18; Greek and Latin studies, i, 1.
Gyges, the shepherd who dethroned Candaules and became king of Lydia (716-678), iii, 38, 78.
Gytheum, the harbour-town and arsenal of Sparta, iii, 49.
Hamilcar, a successful Carthaginian general in the First Punic War, defeated by Regulus at Ecnomus; opposed Regulus in Africa, iii, 99; confused with Hamilcar Barca (q.v.), iii, 99.
Hamilcar Barca, famous commander of the Carthaginian forces in Sicily (247-241); in Spain (238-229); father of Hannibal, iii, 99.
Hannibal (247-183), one of the world's greatest generals, i, 108; son of Hamilcar Barca, iii, 99; sacked Saguntum (219), crossed the Alps and defeated the Romans on the Trebia and Ticinus (218), at Trasimenus (217), Cannae (216), i, 40; iii, 113-114; defeated at Zama (202); maligned by the Romans as treacherous and cruel, i, 38.
Harm, from gods to men, ii, 12; iii, 102; men to men, ii, 16 fg.
Health, impossible without man's co-operation, ii, 12, 15; care of, ii, 86.