INDEX
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Cicero, Marcus Tullius and Miller, Walter
Taxation, levying of, ii, 74.
Temperance, the fourth Cardinal Virtue, i, 93-151; definition, i, 93; the passions, i, 102; speech, i, 103; vs. Justice, i, 159-160; essential to success, ii, 77; vs. apparent Expediency, iii, 116 fg.
Terence; Publius Terentius Afer (195-159), a comic poet, friend of Laelius and Scipio; six plays are left; quotation from the Heauton Timorumenus, i, 30; the Eunuchus, i, 150.
Thebe, daughter of Jason and wife of Alexander of Pherae, ii, 25.
Thebes, the capital of Boeotia, home of Pindar and Epaminondas, i, 155.
Themistocles, brilliant statesman of Athens, ii, 16; gave Athens her fleet and saved Greece at Salamis (480), i, 75; consummate general, i, 108; not always scrupulous in his methods, iii, 49; his valuation of character, ii, 71.
Theophrastus, of Lesbos, favourite pupil and successor of Aristotle, a marvellous teacher, master of Demetrius of Phalerum, i, 3; a prolific author; cited, ii, 56, 64.
Theopompus, of Chios (fourth century), pupil of Isocrates, orator and historian, ii, 40.
Thermopylae, a narrow pass on the seashore between Thessaly and Locris, held by Leonidas and his three hundred against the hosts of Xerxes (480), i, 61.
Theseus, the great legendary hero of Athens, benefactor of the world; uniter of Athens and Attica; father of Hippolytus (q.v.) by Antiope; husband of Phaedra; his son's death, i, 32; iii, 94.
Thrace, the vast country north of the Aegean; though the home of Orpheus, Linus, etc., it was generally considered barbarous, ii, 25.
Thyestes, son of Pelops and brother of Atreus (q.v.), (iii, 102).
Timotheus, admiral of the Athenian fleet (378-356), compared with his father Conon, i, 116.
Torquatus; see Manlius.
Trades; see Vocation.
Troezen, a city of Argolis, near the shore opposite Aegina; the asylum of the Athenians at the approach of Xerxes, iii, 48.
Trusts, when not to be restored, iii, 95.
Truth, the search after, i, 13.
Tubero, Quintus Aelius, the Stoic, a pupil of Panaetius, praetor (123); a talented jurist, iii, 63.
Tusculum, a town in the Alban hills, the oldest municipium in Italy, admitted (381), i, 35; public lands of, i, 21; Cicero's favourite country home.
Twelve Tables, the laws of, drawn up (450); quoted, i, 37; iii, 111.
Tyranny, ii, 23-29; inspired by false perspective, iii, 36; right and duty toward the tyrant, iii, 19, 85.
Tyre, the great commercial city on the coast of Phoenice, ii, 86.
Ulysses (Odysseus), son of Laertes of Ithaca, the shrewdest of the Greek heroes at Troy, iii, 97; the hero of the Odyssey, i, 113.
Varro, Gaius Terentius, consul (216) with Paulus, responsible for the disaster at Cannae, iii, 114.
Venus (Aphrodite), the goddess of beauty and love; of Cos, iii, 10.
Veseris, a little stream near Mount Vesuvius; scene of the battle of Manlius Torquatus and the elder Decius, iii, 112.
Veturius; Titus Veturius Calvinus, consul with Spurius Postumius (321) at the Caudine Forks, iii, 109.
Vice, luxurious living, i, 123; sensual pleasure, i, 102, 104-106, 122-123; ii, 37; avarice, ii, 77; extravagance, i, 140; misrepresentation, i, 150; untruth, i, 150; corrected by observing others, i, 146; by the criticism of the wise, i, 147.
Viriathus, ii, 40.
Virtue, defined, ii, 18; chief function of, ii, 17; the four Cardinal Virtues described, i, 15-17; the sources of moral rectitude, i, 152; iii, 96; Nature's leadings to, i, 100; endangered by sensual pleasure, ii, 37; rulers chosen for, ii, 41.
Vocation, choice of, i, 115-120; change of, i, 120-121; vulgar and liberal, i, 150-152.
Volscians, a people of lower Latium, subdued (303), given full citizenship (188), i, 35.
War, rights of, to be enforced, i, 34; Cato's son, i, 36-37; excuse for war, i, 35, 80; justice in war, i, 38; war for supremacy, i, 38; for glory, i, 38; needless cruelty, i, 82.
Wealth, Theophrastus on, ii, 56; insatiable thirst for, i, 25; why sought, i, 25-27; the real good of wealth, ii, 56; seeRiches.
Wisdom, the first of the Cardinal Virtues, i, 15-19; most important, i, 153; ii, 6; absolute, iii, 16; and propriety, i, 94, 100; vs. Justice, i, 152-157, 160; confounded with cunning, ii, 10; iii, 72, 96; in Epicurus's system, iii, 117.
Wit, kinds of, i, 103-104; representatives of, i, 108.
Xanthippus, a Spartan soldier of fortune, whose generalship defeated Regulus, iii, 99.
Xenocrates, of Chalcedon (396-314), a pupil of Plato, president of the Academy, industrious and severe, i, 109.
Xenophon, soldier, historian, disciple of Socrates, ii, 87; the story of Hercules's choice, i, 118.