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the chalice to our own
1
lips,' Ixxxi. 22
Augustus (Roman Emperor),
confidence in the hard
drinkers Piso and Cossus,
Ixxxiii. 14 f.
DECIMITS IUNIUS BHUTUS (c.
8443 B.C. ,
see ra.), cowardly
death of, Ixxxii. 12 f.
GAIUS CAESAR (Caligula,
emperor 37-41 A.D.), witticism
of, Ixxvii. 18
Gaius lulius Caesar, conqueror
of Pompey, Ixxxiii.
12
Cambyses (son of Cyrus the
Great, king of the Medes
and Persians, 6th century
B.C.), madness of, Ixxxvi. 1
Capreae (modern Capri, the
outpost of the bay of
Naples), Ixxvii. 2
Gaius Cassius (one of the
murderers of Caesar), temperate
habits of Ixxxiii. 12
M. Porcius Cato (the Elder),
simple life of, Ixxxvi. 10 ;
his scorn of trappings,
Ixxxvii. 9 ff.
M. Porcius Cato (theYounger,
d. 46 B.C.), heroic suicide
of, Ixvii. 7, 13 ; Ixx. 19, 22 ;
defeat of, Ixxi. 8, 10, 11 ;
obedience to fate, Ixxi.
16 f. dictum of, Ixxi. 15.
;
Charondas (Sicilian lawgiver,
6th century B.C.),
xc. 6
Charybdis (between Italy and
Sicily, opposite to Scylla),
phenomena of, Ixxix. 1 f.
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Chelidon (a eunuch of Cleopatra),
richness of, Ixxxvii.
16
Tillius Cimber (one of the conspirators
against Caesar),
his inordinate love of liquor,
Ixxxiii. 12 f.
Claranus (a friend of Seneca),
his heroic conduct during
illness, Ixvi. 1-4
Cyprus, often wasted by
earthquakes, xci. 9
Cyrenaic school (offshoot
of Epicureanism), remove
physics and logic, and are
content with ethics alone,
Ixxxix. 12
DAHAE (see n.), objects of
Roman conquest, Ixxi.
37
P. Decius Mus (both father
and son, heroes of the
Latin wars, 4th century
B.C.), heroism and selfsacrifice
of, Ixvii. 9
Demetrius (of Sunium, philosopher
and friend of
Seneca), definition of an
untroubled existence, Ixvii.
14 ;
his contempt for
gossip, xci. 19
Democritus (Greek philosopher,
of Abdera, 5th
century B.C.), supposed
madness of, Ixxix. 14 ;
discussed
as the inventor of
the arch, xc. 32 f.
Didymus(surnamed"Brazen-
Bowels," scholar of Alexandria,^.
1st century B.C.),
his voluminous and variegated
writings, on Aeneas,
Q 475