SENECA - College of Stoic Philosophers

INDEX
Anacreon, Sappho, etc.,
Ixxxviii. 37
Diogenes (the Cynic), contrasted
as a philosopher
with Daedalus the inventor,
xc. 14
Dossennus (ancient Latin
comic writer, or a type in
the Atellane farce), inscription
on the tomb of,
Ixxxix. 7
EPICUREAN, a philosophy of
leisure, Ixviii. 10 ; void,
Ixxii. 9 ;
definition of
philosophy as twofold,
Ixxxix. 11
Epicurus (founder of the
school, 342-279 B.C.), on
the joy of suffering, Ixvi.
18, Ixvii. 15 ;
on the painless
body and the serene
mind, Ixvi. 45 ;
on the
different classes of goods,
Ixvi. 47 f. ;
late-won renown
of, Ixxix. 15 f. ;
on
the payment of obligations,
Ixxxi. 11 ;
declares
virtue alone not sufficient
for happiness, Ixxxv. 18 ;
on calm amid pain, xcii. 25
Eretrian school (somewhat
inclined toward the
Socratic), scepticism of,
Ixxxviii. 44 f.
FABII (clan famous in early
Roman history), sacrifice
in behalf of the state,
Ixxxii. 20
Q. Fabius Maximus (hero of
second Punic war), simple
life of, Ixxxvi. 10
4/76
GERMAN (gladiator), revolting
suicide of a, Ixx. 20
Graeci, their use of paradoxes
(inopinata)
in philosophy,
Ixxxi. 11 ;
futilities
of dialectic, Ixxxii. 8 f. :
their use of indifferentia,
Ixxxii. 10 ; encyclic arts oi
the, Ixxxviii. 23; definition
of wisdom, Ixxxix. 7 ;
definition
of orbatio, Ixxxvii.
39 ;
on calm, xcii. 6
HANNIBAL, contrasted with
Scipio, Ixxxvi. 3
Helen, age of, compared
with Hecuba's, Ixxxviii. 6
Hephaestion( volcanic region
in Lycia, in Asia Minor),
Ixxix. 3
Hesiod, compared
v/ith
Homer in seniority,
Ixxxviii. 6
Homer, claimed by various
schools of philosophy as *
witness in their behalf,
Ixxxviii. 5 f. in
;
various
connexions, Ixxxviii. passim
;
mentions the potter's
wheel, xc. 31
Q. Horatius Flaccus (Roman
poet, 65-8 B.C.), quoted,
Ixxxvi. 13
JUPITER, comparison of, with
the ideal sage, Ixxiii.
12 ff.
LACON, Spartan boy who refused
to do menial service,
Ixxvii. 14 f.
Lacones (Spartans
under