SENECA - College of Stoic Philosophers

INDEX
Penelope, moral character
of, Ixxxviii. 8
Peripatetics, their softening
of Stoic paradoxes, Ixxxv.
3, 31, etc. ;
their objections
to Stoic syllogisms,
Ixxxvii. 12, 38; their establishment
of economic philosophy,
Ixxxix. 10
Persae(the Persians), objects
of Roman conquest, Ixxi.
37
Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum
in Sicily ((Jth century
B.C.), the bronze bull of,
Ixvi. 18
Pharius, pacemaker for
Seneca, Ixxxiii. 4
Phidias (Athenian sculptor,
5th century B.C.), variety
of his materials, Ixxxv. 40
Lucius Piso (Roman official
under Augustus), abnormal
drunkenness of,
Ixxxiii. 14 f.
L. Munatius Plancus (gov.
of Transalpine Gaul, 43
B.C.), founder of Lyons,
xci. 14
Pompeii (possibly the birthplace
of Lucilius), recalls
memories of Seneca's boyhood,
Ixx. 1
Gn. Pompeius Magnus, three
defeats of his forces, Ixxi.
8 ft.
Lars Porsenna, king of the
Etruscans, who yielded to
Mucius Scaevola, Ixvi. 51 ff.
Posidonius (Stoic philosopher,^.
1st century B.C.),
on lengti'i of life, Ixxviii.
28 ; opinion on drunken-
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ness, Ixxxiii. 10 ; definition
of riches, Ixxxvii. 31 ff. ;
on the arts and crafts,
Ixxxviii. 21 ; on the sage
and the inventor, xc. 5 ff. ;
on the weakness of the
flesh, xcii. 10
Protagoras (Greek philosopher
of Abdera, 5th century
B.C.), opinion on the
flexibility of dialectic,
Ixxxviii. 43 f.
Puteoli (a coast-town near
Naples in Campania), the
idlers of, Ixxvii. 1
Pyrrhonic school, scepticism
of, Ixxxviii. 44 f.
Pythagoras (Greek philosopher,
6th century B.C.),
teacher of many famous
lawgivers, xc. 6
M. ATILIUS REGULUS (hero of
first Punic war), the sufferings
of, Ixvii. 7, 12 ; his
pledge of honour, Ixxi. 17
Rhodian (Telesphorus the),
cowardly Words of, Ixx. 6
P. Rutilius Rufus (statesman,
banished 92 B.C.),
exile of, Ixvii. 7 ;
retirement
of, Ixxix. 14
SARMATIA (on the eastern
side of Scythia), vanity of
its rulers, Ixxx. 10
Sattia, anecdote about the
longevity of, Ixxvii. 20
Gaius Mucius Scaevola
(Roman legendary period),
voluntary self- mutilation
of, Ixvi. 51 ff.