Moral essays. With an English translation by J.W. Basore

;INDEX OF NAMEShis talent in writing mimes),famous line of, 191Lacedaemonians, discipline of,31Land-of-the-stmnp-nosed (Syria),307Lentulus (probably P. CorneliusLentulns Sura, chief among theCatilinarian conspirators), insultsCato, 345Lepidus, M. Aemilius (the triumvir; though subdued by Octavianin 36 B.C. and stripped of power,he lived until 13 B.C.), clemencyof Augustus to, 387Lepidus, M. Aemilius (son of thetriumvir), conspired againstAugustus, 383Livia (Drusilla, second wife ofAugustus and mother of theemperor Tiberius), counselsAugustus, 383Livius, Titus (ihe most popular ofRoman historians, 59 B.C. -17A.D.), saying of, 1>53Longevals, appellation of theEthiopians, 307Lucilius (friend of Seneca, Romanknight and procurator of Sicily,see Introd., p. xi), 3Lysimachus (one of Alexander'sgenerals, who having escapeddeath at the hands of Alexanderbecame king of Macedonia),thrown to a lion, 299, 423Macedonian, 209Maecenas, Gains Cilnins (Romanstatesman, courtier, and patronof literature in the reign ofAugustus^ felicity of, 21, 23Marias, Gaius (leader of the democratsin the struggle againstSulla, consul for the seventhtime 86 b.c), violence of condemned,171Marias, Marcus (nephew, by adoption,of Gaius Marius), torturedby Sulla, 301Marseilles, place of exile, 401Medes, subjects of Parthia, 87king of the, 87Megara (capital of the Megarid, adistrict north of Corinth), capturedby Demetrius, 63Messala (CorAinus, M. Valerius,famous orator and piatron ofletters; pardoned by the triumvirsafter Philippi, he becameone of the chief friends ofAugustus), spared by Augustus,387Metellus, L. Caecilius (distinguishedgeneral in the First PunicWar, who is sai