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HIPPOCRATES: Greek doctor active in the fifth century B.C.; various medical writings are
transmitted under his name, as is the Hippocratic Oath still administered to doctors. (3.3)
HYMEN: Unknown; the comparison with SATYRON does not help identify him. (10.31)
JULIAN: This may be a friend of FRONTO’s, Claudius Julianus, a proconsul of Asia at
about this period. (4.50)
LEPIDUS: This might perhaps be the Roman aristocrat who briefly shared power with
Marcus Antonius and the future emperor AUGUSTUS, but the context suggests an older
contemporary of Marcus’s. (4.50)
LUCILLA: Marcus’s mother (d. 155/161). (1.3, 1.17, 8.25, 9.21)
LUSIUS LUPUS: Unknown. (12.27)
MAECENAS: Adviser and unofficial minister of culture to AUGUSTUS; patron of the poets
Vergil and Horace, among others. (8.31)
MARCIANUS: Unknown philosopher. (1.6)
MAXIMUS: Claudius Maximus. Roman consul in the early 140s. Governor of Upper
Pannonia in the early 150s. Later in that decade he governed North Africa, where he served as
judge in the trial of the novelist Apuleius for sorcery. (1.15, 1.16, 1.17, 8.25)
MENIPPUS: Cynic philosopher (early third century B.C.) from Gadara in Syria. He features
as a character in many of the satirical dialogues of Lucian. (6.47)
MONIMUS: Fourth-century B.C. Cynic philosopher and student of DIOGENES. (2.15)
NERO: Roman emperor (54–68); his name was a byword for tyranny and cruelty. (3.16)
ORIGANION: Unknown; most likely an imperial slave or freedman. (6.47)
PANTHEIA: Mistress of Lucius VERUS, mentioned in several works by the satirist Lucian.
(8.37)
PERDICCAS: King of Macedon (c. 450–413 B.C.). (11.25)
PERGAMOS: Evidently an associate of Lucius VERUS, perhaps a slave or lover. (8.37)
PHALARIS: Sixth-century B.C. dictator of Agrigento in Sicily, notorious for his cruelty.
(3.16)
PHILIP: King of Macedon (359–336 B.C.) and father of ALEXANDER THE GREAT. (9.29,
10.27)
PHILISTION: Unknown, most likely an imperial slave or freedman, though a contemporary
mime writer of this name is also known. (6.47)
PHOCION: Athenian general and statesman of the fourth century B.C. He was eventually
sentenced to death for treason, and before his execution supposedly asked his son to forgive the
Athenians for condemning him. (11.13)
PHOEBUS: Unknown, most likely an imperial slave or freedman. (6.47)
PLATO: Athenian philosopher (c. 429–347 B.C.), disciple of SOCRATES and author of
philosophical dialogues in which the latter is portrayed debating with his disciples and other
contemporary figures. The most famous of these is perhaps the Republic, in which he envisions an
ideal society. (7.48, 9.29, 10.23; quoted 7.44–46)
POMPEY: Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus (106–48 B.C.), Roman politician and general who rose
to power in the 60s on the basis of a series of successful campaigns in the East. His brief political
alliance with Julius CAESAR gave way to mutual rivalry and suspicion. When Caesar’s march on