Marcellus, an augur, depreciates augury as a mere political contrivance, 442. Maritime position of cities, alleged disadvantage of, 322. Mars, the planet, 63, 89. Mercury, several of the name, 125, Midas, king, 177.
Minerva, origin of the name, 69.
Monarchy, the people’s interest not ef- fectually promoted by, 304; yet pre- ferable to other forms of government, Moon, speculations on its nature, 16, 73; its motion, 62, Mopsus, 46.
Motion, Plato’s remarks on, 56, Mummius, Spurius, 293, 301, Muses, the, 124.
Music, its influence, 446.
Naker, or pinna, its confederacy with the prawn, 90.
Natta, statue of, struck by lightning, 218.
Nature, the term vaguely used, 74; how understood by Epicurus, 74; how by | the Academics, 74; by the Stoics, 65, 74; the fountain of justice, 414.
Nausiphanes, the master of Epicurus, Necessity, or Heimarmene, 20; doctrine of, how avoided by Epicurus, 24; re- jected by Chrysippus, 280.
Neptune, origin of the name, 69; the air which pervades the sea so termed, 16.
Niobe, 128.
Nocturnal mysteries, prohibition of, 445, Numa Pompilius, 328; not a Pythago- rean, 329.
Numerius Suffucius, 235.
Omina, what, 186.
Oracles, 161; their ambiguous character, Orphic verse, its reputed inventor, 38.
Oscines and alites, what, 103.
Pacuvius, passages cited from, 77, 155, Pamphilus of Samos, 26.
INDEX, Pamphylians, observers of auguries, 142, Panetius, his doubts on divination, 144.
Parhelion, phenomena of the, 291.
Parmenides, his stephane, 11.
Patriotism, encomium on, 285.
Penates, 69.
People, a turbulent democracy not the, 364; Roman, oppressed by debts, 341.
Pericles explains the cause of an eclipse, Peripatetics, sect of, 7.
Perseus wishes to deify those who have made discoveries useful to man, 15.
Perseus, last king of Macedon, 46.
Phedo, disciple of Socrates, 33.
Pherecydes predicts an earthquake, 190.
Philo the Academic, 4.
Philosophy, eulogium on, 297.
Philus. See Furius, Lucius.
Pisidians, observers of auguries, 142, 156.
Piso, M., a favourer of the Peripatetics, 7.
Planets, motion of the, 63.
Plato, uncertainty of his opinions regard- ing the Deity, 12; on motion, 56; on divination, 141; on dreams, 170; his remark when shipwrecked, 298; on democracy, 315; his Utopia, 338; his praises of law, 433; on music, 446; on things consecrated to the Gods, 449.
Plautus, passages cited from, 172.
Pliny, passage cited from, 90.
Pluto, origin of the name, 69.
Poets, their fables regarding the Gods, 16.
Posidonius the Stoic, 4; his remarks on Epicurus, 43; his sphere, 76; on pos- sibility, 269.
Possibility discussed, 271.
Posthumius, appearance of the Gods to, Posthumius the soothsayer, 175.
Presages, instances of remarkable, 187; refuted, 222. Priam possessed the gift of divination, Prodicus the Chian, 41.
Prodigies before the battle of Leuctra, 176; after the death of Czsar, 151.
Prolepsis of Epicurus, what, 17.
Pronoia, or Providence, 8, 65.
Protagoras doubted whether there were Public shows and amusements, 445.
Publicola, Valerius, his deference to the people, 339.
Pyrrhus said to be deceived by the oracle,.
Pythagoras, his doctrine of the Deity, 11; on the globe and circle, 61; doubt as to his animal sacrifice, 137; why he prohibited eating beans, 171; date of his arrival in Italy, 329.
Pythagoreans, their blind deference to authority, 5; their reverence for the voice of the Gods, 186, Quintus defends divination on the prin- ciples of the Stoics, 145; his dream, Reason, human, eulogium on, 101. Religion and superstition distinguished, Remus, an augur, 189.
Rhodian sailor, dream of a, 174.
Rogator, 48.
Roman commonwealth, Cato’s eulogy of the, 320; its rise, $24; the different Rome, its situation admirably chosen, Romulus, his history, 321; said to have _ been an augur, 142,; his staff, 158, 233.
Roscius, prodigy concerning, 178; doubted, 227.
Rutilius, Publius, 292.
Sabines, rape of the, 324.
Sacrilege forbidden, 447.
Sagra, battle at, 46, 109.
Saturn, the God, 67.
Saturn, the planet, 63, 89.
Scezvola, his instructions on points of Scipio Africanus, saying of, 298.
Scipio Africanus the younger, 291; his discourse on the Roman common- wealth, 303; his dream, 380.
Scopas the architect, 155.
Sea, remark on its beauty, 80.
Senate, the Roman, its model, 325; its authority with the people, 472.
Senator, his duties, 479.
Senses, the, described, 97.
Sepulture, rites of, 453.
Servius Sulpicius, 333; his arrangement of the people in centuries, 334.
Shakspeare, passage from, 153.
Sibylline books often consulted by the Roman senate, 185; their obscurity, Simonides, anecdote of, 21; dream of, Sky, termed Jupiter by Chrysippus, 16.
Socrates, the mode of philosophising be- gun by, 5; Xenophon’s representation of his opinions, 13; abused by Zeno, 33; anecdotes of, 194; his demon, 194; did not reject physical investigations, Solon, his prudence, 190..
Soothsayers of different countries, no agreement among, 211, 232; contrary interpretations, 260; remark of Cato, Sophocles, dream of, 167.
Sortes, what, 110.
Soul and mind of man, proofs of the existence of the Gods, 9 Spartans, their regard for augury, 184.
Speusippus says a certain incorporcal power governs everything, 13. me Spurius Cassius, condemnation of, 342, Stars, speculations on their nature, 16, , 99; fixed stars and planets, 62; passages from. Aratus respecting several, 82—87.
Statius, passage from, 6.
Stephane of Parmenides, what, 11.
Steremnia, its meaning in the system of Epicurus, 19.
Stilpo, of Megara, 268.
Stoics, sect of, 7; their views of the nature of the Gods, 45; on fate, 277. Strato the naturalist, unworthy of regard, 14.
Stratonicus, jest of, 122.
Suffrages, in whose hands placed, in the Roman commonwealth, 333.
Summanus, a statue of Pluto, 149.
Sun, speculations on its nature, 16, 73; remarks on its apparent revolution, 62, 81; false suns, or parhelia, 291.
Superstition and religion distinguished, 1 Sylla, his brutality to the corpse of Marius, 454; why he ordered his own body to be burned, contrary to the custom of his family, 454.
Tages the Etrurian, 220.
Tarquinius Priscus, 332; establishes the equestrian order, 332.
Tarquinius Superbus, 335.
Tarquinius and Attius Navius, 159.
Tarutius, Lucius, 241.
Tatius, king of the Sabines, 324.
Terence, passages from, 66, 130.
Thales the Milesian asserts water to be the origin of things, 10; his prudence, 190; the invention of the sphere as- cribed to, 295.
Theodorus of Cyrene, an atheist, 1, 22.
Theophrastus, his vague statements as to the Gods, 14; assailed by Leontius and others, 33; wrote on civil juris- prudence, 467.
Thunder, augury from, 234.
Thyestes, 129.
Tides, observations on the, 113. Timzus, his remark on the burning cf the temple of Diana, at Ephesus, 70.
Timocrates abused by Epicurus, 33.
Tiresias, 46.
Tribunes of the people a check on the consuls, 468; arguments as to their merits and defects, 469.
Tripudium, what, 156; ridiculed, 230.
Tubero, Quintus, 291.
Tullus Hostilius, 330.
Twelve Tables, law of, prohibit burial or burning in the city, 455; forbid extra- vagance, mourning and funeral pomp, Tyrants, kings eften become, 315, 336.
INDEX.
Uniformity of religious ceremonial incul- cated, 439.
Universal space deified by Chrysippus, 16. Universe, its orderly government a proof of the existence of the Gods, 52, 75. pias people, tax to be'imposed on, Vaticination, 246. a appearance of the Gods to, 46, Veii, prophecy concerning the city of, 186.
Velleius, C., takes the Epicurean part, 7; his argument, 8, 21.
Venus, the Goddess, several of the name, 125; identified with Diana, 70.
Venus, the planet, 64, 89.
Vesta, 69.
Vestal virgins, establishment of the, 328.
Vices, temples raised by the Greeks to Virgil, passage from, 151.
Virtues, temples raised to the, 440.
Voice of the Fauns, 46, 110, 186.
Voice of the Gods reverenced by the Py- thagoreans, 186.
Votes, whether best given openly or se- cretly, 476.
Vulcans, several enumerated, 124.
Wandering stars, the planets falsely so called, 63.
War only to be undertaken by a just and wise state for faith or self-defence, 367.
Water asserted to be the origin of things, Weather, signs of the, a-species of di- vination, 148.
Wolf struck by lightning, statue of the, World, affirmed to be an animated and intelligent being, 10, 52, 56, 58; divinity ascribed to, by the Stoics, 60; its go- vernment by the providence of the Gods, 71.
Xenocrates, 25; says there are eight Gods, 13; his lesson to his disciples, Xenophanes, his theory of Deity, 11.
Xenophon, his representation of the opi- nions of Socrates, 13, 51, 114; his dreams, 166.
Year, great, its institution ascribed to Democritus, 63.
Zaleucus, said to have given laws to the _Locrians, 433; his existence denied, Zeno the Epicurean, his opinions on the Zeno the Stoic, 25, 33, 65; his opinions controverted, 112.; R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
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