Perseus, 9. Last king of Macedonia, 178–168 B.C.
Persia, 208, 215.
Persians, 254.
Pestilential vapours emitted from the ground, 260, 261.
Pharos, 258. Island off Alexandria with famous lighthouse, united to mainland by Alexander the Great.
Phasis, 174. River of Colchis at E. of Black Sea.
Philae, 168 (3), 169. Island in the Nile, just below First Cataract.
Seneca seems to confuse it with the so-called island of Meroë, at the junction of the Blue Nile and Atbara.
Philip, 110, 207 (2). Father of Alexander the Great; king of Philosophers, debt due to the early, 230; credulous folk, 258; Philosophy, divisions of, 3; pleasures of, 4, 5; benefits conferred by, 97; delivers its votaries from fear, 225; rewards of, 229; decadence of, 307, 308.
Pithitae, or pithiae (meteors), 38, 40.
Plancus, 160. L. Munatius P., a prominent actor in the civil wars, 48–31 B.C.
Planets, colours of, 10; enumerated, 275; fixed number of, 284; orbits of, 285; motions of, 288; possibly greater number of, 297; conspicuous movements of, 298.
^_a_ Plato, 216.
Pollux, 11; _see_ Castor.
Pompey, 166 (3). Defeated by Caesar 48 B.C., and assassinated shortly after.
Pontus (district in N.E. of Asia Minor), 141.
Portents from meteors, 9, 228, 259; eclipses, 228; 293. A very distinguished Stoic philosopher, president of that school. Instructor for a time and friend of Cicero. Prosecuted physical investigations with great success. Native of Syria.
Lived 135–51 B.C.
Posterity, great increase of knowledge to be attained by, 298.
Predestination, 85.
Prognostications; _see_ Portents.
Propontis (Sea of Marmora), 153, 176 (Lower Sea).
Puteoli, 133. On coast of Campania.
Pylades, 307. A Cilician; a dancer like Bathyllus.
Pyrenees, 5.
^_a_ Pyrrho, 307. Founder of the sect of the Sceptics, native of Elis; flourished about fourth century B.C.
^_a_ Pythagoras, 307. Flourished in second half of sixth century B.C.
Pyx, trial of, 180.
Rain, Seneca’s observation on descent of, into soil, 117; share of, in final destruction of the world, 143, 144, 149; seasonal variations of, 179; supposed to be influenced by incantations, 182.
Rainbow, 16–33.
Rainless countries, 167, 173.
Regulus, 221. Consul 63.
Reverence, duty of, 304.
Rhaetian, 35. The reference is to wine grown in the N. of Italy (Cisalpine Gaul).
Rhodians, 142. Island of Rhodes was at S.W. of Asia Minor.
Rhone, 146, 173.
Rivers as political boundaries, 5, 233; sources of supply of, 116; summer rise of, 141, 173.
Roots, disruptive force of, 57.
Rulers, counsel to, 90.
Sacrifice cannot alter fate, 84; to keep off hail, 181.
Sarmatian, 5, 233 (pl.). Roughly speaking, the S. part of Russia.
Scipio, 46 (2). The elder Sc. Africanus, victor of Hannibal at Zama, 202 B.C.
Scironian (Wind), 211.
Scylla, 153; _see_ Charybdis.
Scythia, 180, 208. Term used very loosely of region in Central and Northern Asia, but at times extending to Europe, as far west as the Danube. Sarmatia of one age was part of Scythia of another.
Sea, unity of the, 125; coeval with the world, 135; throws ashore ill-smelling deposits, 142; share of, in final destruction of the earth, 143, 150; current of, from Black Sea, 176; subterranean, 234.
Sea and land breezes, 198.
Seafaring, condemned, 216.
Sea-water, purged of its salt within the earth, 116.
Sejanus, 9. Notorious instrument of Tiberius; put to death 31.
Sela (gleams in the sky), 39.
Self, bondage of slavery to, 113.
Septemtrio (Wind), 210.
^_a_ Sextii, 307. Father and son in the time of Augustus and Nero respectively; taught a combination of Stoic and Pythagorean doctrines.
Sheep, destruction of, during Campanian earthquake of A.D. 63, 259.
263.
Sidon, 256.
Snow, melting in Ethiopia erroneously supposed to be the cause of the annual rise of the Nile, 173; supplies some European rivers, 173; on European mountains, 173; said to feel colder to the feet when dry and hard than when slushy and half melted, 180; artificial use of, 187.
Soul, divine origin of, 6; to be rescued from error and fear of death, 103.
Sound less rapid than light, 64.
Squalls, origin of, 204; short duration of, 281.
Stabiae, 221. Small town on coast of Campania.
Stars, fed by emanations from the earth, 55, 198, 244; influence of, in human affairs, 81; nature of, 273; transits of, 284; supposed small size of, 288; place of, in sky, 297; varying colours of, 300.
Statonia, 139. Town in Etruria, about 15 miles from the coast.
^_a_ Strato, 240. Succeeded Theophrastus as head of the Peripatetic school in 288 B.C. Native of Lampsacus in Mysia on the Hellespont.
Streaks in the sky, 33.
Strymon, 5. River of Thrace and Macedonia (Struma). The text of the passage is very doubtful.
Styx, 137. River in Arcadia.
of Atalanta, 256; of Sidon, 256; of other cities and nations, 267.
Subsolane (Wind), 209.
Sudd, 236 n.
Sulphur, baneful effects of, in water, 134; supposed to warm water, 136; exists in large quantity underground, 206.
Sun, size of, 20, 288; draws his sustenance from the earth, 55, 198, 244; movements of, 271; among the constellations, 301.
Superstition, 271.
Surrentum, 221. Town on promontory in Campania.
Syracuse, 12, 142.
Syria, 138, 288.
Tempe, 137. Vale or gorge in Thessaly; _see_ Peneüs.
Temperature of atmosphere, 60, 183, 184; of various waters, 136.
Tension, effects of, 56, 58.
Tentyra, 172. Island in the Nile (Denderah), not far from Thebes.
^_a_ Thales, 124, 125, 174, 233. Of Miletus; may be considered the father of Greek philosophy, 636–546 B.C.
Thebes, 257. Capital of Boeotia. There was a more ancient city of the same name in Upper Egypt on whose site are the modern Luxor, Karnak, etc.
Lesbos, favourite pupil and successor of Aristotle, head of Peripatetic school, 322–287 B.C.
Therasia and There (Thera), 252. Small volcanic islands in the group called Sporades, S. of Cyclades.
Thessaly, 137, 257.
different kinds of, 75; causes of, 98.
Tiberius Caesar, 41.
Tigris, 142, 235.
Time, wasting influence of, 238, 253; fleetingness of, 268.
Trade to Atlantic ports, 175.
Transmutation of the elements, 120, 121.
Troglodytes, 173. Cave-dwellers, specially applied to tribes on W. of Red Sea.
Tuscans; _see_ Etruscans.
Tyre and Tyrian, 27, 224, 225.
Unity or continuity, defined, 53.
Universe, defined, 54; impetuous whirl of, 273; ceaseless revolution of, 281, 294, 299; a harmony of discords, 301.
Vacuum, non-existent in nature, 128.
Vadimonian (Lake), 139. In Etruria, not far from the Tiber, the Lago di Bassano, now dried up.
^_a_ Vagellius, 227. Name unknown, probably corrupt.
Valerius Asiaticus, 74. Consul, for the second time, in 46.
^_a_ Varro, 209 (2). Famous grammarian, antiquarian, etc., 116–28 B.C.
Venus, the planet, 284.
Vice, conquest of, leads to highest happiness, 5; Virginius, 221. Consul 63.
Vitellius, 160. Name doubtful; may refer to father of Emperor Vitellius, who flourished under Caligula and Claudius, being consul in 34.
Vopiscus, 303. Consul 60.
Vultur, 209. Mountain on borders of Apulia.
Vulturnus (Wind), 209.
Wars, denunciation of, 213, 214.
Water, forms of, 114, 115, 233; transformed into air, 120; formed from earth, 120; as one of the four elements, 124; various tastes of, 133; petrifying powers of, 133; varying temperatures of, 136; artificial heating of, 136; baneful kinds of, 137; dyeing properties of some kinds of, 137; varying densities of, 138; supposed physiological effects of some, 140; in mines, 154; produces animal and plant life, 197; as the cause of earthquakes, 231, 233, 234.
Watergalls and sun-dogs, 33.
warm winter temperature of, 176, 241.
Will, freedom of the, 85, 86.
Wind, definition of, 193; Democritus’ view of origin of, 194; number and names of the winds, 208–212; teleological design of, 212, 216; misuse of, by man, 216; beneficial influences of, 216; disruptive energy of, 252.
Winds, 208–211. The following are specified: Africus, Aquilo, Argestes, Atabulus, Auster, Ἀφηλιώτης (= Subsolane), Boreas, Cataegis, Circius, Corus, Etesian, Euronotus, Eurus, Favonius, Iapygian, Καικίας, Libonotus, Libyan, Notus, Scironian, Septemtrio, Subsolane, Thracias, Vulturnus, Zephyrus.
Wine, frozen by lightning, 79, 97.
World, revolution of, 20.
^_a_ Zeno, 291. Native of Cyprus, founder of the Stoic philosophy, lived between middle of fourth and third centuries B.C.
Zephyrus (Wind), 208.
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