A Discourse of Constancy in Two Books. Chiefly containing Consolations against Publick Evils/Index

by Justus Lipsius

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A.

 

• Abjectness of the Mind, a Vice and whence. 21
• Achilles, how advised. 135
• Affliction, the touch-stone of vertue. 182
  • The ends of it. 180
• Affrica, a great Plague there. 267
• Anaxagoras, his reply. 65
• Antonius, taxes by him. 269
  • The manner of his death. 223
• Antonius Caracalla, his cruelty. 275
• Arbiter, his saying. 43
• Aristophanes, his saying. 5
• Aristotle, his opinion of Fate. 105
• Atlantis, drowned. 91
• Augustine, his censure of Cicero. 126
• Augustus, Flamens and Priests to him. 281
  • Colonies placed by him 271
  • His endeavour to dye 224
  • Taxes imposed by him 269, 270
  • Unfortunate in his family. 224

 

B.

 

• Belgia, its troubles 3·39
• Bias, his saying 127
• Boast, of Julius Cæsar 262
  • Of Pompey the great Ibid.
  • Of Cato the Censour 263
• Boethius, his saying 191
• Brutus, his wish. 223

 

C.

 

• Caius Cæsar, where slain 222
• Calamities, are good how 167
  • Their Original whene. 80, 81, 82, 83
  • Their end what 170
  • The force of them broken, 172
• Caligula, his saying 217
• Captivity, the miseries of it 265
• Cato, his saying 221
• Ceneus, his story 162
• Chance, ha's no rule in the world 74
• Change, all things tend to it 88, 89, 90
  • Instances of it 91, 92, 93, 94
• Chastisement, it avails us 186
• Circumstances, more feared than the things themselves 144, to 149
• Cities, raised at once 263
• Colonies, placed by Augustus 270
  • The strength of the Empire Ibid.
• Comets, not all in the air 89
• Complaint, of Tiberius 219
  • Of Nero Ibid.
• Considia, how cured 243
• Constancy, a remedy in the sickness of the Mind 19
  • Its definition Ibid.
  • The praise of it 31, 32
  • Opposed by what 36
• Country, what 47
  • Which the true one 61
  • Our obligation and love to it 55
  • Not from nature but custom 61
  • How to be assisted by us 134
• Crantor, his saying 283
• Crates, his reply to Alexander 135
• Creon, his story Ibid.
• Cruelties, in times past 272, &c.
• Custom, of the Romans. 216

 

D.

 

• David, the Plague in his reign 266
• Death, punishment after it to the wicked 223
• Demetrius, his saying 182
• Demochares, his prescription to a Lady 243
• Desires, some the stronger for being opposed 14
• Dioclesian, his retirement 143
• Dyonysius, his story 221
• Domitianus, at what hour slain 118
  • His blasphemous Title 281
  • His cruelty. 282

E.

 

• Earthquakes, wonderful ones. 92, 93
  • Euripides, his saying. 214
  • Evil men, not punished why. 208
  • Evils present compared with those of former times. 256, &c.
  • Evils not grievous, nor new. 242
  • Evils publick and private what 36
  • Euclid, his Apothegme. 127

 

F.

 

• Famines, in former times. 268, &c.
• Fate asserted. 98
  • Vniversally ascended to 101
  • Some difference about its parts. 102
  • How distinguished of by the ancients. Ibid.
  • Mathematical Fate what 103
  • Natural Fate what 104
  • Violent Fate how defined 106
  • True Fate, its definition 112
  • How it differs from providence 114
  • How from the Stoicks Fate 119
  • It offers no violence to the will 121
  • It acts by second causes 131
  • No ground for sloth. 133

 

G.

 

• Galba, his cruelty 275
• Gardens, those of Langius 139
  • The praise of them 141, 142
  • Kings and other excellent persons addicted to them 143
  • How abused by some 148
  • How to be used Ibid.
• God, orders and rules all things 74
  • Not to be murmured at by us 81
  • His unchangeableness 100
  • Not the Authour of sin 122, 123, 124
  • Not the cause of Evil 168
  • Punishes most justly 229
  • He onely discernes the difference betwixt crimes 230
  • Why he transferres punishment 235, 236
  • He joines those things we sever Ib.
  • He loves his, but severely 180
  • He hath appointed all things their bounds 192
  • Greece, its calamities by war. 260, &c.

 

H.

 

• Helice, and Bara swallowed up by water 91
• Hesiod, his saying 216, 237, 238
• Homer, his advice 5, 135
• Honorius, the famine in his reign 268
• Horace, his saying 64
• Hunnes, how many slain at once. 263

 

I.

 

• Jewes, their wonderful slaughter 257, &c.
• Instruments, why God useth the wicked as his 173
• Internal punishment, the most grievous 216
• Inundations, the mischiefs by them 91
• Italy, slain there in the punick war 261
• Julius Cæsar, the manner of his death. 222
• Justice, of God wakeful 190
• Justinian, the great plague in his reign. 267
  • The famine in his time 268

 

K.

 

• Knowledge, the desire of it a happy presage in youth 165

 

L.

 

• Langius, praised 2
  • His gardens 139
  • How used by him 153
• Lucullus, his cruelty 274

 

M.

 

• Man, at variance with himself 24, &c.
  • An in bred malice in him 48
  • Pindars account of him 97
  • Vnable to judge of crimes 229
  • He hath a will but not the power to resist God 125
  • Prone to aggravate his own afflictions 254
• Masanissa, his famous plat. 142
• Mercy, what it is 68
  • How it differs from pitty Ib.
• Michael Ducas, the great plague in his reign 267, 268
• Mithridates, his cruelty 276
• Murthers, in times past 127, 128
• Mutations, several instances of them 88, &c.
• Mysteries, the acclamation usual therein. 288

 

N.

 

• Nature of God, slow to revenge 211
• Nature of Man, prone to aggravate afflictions 254
• Necessity, what it is 85
  • Publick evils from it 86
  • Its force and power 85, 86
  • From what grounds derived Ibid.
• New found world, its desolations 263, 264

 

O.

 

• Obstinacy, how it differs from Constancy 20
• Opinion, what it is 22
  • Its original whence 27, &c.
  • Its power and effects Ibid.
  • It leads to levity Ibid.
• Oppressions, internal and external heretofore. 279, 280

 

P.

 

• Passions, whence they rise 34
• Patience, the mother of constancy 21
  • Its definition Ibid.
  • How it differs from stupidity Ibid.
• Petrarch, a great plague in his time 268
• Polus, his story 43.
• Pompey, his boast 262
• Philosophy, how it workes 51
• Pindar, his saying 49
• Pitty, what it is 68
  • How it differs from mercy Ibid.
  • How it may be used 70
• Plagues, wonderful examples of them 266, 267, 268
• Plato, his councel 84
  • His saying 216
• Proscriptions, 272, 273
• Providence, what 77
  • Nothing done below but by it 80
• Publick evils, why they afflict us 44
  • Not so great as they seem 144
• Punishment, all have deserved it 229
  • Good for us 189
  • For the safety and ornament of the universe. 193
  • Why unequal 202
  • Why wicked men are not punished 208, 209
  • Deferred why Ib,
  • Transferred why 232
  • Divers sorts of punishments 215

 

Q.

 

• Quintus Catulus, his saying 273
• Quintus Fabius, how many Gaules slain by him. 263

 

R.

 

• Rapines, 270
• Regulus, how he dyed 183
• Right Reason, what it is 22
  • Its original whence 25
  • Its power and effects 28, 29
  • It leads to constancy 26
• Romans, their calamities by war 261, &c.

 

S.

 

• Salvian, his saying 204
• Semiramis, her pendulous gardens 142
• Senatours, of Rome how taxed 269
  • How many at once proscribed 272 &c.
• Seneca, his seeming errour 109
  • His sayings 83, 200
• Simulation, in mens griefs 41, 42.
• Socrates, his reply to a Question propounded 11
• Sloth, no excuse for it from Fate 133, 134
• Solon, his story Ibid.
  • His prospect to his Friend 285
• Sophocles, his saying 205
• Stoicks, commended 108
  • The Authors of violent Fate 105
• Sylla, his cruelty, 274

 

T.

 

• Tacitus, his saying 218
• Tarquinius why expelled Rome 117
• Thales, his Apothegme 85
  • His saying 230
• Theodosius, his cruelty 276
• Travail, helps not diseases within 8
  • A Symptome rather than cure 7
  • It removes only the lighter motions of grief 12
  • Rather exasperates the greater 13
• Tributes, examples of them in former times 269, 270
• Trismegistus, his opinion of Fate, Providence and Necessity 103
• Tyranny, whence. 278

 

V.

 

• Variety, delights us 195, 196
• Varro, the consul praised 134
• Velleius Paterculus, his saying 132
• Venice, its antiquity 94
• Venus, hath changed its colour magnitude and situation 90
• Violent Fate, how defined 106
• Vertue, how she is directed 21, 22
• Volesus Messalla, his cruelty. 276

 

W.

 

• Warres, of the ancients 161, 162, 163
• Warres, in Judea how many slain in them 157, &c.
• Wicked Men, why used by God as his instruments 173
  • What punishments they never escape 217
  • Punished after death 320
  • Not exempt from external punishments Ibid.
• Wisdom, seems stern at a distance 70
  • An exhortation to it 161
  • The way to attain to Constancy 162
  • Not acquired by wishes Ibid.
  • The greatest instance of it, what. 174

 

Y.

 

• Youth, advised in their studies 161
  • A good presage in Youth, what 165

 

Z.

 

• Zeno, how he defines fate 108

 

 

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