Marcus Aurelius (Haines 1916)/Index of Proper Names

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II. INDEX OF PROPER NAMES AND
QUOTATIONS IN THE "THOUGHTS"
(For other names see Index I.)

• Aesculapius, prescribes to his votaries, v. 8; definite sphere of work, vi. 43
• Aesop, fable of, xi. 22, possibly taken from Horace
• Agrippa, war minister of Augustus, viii. 31
• Alciphron (? the Sophist and writer of fictitious new comedy letters), named as recently alive, x. 31
• Alexander, the Grammarian of Cotiaeum, teacher and tutor of Marcus, i. 10; the Platonist ("Clay-Plato"), Greek secretary to Marcus in 174, a.d., i. 12; the Great, in. 3; vi. 24; viii. 3; ix. 29; x. 27
• Annia Cornificia, sister of Marcus, (see Introd. p. xiv.), i. 17, § 1
• Anonymous quotations, from unknown tragic writer, anapaestic chorus, viii. 51; (?) senarius from unknown poet, i. 17 ad. fin.; ii. 7 cp. Fragm. Ades p. 516 Nauck; xi. 10, 30; (?) viii. 41; (?) from some drama, vii. 43, cp. p. 379; the old man and his foster-child's top, v. 36; lines of poetical cast, iv. 34, 49; x. 16 § 2 line 5; xii. 3; running straight for the goal, iv. 18: sharp sight, viii. 38
• Antisthenes, the Cynic philosopher, quoted, vii. 36 (see Diog. Laert., vi. 3)
• Antoninus Pius, i. 16, 17, § 3; iv. 33; vi. 30; viii. 25; ix. 21; x. 27; cp. p. 386
• Apollonius, Stoic philosopher of Chalcedon, i. 8; 17, § 5
• Archimedes, named among acute wits, vi. 47
• Areius, domestic philosopher to Augustus, viii. 31
• Aristophanes, quoted, viii 42 ( = Ach. 661), 66 ( = Nubes, 362), iv. 23( = Frag.)
• Asia, a corner of the world, vi. 36
• Athenians, prayer of, v. 7
• Athenodotus, disciple of Musonius, and teacher of Fronto, i. 13
• Athos, a clod of the Universe, vi. 36
• Augustus, type of departed grandeur, iv. 33; viii. 5, 31; wife, sister and daughter of, alluded to, viii. 31

 

• Baccheius, an unknown philosopher, i. 6
• Baiae, health resort on the coast of Campania, xii. 27
• Benedicta, an imperial concubine, probably Hadrian's, i. 17, § 6
• Benetianus ( = Venetianus), see Index, i.
• Brutus, named with Thrasea, Cato, etc., i. 14

 

• Cadicianus, unknown long-liver, iv. 50. Possibly corrupt for Caecilianus, as Gataker
• Caieta, i. 17, 8. The supposed scene of Faustina's debaucheries, Capit. xix. 7
• Caesar, Gaius, i.e. Julius Caesar, iii. 3; viii. 3; Caesars, x. 31
• Caeso, or Kaeso, iv. 33. K. Fabiua Vibulanus killed with nearly the whole Fabian Gens at the Cremera, in 479
• Camillus, founder of the New Rome, iv. 33
• Capreae, an island off Campania, XII. 27. The supposed scene of Tiberius's debaucheries (Tacitus)
• Carnuntum, II. 17 ad. fin. The headquarters of Marcus in the German war (171–3, a.d., Eutrop. vin. 13) near Vienna, now Haimburg
• Carpophorus, the Fruit-bearer,i.e., the Earth (or Demeter), vi. 43 Catullinus, Fabius, xii. 27. Perhaps the consul of 130 a.d.
• Catulus, Cinna, a Stoic philosopher, i. 13
• Cato, of Utica, i. 14; (?) the Censor, iv. 33, cp. Fronto, ad Caes., ii. 13; Uni M. Porcio me dedicavi atque despondi atque delegavi (Marcus aged 23)
• Cecrops, city of, (Athens) quotation from Aristophanes, iv. 23
• Celer, Caninius, a Greek rhetorician and Hadrian's secretary, viii. 25; and one of the teachers of Marcus, see Capit., ii. 4
• Chabrias, a freedman or favourite of Hadrian, viii. 37
• Chaldaeans (astrologers), iii. 3
• Charax, unknown, mentioned for his acuteness, viii. 25
• Christians, xi. 3. See Index I.
• Chrysippus, establisher of Stoicism, named with Socrates and Epictetus, vii. 19; on the function of ribald lines in a play, vi. 42 (quoted with disapproval); simile of cylinder (Aul. Cell., vii. 2, 1), x. 33, § 2
• Cithaeron, (Soph. Oed. Rex, 1390), probably quoted from Epictetus xi. 6
• Cleanthes, a possible reference to his great hymn to Zeus, x. 28
• Clotho, the Weaver of the Web of Fate, iv. 34
• Crates, a Theban Cynic, of caustic wit, quoted for a remark on Xenocrates (perhaps on τῦφος), vi. 13; cp. under Monimus
• Crito, friend of Socrates and Xenophon, x. 31
• Croesus, type of departed grandeur, x. 27

 

• Demetrius, the Platonist (for whom, and not to his credit, see Lucian, Calumn. 16), viii. 25. But Arethas refers to this passage in a note on Lucian, De Salt. 63, where the Demetrius spoken of is the Cynic, the friend of Thrasea (cp. also, Lucian, Demon. 3; Adv. Ind. 19). Consequently ὁ Πλατωνικὸς would seem to be an error for Κυνικός; of Phalerum. the distinguished orator, statesman, and philosopher of Athens. circa 300, ix. 29, but Schenkl obelizes ὁ Φαληρεύς
• Democrates, a Pythagorean philosopher, from whom is taken (so Prof. Schenkl in loc.) the quotation, "The Universe is transformation, and Life is opinion," iv. 3
• Democritus of Abdera, death, by lice, iii. 3; "do not many things," iv. 24; "all things by law," vii. 31; atoms, vii. 31 (see also under "Epicurus")
• Dentatus (Wyse's emendation for Λεοννάτος), conqueror of the Samnites and Pyrrhus, iv. 33
• Diogenes, the Cynic, mentioned with Heraclitus and Socrates, viii. 3, as writer of plays, xi. 6
• Diognetus, i. 6. Some connect him with the recipient of the Christian Epistle to Diognetus
• Dion, i. 14, generally taken to be the Syracusan Dion. But Dion of Prusa was a truer philosopher and better man, and he matches better with Thrasea and Helvidius. Moreover, Arethas (?) twice quotes Marcus in notes to Dio (see under "Arethas," Index i.)
• Diotimus, a freedman or favourite of Hadrian, viii. 25, 37
• Domitius (Dometius), i. 13. The Domitii were maternal (adoptive) ancestors of Marcus

 

• Empedocles, quoted, "the sphere," xii. 3; (?) viii. 41; ἀλλοίωσις, iv. 3; v. 15; ix. 19, 28
• Epictetus, mentioned, vn. 19; his "Memorabilia," i. 7; "a little soul bearing a corpse" (Epict. Frag. 26), iv. 41; ix. 24; "words of ill-omen" (Epict. iii. 24, 88, 89), xi. 34; looking for impossibilities (Epict. iii. 24, 86, 87), xi. 33; "no man can rob us of our free will" (Epict. iii. 22, 105), xi. 36; "O Cithaeron" (from Soph. Oed. Rex 1390, Epict. i. 24, 16), xi. 6; "the house is smoky and I quit it" (suicide, Epict. i. 25, 18), v. 29; "a soul deprived of truth only against its will" (Epict. i. 28, 4; ii. 22, 37; cp. Plato Rep. in. 412), vii. 63; xi. 18, § 3; Socrates called the opinions of the many Lamiae (or μορμολυκεῖα, Epict. ii. 1, 15), xi. 23; change, illustrated from the grape (Epict. iii. 24, 91–3), xi. 35;"'tis royal to do good and be abused" (Antisthenes, Epict. iv. 6, 20), vii. 36; rules of life (Epict. Frag. 27), xi. 37; cp. viii. 7 ad. init.; "the question is about being mad or sane " (Epict. Frag. 28), xi. 38; elenchus on quarrelling (Socrates, (?) from Epictetus), xi. 39; life a drama, (Epict. Man, 17), xii. 36; Marcus plainly Epictetizes (Schol. to Codex D.), ii. 1; cp. also v. 27
• Epicurus, on intolerable pain, vii. 33, 64; account of his illness, ix. 41; atoms (see also Democritus), vi. 10 (so Schol. to Codex D.); vii. 33; ix. 28; "to think on great men," xi. 26 (by emendation Ἐπικουρείων for Ἐφεσίων)
• Epitynchanus, possibly one of Hadrian's clientèle, viii. 25
• Eudaemon, unknown, though named for ability, viii. 25. Vitruvius (but the reading is not above suspicion) mentions a celebrated astrologer of this name
• Eudoxus, mentioned with Hipparchua and Archirmdes, vi. 47. He was renowned as astronomer, physician and geometer
• Euphrates, mentioned as recently alive, x. 31. A Stoic philosopher much praised by Pliny (Ep. i. 10) who held that a philosopher should be a man of affairs, an administrator, and judge. Hadrian allowed him to commit suicide by drinking hemlock (Dido 69, 8, § 2) in 118 Euripides, quotations from, Bellerophon (Frag. 289 Dind.) viii. 38; xi. 6; Hypsipyle (Frag. 757 D.), vii. 40; xi. 6; Antiope (Frag. 207 D.), vii. 41; xi. 6; Chrysippus (Frag. 836 D.), vii. 50; Supplices (1. 1110), vii. 51; unknown plays (Frag. 890, 1007, Dind.), x. 21; vii. 42 or Aristophanes q.v.; xii. 26
• Europe, a corner of the Universe, vi. 36
• Eutyches, an unknown philosopher, of previous times, x. 31
• Eutychion, an unknown philosopher of previous times, x. 31

 

• Fabius, an unknown long-liver, iv. 50; Fabius Catullinus, a lover of the country, xii. 27. See also Caeso
• Father, and grandfather of Marcus, see Verus
• Faustina, wife of Marcus, I. 17, § 7; v. 31; (?) ix. 3; see also pp. 362, 365, 367
• Faustina, wife of Pius, viii. 25

 

• [Gnomologia], anecdote of Socrates and Perdiccas (Archelaus) from (?), xi. 25
• Granua, i. 17 ad. fin. The river Gran, near Buda-Pesth

 

• Hadrian, as a type of departed grandeur, iv. 33; viii. 5, 25, 37; x. 27. See also under Benedicta, and p. 360
• Helvidius (Prisons), an upright but impracticable Stoic, who drove Vespasian to banish and put him to death, i. 14
• Helice, a city of Achaia, swallowed by the sea 373 b.c., iv. 48
• Hellenes, the Ancient Greeks, iii. 14
• Heraclitus, about 500 b.c. The Stoics borrowed their ideas of Physics largely from him. Mentioned with Pythagoras, Socrates, and Diogenes, vi. 47; viii. 3; manner of death, iii. 3; theory of periodic conflagrations of the Universe, iii. 3; x. 7; cycles of change v. 13; ix. 28; xi. 1; flux of things, II. 17; iv. 3 ad. fin., 36; v. 10, 15; vi. 4; vii. 19, 25; ix. 19; x. 7; simile of river, ii. 17; iv. 43; v. 23; vi. 15; motion above and below, vi. 17; [vii. 1]; ix. 28; Interchange of elements, iv. 46; the man that forgets his way, iv. 46; even sleepers seem to act and speak iv. 46; vi. 42;" children from parents" or "what our fathers have told us," iv. 40; the soul "an exhalation from blood," v. 33; vi. 15; men at variance with the Reason of the Universe, iv. 46; what they "encounter" every day, they deem strange, iv. 46; "to think on great men" (? from Heracl.), xi. 26
• Herculaneum (Herclanum), destroyed 79 a.d., iv. 48
• Hesiod, quoted (Opp. 186), xi. 32; (ibid. 197), v. 33
• Hipparchus, a great mathematician and astronomer about 150 b.c., here mentioned with Archimedes and Eudoxus, vi. 47. Aur. Victor has a curious story (De Caes, xli. 20) of Marcus punishing the people of Nicaea (in Bithynia) for not knowing (the text here is doubted) that Hipparchus was born there Hippocrates (about 450 b.c.) iii. 3. Till Galen the greatest of old-time physicians. A tree under which he is said to have taught still exists at Cos, his birthplace Homer, quoted (Il. vi. 147–9), x. 34: (ibid., vii. 99), vi. 10; (Od., i. 242), iv. 33; (ibid., iv. 690), v. 31; (ibid., ix. 413), xi. 31; (? The Νέκυια, Od. xi. but see Menippus,) ix. 24
• Hymen, an unknown philosopher of a previous age, x. 31

 

• Julianus, an unknown long-liver, iv. 50

 

• Lacedaemonians, see Spartans
• Lanuvium, on the Appian Way, where Pius was born, and had a villa, i. 16, § 8
• Leonnatus, iv. 33. One of Alexander's Generals, and quite out of place among Roman worthies, see Dentatus
• Lepidus, a lover of long-life, iv. 50. Possibly the triumvir
• Lorium, a villa of Pius on the Via Aurelia, where he died 7 March, 161, i. 16, § 8
• Lucilla, Domitia (C alvilla, Capit.), mother of Marcus, i. 17, § 1; v. 4, 13, 31; lessons learnt from her, i. 3; letter of Rusticus to, i. 7; early death of, i. 17, § 6; viii. 25; life with, ix. 21. See also p. 360
• Lucian, possibly referred to in "Menippus and others like him," vi. 47
• Lupus, Lusius, unknown, possibly a mistake for L. Licinius Lucullus, the conqueror of Mithridates, whose luxurious gardens and villas were well-known, xii. 27

 

• Maecenas, the minister of Augustus and friend of Horace, viii. 31
• Marcianus, an unknown philosopher, i. 6. There was a notable physician of this name (Martianus) in the time of Marcus
• Maximus, Claudius, a Stoic philosopher and teacher, highly esteemed by Marcus, whom he thanks the Gods that he knew, i. 17, § 10; whose character he draws as that of a perfect man, i. 15; his illness, i. 10 ad. fin.; survived by his wife, viii. 25; possibly consul circa 145, legatus of Pannonia 154 and proconsul of Africa circa 157; the vir sanctissimus of Apuleius
• Menander, quoted, in reference to the saying of Monimus, "all is vanity" (Frag. 249 Kock), ii. 15 ; more luxury than comfort (Frag. 491 Kock), v. 12
• Menippus, mentioned as a mocker of man's life, vi. 47 ; his Νέκυια possibly referred to, ix. 24. A Cynic and satirical writer, compatriot of Lucian, and often introduced by him into his works. The Scholiast (Arethas, q.v.) on Luc. Pisc. 26, refers to this passage of Marcus
• Monimus, a Cynic and pupil of Diogenes, quoted from Menander (q.v.), "all opinion is vanity," ii. 15

 

• Nero, coupled with Phalaris, iii. 16

 

• Origanion, unknown, lately dead, vi. 47

 

• Pantheia, the concubine of Lucius Verus, and mentioned as watching his tomb (urn). The writer of the dialogues Imagines and Pro Imaginibus (attributed to Lucian) speaks in very high terms of her beauty and character, viii. 37
• Pergamus, a freedman or favourite of Lucius Verus, viii. 37
• Perdiccas, king of Macedonia (probably a mistake for Archelaus) in connection with Socrates, xi. 25
• Phalaris, the typical tyrant, iii. 16
• Phalereus, see Demetrius, ix. 29
• Philip, King of Macedonia, mentioned with Alexander and Demetrius of Phalerum. ix. 29; with Alexander and Croesus, x. 27
• Philistion, unknown, lately dead, vi. 47
• Phocion, the great Athenian, anecdote of (cp. Musonius Rufus, p. 55, ed. Hense), xi. 13
• Phoebus, unknown, lately dead, vi. 47
• Pindar, quoted (from Plato, q.v.), "the secrets of Hades," ii. 13
• Plato, his Utopia, ix. 29 ; quotation (? dropped out) vii. 48 : or, "the stars in their courses," "the mire of earthly life," vii. 47 ; Socrates on his trial (Apol. 28, b.d.), vii. 44, 45 ; Pindar quoted by (Theaet. 173 E.), ii. 13 ; wise man in city like shepherd on the hills (Theaet. 174 D.), x. 23 ; goodness, and love of life (Gorg. ch. 68, 512 D.), vii. 46 ; death no evil, Rep. vi. 486 A., vii. 35 ; Socrates as the true philosopher (Plato, Tim. 61, D.), iii. 6. See also p. 360
• [Plutarch], perhaps quoted, iv. 16 ; vii. 52 ; referred to, v. 1, § 2. See also under Sextus
• Pompeii, destroyed by Vesuvius, 79 a.d., iv. 48
• Pompeius, named with Caesar and Alexander, iii. 3 ; viii. 3 ; the Gens Pompeia has died out, viii. 31
• Prasianus (Prasinus), a partizan of the Green Faction in the Circus i. 5 ; Lucius Verus, whose horse Flier (Volucris) was ridden under the Green colours, unfairly favoured the Greens, and on one occasion, while presiding at the games with Marcus, had a hostile reception from the spectators Capit. Vit. Ver., vi. 2
• Pythagoras, named with Heraclitus and Socrates, vi. 47 ; tenet quoted, "the stars in their courses," xi. 27

 

• Quadi, i. 17 ad. fin. A German tribe of the modern Moravia, who with the Marcomanni were the chief enemies of Marcus in the first war, 170–174. They nearly repeated the exploit of Arminius in the so-called "miraculous victory" in 174 (or, as Domaszewski, 171), pp. 369, 371
• Quotations from unknown authors, see Anonymous

 

• Rome, vi. 44
• Rufus, see Velius
• Rusticus, Stoic philosopher, teacher and intimate friend of Marcus, who, as praefectus urbi, condemned Justin to martyrdom; lessons learnt from him, self-discipline, contempt of dialectics, theoric, rhetoric, poetry and fine writing, not to be a prig, to cultivate good taste, simplicity in letter-writing, sweet reasonableness, care in reading, suspicion of volubility, and a knowledge of Epictetus, i. 7, 17, § 4; M. sometimes offended with, i. 17, § 6

 

• Salaminian,the(Leo), Socrates sent by the Thirty Tyrants for, vii. 66
• Sarmatians, these appear as enemies about 174, a.d., x. 10. They were a Slav people from the present Poland and Russia. Their women fought.
• Satyron, an unknown philosopher of recent time, x. 31
• Scipio, iv. 33
• Secunda, wife of Maximus. viii. 25
• Severns, called "brother," i. 14; and so probably the father of Claudius Severus, who married one of Marcus' daughters (? Fadilla). But he seems to have been a philosopher and is possibly identical with the Peripatetic philosopher Severus (Capit. Vit. Mar., iii. 3), mentioned, x. 31. Marcus was himself at one time called Severus, Capit. i. 9, cp. Galen, vii. 478 Kühn
• Severus, Catilius, maternal great grandfather of Marcus, who expected to succeed Hadrian, i. 4
• Sextus of Chaeronea, a Stoic philosopher, grandson of Plutarch, i. 9. Marcus made him his assessor on the bench (so Suidas) and attended his lectures late in life (Philost. Vit. Soph., n. 9)
• Sextus Empiricus, of date uncertain but probably near the end of the 2nd century. He was an "empiric" physician and the great champion of Sceptical Philotophy, possibly quoted (adv. Math. iv. 81), vi. 14; "all is vanity" (from Monimus, see also Menander; Sext. Emp. ii. 1), ii. 15
• Silvanus, an unknown philosopher of a previous age, x. 31
• Sinuessa, a coast town on the border of Latium and Campania, letter of Rusticus from, i. 7
• Socrates, named with Heraclitus and Pythagoras and Diogenes, vi. 47; vii. 3, with Chrysippus and Epictetus, vii. 19; public acts and character, vii. 66; conduct with Xanthippe, xi. 28; his self-control (? from Xenophon, q.v.), i. 16, ad. fin.; his trial, vii. 44, 45; killed by (human) vermin, iii. 3; quoted (from Epictetus, q.v.) on the notions of the vulgar, xi. 23; (? from Epictetus, q.v.) on rational souls, xi. 39; (from Plato, q.v.) on a soul freed from sense-impressions, iii. 6
• Socraticus, an unknown philosopher of previous times, x. 31
• Sophocles, quoted from Epictetus (Oed. Rex. 1391), xi. 6
• Spartans, courtesy to strangers, xi. 24
• Stertinius of Baiae, xii. 27. Possibly the rich physician of Naples, Pliny, N.H., xxix. 5
• Stoics, facts of the Universe unintelligible even to. v. 10

 

• Tandasis, an unknown philosopher, i. 6
• Telauges, son of Pythagoras and Theano (see Diog. Laert. Pyth. xxii. 26), vii. 66
• Theodotus. a freedman or minion of Hadrian (probably), i. 17, § 6
• Theophrastus, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic Philosophy, quoted from with approval, "offences due to lust, and to anger," ii. 10
• Thrasea, the noble Stoic put to death by Nero in 63. His last words were addressed to Demetrius the Cynic (for whom see on Demetrius), i. 14
• Tiberius, at Capreae, xii. 27
• Trajan, an instance of past grandeur iv. 32
• Tropaeophorus, unknown philosopher of a previous age, x. 31
• Tusculum, now Frascati, in Latium, i. 16

 

• Valerius, see Volesus
• Velius Rufus, unknown, xii. 27
• Verus, M. Annius, grandfather of Marcus, i. 1; i. 17, § 1; ix. 21
• Verus, Annius, father of Marcus, i. 2, v. 4, 13, 31; viii. 25; ix. 21
• Verus, Lucius Aurelius, adopted brother and son-in-law of Marcus, i. 17, 4; viii. 37. See also pp. 367, 387
• Volesus, or Volusus, undoubtedly P. Valerius Volusi fllius Poplicola, the hero of the first years of the Republic, descended from the Sabine chief Volesus (Sil. Ital. ii. 8), iv. 33

 

• Xanthippe, the shrewish wife of Socrates, xi. 28
• Xenocrates, a Platonist philoso pher from Chalcedon, vi. 13 see Crates
• Xenophon, perhaps quotation from (Mem. i. 3, 15), i. 16, 9, x. 31