INDEX OF PROPER NAMES
- Academic (School of Philosophy), a definition of happiness, lxxi. 18; scepticism of, lxxxviii. 44 f.
- Achaia (province of Greece), earthquakes in, xci. 9 f.
- Achilles, age of, compared with that of Patroclus, lxxxviii. 6
- Aegialus, a farmer on the old estate of Scipio, lxxxvi. 11 ff.
- Aetna, proposed ascent of, by Lucilius, lxxix. 2 ff.
- Agamemnon, his desire to return home to Mycenae, lxvi. 26
- Alexander of Macedon (the Great, d. 323 B.C.), crimes and tragedy of, due to drink, lxxxiii. 19 ff.; his desire to conquer the globe, xci. 17
- Alexandria, fast-sailing ships from, lxxvii. 1 f.
- Anacharsis (Scythian philosopher, fl. 600 B.C.), discussed as the inventor of the potter’s wheel, xc. 31
- Antipater (of Tarsus, Stoic philosopher, 2nd century B.C.), refutation of a Peripatetic syllogism, lxxxvii. 38 ff.; his view regarding non-essentials, xcii. 6
- M. Antonius (friend of Caesar and rival of Augustus), ruined by wine and Cleopatra, lxxxiii. 25
- Apion (grammarian, 1st century A.D.), his opinion concerning the authorship of the Homeric cycle, lxxxviii. 10 f.
- Ardea (ancient city of Latium, capital of the Rutulians), capture of, xci. 16
- Argos (kingdom in the Peloponnesus), a fictitious king of, lxxx. 7
- Aristo of Chius (Stoic, 3rd century B.C.), weeds out many departments of philosophy, lxxxix. 13
- Asia, earthquakes in, xci. 9
- Attalus (Stoic, teacher of Seneca), on the value of pain, lxvii. 15; simile used by, lxxii. 8; on “returning
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