INDEX
the chalice to our own lips,” lxxxi. 22
- Augustus (Roman Emperor), confidence in the hard drinkers Piso and Cossus, lxxxiii. 14 f.
- Decimus Junius Brutus (c. 81–43 B.C., see n.), cowardly death of, lxxxii. 12 f.
- Gaius Caesar (Caligula, emperor 37–41 A.D.), witticism of, lxxvii. 18
- Gaius Iulius Caesar, conqueror of Pompey, lxxxiii. 12
- Cambyses (son of Cyrus the Great, king of the Medes and Persians, 6th century B.C.), madness of, lxxxvi. 1
- Capreae (modern Capri, the outpost of the bay of Naples), lxxvii. 2
- Gaius Cassius (one of the murderers of Caesar), temperate habits of lxxxiii. 12
- M. Porcius Cato (the Elder), simple life of, lxxxvi. 10; his scorn of trappings, lxxxvii. 9 ff.
- M. Porcius Cato (the Younger, d. 46 B.C.), heroic suicide of, lxvii. 7, 13; lxx. 19, 22; defeat of, lxxi. 8, 10, 11; obedience to fate, lxxi. 16 f.; dictum of, lxxi. 15.
- Charondas (Sicilian law-giver, 6th century B.C.), xc. 6
- Charybdis (between Italy and Sicily, opposite to Scylla), phenomena of, lxxix. 1 f.
- Chelidon (a eunuch of Cleopatra), richness of, lxxxvii. 16
- Tillius Cimber (one of the conspirators against Caesar), his inordinate love of liquor, lxxxiii. 12 f.
- Claranus (a friend of Seneca), his heroic conduct during illness, lxvi. 1–4
- Cyprus, often wasted by earthquakes, xci. 9
- Cyrenaic school (offshoot of Epicureanism), remove physics and logic, and are content with ethics alone, lxxxix. 12
- Dahae (see n.), objects of Roman conquest, lxxi. 37
- P. Decius Mus (both father and son, heroes of the Latin wars, 4th century B.C.), heroism and self-sacrifice of, lxvii. 9
- Demetrius (of Sunium, philosopher and friend of Seneca), definition of an untroubled existence, lxvii. 14; his contempt for gossip, xci. 19
- Democritus (Greek philosopher, of Abdera, 5th century B.C.), supposed madness of, lxxix. 14; discussed as the inventor of the arch, xc. 32 f.
- Didymus (surnamed “Brazen-Bowels,” scholar of Alexandria, fl. 1st century B.C.), his voluminous and variegated writings, on Aeneas,
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