INDEX
Leonidas at Thermopylae), lxxxii. 20 ff.
- Ladas, a traditionally swift runner, lxxxv, 4
- Aebutius Liberalis (friend of Seneca), disconsolate over the Lyons conflagration of c. 64 A.D., xci. passim
- Drusus Libo (duped into dreams of empire, committed suicide A.D. 16), contemplated self-destruction of, lxx, 10
- Liternum (Campanian coast-town), retreat of Scipio, lxxxvi. 3
- Lucilius (procurator in Sicily and contemporary of Seneca), addressed, passim. See Introduction, vol. i. p. ix
- Lucrine oysters (from a lake near the Bay of Naples), delicate taste of, lxxviii. 23
- Lugudunum (capital of Gaul, now Lyons), destruction of, xci. passim
- Lycurgus (of Sparta, 9th century B.C. ?), giver of laws, xc. 6
- Macedonia, earthquakes in, xci. 9
- Maecenas (prime minister of Augustus), witty saying of, xcii, 35
- Tullius Marcellinus (a friend of Seneca), suicide of, lxxvii, 5 ff.
- Maximus (a friend of Seneca), lxxxvii. 2 ff.
- Medi, objects of Roman conquest, lxxi. 37
- Megaric school, scepticism of, lxxxviii, 44 f.
- Menelaus (Homeric hero), actor posing as, lxxx. 8
- Metrodorus (follower of Epicurus), his modest manner of life, lxxix, 15 f.; on the thankfulness of the sage. lxxxi, 11
- Metronax (a philosopher, see Ep. xciii. 1), lectures by, lxxvi, 4
- Natalis (early Empire), vileness and richness of, lxxxvii. 16
- Nausiphanes (disciple of Pyrrho the Sceptic, 4th century B.C.), on seeming and non-being, lxxxviii. 43 f.
- Neapolis (now Naples), a place for retirement, lxviii. 5; theatre at, lxxvi. 4
- Neptune, the god to whom the sailor prays, lxxiii. 5; invoked by the Rhodian pilot, lxxxv, 33
- Nestor (Homeric hero), long life of, lxxvii. 20
- P. Ovidius Naso (Roman poet, 43 B.C.–18 A.D.), his description of Aetna, lxxix. 5; quoted, xc. 20
- Paphus (city on west coast of Cyprus), often wrecked by earthquakes, xci. 9
- Parmenides (Greek philosopher, fl. 800 B.C.), on the One, lxxxviii, 44 f.
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