INDEX
- Penelope, moral character of, lxxxviii. 8
- Peripatetics, their softening of Stoic paradoxes, lxxxv. 3. 81, etc.; their objections to Stoic syllogisms, lxxxvii, 12, 38; their establishment of economic philosophy, lxxxix. 10
- Persae (the Persians), objects of Roman conquest, lxxi. 37
- Phalaris, tyrant of Agrigentum in Sicily (6th century B.C.), the bronze bull of, lxvi. 18
- Pharius, pacemaker for Seneca, lxxxiii. 4
- Phidias (Athenian sculptor, 5th century B.C.), variety of his materials, lxxxv. 40
- Lucius Piso (Roman official under Augustus), abnormal drunkenness of, lxxxiii. 14 f.
- L. Munatius Plancus (gov. of Transalpine Gaul, 43 B.C.), founder of Lyons, xci. 14
- Pompeii (possibly the birthplace of Lucilius), recalls memories of Seneca's boyhood, lxx. 1
- Gn. Pompeius Magnus, three defeats of his forces, lxxi. 8 ff.
- Lars Porsenna, king of the Etruscans, who yielded to Mucius Scaevola, lxvi. 51 ff.
- Posidonius (Stoic philosopher, fl. 1st century B.C.), on length of life, lxxviii. 28; opinion on drunkenness, lxxxiii. 10; definition of riches, lxxxvii. 31 ff.; on the arts and crafts, lxxxviii. 21; on the sage and the inventor, xc. 5 ff.; on the weakness of the flesh, xcii. 10
- Protagoras (Greek philosopher of Abdera, 5th century B.C.), opinion on the flexibility of dialectic, lxxxviii. 43 f.
- Puteoli (a coast-town near Naples in Campania), the idlers of, lxxvii. 1
- Pyrrhonic school, scepticism of, lxxxviii. 44 f.
- Pythagoras (Greek philosopher, 6th century B.C.). teacher of many famous lawgivers, xc. 6
- M. Atilius Regulus (hero of first Punic war), the sufferings of, lxvii. 7, 19; his pledge of honour, lxxi. 17
- Rhodian (Telesphorus the), cowardly words of, lxx. 6
- P. Rutilius Rufus (statesman, banished 92 B.C.), exile of, lxvii. 7; retirement of, lxxix. 14
- Sarmatta (on the eastern side of Scythia), vanity of its rulers, lxxx. 10
- Sattia, anecdote about the longevity of, lxxvii. 20
- Gaius Mucius Scaevola (Roman legendary period), voluntary self-mutilation of, lxvi. 51 ff.
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