INDEX
- P. Cornelius Scipio (Africanus Maior, conqueror of Hannibal), adoration by Seneca at his house and tomb, lxxxvi. 1 ff.
- P. Cornelius Scipio (Africanus Minor, conqueror of Carthage in 146 B.C., and of Numantia in 133 B.C.). lxvi. 13
- P. Cornelius Scipio Nasica (admiral, defeated by Caesar's fleet, 46 B.C.), heroism of, lxx. 22; defeat of, lxxi. 10
- Scribonia (see n.), witty saying of, lxx. 10
- Scylla (dangerous rock on Italian side of Sicilian strait), lxxix. 1 f., xcii. 9.
- Scythia (from the Carpathians eastward), vanity of its rulers, lxxx. 10; clothing of its inhabitants, xc. 16
- Seneca (see Introduction, vol. i.), addresses himself, lxviii. 10
- Cornelius Severus (contemp. of Ovid, author of a Bellum Siculum), description of Aetna, lxxix. 5
- Sextius (see Ep. lxiv. 2 n., vol. i.), his comparison of the sage with Jupiter, lxxiii. 12, 15
- Sicily, Lucilius’ travels through, lxxix. 1
- Socrates, drinks the poison, lxvii. 7; resignation of, lxx. 9, lxxi. 17; emphasis upon character, lxxi. 7; on truth and virtue, lxxi. 16 late-won renown of, lxxix. 14
- Solon (see n. ad loc.), lawgiver of Athens, and one of the seven wise men, xc. 6
- Speusippus (4th century B.C., predecessor of Xenocrates as head of the Academy), qualifies the definition of the bonum, lxxxv. 18
- Stoic, a certain, who gave good advice to Marcellinus, lxxvii, 6
- Stoic (school of philosophy), recommendation of the quiet life, lxviii. 1; reply to Peripatetics regarding virtue, lxxxv, 31; paradoxes of the, lxxxvii, 1
- Syria, earthquakes in, xci. 9
- Syrtes (north coast of Africa), cave-homes of dwellers by the, xc. 17
- Tarentum (city in Southern Italy), a place for retirement, lxviii. 5
- Tauromenium (now Taormina) in Sicily, lxxix. 1
- Tiberius (emperor 14–37 A.D.), his confidence in the drunken Cossus, lxxxiii. 15
- Timagenes (from Alexandria, historian, and one-time friend of Augustus), grudge against Rome, xci. 13
- Ulysses, home-sickness of, lxvi. 26 wanderings of, lxxxviii. 7 f.
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