Cause defined, 277; various kinds, 278.
- Censors, duties of the, 463.
Centuries, number of, in the Roman commonwealth, 334.
Cercops the Pythagorean, 38.
Ceres.» See Demeter.
Chaldeans, their proficiency in divination, 142; despised by Eudoxus, 236. Chance not sufficient to account for the phenomena of the universe, 76.
Chronos. See Saturn.
Chrysippus attributes divinity to the elements, 15, 50, 58; his explanation of the fables of Orpheus and others, 16; abused by Zeno, 33; his argu- ‘ments controverted, 113; his sophisms ou fate, 267.
Cicero, his enumeration of his works, Cicero the elder, 477.
Cilicians, observers of auguries, 142, 156.
Claudius, P., temerity of, 47.
Cleanthes, his vague opinions on the Deity, 15, 49, 110; on vital heat, 53.
Climates, variety of, 267.
Cocks, crowing of; remark on, 223.
Ceelus, fable of, its meaning, 67.
INDEX, “et the Greek, its licence retained, Commonwealth, dangers in the service of the, 287; no good argument against engaging in it, 288; a commonwealth defined, 303; three forms of government, 304; mixed and moderate government, 305; rise of the aristocracy, _309; popular misrule, 315; foundation of the Roman commonwealth, 321; expulsion of the kings, 336; the dic- . tatorship, 340; the decemvirs, 342; democracy not properly a common- . wealth, 364; aristocracy defended, 365; a state cannot exist without magistrates, 462.
Conscience, remorse of, 415.
Consecration, opinion of Plato as to proper objects of, 449.
Consulship, on standing for the, 484.
Corinth, 139.
Corpuscular doctrine of Leucippus, 245.
Cotta, C. advocates the Academic views, _ 21; his argument against the Epicureans, 22—44; against the Stoics, 106.
Cotta, Lucius, his adherence toCicero,481.
Cranes, their singular mode of flight, 91.
ee on dreams, 174; on divination, Croesus deceived by the oracle, 248.
Cupid, several of the name, 126.
Customs, variety of, among different nations, 354.
Cypselus, tyrant of Corinth, 331.
Cyrus, dream of, 164.
Daphitas, 266.
Decemvirs, appointment of the, 342; expulsion, 343.
Decii, devotion to death of the, 110, 166.
Deification of qualities and gifts, 66; also of public benefactors, 66.
Deiotarus, king, his regard for divina- Deity diffused in every part of nature, 71.
Delphi, the oracle at, 161, 248, 249., > Demaratus, the Corinthian, 331.
Demeter, origin of the name, 69.
Demetrius Phalereus restrains the ex- _ travagance of funeral processions, 459; combined legal knowledge with philosophy, 467.
Democracy productive of universal licence and ruin, 305; Plato on, 315; not properly a commonwealth, 364.
Democritus denies that anything i is everlasting, 12; his corpuscular doctrine, * 23; his want of acuteness when speaking of the nature of the Gods, 42; on divination, 211; atomic philosophy, 273.
Diagondas of Thebes suppresses all nocturnal mysteries, 445.
Diagoras the Melian, an atheist, 1, 22, 137.
Diana, 69; several of the name, 125.
Diczearchus wrote on civil jurisprudence, INDEX.
Dictatorship, similar to monarchical royalty, 340.
Dii Penates, 69.
Diodorus the Stoic, 4.
Diogenes the Babylonian, his explanation of the birth of Minerva, 16.
Diogenes the Cynic, 135.
Dionysius. See Bacchus.
Dis, origin of the name, 69.
Divinatio, or Mantiké, 20, 141; opinions of various philosophers, 1438; defended by Quintus, 145; the Stoic argument, 179; disputed, 203.
Divination practised by whole families and nations, 182; divided into two be rejected, 262.
Divitiacus A’duus pretends to practise divination, 182.
Dog-star, astrological fancies regarding Dream of Scipio, 380.
Dreams, importance attached to, 143; several remarkable ones, 162; controverted, 250; divination by, to be rejected, 262.
‘Earth, the, termed Ceres, 16; its position, according to the Stoics, 80.
Ecclesiastical law of the ancients, provisions of the, 436.
Eclipses, cause of, 200, 296.
Egg, dream concerning an, 256. Egyptians, reason for their animal worship, 34; observers of auguries, 142.
Elements, the four, 12.
Empedocles, his doctrine of the four natures (or elements), 12. — ‘Epicureans, sect of, 7; their views of the nature of the Gods, f ane, asserts the pre-notion of the Deity, 17; conceives the Gods have human forms, 18; answer thereto, 27; his expedient to avoid the doctrine of necessity, 24; his boast that he had no instructor, 25; his abuse of Aristotle and others, 33; rejects fate or destiny, Epimenides the Cretan, 160.
Equestrian order, establishment of the, Er, the Pamphylian, said to return to Etesian winds, 94, Etrurian soothsayers, 142, 216.
Eudoxus, his opinion of the Chaldzan soothsayers, 236.
Euhemerus translated by Ennius, 42, Euripides, passage cited from, 68.
Fables regarding the Gods, the Stoic explanation of, 67; disputed, 118, Fannius, C. 293.
Fate, notion of, opposed to that of divi- . nation, 207; things ascribed to, which are purely fortuitous, 266; sophisms of Chrysippus, 267; Stilpo and Socrates, 268; false propositions impossible ones, 269; possibility, 271; simple and ’ compound propositions, 276; fate acknowledged by the Stoics, 277; cause . defined, 277; various kinds, 278; different opinions of the philosophers, 279; Chrysippus holds a middle course, 279; the question not to be solved on the principle of Epicurus, 282.
Fauns, voices of the, 46, 110, 186.
Festivals and holidays, reasons for observing, 441.
Fire, the stars supposed to be generated by, 59; the sole active principle, according to the Stoics, 116.
Flaminius, P., cause ascribed for his Free-will, Carneades on, 273.
Funeral pomp forbidden by the laws of * the Twelve Tables, 456; Plato’s charge respecting funerals, 459.
Funerals, Athenian, 458; Solon’s laws, Furius, Lucius, 292.
Gallus, Caius Sulpicius, 294; his explanation of the cause of an eclipse, 296. Gellius, the proconsul, 421. General, no appeal from his authority - allowed, 463. Gods, dreams of pseudo-philosophers and poets, 10, 16; the Epicurean view, 17; refuted by the Academics, 22; the . Stoic view, 46; existence of, proved from various considerations, 45, 50, 71, . 75,. 78, 82, 89, 94, 97, 101; objections urged by Cotta, 108;. questions as to _ their number, 119; etymology of their names, 127; the prosperity of-the wicked, a kind of. witness against the Gods, 135. Government, three forms of, 304; mixed and moderate, preterable, "305. Gracchus, Caius, dream of, 168.
Gracchus, Tiberius, his deference to the college of augurs, 48; the snakes found in his house, 161, 225.
Gratidius attempts to introduce the law of ballot, 477.
Gréek and Roman historians compared, Greeks, the, great observers of auguries, 142, 184;; censure of their manners, Hamilcar, dream of, 165.
Hannibal, dream of, 165; his contempt - for divination, 221.
Harpalus, prosperity of, 135. Haruspices, 48,142..
Heat, remarks ‘of Cleanthes on, 53.
Heimarmene, or Necessity, 20.
Helenus, 47.
Heraclides of Pontus, his puerile tales, 14; wrote on civil jurisprudence, 467.
Heraclitus, hard to be understood, 116.
Hercules, 118, 120; several, 119; why deified, 66.
Hesiod’s Theogony, as explained by Zeno, 14.
Hipparchus, the true length of the year known to, 62.
Hipponax, a satiric poet, 138, Hirtius Pansa, 264, Homer, era of, 326; passages cited from, Horace, passage cited from, 67.
Human body, its wonderful structure,.
Human forms ascribed to the Gods by Epicurus, 18.
Human hand, its powers, 100, Ignorance of future events advantageous for man, 208.
Impiety, punishment of, 447.
Indus, said to be the largest of all rivers, Infinite mind, doctrine of an, 11, 310, Interregnum, when established, 327, Janus, origin of the name, 69.
Juno, origin of the name, 68.
Jupiter, the God, 16, 67; several of the name, 123.
Jupiter, the planet, 63, 89.
Justice, panegyric on, 355; the foundation of lawful government, 363; but one essential justice, 417; to be desired for its own sake, 419, King, title of, once popular in Rome, 327; why afterwards detested, 338. Kingdoms, liability of, to revolutions,335. Kingdoms, the three, of the Gods, 69. Knights, order of Roman, established, Lenas, Publius Popilius, 287, Law defined, 431; reason the supreme law, 432; pernicious and mischievous enactments not laws, 433.
Legal maxims, 436; amplified, 439.
Legal registrars, among the Greeks, their Office, 482.
Leontium writes against Theophrastus, Leucippus, corpuscular doctrine of, 23.
Liber, son of Semele, why deified, 66.
Lots, 235; the Preenestine, 236, Lucina, 70, ‘ Luna, 70.
Ly cians, observers of auguries, 156.
Lycurgus, professes reverence for oracles, 184; supports the royal power by the aid of the noblest of the citizens, 325; imitated by Romulus, 325, 337.
a Rp prodigy regarding his statue, INDEX, Magi interpret the dream of Cyrus, 164; also foretel the career of Alexander, 165.
Magistrates, a state cannot exist without, 462; classes of, 463; appeal from their decisions to be allowed, 463; their power to be qualified by the appointment of tribunes of the people, or similar means, 468.
Man, the absolute master of what the ti produces, 101; his erect stature, Manes, rites of the, 451, 453; who to be discharged by, 451.
Mantiké, or Divinatio, 20, 141.
Marcellus, the general, his contempt for augury, 232.
Marcellus, an augur, depreciates augury as a mere political contrivance, 442. Maritime position of cities, alleged disadvantage of, 322. Mars, the planet, 63, 89. Mercury, several of the name, 125, Midas, king, 177.
Minerva, origin of the name, 69.
Monarchy, the people’s interest not effectually promoted by, 304; yet preferable to other forms of government, Moon, speculations on its nature, 16, 73; its motion, 62, Mopsus, 46.
Motion, Plato’s remarks on, 56, Mummius, Spurius, 293, 301, Muses, the, 124.
Music, its influence, 446.
Naker, or pinna, its confederacy with the prawn, 90.
Natta, statue of, struck by lightning, 218.
Nature, the term vaguely used, 74; how understood by Epicurus, 74; how by | the Academics, 74; by the Stoics, 65, 74; the fountain of justice, 414.
Nausiphanes, the master of Epicurus, Necessity, or Heimarmene, 20; doctrine of, how avoided by Epicurus, 24; rejected by Chrysippus, 280.
Neptune, origin of the name, 69; the air which pervades the sea so termed, 16.
Niobe, 128.
Nocturnal mysteries, prohibition of, 445, Numa Pompilius, 328; not a Pythagorean, 329.
Numerius Suffucius, 235.
Omina, what, 186.
Oracles, 161; their ambiguous character, Orphic verse, its reputed inventor, 38.
Oscines and alites, what, 103.
Pacuvius, passages cited from, 77, 155, Pamphilus of Samos, 26.
INDEX, Pamphylians, observers of auguries, 142, Panetius, his doubts on divination, 144.
Parhelion, phenomena of the, 291.
Parmenides, his stephane, 11.
Patriotism, encomium on, 285.
Penates, 69.
People, a turbulent democracy not the, 364; Roman, oppressed by debts, 341.
Pericles explains the cause of an eclipse, Peripatetics, sect of, 7.
Perseus wishes to deify those who have made discoveries useful to man, 15.
Perseus, last king of Macedon, 46.
Phedo, disciple of Socrates, 33.
Pherecydes predicts an earthquake, 190.
Philo the Academic, 4.
Philosophy, eulogium on, 297.
Philus. See Furius, Lucius.
Pisidians, observers of auguries, 142, 156.
Piso, M., a favourer of the Peripatetics, 7.
Planets, motion of the, 63.
Plato, uncertainty of his opinions regarding the Deity, 12; on motion, 56; on divination, 141; on dreams, 170; his remark when shipwrecked, 298; on democracy, 315; his Utopia, 338; his praises of law, 433; on music, 446; on things consecrated to the Gods, 449.
Plautus, passages cited from, 172.
Pliny, passage cited from, 90.
Pluto, origin of the name, 69.
Poets, their fables regarding the Gods, 16.
Posidonius the Stoic, 4; his remarks on Epicurus, 43; his sphere, 76; on possibility, 269.
Possibility discussed, 271.
Posthumius, appearance of the Gods to, Posthumius the soothsayer, 175.
Presages, instances of remarkable, 187; refuted, 222. Priam possessed the gift of divination, Prodicus the Chian, 41.
Prodigies before the battle of Leuctra, 176; after the death of Czsar, 151.
Prolepsis of Epicurus, what, 17.
Pronoia, or Providence, 8, 65.
Protagoras doubted whether there were Public shows and amusements, 445.
Publicola, Valerius, his deference to the people, 339.
Pyrrhus said to be deceived by the oracle,.
Pythagoras, his doctrine of the Deity, 11; on the globe and circle, 61; doubt as to his animal sacrifice, 137; why he prohibited eating beans, 171; date of his arrival in Italy, 329.
Pythagoreans, their blind deference to authority, 5; their reverence for the voice of the Gods, 186, Quintus defends divination on the principles of the Stoics, 145; his dream, Reason, human, eulogium on, 101. Religion and superstition distinguished, Remus, an augur, 189.
Rhodian sailor, dream of a, 174.
Rogator, 48.
Roman commonwealth, Cato’s eulogy of the, 320; its rise, $24; the different Rome, its situation admirably chosen, Romulus, his history, 321; said to have _ been an augur, 142,; his staff, 158, 233.
Roscius, prodigy concerning, 178; doubted, 227.
Rutilius, Publius, 292.
Sabines, rape of the, 324.
Sacrilege forbidden, 447.
Sagra, battle at, 46, 109.
Saturn, the God, 67.
Saturn, the planet, 63, 89.
Scezvola, his instructions on points of Scipio Africanus, saying of, 298.
Scipio Africanus the younger, 291; his discourse on the Roman commonwealth, 303; his dream, 380.
Scopas the architect, 155.
Sea, remark on its beauty, 80.
Senate, the Roman, its model, 325; its authority with the people, 472.
Senator, his duties, 479.
Senses, the, described, 97.
Sepulture, rites of, 453.
Servius Sulpicius, 333; his arrangement of the people in centuries, 334.
Shakspeare, passage from, 153.
Sibylline books often consulted by the Roman senate, 185; their obscurity, Simonides, anecdote of, 21; dream of, Sky, termed Jupiter by Chrysippus, 16.
Socrates, the mode of philosophising begun by, 5; Xenophon’s representation of his opinions, 13; abused by Zeno, 33; anecdotes of, 194; his demon, 194; did not reject physical investigations, Solon, his prudence, 190..
Soothsayers of different countries, no agreement among, 211, 232; contrary interpretations, 260; remark of Cato, Sophocles, dream of, 167.
Sortes, what, 110.
Soul and mind of man, proofs of the existence of the Gods, 9 Spartans, their regard for augury, 184.
Speusippus says a certain incorporcal power governs everything, 13. me Spurius Cassius, condemnation of, 342, Stars, speculations on their nature, 16, , 99; fixed stars and planets, 62; passages from. Aratus respecting several, 82—87.
Statius, passage from, 6.
Stephane of Parmenides, what, 11.
Steremnia, its meaning in the system of Epicurus, 19.
Stilpo, of Megara, 268.
Stoics, sect of, 7; their views of the nature of the Gods, 45; on fate, 277. Strato the naturalist, unworthy of regard, 14.
Stratonicus, jest of, 122.
Suffrages, in whose hands placed, in the Roman commonwealth, 333.
Summanus, a statue of Pluto, 149.
Sun, speculations on its nature, 16, 73; remarks on its apparent revolution, 62, 81; false suns, or parhelia, 291.
Superstition and religion distinguished, Sylla, his brutality to the corpse of Marius, 454; why he ordered his own body to be burned, contrary to the custom of his family, 454.
Tages the Etrurian, 220.
Tarquinius Priscus, 332; establishes the equestrian order, 332.
Tarquinius Superbus, 335.
Tarquinius and Attius Navius, 159.
Tarutius, Lucius, 241.
Tatius, king of the Sabines, 324.
Terence, passages from, 66, 130.
Thales the Milesian asserts water to be the origin of things, 10; his prudence, 190; the invention of the sphere ascribed to, 295.
Theodorus of Cyrene, an atheist, 1, 22.
Theophrastus, his vague statements as to the Gods, 14; assailed by Leontius and others, 33; wrote on civil jurisprudence, 467.
Thunder, augury from, 234.
Thyestes, 129.
Tides, observations on the, 113. Timzus, his remark on the burning cf the temple of Diana, at Ephesus, 70.
Timocrates abused by Epicurus, 33.
Tiresias, 46.
Tribunes of the people a check on the consuls, 468; arguments as to their merits and defects, 469.
Tripudium, what, 156; ridiculed, 230.
Tubero, Quintus, 291.
Tullus Hostilius, 330.
Twelve Tables, law of, prohibit burial or burning in the city, 455; forbid extravagance, mourning and funeral pomp, Tyrants, kings eften become, 315, 336.
INDEX.
Uniformity of religious ceremonial inculcated, 439.
Universal space deified by Chrysippus, 16. Universe, its orderly government a proof of the existence of the Gods, 52, 75. pias people, tax to be'imposed on, Vaticination, 246. a appearance of the Gods to, 46, Veii, prophecy concerning the city of, 186.
Velleius, C., takes the Epicurean part, 7; his argument, 8, 21.
Venus, the Goddess, several of the name, 125; identified with Diana, 70.
Venus, the planet, 64, 89.
Vesta, 69.
Vestal virgins, establishment of the, 328.
Vices, temples raised by the Greeks to Virgil, passage from, 151.
Virtues, temples raised to the, 440.
Voice of the Fauns, 46, 110, 186.
Voice of the Gods reverenced by the Pythagoreans, 186.
Votes, whether best given openly or secretly, 476.
Vulcans, several enumerated, 124.
Wandering stars, the planets falsely so called, 63.
War only to be undertaken by a just and wise state for faith or self-defence, 367.
Water asserted to be the origin of things, Weather, signs of the, a-species of divination, 148.
Wolf struck by lightning, statue of the, World, affirmed to be an animated and intelligent being, 10, 52, 56, 58; divinity ascribed to, by the Stoics, 60; its government by the providence of the Gods, 71.
Xenocrates, 25; says there are eight Gods, 13; his lesson to his disciples, Xenophanes, his theory of Deity, 11.
Xenophon, his representation of the opinions of Socrates, 13, 51, 114; his dreams, 166.
Year, great, its institution ascribed to Democritus, 63.
Zaleucus, said to have given laws to the _Locrians, 433; his existence denied, Zeno the Epicurean, his opinions on the Zeno the Stoic, 25, 33, 65; his opinions controverted, 112.; R. CLAY, PRINTER, BREAD STREET HILL.
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