Index 



241 



Particulars, pursuit of, a hindrance 

 to learning, 32 



Paul, St., a learned man, 40; wished 

 himself anathema for his brethren, 

 156; judgment on the Cretans, 

 170; his wisdom, 212 



&quot; Pedantes,&quot; successful as governors, 

 10; styled the &quot; apes of tyranny,&quot; 

 i7 



Pedantical knowledge, 150, 151 



Percennius and Vibulenus, 152 



Periander s advice as to the pre 

 serving a tyranny, 137 



Persian magic, 87 



Phalynus, brought Artaxerxes mes 

 sage to the Greeks, 54 



Pharaoh s arrogance, 187 



Philip of Macedon, 45 



Philo-Judaeus, on knowledge, 7 



Philocrates, 178 



Philopoemen, 75 



Philosophers too cautionary in their 

 precepts, 161; not wise writers on 

 laws, 206 



Philosophia prima, 32, 85; its 

 character not satisfactory, 86; 

 denned, ib. 



Philosophy, mental, tends towards 

 degeneracy, 30; related to reason, 

 69; threefold, 85; divine, 88; 

 ancient, to be investigated, 104; 

 not to be treated as a profession, 

 158; moral, 166 sqq.; what part 

 is in our power, 167 



Phocion s obstinacy, 12 



Phormio s theory of wars, 163 



Physicians, if wise, will consider the 

 effect of mind on body, 108 ; must 

 not despair of cure, 114; must 

 endeavour to lessen pain, ib. 



Physics, distinguished from meta 

 physics, 93; limited to the 

 material, 96 



Physiognomy, the only sound part 

 of prediction, 107 



Pindar on sudden fortune, 170 



Pius Quintus, 11 



Places of learning to be helped by 

 the state, 62 



Plato, 30, 38 ; his doctrine of remem 

 brance, i; would not bear office, 

 18; on Socrates, 21; adorned 

 philosophy with his eloquence, 25 ; 

 mixed philosophy with theology, 

 33, 97; held that kings should be 

 philosophers, or philosophers kings, 

 43; derides men s contempt for 

 common things, 72 ; held that 

 forms are the true objects of know 



ledge, 94; his speculation as to 

 the ultimate unity of all things, 96 ; 

 makes too much of final causes, 97 ; 

 on the feats of the different facul 

 ties in the body, 109 ; commends 

 middle propositions in sciences, as 

 fruitful, 123 ; his induction vicious, 

 124, 125; saw the advantage of 

 well-directed enquiry, 129; why 

 he introduced Socrates and the 

 sophists, 131; his supposition of 

 the cave, 134; despised rhetoric, 

 147; his saying as to the beauty of 

 virtue, ib. 



Platonists mix philosophy with 

 mathematics, 33 



Plautus, marvels at beneficence in 

 old age, 170; (quoted), 187 



Pleasure, how related to happiness, 

 157 



Pliny, too credulous, 29; saved the 

 Christians from persecution, 45 ; 

 his panegyric, 176 



Plutarch, adorned philosophy with 

 his eloquence, 25; has fagot ted 

 together the ancient philosophies 

 unsatisfactorily, 104 



Poesy related to imagination, 69, 

 121 ; is feigned history, 82; com 

 pared with history, ib. ; its effects 

 even on barbarians, ib. , its divi 

 sions, 83; fables of, have they an 

 inward meaning? 85; regarded as 

 to its form, 139; called vinum 

 dcemonum by one of the fathers, 

 175 



Poets and historians have best 

 handled the affections, 172 



Politicians, why they object to 

 learning, 8; the corrupt sort of 

 them seek only their own gain, 



19 



Pompey, his saving when charged 

 with the relief of Rome from 

 famine, 156; wisely burned Ser- 

 torius papers, 182; the only great 

 captain when Caesar began his 

 career of war, 194 ; erred in follow 

 ing Sylla s example too far, ib.; 

 damaged himself by closeness, 199 



Positive precepts of law and theology, 



212 



Poverty, its praises fit subject for 

 friars, 15; honoured in the best 

 days of Rome, ib.; &quot; pauper tas 

 virtutis fortuna&quot; ib. 



Power, varies according to the de 

 gree and position of the governed, 

 56 



