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Peacock, analogy from colours of, 25. 



Peloponnesian (War), 256, 258. Lasted 431-404 B.C. between 

 Athens and Sparta. 



Pencils, 138, 257. Great river draining the plain of 

 Thessaly and flowing through vale of Tempe between 

 Olympus and Ossa ; now called Salambria. 



Perseus, 9. Last king of Macedonia, 178-168 B.C. 



Persia, 208, 215. 



Persians, 254. 



Pestilential vapours emitted from the ground, 260, 261. 



Pharos, 258. Island off Alexandria with famous lighthouse, 

 united to mainland by Alexander the Great. 



Phasis, 174. River of Colchis at E. of Black Sea. 



Philae, 168 (3), 169. Island in the Nile, just below 

 First Cataract. Seneca seems to confuse it with the 

 so-called island of Meroe, at the junction of the Blue 

 Nile and Atbara. 



Philip, no, 207 (2). Father of Alexander the Great ; king 

 of Macedonia 359-336 B.C. 



Philosophers, debt due to the early, 230 ; credulous folk, 

 258; severe criticisms of, 125, 175, 288, 289. 



Philosophy, divisions of, 3 ; pleasures of, 4, 5 ; benefits con 

 ferred by, 97; delivers its votaries from fear, 225; re 

 wards of, 229; decadence of, 307, 308. 

 a Pindar, 258. Greek poet, 522-442 B.C. 



Pithitae, or pithiae (meteors), 38, 40. 



Plancus, 1 60. L. Munatius P., a prominent actor in the 

 civil wars, 48-31 B.C. 



Planets, colours of, i o ; enumerated, 275; fixed number of, 

 284; orbits of, 285; motions of, 288; possibly greater 

 number of, 297 ; conspicuous movements of, 298. 

 a Plato, 216. 



Pollux, 1 1 ; see Castor. 



Pompeii, 221, 259(2). 



Pompey, 166 (3). Defeated by Caesar 48 B.C., and assassi 

 nated shortly after. 



Pontus (district in N.E. of Asia Minor), 141. 



Pontus (Black Sea), 153, 176, 180 (?). 



Portents from meteors, 9, 228, 259; lightning, 79, 86, 93, 



94, 95, 215; eclipses, 228; comets, 272, 290, 302. 

 a Posidonius, 26, 27, 73, 74, 98 (2), 177, 246, 252, 256, 292, 

 293. A very distinguished Stoic philosopher, president 

 of that school. Instructor for a time and friend of 

 Cicero. Prosecuted physical investigations with great 

 success. Native of Syria. Lived 135-51 B.C. 



