INDEX TO THE "QUAESTIONES 

 NATURALES" 



prefixed to a name indicates authorities used by Seneca. 



a Academy, 307. School and followers of Plato. 

 Achaia, 142, 224, 225, 235, 288 (adj.), 303. District in 



N.W. of southern part of Greece (Morea). 

 Actors, regard for, 307. 

 Adriatic, 153. 



Adversity, to be faced with joy, 1 1 1, 112. 

 Aegean (Sea), 73, 252. Eastern part of the Mediterranean. 

 Aegium, 257 (2). A leading town in Achaia on the Gulf of 



Corinth. 



a Aeschylus, 172. 

 Africa, 117, 212, 236, 263. 

 Africus (Wind), 210. 

 Air, tension of, 58 ; wide diffusion of, 60 ; transformed into 



water, 119, 121; transformed into fire, 120, 121, 205; 



kindled by. friction, 205, 206, 277; kindled within the 



earth, 236, 251 ; the cause of earthquakes, 239-48, 251, 



254, 255; enters interior of earth, 254, 255. 

 Albula, 134. Small stream flowing into the Arno near Tibur 



(Tivoli) some 1 6 miles E. of Rome. 

 Alexander (the Great), no, 215, 254 (2). 

 Alexandria, 273. 



Alpheiis, 142 (2), 235. River in Elis in Southern Greece. 

 Alps, no, 173, 184. 



Ambracian (Gulf), 153. On W. of Greece (Gulf of Arta). 

 Ammon ; see Jupiter. 

 Amphitheatre, jets of water in, 59. 

 a Anaxagoras, 63, 68, 172, 178, 236, 276. Celebrated Ionian 



philosopher, 500-428 B.C. 



a Anaximander, 67. Ionian philosopher, 610-547 B.C. 

 a Anaximenes, 67, 237. Ionian philosopher about 500 B.C. 



