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Posterity, great increase of knowledge to be attained by, 298. 



Predestination, 85. 



Prognostications ; see Portents. 



Propontis (Sea of Marmora), 153, 176 (Lower Sea). 



Providence, 92, 213. 



Puteoli, 133. On coast of Campania. 



Pylades, 307. A Cilician; a dancer like Bathyllus. 



Pyrenees, 5. 

 a Pyrrho, 307. Founder of the sect of the Sceptics, native of 



Elis ; flourished about fourth century B.C. 

 a Pythagoras, 307. Flourished in second half of sixth century 



B.C. 



Pyx, trial of, 180. 



Rain, Seneca's observation on descent of, into soil, 117; 



share of, in final destruction of the world, 143, 144, 149 ; 



seasonal variations of, 179; supposed to be influenced 



by incantations, 182. 

 Rainbow, 16-33. 

 Rainless countries, 167, 173. 

 Red Sea, 112, 153, 168. 

 Regulus, 221. Consul 63. 

 Reverence, duty of, 304. 

 Rhaetian, 35. The reference is to wine grown in the N. 



of Italy (Cisalpine Gaul). 

 Rhine, 146 (2), 173, 233. 



Rhodians, 142. Island of Rhodes was at S.W. of Asia Minor. 

 Rhone, 146, 173. 

 Rivers as political boundaries, 5, 233; sources of supply of, 



116; underground, 132, 141, 206, 207, 233, 235; 



summer rise of, 141, 173. 

 Roman, 5, 12, 46, no, 113, 166. 

 Rome, no, 166, 182, 209, 307. 

 Roots, disruptive force of, 57. 

 Rulers, counsel to, 90. 



Sacrifice cannot alter fate, 84; to keep off hail, 181. 

 St. Elmo's Fire, n, 37. 

 a Sallust, 279. Roman historian, 86-34 B.C. 

 Sarmatian, 5, 233 (pi.). Roughly speaking, the S. part of 



Russia. 



Saturn, the planet, 275 (2), 284, 303. 

 Scipio, 46 (2). The elder Sc. Africanus, victor of Hannibal 



at Zama, 202 B.C. 

 Scironian (Wind), 211. 



