Index 



237 



Cato the censor, 8; wished to learn 

 Greek in his old age, 14 ; his judg- 

 ment on his countrymen, 179; 

 Livy's judgment on him, 187, 197 



Cato the second (of Utica), his errors 

 in judgment, 12, 18; praised 

 by Cicero, 167; censured by 

 Caesar, 200 



Catulus, the orator, 194 



Causes, the four, how investigated. 



Celsus, condemned anatomia vivorum, 

 113; acknowledges that logic has 

 nothing to do with medicine, 

 123 



Ceremonies not lawful, 120 



Chance gets the credit of most 

 inventions, 124 



Characters of men to be studied by 

 the moral philosopher, 169 



Charity, " the very bond of virtues," 

 177 



Charles V. on fortune, 205 



Charms, how supposed to act, 120 



Cherubim, angels of light, 37 



Chess, 211 



Chinese characters, 137 



Chiron, the centaur, Achilles' pre- 

 ceptor, 84 



Christianity, has settled the question 

 as to suntmum bonum, 154; exalts 

 social above private good, 156 



Chronicles, 74 



Chrysippus tried to interpret the 

 fables of the poet, 84; followed 

 a bad way of persuading men to 

 virtue, 147 



Church, the, charged with the 

 excesses of heretics, 22 ; befriended 

 learning, 40, 41 



Church History too credulous, 28; 

 how divided, 80 



Cicero, M. TuUius, 33, 124, 194, 203; 

 had no resolution, 12; best or 

 second best of orators, 14; his 

 philosophy adorned by eloquence, 

 25; on posthumous fame, 77; 

 his complaint against Socrates, 

 X06; an academic, 126; com- 

 mends rhetorical preparations, 

 128; on rhetoric, 146; on faulty 

 exercise of the faculties, 151; his 

 Oratio pro Mar cello, 165 ; praises 

 Cato the Second, 167; his judg- 

 ment on Cato, 175; his interview 

 with Caesar, i8o; his Ad Aiticum 

 useful for wisdom of business, 

 186; censures Pompey, 194; calls 

 Caesar tyrannus, 199; relates how 



Augustus feigned frankness, »6.; 

 his perfect orator, 203 

 Cicero, Quintus, his advice to his 

 brother, 180; his book De 



Petitione Consulatus, 182; calls 



the face animi janua, 190 

 Ciceronian style revived at the 



Reformation, 23, 24 

 Ciphers, 139 



Circe and /Esculapius, no 

 Civil History, 73; knowledge, 179 

 Clement VII., 12 

 Cleon hated eloquence, 147 

 Coat of Christ without a seam, 213 

 Cobwebs of learning, 26 

 Columbus, 32 

 Commentaries, 73; in theology are 



bad, 214 

 Commodus, 47 

 Common-place Books, 135 

 Conclaves, 170 

 Confusion of tongues the second 



curse of man, 138 

 Conscience, 210 

 ConstantinenicknamedTrajan Parie- 



taria, 46 

 Contemplation, the best state, 33-38; 



Aristotle placed it above active 



life, Christianity places it below it, 



156; reserved for God and angels, 



157 

 Contradictory instances not to be 



neglected in induction, 125 

 Controversies in religion nearly 



extinct, 208; an affliction to the 



Church, 212 

 Copernicus' theory of astronomy, 



104, 106 

 Corruption of learning a great evil, 



26 

 Coruncanius used to walk in the 



forum to be consulted on business, 



181 

 Cosmography, history of, 97 

 Countenance, the, a tell-tale, 190 

 Craterus, Alexander's friend, 51 

 Credulity, akin to imposture, 28 

 Cretans, how judged by St. Paul, 170 

 Critics, advice to, 150 

 Croesus' interview with Solon, 201 

 Curius, 181 



Custody of knowledge, art of, 142 

 Custom and habit, 173 

 Cyrenaic school, wherein it placed 



happiness, 157 

 Cyrus Minor, 74 



Daedalus, 65 



Dancing answers to versifying, 139 



