Index 



245 



pares fallacies to juggling tricks, 

 131; condemns eloquence for 

 display, 154; feigned too high an 

 elevation for man's nature, 155; 

 complains that men care little for 

 reformation of manners, 167 



Seraphim, angels of love, 37 



Sermons in King James I.'s time, 218 



Serpent, his nature, 165 



Sertorius' papers burnt by Pompey, 

 182 



Seven Sages, their sayings akin to 

 poesy parabolical, 83 



Severinus the Dane, 105 



Severus (Septimius), 204 



Sextus Quintus, 11 



Sibyl, the, selling her books, 198 



Sin, its divisions, 220 



Sisyphus, his offence of futility, 206 



Sleep, the gates of, 178 



Sloth, its drawbacks, 183 



Small things best discover great, 72 



Socrates, accused of corrupting 

 youth, 9; reaction in Kis favour 

 when dead, 14; his ugliness and 

 goodness, 21; his irony, 34, 126; 

 called philosophy down from 

 heaven, 35 ; his reply to Hippias, 

 72; charged with separating 

 philosophy and rhetoric, 106; his 

 method of refutation, 131 ; where- 

 in he placed true felicity, 157; 

 disputes with a sophist, 161; 

 quoted, 153, 165, 180, 212 



Solomon, his learning, 39; his 

 aphorisms on civil wisdom, 182 

 sag. 



Solon's Laws, their wisdom, 18; his 

 just judgment as to Croesus' 

 wealth, 201 



Sophism is equivocation, 131 



Sophists compared with orators, 131 



Soul, nature of the, 118 



Spanish proverb, 191 



Speech, an organ of tradition, 136 



Spirits in divers ranks, 37; evil, not 

 to be dealt with, 89 



Standing point for argument, men 

 desire a, 130 



Statesmen, learned and experienced, 

 compared, 43 



Stoics, their dogmas fitted to the 

 fables of the poets by Chrysippus, 

 84; their dispute with the Epi- 

 cureans as to felicity settled by 

 Christianity, 158; seem to have 

 discussed the affections well, 172 



Sturmius studied Cicero and Hermo- 

 genes, 24 



Suetonius not so credible as Tacitus, 

 104 



Suffering, when wise, overcomes 

 difficulties, 168 



Summary law of Nature, 95 



" Sutntnum bonum," the, not to be 

 discussed by us, 155 



Superstitious narrations not always 

 despicable, 71; divination, 118 



Sun, the, is never defiled, see what 

 he may, 71 



Sylla, 119, 183; how judged by 

 Cajsar, 53; never condemned so 

 many to die as physicians do in 

 their ignorance, 114; a troubler 

 of the world, 160; modest towards 

 Fortune, styling himself Felix, not 

 Magnus, 188; his assumed frank- 

 ness, 199 



Syllogism, cannot invent arts, 126; 

 Nature refuses to be enchained by 

 it, ib. ; use of judgment in, 130 



Sympathies between body and mind 

 discussed, 106 sqq. 



Tacitus, 109, 152; on the eloquence 

 of Augustus, 2; his judgment on 

 Nerva, 44; his annals, 78; his 

 note on the retention of ancient 

 terms and titles, 92; far more 

 trustworthy than Suetonius, from 

 the form of his narrative, 104 ; on 

 sudden prosperity, 170; observa- 

 tion on Tiberius and Agrippina, 

 191; on Tiberius' reserved man- 

 ners, 194; his judgment on 

 Mutianus, 195; on Pompey's dark 

 dealing, 199 ; on Livia, 200 



Talk, the common, is sometimes 

 wiser than books, 167 



Tantalus, 206 



Tarquin buys the Sibyl's books, 198 



Telesius, 105 



Tennis gives quick eye and body, 99 



Thales, 72 



Themistocles, his saying as to music 

 and government, 20 



Theology, how divisible, 69; dis- 

 cussed briefly, 209 



Theseus, 75 



Thirty Tyrants, the, 14 



Thucydides on Cleon's hatred of 

 eloquence, 147 



Tiberius concealed his power at first, 

 126; jeaJous of his heir, 183; 

 closest of men, 190, 194; quarrels 

 with Agrippina, 191 



Tigellinus intrigues against Tur- 

 pilianus, 192 



