M.

Maeotic Bay (Sea of Azov), 300.

Magi, the, 126.

Magnesia, district of Thessaly, 96.

Malis, 89.

Marăthon, on the east coast of Attica (famous for the battle of 490), 183.

Mardonius, the Persian general (defeated and killed at Plataea, 479), 121.

Marius, 184.

Medes, 288.

Megalopŏlis, the chief town of Arcadia, 183.

Megăra, a city on the Saronic gulf, 18, 96, 122, 124.

Megasthĕnēs, a Greek writer on India (fl. 300), 294.

Melanthius, an Athenian tragic poet (fl. 420), 181.

Melētus, one of the three accusers of Socrates, a poet, 16.

Melissus, 20.

Mĕlon, 8, 30, 47, 48.

Melos, an island in the Aegean, 166.

Memphis, a city of Egypt, on the Nile, 13.

Menaechmus, 14 _n._

Menelaüs, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.

Mercury (the planet), 154, cp. 268.

Meriŏnēs, 131.

Messenians, 176, 229.

Metapontium (Metapontum), a Greek city in Southern Italy, 21, 88.

Mētrodōrus, of Chios, a disciple of Democritus (fl. 330), 137, 275.

Midas, a mythical king of Phrygia, 229.

Milētus, a city of Caria, 23, 193.

Miltiădes, son of Cimon, the victor of Marathon, 183.

Mimnermus, elegiac poet, of Smyrna and Colophon (fl. 600), 282.

Minos, son of Zeus, king of Crete, and afterwards a judge in Hades, 179.

Mitys, of Argos, 186.

Mnesarĕtē (Phryne), 94, 95.

Mnesinoē, 95.

Molionĭdae, the sons of Actor, by Molione, 94.

Molus, 131.

Mopsus, founder of Mallos in Cilicia, where he had an oracle, 163.

Muses, the, 35, 86, 97, 98, 199, 226.

Myrĭna, an Aeolian town on the west coast of Mysia, 96.

Myron, 185.

Myrtălē, 95.

Mys, a Carian, employed by Mardonius to consult the oracles in Greece, 121.

N.

Nāïd, the, 127.

Nauplia, the port of Argos, 192.

Navel, the, at Delphi, 117.

Naxos, an island in the Aegean, 199.

Neleus, father of Nestor, 204.

Neobūlē, 63.

Neochōrus, 109.

Neoptolĕmus, son of Achilles, 45.

Nero, A. D. 37-68. The Roman Emperor. He visited Greece (the province of Achaia) in A. D. 67, and proclaimed its freedom at the Isthmian games: 60, 213.

Nesĭchus, 108.

Nestor, 204.

Nicander, a priest of the temple at Delphi, 62, 63, 72, 170.

Nicias, the Athenian general (d. 414 at Syracuse, see his _Life_), 23, 229.

Night, 210.

Night-watcher (Nycturus), the, an early name for the planet Cronus (Saturn), 300.

Niŏbē, 232.

Nisaeus, 197.

Nisibeüs, 204.

Nyctelius, ‘nightly’; used as a name of Dionysus, 67.

O.

Odysseus (Ulysses), 16, 102.

Oechalia, a town in Euboea (according to the story followed by Sophocles) taken by Hercules, 131.

Oeta, a mountain range in Thessaly, 186.

Ogygia, the name given by Homer to the island of Calypso (_Od._ 1, 50, &c.), 299.

Olympia, in Elis, 160.

Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, 95.

Olympicus, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_.

Olympus, a mountain (9,754 ft.) between Thessaly and Macedon, the seat of Zeus, 70, 93.

Olynthus, a town in the Chalcidice (taken by Sparta 379), 8.

Onomacrĭtus, an Athenian poet and antiquarian (520-485), 107.

Opheltiădae, 194.

Opus, Opuntian, a Locrian town, 96.

Orchalĭdes, 109.

Orchomĕnus, a city of Boeotia, 163, 176.

Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytaemnēstra, 95.

Orneae, a town in Argolis, 95.

Orpheus, of Thrace, a minstrel, 98, 126, 193, 210.

Orphic, 72.

Orthagŏras, 185.

Osīris, an Egyptian deity, 138.

P.

Paeonia, a district of Thrace, 186.

Pallas (Athene); her image at Athens (Palladium) was believed to have been brought from Troy by Diomede. Another Palladium stood on the Acropolis (Pausanias i. 28-9): 88.

Palōdĕs, the, 134, 135.

Pan, 134, 135.

Pandărus, a Lycian archer, 102.

Parmenĭdes, of Elea in Italy, a philosopher (b. 513), 98, 272, 277.

Parnassus, the mountain (8,000 ft.) above Delphi, the highest point of a range of the same name, 210.

Parnēs, a mountain range near the northern frontier of Attica, 19.

Path, the, the Peripatetic School, 260.

Patrocleas; Plutarch’s son-in-law, a speaker in the Dialogues on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_ and on _The Soul_. Cp. _Sympos._ 2, 9; 5, 7; 7, 2.

Pausanias, (1) Spartan statesman and general (d. 470), 99 _n._, 189, 200; (2) the slayer of Philip of Macedon, 233.

Pauson, a Greek painter of the fourth century. Aristotle (_Poet._ c. 2) speaks of his style as that of caricature: 86.

Paxi, two islands south of Corcyra, 134.

Peace (a woman’s name), 99.

Peisistrătus, tyrant of Athens, (d. 527), 182, 189.

Pelopĭdas, Theban general and friend of Epaminondas; fell at Cynoscephalae 364 (see his _Life_), 8, 43, 45, 47, 49.

Peloponnesus, 121, 283, 293.

Penelope, 135.

Peparēthus, an island in the Aegean, off Thessaly, 13.

Periander, tyrant of Corinth from 625; one of the Seven Wise Men, 61, 184, 224.

Pericles, Athenian statesman (d. 429), 185, 196.

Persephŏnē, 37, 303, 306.

Persia, 96, 121, 208, 229.

Petraeus, of Delphi, 111.

Petron, 140.

Phaestus, in Crete, 117.

Phaĕthon, a son of the Sun, 193.

Phalanthus, a Lacedaemonian, founder of Tarentum (about 708), 108.

Phalăris, tyrant of Agrigentum from 570: 184.

Phanaean, 60, 77.

Phanias, of Erĕsus in Lesbos, a Peripatetic philosopher, and pupil of Aristotle, who wrote also on history, 140.

Pharnăces (see p. 255), a Stoic, speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.

Pharsalia, 88.

Pheidolaüs, of Haliartus, 11, 12, 13, 19, 32, 35.

Pheneātae, 193.

Phenĕüs, a town in Arcadia, 193.

Pherecȳdēs, a learned man of Syros (fl. 544), 294.

Pherenīcus, 8, 10.

Philēbus, a late Dialogue of Plato, on _Pleasure_, 71.

Philīnus, a speaker in the Second Pythian Dialogue. Cp. _Sympos._ 1, 6; 4, 1; 5, 10; 8, 7.

Philip of Macedon (d. 336), 233.

Philip, son of Cassander, king of Macedon (d. 296), 198.

Philip V, 237-179, king of Macedon, 91, 92.

Philippus, historian (of Prusa?), a speaker in the Third Pythian Dialogue. Cp. _Sympos._ 7, 8.

Philippus, of Thebes, 43, 44, 48, 50.

Philochŏrus of Athens, antiquarian and writer on legend (d. 260), 100.

Philolaüs, an early Pythagorean, 22.

Philomēlus, 88.

Phlĕgyas, of Orchomenus, a mythical hero, slain for impiety, 185.

Phocis, Phocians, 88, 95, 96, 100, 185, 194.

Phoebĭdas, a Spartan general, who treacherously seized the Cadmeia in 382: 8.

Phoebus, ‘The Bright’, an appellation of Apollo, 67, 76, 107, 138.

_Phoenissae_, a play of Euripides, 107 n.

Phosphor, Phosphorus (the planet Venus), 154, 268, 273.

Phrygia, 126, 306.

Phrynē, 95.

Phyleus, 204.

Phyllĭdas, 10, 11, 28, 29, 32, 43, 48, 50.

Pillars of Hercules (on the Straits of Gibraltar), 305.

Pindar, the Theban lyric poet (518-438), 7, 72 _n._, 77, 87, 98, 102 _n._, 104, 105, 108 _n._, 123, 127, 131 _n._, 179, 194, 202, 226, 227, 265, 273, 282.

Pisa, a town in, or adjoining, Elis, 94.

Pittăcus (652-569), patriot, and sole-ruler (‘aesymnete’) of Mytilēnē, one of the Seven Wise Men, 61.

Planetiădes (see Didymus).

Plataea, a city of Boeotia on the Asopus, near the frontier of Attica, 124.

Plato, of Athens, 430-347, founder of the Academy, 13, 14, 63, 72, 104, 126, 129, 134, 137, 156, 181, 318, 319; _Cratylus_, 71, 130, 235; _Laws_, 186; _Minos_, 179; _Phaedo_, 165; _Republic_, 167, 187; _Sophistes_, 151; _Symposium_, 130; _Timaeus_, 69, 128, 139, 141, 149, 154, 155, 180, 226, 272, 279, 293, 295, 305.

Plato, of Thebes, 12.

Pleisthĕnes, son of Atreus and father of Agamemnon (but there are variations in the story), 188.

Pleistoănax, a king of Sparta (d. 408), 99.

Plutarch, introduced only into the Dialogues on the _‘E’ at Delphi_ (First Pythian Dialogue) and on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_, 232.

Pluto, 77.

Polycrătes, of Delphi, 111.

Polycrătes, of Samos, 224.

Polygnōtus, of Thasos, painter, chiefly of Homeric subjects at Athens and Delphi (fl. 450), 166.

Polymnis, of Thebes, father of Epaminondas and Capheisias, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 27.

Polystyle (e mute), the, 50.

Polyxĕna, 95.

Pompey the Great (d. 48), 185.

Porch, the, the Stoic School at Athens, 93.

Poseidon, 89, 146.

Poseidonius, of Apamea in Syria, a Stoic philosopher who taught Cicero, 278, 283, 316, 317.

Praxitĕles, the Athenian sculptor (fl. 364), 95.

Priam, 41, 230.

Procles, tyrant of Epidaurus and father-in-law of Periander, seventh century, 99.

Promētheus, son of the Titan Iapĕtus, 65.

Prōteus, a mythical king of Egypt (Herod. 2, 112), 13.

Protogĕnes, 205.

Prytaneum, the, 72.

Ptolemaeus (‘Ceraunus’, the Thunderbolt), king of Macedon (d. 280), 189.

Ptōüm, a mountain on the eastern side of the Copaïc lake, with a sanctuary of Apollo, 121, 124.

Punic, 91.

Pylaea, a suburb of Delphi, 110.

Pyrilampēs, a kinsman of Plato, 18.

Pythagoras, of Samos, sixth century, philosopher and traveller, 14, 16, 21, 27, 66, 123, 228 _n._, 231.

Pythia, the, 72, 86, 100, 101, 103, 106, 110, 121, 164, 165, 169, 170, 199.

Pythian, 59, 60, 64, 117, 122, 123, 185.

Python, the serpent slain by Apollo, 138.

Pythōnĕs (ventriloquists), 126.

Q.

Quintus, the friend to whom the Dialogue on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_ is inscribed, also that on _Love between Brothers_, 175.

R.

Red Sea (Mare Erythraeum). Before Ptolemy, the term was used loosely to include the Persian Gulf, &c.: 117, 138, 305.

Rhea, 154.

Rhegium, a Greek town in South Italy, 140.

Rhetiste (cp. the _Gullies_), 19.

Rhodes, 95.

Rhodōpis (see Herodotus ii. 134-5), 94.

Rome, 91, 92, 135, 179, 184, 185.

S.

Samĭdas, 49.

Samos, an island in the Aegean, 192, 224.

Sappho, the great woman lyric poet, a Lesbian, of the seventh century, 87, 104.

Sardis, the capital of Lydia, 192.

Satilaeans, 194.

Scythians, 189, 234.

Scythīnus, of Teos, an iambic poet of unknown date, 96.

Seleucus, king of Syria, assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus in 280: 189.

Selīnus, a Greek colony on the S.W. coast of Sicily, 92.

Selymbria, a town of Thrace, on the Propontis, 187.

Semĕlē, the mother of Dionysus (Bacchus), 209.

Serapion, or Sarapion, an Athenian poet, to whom the First Pythian Dialogue is inscribed, and a speaker in the Second.

Serāpis, an Egyptian deity, 107.

Shining-One, the, a name for the planet Cronus (Saturn), 300.

Sibylla, the Sibyl, the name of an early prophetess of Delphi; in later times an official title, also applied to other prophetic women, localized in various countries, 87, 89, 90, 95, 104, 211.

Siceliot, of the Greek colonies in Sicily, 99.

Sicily, 18, 99, 140, 184.

Sicyon, on the south shore of the Corinthian gulf, 95, 184.

Simmias, a Theban, a companion of Socrates, and (with Cebes) present at his death (see the _Crito_ and _Phaedo_ of Plato), 8, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 19, 20, 21, 27, 32, 41, 42, 43.

Simonĭdēs of Ceos, a lyric poet (556-467), 97, 190.

Sisyphus, a knavish king of Corinth; some accounts make him father of Odysseus: 185.

Skotios, ‘of darkness’, i. e. Hades (Pluto), 77.

Socrates, of Athens (d. 399), 7, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 32, 35, 40, 95, 104, 180, 288.

Soli, a city of Cilicia, 149, 205.

Solon, 638-558, the Athenian law-giver; one of the ‘Seven Wise Men’, 61, 179.

Solymi, a people of Lycia, 138.

_Sophistés_, a Dialogue of Plato’s later period, 71.

Sophists, the, 196.

Sophocles, 495-405, tragic poet of Athens, 78, 103 _n._, 106, 125, 132, 266, 290 _n._

Sōphrōn (latter part of fifth century), a mime-writer of Syracuse, 63.

Sparta, 11, 29, 88, 91, 106, 194, 200.

Sparti, the, ‘sown men’, the armed men who sprang up out of the ground at Thebes, when Cadmus sowed the dragon’s teeth, 82.

Spinthărus, 40.

Sporădes, the, a group of islands, off Britain, 135.

Statuaries, street of the, 17.

Stesichŏrus (Tisias), 632-560, lyric poet of Himera in Sicily, 78, 188, 282.

_Stheneboea_, a play of Euripides, 104 _n._

Stilbon (the planet Mercury), 154, 268.

Stoics, the, 136, 146, 147, 264, 266, 285.

Strabo, cognomen of the father of Pompey the Great, 185.

Stratonīcē, 95.

Styx, 37, 38, 97, 225.

Suitors, the, i.e. of Penelope, 140.

Sybaris, a Greek town of Lucania in South Italy, 193, 196.

Syēnē (Assouan), taken by Eratosthenes to be directly under the sun at the summer solstice, 119, 296.

Sylla, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_.

Symbŏlum, the, 16.

Syracuse, 88, 193, 197.

Syrian goddess (Cybele?), 233.

T.

Taenărus, a cape and town in the south of Laconia, 199.

Tantălus, 234, 293.

Taprobăne (Ceylon), 265.

Tarentum, a town in S. Italy, 40.

Tarsus, in Cilicia, 117, 160.

Tartărus, the penal region of the lower world, 40, 299.

Tegyra, a village of Boeotia, near Orchomenus, 121, 122, 124.

Teiresias, a blind prophet, of Thebes, 163, 226.

Teletias, 185.

Tempē, the gorge between Olympus and Ossa in Thessaly, through which the river Penēus flows, 132, 138.

Tenĕdos, an island off the coast of the Troad, 92.

Terentius Priscus, the friend to whom the Third Pythian Dialogue is inscribed, 117.

Terpander, of Lesbos, the father of Greek music (fl. 700), 194.

Terpsion, of Megara, a disciple of Socrates (see the _Theaetetus_ of Plato), 18.

Tettix, 199, 200.

Thalēs, of Miletus (seventh and sixth centuries), an early philosopher, one of the Seven Wise Men, 12, 61, 98.

Thamus, 134, 135.

Thasos, an island in the Aegean off Thrace, 166.

Theānōr, a young Pythagorean, who came to Thebes from Crotona, as a deputation, 21, 24, 27, 28, 40, 43, 315.

Thebes, the Boeotian, 7, 8, 12, 22, 29, 30, 43, 44, 47, 48, 184.

Thebes, the Egyptian, 296.

Thĕmis, the goddess of Justice, for some time in charge of the oracle at Delphi, 138, 211.

Themistocles, Athenian statesman (514-449), 183.

Theocrĭtus, of Thebes, ‘the prophet’, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 28, 30, 32, 35, 40, 43, 44, 49; see _Life of Pelopidas_, c. 22.

Theodōrus, of Soli, in Cilicia, a mathematician, 149, 150.

Theognis, of Megara, elegiac and gnomic poet (570-490), 84.

Theon, of Hyampolis, a family friend of Plutarch, a speaker in the First and Second Pythian Dialogues, and in the _Face in the Moon_. Cp. _Sympos._ 1, 4; 4, 3; 8, 6, and the Dialogue _Non posse suaviter_, where the Epicureans are attacked.

Theophrastus, born at Erĕsus, a philosopher of Athens, Aristotle’s successor, 136.

Theopompus, a Theban patriot, 43, 48.

Theopompus, of Chios, historian (d. 305), 100.

Theōrius, a designation of Apollo, 77.

Theoxenia, the, 194.

Thera, Therasia, islands off Crete, 91.

Thermopylae, the coast pass between Thessaly and Locris, famous for the defence of Leonidas in 480: 132.

Thespesius (Aridaeus), 205, 206, 209, 210, 211, 213, 313, 314.

Thespiae, a town of Boeotia, 29.

Thessaly, 23, 24, 93, 95, 130, 158.

Thrace, 126, 148, 193.

Thrasybūlus, of Athens, 7.

Thrasybūlus, tyrant of Syracuse after Hiero (467), 99.

Thrasymēdēs, 169.

Thucydides, the Athenian historian (d. 401), 98, 158 _n._, 176, 181, 196.

Thunderbolt (Ceraunus), Ptolemy, king of Macedon (d. 280), 189.

Thymĕlē, the altar of Dionysus in the theatre, 103.

Tiberius Claudius Nero Caesar, B. C. 42-37 A. D. (Emperor from A. D. 14), 135.

Timarchus, of Athens, 99.

Timarchus, of Chaeroneia, 35, 37, 38, 40, 41, 172, 314.

Timochăris, 98.

Timoleon, ruler of Syracuse (d. 357), 184: see his _Life_.

Timon, Plutarch’s brother, a speaker in the Dialogues on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_ and on the _Soul_. Cp. _Sympos._ 1, 2, and 2, 5; and _On Love between Brothers_, c. 16.

Timotheüs, an Athenian, 7.

Timotheüs, of Miletus, musician and poet (446-357), 232.

Tiribazus, satrap of western Armenia (d. 385), 229.

Titans, giant sons of Uranus, 138, 272, 301.

Tityus, a giant of Euboea, 307.

Trench, battle at, 176.

Troglodytes, cave-dwellers, about the Red Sea, &c., 117, 293, 296.

Trophoniădes, 306.

Trophonius, tutelary hero of Lebadeia and its oracle, 35, 40, 315.

Trosobius, 138.

Troy, 91, 102, 148.

Trunkmakers’ street, 17.

Tyndarĭdae, Castor and Polydeucēs (Pollux), 147.

Typhons, 138, 235, 307.

U.

Udōra, 306.

Ulysses (Odysseus), 16, 140, 185, 193, 217.

Urănus (‘Heaven’), the father of Cronus, 138.