INDEX.
A
Alexander the Great, [78], [98], [135], [141], [411].
Alexandria, Library of, [270].
Anger, [48]; signs of, [49]; results of, [50]; definitions of, [50]n; animals not subject to, [52]; not natural, [54]; should be resisted at the beginning, [57]; examples of its results, [60]; not necessary against enemies, [60]; nor useful, [63]; not necessary for punishment, [68]; contrasted with reason, [69]; creates vain-glory, but not magnanimity, [73]; cannot act without the approval of the mind, [77]; contrasted with ferocity, [80]; the wise man will never be angry, [81]; anger and fear, [87]; anger ought to be done away with, [88]; must never become a habit, [90]; remedies for, [93]; some men more prone to, than others, [93]; influence of education, [95]; and of prosperity, [96]; cause of, [97]; effect of trifles, [99]; delay the best remedy, [104]; anger caused by ignorance or arrogance, [106]; or by desire for revenge, [108]; its hideousness and danger, [111]; its power, [114]; contrasted with other vices and passions, [116]; how to avoid it, [120]; examples of anger indulged in, Cambyses, [131], [139]; Astyages, [133]; Darius, [135]; Xerxes, [135]; Alexander, [135]; Lysimachus, [136]; Caligula, [137], [139]; Rhinocolura, [138]; Cyrus, [139]; examples of anger controlled, Antigonus, [140]; Philip, [141]; Augustus, [142]; how injuries ought to be bourne, [144]; better to heal than to avenge them, [146]; the evils of anger, [147]; its trifling beginnings, [149]; money, [151]; other causes, [152]; value of self-examination, [154]; how to soothe the anger of others, [156]; Augustus and Vedius, [158]; anger should be got rid of altogether, [159].
Animals, anger in, [49], [52].
Antigonus (monophthalmus), [141].
Antisthenes, [45].
Aristides, [341].
Aristotle, [51]n, [52], [58], [68], [118], [135], [287], [288].
Apicius, the glutton, [217], [336].
Astyages, King of Persia, [133].
Augustus. See Caesar.
Avarice, conquered by anger, [114].
Athenodorus, quoted, [259], [265].
B
Bees, [405].
Bibulus, L., [181].
Books, should be bought to read, not for show, [270].
Brutus, L. Junius, [183].
Brutus, M. Junius, [330].
Burrus, prefect of Nero, [415].
C
Caelius (Antipater), [125].
Caesar, Augustus, [142], [158], [165], [182], [293], [372], [391], [393], [401].
Caesar, Claudius, [360], [369], [370].
Caesar, Gaius (Caligula), [44], [74], [109], [137], [140], [276], [280], [316], [334], [376].
Caesar, Gaius, grandson of Augustus, [373].
Caesar, Gaius Julius, [98], [149], [181], [333].
Caesar, Germanicus, brother of Claudius, [374].
Caesar, Lucius, grandson of Augustus, [373].
Caesar, Nero, [382], [396], [415].
Caesar, Tiberius, [11], [182], [373].
Caligula. See Caesar, Gaius.
Calmness, a sign of wisdom, [27].
Cato, M., [5], [7], [10], [23], [31], [40], [108], [156], [192], [196], [228], [285], [286], [341].
Chaerea, [44].
Chrysippus, [242], [247], [248], [252].
Cimber, Tillius, [149].
Cinna, L., [392].
Claudius Caudex, [307],
Clemency, [380]; becomes no one more than a king, [384], [386]; clemency of Augustus, [391]; and of Nero, [396]; distinguishes between kings and tyrants, [397]; makes a king beloved, [399]; Tarius, [401]; clemency towards slaves, [404]; the king-bee, [405]; clemency in inflicting punishment, [407]; makes men ashamed to do wrong, [410]; clemency of Nero, [415]; definitions of Mercy, [417]; of cruelty, [417]; of pity, [418]; of pardon, [421].
Clitus, killed by Alexander, [135].
Cloelia, [183].
Comfort, excess of, [13].
Consolation, [162], [320], [353].
Contempt, [36].
Cordus, A. Cremutius, [162], [196], [197].
Cornelia, wife of L. Drusus, [183].
Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi, [183], [345].
Corvinus, M. Valerius, [307].
Cotta, C. Aurelius, [345].
Courage, aims high, [18]; born of desperation, [398].
Cruelty, caused by anger, [80]; cannot be left off, if once begun, [399]; inhumanity of, [411]; shown in kings, [411]; and in private men, [412]; the opposite of mercy, [417].
Cyrus (the elder), [139].
D
Darius, [135].
Death, quickness of, [21]; not an evil, [23]; a release from pain, [190]. [191].
Delay, a remedy for anger, [104], [115], [129]; and for grief, [172].
Demetrius the Cynic, quoted, [7], [16].
Demetrius Poliorcetes, [28].
Demochares (Parrhesiastes), [141] [142].
Democritus, [18], [85], [122], [255], [278].
Dentatus, Curius, [264], [307].
Desperation, breeds courage, [398].
Diodorus, the Epicurean, [255].
Diogenes, the Cynic, [225], [267], [268],
Diogenes, the Stoic, [156],
Dionysius, of Syracuse, [186], [397],
Drusilla, [376].
Drusus, N. Claudius, senior, [373].
Drusus, N. Claudius, [166], [169].
Duillius, C. [307].
E
Education, should be carefully regulated, [95].
Epicurus, and Epicureans, [41], [42], [218], [219], [242], [248].
Exile, [325].
F
Fabianus (Papirius), quoted, [302], [309].
Fabius (Cunctator), [61], [106].
Fear, felt by those who inspire it, [87]; in moderation restrains men, [398].
Ferocity, contrasted with anger, [80]; and with cruelty, [418].
Firmness, the, of a wise man, [22], sqq.
Friendship, [265].
G
Good, the highest, definition of, [208]. [212], [215], [221], [244].
Grief, examples of, [165]; extreme grief unnatural, [171]; cured by time, [172]; counterfeited, [282]; should be countered by reason, [346]; its unprofitableness, [357]; cannot co-exist with magnanimity, [419].
H
Happiness, [204]; how to gain it, [206]; definitions of, [208]; in connexion with pleasure, [211]; consists in virtue, [222]; excess makes men greedy, [382].
Harpagus, [133].
Heraclitus, [85].
Hieronymus, quoted, [71].
Hippias, [98].
I
Injury, cannot touch a wise man, [25], [32], [41], [42]; distinguished from insult, [27], [35]; can be endured, [144].
Insult, distinguished from injury, [27], [35]; how received by Diogenes and Cato, [156].
Irascibility, contrasted with anger, [53], [71].
J
Julia Augusta (title of Livia), [168].
K
L
Laberius, quoted, [87].
Lacedaemonians, the, [13].
Leisure, advantages of, [240], sqq.
Life, shortness of, [160], [161], [175], [193], [288]; its misery, [175]; three kinds of, [248]; divided into three parts, [302].
Livia, wife of Augustus (afterwards Julia Augusta), [165], [168], [392].
Livius, T., quoted, [74], [270].
Love, conquered by anger, [114].
Lucretia. [183].
Lucretius, quoted, [258].
M
Maecenas, [9].
Magnanimity, repels insult, [36]; not caused by anger, [73], [122]; does not feel blows, [144]; befits all men, [387]; cannot co-exist with sorrow, [419].
Marcellus, M. Claudius, [332].
Marcellus, M. Claudius, son of Octavia, [165], [373].
Mercy, inclines men to innocence, [411]; definitions of, [417]; distinguished from pardon, [422].
Metellus, L. Caecilius, [309].
Mindyrides, the Sybarite, [99].
Misfortunes, how regarded by the wise man, [3]; are to the advantage of those to whom they happen, [6]; are the test of brave men, [11], [12], [17]; generally come unexpectedly, [173]; attack all alike, [178]; alleviated by habit, [271], [322].
Money, evils of, [151]. See Riches.
Mucius, [7].
N
Nero. See Caesar.
Nomentanus, [217].
O
Octavia, sister of Augustus, [165], [372].
Oeobazus, [135].
Ovid, quoted, [18], [52], [84], [228].
P
Pardon, definition of, [421].
Pastor, [109].
Paulus, L. Aemilius, [180].
Peace of mind, definition of, [122], [255]; how to attain it, etc., [255], sqq.
Peripatetics, the, [50]n.
Phaethon, [18].
Phalaris, [418].
Philip, of Macedon, [141], [142].
Philip, physician of Alexander, [98]
Pisistratus, [128].
Piso, Gnaeus, [70].
Pity, definition of, [418], [419]; borders on misery, [421].
Plato, [55], [72], [95], [97], [129], [198] [286].
Pleasure, has no connexion with virtue, [211], [212]; belongs to good and bad alike, [213]; not the aim of virtue, [214]; pleasures of bad men, [216]; and of the wise, [217]; the Epicurean doctrine, [218]; all pleasure is short-lived, [365].
Pollio, Asinius, [142], [285].
Pompeius, [78]n, [98], [150], [181], [192], [276], [308].
Pompeius, Sextus, [372].
Posidonius, his definition of anger, [50]n.
Poverty, [333]; no inconvenience to an exile, [337].
Praexaspes, [131].
Predestination, [194].
Property, [267]. See Riches.
Prosperity, [4], [10]; fosters anger, [96].
Providence, [1], sqq.
Publilius, quoted, [275].
Pulvillus, [179].
Punishment, why inflicted, [407]; should not be frequent, [410].
Pythagoras, [126].
Pythias, [135].
R
Rage, does not befit kings, [317].
Reason, only strong apart from the passions, [56]; its power, [69]; contrasted with anger, [70]; cannot overcome some habits, [80].
Relaxation, necessity for, [285].
Revenge, a cause of anger, [108], [146]; has two effects, [408].
Rhinocolura, why so called, [138].
Riches, how regarded by the wise man, [229]; and by the fool, [235]; better never to possess, than to lose, [267].
Rutilia, mother of C. Cotta, [345].
S
Scipio Africanus, [61], [371].
Scipio Africanus Minor, [61], [180], [285], [339], [372].
Sejanus, [162], [182], [196], [197], [276].
Self-examination, value of, [154], [206], [264].
Self-love, [106].
Sextius, Q., a Stoic, [113], [154].
Socrates, [7], [9], [31], [45], [65], [128], [130], [196], [234], [236], [238], [262], [285], [341].
Sorrow. See Grief.
Stilbo, [28].
Stoics and Stoicism, [22], [23], [41], [42], [50]n, [94], [207], [218], [241], [242], [248], [419].
Sulkiness, a form of irascibility, [53].
Sulla, L., [8], [73], [78], [110], [179], [309], [397].
Suspicion, a cause of anger, [99].
T
Tarius, [401].
Telesphorus, the Rhodian, [136].
Theodorus, (Cyrenaicus), [279].
Theophrastus, quoted, [62], [64].
Thrift, advantage of, [269].
Tillius Cimber, [149].
Timagenes, [142].
Trifles, anger caused by, [99], [100], [106], [149], [152].
Triumphus, [11].
Turannius, [318].
Tyrant, compared with king, [396], [397].
V
Valerius, Asiaticus, [44].
Valour, greedy of danger, [11].
Varro, M. Terentius, [330].
Vatinius, [43].
Vengeance, [408]. See Revenge.
Virgil, quoted, [112], [185], [241].
Virtue, not given by fortune, [28]; its natural function to rejoice, [81]; is infectious, [124]; has no connexion with pleasure, [211], [212]; and does not aim at it, [214], [215]; is a sure guide, [219]; brings true happiness, [222]; should be reverenced, [237]; cannot be hidden, [260], [262].
Volesus, cruelty of, [81].
W
Weakness of mind, a cause of anger, [62].
Wine, [286].
X
Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, [45].
Z