Serranus, the cognomen of Atilius Regulus, consul 257 b.c., the famous Regulus of the first Punic war.
Curius Dentatus, thrice consul, and victor over the Samnites and Pyrrhus.
Fabricius, general in the war against Pyrrhus. Consul in 282 and 278 b.c. These three great soldiers were selected as types of Roman virtue. Cp. Verg. Aen. vi. 485.
Dion, brother-in-law and son-in-law of Dionysius II, tyrant of Syracuse, the friend and pupil of Plato, and for a brief space tyrant of Syracuse.
[Chapter 11.] Catullus xvi. 5.
Hadrian, Emperor, 117-138 a.d.
Voconius, mentioned here only.
[Chapter 12.] Venus is not one goddess but two. For this doctrine see Plato's Symposium, p. 181.
Afranius, the most famous writer of purely Roman comedy (fabulae togatae), floruit circa 110 b.c.
[Chapter 13.] Ennius (239-169 b.c.), the 'father of Roman Poetry'. Cp. Cic. de Or. ii. 156 'ac sic decrevi philosophari potius ut Neoptolemus apud Ennium "paucis: nam omnino haud placet"'.