INDEX
References are to Book and Section; all dates, given in parentheses (...), are b.c.
Academicians. 1. adherents of the New Academy ([q.v.]); their right to teach ethics, [i, 6]; attitude toward knowledge, [ii, 7]; Cicero's philosophy, [ii, 1-8]. 2. adherents of the Old Academy, [iii, 20].
[Academy], 1. the Older, a school of philosophy founded by Plato and so called from its home; their doctrine of ideas, [iii, 76], [ 81]; the pre-existence and immortality of the soul; monotheism; the goodness of God; striving after His perfection. 2. the [New], a modification of the Old, sceptical, anti-dogmatic, eclectic, [iii, 20].
Accius, Lucius, a tragic poet (born 170). His tragedies were mostly imitations from the Greek. Cicero knew him personally; quotes from him, [iii, 84], [102], [106].
Acilius; Gaius Acilius Glabrio (tribune, 197); interpreter, when Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus came to Rome; author of History of Rome, [iii, 115].
Admiration, how won with dignity, [ii, 31 fg].
Aeacidae, descendants of Aeacus ([q.v.]), the father of Peleus and Telamon and grandfather of Achilles and Ajax, [i, 38].
[Aeacus], son of Zeus (Jupiter) and king of Aegina ([q.v.]); renowned for his justice and piety, [i, 97]; after his death he became with Minos and Rhadamanthus judge in Hades.