[Old Comedy], that of Aristophanes, Cratinus, Eupolis, etc., the comedy of personal abuse, [i, 104].
[Orata], Gaius Sergius Silus, praetor (97), [iii, 67].
[Oratory], a division of speech, [i, 132]; divisions of, [ii, 49]; a means for winning favour, [ii, 48]; a means for service, [ii, 65-71]; a power to save, [ii, 51].
Orderliness, defined, [i, 142]; of action, [i, 142-145].
Orestes; Gnaeus Aufidius Orestes Aurelianus, consul (71), [ii, 58].
Palamedes, the inventor; exposed Ulysses's trick, [iii, 98]; treacherously done to death in revenge.
Palatine, the hill above the forum on the south; east of the capital, [i, 138].
[Panaetius], of Rhodes (180-111 ca.), Stoic philosopher, disciple of Diogenes and Antipater ([q.v.]) at Athens, close friend of Laelius ([q.v.]) and Scipio, [i, 90]; [ii, 76]; popularized philosophy, [ii, 35]; wrote a book on moral duty, [iii, 7]; failed to define duty, [i, 7]; classification of duty, [i, 9]; omits third division, [i, 152], [161]; [ii, 88]; reasons for omission, [iii, 7-18], [34]; how it would have been met, [iii, 33]; other omissions, [ii, 86]; on co-operation, [ii, 16]; defends lawyer's efforts in a bad case, [ii, 51]; on expensive public buildings, [ii, 60]; Cicero's model, [ii, 60]; [iii, 7]; Hecaton's teacher, [iii, 63].
Papius, Gaius, as tribune (65), revived the law of Pennus ([q.v.]), [iii, 47].
Patriotism, [i, 83]; duty to country, [i, 160]; [iii, 90], [95]; to die for country, [i, 57]; sacrifice for, [i, 84]; [iii, 100]; right to do wrong for one's country, [i, 159]; [iii, 93], [95].