[Stoics], adherents of the school founded by Zeno, an offshoot from Cynicism, [i, 128]; refounded by Chrysippus; philosophy with them is practical, making life accord with Nature's laws, [iii, 13]; virtue and philosophy are identical; virtue the only good, [i, 6]; [iii, 11], [12]; moral wrong the only evil, [iii, 106]; pain no evil, [iii, 105]; no degrees of right or wrong, [i, 10]; etymologists, [i, 23]; define fortitude, [i, 62]; temperance, [i, 142]; duties, [iii, 14]; controversies, [iii, 91]; their right to teach ethics, [i, 6]; Cicero adopts their teaching, [i, 6]; [iii, 20]; common interests, [i, 22]; their theology a pantheistic materialism, God working in his providence, [iii, 102]; representative Stoics, [ii, 51], [86]; [iii, 51].
[Sulla]; Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138-78), noble, profligate, brilliant genius; would stoop to anything, [i, 109]; soldier against Jugurtha, Mithradates, Marius, Rome; statesman; reformed the constitution; absolute monarch of Rome (81-79); treatment of tributary allies, [iii, 87]; confiscator, [i, 43]; [ii, 29]; overturned the old morals, [ii, 27]; Cicero opposed him, [ii, 51].
Sulla, Publius Cornelius, nephew of the dictator, [ii, 29]; defended by Cicero on charge of complicity in Catiline's conspiracy.
Sulla, Cornelius, a freedman of the dictator, [ii, 29].
[Sulpicius]; Gaius Sulpicius Galus, consul (166); famous astronomer, [i, 19]; predicted an eclipse of the moon.
Sulpicius; Publius Sulpicius Rufus (124-88), an eminent orator of little character, [ii, 49].
Sungod; see [Sol].
Superbus; see [Tarquin].
Syracuse, a great Greek city in south-eastern Sicily, rich in art and in goods; ruled by Dion, [i, 155]; Dionysius, [ii, 25]; [iii, 45]; a popular resort, [iii, 58].
Tantalus, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and father of Pelops ([q.v.]), [iii, 84].