[Tubero], Quintus Aelius, the Stoic, a pupil of Panaetius, praetor (123); a talented jurist, [iii, 63].

Tusculum, a town in the Alban hills, the oldest municipium in Italy, admitted (381), [i, 35]; public lands of, [i, 21]; Cicero's favourite country home.

Twelve Tables, the laws of, drawn up (450); quoted, [i, 37]; [iii, 111].

Tyranny, [ii, 23-29]; inspired by false perspective, [iii, 36]; right and duty toward the tyrant, [iii, 19], [85].

Tyre, the great commercial city on the coast of Phoenice, [ii, 86].

Ulysses (Odysseus), son of Laertes of Ithaca, the shrewdest of the Greek heroes at Troy, [iii, 97]; the hero of the Odyssey, [i, 113].

Varro, Gaius Terentius, consul (216) with Paulus, responsible for the disaster at Cannae, [iii, 114].

Venus (Aphrodite), the goddess of beauty and love; of Cos, [iii, 10].

Veseris, a little stream near Mount Vesuvius; scene of the battle of Manlius Torquatus and the elder Decius, [iii, 112].

Veturius; Titus Veturius Calvinus, consul with Spurius Postumius (321) at the Caudine Forks, [iii, 109].