Vice, luxurious living, [i, 123]; sensual pleasure, [i, 102], [104-106], [122-123]; [ii, 37]; avarice, [ii, 77]; extravagance, [i, 140]; misrepresentation, [i, 150]; untruth, [i, 150]; corrected by observing others, [i, 146]; by the criticism of the wise, [i, 147].
Viriathus, [ii, 40].
Virtue, defined, [ii, 18]; chief function of, [ii, 17]; the four Cardinal Virtues described, [i, 15-17]; the sources of moral rectitude, [i, 152]; [iii, 96]; Nature's leadings to, [i, 100]; endangered by sensual pleasure, [ii, 37]; rulers chosen for, [ii, 41].
[Vocation], choice of, [i, 115-120]; change of, [i, 120-121]; vulgar and liberal, [i, 150-152].
Volscians, a people of lower Latium, subdued (303), given full citizenship (188), [i, 35].
War, rights of, to be enforced, [i, 34]; Cato's son, [i, 36-37]; excuse for war, [i, 35], [80]; justice in war, [i, 38]; war for supremacy, [i, 38]; for glory, [i, 38]; needless cruelty, [i, 82].
[Wealth], Theophrastus on, [ii, 56]; insatiable thirst for, [i, 25]; why sought, [i, 25-27]; the real good of wealth, [ii, 56]; see [Riches].
[Wisdom], the first of the Cardinal Virtues, [i, 15-19]; most important, [i, 153]; [ii, 6]; absolute, [iii, 16]; and propriety, [i, 94], [100]; vs. Justice, [i, 152-157], [160]; confounded with cunning, [ii, 10]; [iii, 72], [96]; in Epicurus's system, [iii, 117].
[Wit], kinds of, [i, 103-104]; representatives of, [i, 108].
Xanthippus, a Spartan soldier of fortune, whose generalship defeated Regulus, [iii, 99].