Plutarch's Morals

by Plutarch

[958] The whole of this essay reminds one of the well-known lines of Juvenal, twice repeated—namely, x. 365, 366; and xiv. 315, 316:—

"Nullum numen habes, si sit prudentia; nos te, Nos facimus, Fortuna, deam caeloque locamus."

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INDEX.

• Abrotonus, [37].
• Absence, the test of affection, [122].
• Academy, the, [385].
• Achilles, [5], [52], [102], [172], [187], [196], [200], [271], [290], [291], [301], [319].
• Acropolis, statue of Leæna in the, [221].
• Admetus, [52].
• Adonis, [43], [352].
• Adultery, the fruit of curiosity, [245].
  • Love of change, [298].
• Æschines, [17], [188], [285].
• Æschylus, quoted or referred to, [33], [45], [47], [55], [61], [125], [126], [130], [176], [203], [205], [242], [271], [273], [385], [388], [393], [396].
• Æsculapius, [244], [270].
• Æsop, fables of alluded to, [72], [81], [88], [125], [142].
• Agamemnon, [292], [300], [301].
• Agathoclea, [37].
• Agathocles, [278], [324], [325], [347].
• Agave, [144].
• Agesilaus, [129], [136], [161], [166], [262], [264], [326].
• Agis, [294].
• Aglaonice, her knowledge of eclipses, [83].
• Ajax, [113], [347].
• Alcæus, [56], [59].
• Alcestis, [53].
• Alcibiades, [54], [128], [135], [160], [192], [294], [338].
• Alcman, [379].
• Alexander, the Great, [16], [50], [113], [124], [137], [151], [162], [172], [174], [184], [185], [195], [250], [270], [277], [280], [292], [301], [303], [314], [321], [389], [390], [394].
• Alexinus, [266].
• Ammonius, Plutarch's master, [194].
• Amœbeus, [102].
• Amphictyones, [121], [230].
• Anacharsis, [125], [219].
• Anacreon, [33].
• Anaxagoras, [136], [306], [373], [394], [397].
• Anaxarchus, [107], [113], [253], [292].
• Anger, how to restrain, [267]-288.
• Animals, appeal to, [21]-25.
  • Use of, [202].
• Answers, three different kinds of, [234].
• Anticyra, [284].
• Antigonus, [16], [38], [222], [258], [263], [276], [278], [326], [370].
• Antileon, [50].
• Antimachus, poet, [234].
• Antipater, [77], [124], [182], [237], [260], [297].
• Antipatridas, [50].
• Antiphanes, [125].
• Antiphon, [189].
• Antisthenes, [266].
• Antony, [176].
• Anytus, [54], [141].
• Apelles, [10], [171], [302].
• Aphrodite, [34], [43], [44], [49], [76], [78], [80], [219].
• Apollo, [154], [347], [377].
• Araspes, [136].
• Arcadio, [276].
• Arcesilaus, [180], [283].
• Archelaus, [258], [388].
• Archidamus, king, [2], [264].
• Archilochus, [215], [247], [387].
• Archytas, of Tarentum, [11], [15], [336].
• Ares, [44], [45], [47], [49].
• Argus, [146].
• Aristæus (the Saint Hubert of the Middle Ages), [45].
• Aristides, [120], [136].
• Aristippus, [6], [32], [93], [127], [128], [240], [285], [297].
• Aristo, [98], [241].
• Aristocrates, [322].
• Aristogiton, [50], [67], [189], [220].
• Aristomenes, the hero, [52].
• Aristomenes, tutor of Ptolemy Epiphanes, [195].
• Aristonica, [37].
• Aristophanes, [15], [27], [43], [93], [195], [241].
• Aristotle, [100], [101], [110], [124], [162], [215], [270], [278], [281], [303], [326], [386].
• Arisinoe, sister and wife of Ptolemy Philadelphus, [16].
• Artemis, [367].
• Asopichus, [52].
• Ass-driver, story of Athenian, [282].
• Athene, ornament of, [366].
  • Athene and the Satyr, [273].
  • Athene Chalciœcus, [228].
  • Called Ergane, [397].
• Athenians, oracle given to the, [367].
• Attis, [43].
• Augustus, [189], [224], [225].
• Aulis, famous for earthenware, [366].
• Bacchis, [37].
• Barbers, a talkative race, [226], [227].
• Baxter, Richard, and Plutarch, Preface, [viii], note.
• Belestiche, [38].
• Bellerophon, [246], [255].
• Bessus, story about, [341].
• Bias, [176], [217], [332].
• Bion, [10], [67], [132], [172], [258], [354].
• Bocchoris, [255].
• Books, value of, [12].
• Boys, not to be overworked, [13].
• • To be taught to speak the truth, [16].
  • Love of, [17], [31], [33]-35, [50], [51], [52], [54], [61], [64], [65], [67].
• Brasidas, [120], [126], [331].
• Briareus, [146], [150], [299].
• Brides, custom of in Bœotia, [70], [71].
  • Custom of at Leptis in Libya, [79].
• Caeneus, his change of sex, [120].
• Cæsar, Julius, [210].
• Callimachus, [272], [385].
• Callisthenes, [270].
• Callixenus, [141].
• Camma, story about, [63], [64].
• Carneades, [172], [235], [237], [306], [310].
• Cassander, [256], [339], [351].
• Cassandra, [347].
• Cato, [48], [72], [211], [212], [263], [325], [369].
• Cebes, [17].
• Cephisocrates, [181].
• Cephisodorus, [52].
• Ceramicus, at Athens, [219], [259].
• Cestus of Aphrodite, [76], [219].
• Chæron, son of Plutarch, [87].
• Chæron, and Chæronea, [238].
• Chæronea, Plutarch's native place, [238].
• Chalcis, people of, [51].
• Chameleon, [158], [162].
• Character, moral, [102].
• Childless, paid court to, [28].
• Chilo, [151], [202].
• Chrysippus, [44], [99], [110], [113], [114], [115].
• Cicero, [210], [318], [320], [390].
• Cimon, father of Miltiades, [27], [52].
• Claudia, [84].
• Cleanthes, [370].
• Clearchus, [191].
• Cleomachus, [51].
• Cleonice, [343], [344].
• Clitus, [113], [195], [277].
• Clodius, [231], [232].
• Clytæmnestra, dream of, [343].
• Conjugal constancy, [81].
• • Conjugal precepts, [70]-84.
• Contentedness of mind, on, [289]-311.
• Contracts, [139].
• Corax, [352].
• Cornelia, sister of Scipio, [84].
• Correction of servants, [279]-281.
• Crassus, [207], [208].
• Crates, [76], [141], [191], [203], [292], [328], [370], [372].
• Creon, his daughter, [151].
• Crete, [202].
• Crisso, [172].
• Crœsus, [171], [192].
• Ctesiphon, [275].
• Curiosity, [238]-252.
• Cybele, [47], [55], [82], [379].
• Cyclades, [385].
• Cynic, story about, [258].
• Cynosarges, [32], note.
• Cyrus, [79], [236], [250], [314], [326].
• Danaus, [27].
• Darius, [157], [250].
• Deity, on those who are punished late by the, [331]-365.
• Demaratus, [193].
• Demetrius, [8], [191], [230].
• Democritus, [14], [110], [129], [142], [249], [377].
• Demosthenes, [9], [128], [192], [205], [257], [259], [320], [321], [323], [331], [399].
• Diogenes, [2], [7], [93], [118], [123], [124], [127], [131], [140], [141], [193], [201], [203], [205], [248], [258], [259], [282], [292], [294], [301], [311], [383], [388], [389], [390], [391].
• Dion, [11], [151], [161], [162], [192], [256].
• Dionysius, the tyrant of Sicily, [76], [151], [160], [161], [162], [163], [168], [187], [188], [189], [226], [230], [261], [294], [321], [339].
• Dionysius, a Corinthian poet, [51].
• Dionysus (the Latin Bacchus), [45], [47], [91], [145], [393].
• Dioxippus, [248].
• Disease, the sacred, [41], note.
• Disorders, of mind or body, which worse? [142], [145].
• Dolon, [113], [120].
• Domitian, [251].
• Domitius, [207], [211].
• Dorian measure, [134].
• Drink, [2], [216], [217], [284].
• Dryads, [45].
• Earthenware, [366].
• Education, [1]-21.
• Egyptian, answer of an, [240].
• Emerson, on Plutarch, see Title-page, and Preface, p. ix.
• Empedocles, [43], [145], [149], [180], [288], [305], [371], [393], [396].
• Empone, her devotion to her husband, [67]-69.
• Enemies, how a man may be benefited by his, [201]-213.
• Enthusiasm, [47].
• Envy, [212], [213], [243], [304].
• • On envy and hatred, [312]-315.
  • How one can praise oneself without exciting envy, [315]-331.
• Epaminondas, [11], [52], [136], [161], [294], [318], [321], [326], [376].
• Ephesus, [367].
• Ephorus, [236].
• Epicharmus, [188], [189], [350].
• Epicureans, argued against, [21]-28, [373]-378.
• Epicurus, [24], [291], [306], [373], [375].
• Epitaphs, [247], [248].
• Erasistratus, [25], [244].
• Ergane, name of Athene, [397].
• Eumenes, [222].
• Euphemism, [112], [143], [144], [167].
• Euphorion, [303].
• Eupolis, [163].
• Euripides, quoted or referred to, [1], [8], [9], [14], [17], [27], [28], [40], [42], [43], [44], [50], [53], [56], [58], [60], [67], [79], [80], [86], [89], [107], [112], [119], [136], [138], [144], [146], [150], [151], [152], [155], [160], [170], [178], [179], [182], [190], [191], [194], [196], [197], [199], [205], [206], [207], [209], [214], [216], [222], [223], [236], [247], [251], [255], [256], [260], [261], [262], [270], [287], [290], [292], [293], [301], [305], [307], [309], [310], [315], [325], [332], [333], [334], [345], [346], [373], [379], [383], [388], [390], [391], [392], [397].
• Eurydice of Hierapolis, [21].
• Eurydice, wife of Orpheus, [53].
• Euthydemus, [283].
• Eutropio, cook to King Antigonus, [16].
• Evenus, sayings of, [27], [155].
• Exercise, value of, [12].
• Exile, [378]-394.
• Fabius Maximus, [224], [225].
• Fabricius, [294].
• Family, defects and idiosyncrasies of, [356], [357].
• Fancy, power of, [307].
• Fathers, not to be too strict, [20].
• • To set a good example to their sons, [20], [21].
  • The jus trium liberorum, [22].
  • Saying of Evenus about fathers, [27].
• Favour, the, [33], [34].
  • Reminding of favours unpleasant, [181].
• Feast, every day a, [311].
• Fickleness, [146].
  • Saying of Phocion about, [77], [182].
  • How to be discerned from friends, [153]-201.
• Flatterers, [19].
• Flute-girls at marriages, [40].
  • Fortune's rope-dance, [139].
  • Fortune and vice, [140], [141].
  • On Fortune, [394]-399.
• Fortune, not to be railed at, [89]-91.
• Freedom of speech, [185]-201.
  • Friendship going in pairs, [146], [147].
  • Originated by similarity, [152], [158], [159].
  • How friends are to be distinguished from flatterers, [153]-201.
• Friends, on abundance of, [145]-153.
• Galba, story about, [49].
• Geese, ingenuity of, [229].
• Germanicus, idiosyncrasy of, [312].
• Glaucus, son of Epicydes, [353].
• Gobryas, [157].
• Gods considered as forces, [44], [302].
  • Perform their benefits secretly, [181].
• Gorgias, [81].
• Gorgo, wife of Leonidas, [84].
• Gracchus, [273].
• Great, the, especially open to flatterers, [184], [185].
• Grief, immoderate at death to be avoided, [86], [87], [88].
  • Unexpected grief worst, [113], [306].
• Gylippus, [15].
• Habit, force of, [3], [4], [337].
• Hannibal, remark of, [391].
• Happiness, the mind the seat of, [95].
• Hares, [368].
• Harmodius, [67], [189], [220].
• Hatred, and envy, [312]-315.
• Hegesias, [28].
• Helicon, Mount, [29], [30].
• Helots, [272].
• Hemlock, how affected by wine, [228].
• Heraclea, [343].
• Heraclitus, [41], [93], [231], [276], [350], [387], [396].
• Hercules, [39], [52], [299], [321], [347], [348], [352].
• Heredity, [1], [2], [351], [355].
• Hermes, his functions, [46].
• • Proverbial saying about, [215].
• Herodotus, [72], [94], [141], [157], [171], [192], [299], [367], [388], [393].
• Herophilus, [244].
• Herrick, and Plutarch, see Preface, [viii], [288], note.
• Hesiod, quoted or alluded to, [14], [36], [44], [96], [121], [123], [155], [180], [212], [256], [261], [290], [304], [341], [355], [398], [399].
• Hiero, [209], [338].
• Hieronymus, [271], [281].
• Hipparchus, dream of, [343].
• Hippocrates, [132], [237], [238].
• Hippothorus, a tune, [70].
• Homer, alluded to or quoted, [16], [23], [24], [26], [33], [44], [45], [48], [52], [54], [55], [56], [61], [65], [66], [71], [75], [76], [80], [83], [91], [95], [101], [102], [108], [110], [113], [117], [118], [122], [127], [128], [130], [132], [138], [139], [142], [147], [149], [160], [161], [165], [170], [172], [176], [179], [187], [192], [195], [196], [197], [199], [200], [204], [209], [216], [217], [218], [219], [221], [222], [223], [226], [227], [235], [239], [246], [247], [254], [268], [270], [271], [272], [281], [283], [284], [290], [291], [292], [300], [301], [302], [304], [307], [308], [309], [313], [318], [319], [322], [323], [324], [326], [327], [329], [340], [341], [347], [352], [368], [369], [372], [378], [385], [386], [387], [397], [398].
• Hyperides, [187].
• Hypsipyle, her foster-child, [146].
• Ibycus, story about, [228].
• Idæan Dactyli, [136].
• Ignorance of self, [143].
• Imagination, power of, [101], [102].
• Indian wives, [140].
• • Indian sages, [140], [141].
• Infants, death of, [92].
• Iolaus, nephew of Hercules, [39], [52].
• Iphicrates, answer of, [94], [398].
• Knowledge of self, [154], [185], [207], [302].
• Labour, its power, [3].
• Lacydes, friend of Arcesilaus, [181].
• Lacydes, king of the Argives, [208].
• Lais, famous courtesan, [32], [49], [63].
• Law, martial, [211].
• Leæna, her heroism, [220], [221].
• Lemnos, the women of, [41].
• Leo of Byzantium, saying of, [206].
• Life, the three kinds of, [11].
• • Like a game at dice, [293].
  • Chequered, [305].
  • "Live unknown," whether a wise precept, [373]-378.
• Litigation, evil effects of, [145].
• Livia, wife of Augustus, [225].
• Liver, the seat of desire, [115].
• Locrians, custom of the, [347].
• Locris, authorities of, [245].
• Love, to one's offspring, [21]-28.
  • On love generally, [29]-69.
  • God of Love, his festival at Thespiæ, [29], [63].
  • Pandemian and Celestial love, [57].
  • No strong love without jealousy, [135].
  • Lovers admire even the defects of their loves, [136], [167], [168], [209], [213].
  • Love blind, [153].
• Loxias, name of Apollo, meaning of, [231].
• Lyciscus, [332], [333].
• Lycurgus, [3], [136], [230], [320].
• Lydiades, [238].
• Lydian measure, [134].
  • Lydian produce, [145].
• Lynceus, [203].
• Lysander, [76], [262].
• Lysias, [218].
• Lysimache, [263].
• Lysimachus, king, [225], [241], [344], [390], [391].
• Mæcenas, [49].
• Magas, [113], [276], [277].
• Man, his wretchedness, [26], [142].
• • Different views of men, [114].
  • Man's various idiosyncrasies and fortunes, [149].
• Marriage, [20], [31]-39, [63]-69.
  • Hesiod on the proper age for marriage, [36].
  • No Meum and Tuum to exist in marriage, [62], [74], [75].
  • Mutual respect a vital necessity in marriage, [62].
  • Conjugal Precepts, [70]-84.
• Marsyas, [273].
• Means, various kinds of, [104], [105].
• Measures, Dorian and Lydian, [134].
• Median war, [367].
• Medius, [184], [303].
• Megabyzus, [171], [302].
• Megara, wife of Hercules, [39].
• Megarians, their sacrifice to Poseidon, [133].
• Melanippus, [50].
• Melanthius, [81], [336].
• Meleager, [52].
• Meletus, [120], [141].
• Memory, the storehouse of learning, [14].
• Menander, [55], [96], [114], [115], [146], [150], [164], [173], [179], [257], [291], [305], [307], [310], [330].
• Menedemus, [98], [130], [165], [303].
• Metageitnion, [382].
• Metella, wife of Sulla, [219].
• Metellus, [222], [277], [320].
• Metrocles, [140], [295].
• Metrodorus, saying of, [77].
• Mice, dislike to, [312].
• Miltiades, the son of Cimon, [27], [135], [338].
• Mirrors of the ancients, [59], note.
  • Comparison of wives to mirrors, [73].
  • Proper use of the mirror, [76].
  • Comparison of the flatterer to a mirror, [161].
• Mithridates, [170], [219].
• Money, against borrowing, [365]-373.
• Montaigne, and Plutarch, Preface, [vii].
• Mothers, to be carefully selected, [1].
  • To suckle their children, [4].
• Munychia, [38].
• Music, power of, [102].
• Musonius, [370].
• Nasica, saying of, [205].
• Nations, most warlike also most amorous, [52].
• Natures, great, [338].
• Nealces, story about, [397].
• Neglect, not liked, [150].
• Neocles, father of Themistocles, [27].
• Nero, [151], [168], [175], [220], [284], [365].
• Nicostratus, [49], [264].
• Night, Greek word for, [249].
• Ninus and Semiramis, [37], [38].
• Niobe, [50].
• No, saying, [255], [260], [262].
• Ocnus, [304].
• Odysseus, self-restraint of, [101], [221], [307].
• Œdipus, [28], [197], [250], [251].
• Œnanthe, [37].
• Old age querulous, [329].
• Olympia, remarkable portico at, [214].
• Olympias, wife of King Philip, [75], [76].
• Olynthus, [305].
• Onomademus, wise advice of, [212].
• Oratory, extempore and prepared, [9], [10], [128].
• • Laconic oratory, [230].
• Orpheus, [53].
• Paley, F. A., on the Moralia, Preface, [vii].
• Pan, [47].
• Panthea, [136].
• Parmenides, his Cosmogony, [44].
• Parmenio, [151].
• Parthian juice, [141].
• Passions, difference in, [113], [114].
• Patroclus, [172], [187], [319], [325].
• Pausanias and Cleonice, [343], [344].
• Pederasty, see Boys, love of.
• Perfection, not in mortals, [287].
• Pericles, son of Xanthippus, [9], [11], [27], [258], [317], [323], [340], [349], [366].
• Perseus, [192], [193], [307].
• Persia, kings of, [73], [124], [140], [382], [387].
• Phäethon, [293], [347], [394].
• Phalaris, [120], [168], [339].
• Phayllus and his wife, [49], [50].
• Phidias, [78].
• Philip, King, [49], [50], [75], [80], [82], [188], [193], [230], [247], [276], [277], [384].
• Philippides, comic poet, [32], [225], [241].
• Philosophy, its importance, [11], [97], [98].
• • Philosophers' dress, [129], [141], [160], [203].
  • Birthplace of various philosophers, [389].
• Philotas, [151].
• Philotimus, [198].
• Philoxenus, [373].
• Phocion, [77], [136], [182], [260], [280], [319], [327], [328].
• Phocylides, [5].
• Phœnix, tutor of Achilles, [5], [196].
• Phryne, [38], [49].
• Phrynis, [134].
• Pindar, [33], [34], [45], [54], [116], [138], [183], [190], [205], [210], [212], [267], [275], [294], [302], [303], [310], [315], [316], [335], [339], [348], [355], [377], [384].
• Pirithous, [151].
• Piso, Pupius, story about, [231], [232].
• Pittacus, [222], [300].
• Plato, [2], [5], [7], [8], [12], [15], [17], [27], [29], [34], [47], [49], [62], [66], [74], [77], [82], [83], [93], [96], [99], [100], [106], [113], [114], [115], [118], [120], [125], [132], [135], [136], [153], [154], [157], [158], [160], [161], [162], [167], [187], [188], [192], [194], [196], [206], [209], [213], [220], [230], [255], [261], [264], [274], [286], [287], [293], [294], [306], [311], [334], [335], [336], [341], [342], [365], [385], [393], [395], [396].
• Plutarch's wife, see Timoxena.
• Polemo, [196], [285], [385].
• Polycletus, [138].
• Polypus, the, [152], [158], [161].
• Polysperchon, [256], [261].
• Pompey, the Great, [208], [210], [340].
  • His father Pompeius Strabo, [340].
• Portico, remarkable, [214].
• Porus, [277].
• Poseidon, [133].
• Postumia, [208].
• Praise of self, [315]-331.
• Proteus, [152].
• Proverbs, [4], [5], [9], [14], [18], [19], [20], [49], [62], [75], [80], [82], [121], [146], [147], [154], [157], [175], [183], [189], [212], [215], [217], [235], [260], [263], [306], [317], [333], [334], [341], [355], [369].
• Ptolemy Auletes, [168].
• Ptolemy Epiphanes, [195].
• Ptolemy Philadelphus, [16].
• Ptolemy Philopator, [168].
• Ptolemy Physcon, [174].
• Punishment, on those that receive late punishment from the Deity, [331]-365.
• Puppies, differently trained, [3], [4].
• Pydna, [192].
• Pyrrho, saying of, [132].
• Pythagoras, [2], [18], [19], [100], [151], [194], [211], [240], [245], [383].
• Pythian Priestess, [233], [367].
• Reason, power of, [101], [133], [221], [289].
• Remorse, [344], [345].
• Repartee, [206], [207].
• Respites, [339].
• Rusticus, [251].
• Rutilius, [370].
• Sabinus, story about, [67]-69.
• Sappho, [34], [55], [84], [130], [274].
• Saturnalia, [311], note.
• Satyr, story about the, [202], [203].
• Scaurus, [211].
• Scilurus, and the bundle of sticks, [231].
• Scipio, [318].
• Sejanus, [151].
• Seleucus Callinicus, [226].
• Self, love of, [153], [154], [301].
• • Ignorance of, [143].
  • Knowledge of, [154], [185], [207], [302].
• Semiramis, [37], [38].
• Senator, story about Roman, [223], [224].
• Seneca, [284].
• Sextius, [123].
• Shyness, [252]-267.
• Silence, benefit of, [220]-222, [230]-232, [237].
• Simonides, [23], [106], [108], [126], [135], [154], [183], [184], [212], [237], [246], [299], [344], [384].
• Sinatus, [63], [64].
• Sinorix, [63], [64].
• Socrates, [2], [8], [15], [17], [54], [76], [136], [140], [145], [188], [192], [194], [196], [210], [232], [234], [235], [240], [250], [271], [277], [283], [292], [293], [299], [300], [308], [314], [336], [394].
• Solon, [33], [34], [56], [124], [171], [192], [213], [303], [335], [367].
  • His legislation for husbands, [65].
  • His direction to brides, [70].
• Sophocles, quoted or referred to, [3], [43], [44], [47], [49], [50], [53], [62], [64], [76], [106], [122], [125], [134], [148], [150], [162], [197], [200], [207], [218], [227], [232], [242], [249], [251], [255], [272], [278], [281], [286], [295], [319], [376], [395], [397].
• Sotades, [16].
• Speusippus, nephew of Plato, [15], [192], [196].
• Step-ladders, [156].
• Step-mothers, [79], note.
• Stilpo, [8], [133], [266], [295], [308].
• Stoics, [172], [254], [302].
• Stratocles, [32].
• Suicide, always possible, [309].
• Sulla, [219], [322].
• Sycophant, origin of word, [252].
• Talkativeness, [214]-238.
• Tantalus, [49], [138], [385], [394].
• Tavern-frequenting, [131], note.
• Taylor, Jeremy, and Plutarch, Preface, [vii], [viii], [84], note, [238], note, [245], note, [288], note.
• Telephus, [207].
• Tenedos, famous for earthenware, [366].
• Theano, wife of Pythagoras, [78], [84].
• Thebans, and Lacedæmonians, [270].
• Themistocles, and his son, [1], [2].
• • His father Neocles, [27].
  • Themistocles and Miltiades, [135], [213], [338].
  • Suspicion about, [208].
  • Sayings of, [264], [314], [320].
• Theocritus, the Sophist, [16], [263].
• Theodorus, [141], [293], [327], [390], [391].
• Theognis, his advice, [152].
• Theophrastus, [124], [327].
• Thero, the Thessalian, [52].
• Theseus, [151], [392].
• Thespesius, of Soli, curious story about, [357]-365.
• Thessalians, very pugnacious, [3], note.
• Thessaly, famous for enchantments, [75], note, [83].
• Thucydides, [127], [152], [167], [195], [198], [208], [261], [265], [314], [317], [332], [336], [349], [389].
• Tiberius, [151], [174], [175], [225], [384].
• Timæa, [294].
• Timesias, oracle given to, [151].
• Timoleon, [322].
• Timon, [107].
• Timotheus, [316].
• Timoxena, wife of Plutarch, consolatory letter to, [85]-92.
• Timoxena, daughter of Plutarch, [85]-92.
• Tongue, government of the, [15], [16], [209], [210], [214]-238, [274].
  • Barricaded by nature, [216].
• Training, power of, [5]-7.
• Triptolemus, [368].
• Truth, a divine thing, [154].
• Tutors, choice of, [5]-7;
  • Habits they teach boys, [94].
• Versatility, [152], [153].
• Vespasian, [67], [69].
• Vice, not got rid of as easily as a wife, [96].
• • Uneasiness of, [96], [97], [139].
  • Whether it is sufficient to cause unhappiness, [138]-142.
  • Vice in embryo, [355], [356].
• Virtue, its two elements, [18].
  • Can be taught, [92]-95.
  • On virtue and vice, [95]-98.
  • On moral virtue, [98]-118.
  • On progress in virtue, [118]-138.
• Washing hands usual before dinner, [156].
• Wealth, has wings, [124], [303].
• Wives, to be carefully selected, [1].
• • Rich wives, [20], [138].
  • Indian wives, [140].
• Words, winged, [223].
• Wyttenbach, his criticism on Reiske, Preface, [viii], [ix].
• Xanthippe, wife of Socrates, [210], [283].
• Xanthippus, father of Pericles, [27].
• Xenocrates, [66], [77], [118], [196], [248], [261], [385].
• Xenophanes, [55], [108], [257].
• Xenophon, [17], [83], [166], [191], [202], [239], [250], note, [289], [316], [335], [389].
• Xerxes, [272], [299].
• Youth, a ticklish period of life, [17], [18].
• Zaleucus, [322].
• Zeno, founder of the Stoics, [99], [102], [124], [132], [203], [217], [220], [262], [263], [285], [294], [327], [386].
• Zeuxis, his remark on painting, [148].

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