[115] Xenophon (circa 430 b.c.—post 357 b.c.), the Greek general, historian, essayist and author of the romance of the Cyropœdia, led the 10,000 Greeks to the Black Sea after the Battle of Cunaxa and the murder of the Greek generals.—T.
[116] Publius Cornelius Scipio Africanus Major (circa 234 b.c.—circa 183 b.c.), and his grandson by adoption, Publius Cornelius Scipio Æmilianus Africanus Major, surnamed also Numantinus (circa 185 b.c.—129 b.c.). It was the latter who was the friend of both Lælius and Terence, in some of whose comedies he is said to have collaborated.—T.
[117] Caius Lælius, surnamed Sapiens (fl. circa 140 b.c.), the orator and philosopher, and the chief character in Cicero's De Amicitia.—T.
[118] Publius Terendus Afer (circa 185 b.c.—circa 159 b.c.), the celebrated Roman comic poet.—T.
[119] Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 b.c.—43 b.c.), the Roman orator, philosopher and statesman.—T.
[120] Caius Julius Cæsar (100 b.c.—44 b.c.). Only the Commentaries are extant of his many writings.—T.
[121] Archilochus (fl. circa 700 b.c.), the Greek lyric poet of Paros, famous for his satiric iambic poetry.—T.
[122] Sophocles (495 b.c.—406 b.c.), one of the three great tragic poets of Greece.—T.
[123] Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626), later Lord Verulam (1618), later Viscount St. Albans (1621), philosopher, jurist and statesman.—T.
[124] Blessed Sir Thomas More (1470-1535), statesman and author, beatified by Pope Leo XIII., 9 December 1886.—T.