Sabinus of Galatia, iv. 308.
Sacadas, a flute player, i. 109, 110, 112.
Sacred games, garlands of, iii. 411.
Sacrificed beasts, iii. 361.
Sagaris, a river in Phrygia, v. 492.
Salmantica, women of, i. 352.
Salt and cummin, why does Homer call it divine, iii. 336.
Salt given to cattle, iii. 497;
not found in fruit, 498.
Sappho, i. 42, 114; ii. 506;
quoted, iii. 95, 263;
quoted, iv. 260.
Sappho’s measures, grace in, iii. 74.
Sardanapalus, his luxury and lust, i. 497.
Sardians and Smyrnaeans, v. 468.
Saturn and his four children, v. 456, 457.
Satyrus the orator, i. 47.
Scamander, a river in Troas, v. 493.
Scaurus, his magnanimity, i. 295.
Scilurus, anecdote of, iv. 244.
Scipio the Elder, apothegm of, i. 229; ii. 475; iv. 201; v. 96,
112,
114, 136.
Scipio the Younger, his sayings and great actions, i. 235-239.
Scopas, saying of, ii. 303.
Scythinus, verses of, iii. 86.
Sea calves, of, v. 210.
Sea, of the, iii. 158;
ebbing and flowing of the, 159;
food of the, 302-306;
made hot by wind, 501.
Sea-sickness, iii. 502.
Sea water nourishes not trees, iii. 495;
upon wine, 502;
oil on the, 503.
Seed, nature of generative, iii. 177;
that fall on the oxen’s horns, 368;
watering of, 496;
watered by thunder showers, 498.
Seleucus the mathematician, iii. 159.
Seleucus Callinicus, anecdote of, iv. 237.
Self-praise. How a man may inoffensively praise himself without
being
liable to envy, ii. 306-325.
Semiramis, her saying, i. 187, 497; iv. 85.
Seneca, anecdote of, i. 53.
Senses, of the, iii. 164;
represent what is true, 165;
number of the, 165;
actions of the, 166.
Sentiments concerning Nature with which Philosophers were
delighted,
iii. 104-193.
Serapio, iii. 74, 79, 81, 82.
Serapis is Pluto, iv. 88, 89.
Serpent and the Aetolian woman, v. 188.
Seven months’ infants, of, iii. 184.
Seven Wise Men, Banquet of the, ii. 3-41.
Servius Tullius, his birth, elevation, and prosperous reign, iv.
212,
213.
Shadows, guests called, iii. 381.
Sheep bitten by wolves, iii. 254.
She-wolves, of, iii. 517.
Ships in winter, sailing of, iii. 500.
Shoe pinches, where the, ii. 494.
Sibyl with her frantic grimaces, iii. 74.
Sight, of our, iii. 168.
Silence commended, iv. 230, 243.
Simonides, quoted, i. 149, 257, 295, 305, 309, 318;
quoted, ii. 44, 101, 136, 436, 457, 471;
quoted, iii. 22, 87, 259, 409, 451, 459, 473;
quoted, iv. 158;
saying of, v. 66, 68, 71, 121.
Sipylus, mount, v. 489.
Siramnes, saying of, i. 185.
Sleep or death, causes of, iii. 188;
whether it appertains to the soul or body, 189.
Smelling, of, iii. 170.
Smyrna and Cinyras, v. 464.
Snow, preservation of, iii. 350.
Soclarus, iv. 292; v. 156, 158, 160, 166, 169, 170, 171, 216.
Socrates, anecdotes of, i. 11, 13, 23, 26, 38, 53, 141, 150, 162;
rules of health, 255;
quoted, 307, 310, 312, 337; ii. 46, 148, 150, 338, 441;
his Daemon, 378-423, 441, 495; iii. 4, 19, 35, 112, 121, 123;
iv. 249; v. 93, 359, 361, 362-364, 377, 381.
Socrates, his Second Book of Thracian History, v. 462.
Soil, deep, for wheat, iii. 504;
lean soil for barley, 504.
Solon and Croesus, anecdote of, ii. 122.
Solon, quoted, i. 155, 297;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
quoted, 297, 454, 487;
quoted,
iii. 50; iv. 72;
quoted, 260;
anecdote of, 304; v. 89, 113, 117, 118, 131.
Sophocles, quoted, i. 46, 57, 244, 288;
Thamyras, 39;
Frag., 58, 63;
Tyre, 206, 467;
Antig., 51, 462;
Oed. Tyr., 179, 470;
quoted, ii. 45, 57, 61, 72;
criticisms on, 72;
Frag., 173, 241, 244, 298, 431, 452, 456, 470, 495;
Oed. Tyr., 60, 172, 442, 476, 495;
Antig., 110;
Trachin., 311;
Electra, 440;
quoted, iii. 97, 210, 222;
Frag., 7;
Antig. 45;
Oed. Tyr., 235, 474;
Oed. Col., 232;
Electra, 437;
quoted, iv. 87, 246, 287, 304;
Oed. Tyr., 197, 202;
Trachin., 281;
Antig., 239, 283, 404;
Frag., 221, 226, 274, 284, 301;
quoted, v. 69, 76, 158, 216;
Oed. Col., 68;
Frag., 75, 84;
anecdote of, 68.
Sostratus, his Second Book of Tuscan History, v. 468.
Sotades, jest of, i. 25.
Soterichus, the musician, i. 103, 112.
Soul of Ajax, her place in hell, iii. 442.
Soul or body, death appertains to, iii. 189.
Soul, procreation of the, ii. 326-367;
its nature and essence, iii. 161, 163;
parts of the, 162;
in what part of the body it resides, 163;
motion of the, 163;
immortality of the, 164;
principal part of the, 173;
three sorts of motion in the, v. 371;
state of, after death, 393, 394;
ancienter than the body, 432.
Souls dispersed into the earth, moon, &c., v. 438.
Sounds in the night and day, iii. 406.
Sows, tame and wild, iii. 508.
Space, of, iii. 127.
Sparta had an oligarchy, v. 397.
Speech composed of nouns and verbs, v. 444.
Speech of a statesman, what it should be, v. 107.
Sperm, whether it be a body, iii. 177.
Spermatic emission of women, iii. 177.
Sphodrias, v. 118.
Spiders, labor of the, v. 174.
Sponge, of the, v. 205.
Spurious remains of Plutarch, v. 450-509.
Star-fish, subtlety of the, v. 201.
Stark drunk, those that are, iii. 281.
Stars, essence of the, iii. 138;
what figure they are, 139;
order and place of, 139;
motion and circulation of, 140;
whence do they receive their light, 140;
which are called the Dioscuri, the twins, or Castor and Pollux, 141;
how they prognosticate, 141;
number of the, whether odd or even, 446.
Stasicrates proposes to turn Mount Athos into a statue of Alexander,
i. 495.
Stesichorus, i. 109, 112; iv. 497.
Steward of a feast, iii. 212-216.
Stilpo, the philosopher, i. 13, 76, 144, 161;
anecdote of, ii. 468;
defended, v. 365-367.
Stoics speak greater improbabilities than the poets, iii. 194-196;
their opinions concerning daemons, iv. 24;
common conceptions against the, 372-427;
contradictions of the, 428-477.
Strabo, quoted, i. 27.
Strato, i. 155; iii. 163; v. 161.
Stratonica of Galatia, i. 373.
Stratonicus, anecdote of, ii. 298; iii. 21.
Strymon, a river in Thrace, v. 491.
Summer and winter, cause of, iii. 141.
Summer and winter solstice, iii. 143.
Sun, essence of the, iii. 141;
magnitude of the, 142;
figure or shape of the, 143;
turning and returning of the, 143;
eclipses of the, 144.
Superstition of the Gauls, Scythians, and Carthaginians, i. 182,
183.
Superstition, or indiscreet devotion, i. 168-184;
folly of, ii. 387.
Supper, many guests at, iii. 323.
Supper-room, why too narrow at first for guests, iii. 326.
Suppers of the ancients, iii. 255-259.
Swallows in the house, iii. 419;
intelligence of the, v. 174.
Sylla, i. 32-35;
anecdote of, v. 72, 115, 135.
Symposiacs, or table discourses, iii. 197-460.
Synorix and Camma, iv. 302.