Paeans, makers of, i. 110.
Paedaretus, apothegm of, i. 429.
Painter, neat saying of a, ii. 378.
Painting is silent poetry, v. 402.
Palladium in Ilium and in Rome, v. 461.
Palm tree, of the, iii. 514.
Panaetius, sayings of, i. 57.
Pancrates, i. 117.
Pandora’s box, i. 306.
Pangaeus, mount, v. 480.
Panthoidas, apothegm of, i. 427.
Papirius Tolucer, v. 468.
Parallels, or a comparison between the actions of Greeks and Romans,
v. 450-476.
Parmenides, v. 357;
his philosophical opinions: of generation and corruption, iii. 128;
of necessity, 129;
of the world, 135;
of the moon, 145;
of the galaxy, 149;
of the earth, 155;
of earthquakes, 157;
of the soul, 163;
defended from the misrepresentations of the Epicureans, v. 352-354;
quoted, 357, 359, 381.
Partridge, cunning of the, v. 185.
Parysatis, her saying, i. 188.
Passions of the body, iii. 175.
Passions of the soul, or diseases of the body: which are worse, iv.
504, 508.
Paulus Aemilius, apothegm of, i. 232.
Pausanias, the Spartan traitor, v. 457.
Pausanius, i. 305;
apothegm of, 428.
Pauson the painter, iii. 73.
Pederasty, or the love of boys, iv. 259;
defended, 259, 260;
instances of its power, 284-286;
severely condemned, 304;
the connection is uncertain and short-lived, 307;
it ceases on the sprouting of the beard, 307.
Pelopidas, his saying, i. 225.
Pelops and his two sons, v. 470, 471.
Pemptides, iv. 272, 275, 279.
Pergamus, woman of, i. 374.
Periander, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41;
tyrant of Corinth sends three hundred boys to be castrated, iv. 341;
the crime prevented, 342.
Pericles, anecdotes of, i. 15, 18, 66, 211, 332; ii. 309, 315; v. 67,
102;
his absolute sway over the Athenians, 106;
his soliloquy when about to address the people, 130, 131, 410, 413.
Periclitus, a Lesbian harper, i. 108.
Persaeus, anecdote of, i. 70.
Perseus, king of Macedonia, his sorrow on losing his kingdom, i. 160.
Persian Magi, killers of mice, ii. 96.
Persian women, virtue of the, i. 347.
Persians had a monarchy, v. 397.
Pestilence, relief from, a virgin sacrificed for, v. 472.
Petron, doctrine of, iv. 30.
Phaedimus, v. 171, 194.
Phaeton, i. 141.
Phalaris, brazen cow of, v. 474.
Pharnaces, of the moon, v. 265.
Phasis, a river of Thrace, v. 482.
Phayllus, iv. 282.
Phemius, the poet, i. 105.
Pherecrates, fragment of, i. 124.
Phidias, statue of Venus, ii. 498; iv. 133.
Philammon, verses in honor of Latona, Diana, and Apollo, i. 105.
Philemon and Magas, i. 45.
Philinus, iii. 69, 70.
Philip of Macedonia, examples from, i. 44, 45;
sayings of, 194-198, 305;
anecdotes of, ii. 141, 146, 147, 494; iii. 22; v. 115.
Philippides the comedian, ii. 430.
Philippus, his demonstration of the figure of the moon, ii. 173.
Philolaus, his philosophical opinions: of the nutriment of the world,
iii. 134;
of the essence of the sun, 142;
of the position of the earth, 155;
of the motion of the earth, 156.
Philosophers ought chiefly to converse with great men, ii. 368-377.
Philosophers, their various opinions. Of those sentiments concerning
nature with which philosophers were delighted, iii. 104-193.
Philosophical discourses at merry meetings, iii. 198-203.
Philosophy, threefold division of, iii. 104.
Philotas and Antigona, i. 504.
Philotas, son of Parmenio, i. 504.
Philotimus, the physician, i. 452; ii. 153.
Philoxenus, i. 125;
sayings of, ii. 42; iii. 3; iv. 289; v. 423.
Phocian women, virtue of the, i. 343, 355.
Phocion, his saying on the death of Alexander, i. 49;
his sayings, 70;
wife of, 102, 216; ii. 135, 298, 311, 321, 328; v. 83, 109, 118;
his magnanimity, 122;
his reply to Demades, 125, 142, 149.
Phocus, a story of love respecting him, iv. 319.
Phocylides the poet, quoted, i. 9, 462.
Phoebidas, apothegm of, i. 431.
Phoenix, tutor to Achilles, i. 9; ii. 150.
Phrygian mood of music, i. 109.
Phryne, the statue of, iii. 83.
Phrynis, the musician, ii. 470.
Pieria and other women of Myus, i. 363, 364.
Pierus, the first that wrote in praise of the Muses, i. 105.
Pindar and Euthynous, i. 314.
Pindar, his sayings, i. 77, 114;
quoted, 143, 173, 174, 286, 293, 303, 304, 310, 313, 328;
his description of the state of the blessed, 336;
quoted, ii. 57, 143, 177, 193, 306;
quoted, iii. 9, 23, 74, 93, 95, 96, 194, 207, 218, 377, 455, 458,
491, 516;
quoted, iv. 10, 15, 96, 138, 145, 150, 163, 260, 289, 405;
quoted, v. 64, 111, 117, 148, 194, 197, 202, 214, 316, 331, 404;
anecdote of, 404, 440.
Pine, sacred to Neptune and Bacchus, iii. 318.
Pine trees, of, iii. 250.
Pinoteras, the fish, v. 205.