Baccho, iv. 256, 264, 269.
Bacchus, ii. 12, 29.
Ballenaeus, mount, v. 492.
Banishment, or flying one’s country, iii. 15-35.
Banquet of the Seven Wise Men; Solon, Bias, Thales, Anacharsis,
Cleobulus, Pittacus, Chilo, ii. 3-41.
Barley, sow, in dust, iii. 505.
Barrenness in women, iii. 181.
Barrenness of mules, iii. 182.
Bashfulness, i. 60-77.
Basilocles, iii. 69, 70.
Baths, hot and cold, iii. 512.
Battus, ii. 115.
Bear, cunning of the, v. 185.
Bears, flesh of, iii. 509.
Beasts, flesh of sacrificial, iii. 361.
Bees, cannot abide smoke, iii. 515;
stinging of, 516.
Bellerophon, fable of, i. 351.
Berecyntus, mount, v. 490.
Berosus concerning the eclipse of the moon, iii. 146.
Bewitching, power of, iii. 327.
Bias, quoted, i. 17, 406;
at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 4, 14, 128.
Bion, saying of, i. 76;
his opinion concerning the punishment of children for the sins of their
fathers, iv. 171;
saying of, v. 170.
Bird or the egg, which was first, iii. 242-246.
Birds, prophetic nature of, v. 193.
Birth, two or three at one, iii. 180.
Birthdays of famous men, iii. 400.
Biton and Cleobis, their filial piety, i. 313.
Boar and the toil, iii. 512.
Bocchoris, anecdote of, i. 63.
Bodies, of, iii. 124;
division of, 126;
how mixed with one another, 126.
Body, passions of the, iii. 175;
what part is first formed, 184;
diseases of the, iv. 504-508.
Boedromion, month of, iii. 444.
Boethus, his opinion concerning comets, iii. 150.
Book of Rivers, v. 455.
Brasidas, apothegm of, i. 218; ii. 458.
Brennus, king of the Gauls, v. 460.
Britain, longevity in, iii. 193.
Brixaba, mount, v. 494.
Brotherly love, iii. 36-68.
Brute animals, ails and cures of, iii. 510;
their intelligence; which are the more crafty, water or land
animals? v. 157-217.
Brute beasts make use of reason, v. 218-233.
Bucephalus, the horse, v. 183.
Bulimy, or the greedy disease, iii. 355.
Busiris, king of Egypt, strangers murdered by, v. 474.