Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 · Plutarch
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Madness of animals, v. 167. Maeander, a river in Asia, v. 488. Magas, anecdote of, i. 45. Magpie, story of a, v. 189. Maimactes, king of the gods, i. 45. Man, perfection of a, iii. 189; most unhappy of all creatures, iv. 504; compounded of three parts, v. 286. Maneros, the foster-son of Isis, iv. 79. Manius Curius, apothegm of, i. 226. Manlius, son of, beheaded, v. 458. Man’s progress in virtue, ii. 446-474. Mantinea, battle of, v. 401. Marius, sacrifice of his daughter, v. 463. Mars, some bad actions of his, v. 466, 467. Marsyas, a river in Phrygia, v. 490. Marsyas, the musician, i. 41, 108. Massinissa, his vigorous old age, v. 83. Mathematics, applied to Music, i. 118-121; affords unspeakable delight, ii. 172, 174. Matter, of, iii. 122. Medius, the parasite, ii. 137. Megasthenes, saying of, v. 275. Megisto and Micca, and other women of Elis, i. 357-363. Meilichius, king of the gods, i. 45. Melanippides, quoted, iv. 278. Melanthius, quoted, i. 35, 449; ii. 103; iv. 147. Melian women, virtue of the, i. 348. Melisponda and Nephalia, i. 59. Melissus, his opinion of generation, iii, 128. Memnon, his saying, i. 189. Menalippides, i. 114, 123. Menander, quoted, i. 70, 139, 158, 161, 164, 335, 470; quoted, ii. 52, 57, 65, 86, 87, 124, 192, 297; his superiority to Aristophanes, iii. 11-14; quoted, 38, 65, 196, 488; iv. 290; anecdote of, v. 403; saying of, 425.
Mendesian goat, v. 225. Menedemus, i. 77; ii. 115, 464; his opinion of the nature of moral virtue, iii. 461. Menelaus, the mathematician, v. 257. Men, impotency in, iii. 181; elements of, 188; have better stomachs in autumn, 240; temper of, 270-272; when asleep are never thunderstruck, 295-300; having carnal knowledge of brutes, 468. Menon, his definition of virtue, i. 464. Menyllus, his First Book of Boeotic History, v. 460; Third Book of Italian History, 467. Messenians, saying among the, v. 416. Metellus, quoted, iii. 53; iv. 202; v. 459, 461. Meteors, of, which resemble rods, iii. 153. Metiochus, his misuse of power, v. 127. Metius Fufetius, king of Alba, torn in pieces, v. 455. Metrocles, i. 144. Metrodorus, ii. 158, 160, 161, 167, 169, 175, 180, 183, 496; his philosophical opinions, iii. 115, 127, 132, 149, 150, 151, 153, 154, 155, 157, 158; v. 378, 383, 384. Micca and Megisto, and other women of Elis, i. 357-363. Midas, i. 326; v. 454. Miletus, maidens of, i. 354. Mills of the gods grind slowly, but they grind fine, iv. 143. Miltiades, v. 407-411. Mimnermus, quoted, iii. 475. Mind, tranquillity of the, i. 136-167. Minerva, admonished by a satyr, i. 41; iii. 195; temple of, v. 461. Mirrors, causes and reasons of, iii. 169; v. 236 _et seq._ Mithridates, i. 204; ii. 121; story of, iii. 219.
Mixture of the elements, iii. 126. Mnemosyne, the mother of the Muses, i. 22. Mnesarete, statue of, iii. 83. Mnesiphilus, at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, ii. 3-41. Mnesitheus, the physician, iii. 511. Monarchy, Democracy, and Oligarchy, v. 395-398. Money upon usury, v. 412-424. Monstrous births, of, iii. 179. Moon: essence of the, iii. 145; magnitude of the, 145; figure of the, 145; whence her light, 145; eclipses of the, 146; phases of the, 147; distance from the sun, 147; of the face appearing within the orb of the moon, v. 234-292; its distance from the earth, 246; its nature, 253-260; its size, 261; why called Glaucopis, 267; is it inhabited, 274, 275. Moot point in Homer’s Iliad, iii. 446. Moral virtue, essay on, iii. 461-494. Moschio, dialogue on health, i. 251, 252. Motherland a Cretan expression, v. 85. Motion, of, iii. 128. Mount Athos’ shade, v. 270. Mule and the salt, v. 184. Mule, superannuated, v. 182. Mules, barrenness of, iii. 182. Mullet, of the, v. 213. Muses, number of the, iii. 450. Mushrooms produced by thunder, iii. 295-300. Music, treatise concerning, i. 102-135; pleasures from bad, iii. 376; for entertainments, 389. Musonius, his rule of health, i. 35. Must, sweet, iii. 511. Mycenae, mount, v. 501.
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