Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 · Plutarch
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Oenopides, his discovery of the obliquity of the Zodiac, iii. 138. Ogygia, an island west from Britain and its neighbor islands, described, v. 281-283. Oil, top of the, iii. 370; on the sea, 503; is transparent, v. 318; does not easily freeze, 319. Old age, health, and sickness, iii. 192. Old men, love pure wine, iii. 221; read best at a distance, 222-224; easily foxed, 268-270; in state affairs, v. 64-96. Oligarchy, Monarchy, and Democracy, v. 395-398. Olympias, anecdotes of, ii. 494, 495. Olympus, a Phrygian player, i. 107, 108, 110, 112, 115, 116, 123. Omens and dreams, ii. 401, 402. Onesicrates, banquet of, i. 103, 133. Onomademus, wisdom of, i. 295; v. 129. Opinions of philosophers, iii. 104-193. Optatus, v. 171. Oracle in Cilicia, iv. 55. Oracles of Delphi, iii. 73. Oracles, why they cease to give answers, iv. 3-64. Orestes slays his mother, v. 474. Origin of things, opinions concerning the, iii. 107-113. Orontes, his saying, i. 188. Orpheus never imitated any one, i. 107. Orphic Fragments, iv. 59, 404. Oryx, fables of the, v. 193. Osiris, iv. 75-135; story about his birth, 74; great actions of, 75; his death, 76; his body torn in pieces by Typhon, 80; is identical with Serapis and Bacchus, 89; with the bull Apis, 90; sacred vestments of, 135. Othryadas, iv. 338. Otus, the bird, v. 163. Oxen, teaching of, v. 193.
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