Plutarch's essays and miscellanies, Vol. 1 · Plutarch
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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. Pisias, of love, iv. 270 _et seq._ Pisistratus, i. 216; anecdote of, iii. 41, 200. Pittacus, sayings of, i. 31, 151; his reply to Myrsilus, ii. 5; at the Banquet of the Seven Wise Men, 3-41; iii. 50; iv. 231; v. 145. Pitwater, of, iii. 514. Place at table called Consular, iii. 210-212. Place, of, iii. 127. Plague in Falerie and in Lacedaemon, v. 472. Plain of truth, iv. 29. Planetiades, iv. 9, 11. Plants, grow how, iii. 190; nourishment and growth of, 191.
Plato, quoted, i. 9, 19, 24, 26; saying of, 27; quoted, 41, 57, 71, 74, 79; on harmony, 115, 118; quoted, 141, 173, 256, 264, 279, 287; laws, 292; quoted, 297, 311, 314, 321, 337, 339, 456; quoted, ii. 49, 92, 100, 104, 106; at the court of Dionysius, 108, 141, 109, 146; and Socrates, 148, 150, 168, 174, 326; concerning the soul, 328 _et seq._, 334; quoted, 344, 352, 353, 355, 356, 359, 364, 455, 456, 457, 492, 496, 504; quoted, iii. 19, 81; his philosophical opinions: of the universe, 112, 114, 115; of the understanding, 116; what is God, 119; of God, 121; of matter and ideas, 123; of causes and of bodies, 124; of colors, 125; of bodies, 126; of place and time, 127, 128; of motion, 128; of necessity, 129; of fate, 130; of fortune, 131; of the world, 134, 135, 137; of the stars, 137-141; of the sun, 142, 143; of the moon, 145, 146; of the rainbow, 152; of earthquakes, 158; of the sea, 159; of the soul, 161-165; of sight, 168; of hearing, 170; of the voice, 171; of the echo, 172; of divination, 176; of generative seed, 177; of the embryo, 183; of reason in animals, 187; of sleep, 189; that plants are animals, 190; quoted, 200, 201, 213, 221, 223, 243, 365, 368-370, 401, 462, 464, 499; iv. 18, 28, 30, 41, 45; his opinion about daemons, 86, 87, 109, 115-117, 119, 146, 254, 261, 292, 305; quoted, v. 10, 82, 103, 116, 120, 172, 257, 276, 288, 293, 295, 297, 302, 305, 306, 338, 355, 364, 377, 381, 412, 425-433, 435, 440, 441, 444.
Pleasure not attainable according to Epicurus, ii. 157-203. Pleasures from bad music, iii. 376. Plistoanax, apothegm of, i. 430. Plurality of worlds, iv. 29-39. Plutarch, his rules for the preservation of health, i. 251-279; his Symposiacs, iii. 197-460; his natural questions, 495-518; on the immortality of the soul, iii. 164, iv. 169; v. 393; consolatory letter to his wife, 386-394; his Platonic questions, 425-449; his spurious remains, 450-509. Poet, love makes a man a, iii. 217-219. Poetry, essay on. How a young man ought to hear poems, ii. 42-94. Polemon, his kind reply, i. 55. Policy or government defined, v. 396. Political precepts, v. 97-156. Poltys, saying of, i. 189. Polus the tragedian, v. 69. Polybus, of seven-months’ infants, iii. 185. Polycephalus, the nome, i. 108. Polycratidas, apothegm of, i. 431. Polycrita, a woman of Naxos, i. 364, 366. Polydorus, apothegm of, i. 430. Polyhistor, his Third Book of Italian History, v. 476. Polymnestus, his improvements in music, i. 107, 110, 112, 123. Polypus, why it changes color, iii. 506; many-colored, v. 202. Polysperchon’s treachery, i. 64, 71. Pompey, his great actions and sayings, i. 241 _et seq._, 290; statues of, 293, v. 70, 102, 112, 114; owed his success to Sylla, 115. Porsena of Clusium, war with the Romans, v. 451, 456. Porus, an Indian king, i. 202. Posidonius, his opinion of fate, iii. 130; of a vacuum, 137; of eclipses, v. 262.
Possible and contingent defined, v. 299. Postumia, chastity of, i. 290. Power, necessity, &c., defined, v. 300. Praise, inordinate, a sign of a flatterer, ii, 116, 117, 120; young people are often spoiled by it, 123. Preservation of health, rules for, i. 251-279. Priam and Polydore, v. 465. Price of peace, women given as the, v. 468. Priest of Hercules, iii. 90. Principle and element, difference between, iii. 106. Principle of cold, v. 309-330. Principles, what they are, iii. 106. Prize for poets at the games, iii. 316. Procles, tyrant of Epidaurus, puts Timarchus to death, iii. 89; his own unhappy end, _ib._ Procreation of the soul as discussed in the Timaeus of Plato, ii. 326-367. Progress in virtue, how it may be ascertained, ii. 446-474. Prometheus, anecdote of, i. 289. Proserpine, the same as Isis, iv. 88; and Cora, v. 285, 286. Prosodia, songs called, i. 106. Protagoras quoted, i. 332. Protogenes, iv. 257, 258, 260-265. Providence, of God, iv. 140-188; v. 305; of the inferior gods, 306; of the daemons, 307, 308. Ptolemaeus Philadelphus, i. 25. Ptolemaeus Soter, iv. 88. Ptolemy Lagus, anecdote of, i. 45; his saying, 202; ii. 177. Publius Decius, his dream, v. 462. Publius Nigidius, v. 96. Punishment of the wicked, why so long delayed, iv. 140-188. Pupius Piso, the rhetorician, iv. 245. Purple shell fish, v. 205.
Pylades and Orestes, their friendship, i. 465. Pyraechmes’s horses, v. 455. Pyrander, his Fourth Book of Peloponnesian Histories, v. 474. Pyrandrus, the commissary, v. 469. Pyrrhon, the Stoic philosopher, anecdote of, ii. 467. Pyrrhus the Epirot, his saying, i. 207. Pythagoras, his aphorisms, i. 28, 29; of music, 130; quoted, 175; aphorism, 179, 294; symbols of, 454, 471; his unseasonable reproof, ii. 148; his joy on discovering the relation to each other of the three sides of a right-angled triangle, 174; his philosophical opinions: of the principles of things, iii. 109; of the unity of God, 121; of geniuses and heroes, 122; of matter, 123; of causes, 124; of bodies, 126; of time, 127; of motion, 128; of generation and corruption, 129; of the world, 132-137; of the zodiac, 138; of the summer and winter solstice, 143; of the moon, 145; of the zones, 156; of the soul, 161-164; of the voice, 172; of divination, 176; of generative seed, 177; of reason in animals, 187; precepts of, derived his philosophy from Egyptian priests, iv. 72. Pythagorean philosophy of dreams, daemons, ii. 412, 413. Pythagoreans, precept of, iii. 22; why they do not eat fish, 422-426. Pytheas, his saying, i. 213; iii. 159; apothegm of, v. 107, 110. Pythes, the Lydian, i. 382. Pythian games, iii. 316. Pythian priestess, iv. 8, 9, 62, 63; why she now ceases to deliver her oracles in verse, iii. 69-103. Pythocles, his Third Book of Italian History, v. 460; Third Book of the Georgics, 476. Pythoclides the flute player, i. 114. Python of Aenos, ii. 314. Quarry of Carystus, iv. 54. Questions or Causes, Second Book of, v. 475.
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