great experience has been added to your great wisdom, there is nothing that pertains to glory of which you are not fully sensible, and which does not daily occur to your mind, without the exhortation of any. But I who, when I read your letters, think I hear you, and when I write to you think I converse with you, am more delighted with your letters the longer they are, and for the same reason I myself also am more prolix in writing.
In conclusion I exhort and entreat you, that just as good poets and skillful actors are wont to do, so you will redouble your attention at this the latter part and conclusion of your business and office; that this last year of your government, like the last act of a play, may appear the most elaborate and perfect. This you will most easily do, if you think that I, whom individually you have endeavored to please more than all the world besides, am ever present with you, and take an interest in all that you do or say. Lastly, I entreat you, as you value my welfare, and that of all your friends, that you will most carefully attend to your health.
ACADEMICS little differing from the
Peripatetics, 2, 6, 8; have a right
to treat about duties, 2; how dif-
fering from the Skeptics, and why
they dispute against every thing,
79; are not tied to a set of opin-
ions, 120; formerly the same
with the Peripatetics, 121.
Accusing, how far allowable, 96.
Acilius, the historian, 166.
Acknowledgment, a sufficient re-
turn for a kindness, 106.
Acropolis, its entrance, 102.
Action gives a true value to virtue,
13; to take place of speculation,
13, 74, 76; not to be ventured
on, if we doubt of its honesty,
18; should be free from rashness,
etc., 52; three rules to be ob-
served for keeping decorum in
our actions, 68; order and reg-
ularity to be observed in our
actions, 69; these depend upon
time and place, 69; good actions
ill applied become bad ones, 103.
Actors choose the parts fittest for
their humors, 57; respect mod-
esty, 67.
Addison, Joseph, quoted, 142, 254,
255, 258, 281, 300.
Admiration, how moved in men,
90, 91.
Affability wins people's love, 95.
Affectation odious, 64.
Africanus, his saying that men
grown proud, etc., 47; his retire-
ment and saying that he was
never less idle, etc., 115; Afric.
the younger razes Carthage, and
Numantia, 39; son of Paulus, 60;
not to be corrupted by money, 109.
Agamemnon sacrificed his daugh-
ter, 156.
Agreement between the several
orders the support of a state, 151.
Agriculture commended, 73; its va-
rious pleasures described, 240, etc.
Ajax, his character, 57.
Alexander Pheræus the tyrant, 86.
Alexander the Great, often guilty
of great vices, 47; reproved by
his father for giving money, 99.
Ambition, a great cause of in-
justice, 16, 34; is generally in
men of the greatest souls, ib.; is
contrary to true courage, 34, 36;
robs a man of his liberty, 36; is
destructive to a state, 45, 149.
Anger against adversaries to be
avoided, 46; especially in pun-
ishing, ib.; also in common dis-
course; in chiding, and in
quarrels, 66, 319.
Annicerian philosophers, 166.
Advantages tempt men to be Antipater the stoic, 112, 135.
Advice of friends to be asked in
prosperity, 47; of experienced
men, in doubt, 70; rules about
taking this advice, 72.
Advocates may plead for what is
not really true, 97.
Ediles, who, and their magnifi-
cence, 100,
Antonius Marcus, the subject of
Padox V., 277; subservient to
Cleopatra, 280.
Antoninus quoted, 13.
Appelles's Venus, 117.
Applause, the desire of it to be
avoided, 34, 36.
Aquillius's Formulæ, 138.
Arates the Sicyonian, 110,
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 6, 35,
36, 83, 96, 172, 176, 207, 247,
253, 257, 261, 277, 278, 321.
Brown, Dr. T., 7, 10, 149, 150, 161,
170, 176, 208, 212, 256, 259, 321.
Brutes, how differing from men, 9;
we often talk of their courage,
but not justice, etc., 28.
Brutus deposed Collatinus, 131;
decrees the augur, 172.
Building; its extent and object, 68.
Butler, Bishop, quoted, 4, 51, 299.
Buyers should not use arts to bate
down the prices, 139.
CESAR, brother of Catulus, a face-
tious man, 65.
Cæsar broke through the most
sacred ties for the sake of em-
pire, 16; robbed some that he
might be generous to others, 26;
was murdered for his tyranny,
triumphs over Marseilles, etc.,
loved villainy, though he got
nothing by it, 112; makes him-
self king of the Romans, etc.,
150.
Callicratidas, too careful of his own
honor, 43; a lover of simplicity,
Beauty of two sorts, 63; how to Callipho and Dinomachus join pleas-
be gotten, ib.
Becoming; see Decency.
Benefits; how we should judge of
their value, 27; done either by
our money or industry, 98; re-
late either to the republic, or
to individuals, 104, etc.; upon
whom best bestowed, 105, 106.
Bentham, Jeremy, quoted, 5.
Bias of Priene, saying of 265.
Body should be inured to labor, 40.
The care nature has taken in its
fabric 62.
Bounty; see Liberality.
Boys not allowed all sorts of plays,
Bragging very unbecoming, 67.
Bribery in magistrates, the ruin of
a republic, 108, 109; laws made
against it by the Romans, 109.
ure and virtue, 167.
Καθήκον, what, 7.
Cannius's bargain, 137.
Carriage toward all men to be
taken care of, 15, 63.
Carthaginians treacherous, 23.
Cato Censorius, his letter to Po-
pilius, 22; caused the third
Carthaginian war, 40; his ap-
ophthegms, 53; his answer
about managing an estate, 113.
Cato, father to Uticensis, his de-
termination of a case, 140.
Cato Uticensis's genius, 56; too
headstrong in standing up for
the interest of the republic, 152.
Κατόρφωμα, what, 7.
Catulus not inferior to Pompey,
39;
Catuli counted the best
speaker, 65.
Chiding sometimes necessary, 66; | Correction; see Chiding, Punish-
rules to be observed in it, 67.
Children naturally loved, 10.
Chrysippus's excellent saying, 131.
Cicero's service to his countrymen
by writing, 1; assumes to him-
self the virtue of an orator, etc.,
ib.; his prudent management of
the republic, 112; got his prefer-
ments by all the votes, 102; be-
takes himself to retirement, 115;
designed to have gone to Athens,
168; quoted, 3, 254, 397, 308.
Oimbers and Celtibers, 23.
Cimon of Athens's hospitality, 104.
Circumstances of men to be re-
garded in giving, 15, 103; make
that not to be a crime, which
usually is one, 120.
Cities, in taking them, nothing to
to be done cruelly, etc., 43; the
great use of them, 81; why at
first built, 107, 109.
Citizens' duties, 62.
Clarendon, Lord, quoted, 214.
Claudius Centumalus, 140.
Clemency, how far laudable, 45.
Cleombrotus beaten by Epaminon-
das, 43.
Clodius proved to be amad man, 275.
Clothes, only health to be regarded
in them, 54; moderation to be
observed in the fineness of them,
Clownishness to be avoided, 62, 64.
Cockman, Dr. quoted, 156.
Common; all things at first were
so, 14; what things are common
to all, 25.
Company; a man would be weary
of his life without it, 74; to keep
company with good and wise
men recommends young people,
Conceal, how differing from not to
tell, 135; what it is, 136.
Concord, a pillar of any state, 109.
Confidence; see Trust.
Constantia, what it is, 35.
Corinth razed by the Romans, 21,
133.
Coriolanus, 186.
Covetousness; see Avarice.
Countenance to be kept always the
same, without dejection, 47.
Counterfeit; nothing can be last-
ing that is such, 92.
Country claims a share in us, 15;
the love we have for it swallows
up all other loves, 32; their
wickedness who injure it, ib.;
every one that is able ought to
serve it, 35; should be preferred
even before parents, 32, 76, 153.
Courage is a virtue contending for
honesty, 34; an enemy to treach-
ery, etc., ib.; to desire of ap-
plause, 35; consists in two things,
ib.; is obtained by the mind, not
the body, 40; in war, recom-
mends young men, 93; teaches
us to fear nothing, etc., 158;
nothing profitable that is con-
trary to it, ib.
Craft; see Cunning.
Crassus, Marc., his saying about
riches, 15; made heir by a false
will, 144; a bad man, 145.
Crassus, Luc., an orator, 65; got
honor by an accusation, 94.
Crassus the wealthy, ædile, 95.
Cratippus, who he was, 179.
Cruelty most contrary to nature, 91.
Cunning far from true wisdom, 33,
80, 143; the great mischief of
it, ib.; doth not excuse from
perjury, but rather aggravates it,
165.
Curius, Marcus, 187, 242; Manius,
282, 285.
Custom and civil constitutions to
be followed, 70; some may act
against them, and others not, 71.
Cynics argue against modesty, 63;
to be wholly rejected, 72.
Cyrenaic philosophers, 166.
Cyrus, anecdote of, 244; dying ad-
dress of, 257.
DANCING in the streets scandalous,
145, 156.
Danger, how far to be undertaken, | Diogenes and Antipater dispute,
43; we should endanger our-
selves rather than the public, ib.
Death not terrible to the great and
good, 271.
Debts forgiven, etc., 109, 110; gov-
ernors should hinder people from
running into debt, 112.
Deceit frees a man from being
bound by his promise, 18.
Decency (or gracefulness) observed
by a man only, 9; inseparable
from honesty, 48; is seen in all
the parts of honesty, ib.; two
sorts of it universal and particu-
lar, 49; draws the approbation
of all, 50; relates both to body
and mind, ib.; nothing decent
that is contrary to a man's
genius, 51; decency of living
according to universal nature,
50, 52; according to each man's
particular one, 55; according to
one's place or station in the
world, 58; is seen in our words,
actions, etc., 62; in our eyes,
hands, etc., 63.
Decorum of the poets, 49.
Defending more laudable than to
accuse, 96; to defend a guilty
person lawful, 97.
Define; the subject of a discourse
ought to be defined at the be-
ginning, 7.
Deliberation, five heads of it, 8; in
some cases sinful, 120, 129.
Demet. Phalereus, who he was, 2;
blames Pericles, 102.
Dion taught by Plato, 75.
Dionysius, the Sicilian tyrant, 85.
Direct a wandering traveler, 28.
Discourse: variety in men's ways
of it, 55; not to be dressed up
with Greek expressions, 56; of
two sorts, 65, 95; common dis-
course should be easy, etc., ib.;
free from passion, etc., 67; should
be agreeable to the subject we
discourse upon, 65, 69.
Disputing of two sorts, by reason
and by force, 21.
Dissimulation should be excluded,
138.
Dolus malus, what, 137; punished
by the civil laws, 139.
Donations to the people, when al-
lowable, 101, 102.
Doubt: we should do nothing of
which we doubt whether it is
honest or not, 18; in cases of
doubt ask experienced men's ad-
vice, 70.
Dunlop, John, quoted, 307.
Dreams evince the immortality of
the soul, 257; not prophetic,
289.
Duties: the whole subject of them
consists of two parts, 7; middle
and perfect ones, ib., 119, 120;
incumbent on us in every part
of our lives, 3; greater ones to
take place before less, 18; duty
to parents adorns a young man,
Demetrius forsaken by the Mace- Dymond, Jonathan, quoted, 24, 44,
Demosthenes, a hearer of Plato, 2;
at what age he began his study,
94.
Desire of riches, etc.; see Avarice,
Ambition.
Despising different from having a
bad opinion of, 91.
Dicæarchus's book about the De-
struction of Men, 82.
Difficult subjects; see Study. Diffi-
culty makes a thing more honor-
able, 34.
56, 93, 97, 128, 154, 179.
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