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Authors: Michel de Montaigne
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Marteau, Michel,
xlii
Martholus, Vincentius (scribe to
SPQR
),
1132
Martin, Jean,
xxi
Massinissa (King of Numidia),
253
Matecoulom, Seigneur de (M’s brother),
789
Matignon, Monsieur de (Marshal of France),
1136
Maurice (east Roman emperor),
792
Maxentius (Roman emperor),
401
Maximilian I (Emperor),
15
Mechmet,
see
Mahomet II
Medici, Catherine de’
140–41
Medici, Lorenzo de’, Duke of Urbino,
48
Megabysus,
1056
Melampus (soothsayer),
506
Melanthius (Greek poet),
1059
Melissa (wife of Periander),
998
Melissus of Samos (Greek philosopher),
589
Memmius, Gemellus Gaius (Roman tribune),
829
Menicius (correspondent of Epicurus),
184
Meno (Greek general),
1013
Meno (Thessalian adventurer),
1213
Mercurino de’ Gratinare (prisoner of Suleiman),
737
Mercury,
291
,
406
,
631
,
716
,
721
,
1257
Merveille, Captain,
36
Messala Corvinus (Roman consul and historian),
739
Messalina,
985
Metellus (family),
1127
Metellus Creticus (Roman commander),
327
,
342
Metellus of Macedon (Roman consul),
632
Metellus Nepos (tribune),
304
,
342
Metellus Numidicus (consul),
473–4
Metrocles (Greek philosopher),
658
,
1141
Metrodorus of Chios (Greek philosopher),
589
Metrodorus of Lampsacus (Epicurean philosopher),
389
,
705
,
707
,
765
,
1141
Michael, St,
894
Michel, Pierre,
xlii
Milton, John,
30
Monluc, Blaise de (Marshal of France),
444
Monstrelet, Enguerrand de,
326
Montaigne, Antoinette de (M’s mother),
xiv
Montaigne, Léonor de (M’s daughter),
xiv
,
437
,
966
Montaigne, Pierre Eyquem de (M’s father),
xiv
,
xxi
,
lvii
,
252
,
386
,
432
,
1076
,
1078
,
1137
,
1249
,
1251
Montaureus (Mont-Doré) (French poet),
751
Montfort, John, Count of,
262
Montmord, Seigneur de,
23
Montmorency, Anne, Duc de, (Constable of France),
73
,
306
,
471
,
751
Morozo, Matteo,
148
Morvilliers, Sieur de (Bishop of Orleans),
895
Muley Hassan (Dey of Tunis),
438
Muley Moloch (Abd el Malek, King of Fez),
770–71
Muret, Marc-Antoine (M’s tutor),
195
,
198
Musa (Greek physician),
872
Musaeus (oracle),
606
Mutas, Alexander (Conservator of Rome),
1131
Mutia (wife of Pompey),
826
Myson (Greek sage),
1052
Narcissus,
671
Naselli, G.,
xliii
Nausiphanes,
589
Navarre,
see
Henry of Navarre; Margaret of Navarre
Nembroth (Nimrod, King of Babel),
623
Nero,
12
,
264
,
373
,
450
,
817–18
,
846–8
Nerva, Coceius (Roman jurist),
402–3
Nesle, Jean de (French soldier),
287
Newman, John H. (cardinal),
xlii
Nicanor (Syrian general),
400
Nicetas of Syracuse,
642
Nicias (Athenian general),
14
Nicocles (King of Cyprus),
868
,
870
,
1087
Nicocreon (King of Cyprus),
389
Nicolaus of Cusa (cardinal),
xxii
Nicomedes III (King of Bithynia),
826
Niger (Nero’s commander),
939
Ninachetuen (Malaccan chief),
402
Niobe,
8
Normandy, Robert II (Curthose), Duke of,
247
Numa Pompilius (King of Rome),
573
,
716
,
823
Oceanus,
680
Octavius (consul),
138
Octavius, Marcus (Pompey’s lieutenant),
841
Octavius Sagilla,
977–8
Olivier, François (Chancellor of France),
734
,
751
Onesilus (King of Salamis),
322
Oppianus (Greek poet),
527
Oppius, Gaius (writer and friend of Caesar),
826
,
839
Orange-Nassau, William, Prince of (William the Silent),
805
Origen of Alexandria,
954–5
Orleans, Charles, Duke of,
789
Oromasis (Persian god),
716
Osorius (Osorio), Geronimo (Portuguese bishop),
55
Ostorius,
688
Otanes (Persian general),
1040
Pacuvius (Roman tragedian),
43
Pacuvius Calavius (senator of Capua),
1085–6
Paetus (family),
844–5
Pallas Athena,
181
,
957
,
1138
,
1257
Palvel,
171
Panaetius (Stoic philosopher),
562
,
852
,
1008
,
1157
Pantaleon,
795
Panthea (wife of Abradatas),
1149
Paracelsus, Theophrastus,
643
,
873
Parmenides of Elea (Greek philosopher),
568
,
575
,
589
,
606
,
609
,
680
Parmenion (Macedonian general),
145
,
303
Pasicles,
333
Patrodus (friend of Achilles),
211
Paul, St,
xviii
,
xx
,
xxvii
,
xxix–xxx
,
xliii
,
405
,
499
,
554
,
573
,
593
Paul IV (Pope), xxii,
970
Paulina (wife of Satuminus),
595–6
Paulina, Pompeia (wife of Seneca),
846–8
Paulinus (Bishop of Nola),
270
Paulus Aemilius, Lucius Macedonicus (Roman general),
64
,
96
,
343
,
582
,
710
Pausanias (Macedonian assassin of Philip),
383
Pausanias (Spartan tyrant),
223
,
258
Pausanias (traveller and geographer),
1045
Paxea (wife of Labeo),
402
Peducaeus, Sextus (Roman propraetor),
706
Pelagia, St,
401
Peletier, Jacques (French poet and mathematician),
113
,
644
,
693
Pelopidas (Theban general),
4–5
,
225
,
409
,
822–3
,
857
Periander (doctor, poet),
77
,
1252
Periander (Tyrant of Corinth),
998
Pericles (Athenian statesman and general),
139
,
224
,
341
,
886
,
936
,
1248
Perictione (mother of Plato),
596
Perrozet,
1208
Perseus (King of Macedonia),
22
,
96
,
305
,
1222
Perseus of Cittium (Stoic philosopher, pupil of Zeno),
576
Pescara, Fernando F. D., Marquis of,
26
Petilius (Roman tribune),
414
Petreius (Roman governor of Spain),
836
Petronius (favourite of Nero),
1113
Petronius, Granius (Roman quaestor),
841
Phaedo (Greek philosopher),
982
Pharnaces (King of Pontus),
836
Phaulius of Argos,
981
Pheraulas,
70
Pherecydes (Greek philosopher),
540
,
558
,
621
Phereus, Jason,
248
Phidias (Greek sculptor),
451
Philemon (Caesar’s secretary),
482
Philip (Alexander’s doctor),
145
Philip II (King of Macedon),
280
,
281
,
383
,
404
,
981
,
1025
,
1083
,
1214
Philip V (King of Macedon),
228
,
392–3
,
793
Philip II (King of France),
94
,
202–3
,
287
Philip VI (de Valois) (King of France),
776
Philip II (King of Spain),
15
Philippe de Commines (French writer),
470–71
,
833
,
1064
Philistus (Greek commander),
770
Phillipides (Greek poet),
896
Philo,
558
Philopoemen (Greek general),
139
,
306
,
316
,
728–9
,
792
,
797
,
1230
Philotas, Quintus Curtius (Alexander’s general),
415
,
1268
Philotimus (Greek physician),
1071
,
1043
Philoxenus (Greek poet),
670
Phocas (east Roman emperor),
792
Phocion (Athenian general and statesman),
277
,
813–14
,
823
,
918
,
1075
Phryne (Athenian hetaira),
1199
Phrynis (musician and poet),
134
Phyton (defender of Rhegium),
5
Pibrac, Guy du Faur de,
1084
Pico della Mirandola, Gian-Francesco,
xxxiii
,
xxxvi
Pincher,
915
Piso, Cnaius (Roman general),
813