The Complete Essays (196 page)

Piso, Lucius (conqueror of Thrace),
383
,
820

Pittacus (Greek sage),
985

Pius II (Pope),
852

Plancus, Lucius Munatius (Governor of Gaul),
788

Plantin, Christopher (printer),
1227

Plato,
xiii–xix
,
xxviii–xxix
,
xxxii–xxxiv
,
xxxvii–xxxix
,
xlii
,
xlvi–xlvii
,
32
,
41
,
44
,
69
,
122
,
131
,
156
,
159
,
160
,
168
,
169
,
170–71
,
182
,
185
,
223
,
232
,
242
,
322
,
344
,
345
,
356
,
387
,
391
,
396
,
447
,
460
,
464
,
465
,
497–8
,
505
,
506
,
538
,
548
,
558
,
567
,
568
,
571
,
575
,
578–61
,
601
,
603
,
612
,
614
,
618
,
627
,
629
,
645
,
655
,
662
,
715
,
725
,
766
,
792
,
798
,
812
,
867
,
869
,
925
,
949
,
953
,
964
,
967
,
968
,
970
,
974
,
1000
,
1014
,
1015
,
1016
,
1018
,
1043
,
1044
,
1048
,
1050
,
1052
,
1078
,
1081
,
1083
,
1086
,
1122
,
1124
,
1125
,
1134
,
1161
,
1177
,
1180–81
,
1196
,
1199
,
1209
,
1219
,
1223
,
1225
,
1227
,
1236
,
1245
,
1247
,
1251
,
1255
,
1258
,
1262
,
1269

Plattard, J.,
xlix

Plautus,
196
,
352
,
461

Pliny the Elder,
20
,
110
,
203
,
274
,
279
,
323
,
406
,
465
,
588
,
605
,
688
,
782

Pliny the Younger,
274
,
279
,
399
,
843

Plotinus,
xlii

Plotius, Gaius,
706

Plutarch,
xiii
,
xviii–xix
,
xxvi
,
xxx
,
xxxiv
,
xxxix–xl
,
xliii
,
li
,
19
,
21
,
203
,
317–18
,
334
,
348
,
389
,
408–9
,
456
,
467
,
487
,
488
,
505
,
518
,
519–20
,
567
,
570
,
581
,
611
,
626
,
726
,
809
,
812
,
818–24
,
852
,
942
,
979
,
1042
,
1125
,
1206

Pol, Pierre (theologian),
326

Polemon (Platonic philosopher),
750
,
943
,
966

Pollio, Gaius Asinius (Roman historian),
469
,
788
,
1043

Pollis (Spartan admiral),
17

Polyaenus (Greek mathematician),
600

Polybius (Greek historian),
23
,
833
,
1259

Polycrates (Greek tyrant),
190
,
584

Polypercon (Macedonian general),
27

Pompeius, Sextus,
304
,
406

Pompeius, Trogus (Roman historian),
323
,
712

Pompeo,
171

Pompey the Great,
5
,
57
,
83
,
86
,
141
,
262
,
304
,
315
,
317
,
322
,
342
,
530
,
695
,
822–3
,
829
,
835–6
,
840–41
,
975
,
1066
,
1124
,
1128
,
1146
,
1151
,
1268–9

Pomponius Atticus,
689

Pontanus, Jovianus (Italian poet),
110

Pontia Posthumia,
977–8

Popilius, Gaius (Roman ambassador),
780

Poppaea,
697

Poris,
793–4

Porsena, Lars (King of Clusium),
62

Portia (wife of Brutus),
1119

Porus (Indian king),
517

Possidonius (Stoic philosopher),
57
,
546
,
609

Posthumia (wife of Servius Sulpitius),
826

Posthumius (Roman tyrant),
223

Poyet (French lawyer),
38–9

Praestantius,
1169

Praxiteles,
997

Prester John,
327

Priam,
85

Priapus,
969

Priezac, Salomon de,
xxxii

Probus (Roman emperor),
1025

Protagoras (Stoic teacher),
xxxviii
,
156
,
575
,
589
,
654
,
660
,
1051

Protasius, St,
203

Protogenes (Greek painter),
248

Psammenitus (King of Egypt),
7–8

Ptolemy (nephew of Antigonus),
24

Ptolemy, Claudius (astronomer and geographer),
644

Ptolomy I (King of Egypt),
938

Ptolomy IV (King of Egypt),
797

Ptolomy XII (King of Egypt),
779

Publius Syrus (Roman writer),
373

Pygmalion,
452
,
670

Pyrrha,
1083

Pyrrho of Elis (Greek philosopher),
xxxiv–xli
,
57
,
58
,
560–63
,
764
,
800

Pyrrhus,
525

Pyrrhus (King of Epirus),
228
,
262
,
298
,
317
,
531
,
819
,
899
,
1249

Pyrrhus (son of Achilles),
624

Pythagoras,
177
,
179
,
309
,
485
,
571
,
573
,
575
,
579
,
606
,
624
,
627
,
1071
,
1247
,
1258

Pythodorus,
552

Quarrie, Paul,
xxxv

Quartilla,
1234

Quintilian, M. Fabius (Roman rhetorician),
32
,
187
,
460
,
971

Quintus Curtius,
3

Rabelais, François,
xxxiv
,
xlii
,
li
,
41
,
47
,
460
,
971

Rabirus, Gaius (Epicurean writer),
725

Rachel (wife of Jacob),
239

Raïsciac (German officer),
9

Raleigh, Sir Walter,
xxviii

Rangon, Guy de (governor of Reggio),
24

Rat, M.,
xlix

Raxias (‘father of the Jews’),
400

Raymond (Count of Tripoli),
806

Regillus, Lucius Aemilius (Roman admiral),
25

Regulus, Marcus Attilius (Roman commander),
345
,
395
,
1039

René (King of Sicily),
742

René II (Duke of Lorraine),
262

Renzo,
248

Restitutus,
111

Reu, Seigneur de (minister of Charles V),
82

Robert I, ‘the Bruce’,
14

Romero, Giuliano (commander of Yvoy),
26

Ronsard, Pierre de,
192
,
751

Rousseau, Jean-Jacques,
xiv

Rufus, Cornelius,
274

Rufus, Lucius Vibulus,
773

Rufus, Publius Sextilius,
706

Rusticus, Fabius (Roman historian),
410

Rutilius, Publius (Roman consul),
791

Sabinus, Calvisius,
61
,
154–5

Sacy, Le Maistre de,
xiii

Saint-Bony, Captain,
73

Saint-Martin, Captain (brother of M),
94–5

Saint-Michel, Sieur de (brother of M),
865

Salisbury, William ‘Longsword’, Earl of,
287

Sallust,
193
,
274
,
467
,
726

Saluzzo, Francisco, Marquis of,
42

Salvianus of Massilia (Salvien) (ecclesiastical writer),
756

Salvidienus (Roman conspirator),
141

Sancho XII (King of Navarre),
349

Sappho,
635

Sarah (wife of Abraham),
238

Saturn,
107
,
506
,
583
,
716

Saturninus, Appuleius (Roman tribune),
473–4

Saturninus, Lucius (Roman tribune),
811
,
1123

Saturninus (husband of Paulina),
595

Saulnier, V.-L.,
xlix
,
lii

Sayce, R. A.,
lv

Scaeva,
841

Scaevola, Gaius Mucius (Roman hero),
62

Scaevola, Publius (Pontifex Maximus),
137
,
600

Scaliger, J. C. (doctor),
1234

Scanderbeg, Prince of Epirus (George Castriota),
4
,
839

Scaurus, Mamercus (Roman orator),
402

Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius, Major,
137
,
146
,
286
,
313
,
319
,
345
,
413–14
,
833
,
1098
,
1127
,
1157
,
1199
,
1244
,
1260
;
and see next
entry

Scipio Africanus, Cornelius Aemilianus, Minor,
280
,
345
,
368
,
454
,
455
,
832
,
836
,
838
,
841
;
and see above

Scipio Nasica (Pompey’s father-in-law),
87