Book 10 — INDEX.
Charles Duke Yonge translation
⁂ The Roman numerals refer to the sections, the Arabic figures to the pages.
Æschines, a rhetorician, vii. 80.
calumniated, iii. 79.
lectured at Athens, iv. 80.
son of a sausage seller, i. 79.
Alcmæon, Crotona, his view of the soul, 371.
Anacharsis, inventions of, ii. 48.
letter to Crœsus, 49.
received by Solon, iii. 47.
return to Scythia, iv. 47.
sayings of, v. 47.
one of the wise, 46.
Anaxagoras, called Mind, i. 59.
epigrams on, x. 62.
first prose writer, viii. 61.
opinions of, iii. 59.
prosecuted for impiety, ix. 61.
Anaxarchus, called Happy, iii. 401.
intimate with Alexander, 400.
Nicocreon, his enemy, 401.
Anaximander, the astronomer, 57.
Anaximenes, letters to Pythagoras, 58.
Annicereans, their opinions, x. 92.
Antisthenes, doctrines of, v. 220.
founds a manly Stoic school, viii. 221.
love of life, x. 223.
pupil of Gorgias, ii. 217.
sayings of, iv. 218.
writings of, ix. 222.
Arcesilaus, a favourite of Eumenes and Hierocles, xiv. 168.
an admirer of Plato, viii. 165.
a poet, iv. 164.
axiomatic and free-spoken, x. 165.
death from excess, x. 170.
disliked talkativeness, 166.
founder of the Middle Academy, ii. 163.
goes to Crantor, iii. 163.
letter to Thaumasias, xix. 170.
liberal with money, xiii. 167.
vices of, xvi. 168.
Archelaus, 62.
a natural philosopher, ii. 62.
opinions on heat and cold, &c. iii. 63.
—— production of animals, iii. 63.
Archytas, general at Tarentum, 369.
letter to Plato and reply, iv. 369.
mathematician, vii. 370.
Aristippus, a favourite of Dionysius, iii. 81.
opinions of, on pain and pleasure, 90.
retorts, iv. 82.
school of philosophy, viii. 89.
sycophancy, iv. 82.
teaches for money, ii. 81.
wealth, iv. 82.
writings, vi. 88.
Ariston, the bald, called Siren, i. 318.
an eloquent philosopher, vi. 319.
his writings, vii. 319.
Aristotle, apophthegms, xi. 187.
death from poison, vii. 182.
hymn to Hermias, 183.
leaves Plato, iv. 181.
lived in Philip’s court, vi. 182.
opinions, criterion of truth, 192.
—— friendship, 192.
—— God, 193.
—— philosophy, 191.
Plato’s most eminent pupil, ii. 181.
peripatetic, why so called, iv. 181.
scheme for early waking, x. 186.
school at Athens, vii. 182.
will of, ix. 185.
writings, many, xii. 189.
Bias, the wise, 38.
declines the tripod, i. 38.
death of, in court, iv. 39.
eloquent and just as a lawyer, iii. 39.
a poet, v. 39.
sayings of, v. 39.
stratagem to save Priene, his native city, ii. 39.
Bion, apophthegms of, iii. 172.
change of schools, iv. 173.
fear of death, x. 175.
fond of theatre, v. 174.
poverty of, i. 171.
selfishness of, ix. 174.
Carneades, his letters, viii. 178.
well read in Stoic lore, ii. 177.
industry of, iii. 178.
his fear of death, vii. 178.
Cebes, the Theban, 105.
Chilo, the wise one of, 32.
brief in speech, v. 34.
death of, through joy, v. 34.
letter to Periander, v. 34.
opinion as to Cythera, iv. 33.
saying about suretyship, v. 34.
sayings of, ii. 33.
Chrysippus, his abilities, ii. 327.
his books, xii. 331.
his industry, iii. 328.
his questions, xi. 330.
a pupil of Cleanthes, i. 327.
his self-esteem, iv. 329.
said to be an indecent writer, xii. 331.
Cleanthes, a boxer, 322.
books of, ii. 325.
called an ass, iv. 323.
poor and industrious, ii. 322.
slow of intellect, iii. 323.
starved himself, vii. 326.
wrote on oyster shells, &c. for want of paper, iv. 323.
Cleobulus, one of the wise men, 41.
apophthegms of, iv. 42.
letter to Solon, vi. 43.
Clitomachus, disciple and successor of Carneades, 179.
Crantor, a poet, vi. 162.
a pupil of Polemo, iii. 161.
retires to temple of Æsculapius, iv. 161.
Crates, a pupil of Polemo, 160.
lived with Crantor, iii. 160.
writings of, and disciples, iv. 161.
Crates, a Theban cynic, 249.
his disposal of property, iv. 250.
his jesting with death, x. 252.
his indifference to public opinion, viii. 252.
his sayings, ix. 282.
Crito, the Athenian, 103.
Cynics, doctrines of, iii. 257.
discard liberal studies, 257.
prefer ethics to logic, 257.
simplicity in living, 258.
virtue, the chief good, 258.
—— may be taught, 258.
Cyrenaics, a sect of the school of Aristippus, viii. 89.
Demetrius, governor of Athens, ii. 209.
honoured and envied, viii. 209.
his reported blindness and restoration of sight, vii. 209.
statues erected to him, ii. 209.
sayings of, x. 211.
writings of, ix. 210.
Democritus, pupil of the magi, 390.
death, xi. 390.
disregard of glory, v. 391.
—— of wealth, vii. 392.
doctrines of, xii. 394.
lowly life, vii. 392.
Plato’s dislike of him, viii. 393.
sagacity, stories of, x. 394.
writings of, xiii. 395.
Dialectics, the Stoics’ doctrine of, xxxv. 275.
Diogenes, accounts of his death, xi. 246.
anecdotes of him, vi. 228.
cynical sayings, 226.
lived in a cask, 225.
money changer, 224.
—— corrupted by him, i. 224.
neglect of music, vii. 245.
persuader, a skilful, x. 245.
poverty of, reconciled to, iii. 224.
pride and haughtiness of, iv. 225.
pupil of Antisthenes, ii. 224.
sold as a slave, ix. 245.
writings of, xii. 247.
Diogenes of Apollonia, 400.
his chief doctrines, ii. 400.
Dionysius, a pupil of Zeno, 321.
writings of, v. 321.
Egyptian philosophy, vii. 9.
Empedocles, accused of pride, xi. 366.
doctrines of, xii. 368.
inventor of rhetoric, iii. 361.
liberality of, ix. 363.
pacifies the Agrigentines, xi. 366.
political career, ix. 363.
retires to Peloponnesus, x. 364.
story of his wonder working, xi. 365.
why called, wind-forbidder, v. 362.
Epicharmus, inscription on his statue, 368.
Epicurus, an Athenian, 424.
his character, v. 427.
criteria of truth, 435.
said to be debauched, iii. 426.
rejected dialectics, 435.
Diotimus, a Stoic, opposes him, iii. 425.
doctrines, his, on affections, 447.
—— atoms, 439.
—— clouds, thunder, &c. 460.
—— comets, 464.
—— faults among men, 467.
—— forms and attributes, 449.
—— grief, 467.
—— heaven’s phenomena, 452, 458.
—— injuries among men, 466.
—— meteorological, 461.
—— opinion and supposition, 436.
—— passions, pleasure, and pain, 436.
—— pleasure, 471, 473.
—— production of things, 441.
—— self-production, 451.
—— stars, 464.
—— study of philosophy, 468.
—— universe, 439.
flattered Mithras, iii. 425.
fundamental maxims of, xxxi. 474.
letter of, to Herodotus, xxiv. 436.
—— Menœceus, xxvii. 468.
—— Pythocles, xxv. 455.
manner of his death, ix. 429.
plain language, his, viii. 428.
pupils, his, xi. 431.
virtue, why to be chosen, xxx. 473.
voluminous writings, xvii. 483.
will, his last, x. 429.
writings on natural philosophy, iv. 426.
youthful student, a, ix. 429.
Epimenides, one of the wise men, 50.
built a temple at Athens, vi. 52.
honoured as a deity, xi. 53.
letter to Solon, ix. 52.
long life, his, story of, iv. 51.
long sleep, his, story of, ii. 50.
poems, and other writings, v. 51.
stays the plague at Athens, iii. 51.
Ethical philosophy, what, xiii. 12.
subdivisions, xiii. 12.
Euclides, his followers, iv. 97.
opinions, ii. 97.
protector of Socrates, i. 97.
Eudoxus, astronomer, geometrician, and lawgiver, 373.
inventor of theory of crooked lines, vi. 374.
writings of, iii. 373.
Fate, Stoics’ view of, lxxiv. 318.
Gymnosophistæ, what and who, i. 3.
God, Stoics’ view of, lxxii. 312.
Hegesiaci, a sect of the school of Aristippus, their opinions, ix. 91.
Heraclides, a Peripatetic, Pythagorean, and Platonist, by turns, ii. 213.
remarkable attempt to deceive at his death, ii. 215.
surnamed Pompicus from his dress and size, iii. 213.
writings of, iv. 213.
Heraclitus, book on nature, v. 377.
epigrams on him, xii. 381.
esteemed by Darius Hystaspes, letters between them, ix. 380.
lofty and arrogant, 376.
misanthropic, iii. 376.
Hipparchia, a female philosopher, in love with Crates the Cynic, 254.
Her contest with Theodorus, iii. 255.
Hippasus, a disciple of Pythagoras, 371.
Ionian school of philosophy, x. 10.
Italian school of philosophy, x. 10.
“Know thyself,” the apophthegm, xiii. 21.
Lacydes, founder of the New Academy, i. 176.
his death from excess, vi. 177.
his industry, ii. 176.
Leucippus, his chief doctrines, ii. 388.
pupil of Zeno the Eleatic, 388.
Lycon, an eloquent instructor of youth, i. 205.
delicacy in dress, iii. 206.
favourite of Eumenes and Attalus, iv. 206.
his will, ix. 206.
Melissus, his doctrine of universe, 386.
Menedemus, his banquets, xv. 110.
his character, vi. 107.
his death, xviii. 112.
despised Plato, &c., xi. 109.
disciple of Phædo, 105.
endangered by his free speech, iv. 107.
friend of Antigonus, xvii. 111.
invention and readiness, xii. 109.
regardlessness of appearances, v. 107.
severe and rigid, iii. 106.
sent to Megara, but deserts, ii. 105.
thought highly of by his countrymen, xvi. 111.
Menedemus, a superstitious Cynic, 267.
Menippus, a Cynic, 253.
hangs himself, iii. 256.
writer of low ridicule, ii. 256.
writings, vi. 256.
Metrocles, pupil of Crates the Cynic, 253.
destroys himself, 254.
Mind, Stoics, doctrine of, lxxiii. 299.
Monimus, feigned madness, i. 248.
a pupil of Diogenes, 248.
Myson, one of the wise men, 49.
Natural philosophy, what so called, xiii. 11.
Stoics’ account of, lxvii. 307.
Orpheus, not a philosopher, iv. 7.
Onesicritus, a pupil of Diogenes, 249.
Parmenides, first to speak of the earth as a sphere, ii. 384.
philosophized in poems, iii. 385.
Periander, one of the wise men, his domestic crimes, 43.
his letter to Procles, viii. 46.
—— to the wise men, vii. 45.
—— from Thrasybulus, ix. 46.
sayings of, v. 45.
wish to conceal his grave, iii. 44.
Phædo, founder of the Eliac school, 96.
Pherecydes, one of the wise men, 53.
epigrams on, vii. 55.
first writer on natural philosophy, ii. 54.
grave of, at Ephesus, iv. 54.
letter to Thales, viii. 56.
makes a sun-dial, vi. 55.
Philolaus, a pupil of Pythagoras, 372.
aims at regal power, ii. 372.
book, his one, iv. 372.
first to describe the earth’s movement in a circle, iii. 372.
Philosophers, names of their sects, xii. 11.
who did not write, xi. 11.
Philosophy, arose among Greeks, iii. 6.
divisions of, xiii. 11.
earliest study of, i. 3.
two schools of, x. 10.
various kinds of, xi. 11.
Pisistratus, his letter to Solon, vi. 20.
Pittacus, one of the wise men, 35.
advice about marrying, viii. 37.
death of, vi. 36.
forbearance of, iii. 35.
a general and soldier, i. 35.
honoured by his country, ii. 35.
lameness of, ix. 38.
letter to Crœsus, x. 38.
a poet, v. 36.
sayings of, iv. 36.
Plato, academy, his, ix. 115.
account of his opinions, by Alcimus, 117.
aided by Epicharmus, a comic poet, xii. 116.
attachments, xxiii. 123.
—— to writings of Sophron, 119.
birth and early abode, ii. 113.
danger from Dionysius, xv. 120.
defends Chabrias, xviii. 121.
descent of, i. 113.
dialogues of, xxxv. 133.
disciples of, xxxi. 129.
disliked Aristippus, 126.
disliked by Xenophon, xxiv. 125.
education, his, v. 114.
epigrams on his tomb, 128.
epistles, his, xxxvi. 134.
marks in his books, xxxix. 136.
method of his argument, xxxii. 129.
opinions on arts, beauty, 144.
beneficence, 146.
contraries, 149.
discourse, 143.
entities divisible and undivisible, 150.
—— independent and relative, 150.
end of affairs, 146.
friendships, 141.
God and matter, 137.
good and evil, 140.
good counsel, 150.
good laws and lawlessness, 148.
the good, 148.
good things, 149.
happiness, 147.
justice, 142.
knowledge, 142.
law, 143.
medical science, 143.
music, 143.
noble birth, 144.
philanthropy, 147.
political constitutions, 141.
power, 147.
rhetoric, 145.
rule, 145.
the soul, 144.
things existing, 148.
virtue perfect, 144.
voice, 150.
opinions on his writings, xxv. 126.
refuses appointments from Arcadia and Thebes, xvii. 121.
ridiculed, xxii. 121.
Socrates’ dream of him, vii. 114.
system, his, made difficult on purpose, xxxviii. 135.
theory of ideas, 118.
valiant soldier, a, x. 115.
visits Sicily, volcanoes, xiv. 119.
what he taught, xix. 122.
where he first taught, viii. 114.
will, his last, xxx. 127.
Polemo, his calmness, iv. 158.
epigram, viii. 160.
fond, of Sophocles, vii. 159.
imitated Xenocrates, vi. 159.
intemperate and profligate, 158.
much honoured, iv. 158.
rigorous system of morals, iv. 158.
Potamo and his school, xiv. 13.
Potter’s wheel, invented by Anacharsis, viii. 48.
Protagoras, method of arguing, his, iii. 397.
taught at a fixed price, 398.
works, his, v. 398.
wrecked in his way to Sicily, vii. 399.
Pyrrho, originally a painter, 402.
account of him, by Antigonus, 402.
arguing, ten modes of, ix. 409.
arguing, five others added by Agrippa, x. 412.
attached to Anaxarchus, ii. 402.
certainty not attainable, 414.
disciples, vii. 405.
—— called Sceptics from their doubting every thing, viii. 405.
eloquent, 403.
fortitude and economy, vi. 404.
good, natural, or natural evil, none, 417.
honoured by his country, 403.
impassiveness, vi. 404.
learning, no such thing, 417.
left no writings, 418.
motion, none, 417.
production, none, 417.
signs, invisible of visible things, 416.
signs, visible of visible things, none, 415.
system learned from his disciples, 418.
travelled to India, 402.
Pythagoras, accounted a son of Mercury, iv. 339.
his works, v. 340.
community of property with friends, viii. 342.
division of life, vii. 342.
doctrine of monads, xix. 348.
founder of Italian philosophy, i. 338.
geometrician, xi. 342.
greatly admired, xv. 342.
initiated into mysteries, iii. 338.
introduced weights and measures to Greece, xiii. 344.
letter to Anaximenes, xxvi. 358.
manner of his death, xxi. 354.
opinions on nature, xix. 349.
practised divination, xviii. 346.
precepts, vi. 341.
—— as to worship, xix. 347.
prohibition as to food, xviii. 346.
ridiculed by Timon, xv. 353.
symbols, his, xvii. 345.
wife and son, xxii. 355.
worship of Apollo, xii. 343.
Schools of philosophy, xiii. 12.
Seven wise men, the, xiv. 21.
Simias, the Theban, 105.
Simon, the Athenian leather cutter, 104.
Socrates, an artificer, 64.
character, his, viii. 66.
contests, his, xxv. 74.
counsels and sayings, xvi. 69.
dæmon warnings, xvi. 69.
executed for opinions, the first philosopher who was, v. 64.
lamented by the Athenians, xxiii. 73.
persuasive power, xii. 68.
ransoms Phædo and teaches him philosophy, xiv. 68.
school, his, xxvi. 74.
saves Xenophon’s life, vii. 65.
serves in Xenophon’s army, vii. 65.
slaves, would not have, xiii. 68.
wives, his, xvii. 70.
Solon, the wise, life of, 23.
apophthegms, his, xvi. 30.
counsels, his, xii. 29.
death of, xv. 29.
escapes from Athens, iv. 25.
excites Athens against Salamis, ii. 23.
inscription on his statue, xv. 29.
laws as to debts, i. 23.
laws, vii. 26.
letter to Crœsus, xx. 52.
—— Epimenides, xviii. 30.
—— Periander, xvii. 30.
—— Pisistratus, xix. 31.
means of preventing injustice, x. 28.
opposes Pisistratus, iii. 24.
poems, his, xiii. 29.
taught time by moon, xi. 28.
Speusippus, a basket-maker, vi. 152.
commentaries, his, xi. 153.
passionate and voluptuous, 152.
Plato’s successor, 152.
puts an end to his life, ix. 153.
Sphærus, at Alexandria, 326.
his books, iii. 327.
Stars, Stoics, doctrine of, lxxi. 311.
Stilpo, his acuteness, ii. 100.
his dialogues, viii. 102.
his end, x. 103.
opinions on statues, v. 101.
politician, a, iii. 100.
rejects theory of species, vii. 102.
his simplicity, vi. 101.
visits Ptolemy Soter, iv. 101.
Stoics, doctrines of, xxxiii. 274.
Strato, the natural philosopher, ii. 202.
Ptolemy Philadelphus, his pupil, iii. 202.
successor of Theophrastus, 202.
will, his last, vii. 203.
writings, his, iv. 203.
Thales, the wise, astronomical science studied and taught by him, ii. 14.
death of, xii. 20.
letter to Pherecydes, xv. 22.
—— Solon, xvi. 22.
sayings of, ix. 18.
star-gazing and falling into the ditch, viii. 18.
tripod awarded to him, vii. 16.
views of the soul, his, iii. 15.
Theodoreans, their opinions, xi. 93.
Theodorus, a disciple of Aristippus, xv. 94.
banished for his opinions, xvi. 95.
Theophrastus, Aristotle’s pupil and friend, 194.
character of, iv. 194.
name, symbolic, vi. 195.
will, his last, xiv. 200.
writings, his, xiii. 196.
Timon, of Phliasis, 420.
acuteness of, ii. 422.
delighted in a garden, v. 422.
fond of drinking, ii. 421.
a jester, vi. 422.
his pupils, vii. 423.
Virtue and vice, Stoics’ doctrine of, lxv. 304.
Water, the principle of all things, vi. 15.
Wise man, the Stoics’, lxiv. 301.
Wise men, the, who, ix. 10.
Xenocrates, accidental death, xii. 157.
a grave and solemn man, iii. 154.
habit of meditation, viii. 156.
kind to a sparrow, vi. 156.
pupil of Plato, 154.
self-denial of, v. 155.
sold for his taxes, x. 157.
writings, his, ix. 156.
Xenophanes, banished, 382.
buried his sons with his own hands, iv. 384.
doctrines, his, iii. 383.
wrote poems, iii. 383.
Xenophon, banished by the Athenians, vii. 76.
called the Attic muse, xiv. 78.
conduct on death of his son, x. 77.
escape to Corinth, ix. 77.
first writer of memorabilia, iii. 75.
follower of Socrates, ii. 75.
friend of Cyrus, v. 75.
love of Clinias, iv. 75.
writings, his, xiii. 78.
Zeno, the Stoic, his abstinence, &c. xxiii. 269.
admires Diodorus, xx. 266.
anecdotes of him, xix. 266.
Antigonus respects him, viii. 261.
Athenians crown him, ix. 263.
disciples and works, xxxi. 273.
doctrines, xxxii. 273.
kills himself, xxvi. 270.
lectures in the Stoa or porch, vii. 261.
manner of reproving, xix. 265.
personal appearance, ii. 259.
pupil of Crates, iii. 259.
retiring disposition, xv. 264.
republic, his, xxviii. 271.
turn for investigation, xvii. 264.
his vices, xiii. 263.
writes about duty, xxi. 269.
writings, iv. 260.
Zeno, the Eleatic, adopted son of Parmenides, 386.
arrested for treason against Nearches, v. 387.
chief doctrines, viii. 388.
invented dialectics, iv. 387.
pounded to death in a mortar, v. 387.
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