The references are to books and lines in the Latin text. Abbreviations: A.P.Ars Poetica; E. = Epistles; S.=Satires or Sermones; also adj.: adjective; al. alius; fem. = feminine; plur. = plural; sing. = singular; subst. substantive.
ACADEMUS, an old Athenian hero.
In a garden dedicated to him and called Academia, Plato and his successors taught. E. ii. 2. 45 Accius, Roman tragic poet, born 170 B.C., S. i. 10. 53; E. ii. 1. 56; A.P. 258
Achilles, hero of the Iliad, S. i. 7.
12; ii. 3. 193; E. ii. 2. 42; A.P. 120. See Pelides
Achivi, the Greeks, S. ii. 3. 194;
E. i. 2. 14; ii. 1. 33 Actius, adj., of Actium, promon- tory and town of Greece on the Ambracian Gulf, where Octavius defeated Antony in 31 B.C., E. i.
Aeneas, the Trojan hero, son of Anchises and Venus, S. ii. 5. 63 Aeschylus, Greek tragic poet, E. ii. 1. 163; A.P. 279
Aesopus, Roman tragic actor, S. ii. 3. 239; E. ii. 1. 82 Aetna, the famous Mt. Etna in Sicily, A.P. 465
Aetolus, adj., of Aetolia, in central Greece, E. i. 18. 46
Afer, adj., African, S. ii. 4. 58; ii. 8. 95
Afranius, a writer of comedies with
a Roman setting, known as togatae, E. ii. 1. 57
Africa, i.e. Africa Provincia, the Roman province of Africa, S. ii. 3. 87
Agave, daughter of Cadmus, wife of Echion, king of Thebes, who in the madness of Bacchic rites tore her son Pentheus to pieces, S. ii. 3. 203
Agrippa, i.e. M. Vipsanius Agrippa, son-in-law of Augustus, aedile in 33 B.C., S. ii. 3. 185; erected the Portico of Neptune in 27 B.C., E. i. 6. 26; had estates in Sicily, E. i. 12. 1; conquered the Can- tabri in 20-19 B.C., E. i. 12. 26 Aiax, Greek hero, son of Telamon, and brother of Teucer. In his tragedy, the Ajax, Sophocles represents Menelaus as forbid- ding Teucer to bury the dead hero. S. ii. 3. 187, 193, 201, 211 Albanus, adj., Alban, associated with the Alban hills, or the Alban Mount (now Monte Cavo) near Rome, S. ii. 4. 72; E. i. 7. 10; ii. 1. 27
Albinovanus, i.e. Celsus Albino- vanus, E. i. 8. 1. See Celsus Albinus, probably a usurer, A.P. 327 Albius, (1) a man of expensive tastes, S. i. 4. 28, 109; (2) the poet, Albius Tibullus, E. i. 4. 1, possibly son of (1)
Albucius, a name from Lucilius, S. ii. 1. 48; ii. 2. 67
Alcaeus, Lesbian poet, E. i. 19. 29; ii. 2. 99
Alcinous, king of Phaeacia and host of Ulysses, E. i. 2. 28 Alcon, a Greek slave, S. ii. 8. 15 Alexander, i.e. Alexander the Great,
king of Macedon, E. ii. 1. 232, 241 Alfenus, a barber, who is said to have become eminent in the law, S. i. 3. 130
Allifanus, adj., of Allifae, a town of Samnium, known for its pottery, S. ii. 8. 39
Alpes, the Alps, S. ii. 5. 41 Alpinus, properly an adj., of the Alps, a nickname given to M. Furius Bibaculus, who wrote an Aethiopis and a poem on Gaul, S. i. 10. 36. See also Furius Amphion, son of Jupiter and Antiope, mother of Zethus, and famous player on the lyre. The citadel of Thebes was built to the accompaniment of his music. E. i. 18. 41, 44; A.P. 394. See Zethus Ancus, Ancus Marcius, fourth king of Rome, E. i. 6. 27
Antenor, a Trojan chief, who pro- posed to restore Helen to the Greeks, E. i. 2. 9
Anticyra, a town in Phocis on the Corinthian gulf, famous for its hellebore, S. ii. 3. 83, 166, A.P. 800 Antiphates, king of the Laestry- gones (Homer, Od. x. 100 f.), A.Þ.
Antonius, (1) Marcus Antonius,
the triumvir, S. i. 5. 33; (2) Musa Antonius, a freedman and physician, who cured Augustus by cold-water treatment, E. i.
Anxur, the old name of Terracina, originally built at the top of a hill, but later rebuilt on the plain below, S. i. 5. 26
Anytus, one of the accusers of Socrates, S. ii. 4. 3
Apella, a Jewish freedman, S. i. 5. 100
Apelles, a famous Greek painter, E. ii. 1. 239
Apollo, the god, S. i. 9. 78; ii. 5.
60; E. i. 3. 17; i. 16. 59; ii. 1. 216; A.P. 407
Appia (Via), Appian Way, S. i. 5. 6 Appius, i.e. Appius Claudius
Caecus, who in 312 B.C. built the Appian Way and Aqueduct, E. i. 6. 26; i. 18. 20. The Forum Appi, 43 miles south of Rome, was also named from him, S. i. 53. The Appius mentioned in S. i. 6. 21 is perhaps Appius Claudius Pulcher, who was censor in 50 B. C. Apulia, a district of Italy, S. i. 5. 77 Apulus, adj., of Apulia, S. ii. 1. 34, 38
Aquarius, the water-bearer, a sign of the Zodiac, S. i. 1. 36 Aquilo, the north wind, or the North, S. ii.. 6. 25; ii. 8. 56; A. P. 64
Aquinas, adj., of Aquinum, a town of Latium, E. i. 10. 27 Arabs, an Arab, E. i. 6. 6; i. 7. 36 Arbuscula, an actress or mima,
celebrated in Cicero's time (Ad Att. iv. 15), S. i. 10. 77 Archiacus, adj., of Archias, a maker of furniture, E. i. 5. 1 Archilochus, Greek iambic poet, flourished about 650 B. C., S. ii. 3. 12; E. i. 19. 25, 28; A.P. 79 Arellius, a rich neighbour of Horace, S. ii. 6. 78
Argi, city of Argos, in the Pelopon- nesus, often representative of Greece in general, S. ii. 3. 132; E. ii. 2. 128; A.P. 118
Aricia, a town sixteen miles south of Rome, S. i. 5. 1
Aricinus, adj., of Aricia, E. ii. 2. 167 Aristarchus, a great Homeric critic, flourished at Alexandria about 180 B.C.; A.P. 450
Aristippus, founder of the Cyrenaic school of philosophy, S. ii. 3. 100; E. i. 1. 18; i. 17. 14, 23
Aristius Fuscus, a friend of Horace, S. i. 9. 61; i. 10. 83; E. i. 10. 1 Aristophanes, the most famous of Attic writers of comedy, S. i. 4. 1 Armenius, adj., Armenian, E. i. 12. 27
Arrius, whose praenomen was Quin- tus, and who gave a great funeral
entertainment, mentioned by Cicero (In Vatinium, xii.), S. ii. 3. 86, 243
Asia, the province of Asia, in Asia Minor, S. i. 7. 19, 24; E. i. 3. 5 Asina, cognomen of Vinius, E. i. 13. 8
Assyrius, adj., of Assyria, A.P. 118 Atabulus, a hot, dry wind, peculiar
to Apulia, the scirocco, S. i. 5. 78 Atacinus. See Varro
Athenae, Athens, S. i. 1. 64; ii. 7. 13; E. ii. 1. 213; ii. 2. 43, 81 Atreus, son of Pelops, murdered the children of Thyestes, his brother, and served them as a meal to their father, A.P. 186 Atrides, son of Atreus, Agamem- non, S. ii. 3. 187; E. i. 2. 12; Menelaus, E. i. 7. 43; plur. of both sons, S. ii. 3. 203
Atta, i.e. T. Quintius Atta, a writer of togatae, who died in 78 B.C., E. ii. 1. 79
Attalicus, adj., of Attalus, the name of several kings of Pergamos. The last of these left his enormous wealth to the Roman people in 133 B.C., E. i. 11. 5 Atticus, adj., of Attica or Athens, S. ii. 8. 13
Aufidius, perhaps M.
Lurco, the first to fatten_pea- cocks for sale, according to Pliny (N.H. x. 23. 20), S. ii. 4. 24 Aufidius Luscus, the "praefectus " at Fundi, S. i. 5. 34 Aufidus, a river of Apulia, now Ofanto, S. i. 1. 58
Augustus, imperial title of Octavius Caesar, E. i. 3. 2, 7; i. 16. 29; ii. 2. 48. See Caesar
Aulis, a town of Boeotia, whence the Greeks sailed for Troy, S. ii. 3. 199
Aulus, son of Oppidius, S. ii. 3. 171. See Cascellius
Auster, the south wind, S. i. 1. 6; ii. 2. 41; ii. 6. 18; ii. 8. 6; E. i. 11. 15
Avidienus, a miser, S. ii. 2. 55
BACCHIUS, a famous gladiator, S. i. 7. 20. See Bithus
Bacchus, a god of wine and of poets, S. i. 3. 7 where some editors read Bacchae, i.e. votaries of Bacchus; E. ii. 2. 78
Baiae, a town of Campania, a favourite seaside resort of the Romans, E. i. 1. 83; i. 15. 2, 12 Baianus, adj., of Baiae, S. ii. 4. 32 Baius, a certain poor man, S. i. 4. 110 Balatro, a parasite of Maecenas, S. ii. S. 21, 33, 40, 83 (cf. S. i. 2. 2) Balbinus, a person unknown, S. i. 3. 40
Barbaria, a general term for all countries not Greek, E. i. 2. 7 Barium, a town in Apulia, now Bari, S. i. 5. 97. To-day steamers go from Bari to ports in Albania, Montenegro, and Dalmatia Barrus, (1) a vain person, unknown, S. i. 6. 30; (2) a foul-mouthed person, S. i. 7. 8
Bellona, sister of Mars, and goddess of war, S. ii. 3. 223
Beneventum, a town of Samnium, now Benevento, S. i. 5. 71 Bestius, probably a character in Lucilius, E. i. 15. 37
Bibulus, probably C. Calpurnius Bibulus, a step-son of Brutus, S. i. 10. 86
Bioneus, adj., of Bion, a philosopher, born in Scythia, who lived in Athens in the third century B.C., and was famous for his caustic wit, E. ii. 2. 60
Birrius, a robber, S. i. 4. 69 Bithus, a gladiator. He and Bacchius, after slaying many opponents, finally killed each other. S. i. 7. 20
Bithynus, adj., of Bithynia, a Roman province in Asia Minor, south of the Euxine, E. i. 6. 33
Boeotus, adj., of Boeotia, a district in Greece, north-west of Attica, E. ii. 1. 244 Bolanus, a hot-headed acquaintance of Horace (the name was derived from Bola, a town of the Aequi), S. i. 9. 11 Brundisium, now Brindisi, famous port of Calabria, S. i. 5. 104; E. i, 17, 52; i. 18. 20
Brutus, i.e. M. Junius Brutus, who slew Caesar. He was properly pro- praetor of Macedonia, but after the coalition of Octavian and M. Antonius, and the murder of C. Trebonius, proconsul of Asia, he assumed the jurisdiction of that province as well, S. i. 7. 18, 33 Bullatius, a friend of Horace, E. i. 11. 1
Butra, a friend of Torquatus, E. i. 5. 26
Byzantius, adj., of Byzantium,
centre of the tunny fishery of the Black Sea, S. ii. 4. 66
CADMUS, (1) a public executioner, S. i. 6. 39; (2) founder of Thebes in Boeotia. He and his wife Harmonia were changed into serpents (so Ovid, Met. iv. 563 ff.), A.P. 187 Caecilius, Roman comic poet, older contemporary of Terence, E. ii. 1. 59; A.P. 54 Caelius, a robber, S. i. 4. 69 Caeres, adj., belonging to Caere, an
old town of Etruria, which had a limited Roman franchise. Whether this was given as a re- ward or was due to punishment imposed, is uncertain, E. i. 6. 62 Caesar, a family name in the Julian gens; hence (1) C. Julius Caesar, the famous statesman and dic- tator, who left his gardens by his will to the Roman people, S. i. 9. 18; (2) C. Julius Caesar Octavia- nus, also called Augustus when emperor, grandnephew of the dictator, who adopted him as his son and heir, S. i. 3. 4; ii. 1. 11, 19, 84; E. i. 5. 9; i. 12. 28; i. 13. 18; ii. 1. 4; ii. 2. 48. See Augustus Calaber, adj., of Calabria, E. i. 7. 14; ii. 2. 177
Callimachus, famous poet of Alex- andria, flourished about 270 B.C., E. ii. 2. 100 Calvus, i.e. C. Licinius Calvus, orator and poet, friend of Catul- lus, S. i. 10. 19
Camena, pure Latin name of the Greek Movoa, Muse, S. i. 10.
45; E. i. 1. 1; i. 18. 47; i. 19. 5; A.P. 275 Camillus, i.e. M. Furius Camillus, who took Veii and freed Rome from the Gauls, 390 B.C., E. i. 1. 64 Campanus, adj., of Campania, S. i. 5. 45, 62; i. 6. 118; ii. 3. 144; ii. 8.56
Campus, the Campus Martius or Field of Mars, in Rome, S. i. 1. 90; i. 6. 126; ii. 6. 49; E. i. 7. 59; i. 18. 54
Canidia, a sorceress, S. i. 8. 24, 48; ii. 1. 48; ii. 8. 95
Canis, (1) the Dog-star, E. i. 10. 16; (2) a nickname, S. ii. 2. 56 Cantaber, adj., of Cantabria, in Spain, E. i. 12. 26
Cantabricus, adj., of Cantabria, E. i. 18. 55
Canusinus, adj., of Canusium, S. i. 10, 30
Canusium, a place in Apulia, where they spoke both Greek and Latin, S. i. 5. 91; ii. 3. 168 Capito. See Fonteius' Capitolinus. See Petillius Cappadox, a Cappadocian, living in Cappadocia, the most eastern Asiatic province of the Romans, E. i. 6. 39
Caprius, a public prosecutor, S. i. 4. 66
Capua, a town in Campania, S. i. 5. 47; E. i. 11. 11 Cascellius, with praenomen Aulus, an eminent jurist, contemporary of Cicero, but living into the time of Augustus, A.P. 371 Cassius, (1) Etruscus, a poet, per- haps same as (2), S. i. 10. 62; (2) Parmensis, an elegiac poet, one of the slayers of Caesar, E. i. 4. 3 Castor, (1) brother of Pollux and
Helen, S. ii. 1. 26; E. ii. 1. 5; (2) a gladiator, E. i. 18. 19 Catia, a shameless woman, S. i. 2. 95 Catienus, an actor, S. ii. 3. 61 Catius, according to the scholiasts
either an Epicurean philosopher, or a writer on the art of baking, S. ii. 4. 1, 88
Cato, (1) the famous censor, M. Porcius Cato, S. i. 2. 32; E.
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