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ii. 2. 117; A.P. 56; (2) another M. Porcius Cato, called Uticensis, because he killed himself at Utica, E. i. 19. 13, 14; (3) Valerius Cato, a grammarian of the late Republic, S. i. 10. 1* (interpolated)

Catullus, the famous Roman poet, 87-54 B.C., S. i. 10. 19 Caudium, a Samnite town at the head of the famous Caudine Forks, S. i. 5. 51

Celsus Albinovanus, a friend of Horace, one of the staff of Tiberius and his secretary, E. i. 3. 15; i. 8. 1, 17

Ceres, goddess of agriculture, S. ii. 2. 124; ii. 8. 14

Cerinthus, a profligate, S. i. 2. 81 Cervius, (1) an informer, S. ii. 1.

47; (2) one of Horace's country neighbours, S. ii. 6. 77 Cethegus, an orator of the old Republic, consul in 204 B.C., E. ii. 2. 117; A.P. 50

Charybdis, a whirlpool in the
straits of Messina (see Homer,
Od. xii. 81 ff.), A.P. 145
Chios, an island in the Aegean,
E. i. 11. 1, 21

Choerilus, a poet of Iasos in Caria,

who followed in the train of Alexander the Great and composed epic verse upon his victories, E. ii. 1. 233; A.P. 357 Chremes, an old man figuring in the Andria and Heauton of Terence, and typical of his form of comedy, S. i. 10. 40; A.P. 94 Chrysippus, a Stoic philosopher,

born at Soli in Cilicia in 280 B. C., S. i. 3. 127; ii. 3. 44, 287; E. i. 2. 4 Cibyraticus, adj., of Cibyra, a town in southern Phrygia, centre of a conventus of twenty-five towns, E. i. 6. 33 Cicirrhus Messius, an Oscan ("Cicirrhus" is a nickname, meaning "a cock "), S. i. 5. 52, 65 Cicuta, a moneylender (the name is probably a nickname, i.e. "hemlock-poison"), S. ii. 3. 69, 175, See Perellius

Cinara, a girl who figures in Horace's lyric poetry, E. i. 7. 28; i. 14. 33

Circe, a famous enchantress in Homer's Odyssey (x. 230 ff.), E. i. 2. 23

Circeii, a promontory in Latium,
S. ii. 4. 33
Claudius, i.e. Tiberius Claudius
Nero, son of Livia, and later
emperor, E. i. 3. 2; í. 12. 26
Clazomenae, a town in Asia Minor,
on the bay of Smyrna, S. i. 7. 5
Clusinus, adj., of Clusium, in
Etruria, E. i. 15. 9

Cocceius, i.e. M. Cocceius Nerva,

consul 36 B. C., great-grandfather of the emperor Nerva, S. i. 5. 28, 50 Colchus, an inhabitant of Colchis on the Black Sea, A.P. 118 Colophon, a city of Ionia, on the coast of Lydia, E. i. 11. 3 Copia, Abundance (a personification), E. i. 12. 29

Coranus, a quinquevir who became a scriba, S. ii. 5. 57, 64 Corinthus, a city on the Isthmus of Corinth, E. i. 17. 36; ii. 1. 193 Corvinus, S. i. 10. 29. See Messalla Corycius, adj., of Corycus in Cilicia, S. ii. 4. 68

Cous, adj., of Cos, an island near Halicarnassus in Caria, S. i. 2. 101; ii. 8. 9

Crantor, an Academic philosopher and a voluminous writer, E. i. 2. 4 Craterus, a physician named in

Cicero's letters (Ad Att. xii. 13. 1; xii. 14. 4), S. ii. 3. 161 Cratinus, a poet of the Old Attic Comedy, S. i. 4. 1; E. i. 19. 1 Crispinus, Stoic writer, despised by Horace, S. i. 1. 120; i. 3. 139; i. 4. 14; ii. 7. 45

Croesus, a wealthy king of Lydia, E. i. 11. 2

Cumae, a town in Campania, E. i.

15. 11

Cupiennius, i.e. C. Cupiennius Libo of Cumae, a favourite of Augustus, S. i. 2. 36

Curius, i.e. M. Curius Dentatus, consul 290 B.C., conqueror of the

Samnites, Senones, and Pyrrhus,

E. i. 1. 64

Curtillus, unknown except from S.

ii. 8. 52

Cyclops, one of the Cyclopes, a one-eyed race of giants, especially the Cyclops Polyphemus, S. i. 5. 63; E. ii. 2. 125; A.P. 145 Cynicus, a Cynic philosopher, E. i. 17. 18

DACUS, adj., Dacian, of the Daci, a people on the north bank of the Danube, S. ii. 6. 53

Dama, a slave-name, S. i. 6. 38; ii. 5. 18, 101; ii. 7. 54 Damasippus, i.e. Junius Damas

ippus, a man who figures in Cicero's Letters as an agent in the purchase of works of art and other kinds of property (Ad Att. xii. 29. 33; Ad fum. vii. 23). Horace represents him as a convert to Stoicism, S. ii. 3. 16, 64, 65, 324 Davus, (1) a slave character in Comedy, S. i. 10. 40; ii. 5. 91; A.P. 237; (2) a slave of Horace, S. ii. 7. 2, 46, 100

December, the tenth month of the Roman year, when the Saturnalia were celebrated, S. ii. 7. 4; E.

i. 20. 27

Decius, i.e. P. Decius Mus, who devoted himself to death in the Latin War, was the first consul of his family, the Decian gens being plebeian, S. i. 6. 20 Delphi, seat of the oracle of Apollo, A.P. 219

Demetrius, (1) a trainer of actresses (mimae), S. i. 10. 79, 90, and probably the simius of 1. 18; (2) a Greek slave, E. i. 7. 52 Democritus, the Eleatic laughing philosopher of Abdera in Thrace, E. i. 12. 12; ii. 1. 194; A.P. 297 Diana, sister to Apollo, and goddess of the Moon, A.P. 16, 454 Digentia, a small river in the Sabine country, now the Licenza, E.

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said to have founded Canusium and other towns in Apulia, S. i. 5. 92; i. 7. 16; A.P. 146 Dionysius, a slave-name, S. i. 6. 38 Dolichos (al. Docilis), a gladiator, E. i. 18. 19

EGERIA, a nymph of Latium who

became wife of Numa, S. i. 2. 126 Empedocles, a philosopher, born at Agrigentum in Sicily, who wrote a poem on Nature, E. i. 12. 20; A.P. 465

Ennius, a famous Roman epic poet, born at Rudiae, in Calabria, 240 B.C., author of the Annales, S. i. 10. 54; E. i. 19. 7; ii. 1. 50; A.P. 56, 259 Epicharmus, writer of Doric comedy, born at Cos, but lived most of his life in Sicily, E. ii. 1. 58

Epicurus, founder of the Epicurean school of philosophy, E. i. 4. 16 Epidaurius, adj., of Epidaurus, a city of Argolis in Greece, dedicated to Aesculapius, whose symbol was a serpent, S. i. 3. 27 Etruscus, adj., Etruscan, S. i. 6. 1; i. 10. 61

Eupolis, a poet of the Old Attic Comedy, S. i. 4. 1; ii. 3. 12 Eutrapelus, i.e. P. Volumnius Eutrapelus, a knight, and friend of Antonius, to whom are addressed two of Cicero's letters (Ad fam. vii. 32. 33), E. i. 18. 31 Evander, the king of Pallanteum, who welcomed Aeneas to his home on the Palatine Hill, S. i. 3. 91

FABIA, adj. (sc. tribus), the Fabian tribe, of Roman citizens, E. i. 6. 52 Fabius, a Roman eques, who wrote on Stoic philosophy, S. i. 1. 14; i. 2. 134

Fabricius, adj., of Fabricius, who in 62 B.C. built the bridge connecting the Insula Tiberina with the left bank of the Tiber, S. ii. 3. 36 Fannius, a vain poet, S. i. 4. 21; i. 10. 80

Fauni, gods of the forests, identified with the Greek satyrs, the followers of Bacchus, E. i. 19. 4; A.P. 244

Fausta, daughter of the dictator Sulla, S. i. 2. 64

Ferentinum, a quiet hamlet in the Alban district, where the members of the Latin league once assembled, E. i. 17. 8 Feronia, an Italian goddess, perhaps Etruscan, who had a shrine near Tarracina, S. i. 5. 24 Fescenninus, adj., Fescennine, of doubtful origin. The Fescennina carmina were coarse verses sung at rustic festivals and weddings, E. ii. 1. 145 Fidenae, a town on the Via Salaria, five miles from Rome, E. i. 11. 8 Flaccus, S. ii. 1. 18. See Horatius Flavius, a schoolmaster at Venusia, S. i. 6. 72

at

Florus, i.e. Julius Florus, a friend

of Horace and of Tiberius, a student of oratory and a writer of satires, i. 3. 1; ii. 2. 1 Fonteius Capito, consul suffectus in 30 B.C., S. i. 5. 32, 38 Fortuna, Fortune (personification), S. ii. 2. 126; ii. 6. 49; ii. 8. 61; E.

i. 1. 68

Forum Appi. See Appius Fufidius, a money-lender of Arpinum, with whom Cicero had dealings, S. i. 2. 12

Fufius, an actor, S. ii. 3. 60 Fulvius, a gladiator, S. ii. 7. 96 Fundanius, a writer of comedies, S. i. 10. 42; ii. 8. 19

Fundi, a town in Latium on the Appian Way, now Fondi, S. i.

5. 34

Furiae, goddesses of vengeance, S. i. 8. 45; ii. 3. 135: the singular Furia, S. ii. 3. 141

Furius, i.e. M. Furius Bibaculus, a poet of Cremona, whom Quintilian classes with Catullus and Horace as a writer of iambics (x. i. 96). See also Alpinus, S. ii. 5. 41 Furnius, consul 17 B.C., a friend of Horace, S. i. 10. 86 Fuscus. See Aristius

GABII, an old town of Latium, between Rome and Praeneste, E. i. 11. 7; i. 15. 9; ii. 1. 25; ii. 2. 3 Gaetulus, adj., Gaetulian, African, the Gaetuli being a people of north-west Africa, E. ii. 2. 181 Galba, a jurisconsult, but a man of low morals, S. i. 2. 46

Galli, (1) priests of Cybele, S. i. 2. 121; (2) the Gauls, S. ii. 1. 14 Gallina, a gladiator, S. ii. 6. 44. See Thrax

Gallonius, an epicure figuring in Lucilius, S. ii. 2. 47

Garganus, a mountain in Apulia, now Monte di S. Angelo, E. ii. 1. 202 Gargilius, a man who wanted to be known as a huntsman, E. i. 6. 58 Gargonius, an unsavoury person, S. i. 2. 27; i. 4. 92

Genius, guardian spirit, E. i. 7. 94; ii. 1. 144; ii. 2. 187; A.P. 210 Glaucus, the Lycian hero who, instead of fighting with Diomedes, exchanged his golden armour for the other's brazen (Homer, Iliad vi.), S. i. 7. 17

Glycon, a famous athlete, E. i. 1. 30 Gnatia, or Egnatia, a town of Apulia, on the Adriatic coast, S. i. 5. 97

Gracchus, an eloquent orator, like the famous brothers Gaius and Tiberius Gracchus, the re

formers, E. ii. 2. 89

Graecia, Greece, E. i. 2. 7; ii. 1. 93,

156

Graecus, adj., Greek, S. i. 5. 3; i. 7,

32; i. 10. 20, 31, 35, 66; ii. 3. 100; E. ii. 1. 90, 161; ii. 2. 7; A.P. 53, 268, 286

Graius, adj., Greek, E. ii. 1. 19, 28; ii. 2. 42; A.P. 323 Grosphus, a Roman knight, living in Sicily, where he owned a large estate, E. i. 12. 22

HADRIA, the Adriatic, E. i. 18. 63 Hagne, a woman loved by Balbinus, S. i. 3. 40

Harpyia, a Harpy, a monster with

a human head, but the body of a bird, S. ii. 2. 40 Hebrus, a river of Thrace, now Maritza, E. i. 3. 3; i. 16. 13 Hecate, a goddess of the lower world, and sister of Latona, identified with Diana on earth and Luna in heaven, and therefore represented with three heads, S. i. 8. 33 Hector, eldest son of Priam, chief hero of Troy, slain by Achilles, S. i. 7. 12

Helena, wife of Menelaus, carried

his

off by Paris to Troy, S. i. 3. 107 Helicon, famous mountain in Boeotia, abode of the Muses, E. ii. 1. 118; A.P. 296 Heliodorus, a rhetorician, known only from S. i. 5. 2. See p. 63 Hellas, a girl murdered by her lover Marius, S. ii. 3. 277 Hercules, son of Jupiter and Alcmena, renowned for "Labours," E. i. 1. 5; sometimes, like Mercury, regarded as a god of gain, S. ii. 6. 13 Hermogenes Tigellius, a singer and poet despised by Horace, S. i. 3. 129; i. 4. 72; i. 9. 25; i. 10. 18, 80, 90. See Tigellius and p. 54, noteb Herodes, i.e. Herod the Great, who derived a large revenue from the palm-groves of Judaea, especially about Jericho, E. ii. 2. 184 Hiberus, adj., Iberian, Spanish, The piscis Hiberus was the scomber or mackerel, S. ii. 8. 46 Homerus, the Greek epic poet; S. i. 10. 52; E. i. 19. 6; ii. 1. 50; A.P. 74, 359, 401 (cf. E. i. 2. 1) Horatius, i.e. Quintus Horatius Flaccus, the poet, E. i. 14. 5. See Flaccus and Quintus

Hydaspes, an Indian slave, named from the river Hydaspes, now Djelun, S. ii. 8. 14

Hydra, a seven-headed snake, killed by Hercules, E. ii. 1. 10 Hymettius, adj., of Hymettus, a mountain of Attica, S. ii. 2. 15 Hypsaea, a blind woman, who is said to have also had the name Plotia or Plautia, S. i. 2. 91

IANUS, a two-faced Italian deity, god of beginnings, entrances, and undertakings, whose temple, said to have been built originally by Numa, stood in the Argiletum, north of the Roman Forum. It was opened on the declaration of war, but kept closed in time of peace. S. ii. 6. 20; E. i. 16. 59; i. 20. 1; ii. 1. 255. Certain arches in the Forum itself also went by the name of Ianus, and were the centre of the banking business of Rome, S. ii. 3. 18; E. i. 1. 54 Iarbita, a Moor, E. i. 19. 15 Iccius, a friend of Horace, pro

curator of Agrippa's estates in Sicily, E. i. 12. 1 (cf. Odes i. 29) Idus, the Ides, the middle of the Roman month, the fifteenth day in March, May, July, October; the thirteenth in the other months, S. i. 6. 75

Ilerda, a town in Spain, now Lerida, E. i. 20. 13

Ilia, mother of Romulus and Remus, S. i. 2. 126

Iliacus, adj., of Ilion, Trojan; E. i. 2. 16; A.P. 129 Iliona or Ilione, eldest daughter of Priam, wife of Polymnestor, king of Thrace, whose son Deiphilus was killed by his father. This furnished the subject of the tragedy Ilione by Pacuvius. S. ii. 3. 61

Indi, inhabitants of India, E. i. 1. 45; i. 6. 6

Ino, daughter of Cadmus and wife

of Athamas, who, after her hus-
band went mad and tore one of
her children to pieces, was
changed into a sea-goddess, A.P.
123

Io, daughter of Inachus, loved by
Jupiter and changed by Juno into
a heifer, A.P. 124
Italia, Italy, S. i. 6. 35; E. i. 12.

29

Italus, adj., Italian, S. i. 7. 82; ii. 6. 56; E. i. 18. 57; ii. 1. 2 Ithaca, Ithaca, an island off the west coast of Greece, S. ii. 5. 4; E. i. 7. 41

Ithacensis, adj., of Ithaca, E. i. 6. 63 Iudaeus, adj., of Judaea, used as a noun, a Jew; pl. the Jews, S. i. 4. 143; i. 5. 100; i. 9. 70 Iulius, possibly a freedman of Julius Caesar, S. i. 8. 39

Iulius Florus. See Florus

Iuno, daughter of Saturn and wife

of Jupiter, S. i. 3. 11 Iuppiter, son of Saturn and king of the gods, S. i. 1. 20; i. 2. 18; ii. 1. 43; ii. 3. 288; E. i. 1. 106; i. 12. 3; i. 16. 29; i. 17. 34; i. 18. 111; i. 19. 43; ii. 1. 16, 68. Diespiter

See

Ixion, king of the Lapithae and father of Pirithous. Called perfidus, because, after being kindly treated by Jupiter, he tried to dishonour Juno, A.P. 124

KALENDAE, first day of the month, one of the regular days for the settling of debts, S. i. 3. 87 Karthago, Carthage, S. ii. 1. 66

the

LABEO, i.e. according to scholiasts, M. Antistius Labeo, a jurisconsult, S. i. 3. 82 Laberius, a Roman knight, who composed mimes in the time of Julius Caesar, S. i. 10. 6 Laelius, i.e. C. Laelius Sapiens, a friend of Scipio and Terence, S. ii. 1. 65, 72

Laertiades, the son of Laertes, i.e.

Ulysses, S. ii. 5. 59. See Ulixes Laevinus, i.e. P. Valerius Laevinus, a man of high birth but poor character, S. i. 6. 12, 19 Lamia, (1) a witch who preyed on children, a vampire, A.P. 340; (2) L. Aelius Lamia, a friend of Horace, E. i. 14. 6 (see Odes iii. 17. 1 ff.)

Lares (also sing. Lar), tutelar deities of the hearth, S. i. 5. 66; ii. 3. 165; ii. 5. 14; ii. 6. 66 Latinae (sc. feriae), the Latin games, the days for which were appointed annually by the consuls, E. i. 7. 76 Latinus, (1) Latinus, king of Latium,

whose daughter Lavinia became the wife of Aeneas, S. i. 10. 27 (reading Latini); (2) adj., Latin, S. i. 10. 20; E. i. 3. 12; i. 19. 32; ii. 2. 143; adv. Latine, S. i. 10. 27 Latium, the plain between the lower Tiber and Campania, E. i. 19. 24; ii. 1. 157; ii. 2. 121; A. P. 290

Laurens, adj., of Laurentum, capital of Latium, S. ii. 4. 42

Laverna, goddess of thieves, E. i. 16. 60

Lebedus, a town of Ionia, near Colophon, in Asia Minor, destroyed by Lysimachus after the battle of Ipsus (301 B.C.), E. i. 11. 6,7

Leo, constellation of the Lion, E. i. 10. 16

Lepidus, i.e. Q. Aemilius Lepidus,

one of the consuls of 21 B.C., E. i. 20. 28

Lepos, a famous mime actor, S. ii. 6. 72

Lesbos, the island of Lesbos, in the Aegaean, famous for its beauty, its climate, its wine, its art, and its literature, E. i. 11. 1 Liber, the same as Bacchus, S. i. 4. 89; E. i. 19. 4; ii. 1. 5 Libitina, goddess of death, S. ii. 6. 19; E. ii. 1. 49

Libo, as in puteal Libonis, "Libo's well," a well-head in the Foruin, near the Arch of Fabius, where a tribunal was first set up by one Libo, E. i. 19. 8; cf. S. ii. 6. 35 Libya, the northern part of Africa, S. ii. 3. 101

Libycus, adj., of Libya, E. i. 10. 19 Licinus, a barber, A.P. 301 Livius (Andronicus), who first brought out a play in Rome in 240 B.C., and translated the Odyssey into Saturnian verse, E. ii. 1. 62, 69

Lollius, (1) i.e. M. Lollius, consul in 21 B.C., E. i. 20. 28; (2) Lollius Maximus, probably a relative of the former, who served under Augustus in the Cantabrian campaign, 25 B.C., E. i. 2. 1; i. 18. 1

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