ABORIGINES of America, their char-
acteristics, i. 254.

Abuses, the source of, iii. 329.
Abyda, suicide of the inhabitants of,

ii. 39.

Abyssinians, their love for horses,

i. 390.

Accident to Montaigne, account of

an, ii. 54 et seq.

Accomplishments, suitable, should be
sought, i. 310.

Accusation, instance of a false, ii. 50.
Achaians, their hatred of double-
dealing in war, i. 26.
Acting, on, i. 215.

Actions, intention is judge of our,
i. 32; should not be judged till
after death, i. 70; noble, are easily
obscured, i. 285; inconstancy of
our, ii. 1; men not to be judged by
their outward, ii. 10; of the soul,
the three, ii. 227.

Adventure with robbers, iii. 372.
Advice of friends, iii. 26, 36.
Advice, the great need to kings of
good, iii. 395.

Æmilius, Paulus, ii. 400.

Eneid and Orlando Furioso com-
pared, ii. 106.
Esop's fables, ii. 103.

Æsop on physicians, ii. 587; anec-
dote of, iii. 336.

Affectation to be avoided, i. 208.
Affection of fathers to their children,
ii. 69; of parents to their children

is second only to self-preservation,
ii. 71; is natural, ii. 71; superior-
ity of to fear, ii. 81; of authors for
their books, ii. 92; of animals, ii.
182.

Affections, our, carry themselves be-
yond us, i. 12.

Age, on, i. 431; rare to die of old,
i. 432; Roman laws relating to, i.
433; at which the greatest human
actions have been performed, i.
434; the advantages and disadvan-
tages of, iii. 39-40.

Agesilaus, anecdote of, iii. 28; say.
ing of, on love, iii. 141.
Agrigentines, careless mode of living
amongst the, ii. 4.

Aim, a fixed, is necessary to the soul,

i. 35.
Alcibiades, his wonderful constitu-
tion, i. 201.

Alcibiades, ii. 571; anecdote of
Alexander the Great and Betis,
governor of Gaza, i. 5; his noble
refusal to use treachery against
Darius, i. 32; his alteration in the
calendar, i. 136; confidence of, in
his physician, i. 144; a pattern of
hazardous actions, i. 144; and his
flatterers, i. 350; his horse Buce-
phalus, i. 385; valour of, ii. 8; his
murder of Clytus, ii. 8; and his
love for Homer, ii. 565; on, ii.
566; and Cæsar compared, ii. 569;
and the apes, iii. 120; and Brisson,

anecdote of, iii. 178; and Thales-
tris, iii. 132.

Alexander VI., Pope, his death, i.

272.

Alexia, the siege of, ii. 547.
Alfonso XI., king of Castile, im-
pious proclamation of, i. 24.
All things have their season, ii. 497.
Alva, Duke of, treachery of, i. 33.
Amadis of Gaul, ii. 102.
Ambassadors, Persian custom as to,
i. 66; the duty of, i. 64.
Ambition, i. 306; the effects of, i.
293.

America, supposed notions of, amongst
the ancients, i. 250; what the dis-
coverers thought was its size, &c.,
i. 251; characteristics of the abo-
rigines of, i. 254, opinion of the
inhabitants of, on French cus-
toms, ii. 265; discovery of, iii. 164;
courage of the aborigines of, iii.
166.

Americans, their treatment of pri-
soners, i. 259; custom of, in war,
i. 260.

Amphitheatre, the Roman, iii. 160;
magnificence of the Roman, iii.
161.

Antigenides the musician, iii. 118.
Antigonus, his treatment of traitors,
iii. 13.

Antisthenes, anecdote of, ii. 145; on

the privileges of the sages, iii. 273.
Antony the first to use a coach in
Rome, iii. 154-

Ants, instinct of, ii. 178.
Anxiety of mind about the futur

causes unhappiness, i. 12.
Apelles, anecdote of, iii. 196.
Apes, Alexander and the, iii. 120.
Apology for Raimond de Sebonde, ii
137.
Apologies, on,
iii. 315.
Arcesilaus, method of, with b3
pupils, i. 175; his death from
drinking, ii. 19; the philosopher.
anecdote of, iii. 146.

Archelaus of Macedon, anecdote of
iii. 8o.

Archias, tyrant of Thebes, story of
ii. 44.

Archimedes, his defence of Syracuse.
153.

Areopagus, custom of the, ii. 317;
the court of, iii. 330.
Argippians, customs of, ii. 388.
Argue, how to, iii. 187.

iii. 305.

Angoulême, miracle at the siege of,

by King Clovis, i. 273.
Animals sacred amongst the an-
cients, ii. 136; their power of com-
municating with each other, ii.
157; affection of, ii. 182.

Arguments, we should not yield at

once to, iii. 202; on foolish, ini. 39.
Aristippus and Dionysius the tyrani,
ii. 126.

Aristotle, on a saying of Solon, i. 14;
his method of teaching, i. 195
on meditation, iii. 42; saying of
on bashfulness, iii. 81.
Armed, how soldiers should be, i. 376.
Arming of soldiers, Lycurgus and

Hannibal on, i. 377.

Armour, on the use of, ii. 95; not
worn by Alexander, ii. 95; exas-
sive weight of, ii. 96.
Arms, coats of, i. 371.
Arms of the Parthians, ii. 95; of the
Gauls, ii. 96; of the Roman sol-
diers, ii. 97.

Arras, capture of, by Louis XI., i. 318.
Arria, the story of, ii. 556.

Artibius, a Persian general, death of,
i. 384.

Art of conference, of the, iii. 181.
Asia, customs of the peoples of, in
war, i. 377.

Assassins, the, ii. 509.

Assyrian horses very fierce, i. 390.
Atalanta, the story of, iii. 59.
Ataraxy, ii. 227.
Atheism, on, ii. 147.
Athenians, characteristics of, i. 165;
injustice of, after the battle of
Arginusæ, i. 20; how they treated
the judges of Socrates, iii. 362.
Athens, Socrates on the city of, iii. 89.
Atticus, Pomponius, death of, ii. 378.
Augustine, St., on belief in miracles,
iii. 332.

Augustus, clemency of, towards
Cinna, i. 138.

Authors, favourite, of Montaigne, i.
168; affection of, for their books,

ii. 92.
Avarice, the disadvantages of, i. 334;
its cause, i. 337; the causes of,
ii. 74; the meanness of, iii. 224.

Beauty of body, on the definition of,
ii. 198; various opinions relative
to, amongst various nations, ii.
199; advantage of, ii. 418; and wit,
which to be preferred, iii. 52; the
power of, iii. 367.

Beauvais, bishop of, his conduct in
war, i. 345.

Bedouins, religious belief of, ii. 407;
belief of, in fate, ii. 506.

Bees, defence of a besieged city by,
ii. 188.

Beginnings of events should be care-
fully watched, iii. 316.

Behaviour of persons sentenced to
death, i. 317.

Belief in improbabilities, on, iii. 331.
Bellay, M. du, Montaigne's opinion
of his memoirs, ii. 116.

Benefits, on giving and receiving, iii.

244.

Besieged city, should its governor
parley, i. 25.

Bessus the Peonian, how he was
convicted of parricide, ii. 46.
Betis, governor of Gaza, obstinate
silence of, i. 5.

Bible, danger arising from so many
translations of, i. 424.

Bion, saying of, on grief, i. 23; death-
bed repentance of, ii. 147; and
Alexander, anecdote of, iii. 261.
Birds, instinct of, ii. 180.
Birth of Montaigne, i.
Boccacio's Decameron, ii. 102.
Bodily pleasures inferior to those of
the mind, iii. 446.

Bodin, Jean, on Plutarch, ii. 523.
Body, involuntary movements of our,
i. 105.

Books, on the choice of, i. 305;
condemned to be burnt, first in-
stance of, ii. 92; Montaigne's

choice of, ii. 99, 101; the advan-
tages of, iii. 53; Montaigne's en-
joyment of, iii. 53; not to be
used in excess, iii. 56; the study
of, not so useful as conversation,
iii. 183; the composition of, iii.
365; the difficulties in, increased
by comments, iii. 379.
Bordeaux, letters of Montaigne to
the jurats of, lxi, lxii; Montaigne
elected mayor of, in his absence,
iii. 294; Montaigne on his conduct
of the mayoralty of, iii. 316.
Borromeo, Cardinal, his austere mode

CÆSAR BORGIA, death of, i. 272.
Cæsar, Julius, description of his
oratory, i. 208; an excellent horse-
man, i. 384; liberality of, ii. 64;
Montaigne's opinion of his writ-
ings, ii. 111; clemency of, ii. 130,
536, 537; on death, ii. 377; style
of, ii. 417; disposition of, ii. 532;
ambition of, ii. 538; courage of,
ii. 546; popularity of, amongst his
soldiers, ii. 550; and Alexander
compared, ii. 569; and Pompey,

the enmity between, honourable
and without malignity, iii. 307.
Calendar, alteration in, by Alexan-
der the Great, i. 136; reformation
of, by Gregory XIII., iii. 302,
323.
Calepin the lexicographer, iii. 382.
Calicut, customs of, iii. 85.
Caligula, foolish revenge of, i. 24.
Cannæ, punishment inflicted by the
Romans for cowardice at, i. 60;
conduct of Roman soldiers after,
iii. 355.

Cannibals, i. 249.

Cannius, Julius, saying of, on death,
ii. 51.

Carneades, doctrine of, respecting
glory, ii. 393.

Carthage, panic at the capture of,
i. 70.

Carthaginians, cunning nature of, i.
25; discovery of new lands by, i.
252.

Caste, on, iii. 86.
Castelmandaris, fifty heretics burnt
at, i. 321.

Cato, parsimony of, i. 410; a hard
drinker, ii. 14; death of, ii. 381;
and Socrates compared, iii. 338;
the younger, a pattern of virtue
and constancy, i. 283; death of, ii.

121.

Catos, comparison of the two, ii. 497-
Catullus, Montaigne's opinion of, ii.
103.

Caunians, custom of, on sacred days,
ii. 271.

Cavalry engagements not so fierce as
battles on foot, i. 386.

Cea, custom of the isle of, ii. 23; sui-
cide of a woman of, ii. 41.
Celtiberians, disposition of, ii. 8.
Cemeteries in cities, why established
by Lycurgus, i. 86.

Ceremony at interviews of princes,
i. 36; the power of, ii. 408; Mon-
taigne's dislike of, iii. 48; the
effects of, iii. 68.