lives, in my opinion, are those which regularly accommodate themselves to the common and human model; without miracle, without extravagance. Old age stands a little in need of a more gentle treatment. Let us recommend it to God, the protector of health and wisdom, but withal, let it be gay and sociable:
"Frui paratis et valido mihi
Latoë, dones, et, precor, integra Cum mente; nec turpem senectain Degere, nec Cithara carentem.”1
1 "Grant it to me, Apollo, that I may enjoy what I have in good health; let me be sound in body and in mind; let me live in honour when old, nor let music be wanting."-Horace, Od. i. 31, 17.
ABORIGINES of America, their char- acteristics, i. 254.
Abuses, the source of, iii. 329. Abyda, suicide of the inhabitants of,
Abyssinians, their love for horses,
Accident to Montaigne, account of
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.
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.
Amurath, sacrifice of, at the taking Argument, advantages of, iii, 183
of the Isthmus, i. 247. Amusements, on, iii. 72. Amyot, Jacques, the purity and sim-
plicity of his writings, ii. 42. Anacharsis on the happiest state of government, i. 358.
Ancients, parsimony of the, i. 409. Androclus and the lion, story of, ii. 190.
Anger, of, ii. 512; great power of, ii. 513; and hatred not to be fostered,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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