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The Complete Essays

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by Michel de Montaigne


  Paracelsus, Theophrastus, 643, 873

  Paris, 479, 529

  Parmenides of Elea (Greek philosopher), 568, 575, 589, 606, 609, 680

  Parmenion (Macedonian general), 145, 303

  Pascal, Blaise, xiii, xxix, xxx

  Pasicles, 333

  Patrodus (friend of Achilles), 211

  Paul, St, xviii, xx, xxvii, xxix–xxx, xliii, 405, 499, 554, 573, 593

  Paul IV (Pope), xxii, 970

  Paulina (wife of Satuminus), 595–6

  Paulina, Pompeia (wife of Seneca), 846–8

  Paulinus (Bishop of Nola), 270

  Paulus Aemilius, Lucius Macedonicus (Roman general), 64, 96, 343, 582, 710

  Pausanias (Macedonian assassin of Philip), 383

  Pausanias (Spartan tyrant), 223, 258

  Pausanias (traveller and geographer), 1045

  Paxea (wife of Labeo), 402

  Peducaeus, Sextus (Roman propraetor), 706

  Pelagia, St, 401

  Peletier, Jacques (French poet and mathematician), 113, 644, 693

  Pelopidas (Theban general), 4–5, 225, 409, 822–3, 857

  Periander (doctor, poet), 77, 1252

  Periander (Tyrant of Corinth), 998

  Pericles (Athenian statesman and general), 139, 224, 341, 886, 936, 1248

  Perictione (mother of Plato), 596

  Perrozet, 1208

  Perseus (King of Macedonia), 22, 96, 305, 1222

  Perseus of Cittium (Stoic philosopher, pupil of Zeno), 576

  Pescara, Fernando F. D., Marquis of, 26

  Petilius (Roman tribune), 414

  Petreius (Roman governor of Spain), 836

  Petronius (favourite of Nero), 1113

  Petronius, Granius (Roman quaestor), 841

  Phaedo (Greek philosopher), 982

  Pharnaces (King of Pontus), 836

  Phaulius of Argos, 981

  Pheraulas, 70

  Pherecydes (Greek philosopher), 540, 558, 621

  Phereus, Jason, 248

  Phidias (Greek sculptor), 451

  Philemon (Caesar’s secretary), 482

  Philip (Alexander’s doctor), 145

  Philip II (King of Macedon), 280, 281, 383, 404, 981, 1025, 1083, 1214

  Philip V (King of Macedon), 228, 392–3, 793

  Philip II (King of France), 94, 202–3, 287

  Philip VI (de Valois) (King of France), 776

  Philip II (King of Spain), 15

  Philippe de Commines (French writer), 470–71, 833, 1064

  Philistus (Greek commander), 770

  Phillipides (Greek poet), 896

  Philo, 558

  Philopoemen (Greek general), 139, 306, 316, 728–9, 792, 797, 1230

  Philotas, Quintus Curtius (Alexander’s general), 415, 1268

  Philotimus (Greek physician), 1071, 1043

  Philoxenus (Greek poet), 670

  Phocas (east Roman emperor), 792

  Phocion (Athenian general and statesman), 277, 813–14, 823, 918, 1075

  Phryne (Athenian hetaira), 1199

  Phrynis (musician and poet), 134

  Phyton (defender of Rhegium), 5

  Pibrac, Guy du Faur de, 1084

  Pico della Mirandola, Gian-Francesco, xxxiii, xxxvi

  Pincher, 915

  Pindar, 129, 624, 756

  Piso, Cnaius (Roman general), 813

  Piso, Lucius (conqueror of Thrace), 383, 820

  Pittacus (Greek sage), 985

  Pius II (Pope), 852

  Plancus, Lucius Munatius (Governor of Gaul), 788

  Plantin, Christopher (printer), 1227

  Plato, xiii–xix, xxviii–xxix, xxxii–xxxiv, xxxvii–xxxix, xlii, xlvi–xlvii, 32, 41, 44, 69, 122, 131, 156, 159, 160, 168, 169, 170–71, 182, 185, 223, 232, 242, 322, 344, 345, 356, 387, 391, 396, 447, 460, 464, 465, 497–8, 505, 506, 538, 548, 558, 567, 568, 571, 575, 578–61, 601, 603, 612, 614, 618, 627, 629, 645, 655, 662, 715, 725, 766, 792, 798, 812, 867, 869, 925, 949, 953, 964, 967, 968, 970, 974, 1000, 1014, 1015, 1016, 1018, 1043, 1044, 1048, 1050, 1052, 1078, 1081, 1083, 1086, 1122, 1124, 1125, 1134, 1161, 1177, 1180–81, 1196, 1199, 1209, 1219, 1223, 1225, 1227, 1236, 1245, 1247, 1251, 1255, 1258, 1262, 1269

  Plattard, J., xlix

  Plautus, 196, 352, 461

  Pliny the Elder, 20, 110, 203, 274, 279, 323, 406, 465, 588, 605, 688, 782

  Pliny the Younger, 274, 279, 399, 843

  Plotinus, xlii

  Plotius, Gaius, 706

  Plutarch, xiii, xviii–xix, xxvi, xxx, xxxiv, xxxix–xl, xliii, li, 19, 21, 203, 317–18, 334, 348, 389, 408–9, 456, 467, 487, 488, 505, 518, 519–20, 567, 570, 581, 611, 626, 726, 809, 812, 818–24, 852, 942, 979, 1042, 1125, 1206

  Pol, Pierre (theologian), 326

  Polemon (Platonic philosopher), 750, 943, 966

  Pollio, Gaius Asinius (Roman historian), 469, 788, 1043

  Pollis (Spartan admiral), 17

  Polyaenus (Greek mathematician), 600

  Polybius (Greek historian), 23, 833, 1259

  Polycrates (Greek tyrant), 190, 584

  Polypercon (Macedonian general), 27

  Pompeius, Sextus, 304, 406

  Pompeius, Trogus (Roman historian), 323, 712

  Pompeo, 171

  Pompey the Great, 5, 57, 83, 86, 141, 262, 304, 315, 317, 322, 342, 530, 695, 822–3, 829, 835–6, 840–41, 975, 1066, 1124, 1128, 1146, 1151, 1268–9

  Pomponius Atticus, 689

  Pontanus, Jovianus (Italian poet), 110

  Pontia Posthumia, 977–8

  Popilius, Gaius (Roman ambassador), 780

  Poppaea, 697

  Poris, 793–4

  Porsena, Lars (King of Clusium), 62

  Portia (wife of Brutus), 1119

  Porus (Indian king), 517

  Possidonius (Stoic philosopher), 57, 546, 609

  Posthumia (wife of Servius Sulpitius), 826

  Posthumius (Roman tyrant), 223

  Poyet (French lawyer), 38–9

  Praestantius, 1169

  Praxiteles, 997

  Prester John, 327

  Priam, 85

  Priapus, 969

  Priezac, Salomon de, xxxii

  Probus (Roman emperor), 1025

  Protagoras (Stoic teacher), xxxviii, 156, 575, 589, 654, 660, 1051

  Protasius, St, 203

  Protogenes (Greek painter), 248

  Psammenitus (King of Egypt), 7–8

  Ptolemy (nephew of Antigonus), 24

  Ptolemy, Claudius (astronomer and geographer), 644

  Ptolomy I (King of Egypt), 938

  Ptolomy IV (King of Egypt), 797

  Ptolomy XII (King of Egypt), 779

  Publius Syrus (Roman writer), 373

  Pygmalion, 452, 670

  Pyrrha, 1083

  Pyrrho of Elis (Greek philosopher), xxxiv–xli, 57, 58, 560–63, 764, 800

  Pyrrhus, 525

  Pyrrhus (King of Epirus), 228, 262, 298, 317, 531, 819, 899, 1249

  Pyrrhus (son of Achilles), 624

  Pythagoras, 177, 179, 309, 485, 571, 573, 575, 579, 606, 624, 627, 1071, 1247, 1258

  Pythodorus, 552

  Quarrie, Paul, xxxv

  Quartilla, 1234

  Quintilian, M. Fabius (Roman rhetorician), 32, 187, 460, 971

  Quintus Curtius, 3

  Rabelais, François, xxxiv, xlii, li, 41, 47, 460, 971

  Rabirus, Gaius (Epicurean writer), 725

  Rachel (wife of Jacob), 239

  Raïsciac (German officer), 9

  Raleigh, Sir Walter, xxviii

  Rangon, Guy de (governor of Reggio), 24

  Rat, M., xlix

  Raxias (‘father of the Jews’), 400

  Raymond (Count of Tripoli), 806

  Regillus, Lucius Aemilius (Roman admiral), 25

  Regulus, Marcus Attilius (Roman commander), 345, 395, 1039

  René (King of Sicily), 742

  René II (Duke of Lorraine), 262

  Renzo, 248

  Restitutus, 111

  Reu, Seigneur de (ministe
r of Charles V), 82

  Robert I, ‘the Bruce’, 14

  Romero, Giuliano (commander of Yvoy), 26

  Ronsard, Pierre de, 192, 751

  Rousseau, Jean-Jacques, xiv

  Rufus, Cornelius, 274

  Rufus, Lucius Vibulus, 773

  Rufus, Publius Sextilius, 706

  Rusticus, Fabius (Roman historian), 410

  Rutilius, Publius (Roman consul), 791

  Sabinus, Calvisius, 61, 154–5

  Sacy, Le Maistre de, xiii

  Saint-Bony, Captain, 73

  Saint-Martin, Captain (brother of M), 94–5

  Saint-Michel, Sieur de (brother of M), 865

  Salisbury, William ‘Longsword’, Earl of, 287

  Sallust, 193, 274, 467, 726

  Saluzzo, Francisco, Marquis of, 42

  Salvianus of Massilia (Salvien) (ecclesiastical writer), 756

  Salvidienus (Roman conspirator), 141

  Sancho XII (King of Navarre), 349

  Sappho, 635

  Sarah (wife of Abraham), 238

  Saturn, 107, 506, 583, 716

  Saturninus, Appuleius (Roman tribune), 473–4

  Saturninus, Lucius (Roman tribune), 811, 1123

  Saturninus (husband of Paulina), 595

  Saulnier, V.-L., xlix, lii

  Sayce, R. A., lv

  Scaeva, 841

  Scaevola, Gaius Mucius (Roman hero), 62

  Scaevola, Publius (Pontifex Maximus), 137, 600

  Scaliger, J. C. (doctor), 1234

  Scanderbeg, Prince of Epirus (George Castriota), 4, 839

  Scaurus, Mamercus (Roman orator), 402

  Scipio Africanus, Publius Cornelius, Major, 137, 146, 286, 313, 319, 345, 413–14, 833, 1098, 1127, 1157, 1199, 1244, 1260; and see next entry

  Scipio Africanus, Cornelius Aemilianus, Minor, 280, 345, 368, 454, 455, 832, 836, 838, 841;and see above

  Scipio Nasica (Pompey’s father-in-law), 87

  Scribonia (wife of Augustus), 400

  Scribonianus (husband of Junia), 844

  Scylla, Lucius, 903

  Sebastian (King of Portugal), 770

  Sebond, Raymond, xx–xxxi, xxxiii, xxxvii, xl, xliii, xlvii, lvii–lxi, 52, 489–91, 499–501, 604, 628

  Sechel, George (Polish peasant leader), 795

  Second, Jean (Johannes Secundus, French author), 460

  Sejanus (minister of Tiberius), 901

  Seleucus (King of Syria), 294

  Selim I (Sultan of Turkey), 768, 1180

  Sempronius Longus, Titus (Roman consul), 82

  Seneca, xiv, xvii–xix, li, 164, 245–6, 277, 282, 398, 399, 463–4, 545, 610, 726, 769, 782, 811, 817–18, 846–9, 1065, 1089, 1123, 1177, 1226, 1228–9

  Serapis, 577, 595, 1068

  Sertorius (Roman commander), 316, 530, 716

  Servilia (Caesar’s mistress), 826–8

  Servius (Roman grammarian), 394

  Severus (Roman emperor), 254

  Sextius Niger, Quintus, the Elder (Roman philosopher), 390, 553, 1228

  Sextus Empiricus, xxxii–xxxix

  Sforza, Francesco (Duke of Milan), 35–6

  Sforza, Ludovico (Duke of Milan), 86

  Sidonius Apollinaris (poet and bishop), 335

  Silanus, Lucius, 939

  Silius Gaius (Messalina’s lover), 985

  Silvanus Granius, 401

  Silvius, Jacques Dubois (Paris doctor), 384

  Simonides of Ceos (Greek poet), 767

  Siramnes (Persian), 1057

  Sitacles (Odrysian king), 65

  Socrates, xvii, xix, xxviii–xxix, xxxviii, xlvii, xlviii, 16, 45–6, 47, 102, 116, 162, 173–4, 176, 182, 268, 272, 309, 353, 382, 384, 425, 426–7, 473–4, 476, 480, 541, 555, 558, 556–8, 575, 600–601, 649, 652, 656, 689, 743, 913, 921, 955, 961, 968, 991, 997, 1009, 1018, 1047, 1050, 1054, 1056, 1100, 1101, 1112, 1141, 1149, 1176, 1192–6, 1198–9, 1200, 1225, 1241, 1247, 1258, 1260–61, 1265, 1269

  Solomon (King of Israel), 645

  Solon, 13, 85–6, 229, 449, 656, 716, 965, 982, 1028, 1083–4, 1087, 1119, 1251

  Sophocles, 10, 225, 379

  Sophronia, St, 401

  Spargapises (son of Queen Tomyris), 401

  Speucippus (Platonic philosopher), 94, 186, 394, 575, 812

  Sphaeras (Stoic philosopher), 968

  Spurina (Tuscan youth), 831

  Statilius, Roman general, 340

  Statius Annaeus (Seneca’s doctor), 847

  Statius Proximus (Roman poet), 401

  Stillingfleet, Edward, xli

  Stilpo (Megarian philosopher), 269, 387, 480, 585

  Strato (Greek philosopher), 575, 592, 610, 871, 968

  Stratonice (wife of Antiochus), 110

  Stratonice (wife of Deiotarus), 239

  Strowski, Fortunat, xlix, li

  Strozzi, Leone (Marshal of France), 751, 833

  Stuart, Mary, 86

  Suetonius Tranquillus (Roman historian), 255, 323, 773, 779, 811, 826, 836, 1171

  Suffolk, Charles Brandon, 1st Duke of, 28

  Suidas (Greek lexicographer), 234

  Suleiman II ‘the Magnificent’, 737, 780, 1096

  Sulmona, Prince of, 330

  Sulpicius, Publius (Roman orator), 900; and see Sulpicius Galba, Publius

  Sulpicius, Servius (Roman legate in Gaul), 826

  Sulpicius, Servius Sulpicius (Roman emperor), 1013, 1022, 1071

  Sulpicius Galba, Publius (consul), 228; and see Sulpicius, Publius

  Supple, James, xliv

  Surena (Parthian general), 530

  Sylla (Sulla), Felix (Roman general and dictator), 138, 144, 304, 315, 517, 753, 822–3, 1066, 1125

  Sylvanus, Plantius, 688

  Syphax (King of Numidia), 147

  Tacitus, Cornelius, 454, 556, 726, 759–60, 766, 784, 818, 1064–9, 1175

  Tacitus, Marcus Claudius (Roman emperor), 758–9

  Tages (myth. demi-god), 44

  Talbot (ancient Norman family), 379

  Talva, M. Juventius (consul), 10

  Tamberlane, xvii, 162, 328, 839, 859, 913, 1096

  Tantalus, 92

  Taruntius, 596

  Tasso, Torquato, 548, 1171

  Taurea Jubellius, 403–4

  Taverna, Francesco (Milanese ambassador), 35

  Taylor, Jeremy, xlvi

  Telesinus (Samnite general), 823

  Terence, 197, 280, 461–2

  Teres (King of the Odrysae), 65

  Tertulla (wife of Crassius), 826

  Textor, Ravisius, xxxvi

  Thales of Miletus (Ionic philosopher), xxxviii, 66, 107, 153, 271, 438, 506, 527, 558, 574, 604, 606

  Thalestris (Queen of the Amazons), 1001

  Thaumantis (myth. father of Iris and the Harpies), 1165

  Themison (Greek physician), 872

  Themistitan (Persian god), 583

  Themistocles (Athenian admiral), 167, 639, 823

  Theodorus the Atheist (Cyrenaic philosopher), 53, 340, 497, 576

  Theodosius (Roman emperor), 777

  Theodotus (defender of Epirus), 399

  Theon (Stoic philosopher), 1248

  Theophilus (east Roman emperor), 82

  Theophrastus (Greek philosopher), 575, 631–2, 642–3, 968, 1021, 1113

  Theopompus (King of Sparta), 287

  Theoxena (Aenian wife of Poris), 793–4

  Thessalus (Roman physician), 872

  Thetis, 582, 680, 1096

  Thibaudet, A., xlix

  Thomas Aquinas, St, 223

  Thomas, Simon (French doctor), 109

  Thrasilaus (son of Pythadorus), 552

  Thrasonides, 997

  Thrasymachus, 654

  Threicion, 398

  Thucydides, 135, 341, 1059

  Thyestes, 131

  Tiberius (Roman emperor), 383, 450, 736, 773, 891, 931, 943, 1042, 1067, 1225

  Tigillinus (captain of Roman guard), 94

  Tigillinus (favourite of Nero), 1113

  Tigranes (Armenian king), 838

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p; Tillyard, E. M. W., xxviii

  Timaeus of Locri (Platonic dialogist), 320, 565

  Timagoras (Epicurean philosopher), 668

  Timanthos (Greek painter), 8

  Timocrates (heir to Epicurus), 704

  Timoleon, Greek commander, 249, 265, 902–3

  Timon the Misanthrope (Greek philosopher), 339–40, 715, 1051

  Timon of Phlius (Sceptic philosopher), 602, 715

  Tiraquellus, Andreas, li

  Tiresias, 506, 964

  Tomyris (Massagetaean queen), 401

  Torquatus Manlius (Roman consul), 389, 1125

  Torre, Allesandro della (Bishop of Sittiá), xxix

  Trebizond, see George of Trebizond

  Tripoli, see Raymond of Tripoli

  Trismegistus (Egyptian lawgiver), 716

  Trivulcio, Teodora (Marshal of France), 13–14

  Trivulzio, Alessandro (Venetian soldier), 24

  Trophonius (myth. architect), 650

  Tullius, Marcellinus, 689–90

  Turnébe (Tumebus), Adrian, xix, xxi, 157, 491, 652, 751

  Tyrtaeus (Greek poet), 553

  Ulpian (Roman jurist), 749

  Ulysses, 156, 541, 543, 743

  Urgulania (grandmother of Plantius Sylvanus), 688

  Valdes, Ferdinando de, xxii

  Valence, Germain, xxxv

  Valens, Vexius (Roman physician), 872

  Valentian (Roman emperor), 554, 756

  Valentinois, Duke of, see Borgia, Cesare

  Valerius Maximus (Roman historian), 558

  Valla, Lorenzo, xxxiii

  Varro, Marcus (Roman writer), 255, 542, 577, 596, 600, 609, 624, 651, 1084, 1256

  Varus, Quintilius (Roman general), 21, 891

  Vascosan, Michel (printer), 1227

  Vatienus, Gaius, 785

  Vaux, Henry de, 24

  Vegetius, Flavius Renatus (Roman writer), 648

  Velleius Paterculus (Roman historian), 558

  Vendôme, Monseigneur de, 247

  Ventidus (Roman general), 823

  Venus, 114, 181, 322, 349, 373, 380, 486, 631, 659, 828, 930, 1000, 1041, 1257, 1259

  Vercingetorix (Gaulish chieftain), 839

  Vervins, Seigneur de, 75

  Vespasian (Roman emperor), 768, 518, 1068

  Vesta, 575

  Vibius Virius (senator of Capua), 403

  Villegaignon, Durand de (French explorer), 228

  Villey, Pierre, xvi, xlix, li–lii

  Villier, Seigneur de, 48

  Vincent of Lerins, St, xxxvii

  Virgil, 196, 460–61, 530, 850, 943, 958, 962, 986, 1061

  Vischa, John (Bohemian insurrectionist), 14

  Vitellius (Roman emperor), 317

  Vitold (Prince of Lithuania), 901–2

  Vives, Juan L. (Spanish scholar), 114

  Vulcan, 582

  Westcott, Brooke Foss, Bishop of Durham, xli

  Wyclif, John, 14

  Xanthippe, 473

  Xantippus (commander of Athenian fleet), 488

  Xantippus (father of Pericles), 488

 

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