INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY
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wars with Greece, 183–199; conquered by Alexander the Great, 274–280.
Persian Empire, New, established,530 n. 9.
Persians, relation to the Medes, 88; literature and religion, 95.
Per´si-us, poet, 557.
Per´ti-nax, Roman emperor, 515.
Phœdo, 332.
Phalanx, Macedonian, Theban origin of, 253, 267 n. 2.
Phar´na-cēs, defeated by Cæsar, 473.
Pha´ros, the, at Alexandria, 292.
Phar´sa-lus, battle of, 473.
Phei´don, king of Argos, 141, 142.
Phid´i-as, his masterpieces, 303-305.
Phi-dip´pi-dēs, Greek runner, 186.
Philæ, island, 20 n. 1.
Philip II, king of Macedon, his youth, 256, 267 ; his accession to the throne, 267 ; his conquests in Chalcidice and Thrace, 267, 268; in the Second Sacred War, 269, 270; his victory at Chæronea, 270; his plan to invade Asia, 271; his death, 271; results of his reign, 271, 272.
Philip´pī, founded, 268.
Phi´lo, 80.
Phil-o-pϫmen, 289 n. 8.
Phocians, in Second Sacred War,269, 270.
Pho´ci-on, Athenian statesman, 268.
Pho´cis, district of Greece, 108.
Phϫbus.See Apollo.
Phœ-nic´i-a, the land, S3; products of, 83.
Phœnicians, their early migrations, 83; their commerce, 84, 85; colonies, 85, 86; routes of trade, 85 n. 2; arts disseminated by, 86, 87.
Phonograms, defined, 11.
Phra´try, the, 128, 175 n. 10.
Pi-ce´num, 350.
Picts ravage province of Britain, 543.
Pindar, 274, 315.
Pippin III, becomes king of the Franks, 604; makes donation of lands to the pope, 604.
Piracy in the Heroic Age, 125.
Pi-ræ´us, the, fortified by Themistocles, 200, 201; dismantled by the Peloponnesians, 242.
Pirates, in the Mediterranean, 463, 464; punished by Pompey, 465.
Pi-sis´tra-tus, makes himself tyrant of Athens, 172, 173; character of his rule, 173.
Placentia, Roman colony, 416.
Platae´a, attack upon by Thebans(431 B.C.), 221; its destruction, 226; battle of, 198.
Plataeans, the, at Marathon, 186.
Plato, at court of Dionysius I of Syracuse, 261; visits Dionysius the Younger, 262; life and works, 331–333
Plautus, dramatist, 555.
Plebeian assembly.See Concilium tribuiuvi plebis.
Plebeians (ple-be´yans), origin of the order, 360 n. 4; their status in early Rome, 360, 361; significance to them of the Servian reforms, 375 ; first secession, 379; second secession, 387; marriage with patricians made legal, 388; secure admission to the consulship, 392, 393; to the dictatorship and other offices, 393 n. 12.
Pleb-is-çi´ta, 387.
Pliny the Elder, 559.
Pliny the Younger, letter to Trajan, 506; literary notice, 559.
Plu´tarch, 325.
Pnyx (nǐks), the, at Athens, 170 n. 3.
Po, river, 350.
Pϫni, 407 n 2.
Pol-len´ti-a, battle at, 537.
Po-lyb´i-us, historian, 325.
Pol´y-carp, Church Father, 510.
Pol-y-cli´tus, sculptor, 305.
Po-lyc´ra-tes, tyrant of Samos, 165;fall of, 180.
Pol-yg-no´tus, painter, 309.
Po-lyx´e-na, daughter of Priam, 309n. 20.
Pompeii (pom-pē´yī or pom-pā´yee) destroyed, 502 n. 5.
Pompey, Gnas´us, the Great, sent into Spain against Sertorius, 460; settles the affairs of Spain, 460; elected consul, 461; restores the Gracchan constitution, 462; given command against the pirates, 465; given charge of war against Mithradates, 465; conquers Syria, 466;
