INDEX OF NAMES
Opellius or OpiKDius, D. Aurelius, author of Musae, a grammarian and copyist of the works of old writers, I. 167
Optatus, see Caelius
Oroetes, a Persian Satrap who crucified Polycrates, II. 27
Orpheus, his eloquence, I. 71; and Eurydice, I. 132
Osiris, altars of, II. 85; in mutilated passage, II. 138
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Pacorus, Aurelius, made King of Armenia by Vologaesus, and deprived by Lucius, II. 145
Pacuvius, a tragic poet born about 220 B.C., called mediocris, II. 49; uses flavus of water and dust, II. 267
Pannonia, soldiers of, II. 209; trial of Herodes in, II. 295
Papirius Cassius. consul, his death imminent (apocryphal letter), II. 313
Parrhasius, the celebrated painter about 400 B.C. contrasted with Apelles as not working in many colours, II. 49
Parthamasiris, King of Armenia, slain at Rome in a tumult, II. 215
Parthians, wore loose wide sleeves, I. 11; as type of barbarians, I. 303; alone worthy foes of Rome, II. 203; defeat the Romans, ibid.; arrows of, II. 205; mail-clad troops of, II. 213; Lucius's memoranda, etc., of the war, II. 193, 199; preamble to history of war, II. 198; anxiety as to, for Marcus, II. 29; for Lucius, II. 117; II. 23n.
Passienus Rufus, letter from Fr. to, II. 191
Paterculus, mistaken reading by Mai in Ad Verum, II. 1, p. 126, 1. 13; I. 142
Patroclus (Patricoles.Cod.) armour-bearer to Achilles, I. 167; called Menoetiades, II. 175
Pausias. painter contemporary with Apelles, painted licentious canvases, II. 49: see Athen. xiii, 3676., where Pausanias is emended by some to Pausias
Penelope, wife of Llysses, her web, I. 49; her suitors, I. 133
Periander, king of Corinth, and Arion, I. 57; coupled with Polycrates, II. 61
Pergamum, citadel of, with temple to Aesculapius, I. 51
Pericles, a disciple of Anaxagoras, II. 69
Perperna, probably consul in 130 B.C., coins of, ii. 113
Persians, their training, I. 107; the great King, I. 271; their kings elected by the neighing of a horse, II. 141; II. 26?j.
Pescennius Niger, claimant to the empire against Severus, given a military post (apocryphal letter) by Marcus, II. 315
Petilianus, see Demostratus
Petronius Mamertinus, father of M.'s son-in-law, letter of F. to, II. 242
Phalaris and his brazen bull, II. 88
Phidias, the famous sculptor, as type of supreme excellence, I. 129; serious work of, II. 49
Philoctetes, lameness of, II. 61
Pictor, Q. Fabius, earliest Roman annalist, wrote incondite, II. 49
Pisitheus, a doctor to M.'s children (apocryphal letter), II. 317
Piso, letter of M. to II. 290n.
Pius, see Aemilrus Pius
Phaedrus (Phaeder, Cod.), in Plato's dialogue I. 33, 43
Plarianus, Aegrilius, legatus of Africa, letter to, in favour of Aquilinus, I. 289
Plato, reference to his Phaedrus, I. 21, 33, 43; Socrates in the Phaedo, I. 187; Aquilinus versed in his doctrines, I. 289; Symposia, Dialogues, and Letters of the Socratics, ii. 11; mentioned in mutilated passage, ii. 50; on ambition, II. 63; contrasted with dialecticians, II. 67; eloquence of, II. 69; phonemata of, II. 74
Plautius (Plotius) Gallus, L., copyist of old writers, I. 167
Plautus, the comic poet, used
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