INDEX OF NAMES
choice words, I. 5; Plautlne word elavere, I. 7; amoris imber, etc., I. 112; his Colax quoted, I. 137; for polish of style, II. 5; piscatus hamatilis, II. 7; locus lubricus, II. 7; exradicitus, II. 102; certain word3 used by him (mutilated passage), II. 115; his Miles Gloriosus, II. 193; a Plautine expression preserved in the margin, ll. 24n. Fronto imitates him throughout, see passages collected by Studemund, letter to Klussmann (whom also see p. 78) at the end of his Emendationes Frontonianae, pp. xxx, xxxi; also Ehrenthal, Quaestiones Frontonianae, p. 36, 37, and Schwierczina, Frontoniana pp. 19-21. He quotes servitutem servire, pipulus, propinque, superfio, robiginosus, interpolis, impos, recte provenire, frustra esse, precator, impiare, apiculus, argeatiolus
Plautillus (in apocryphal letter), II. 311
Polemo or Polemon, a famous rhetorician heard by M. at Naples, I. 117; cp. II. 241n. See also Philostratus Vit. Soph. p. 231 Kayser
Polemo, the reformed rake and philosopher, (from Horace), I. 123
Pollio, Asinius, "dead" for Marcus, I. 139; his Consilia, II. 142
Polus, a Sophist of Sicily (Plato's Gorgias), I. 103
Polycletus, sculptor of fourth century B.C., famous for his study of human figure, less rough than Calamis, II. 49
Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, crucified 522 B.o.; daughter's dream, II. 27; story of his ring, II. 23 f.; coupled with Periander, II. 61
Pompeius Magnus, Gnaeus, Cicero's praise of and his title of Magnus, II. 31; his letter to the Senate from Spain, II. 143
Pompeius Falco, friend of Pliny the Younger, his estate visited by P. and M., I. 141
Pompeianus, M.'s son-in-law, commander in the "miraculous Victory" (apocryphal letter), II. 303; mentioned In apocryphal letter (possibly Pomp. Quintianus is meant), II. 317
Pompeianus, Praecilius, letters to, II. 89, 91
Pompeianus, Saenius, farms taxes of Africa, letter recommending him to M., I. 233
Pompeii, fig tree of, I. 117
Pomponius, a writer of Atellane farces about 90 B.C., notable for rustic and comic words, I. 5
Pomptine plain, II. 76
Pontius, see Laelianus
Porcius, M., see Cato
Postumius, see Festus
Praeneste, a city of Latium, Fortune of, II. 105 see Ovid, Fasti, vi., 61. Cic. de Div. II. 41, etc.
Proculus, of doubtful identity, character as judge and as man, II. 187
Prometheus alluded to, II. 13
Protagoras, an early sophist (Plato's Theaetetus) entrapped by Socrates, I. 103
Protogenes, painter contemporary with Apelles, took eleven years to paint his Ialysus I. 135; painter of large canvasses, n 49
Puteoli, sea town of Campania, hot noons at, I. 143
Pylades, a pantomimus who took his name from the famous P. of Augustus' time, 1. 305; there were two of the name at this period, one a freedman of Pius and the other of Marcus and L. {see Inscr. Oruter. 33 U)
Pythagoras, his esoteric symbols and signs, II. 48
Pyrallus (?), II. 94
Pyrrhaeans, proverb for averting ill referring to them, 1. 125
Q
Quadi, "miraculous" victory over, II. 301n.
Quadratus, see Fronto—brother of Quadrigarius, see Cl. Quadr.
Quintus, a poet, probably =Ennius, I. 77