TABLE OF MATTERS
consumption, air of Cirta good for, I. 281
conventions in speech, I. 101
cooks honoured with statues, II. 6
copyists of MSS. I. 167
corn supply, II. 179, 216
corrector of Codex, I. 131, 174n., II. 218n.
country house or villa, I. 176. See horti
crucifixion, II. 27
curriculum for oratory, II. 82
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dancing, II. 105; Pyrrhic, I. 99; with cymbals, II. Ill; not reputable for women (Sallust), II. 169
day and night, fable of, II. 13 ff.
dead, look of the, II. 227
death, II. 227; early death, ibid.
Deceit, a goddess, I. 151
decurions, see Municipal Senators
deputation of Municipal Senate, II. 179
destiny, II. 225
dialecticians, II. 67, 71, 79, 83
diarrhoea, I. 203
dictating letters, I. 185, 248, II. 44
dilemmas, II. 67
dithyrambs, II. 67
diminutives (46 F, 26 M.) See for list Schwierczina, Frontoniana, p. 157
divorce, II. 183
docked words, II. 7
dog in Christian banquets, II. 283
dole (annona), II. 216. See congiarium
dolphin, I. 27, 57, 59; as swimmer, II. 67
door-keeper, P. 271
Dorian word (spadix), II. 265
dreams, I. 51, II. 17; Agamemnon's, I. 95; Ennius', ibid.; daughter of Polycrates', II. 27
dropsy, heated sand as cure, II. 253
drunghi, barbarian word it ] standards or troops, II. 301n.
dust, praise of, I. 44
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eagles, flight of, II. 67
ears tingle when others speak of us, I. 114
earthquake, II. 41, 69
eating varies with different professions, II. 59; lawyers' wives great eaters, I. 145; Hadrian as gourmand, II. 8; Numa, II. 11
elephants, I. 163, II. 217
eloquence, oratory, rhetoric, the art of words: words, their choice and arrangement, I. 3; common ones preferable to unusual, if equally significant, I. 7; common and old words, II. 80; to be hunted out, I. 5, 7, II. 27, 261; choiceness of, in special authors, I. 5; Cicero's use of, I. 7; unexpected words, I. 7; unusual when to be used, I. 7; difference in, by alteration of one letter, I. 7; order important, I. 11; far-fetched ones never used by Marcus, I. 53; kinds of words, I. 105; choice words, II. 51; doubled, trebled, etc., II. 53; mean and slovenly, II. 107, 281; rhythmical and fluent, II. 105, 107; jingling, II. 103; absurd to coin words, I. 219, II. 115; old, often discoloured like coins, II. 115; adparatus verborum, I. 288; verba suo suco imbuta, II. 112; current words to be used, II. 113: orators, supreme excellence of,. I. 121; must not speak down to their audience, I. 121; boldness required, I. 11, 15, 119, II. 39; first rate and second rate, II. 43; oratorical art of Chrysippus, II. 69
Eloquence, ruler of the human race, II. 137, 139; delight of gods, II. 65; art of, I. 40 ff. II. 75, 83; powers of, II. 77, 137, 139; of Orpheus, I. 71; Caesar's eloquence, I. 53> II. 136: diiferent purposes of, in a Caesar, II. 59; the highest (ace. to Cicero), II. 144; praise of, II. 67; partitiones orationum, II. 88; exordium, ii. 91; technical terms of in Greek, II. 69, cp. 75; holds