INDEX OF PROPER NAMES, ETC.
- impracticable Stoic, who drove Vespasian to banish and put him to death, i. 14
- Helice, a city of Achaia, swallowed by the sea 373 b.c., iv. 48
- Hellenes, the Ancient Greeks, iii. 14
- Heraclitus, about 500 b.c. The Stoics borrowed their ideas of Physics largely from him. Mentioned with Pythagoras, Socrates, and Diogenes, vi. 47; viii. 3; manner of death, iii. 3; theory of periodic conflagrations of the Universe, iii. 3; x. 7; cycles of change v. 13; ix. 28; xi. 1; flux of things, II. 17; iv. 3 ad. fin., 36; v. 10, 15; vi. 4; vii. 19, 25; ix. 19; x. 7; simile of river, ii. 17; iv. 43; v. 23; vi. 15; motion above and below, vi. 17; [vii. 1]; ix. 28; Interchange of elements, iv. 46; the man that forgets his way, iv. 46; even sleepers seem to act and speak iv. 46; vi. 42;" children from parents" or "what our fathers have told us," iv. 40; the soul "an exhalation from blood," v. 33; vi. 15; men at variance with the Reason of the Universe, iv. 46; what they "encounter" every day, they deem strange, iv. 46; "to think on great men" (? from Heracl.), xi. 26
- Herculaneum (Herclanum), destroyed 79 a.d., iv. 48
- Hesiod, quoted (Opp. 186), xi. 32; (ibid. 197), v. 33
- Hipparchus, a great mathematician and astronomer about 150 b.c., here mentioned with Archimedes and Eudoxus, vi. 47. Aur. Victor has a curious story (De Caes, xli. 20) of Marcus punishing the people of Nicaea (in Bithynia) for not knowing (the text here is doubted) that Hipparchus was born there Hippocrates (about 450 b.c.) iii. 3. Till Galen the greatest of old-time physicians. A tree under which he is said to have taught still exists at Cos, his birthplace Homer, quoted (Il. vi. 147–9), x. 34: (ibid., vii. 99), vi. 10; (Od., i. 242), iv. 33; (ibid., iv. 690), v. 31; (ibid., ix. 413), xi. 31; (? The Νέκυια, Od. xi. but see Menippus,) ix. 24
- Hymen, an unknown philosopher of a previous age, x. 31
- Julianus, an unknown long-liver, iv. 50
- Lacedaemonians, see Spartans
- Lanuvium, on the Appian Way, where Pius was born, and had a villa, i. 16, § 8
- Leonnatus, iv. 33. One of Alexander's Generals, and quite out of place among Roman worthies, see Dentatus
- Lepidus, a lover of long-life, iv. 50. Possibly the triumvir
- Lorium, a villa of Pius on the Via Aurelia, where he died 7 March, 161, i. 16, § 8
- Lucilla, Domitia (C alvilla, Capit.), mother of Marcus, i. 17, § 1; v. 4, 13, 31; lessons learnt from her, i. 3; letter of Rusticus to, i. 7; early death of, i. 17, § 6; viii. 25; life with, ix. 21. See also p. 360
- Lucian, possibly referred to in "Menippus and others like him," vi. 47
- Lupus, Lusius, unknown, possibly a mistake for L. Licinius Lucullus, the conqueror of Mithridates, whose luxurious gardens and villas were well-known, xii. 27
- Maecenas, the minister of Augustus and friend of Horace, viii. 31
- Marcianus, an unknown philosopher, i. 6. There was a notable physician of this name (Martianus) in the time of Marcus
- Maximus, Claudius, a Stoic philosopher and teacher, highly esteemed by Marcus, whom he thanks the Gods that he knew, i. 17, § 10; whose character he draws as that of a perfect man, i. 15; his illness, i. 10 ad. fin.;
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