struggling for what has been attained, a glory that we are not so much to covet as to preserve. Indeed, had I any interest that is distinct from yours, I could desire nothing more than that situation of life which has actually been assigned to me; but as the case is, that unless all your words and actions are answerable to my conduct here, I shall think that I have gained nothing by all those mighty toils and dangers in all which you have been a sharer. Now if you were my chief fellow labourer in working my way to this splendid reputation, you ought to labour beyond others that I may maintain it.
You are not to regard the opinion and the judgment of those who are now living, but also of those who shall hereafter exist, whose verdict will be the more just as it will be free from detraction and malevolence. In the next place, you are to reflect, that you are not seeking glory for yourself alone; and, if you were, you would not be indifferent about it, especially as you have thought proper to consecrate the memory of your name by the noblest memorials, but you are to share it with me, and it is to descend to our posterity You are therefore to beware, lest if you should be careless you should seem not only to have neglected your own interests, but to have acted grudgingly even to your descendants.
And these things are said, not that my words may seem to have aroused you when slumbering, but that they may encourage you in your career; for you will continually act as you have acted, so that all may praise your equity, your moderation, your inflexibility, and your integrity. But through my excessive affection for you, I am possessed with an insatiable passion for your glory. In the meanwhile I am of opinion, that as you must be now as well acquainted with Asia as any man is with his own house ;* and as so great experience has been added to your great wisdom, there is nothing that pertains to glory of which you are not fully sensible, and which does not daily occur to your mind, without the exhortation of any. But I who, when I read
* This would seem to have been a proverbial simile. Juvenal has the
"Nota magis nulli domus est sua, quam mihi lucus
Martis," &c. Sat. I. v.7.
your letters, think I hear you, and when I write to you think I converse with you, am more delighted with your letters the longer they are, and for the same reason I myself also am more prolix in writing.
In conclusion I exhort and entreat you, that just as good poets and skilful actors are wont to do, so you will redouble your attention at this the latter part and conclusion of your business and office; that this last year of your government, like the last act of a play, may appear the most elaborate and perfect. This you will most easily do, if you think that I, whom individually you have endeavoured to please more than all the world besides, am ever present with you, and take an interest in all that you do or say. Lastly, I entreat you, as you value my welfare, and that of all your friends, that you will most carefully attend to your health.
ACADEMICS little differing from the
Peripatetics, 2, 6, 8; have a right
to treat about duties, 2; how dif-
fering from the Sceptics, and why
they dispute against everything,
79; are not tied to a set of opi-
nions, 120; formerly the same with
the Peripatetics, 121.
Accusing, how far allowable 96.
Acilius, the historian, 166.
Acknowledgment, a sufficient return
for a kindness, 106.
Acropolis, its entrance, 102.
Action gives a true value to virtue,
to take place of speculation,
13, 74, 76; not to be ventured on,
If we doubt of its honesty, 18;
should be free from rashness, &c.,
52; three rules to be observed for
keeping decorum in our actions,
68; order and regularity to be ob-
served in our actions, 69; these
depend upon time and place, 69;
good actions ill applied become bad
ones, 103.
Actors choose the parts fittest for
their humours, 57; respect mo-
desty, 67.
Addison, Joseph, quoted, 142, 254,
255, 258, 281, 300.
Admiration, how moved in men, 90,
91.
Advantages tempt men to be rogues,
131.
Advice of friends to be asked in pro-
sperity, 47; of experienced men,
in doubt, 70; rules about taking
this advice, 72.
Advocates may plead for what is not
really true, 97.
Ediles, who, and their magnificence,
100.
Affability wins people's love, 95.
Affectation odious, 64.
Africanus, his saying that men grown
proud, &c., 47; his retirement and
saying that he was never less idle,
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&c., 115; Afric. the younger razes
Carthage and Numantia, 39; son
of Paulus, 60; not to be corrupted
by money, 109.
Agamemnon sacrificed his daughter,
Agreement between the several orders
the support of a state, 151.
Agriculture commended, 73; its va-
rious pleasures described, 240, &c.
Ajax, his character, 57.
Alexander Pheræus the Tyrant, 86.
Alexander the Great, often guilty of
great vices, 47; reproved by his
father for giving money, 99.
Ambition, a great cause of injustice,
16, 34; is generally in men of the
greatest souls, ibid.; is contrary to
true courage, 34, 36; robs a man
of his liberty, 36 is destructive to
a state, 45, 149.
Anger against adversaries to be avoid-
ed, 46; especially in punishing,
ibid.; also in common discourse,
in chiding, and in quarrels, 66, 319
Annicerian philosophers, 166.
Antipater the Stoic, 112, 135.
Antonius Marcus, the subject of
Paradox V., 277; subservient to
Cleopatra, 280.
Antoninus quoted, 13.
Appelles's Venus, 117.
Applause, the desire of it to be avoid-
ed, 34, 36.
Aquillius's Formulæ, 138.
Arates the Sicyonian, 110.
Archytas, saying of, 206, 235.
Aristippus, 71, 166.
Aristo, 6.
Aristotle, neglected eloquence, 2; his
opinion about shows to the people,
&c., 100; makes honesty far out-
weigh all other goods, 128; quoted,
7.
Armies of little use abroad, without
prudence at home, &c., 39.
Assent not to be given hastily, 12.
Athens, a famous university, 1, 116.
Athenians make a cruel edict, 132;
forsake their city for fear of the
Persians, ibid.; reject a dishonest
proposal, &c., 134.
Atilius, L., 171.
Avarice, one great cause of injustice,
15, 16; a sign of a narrow and
sordid spirit, 36; magistrates should
be free from suspicion of it, 108;
is destructive to a state, 109.
Augustine quoted, 17.
BACON, LORD, quoted, 113, 174, 188,
204, 228, 240, 265, 280, 282, 289,
296.
Bardylis the Illyrian, 91.
Bargains should be made at a word,
139.
Beauty of two sorts, 63; how to be
gotten, ibid.
Becoming; see Decency.
Benefits; how we should judge of
their value, 27; done either by our
money or industy, 98; relate either
to the republic, or to individuals,
104, &c.; upon whom best bestow-
ed, 105, 106.
Bentham, Jeremy, quoted, 5.
Bias of Priene, saying of, 265.
Body should be inured to labour, 40.
The care nature has taken in its
fabric, 62.
Bounty; see Liberality.
Boys not allowed all sorts of plays,
Bragging very unbecoming, 67.
Bribery in magistrates the ruin of a
republic, 108, 109; laws made
agaist it by the Romans, 109.
Browne, Sir Thomas, quoted, 6, 35,
36, 83, 96, 172, 176, 207, 247,
253, 257, 261, 277, 278, 321.
Brown, Dr. T., 7, 10, 149, 150, 161,
170,176, 208, 212, 256, 259, 321.
Brutes, how differing from men, 9;
we often talk of their courage, but
not justice, &c., 28.
Brutus deposed Collatinus, 131; de-
crees the augur, 172.
Building; its extent and object, 68.
Butler, Bishop, quoted, 4, 51, 299.
Buyers should not use arts to bate
down the prices, 139.
CESAR, brother of Catulus, a facetiou
man, 65.
Cæsar broke through the most sacred
ties for the sake of empire, 16;
robbed some that he might be ge-
nerous to others, 26; was murdered
for his tyranny, 85; triumphs over
Marseilles, &c., 87; loved villainy,
though he got nothing by it, 112;
makes himself king of the Romans,
&c., 150.
Callicratidas, too careful of his own
honour, 43; a lover of simplicity,
55.
Callipho and Dinomachus join plea-
sure and virtue, 167.
Καθήκον, what, 7.
Cannius's bargain, 137.
Carriage toward all men to be taken
care of, 15, 63.
Carthaginians treacherous, 23.
Cato Censorius, his letter to Popilius,
22; caused the third Carthaginian
war, 40; his apophthegms, 53; his
answer about managing an estate,
113.
Cato, father to Uticensis, his deter-
mination of a case, 140.
Cato Uticensis's genius, 56; too head-
strong in standing up for the in-
terest of the republic, 152.
Κατόρφωμα, what, 7.
Catulus not inferior to Pompey, 39;
Catuli counted the best speaker,
65.
Chiding sometimes necessary, 66;
rules to be observed in it, 67.
Children naturally loved, 10.
Chrysippus's excellent saying, 131.
Cicero's service to his countrymen by
writing, 1; assumes to himself the
virtues of an orator, &c. ibid.; his
prudent management of the re-
public, 112; got his preferments
by all the votes, 102; betakes him-
self to retirement, 115; designed
to have gone to Athens,168; quoted,
3, 254, 307, 308.
Cimbers and Celtibers, 23.
Cimon of Athens's hospitality, 104.
Circumstances of men to be regarded
in giving, 15, 103; make that not
to be a crime, which usually is
one, 120.
Cities, in taking them, nothing to be
done cruelly, &c., 43; the great
use of them, 81; why at first built,
107, 109.
Citizens' duties, 62.
Clarendon, Lord, quoted, 214.
Claudius Centumalus, 14C.
Glemency, how far laudable, 45.
Cleombrotus beaten by Epaminondas,
Clodius proved to be a madman,
Clothes, only health to be regarded
in them, 54; moderation to be ob-
served in the fineness of them, 64.
Clownishness to be avoided, 62, 64.
Cockman, Dr. quoted, 156.
Common; all things at first were so,
14; what things are common to all,
25.
Company; a man would be weary of
his life without it, 74; to keep
company with good and wise men
recommends young people, 94.
Conceal, how differing from not to
tell, 135; what it is, 136.
Concord, a pillar of any state, 109.
Confidence; see Trust.
Constantia, what it is, 35.
Courage is a virtue contending for
honesty,34; an enemy to treachery,
&c., ibid., to desire of applause,
35; consists in two things, ibid.;
is obtained by the mind, not the
body, 40; in war, recommends
young men, 93; teaches us to fear
nothing, &c., 158; nothing profit-
able that is contrary to it, ibid.
Craft; see Cunning.
Crassus, Marc., his saying about
riches, 15; made heir by a false
will, 144; a bad man, 145.
Crassus, Luc., an orator, 65; got
honour by an accusation, 94.
Crassus the wealthy, ædile, 95.
Cratippus, who he was, 179.
Cruelty most contrary to nature, 91.
Cunning far from true wisdom,
33, 80, 143; the great mischief of
it, ibid.; doth not excuse from per-
jury, but rather aggravates it, 165.
Curius, Marcus, 187, 242; Manius,
282,285.
Custom and civil constitutions to be
followed, 70; some may act against
them, and others not, 71.
Cynics argue against modesty, 63; to
be wholly rejected, 72.
Cyrenaic philosophers, 166.
Cyrus, anecdote of, 244; dying ad-
dress of, 257.
DANCING in the streets scandalous,
145, 156.
Corinth razed by the Romans, 21, Danger how far to be undertaken,
43; we should endanger ourselves
rather than the public, ibid."
Death not terrible to the great and
good, 271.
Debts forgiven, &c. 109, 110; gover-
nors should hinder people from
running into debt, 112.
Deceit frees a man from being bound
by his promise, 18.
Decency (or gracefulness) observed
by a man only, 9; inseparable from
honesty, 48; is seen in all the parts
of honesty, ibid.; two sorts of it,
universal and particular, 49; draws
the approbation of all, 50; relates
both to body and mind, ibid.; no-
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