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 Fadilla, Antoninus, Commodus); title Armeniacus, II. 133; troubled by Parthian war, II. 29; letter to Eurycles, II. 285; letter to Guild of Bacchus, II. 295; Initiated at Athens, II. 297; apocryphal letters, to Abercius, u. 298n.; to Fur. Victorinus, II. 306; to Bassaeus Rufus, II., 313, to Corn. Balbus, II. 313; to and from Faustina, II. 315, 317; to Euxenianus, II. 299; to the Senate, II. 301; of Lucius to, and answer, II. 309; letter about Albinus, II. 313; assessor and coadjutor to Pius, I. 37, 215; called Imperator while Caesar, I. 80; loves Rome, I. 181; dislike of law-courts, I. 55, 153, 181; cp. I. 13n.; writes with his own hand, I. 67, 183; II. 223; his hand-writing, I. 66,167; surrounded by flatterers, I. 137; subject to cold, I. 180; health (bad), I. 183, 185, 199, 201; II. 127, 223 (good), I. 123, 233; as a sleeper, I. 54, 189; II. 19; defence of sleep, I. 91; room cold, I. 55; scorpion in bed, I. 197; wishes to write history, I. 13

Must dig deep for words, I. 7; chooses with care, II. 3; not to mind correction, I. 11; makes a good maxim, I. 13; scolded by F., I. 15, 109; taught to speak truth, I. 17; writing in Greek, I. 19, 125, 143; letter full of Greek, I. 126; forgets what he learns, I. 19; II. 39; similes, I. 37; eyes opened by F., I. 81; extracts from sixty books, L 139; reads F.'s speech on wills, I. 155; wants a rich subject for declamation, I. 209; compared to Saliust, II. 71: values F.'s judgment, II. 97; owes to F all his knowledge of literature, I. 79; hexameters, I. 15, 125, 139 Eloquence, advance in, I. 105, 167, 305; II. 35, 37; given up for a time, II. 75; in what respect limps, II. 79, 111; M. anxious about, II. 110; "Caesar" speech, I. 19; thanks to Pius, I. 37; language in, I. 53 (? II. 39); epideictic oration, I. 105; speech in Senate, I. 107; eloquence of, I. 121, 133; coming 3peech in Senate (A.D. 145 or 147), I. 189; bottle-simile, II. 39; listened to eagerly, II. 41; uses figures of speech, II. 41; speech on Cyzicenes, II. 43; speech (A.D. 162), II. 81; its fine thoughts, ibid.; Lucius and himself the eyes of the State (?), II. 109; faulty edict of, H. 113; speech on Lucius, II. 135; on Parthian affairs, 1. 11 (? 107, 108)

Reading in old literature, I. 107; Cato, I. 117, 153, 181; Ennius, I. 107; Coelius (?), I. 301; Cicero, ibid.; something especially eloquent of F.'s, I. 301: can only read by stealth, I. 301; II. 29; wants letters of Cicero to improve his style, II. 157; Ennius quoted in apocryphal letter, II. 307; see also under Gracchus, Cato, Plautus, Horace, Lucretius, etc., writes a hendecasyllable, I. 118

Marius, Gaius, born at Arpinum, ii. 205; sketch of, by Sallust, II. 165 ff.

Mars Gradivus, I. Ill; God of war, II. 15; begetter of the Roman pace, II. 21; mentioned In mutilated passage, II. 216

Marsians, power over snakes, II. 23; Marsic (? Massic) wine, I. 177

Martius Verus, general in Parthian war, to draw up memoranda of the war, II. 195; sends news to M. of revolt of Cassius (?), II. 31 In.

Massic Mount (?), I. 177; See Marei

Matidia, great aunt of Marcus, M.'s daughters lodging with her (at Minturnae?), I. 301; will of, II. 94n. and ff.

Mauretania, friends of F. in, I. 237

Maximus, Gavius (or Cavius), letter to, about Censorius, II. 259, 261

Maximus, Appius (? called Santra), 337 FRONTO II.