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 Opellius or OpiKDius, D. Aurelius, author of Musae, a grammarian and copyist of the works of old writers, I. 167

Optatus, see Caelius

Oroetes, a Persian Satrap who crucified Polycrates, II. 27

Orpheus, his eloquence, I. 71; and Eurydice, I. 132

Osiris, altars of, II. 85; in mutilated passage, II. 138

Pacorus, Aurelius, made King of Armenia by Vologaesus, and deprived by Lucius, II. 145

Pacuvius, a tragic poet born about 220 B.C., called mediocris, II. 49; uses flavus of water and dust, II. 267

Pannonia, soldiers of, II. 209; trial of Herodes in, II. 295

Papirius Cassius. consul, his death imminent (apocryphal letter), II. 313

Parrhasius, the celebrated painter about 400 B.C. contrasted with Apelles as not working in many colours, II. 49

Parthamasiris, King of Armenia, slain at Rome in a tumult, II. 215

Parthians, wore loose wide sleeves, I. 11; as type of barbarians, I. 303; alone worthy foes of Rome, II. 203; defeat the Romans, ibid.; arrows of, II. 205; mail-clad troops of, II. 213; Lucius's memoranda, etc., of the war, II. 193, 199; preamble to history of war, II. 198; anxiety as to, for Marcus, II. 29; for Lucius, II. 117; II. 23n.

Passienus Rufus, letter from Fr. to, II. 191

Paterculus, mistaken reading by Mai in Ad Verum, II. 1, p. 126, 1. 13; I. 142

Patroclus (Patricoles.Cod.) armour-bearer to Achilles, I. 167; called Menoetiades, II. 175

Pausias. painter contemporary with Apelles, painted licentious canvases, II. 49: see Athen. xiii, 3676., where Pausanias is emended by some to Pausias

Penelope, wife of Llysses, her web, I. 49; her suitors, I. 133

Periander, king of Corinth, and Arion, I. 57; coupled with Polycrates, II. 61

Pergamum, citadel of, with temple to Aesculapius, I. 51

Pericles, a disciple of Anaxagoras, II. 69

Perperna, probably consul in 130 B.C., coins of, ii. 113

Persians, their training, I. 107; the great King, I. 271; their kings elected by the neighing of a horse, II. 141; II. 26?j.

Pescennius Niger, claimant to the empire against Severus, given a military post (apocryphal letter) by Marcus, II. 315

Petilianus, see Demostratus

Petronius Mamertinus, father of M.'s son-in-law, letter of F. to, II. 242

Phalaris and his brazen bull, II. 88

Phidias, the famous sculptor, as type of supreme excellence, I. 129; serious work of, II. 49

Philoctetes, lameness of, II. 61

Pictor, Q. Fabius, earliest Roman annalist, wrote incondite, II. 49

Pisitheus, a doctor to M.'s children (apocryphal letter), II. 317

Piso, letter of M. to II. 290n.

Pius, see Aemilrus Pius

Phaedrus (Phaeder, Cod.), in Plato's dialogue I. 33, 43

Plarianus, Aegrilius, legatus of Africa, letter to, in favour of Aquilinus, I. 289

Plato, reference to his Phaedrus, I. 21, 33, 43; Socrates in the Phaedo, I. 187; Aquilinus versed in his doctrines, I. 289; Symposia, Dialogues, and Letters of the Socratics, ii. 11; mentioned in mutilated passage, ii. 50; on ambition, II. 63; contrasted with dialecticians, II. 67; eloquence of, II. 69; phonemata of, II. 74

Plautius (Plotius) Gallus, L., copyist of old writers, I. 167

Plautus, the comic poet, used 339