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 choice words, I. 5; Plautlne word elavere, I. 7; amoris imber, etc., I. 112; his Colax quoted, I. 137; for polish of style, II. 5; piscatus hamatilis, II. 7; locus lubricus, II. 7; exradicitus, II. 102; certain word3 used by him (mutilated passage), II. 115; his Miles Gloriosus, II. 193; a Plautine expression preserved in the margin, ll. 24n. Fronto imitates him throughout, see passages collected by Studemund, letter to Klussmann (whom also see p. 78) at the end of his Emendationes Frontonianae, pp. xxx, xxxi; also Ehrenthal, Quaestiones Frontonianae, p. 36, 37, and Schwierczina, Frontoniana pp. 19-21. He quotes servitutem servire, pipulus, propinque, superfio, robiginosus, interpolis, impos, recte provenire, frustra esse, precator, impiare, apiculus, argeatiolus

Plautillus (in apocryphal letter), II. 311

Polemo or Polemon, a famous rhetorician heard by M. at Naples, I. 117; cp. II. 241n. See also Philostratus ''Vit. Soph.'' p. 231 Kayser

Polemo, the reformed rake and philosopher, (from Horace), I. 123

Pollio, Asinius, "dead" for Marcus, I. 139; his Consilia, II. 142

Polus, a Sophist of Sicily (Plato's Gorgias), I. 103

Polycletus, sculptor of fourth century B.C., famous for his study of human figure, less rough than Calamis, II. 49

Polycrates, tyrant of Samos, crucified 522 B.o.; daughter's dream, II. 27; story of his ring, II. 23 f.; coupled with Periander, II. 61

Pompeius Magnus, Gnaeus, Cicero's praise of and his title of Magnus, II. 31; his letter to the Senate from Spain, II. 143

Pompeius Falco, friend of Pliny the Younger, his estate visited by P. and M., I. 141

Pompeianus, M.'s son-in-law, commander in the "miraculous Victory" (apocryphal letter), II. 303; mentioned In apocryphal letter (possibly Pomp. Quintianus is meant), II. 317

Pompeianus, Praecilius, letters to, II. 89, 91

Pompeianus, Saenius, farms taxes of Africa, letter recommending him to M., I. 233

Pompeii, fig tree of, I. 117

Pomponius, a writer of Atellane farces about 90 B.C., notable for rustic and comic words, I. 5

Pomptine plain, II. 76

Pontius, see Laelianus

Porcius, M., see Cato

Postumius, see Festus

Praeneste, a city of Latium, Fortune of, II. 105 see Ovid, Fasti, vi., 61. Cic. de Div. II. 41, etc.

Proculus, of doubtful identity, character as judge and as man, II. 187

Prometheus alluded to, II. 13

Protagoras, an early sophist (Plato's Theaetetus) entrapped by Socrates, I. 103

Protogenes, painter contemporary with Apelles, took eleven years to paint his Ialysus I. 135; painter of large canvasses, n 49

Puteoli, sea town of Campania, hot noons at, I. 143

Pylades, a pantomimus who took his name from the famous P. of Augustus' time, 1. 305; there were two of the name at this period, one a freedman of Pius and the other of Marcus and L. {see Inscr. Oruter. 33 U)

Pythagoras, his esoteric symbols and signs, II. 48

Pyrallus (?), II. 94

Pyrrhaeans, proverb for averting ill referring to them, 1. 125

Quadi, "miraculous" victory over, II. 301n.

Quadratus, see Fronto—brother of Quadrigarius, see Cl. Quadr.

Quintus, a poet, probably =Ennius, I. 77 340