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 consumption, air of Cirta good for, I. 281

conventions in speech, I. 101

cooks honoured with statues, II. 6

copyists of MSS. I. 167

corn supply, II. 179, 216

corrector of Codex, I. 131, 174n., II. 218n.

country house or villa, I. 176. See horti

crucifixion, II. 27

curriculum for oratory, II. 82

dancing, II. 105; Pyrrhic, I. 99; with cymbals, II. Ill; not reputable for women (Sallust), II. 169

day and night, fable of, II. 13 ff.

dead, look of the, II. 227

death, II. 227; early death, ibid.

Deceit, a goddess, I. 151

decurions, see Municipal Senators

deputation of Municipal Senate, II. 179

destiny, II. 225

dialecticians, II. 67, 71, 79, 83

diarrhoea, I. 203

dictating letters, I. 185, 248, II. 44

dilemmas, II. 67

dithyrambs, II. 67

diminutives (46 F, 26 M.) See for list Schwierczina, Frontoniana, p. 157

divorce, II. 183

docked words, II. 7

dog in Christian banquets, II. 283

dole (annona), II. 216. See congiarium

dolphin, I. 27, 57, 59; as swimmer, II. 67

door-keeper, P. 271

Dorian word (spadix), II. 265

dreams, I. 51, II. 17; Agamemnon's, I. 95; Ennius', ibid.; daughter of Polycrates', II. 27

dropsy, heated sand as cure, II. 253

drunghi, barbarian word it ] standards or troops, II. 301n.

dust, praise of, I. 44

eagles, flight of, II. 67

ears tingle when others speak of us, I. 114

earthquake, II. 41, 69

eating varies with different professions, II. 59; lawyers' wives great eaters, I. 145; Hadrian as gourmand, II. 8; Numa, II. 11

elephants, I. 163, II. 217

eloquence, oratory, rhetoric, the art of words: words, their choice and arrangement, I. 3; common ones preferable to unusual, if equally significant, I. 7; common and old words, II. 80; to be hunted out, I. 5, 7, II. 27, 261; choiceness of, in special authors, I. 5; Cicero's use of, I. 7; unexpected words, I. 7; unusual when to be used, I. 7; difference in, by alteration of one letter, I. 7; order important, I. 11; far-fetched ones never used by Marcus, I. 53; kinds of words, I. 105; choice words, II. 51; doubled, trebled, etc., II. 53; mean and slovenly, II. 107, 281; rhythmical and fluent, II. 105, 107; jingling, II. 103; absurd to coin words, I. 219, II. 115; old, often discoloured like coins, II. 115; adparatus verborum, I. 288; verba suo suco imbuta, II. 112; current words to be used, II. 113: orators, supreme excellence of,. I. 121; must not speak down to their audience, I. 121; boldness required, I. 11, 15, 119, II. 39; first rate and second rate, II. 43; oratorical art of Chrysippus, II. 69

Eloquence, ruler of the human race, II. 137, 139; delight of gods, II. 65; art of, I. 40 ff. II. 75, 83; powers of, II. 77, 137, 139; of Orpheus, I. 71; Caesar's eloquence, I. 53> II. 136: diiferent purposes of, in a Caesar, II. 59; the highest (ace. to Cicero), II. 144; praise of, II. 67; partitiones orationum, II. 88; exordium, ii. 91; technical terms of in Greek, II. 69, cp. 75; holds 358