INDEX OF PROPER NAMES, ETC.
- Rome, vi. 44
- Rufus, see Velius
- Rusticus, Stoic philosopher, teacher and intimate friend of Marcus, who, as praefectus urbi, condemned Justin to martyrdom; lessons learnt from him, self-discipline, contempt of dialectics, theoric, rhetoric, poetry and fine writing, not to be a prig, to cultivate good taste, simplicity in letter-writing, sweet reasonableness, care in reading, suspicion of volubility, and a knowledge of Epictetus, i. 7, 17, § 4; M. sometimes offended with, i. 17, § 6
- Salaminian,the(Leo), Socrates sent by the Thirty Tyrants for, vii. 66
- Sarmatians, these appear as enemies about 174, a.d., x. 10. They were a Slav people from the present Poland and Russia. Their women fought.
- Satyron, an unknown philosopher of recent time, x. 31
- Scipio, iv. 33
- Secunda, wife of Maximus. viii. 25
- Severns, called "brother," i. 14; and so probably the father of Claudius Severus, who married one of Marcus' daughters (? Fadilla). But he seems to have been a philosopher and is possibly identical with the Peripatetic philosopher Severus (Capit. Vit. Mar., iii. 3), mentioned, x. 31. Marcus was himself at one time called Severus, Capit. i. 9, cp. Galen, vii. 478 Kühn
- Severus, Catilius, maternal great grandfather of Marcus, who expected to succeed Hadrian, i. 4
- Sextus of Chaeronea, a Stoic philosopher, grandson of Plutarch, i. 9. Marcus made him his assessor on the bench (so Suidas) and attended his lectures late in life (Philost. Vit. Soph., n. 9)
- Sextus Empiricus, of date uncertain but probably near the end of the 2nd century. He was an "empiric" physician and the great champion of Sceptical Philotophy, possibly quoted (adv. Math. iv. 81), vi. 14; "all is vanity" (from Monimus, see also Menander; Sext. Emp. ii. 1), ii. 15
- Silvanus, an unknown philosopher of a previous age, x. 31
- Sinuessa, a coast town on the border of Latium and Campania, letter of Rusticus from, i. 7
- Socrates, named with Heraclitus and Pythagoras and Diogenes, vi. 47; vii. 3, with Chrysippus and Epictetus, vii. 19; public acts and character, vii. 66; conduct with Xanthippe, xi. 28; his self-control (? from Xenophon, q.v.), i. 16, ad. fin.; his trial, vii. 44, 45; killed by (human) vermin, iii. 3; quoted (from Epictetus, q.v.) on the notions of the vulgar, xi. 23; (? from Epictetus, q.v.) on rational souls, xi. 39; (from Plato, q.v.) on a soul freed from sense-impressions, iii. 6
- Socraticus, an unknown philosopher of previous times, x. 31
- Sophocles, quoted from Epictetus (Oed. Rex. 1391), xi. 6
- Spartans, courtesy to strangers, xi. 24
- Stertinius of Baiae, xii. 27. Possibly the rich physician of Naples, Pliny, N.H., xxix. 5
- Stoics, facts of the Universe unintelligible even to. v. 10
- Tandasis, an unknown philosopher, i. 6
- Telauges, son of Pythagoras and Theano (see Diog. Laert. Pyth. xxii. 26), vii. 66
- Theodotus. a freedman or minion of Hadrian (probably), i. 17, § 6
- Theophrastus, the successor of Aristotle in the Peripatetic Philosophy, quoted from with approval, "offences due to lust, and to anger," ii. 10
- Thrasea, the noble Stoic put to death by Nero in 63. His last words were addressed to Demetrius the Cynic (for whom see on Demetrius), i. 14
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