Plutarch, introduced only into the Dialogues on the _‘E’ at Delphi_ (First Pythian Dialogue) and on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_, 232.
Polygnōtus, of Thasos, painter, chiefly of Homeric subjects at Athens and Delphi (fl. 450), 166.
Polymnis, of Thebes, father of Epaminondas and Capheisias, 13, 14, 19, 20, 22, 27.
Porch, the, the Stoic School at Athens, 93.
Poseidonius, of Apamea in Syria, a Stoic philosopher who taught Cicero, 278, 283, 316, 317.
Praxitĕles, the Athenian sculptor (fl. 364), 95.
Procles, tyrant of Epidaurus and father-in-law of Periander, seventh century, 99.
Promētheus, son of the Titan Iapĕtus, 65.
Prōteus, a mythical king of Egypt (Herod. 2, 112), 13.
Ptolemaeus (‘Ceraunus’, the Thunderbolt), king of Macedon (d. 280), 189.
Ptōüm, a mountain on the eastern side of the Copaïc lake, with a sanctuary of Apollo, 121, 124.
Pythagoras, of Samos, sixth century, philosopher and traveller, 14, 16, 21, 27, 66, 123, 228 _n._, 231.
Pythia, the, 72, 86, 100, 101, 103, 106, 110, 121, 164, 165, 169, 170, 199.
Python, the serpent slain by Apollo, 138.
Quintus, the friend to whom the Dialogue on the _Delays in Divine Punishment_ is inscribed, also that on _Love between Brothers_, 175.
Red Sea (Mare Erythraeum). Before Ptolemy, the term was used loosely to include the Persian Gulf, &c.: 117, 138, 305.
Rhegium, a Greek town in South Italy, 140.
Samos, an island in the Aegean, 192, 224.
Sappho, the great woman lyric poet, a Lesbian, of the seventh century, 87, 104.
Scythīnus, of Teos, an iambic poet of unknown date, 96.
Seleucus, king of Syria, assassinated by Ptolemy Ceraunus in 280: 189.
Selīnus, a Greek colony on the S.W. coast of Sicily, 92.
Selymbria, a town of Thrace, on the Propontis, 187.
Semĕlē, the mother of Dionysus (Bacchus), 209.
Serapion, or Sarapion, an Athenian poet, to whom the First Pythian Dialogue is inscribed, and a speaker in the Second.
Shining-One, the, a name for the planet Cronus (Saturn), 300.
Sibylla, the Sibyl, the name of an early prophetess of Delphi; in later times an official title, also applied to other prophetic women, localized in various countries, 87, 89, 90, 95, 104, 211.
Siceliot, of the Greek colonies in Sicily, 99.
Sicyon, on the south shore of the Corinthian gulf, 95, 184.