De officiis Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: INDEX References are to Book and Section; all dates, given in parentheses (...), are B.c. Academicians, 1. adherents of the New Academy (q.v. ) ; their r... more »ight to teach ethics, i, 6; attitude toward knowledge, n, 7; Cicero's philo- sophy, n, 1-8. 2. adherents of the Old Academy, in, 20. Academy, 1. the Older, a school of philosophy founded by Plato and so called from its home ; their doctrine of ideas, in, 76, 81; the pre-existence and immortality of the soul; monotheism; the good- ness of God; striving after His perfection. 2. the New, a modi- fication of the Old, sceptical, anti-dogmatic, eclectic, in, 20. Accius, Lucius, a tragic poet (born 170). His tragedies were mostly imitations from the Greek. Cicero knew him personally ; quotes from him, iii,84,102,106. Acilius; Gaius Acilius GWitio (tri- bune, 197); interpreter, when Carneados, Diogenes, and Crito- laus came to Rome; author of History of Rome, in, 115. Admiration, how won with dignity, ?. 31fg. Aeacidae, descendants of Aeacus (q.v.), the father of Peleus and Telamon and grandfather of Achilles and Ajax, i, 38. Aeacus, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and king of Aegina (q.v.) renowned for his justice and piety, i, 97; after his death he became with Minos and Rhadamanthus judge in Hades. Aedileship, cost of, n, 57-60. Aegina, an island in the Saronic Gulf, a dangerous rival to Athens, directly in front of Piraeus and only twelve miles away, in, 46; unjustly appropriated by Athens (429), in,46. Aeginetans, the people of Aegina (q.v.). Aelius ; see Tubero. Aemilius; see Paulus and Scaurua. Aequians, a warlike mountain tribe on the upper Anio, warring against Rome (till 304), i, 35. Aesopus, Claudius, an intimate friend...« less