The Complete Essays (194 page)

Epimenides the Wise (Cretan poet),
305
,
808

Equicola, Mario (Italian writer),
989

Erasistratus (Greek physician),
610
,
871–2

Erasmus, Desiderius,
xvii
,
xix
,
xxviii
,
xxxiii
,
xlii
,
xlvii
,
li

Erilus of Carthage (Greek philosopher),
212

Eros (Cicero’s slave),
282

Escalin, Antoine (Baron de la Garde),
312

Escut, Thomas de Foix, Seigneur de 1’,
24

Estampes, Anne de P. de H, Duchesse d’,
471

Estienne, Henri (French printer),
xxxiv

Estissac, Mme de,
432

Estissac, Jean d’ (M’s friend),
441

Estrées, Seigneur d’,
247

Eudamidas (Corinthian),
214–15

Eudamidas (King of Sparta),
797
,
811

Eudoxus (Greek astronomer),
570
,
1262

Eumenes of Cardia (Macedonian general),
24
,
530
,
900

Eunoe (Queen of Mauretania),
826

Euphorbus (Trojan hero),
624

Euripides,
165
,
361
,
560
,
569
,
589

Euthydemus of Chios (Sophist philosopher),
1051
,
1197
,
1220

Eutropius (Roman historian),
761

Evenus (Greek poet),
1227

Eyquem (family name of M),
712

Fabius, Quintus Maximus Rutilianus (Roman general),
328

Fabius, Quintus Maximus, Cunctator (Roman general and dictator),
64
,
342

Fabius (family),
142

Fabri, Sisto,
xli

Fabricius, Luscinus Caius (Roman hero),
331
,
899

Fannia (granddaughter of Arria),
844

Fatua (myth. wife of Faunus),
980–81

Faunus (myth. god of shepherds),
980–81

Faustina,
593

Favonius, Marcus (supporter of Pompey),
1180

Favorinus (Roman philosopher),
1248

Favorinus of Arles (Greek philosopher),
1043

Felipe, Don (Philip of Burgundy),
28

Ferdinand I (German king),
9

Ferdinand V ‘the Catholic’ (King of Spain),
1209

Fernel (doctor to Henry II),
1234

Ficino, Marsilio,
xlii
,
li
,
988

Fimbria, Gaius,
688

Fioravanti (Italian physician),
873

Firmus (self-proclaimed Emperor of Alexadria),
1021

Flaccus, Pomponius,
898

Flaccus, Quintus Fulvius (Roman general),
328

Flaminius, Titus Quintius (Roman general),
228
,
334
,
796
,
818
,
985
,
1249

Flavius, Subrius (Nero’s commander),
938–9

Flora (Roman courtesan),
695
,
931

Florio, John,
xliii

Florius (Roman historian),
22

Foix, de (family),
168

Foix, Diane de (Countess of Gurson),
163

Foix, François de, Count,
64
,
167

Foix, Gaston de (Duke of Nemours),
315

Foix, Gaston III, Count of,
201

Foix, Paul de (French parliamentarian),
221
,
1084

Foulk III (Count of Anjou),
64

Fouquerolle, Sieur de,
247

Francis of Assisi, St,
111

Francis of Sales, St,
xxxiv

Francis I (King of France),
35–6
,
38
,
50
,
79
,
150
,
318–19
,
471

Francis II (King of France),
742

Francis, Duke of Brittany,
158

Franget, Seigneur de,
76

Fregoso, Octaviano, Duke,
26

Froissart, Jean,
24
,
202
,
468
,
781

Fulvius (consul),
403–4

Fulvius (friend of Augustus),
403

Fulvius, Gnaeus (Roman general),
76

Furius, Camillus Marcus (Caesar’s legate in Gaul),
779
,
823

Fuscus, Horatius (scribe to
SPQR
),
1131–2

Gabinus (Roman tribune),
826

Galba (friend of Maecenas),
981

Galba, Servius (praetor),
981

Galen,
605
,
609
,
610
,
627
,
883

Gallio, Junius (Roman senator),
226

Gallus, Cornelius (Roman poet),
94
,
987

Gallus Vibius,
110

Ganistor of Naupactus,
531

Gaviac, Seigneur de (M’s uncle),
865

Gaza, Theodore (Italian professor),
180

Gellius Aulus (Roman writer),
812
,
1227

Gelon (Tyrant of Syracuse),
894

George of Trebizond (17th-century Greek philosopher),
517
,
739

Germain, Marie,
111

Germanicus Caesar (Roman emperor),
82
,
187

Gervaise, St,
203

Geta (Roman emperor),
308

Ghibelline (family),
1182

Gide, André,
xlii

Giraldus, Lilius Gregorius (Giglio Giraldi) (Italian poet),
251

Glaucia,
278

Gobrias,
628

Gondemar (King of Burgundy),
316

Gonzaga, Guy di
and
Ludovico di,
94

Gournay, Marie de,
xliv
,
li
,
lv
,
751–2

Gouveanus, Andreas (Gouvea, André de) (principal of Collège de Guyenne),
198

Gracchi (Roman family),
823

Gracchus, Tiberius (tribune),
212–13
,
345
,
673

Gracchus, Titus Sempronius,
582
,
773–4

Grammont, Diane de (Countess of Guiche, known as Corisande d’Andoins),
220

Grammont, Philibert (Count of Guiche),
44

Gramont, Marguerite d’Aure de,
884

Gratinare, Mercurino de’,
737

Gregory XII (Pope),
1022

Grouchy, Nicholas (M’s tutor),
195

Gryllus (son of Xenophon),
940

Guast Alphonse d’Avalos, Marquis de (French general),
48

Guelph (family),
4
,
1182

Guerrente, Guillaume (M’s tutor),
195
,
198

Guevara, Antonio de (Spanish bishop and writer),
327

Guicciardini, Francesco,
7
,
24
,
50

Guillaume, Duke of Guyenne (William Duke of Aquitaine),
64

Guise, Charles de, Cardinal of Lorraine,
7–8
,
817

Guise, François de, Duke of Lorraine,
140–41
,
143
,
306
,
751
,
805–6

Guise, Henri, Duke of,
1145

Gylippus (Spartan commander),
317

Hadrian,
688
,
768
,
868

Hannibal,
82
,
255
,
256
,
316
,
319
,
368
,
403
,
840
,
854
,
1260

Harpasté,
782

Hector,
852

Hecuba (wife of Priam),
786

Hegesias (Greek rhetorician),
187
,
340
,
394
,
938
,
1260

Helen of Troy,
852

Helena (mother of Constantine),
248

Heligabulus (Elagabulus, Roman emperor),
243
,
687
,
1021

Helliodoros (Bishop of Tricca),
301

Hemon (leader of Chio),
1013

Henry II (King of France),
63
,
94
,
300
,
309
,
329
as Dauphin,
73

Henry III (King of France),
1136

Henry V (King of England),
789

Henry VII (King of England),
28–9

Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France),
1145

Henry (Fitzhenry), Duke of Normandy,
308

Heraclides of Pontus (Greek philosopher)
188
,
575
,
609
,
968

Heraclitus,
153
,
339
,
540
,
566
,
606
,
610
,
645
,
660
,
662
,
681
,
1281

Herakleon of Megara (Gnostic philosopher),
180

Hercules,
152
,
1137
,
1172

Hermarchus of Mytilene (Greek philosopher),
704

Hermes Trismegistus (Greek writer),
594

Hermodius,
211
,
361
,
1014

Hermodorus (Greek poet),
292

Hermotimus (Greek mathematician),
624

Herodicus (Prince of Thessalania),
793

Herodotus,
29
,
254
,
305
,
329
,
448
,
588
,
645
,
982

Herophilus (Greek physician),
972

Herostratus,
712

Hervet, Gentian,
xxxiv

Hesiod the Wise,
163
,
412
,
531
,
609

Hesperius (friend of St Augustine),
203

Hieron (King of Syracuse),
294
,
296–7
,
767
,
852

Hierotiymus of Cardia (Greek general and historian),
57

Hierophilus (Greek physician),
610

Hilary, St (Bishop of Poitiers),
203
,
246

Himbercourt, Sieur de,
936

Hipparchia (wife of Crates),
660

Hippias (Sophist philosopher),
163
,
1096

Hippoclides,
658

Hippocrates,
609
,
610
,
810
,
871–2
,
955

Hippolytus (myth. son of Theseus),
869

Hippomachus,
929

Hippomenes (conquerer of Atlanta),
937

Homer,
47
,
345
,
543
,
560
,
662
,
680
,
833
,
850–53
,
979
,
1014
,
1193
,
1196
,
1227

Honorius III, Pope,
202

Hôpital, Michel de I’ (Marshal of France),
751

Horace, xlviii,
30
,
191
,
461
,
670
,
987

Horn, Philip de Montmorency, Count of,
28

Horstanus, Albert, (M’s tutor),
150
,
195

Hortensius, Quintus (Roman orator),
425
,
706

Huët, Daniel (Bishop of Avranches),
xxvin
,
xli

Hunyadi, Janos (Hungarian leader),
804

Hyperides (Attic orator),
893

Iccus of Tarentum (Olympic contestant),
438

Icetes (Hicetas) (Syracusan leader),
249

Idomeneus (Cretan hero),
246
,
277
,
704

Ignatius (father and son),
249–50

Indathyrsez (Scythian king),
48

Iphicrates (Athenian general),
87
,
281

Iphigenia,
8
,
583

Iphis (King of Argos),
110–11

Irenaeus (Christian martyr),
243

Iris (myth. daughter of Thaumantis),
1165

Isabella of Angoulême (queen consort of John of England),
249

Isabella, (Scottish princess),
158

Isaiah,
645

Ischolas (Spartan captain),
238

Ismenias,
280

Isocrates (Attic orator),
132
,
184
,
963–4
,
1021
,
1087

Jacob (son of Isaac),
118
,
238

James (King of Naples,
932

Janus,
335
,
949

Jaropelc (Russian duke),
900

Jason (Tyrant of Pherae),
248

Jerome, St,
973

Jesus Christ,
41
,
93–4
,
405
,
760

Joachim of Flora (abbot),
45

Joanna (Queen of Naples),
1002

John the Baptist, St,
118

John I (King of Castile),
200

John II (King of Portugal),
55

John V (father of Francis, Duke of Brittany),
158

John Zapolya (King of Hungary),
9

John, Don, of Austria,
243

Joinville, Jean, Seigneur de,
471
,
716
,
804

Josephus, Flavius,
383
,
389
,
398
,
794

Jowett, Benjamin,
liii

Juba (King of Numidia),
833
,
836
,
838

Juggernaut,
405

Juille, Captain,
82

Julian the Apostate,
75–6
,
298
,
760–63
,
769

Julius II (Pope),
36

Julius Caesar,
65
,
67
,
77
,
138
,
146
,
193
,
236
,
259
,
262
,
279
,
296
,
304
,
315
,
316
,
317–18
,
322
,
323
,
335
,
342
,
346–7
,
383
,
409
,
445
,
467
,
469
,
482
,
685–6
,
688
,
707
,
718
,
719
,
726
,
757
,
773
,
779
,
791
,
811
,
826–32
,
833–41
,
855
,
942
,
1030
,
1085
,
1124
,
1146
,
1151
,
1191
,
1195
,
1199
,
1218
,
1231
,
1258

Junia (widow of Scribonianus),
844

Jupiter,
223
,
292
,
296
,
361
,
363
,
575
,
594
,
599
,
716
,
847
,
969
,
1096
,
1268

Justin the Martyr,
xxviii

Justinus (Roman historian),
323

Kinge (queen consort of Poland),
966

La Boëtie, Estienne de,
xiv
,
xliv
,
85
,
176
,
205–9
,
218–21
,
420
,
749
,
1198

La Brousse, Sieur de la (M’s brother),
411

La Noue, François de (Huguenot captain),
751

La Rochefoucault, Comte de,
188

Labeo, Anstitius (jurist),
402

Laberius, Decimus (writer of mimes),
86

Labienus (Roman general),
449
,
823

Labienus (supporter of Pompey),
449–50

Laches (Athenian commander,
47

Laccantus (Christian father),
512
,
610

Ladislaus (King of Naples),
827

Laelius (friend of Scipio),
286
,
331
,
1260

Laelius the younger (Sapiens),
212
,
280

Laïs (Roman courtesan),
826
,
1120

Lambin, Denis (Dionysius Lambinus),
xix
,
xxxv

Langey, Seigneur de,
see
Du Bellay, Guillaume

Lanssac, Monsieur de (mayor of Bordeaux),
1136

Laodice (wife of Aramis of Egypt),
114

Latona (mother of Apollo),
535
, 1270

Laurentne (Roman courtesan),
596

Leah (wife of Jacob),
239

Lentulus (consul),
342

Leo VII (Emperor),
45

Leo X (Pope),
10

Leo (Arian Pope),
243

Leon (Prince of the Phliasians),
188

Leonidas (King of Sparta),
1249

Leonidas (King of Sparta),
238

Léonor,
see
Montaigne

Lepidus, Marcus Aemilius (triumvir),
16
,
94
,
141
,
976

Leucippus (Greek philosopher),
606

Levinus (consul),
317

Leyva, Antonio de,
43
,
286

Licques, Seigneur de,
247

Lipsius, Justus (Belgian scholar),
xix
,
22
,
166
,
652

Lisimachus (King of Thrace),
525

Livia (wife of Augustus Caesar),
141
,
239
,
971

Livia (French dancer),
172

Livy,
12
,
175–6
,
414
,
453
,
773
,
790

Lollia (wife of Gabinus),
826

Lorraine,
see
Guise, Charles de

Louis IX, St (King of France),
64
,
405
,
493
,
804

Louis XI (King of France),
54
,
146

Lucan (Roman poet),
450
,
461

Lucat (brother of George Sechel),
795

Lucilius (Roman poet),
719

Lucilius (Seneca’s correspondent),
245
,
277
,
848

Lucius Volumnius,
342

Lucretia (wife of Tarquinius Collatinus),
376

Lucretius, xix,
461
,
986

Lucullus, Lucius (Roman general),
155
,
317
,
342
,
376
,
454
,
838
,
975
,
1127

Lude, Jacques de Daillon, Seigneur du,
76

Lull, Raymond,
xxi

Luther, Martin,
xx
,
xxii
,
490
,
1213

Lycas (Greek philosopher),
552

Lycon of Troas (Peripatetic philosopher),
16

Lycurgus (Spartan lawgiver),
99
,
134
,
160
,
232
,
449
,
606
,
695
,
777
,
823
,
882
,
964
,
1063
,
1093

Lyncestes,
1089

Lysander (Spartan general),
23
,
138–9
,
822

Lysias (Attic orator),
930
,
1194

Lysimachus (King of Thrace),
53
,
525
,
986

Macareus (myth. son of Aeolus),
131

Machanidas (Tyrant of Lacedaemon),
306

Machiavelli, Niccoló,
744
,
833

Mâcon, Bishop of,
78

Macrobius (Greek grammarian),
1227

Maecenas (minister of Augustus),
981

Mahomet the Prophet,
578

Mahomet II (Sultan of Turkey),
376
,
794–5
,
827
,
852
,
900–901
,
1146

Mamurra,
829

Manlius Capitolanus, Marcus (consul),
712
,
1145

Mantua, Marquis of,
94

Manuel (Roman commander),
82

Marcellus (Roman consul),
175
,
822
,
840

Marcius, Lucius (Roman general),
22

Mardonius (Persian leader),
258

Margaret, Queen of Navarre (Marguerited’Angoulême),
xxi
,
50
,
363
,
481
,
1014

Maris (Bishop of Chalcedon),
760

Marius, Gaius (Roman general),
315
,
455
,
728
,
1066
,
1230

Marius the Younger,
304

Marot, Clément (French poet),
401

Mars,
291
,
373
,
582
,
631
,
1257