The Complete Essays (195 page)

Marteau, Michel,
xlii

Martholus, Vincentius (scribe to
SPQR
),
1132

Martial,
462
,
780
,
995

Martin, Jean,
xxi

Massinissa (King of Numidia),
253

Matecoulom, Seigneur de (M’s brother),
789

Matignon, Monsieur de (Marshal of France),
1136

Maurice (east Roman emperor),
792

Maxentius (Roman emperor),
401

Maximilian I (Emperor),
15

Mechmet,
see
Mahomet II

Medici, Catherine de’
140–41

Medici, Lorenzo de’, Duke of Urbino,
48

Megabysus,
1056

Melampus (soothsayer),
506

Melanchthon, Philip,
xix
,
li

Melanthius (Greek poet),
1059

Melissa (wife of Periander),
998

Melissus of Samos (Greek philosopher),
589

Memmius, Gemellus Gaius (Roman tribune),
829

Menander,
191–2
,
217
,
299

Menicius (correspondent of Epicurus),
184

Meno (Greek general),
1013

Meno (Thessalian adventurer),
1213

Mercurino de’ Gratinare (prisoner of Suleiman),
737

Mercury,
291
,
406
,
631
,
716
,
721
,
1257

Merveille, Captain,
36

Messala Corvinus (Roman consul and historian),
739

Messalina,
985

Metellus (family),
1127

Metellus Creticus (Roman commander),
327
,
342

Metellus of Macedon (Roman consul),
632

Metellus Nepos (tribune),
304
,
342

Metellus Numidicus (consul),
473–4

Metrocles (Greek philosopher),
658
,
1141

Metrodorus of Chios (Greek philosopher),
589

Metrodorus of Lampsacus (Epicurean philosopher),
389
,
705
,
707
,
765
,
1141

Michael, St,
894

Michel, Pierre,
xlii

Midas, King,
650
,
945

Milton, John,
30

Minerva,
186
,
582
,
716

Mithridates,
256
,
1042

Monluc, Blaise de (Marshal of France),
444

Monstrelet, Enguerrand de,
326

Montaigne, Antoinette de (M’s mother),
xiv

Montaigne, Léonor de (M’s daughter),
xiv
,
437
,
966

Montaigne, Pierre Eyquem de (M’s father),
xiv
,
xxi
,
lvii
,
252
,
386
,
432
,
1076
,
1078
,
1137
,
1249
,
1251

Montaureus (Mont-Doré) (French poet),
751

Montfort, John, Count of,
262

Montmord, Seigneur de,
23

Montmorency, Anne, Duc de, (Constable of France),
73
,
306
,
471
,
751

Morozo, Matteo,
148

Morvilliers, Sieur de (Bishop of Orleans),
895

Moses,
610
,
716

Muley Hassan (Dey of Tunis),
438

Muley Moloch (Abd el Malek, King of Fez),
770–71

Murena,
141
,
142

Muret, Marc-Antoine (M’s tutor),
195
,
198

Musa (Greek physician),
872

Musaeus (oracle),
606

Mutas, Alexander (Conservator of Rome),
1131

Mutia (wife of Pompey),
826

Myson (Greek sage),
1052

Narcissus,
671

Naselli, G.,
xliii

Nassau, Louis, Count of,
23
,
76

Nausiphanes,
589

Navarre,
see
Henry of Navarre; Margaret of Navarre

Nembroth (Nimrod, King of Babel),
623

Neptune,
21
,
380
,
596
,
710

Nero,
12
,
264
,
373
,
450
,
817–18
,
846–8

Nerva, Coceius (Roman jurist),
402–3

Nesle, Jean de (French soldier),
287

Newman, John H. (cardinal),
xlii

Nicanor (Syrian general),
400

Nicetas of Syracuse,
642

Nicias (Athenian general),
14

Nicocles (King of Cyprus),
868
,
870
,
1087

Nicocreon (King of Cyprus),
389

Nicolas of Lyra,
xxx
,
xliii

Nicolaus of Cusa (cardinal),
xxii

Nicomedes III (King of Bithynia),
826

Niger (Nero’s commander),
939

Ninachetuen (Malaccan chief),
402

Niobe,
8

Normandy, Robert II (Curthose), Duke of,
247

Numa Pompilius (King of Rome),
573
,
716
,
823

Oceanus,
680

Octavius (consul),
138

Octavius, Marcus (Pompey’s lieutenant),
841

Octavius Sagilla,
977–8

Oedipus,
131
,
364

Olivier, François (Chancellor of France),
734
,
751

Onesilus (King of Salamis),
322

Oppianus (Greek poet),
527

Oppius, Gaius (writer and friend of Caesar),
826
,
839

Orange-Nassau, William, Prince of (William the Silent),
805

Origen of Alexandria,
954–5

Orleans, Charles, Duke of,
789

Oromasis (Persian god),
716

Osorius (Osorio), Geronimo (Portuguese bishop),
55

Ostorius,
688

Otanes (Persian general),
1040

Otho (Roman emperor),
303
,
317

Ovid,
xvi
,
196
,
254
,
460

Pacard, George,
xxvii
,
xxix

Pacuvius (Roman tragedian),
43

Pacuvius Calavius (senator of Capua),
1085–6

Paetus (family),
844–5

Pallas Athena,
181
,
957
,
1138
,
1257

Palvel,
171

Panaetius (Stoic philosopher),
562
,
852
,
1008
,
1157

Pantaleon,
795

Panthea (wife of Abradatas),
1149

Paracelsus, Theophrastus,
643
,
873

Paris,
479
,
529

Parmenides of Elea (Greek philosopher),
568
,
575
,
589
,
606
,
609
,
680

Parmenion (Macedonian general),
145
,
303

Pascal, Blaise,
xiii
,
xxix
,
xxx

Pasicles,
333

Patrodus (friend of Achilles),
211

Paul, St,
xviii
,
xx
,
xxvii
,
xxix–xxx
,
xliii
,
405
,
499
,
554
,
573
,
593

Paul IV (Pope), xxii,
970

Paulina (wife of Satuminus),
595–6

Paulina, Pompeia (wife of Seneca),
846–8

Paulinus (Bishop of Nola),
270

Paulus Aemilius, Lucius Macedonicus (Roman general),
64
,
96
,
343
,
582
,
710

Pausanias (Macedonian assassin of Philip),
383

Pausanias (Spartan tyrant),
223
,
258

Pausanias (traveller and geographer),
1045

Paxea (wife of Labeo),
402

Peducaeus, Sextus (Roman propraetor),
706

Pelagia, St,
401

Peletier, Jacques (French poet and mathematician),
113
,
644
,
693

Pelopidas (Theban general),
4–5
,
225
,
409
,
822–3
,
857

Periander (doctor, poet),
77
,
1252

Periander (Tyrant of Corinth),
998

Pericles (Athenian statesman and general),
139
,
224
,
341
,
886
,
936
,
1248

Perictione (mother of Plato),
596

Perrozet,
1208

Perseus (King of Macedonia),
22
,
96
,
305
,
1222

Perseus of Cittium (Stoic philosopher, pupil of Zeno),
576

Pescara, Fernando F. D., Marquis of,
26

Petilius (Roman tribune),
414

Petreius (Roman governor of Spain),
836

Petronius (favourite of Nero),
1113

Petronius, Granius (Roman quaestor),
841

Phaedo (Greek philosopher),
982

Pharnaces (King of Pontus),
836

Phaulius of Argos,
981

Pheraulas,
70

Pherecydes (Greek philosopher),
540
,
558
,
621

Phereus, Jason,
248

Phidias (Greek sculptor),
451

Philemon (Caesar’s secretary),
482

Philip (Alexander’s doctor),
145

Philip II (King of Macedon),
280
,
281
,
383
,
404
,
981
,
1025
,
1083
,
1214

Philip V (King of Macedon),
228
,
392–3
,
793

Philip II (King of France),
94
,
202–3
,
287

Philip VI (de Valois) (King of France),
776

Philip II (King of Spain),
15

Philippe de Commines (French writer),
470–71
,
833
,
1064

Philistus (Greek commander),
770

Phillipides (Greek poet),
896

Philo,
558

Philopoemen (Greek general),
139
,
306
,
316
,
728–9
,
792
,
797
,
1230

Philotas, Quintus Curtius (Alexander’s general),
415
,
1268

Philotimus (Greek physician),
1071
,
1043

Philoxenus (Greek poet),
670

Phocas (east Roman emperor),
792

Phocion (Athenian general and statesman),
277
,
813–14
,
823
,
918
,
1075

Phryne (Athenian hetaira),
1199

Phrynis (musician and poet),
134

Phyton (defender of Rhegium),
5

Pibrac, Guy du Faur de,
1084

Pico della Mirandola, Gian-Francesco,
xxxiii
,
xxxvi

Pincher,
915

Pindar,
129
,
624
,
756

Piso, Cnaius (Roman general),
813