Academy, 1. the Older, a school of philosophy founded by Plato and so called from its home; their doctrine of ideas, III, 76, 81; the pre-existence and immortality of the soul; monotheism; the goodness of God; striving after His perfection. 2. the New, a modification of the Old, sceptical, anti-dogmatic, eclectic, III, 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 Glabrio (tribune, 197); interpreter, when Carneades, Diogenes, and Critolaus came to Rome; author of History of Rome, III, 115. Admiration, how won with dignity, II, 31 fg. 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, II, 57-60. Aegina, an island in the Saronic Gulf, a dangerous rival to Athens, directly in front of Piraeus and only twelve miles away, III, 46; unjustly appropriated by Athens (429), III, 46. Aeginetans, the people of Aegina (_q.v._). Aelius; _see_ Tubero. Aemilius; _see_ Paulus and Scaurus. Aequians, a warlike mountain tribe on the upper Anio, warring against Rome (till 304), I, 35. Aesopus, Claudius, an intimate friend of Cicero, Rome's greatest tragic actor, I, 114. Africa, the province in which Carthage was, I, 112 (Thapsus); III, 99 (Carthage). Africanus; _see_ Scipio. Agamemnon, leader of the war against Troy; when detained at Aulis he sacrificed his daughter Iphigenia to save the expedition, III, 95. For this he was slain on his return from Troy by his wife Clytaemnestra. Agesilaus, king of Sparta (398-360); waged war in Asia (396-394), victor at Coronea, saviour of Sparta after Mantinea (362); II, 16. Agis IV, king of Sparta (244-240); attempted to re-establish the institutions of Lycurgus and reform property abuses; put to death through organized wealth, II, 80. Agrarian Laws, a menace to the stability of the government, II, 78-83. Agriculture, impossible without man, II, 12; man's noblest calling, I, 151. Agrigentum, a city on the south coast of Sicily, once "the most beautiful city of mortals," ruled by Phalaris (560), II, 26. Ajax, son of Telamon; could brook no wrong, went mad, and committed suicide when the arms of Achilles were awarded to Odysseus, I, 113; rebuked Odysseus, III, 98. Subject of a tragedy by Ennius, I, 114. Albucius, Titus, an Epicurean; praetor in Sardinia (105); prosecuted for extortion, II, 50.