Sulla; Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (138-78), noble, profligate, brilliant genius; would stoop to anything, I, 109; soldier against Jugurtha, Mithradates, Marius, Rome; statesman; reformed the constitution; absolute monarch of Rome (81-79); treatment of tributary allies, III, 87; confiscator, I, 43; II, 29; overturned the old morals, II, 27; Cicero opposed him, II, 51. Sulla, Publius Cornelius, nephew of the dictator, II, 29; defended by Cicero on charge of complicity in Catiline's conspiracy. Sulla, Cornelius, a freedman of the dictator, II, 29. Sulpicius; Gaius Sulpicius Galus, consul (166); famous astronomer, I, 19; predicted an eclipse of the moon. Sulpicius; Publius Sulpicius Rufus (124-88), an eminent orator of little character, II, 49. Sungod; _see_ Sol. Superbus; _see_ Tarquin. Syracuse, a great Greek city in south-eastern Sicily, rich in art and in goods; ruled by Dion, I, 155; Dionysius, II, 25; III, 45; a popular resort, III, 58. Tantalus, son of Zeus (Jupiter) and father of Pelops (_q.v._), III, 84. Tarquin; Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome (535-510), a cruel tyrant, expelled by Brutus and Collatinus, III, 40. Tarquins, the kinsmen of Tarquinius Superbus, all expelled (510), III, 40. Taxation, levying of, II, 74. Temperance, the fourth Cardinal Virtue, I, 93-151; definition, I, 93; the passions, I, 102; speech, I, 103; _vs._ Justice, I, 159-160; essential to success, II, 77; _vs._ apparent Expediency, III, 116 fg. Terence; Publius Terentius Afer (195-159), a comic poet, friend of Laelius and Scipio; six plays are left; quotation from the _Heauton Timorumenus_, I, 30; the _Eunuchus_, I, 150. Thebe, daughter of Jason and wife of Alexander of Pherae, II, 25. Thebes, the capital of Boeotia, home of Pindar and Epaminondas, I, 155. Themistocles, brilliant statesman of Athens, II, 16; gave Athens her fleet and saved Greece at Salamis (480), I, 75; consummate general, I, 108; not always scrupulous in his methods, III, 49; his valuation of character, II, 71. Theophrastus, of Lesbos, favourite pupil and successor of Aristotle, a marvellous teacher, master of Demetrius of Phalerum, I, 3; a prolific author; cited, II, 56, 64. Theopompus, of Chios (fourth century), pupil of Isocrates, orator and historian, II, 40. Thermopylae, a narrow pass on the seashore between Thessaly and Locris, held by Leonidas and his three hundred against the hosts of Xerxes (480), I, 61. Theseus, the great legendary hero of Athens, benefactor of the world; uniter of Athens and Attica; father of Hippolytus (_q.v._) by Antiope; husband of Phaedra; his son's death, I, 32; III, 94. Thrace, the vast country north of the Aegean; though the home of Orpheus, Linus, etc., it was generally considered barbarous, II, 25. Thyestes, son of Pelops and brother of Atreus (_q.v._), (III, 102).