Timotheus, admiral of the Athenian fleet (378-356), compared with his father Conon, I, 116. Torquatus; _see_ Manlius. Trades; _see_ Vocation. Troezen, a city of Argolis, near the shore opposite Aegina; the asylum of the Athenians at the approach of Xerxes, III, 48. Trusts, when not to be restored, III, 95. Truth, the search after, I, 13. Tubero, Quintus Aelius, the Stoic, a pupil of Panaetius, praetor (123); a talented jurist, III, 63. Tusculum, a town in the Alban hills, the oldest municipium in Italy, admitted (381), I, 35; public lands of, I, 21; Cicero's favourite country home. Twelve Tables, the laws of, drawn up (450); quoted, I, 37; III, 111. Tyranny, II, 23-29; inspired by false perspective, III, 36; right and duty toward the tyrant, III, 19, 85. Tyre, the great commercial city on the coast of Phoenice, II, 86. Ulysses (Odysseus), son of Laertes of Ithaca, the shrewdest of the Greek heroes at Troy, III, 97; the hero of the Odyssey, I, 113. Varro, Gaius Terentius, consul (216) with Paulus, responsible for the disaster at Cannae, III, 114. Venus (Aphrodite), the goddess of beauty and love; of Cos, III, 10. Veseris, a little stream near Mount Vesuvius; scene of the battle of Manlius Torquatus and the elder Decius, III, 112. Veturius; Titus Veturius Calvinus, consul with Spurius Postumius (321) at the Caudine Forks, III, 109. Vice, luxurious living, I, 123; sensual pleasure, I, 102, 104-106, 122-123; II, 37; avarice, II, 77; extravagance, I, 140; misrepresentation, I, 150; untruth, I, 150; corrected by observing others, I, 146; by the criticism of the wise, I, 147. Viriathus, II, 40. Virtue, defined, II, 18; chief function of, II, 17; the four Cardinal Virtues described, I, 15-17; the sources of moral rectitude, I, 152; III, 96; Nature's leadings to, I, 100; endangered by sensual pleasure, II, 37; rulers chosen for, II, 41. Vocation, choice of, I, 115-120; change of, I, 120-121; vulgar and liberal, I, 150-152. Volscians, a people of lower Latium, subdued (303), given full citizenship (188), I, 35. War, rights of, to be enforced, I, 34; Cato's son, I, 36-37; excuse for war, I, 35, 80; justice in war, I, 38; war for supremacy, I, 38; for glory, I, 38; needless cruelty, I, 82. Wealth, Theophrastus on, II, 56; insatiable thirst for, I, 25; why sought, I, 25-27; the real good of wealth, II, 56; _see_ Riches. Wisdom, the first of the Cardinal Virtues, I, 15-19; most important, I, 153; II, 6; absolute, III, 16; and propriety, I, 94, 100; _vs._ Justice, I, 152-157, 160; confounded with cunning, II, 10; III, 72, 96; in Epicurus's system, III, 117. Wit, kinds of, I, 103-104; representatives of, I, 108. Xanthippus, a Spartan soldier of fortune, whose generalship defeated Regulus, III, 99.