Pluto, meaning of, according to the Stoics, i. 163 Po, miracle of the subsidence of the waters of the, i. 382, _note_ Pœmen, St., story of, and of his mother, ii. 129. Legend of him and the lion, 169 Political economy, what it has accomplished respecting almsgiving, ii. 90 Political judgments, moral standard of most men in, lower than in private judgments, i. 151 Political truth, or habit of “fair play,” the characteristic of free communities, i. 139. Highly civilised form of society to which it belongs, 139. Its growth retarded by the opposition of theologians, 140 Polybius, his praise of the devotion and purity of creed of the Romans, i. 167 Polycarp, St., martyrdom of, i. 441 Polygamy, long continuance of, among the kings of Gaul, ii. 343 Pompeii, gladiatorial shows at, i. 276, _note_ Pompey, his destruction of the pirates, i. 234. His multiplication of gladiatorial shows, 273 Poor-law system, elaboration of the, ii. 96. Its pernicious results, 97, 99, 105 Poppæa, Empress, a Jewish proselyte, i. 386 Porcia, heroism of, ii. 309 Porphyry, his condemnation of suicides, i. 214. His description of philosophy, i. 326. His adoption of Neoplatonism, i. 330 Possevin, his exposure of the Sibylline books, i. 377 Pothinus, martyrdom of, i. 442 Power, origin of the desire of, i. 23, 26 Praise, association of ideas leading to the desire for even posthumous, i. 26 Prayer, reflex influence upon the minds of the worshippers, i. 36 Preachers, Stoic, among the Romans, i. 308, 309 Pride, contrasted with vanity, i. 195. The leading moral agent of Stoicism, i. 195 Prometheus, cause of the admiration bestowed upon, i. 35 Prophecies, incapacity of the Christians of the third century for judging prophecies, i. 376 Prophecy, gift of, attributed to the vestal virgins of Rome, i. 107. And in India to virgins, 107, _note_ Prosperity, some crimes conducive to national, i. 58 Prostitution, ii. 282-286. How regarded by the Romans, 314 Protagoras, his scepticism, i. 162 Protasius, St., miraculous discovery of his remains, i. 379 Prudentius, on the vestal virgins at the gladiatorial shows, i. 291 Purgatory, doctrine of, ii. 232-235 Pythagoras, sayings of, i. 53. Chastity the leading virtue of his school, 106. On the fables of Hesiod and Homer, 161. His belief in an all-pervading soul of nature, 162. His condemnation of suicide, 212. Tradition of his journey to India, 229, _note_. His inculcation of the practice of self-examination, 248. His opinion of earthquakes, 369. His doctrine of kindness to animals, ii. 165 Quakers, compared with the early Christians, ii. 12, and _note_ Quintilian, his conception of the Deity, i. 164 Rank, secular, consecration of, ii. 260, _et seq_ Rape, punishment for, ii. 316 Redbreast, legend of the, ii. 224, _note_ Regulus, the story of, i. 212