Gods, dread of infernal, 208; do not disturb heaven or earth, 228; not to be feared, 266. Gold, lust for, denounced, 5, 208, 215. Greece, 215, 274 (2), 298. Greek, 58, 95, 210, 255. ^_a_ Greeks, 12, 13, 15, 34, 39, 40, 140, 169, 198, 203, 205, 209 (2), 210, 211, 240, 255, 283. Gusts of wind, origin of, 203. Gylippus, 12. Spartan commander against Athenians at Syracuse, 414 B.C. Haemus (Balkan Mountains), 122. Hail, 177, 181; falls more in summer than winter, 179; prognostications of, 181. Halos (crowns), round sun and moon, 12, 14, 34, 41. Hannibal, 110, 209. Famous Carthaginian general in Second Punic War, 219–201 B.C. Happiness, how to be gained, 5, 266. Heavenly bodies, influence of, on rivers, 141; on weather, 275; apparent retrogression of some, 299. Heavens, extent of the, 7; contemplation of the starry, 271; divisions of the, 210; supposed by Artemidorus to be a solid vault, 286. Helice and Buris (or Bura), 254, 257, 259, 267, 276, 277, 289. Towns in Achaia swallowed by earthquake 373 B.C. Heracleotic (mouth of the Nile), 171. Most westerly and largest, not far from Alexandria. ^_a_ Heraclitus, 100. Ancient representative of pessimism, “the weeping philosopher,” of Ephesus, toward end of sixth century B.C. Herculaneum, 221 (2), 259. ^_a_ Homer, 258. Horizon, 211. Hostius Quadra, 42. Unknown save for Seneca’s unfortunate mention of him. Hydissus, 132. Orthography of this Carian town is uncertain; Gercke reads Idumus. Hydraulic organs, 56. Iapygian (Wind), 211. Ice, 140. India, 7, 212, 215. Intermittent action, 128. Iron, discovery of, 45; money made of, 46. Islands, floating, 139. Ister (or Hister), a name of the Danube, _which see_. Italy, 110, 117, 133, 212, 261, 262 (adj.), 263. Junior, _see_ Lucilius, 168. Jupiter (Jove), temple of, in African desert (Ammon), 78; his thunderbolts, 88, 89, 91, 92; affords lessons to earthly rulers, 90; other names for, 91, 92. Jupiter, the planet, 284, 299. Lacedaemonians, 189. Lacedaemon, or Sparta, was in Laconia, the district in the S.E. of Southern Greece. Ladon, 257. River in Arcadia, tributary of Alpheus. Laelius, 268. Friend of the younger Scipio Africanus, consul 140 B.C. Chief interlocutor in Cicero’s Dialogue on Friendship. Lakes, with dense water, 138, 139; underground, 154; wide extent of some, 233. Land and sea breezes, 198. Landslips, 238, 249, 251; effects of, 253. Latin, 210 (2). Leo (sign of the Zodiac), 301. Lepidus, 166 (3). Formed with Augustus and Antony the Second Triumvirate after Caesar’s assassination in 44 B.C. Libonotus (Wind), 210. Libyan (Wind), 210. Life, the proper conduct in, 112, 159, 266; uncertainty of, 226; to be carried in our hand if we desire to live happy and without fear, 266.