_Stheneboea_, a play of Euripides, 104 _n._ Stilbon (the planet Mercury), 154, 268. Stoics, the, 136, 146, 147, 264, 266, 285. Strabo, cognomen of the father of Pompey the Great, 185. Stratonīcē, 95. Styx, 37, 38, 97, 225. Suitors, the, i.e. of Penelope, 140. Sybaris, a Greek town of Lucania in South Italy, 193, 196. Syēnē (Assouan), taken by Eratosthenes to be directly under the sun at the summer solstice, 119, 296. Sylla, a speaker in the Dialogue on the _Face in the Moon_. Symbŏlum, the, 16. Syracuse, 88, 193, 197. Syrian goddess (Cybele?), 233. T. Taenărus, a cape and town in the south of Laconia, 199. Tantălus, 234, 293. Taprobăne (Ceylon), 265. Tarentum, a town in S. Italy, 40. Tarsus, in Cilicia, 117, 160. Tartărus, the penal region of the lower world, 40, 299. Tegyra, a village of Boeotia, near Orchomenus, 121, 122, 124. Teiresias, a blind prophet, of Thebes, 163, 226. Teletias, 185. Tempē, the gorge between Olympus and Ossa in Thessaly, through which the river Penēus flows, 132, 138. Tenĕdos, an island off the coast of the Troad, 92. Terentius Priscus, the friend to whom the Third Pythian Dialogue is inscribed, 117. Terpander, of Lesbos, the father of Greek music (fl. 700), 194. Terpsion, of Megara, a disciple of Socrates (see the _Theaetetus_ of Plato), 18. Tettix, 199, 200. Thalēs, of Miletus (seventh and sixth centuries), an early philosopher, one of the Seven Wise Men, 12, 61, 98. Thamus, 134, 135. Thasos, an island in the Aegean off Thrace, 166. Theānōr, a young Pythagorean, who came to Thebes from Crotona, as a deputation, 21, 24, 27, 28, 40, 43, 315. Thebes, the Boeotian, 7, 8, 12, 22, 29, 30, 43, 44, 47, 48, 184. Thebes, the Egyptian, 296. Thĕmis, the goddess of Justice, for some time in charge of the oracle at Delphi, 138, 211. Themistocles, Athenian statesman (514-449), 183. Theocrĭtus, of Thebes, ‘the prophet’, 9, 10, 11, 12, 16, 17, 20, 28, 30, 32, 35, 40, 43, 44, 49; see _Life of Pelopidas_, c. 22. Theodōrus, of Soli, in Cilicia, a mathematician, 149, 150. Theognis, of Megara, elegiac and gnomic poet (570-490), 84. Theon, of Hyampolis, a family friend of Plutarch, a speaker in the First and Second Pythian Dialogues, and in the _Face in the Moon_. Cp. _Sympos._ 1, 4; 4, 3; 8, 6, and the Dialogue _Non posse suaviter_, where the Epicureans are attacked. Theophrastus, born at Erĕsus, a philosopher of Athens, Aristotle’s successor, 136. Theopompus, a Theban patriot, 43, 48. Theopompus, of Chios, historian (d. 305), 100. Theōrius, a designation of Apollo, 77. Theoxenia, the, 194. Thera, Therasia, islands off Crete, 91. Thermopylae, the coast pass between Thessaly and Locris, famous for the defence of Leonidas in 480: 132. Thespesius (Aridaeus), 205, 206, 209, 210, 211, 213, 313, 314. Thespiae, a town of Boeotia, 29. Thessaly, 23, 24, 93, 95, 130, 158.