Octavius, comes to Rome, ii., 181; meets Cicero, _ibid._; quarrels with Antony, 204; feared by Cicero, 205; would he be Consul, 232; marches into Rome, _ibid._; his enmity to Cicero, 233; his insolence, 237; is reconciled to Antony, _ibid._; the meeting in the island at Bologna, 238; his conduct, _ibid._; letter to him, supposed from Cicero, but a forgery, 240. Officiis, De, ii., 205, 252; perfect treatise on morals, 314. "O fortunatam natam," i., 277. "Old Mortality," torture as there described, i., 88. Oppianicus, his life, i., 179. Oppius Publius, his trial, i., 126. Optimates, Pompey their leader, i., 175. Optimo Genere Oratorum, De, ii., 251, 264. Orations, how Cicero treated his own, ii., 167. Oratiuncula, twelve consular speeches so called, i., 190. Orator, The, ii., 251; graced by the name of Brutus, 266. Oratore, De, Cicero's dialogues, ii., 38; sent to Lentulus, 46, 251, 256, 270. Oratoriae Partitiones, ii., 145, 265. Oratory, Cicero's three modes of speaking, i., 94; his charms, 137; purposes of, ii., 274. Ornament, Greek taste for, i., 154. Otho's law, speech concerning, i., 190, 204. P. Pagan, Cicero one, ii., 330. Palinodia, or recantation, by Cicero, ii., 23. Palatine Hill, Cicero's house destroyed, i., 325. Pansa, the Consul on Cicero's side, ii., 209; slain, 223. Paradoxes, the six, ii., 146. Partitiones, Oratoriae, ii., 251. Peel, Sir Robert, i., 303. Perfection, required in an orator, ii., 257; Cicero fails in describing it, 257, 258, 261. Perfect orator, not desirable, ii., 275. Philippics, origin of the name, ii., 192; the first, 193; the second not intended to be spoken or published, 198; commences with satire against Antony, 199; the third and fourth, 206; the fifth, 210; the sixth, 211; the seventh, 212; the eighth, 215; the ninth, _ibid._; the tenth, _ibid._; the eleventh, 217; the twelfth, 220; the thirteenth, 222; the fourteenth, _ibid._ Philo, the academician, i., 43; Cicero studies with, 50, 51. Philodamus, and his daughter in the trial of Verres, i., 142. Philology, discussed with Caesar, ii., 170. Philosophy, Cicero's nature of, i., 33, 58, 59; rumor that Cicero will devote himself to it, 97; Cicero did not believe in it, 194; devotes himself to it, ii., 163; the nature of Cicero's treatises, 277; the nature of his feeling, 278; Greek laughed at by Cicero, _ibid._; not real with him, 280; apologizes for, 319. Philotomus, freedman of Terentia, ii., 105. Phaenomena, The, by Aratus, i., 46. Pindenissum, Cicero besieges, ii., 91; his letter to Cato respecting, 92. Pirates, picked up by officers of Verres, i., 160; commission given to Pompey against, 171; their power, 172.