Loup de mer, the French name for
a species of cormorant, 102 note.
Loves, the, attend the nuptial
pomp of Zeus and Europa, 84.
Lucan, Annæus, Latin poet, his
Pharsalia referred to, 232.
Lucretius, T. Carus, Latin poet, his
De Rerum Naturâ quoted or re-
ferred to, 111, 133, 139, 142,
165, 203, 223.
Lupines, a leguminous plant used
in the diet of the Cynics, 87, 147.
Lycanthropy (the metamorphosis
of men into wolves), opinion of
Pausanias upon, 31 note.
Lykaon, a king of Arkadia, father
of Kallisto, 162 and note.
Lyceum (gymnasium of the Peripate-
tics), the, frequented by Menip-
pus, 87 and note.
Lydia, a district of S. W. Asia Minor,
one of the conquests of Dionysus,
Lynkeus, one of the Argonauts,
famous for his keen sight, allusion
by Menippus in Hades to, 160.
Lysimachus, a Macedonian com-
mander, the story of Alexander's
treatment of, 125-126 note.
Lysippus, laureate sculptor of Alex-
ander,177 and note; his sculpture
of Dionysus and Herakles quoted
by Hermes, 179.
Mænads ("Frantic Women "), the
attendants of Bacchus, 4.
Mæonides, a name of Homer used
by Milton, 160 note.
Mæra, a dog attendant on Eri-
gone, 36 note; her introduction
into heaven criticised by Momus,
229.
Magi, of Babylon, the, 263, 268.
Maia, one of the Pleiades, mother
of Hermes, 15; her account of
that infant prodigy, 16,51; listens
to the complaints of her son and
consoles him, 54-56.
Mallus, a town in Cilicia, with an
oracle-shrine of Antilochus, 92
Marathon, the battle of, Pan re-
warded for his aid to the Athe-
nians at, 52; pictured on the Stoa
Poikile at Athens, 193 and note.
Margherita, St., of Raffaelle, 80
Marsyas (competitor of Apollo on
the pipe), defeated and flayed
alive by the God, 32.
Martialis, M. Valerius, the Epi-
grammatic poet, referred to, 95.
Matthew, St., quoted by Clement
of Alexandria as vegetarian in
his diet, 269 note.
Mausolus, Persian satrap of Karia,
questioned by Diogenes in Hades
as to his magnificent tomb, 150-
152, 277.
Maximus Tyrius, a Greek rhetori-
cian (Dissertations), referred to, 92
Medeia, the Kolchian wife of Iason,
expresses the unhappy condition
of her sex, 161 note.
Mediterranean (Greek Sea par ex-
cellence), the, under the guardian-
ship of the Nereids, 80 note.
Medusa (the Gorgon), Da Vinci's
head of, 37 note; beheaded by
Perseus, 81-82.
Megakles, an aristocratic name at
Athens, 217 note.
Megapenthes, a tyrant, a dramatis
persona ofthe Ferry-Bout, 131 note,
237, 244-261.
Megara, a wife of Herakles, killed
by her husband, 26 note.
Megillus, a beau of Korinth, a mes-
sage of Diogenes to, 89.
Meidias, a plutocrat, an enemy of
Demosthenes, 205, 221, 222 note.
Melanthus, a parasite, 99.
Meleager, a famous Kalydonian and
Argonautic hero, in Hades, 129.
Meletus (or Melitus), the public
accuser of Sokrates, 222 and note.
Melite, a beautiful girl commemo-
rated in the Anthology, 49.
Memphis, the capital of Lower
Egypt, worship of the sacred bull
at, 232, and note.
Menander (the most famous name
in the New Comedy) quoted or
referred to, 91, 154, 208, 248.
Menelaus (king of Sparta, and hus-
band of Helen), preferred as suitor
by Helen, 47 and note; sceptical
as to the miracles of Proteus,66-
67; in Hades casts the respon-
sibility of the Trojan War on
Paris, 137, 244 note.
Menippean Satires (of Varro), the,
referred to, 86 note.
Menippus, the Cynic (a frequent
dramatis persona in Lucian's Dia-
logues), 86 and note; described
by Diogenes, 87; jeers in Hades
at certain typical princes, 90-91;
ridicules the Oracles of Tropho-
nius, 92-93; on Charon's boat,
105-111; derides the fable of
Tantalus, 133-134; requests Her-
mes to point out to him the "lions"
of the Lower World, 135-136;
has Eakus as his cicerone in
Hades, 139-144; inquires of
Kerberus the demeanour of So-
krates upon his descent to Hades,
145-146; his altercation with
Charon, 146-148; umpire between
Nireus and Thersites, 152-153;
his interview with Cheiron, the
Kentaur, 154-155; ridicules the
story of Teiresias, 160-162; his
descent, in the flesh, to Hades,
266-281.
Menkeus, King of Thebes, father
of Kreon, 277.
Methymna, a city of Lesbos, the
birthplace of Arion, 73 and
Methuselah, proverbial use of the
name of, 100 note.
Metrodorus, the successor of Epi-
kurus in the "Garden," his
vegetarian diet, 186 and note.
Metaci, resident-aliens, their posi-
tion, 227 and note.
Meursius, Jan, a Dutch archæolo-
gist, referred to, 166 note.
Mezentius, an Etruscan king, father
of Lausus, in the Eneis, 153 note.
Micromégas, a romance of Voltaire,
referred to, 243 note.
Midas, a wealthy king of Phrygia,
in Hades, 90-91, 140; has
Diogenes for his neighbour in
Hades, 279.
Miltiades, the hero of Marathon,
Milton, John, quoted, 82, 90, 160,
185.
Minos (king of Krete, and Judge
in the Infernal Regions), arbiter
in the quarrel between Alexander
of Macedon and Hannibal in
Hades, 114-119; reprieves certain
brigands from the tortures of
Tartarus, 164-167; 211; 223;
his special duties, 256 note; 263;
272, 273.
Miser, the, of Fielding, referred to,
252 note.
Misopogon (of the Emperor Julian),
the, referred to, 108 note.
Mithras, the Persian Solar divinity,
Mormolyka, a fuller form of the
above, 37 note.
Morta, the Latin name of one of
the Parcæ, 214 note.
Moschus (pastoral poet of Syra-
kuse), his Idylls referred to, 23,
28, 83, 84, 140.
Müller, his Handbuch der Archäo-
logie, referred to, 270.
Musæ, the, why unassailed by
Eros, 37; sing at the nuptials of
Thetis and Peleus, 68.
Mykillus, a cobbler, the hero of the
Alektryon of Lucian, 250 note; a
candidate for a place in Charon's
boat, 250-258.
Mykonos, an island of the Ægean,
Narkissus, a handsome youth be-
loved by the nymph Echo, in
Hades, 135.
Naulos, ship-passenger-fare, 147
and note.
Nauplia, the Gulf of, a Pelopon-
nesian sea, 78 note.
Naxos, an island of the Egean, the
scene of the desertion of Ariadne,
229 note.
Nekropompos, a name or title of
Hermes, 55 and note.
Nektar, the drink of the Olympian
deities, how symbolized by the
Pythagoreans, 5; its advancing
price noticed by Momus, 226, 235.
Nemea, a town in Argolis, Hermes
sent to, 5.
Nephele, the mother of Helle, 74
note, 75.
Nereids, daughters of Nereus,
nymphs of the Mediterannean
Sea, 65, 68, 80; attend the nup-
tials of Europa and Zeus, 84.
Nepos, Cornelius (a Latin His-
torian), Lives of the Military Com-
manders referred to, 115 note.
Nestor, king of Pylos, father of
Antilochus, 128; Sokrates in
Hades associates with, 278.
New Comedy, the, referred to, 95,
99, 108, 198, 242.
Newman, F. W., Prof., his Iliad of
Homer quoted, 112; his metre
adopted, 171; quoted, 204, 230
Niobe, daughter of Tantalus, in-
stanced by Hera, 31; her miracu-
lous change into stone believed
by Pausanias, 31 note.
Nireus, next to Achilleus the hand-
somest Achæan at Ilium, 104,
Odysseus (Ulysses), the hero of
the Odyssey, calls up the ghost
of Alkmene in Hades, 22 note;
his trick upon Polyphemus, 63-
64; his visions in Hades, 89
note; his prudence, 104; the
speech of Aias to, 112 and note;
the famous speech of Achilleus,
in Hades, to, 128, 129; his inter-
view with Herakles, in Hades,
131 and note; evokes the spectres
of the Dead, 160 note; his cool
reception by Aias in Hades, 163-
164, 249 note; his reply to his
mother's ghost, 265 note; his
credit in the Lower World, 270;
his company sought by Sokrates
in Hades, 278.
Ebalus, king of Sparta, father of
Hyakinthus, 27.
Eta, Mt., in Thessaly, the scene of
the self-immolation of Herakles,
26.
Olympia, in Elis, 10; a statue of
Hermes discovered at, 20, 65, 107
Olympias, the mother of Alexander
of Macedon, her decease, 116 and
Olympus, Mt., in Thessaly, the seat
of the third dynasty of the Hel-
lenic deities, 121 note.
Omphale (a queen of Lydia, mis-
tress of Herakles), her treatment
of that hero, 26.
Oneiros (or Alektryon), a Dialogue of
Lucian, referred to, 250 note.
Onion, the, an object of veneration
to the Pelusians, 201.
Oppian, a Greek poet, his Halieutika
referred to, 72 note.
Oracles, Greek temples or shrines
for delivery of, 92, 105 notes;
those of Apollo criticized by
Momus, 169, 190-192; ridiculed
by the Epikurean Damis, 202;
by the Cynic Cyniskus, 211,
220, 235.
Orca Marina, the, of Ariosto, 10
Orcus (the Lat. poetic name for
Hades), 165, 242, 258 notes.
Orestes (of Euripides), the, paro-
died, 172 and note.
Oreum, a town, a temple of Poseidon
at, 188.
Orcagna, Andrea, an Italian painter
of the fourteenth century, alluded
to, 274 note.
Origen, the Christian Father, his es-
say Against Celsus referred to, 92
note; quotes St. Paul, 267 note.
Orlando Furioso, of Ariosto, referred
to, 80.
Orates, a Persian satrap, a fellow-
traveller of Krates to Hades, his
reluctance to travel on foot, 156-
158.
Oropus. a town on the borders of
Attica, an oracular shrine at, 92
Orpheus, the (legendary) Greek
poet, his credit in Hades, 270 and
Osiris (in the Isis and Osiris of Plu-
tarch), referred to, 5 note.
Outis (the pseudonym of Odysseus).
Polyphemus complains to Po-
seidon of its use by that hero,
63-64, 250.
Ovidius Naso, P., referred to, 2, 4, 5,
6, 18, 19, 22, 23, 24, 27, 28, 31, 32,
33, 35, 40, 52, 56, 59, 61, 63, 65,
66, 67, 72, 77, 80, 82, 83, 96, 98,
103, 105, 133, 138, 141, 149, 154,
160, 162, 163, 165, 186, 223, 229,
231.
Ox, the, an object of worship at
Memphis, 201.
"Ox-murder" (Bouphonia), the fes-
tival of, a vicarious ceremony at,
166 note.
Oxydrake (a town and people of the
Punjaub), Alexander of Macedon
boasts of his exploit at, 126 and
Padus (Pado), the, a river in N.
Italy, identified with the Eridanus,
58 note; Hannibal boasts of hav-
ing overrun the plains of, 115.
Pæon (or Pæan), physician to the
Olympian Court, 27 and note.
Palæphatus (On Incredible Tales), a
Greek grammarian, quoted or re-
ferred to, 28, 32, 71, 74, 82, 83.
Palæstra, the, Helen trained in, 46
and note; Hermes presides in, 55,
Palamedes, an Achæan hero of the
Trojan war, in Hades, 278.
Pallas (Athena), "The Bath of,"
poem of Kallimachus on, 32 note.
Pamphilus, the hero of the Andria,
29 note.
Pan, the shepherd-divinity, Zeus
mistaken by Ganymedes for, 6;
claims Hermes as his father, 50-
52.
Panathenaic Festival, the, Pyrrhic
dance at .18. 48 notes.
andora the Hellenic Eve, wife of
Epimetheus), adorned by the
Graces and the rest of the divini-
ies, 21 note.
Panhellenic Games, the, training
of athletes for, 107 note.
Pannuchides (Lat. Pervigilia), "vi-
gils," 183 and note.
Panope, a Nereid, relates the ri
valry of the Goddesses for the
prize of beauty, 68-69.
Panurge a principal character in
the Gargantua and Pantagruel,
262 note.
Parcæ, the, their names, 214.
Paris, son of Priam, king of Ilium,
arbiter of the beauty of the three
Goddesses, 38-48; allusion in the
Anthology to, 49 note; appointed
judge by Zeus, 68; Quintilian's
allusion to, 136 note; deprecates,
in Hades, responsibility for the
war of Ilium, 138.
Parmenion, a Macedonian com-
mander, a victim of the jealousy
of Alexander, 116 note.
Parthenius, a mountain on the bor-
ders of Arkadia, 51 and note.
Parthenon ("temple of the Vir-
gin"), the, on the Athenian
Akropolis, the sculptures of, 18
Paul, St., his Epistles quoted or re-
ferred to, 90, 257, 272.
Pausanias, the Greek traveller and
archæologist (Itinerary of Hellas),
quoted or referred to, 6, 18, 20,
23, 27, 31, 32, 35, 47, 52, 59, 72,
74, 77, 82, 89, 92, 107, 176, 194,
201, 214, 233, 243.
Peirithous, king of the Lapithæ, 2,
13; with Theseus carries off
Helen to Athens, 46-47.
Peisistratus, tyrant (tyrannus) of
Athens, a rival of Megakles, 245,
261 note.
Peleus, king of the (Thessalian)
Myrmidones, his marriage with
Thetis, 68, 80 note, 128.
Pella, the capital of Macedon, the
birthplace of Alexander, 126 note.
Pelta, a kind of shield, 124.
Penelope, wife of Odysseus, said to
have been the mother of Pan, 50
note, 51.
Pentele, an Attic deme, the marble
of, 178.
Pentelikus, Mt., its derivation from
the above, 178 note.
Pentheus, king of Thebes, his oppo-
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