es, 208.

Lais, famous courtesan, 32, 49, 63.

Law, martial, 211.

Leaena, her heroism, 220, 221.

Lemnos, the women of, 41.

Leo of Byzantium, saying of, 206.

Life, the three kinds of, 11.
Like a game at dice, 293.
Chequered, 305.
"Live unknown," whether a wise precept, 373-378.

Litigation, evil effects of, 145.

Livia, wife of Augustus, 225.

Liver, the seat of desire, 115.

Locrians, custom of the, 347.

Locris, authorities of, 245.

Love, to one's offspring, 21-28.
On love generally, 29-69.
God of Love, his festival at Thespiae, 29, 63.
Pandemian and Celestial love, 57.
No strong love without jealousy, 135.
Lovers admire even the defects of their loves, 136, 167, 168, 209,
213.
Love blind, 153.

Loxias, name of Apollo, meaning of, 231.

Lyciscus, 332, 333.

Lycurgus, 3, 136, 230, 320.

Lydiades, 238.

Lydian measure, 134.
Lydian produce, 145.

Lynceus, 203.

Lysander, 76, 262.

Lysias, 218.

Lysimache, 263.

Lysimachus, king, 225, 241, 344, 390, 391.

Maecenas, 49.

Magas, 113, 276, 277.

Man, his wretchedness, 26, 142.
Different views of men, 114.
Man's various idiosyncrasies and fortunes, 149.

Marriage, 20, 31-39, 63-69.
Hesiod on the proper age for marriage, 36.
No _Meum_ and _Tuum_ to exist in marriage, 62, 74, 75.
Mutual respect a vital necessity in marriage, 62.
Conjugal Precepts, 70-84.

Marsyas, 273.

Means, various kinds of, 104, 105.

Measures, Dorian and Lydian, 134.

Median war, 367.

Medius, 184, 303.

Megabyzus, 171, 302.

Megara, wife of Hercules, 39.

Megarians, their sacrifice to Poseidon, 133.

Melanippus, 50.

Melanthius, 81, 336.

Meleager, 52.

Meletus, 120, 141.

Memory, the storehouse of learning, 14.

Menander, 55, 96, 114, 115, 146, 150, 164, 173, 179, 257, 291, 305, 307,
310, 330.

Menedemus, 98, 130, 165, 303.

Metageitnion, 382.

Metella, wife of Sulla, 219.

Metellus, 222, 277, 320.

Metrocles, 140, 295.

Metrodorus, saying of, 77.

Mice, dislike to, 312.

Miltiades, the son of Cimon, 27, 135, 338.

Mirrors of the ancients, 59, note.
Comparison of wives to mirrors, 73.
Proper use of the mirror, 76.
Comparison of the flatterer to a mirror, 161.

Mithridates, 170, 219.

Money, against borrowing, 365-373.

Montaigne, and Plutarch, Preface, vii.

Mothers, to be carefully selected, 1.
To suckle their children, 4.

Munychia, 38.

Music, power of, 102