Part 79

Fathers, not to be too strict, 20. To set a good example to their sons, 20, 21. The jus trium liberorum, 22. Saying of Evenus about fathers, 27.

Favour, the, 33, 34. Reminding of favours unpleasant, 181.

Feast, every day a, 311.

Fickleness, 146.

Flatterers, 19. Saying of Phocion about, 77, 182. How to be discerned from friends, 153-201.

Flute-girls at marriages, 40.

Fortune, not to be railed at, 89-91. Fortune's rope-dance, 139. Fortune and vice, 140, 141. On Fortune, 394-399.

Freedom of speech, 185-201.

Friends, on abundance of, 145-153. Friendship going in pairs, 146, 147. Originated by similarity, 152, 158, 159. How friends are to be distinguished from flatterers, 153-201.

Galba, story about, 49.

Geese, ingenuity of, 229.

Germanicus, idiosyncrasy of, 312.

Glaucus, son of Epicydes, 353.

Gobryas, 157.

Gods considered as forces, 44, 302. Perform their benefits secretly, 181.

Gorgias, 81.

Gorgo, wife of Leonidas, 84.

Gracchus, 273.

Great, the, especially open to flatterers, 184, 185.

Grief, immoderate at death to be avoided, 86, 87, 88. Unexpected grief worst, 113, 306.

Gylippus, 15.

Habit, force of, 3, 4, 337.

Hannibal, remark of, 391.

Happiness, the mind the seat of, 95.

Hares, 368.

Harmodius, 67, 189, 220.

Hatred, and envy, 312-315.

Hegesias, 28.