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This Glossary includes all proper names (excepting a few which

are insignificant or unknown) and all obsolete or obscure words.

ADRIANUS, or Hadrian (76-138 A. D.), 14th Roman Emperor.

Agrippa, M. Vipsanius (63-12 B.C.), a distinguished soldier under

Augustus.

Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia, and Conqueror of the

East, 356-323 B.C.

Antisthenes of Athens, founder of the sect of Cynic philosophers,

and an opponent of Plato, 5th century B.C Antoninus Pius, 15th

Roman Emperor, 138-161 AD. one of the best princes that ever

mounted a throne.

Apathia: the Stoic ideal was calmness in all circumstance an

insensibility to pain, and absence of all exaltation at, pleasure

or good fortune.

Apelles, a famous painter of antiquity.

Apollonius of Alexandria, called Dyscolus, or the 'ill-tempered,'

a great grammarian.

Aposteme, tumour, excrescence.

Archimedes of Syracuse 287-212 B.C., the most famous

mathematician of antiquity.

Athos, a mountain promontory at the N. of the Aegean Sea.