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FATAL, fated.

Fortuit, chance (adj.).

Fronto, M. Cornelius, a rhetorician and pleader, made consul in

143 A.D. A number of his letters to M, Aur. and others are

extant.

GRANUA, a tributary of the Danube.

HELICE, ancient capital city of Achaia, swallowed up by an

earthquake, 373 B.C.

Helvidius Priscus, son-in-law of Thrasea Paetus, a noble man and

a lover of liberty. He was banished by Nero, and put to death by

Vespasian.

Heraclitus of Ephesus, who lived in the 6th century B.C. He wrote

on philosophy and natural science.

Herculaneum, near Mount Vesuvius, buried by the eruption of 79

AD.

Hercules, p. 167, should be Apollo. See Muses.

Hiatus, gap.

Hipparchus of Bithynia, an astronomer of the 2nd century B.C.,

"The true father of astronomy."

Hippocrates of Cos, about 460-357 B.C. One of the most famous

physicians of antiquity.

IDIOT, means merely the non-proficient in anything, the "layman,"

he who was not technically trained in any art, craft, or calling.