Cicero’s Practical Philosophy

General Index

305 General Index Academy, 9, 74, 134, 146, 246 Academic assent, 142–47 Academic philosophy, 68, 134, 135, 141, 181, 192   —and Cicero, 134, 140, 247, 252, 274 Academic sage, 141–43 Academic skepticism, 97, 102, 105, 160, 172, 174, 271 Academic theology, 153–76 New Academy, 247 Old Academy, 67, 246–47 Achard, G., on date of De Inventione, 63 ambitio as part of voluntas, 59 American political philosophy, 244, 259–62 republicanism in America, 261–62 amicus, 68, 83 André, J.-M. on “crisis of 59,” 66 on “impossible retirement,” 58 Annas, J. on Aratus, 235 on Diogenes/Antipater, 231 Anthony role model of Cicero, 62 See also Antonius Antiochus, 67, 68, 129, 146–47 and the Old Academy, 246–47 Antipater, 231–32 Antonius in De Oratore, 95 See also Anthony Aratus of Sicyon, 235–37 aristocratic class, 216–17 aristocratic government, 24, 26, 28, 33 Aristotle, 21, 24, 40, 181, 264 individualism, 263 Nicomachean Ethics, 243 political community, 188, 193, 195, 196 political philosophy, 193–96, 199, 226–27 Politics, 27, 188, 189, 198, 202, 226 practical philosophy, 8 property, 194 wisdom, 269 assent, 135–47 Clitomachus vs. Catulus (Philo), 143–44, 146 dogmatic assent, 142–43, 146 and kataleptic impressions, 135–36 as part of knowledge, 141–43, 147 passive assent, 144–45 and the sage, 136, 138–39, 142 Athens, 28, 199–200 atomism, 153, 160, 161, 171 social atomism, 215–16, 219 Atticus, 59, 60, 68–69, 95 as Cicero’s confidant, 88–92 in De Legibus, 87 on virtue, 103–5 306  General Index Augustine and Antiochus, 67 on Cicero’s De Natura Deorum, 155 Confessions, 5 Contra Iulianum, 60 De Civitate Dei Contra Paganos (CD), 29, 33, 34, 38 Bailyn, Bernard, 262 Balbus, 156, 163–70, 175 Barlow, J. Jackson on role of justice with respect to property, 12 Beranger, Jean, on Cicero on Gracchi, 85 boni. See optimates Büchner, Karl Books 5 and 6 of De Re Publica, 36 Caesar, 4, 7, 82, 91, 100, 237 and Cicero’s inconsistency, 99–101, 104 Cicero’s written support, 99 dictatorship, 75 and gloria, 219–20 and Pompey, 91, 248 and property, 219–22, 237 Calcidius, 124–29 Carneades, 138–40, 143–44, 249–50 Catiline, 5, 82, 94, 106, 248 Cato, 64–65, 105 in De Legibus, 197 on property, 212 Catulus, 142–43 cave allegory, 122, 129 Chrysippus of Soli, 127–28, 166 On Emotions, 123–24, 128 perversion of will, 115, 123 cives, qualities of, 83 civilization, origins of, 30–32 civitas, 192–93, 197, 203–4, 275 Cleanthes, 122–23, 127 Clitomachus, 138–47 definition of sage, 139 Cluentius, 97 Colburn, W.Trevor, 262 concordia, 29, 220, 235 consilium, 196, 203–4 consistency, 80–107 difficulty during civil war, 92 inward vs. outward, 101 memory in writing vs. speech, 98 and true character, 93 constantia, 11, 80–107. See also consistency constitutions, 24–25 mixed, 25, 261 Polybian theory, 24–25, 250 and virtue, 25 consul, 4, 20, 75, 81, 93, 248 Cornell,T. J., on De Re Publica, 2, 200 cosmic political community, 181–83, 190–92 and Stoicism, 190 Cotta as Academic, 155–68, 174–75 dogmatic naturalism, 168 and Epicureanism, 161–62 skeptic, 167 and Stoicism, 163 Crassus, 220 role model of Cicero, 62 Cumming, Robert, 229, 253, 258, 261–65 and the liberal tradition, 261–63 death, 116–17 deception, 95, 138 decorum, 43–56 as fourth virtue, 52–53 manifested in verecundia, 53 and moderation, 51 as order and consistency, 53 related to honestum, 50 related to persona, 46–50 decretum, 146–47 DeFilippo, Joseph G., on De Natura Deorum, 156 demes, 199–200 democracy, 24–26, 28, 33, 38 Demosthenes, 255 Dicaearchus, 67 General Index  307 Diodotus, 128, 246 Diogenes, 123–24, 231 disgrace, 117 divination, 165–67, 170–74 political use, 169–73, 175 doctrina, 66 dogmatic naturalism, 167–68, 170, 172–73, 175 Douglas, A. E., 2, 253 Dream of Scipio, 18, 23, 37, 41 dreams, divine cause, 170–71, 173 Drumann, Wilhelm, 252 Dugan, John, 94–95, 98, 107 Dyck, Andrew R. definition of verecundia, 55 on De Natura Deorum, 160–61 translation of De Officiis 1.96 and 1.98, 51 eclecticism, 252–54 eloquence, 63–65 paired with wisdom, 64 Ennius, 34, 73 Epictetus, 51 Epicurean theology, 153–54, 159–63, 266–68 existence of gods, 154, 159–63, 171 Erskine, A., Stoic sympathy to­democracy, 191 ethos, 106 exile, 96 fama, 83, 89 Fink, Zera...