1. Pythagorean philosopher, mathematician, astronomer, and statesman; a friend of Plato.

1. See above, p. 203.

2. Cicero (or Cato) ascribes his visit to 349 B.C.; his last visit to Italy ii usually attributed to 361.

3. As censor in 184 B.C.

1. A pupil of Demosthenes and famous orator, employed by Pyrrhus to negotiate with the Romans.

2. Epicurus (p. 18).

3. For Manius Curius Dentatus, Titus Coruncanius, Publius Decius Mus: pp. 235, 220, 164.

4. From Plato’s Timaeus.

1. (Duilius.) Defeated the Carthaginians off Mylae in Sicily during the First Punic War (260 B.C.).

2. The ‘Great Mother of the Gods’, whose worship was introduced to Rome from Pessinus (Galatia) in 203 B.C. ‘Idaean’: from Mount Ida in Phrygia, a centre of the cult.

1. The story is from Plato’s Republic

2. Acted and produced the comedies of Terence (c. 195-c. 159 B.C.).

3. Served in the campaign of Pydna (168 B.C.), during which he predicted an eclipse of the moon to the army.

1. An epic on the First Punic War.

2. c. 284-c.. 204 B.C. Composed and acted in first Latin comedy and tragedy (240 B.C.) (with Greek models and metres); wrote official expiatory hymn (207), and first Latin epic the Odyssia.

3. See above, p. 224.

4. Consul 162 (abdicated) and 155, censor.

5. Consul 204.