Index

Index

Where there are numerous entries under a heading, bold type indicates more than a passing reference. Footnotes are not indexed.

Abra, 246

Achilles, 211, 852

Adrian (cardinal of Cometo), 247

Aegisthus (myth, son of Thyestes), 826

Aelius Verus (Roman emperor), 225

Aeneas, 47

Aerschot, Phillippe de Croi, Duke of, 247

Aeschylus, 94, 211

Aesculapius, 869, 1236

Aesop, 460, 869, 873, 1172, 1211, 1241, 1267

Aethalides, 624

Afranius (Roman governor of Spain), 836

Agamedes (myth. architect), 650

Agamemnon, 1027

Agarista (daughter of Clisthenes), 658

Agathocles (King of Syracuse), 319

Agenois, Lord Seneschal d’, 48

Agesilaus (King of Sparta), 14, 85, 138, 161, 255, 306–7, 317, 496, 594, 822–3, 1123

Agesilaus (philosopher), 216, 1008

Agis (King of Sparta), 317, 392, 508, 823

Agricola, 1175

Agrippa, Marcus Vipsanius (Roman commander), 304, 689

Agrippa von Nettesheim, Henry Cornelius, xxxiii, xxxvi

Agrippina, 264

Aignan, St, 248

Ajax (King of Salamis), 639

Alba (Alva) Fernando Alvarez de Toledo, Duke of, 28, 751

Albertus Magnus (Albert of Cologne), 123

Albucilla, 688

Albuquerque, Alphonso d’ (Portuguese viceroy), 266

Alcibiades (Athenian general and politician), 187, 719, 852, 942, 1018, 1051, 1156, 1215, 1255, 1260

Alcinus, 456

Alcmaeon of Crotona (Greek philosopher), 575, 627, 871

Alexander III (the Great), 5–6, 27, 65, 85, 94, 138, 145, 183, 187, 256, 281, 292, 303–4, 317, 322, 329, 338–9, 378, 404, 453, 582, 645, 719, 753, 761, 803, 833, 837, 840, 852, 853–5, 913, 990, 1000, 1031, 1041, 1042, 1137, 1169, 1189, 1199, 1223, 1258, 1264, 1268

Alexander VI (Pope), 247

Alexander (Tyrant of Pheres), 786

Alexandridas, 176

Alfonso (king of Aragon), 296, 327

Aliénor (Eleanor of Aquitaine, wife of Henry II of England), 64

Alviano, Bartolomeo d’ (Venetian general), 13

Amafinius (Epicurean writer), 755

Amasis (Egyptian king), 114

Amestris (mother of Xerxes), 583

Aminomachus (heir to Epicurus), 704

Ammianus Marcellinus (Roman historian), 75, 455, 760, 820

Amurath (Murad) I (Sultan of Turkey), 901

Amurath (Murad) II (Sultan of Turkey), 226, 804

Amurath (Murad) III (Sultan of Turkey), 769

Amycus (myth. boxer), 792

Amyot, Jacques (Bishop of Auxerre, translator of Plutarch), xviii, li, 140, 309. 408

Anacharsis (Scythian philosopher), 298, 387

Anacreon, 1009

Anaxagoras, 153, 505, 568, 578, 589, 600–601, 606

Anaxarchus (Greek philosopher), 389

Anaximander, 574–5, 606, 609

Anaximenes of Miletus (Ionian philosopher), 179, 575

Andreosso (husband of Joanna of Naples), 1002

Androdus (Androcles) xxxii, 532–3

Andronicus (Emperor of the East), 360

Andros the Argive, 1228

Angelica, 181

Antaeus, 792

Antigonus Dosun (King of Macedon), 392

Antigonus Gonatus (King of Macedon), 262, 960, 1109

Antigonus the one-eyed (Alexander’s general), 24, 292, 376, 530, 900, 1171

Antinonides (Greek musician), 989

Antinous (defender of Epirus), 399

Antiochus (Soter) I, (King of Syria), 110

Antiochus III, the Great (King of Sparta), 780

Antiochus IV (Epiphanes) (King of Sparta), 316, 400, 389

Antiochus of Ascalon, 1091

Antipater (Alexander’s general), 161, 392

Antipater (Stoic philosopher), 1106

Antisthenes (Cynic philosopher), 267, 270, 281, 390, 478, 496, 553, 859, 920, 968, 1016, 1048, 1059–60, 1119, 1221

Antony, Mark, 203, 304, 523, 779–80, 830, 838, 975, 1020, 1113

Apelles (Greek painter), 1056

Apion (Greek grammarian), 531–3

Apollidon, 343

Apollo, 186, 993, 1211

Apollodorus (grammarian of Athens), 165, 413, 606

Apollonius of Thyna (Pythagorean philosopher), 506, 736, 1146

Appian of Alexandria (historian), 148–9, 781

Apuleius, 645

Aquinas, Thomas, St, xxi, xxvi

Aracus (Spartan admiral), 139

Arcesilaus (Greek philosopher), 169, 273, 387, 472–3, 546, 566, 652, 657, 1013, 1127

Archelaus (King of Macedonia), 955

Archelaus (physician, philosopher), 627

Archias (Theban tyrant), 409

Archias, 409

Archidamus (King of Sparta), 77, 341

Archilochus (Greek poet), 560

Archimedes, 152, 1267

Archo (Aenian wife of Poris), 793

Archytas of Tarentum (philosopher and mathematician), 812, 1116

Arethus (friend of Eudamidas), 214–15

Arethusa, 522

Aretino, Pietro, 344

Argelionidis (Spartan mother of Brasidas), 286

Argenterius (physician), 873

Ariadne (myth. daughter of Minos), 943

Ariminius (German chieftain), 891

Ariosto, Lodovico, 460, 461

Ariovistus (German chieftain), 840

Arisogiton, 211

Aristarchus of Samothrace (grammarian), 1220

Aristides (Athenian statesman), 278, 822

Aristippus (Cyrenaic philosopher), 57, 173–4, 192, 208, 479, 655–6, 738, 968, 1000, 1116, 1119, 1258

Aristodemus (King of the Messenians), 953

Aristodemus (Spartan soldier), 259

Aristigoton, 211, 1014

Ariston (tragic actor), 198

Ariston of Chios (Stoic philosopher), 160, 341, 575–6, 596, 654, 764, 955, 968, 1119

Ariston (disciple of Critolaus), 584

Ariston (father of Plato), 596

Aristophanes 194, 526

Aristotle, xii–xxxviii, li, 13, 102, 130, 153, 163–4, 170, 183, 207, 230–31, 349, 426, 434, 451, 480, 513, 516, 519, 542, 545, 575, 606, 610, 621, 627, 643, 705, 728, 785, 788, 809, 816, 912, 959, 993, 1018, 1021, 1050, 1083, 1096, 1097, 1126, 1178, 1191, 1195, 1199, 1205, 1212, 1218, 1228, 1247, 1257

Aristoxenus (philosopher and musician), 627

Arius (radical theologian), 242, 519

Arria (wife of Caecinna Paetus), 844

Arria (wife of Thrasea Paetus), 844

Arrianus Flavius (Greek philosopher), 519

Arsac, Sieur de Beauregard et d’ (M’s brother), 230

Artabanus (uncle of Xerxes), 264

Artaxerxes (King of Persia), 384, 484

Artibus (Persian general), 322

Aruntius Lucius (Consul), 401

Asa (King of Juda), 881

Asdepiades (Greek physician), 609, 871–2

Assigny, Seigneur de 1’, 23

Astiages (King of the Medes), 160

Astylus (Olympic contestant), 438

Atalanta, 937

Athens, Gauthier de Brienne, Duke of, 148

Attalus (King of Pergamus), 383

Attalus (Stoic philosopher), 765, 1229

Atticus, Titus Pomponius (Greek rhetorician), 465, 689, 894

Aubigny, R. Stuart, Seigneur d’, 26

Aufidius (blind historian), 94

Augustine, St, xiii, xv, xxix–xxxi, xlvii, 111, 115, 203, 244, 451, 501, 556, 605, 955, 972, 1168

Augustus Caesar, 21, 141–3, 304, 367, 374, 383, 403, 428, 523, 529, 753, 780, 1043, 1160, 1250, 1253

Bacchus, 291, 383, 387, 828, 1021, 1137, 1252, 1257, 1259

Bacon, Francis, xxx n, xli

Bajazet (Sultan of Turkey), 328–9, 769, 839, 1096

Balbus, Lucius Thorius (Stoic philosopher), 1039

Balde de Ubaldis (Italian jurist), 657

Baldus (Italian jurist), 1210

Barthole (Bartolus) (Italian jurist), 657, 1210

Bathory, Stephen (King of Poland), 255

Bayard, Pierre du Terrail, 14–15, 312

Beauvais, Bishop of, 287

Bebius (judge), 94

Bellarmine, Robert (cardinal), xxxi

Bembo, Pierre (cardinal), 989

Bernard, St, 610

Bertheville (Brienne’s lieutenant), 26

Bessus, 412

Betis (commander of Gaza), 5–6

Beza (de Bèsze), Theodore (French poet and reformer), 751

Bias (Greek seer), 267, 787, 911–12, 1153

Bion of Borysthenes (philosopher), 20, 69, 497, 1109

Biron, Armand de Gontaut, Baron de (Marshal of France), 1136

Bito (myth. son of Cydippe), 650

Blois, see Charles de Blois

Blosius, Caius (philosopher), 212–213

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 183, 460, 461

Bodin, Jean (French writer), 3, 469, 818–24

Boemus, Johannes, xxxvi

Boethius, Anicus, xix

Boëtie, see La Boëtie, Estienne de

Bogez (governor of Eon), 402

Boiocalus, 393

Boleslaus (King of Poland), 900, 966

Boniface VIII (Pope), 393

Bonnes, Barthélemy de (defender of Commercy), 24

Bonneval, Seigneur de (Master of Ordnance), 48

Borgia, Cesare, 247

Borro, Dr Girolamo, 170

Borromeo, Carlo (cardinal), 65

Bouchet, Jean, 7, 203, 248

Bouelles, Charles de, xxii

Bourbon, Catherine de, Princess, 151

Bourbon, Charles, Duke of (Constable), 81

Bourtières, M. de (commander of Turin), 409

Bradamante, 181

Brasidas (Spartan hero), 286

Brennus (Gallic chieftain), 776

Brienne, Comte de, 26

Brion, Phillip Chabot de, 471

Brissac, Charles de Cossé, Count of, 195

Brisson (athlete), 1041

Brousse, Sieur de la, 411

Brués, Guy de, xxxiii

Brutus, Decimus (father of Marcus Brutus), 774

Brutus, Lucius Junius (early Roman hero), 389

Brutus, Marcus, 55, 316, 398, 465, 466, 753, 811, 827, 833, 1128, 1259

Buchanan, George (M’s Scottish tutor), 195, 198, 1040

Bunel, Pierre, xx, xxii

Bures, Comte de, 82

Burgundy, Charles the Bold, Duke of, 146, 262, 936, 1151

Burton, Robert, xvi, 21

Bussaguet, Sieur de (M’s brother), 865

Cadmus, 1083

Caecinus, 774

Caepio (conspirator against Augustus), 142

Caesar, see Augustus Caesar; Julius Caesar

Caesarion (son of Caesar and Cleopatra), 826

Caestius (friend of Cicero the Younger), 466

Caius Julius, 94

Calanus (Indian gymnosophist), 803

Calesthenes, 187

Caligula, 20, 101, 419, 523, 636, 966

Callipus, 145

Calvus, Caius Licinius (Roman orator and poet), 829

Cambises (King of Persia), 7–8, 945

Candale, François de (French author), 168

Canius Julius, 417

Cannacre (victim of Clovis), 901

Capilupi, Lelio (Italian poet), 166

Caracalla, 455

Caraffa, Giovanni Pietro (cardinal, later Pope Paul IV), 342

Cardano, Girolamo, xv

Carnavalet, Sieur de, 329

Carneades (Athenian philosopher), 184, 556, 559, 664, 705, 1041, 1172

Caro, Annibal (Italian poet), 284

Cassius Longinus, 153, 398

Cassius, Lucius, 838

Cassius Severus (Roman orator), 39

Castalio (Châteillon), Sebastian (German scholar), 251

Castiglione, Baldassare, 150

Catena, 484

Cato the Censor (the Elder), xxviii, 64, 65, 345, 384, 414, 443, 796–8, 867, 922, 1045, 1259

Cato Uticensis (the Younger), 138, 191, 257–61, 278, 303–4, 333, 375, 475–6, 690–91, 696, 772, 1112, 1148, 1174, 1178, 1259

Catullus, 461–2, 670, 829, 943, 1122

Catullus Luctatius (consul), 286

Caupène, Baron de, 879

Cecius, Martus (conservator of Rome), 1131

Celsus (medical writer), 111, 886

Cercyo (myth. wrestler), 792

Ceres, 383, 1257

Chabannes, Marshal de, 76

Chabot, see Brienne

Chabrias (Athenian general), 17, 87

Chalcocondylas, Nicolas (Byzantine historian), 794

Charillus (Spartan king), 812, 1205

Charinus (Roman physician), 872

Charixenus (friend of Eudamidas), 214–15

Charlemagne, 132, 175, 280

Charles IV (Emperor, King of Bohemia), 118, 471

Charles V (Emperor), 42, 48, 50, 78, 286, 318, 439, 471

Charles V (King of France), 123, 769, 833

Charles IX (King of France), xix, 240, 817

Charles de Blois, 262

Charles the Bold, see Burgundy, Duke of

Charondas (Sicilian lawgiver), 75, 267

Charron, Pierre de, xxxii

Chasan (Mahomet II’s commander), 376

Chastel, Jacques du (Bishop of Soissons), 405

Châtillon, Marshal de, 76

Chelonis (wife of Cleombrotus), 1249

Chilo (Spartan philosopher), 202, 213, 1252

Chiron, 107

Chremonides (friend of Zeno), 1148

Chrysanthus (Persian commander), 323

Chrysippus (Stoic philosopher), 27, 131, 137, 165, 192, 236, 517, 545, 553, 567, 576, 599, 611, 624, 658, 664, 703, 743, 872, 936, 969, 1106, 1255

Chryso (Olympic contestant), 438

Chrysostom, St, 361

Cicero, Marcus Tullius, xiii, xvii, xxxii–xxxiv, xliv, xlvii, li, 41, 44, 56, 89, 183, 191, 274, 279–84, 285, 378, 425, 455, 464–7, 544–5, 558, 566, 567, 610, 689, 705, 719, 725, 779, 811, 819, 822–3, 828, 936, 1039, 1065, 1113, 1125, 1218

Cicero, Marcus (the Younger), 466

Cimber, L. Tillius (friend of Caesar), 383

Cimon (Athenian commander), 166, 402

Cimon (Olympic champion), 488

Cinna, Cornelius Lucius (consul), 141–3

Circe, 541, 1226

Claudius (Roman emperor), 844

Cleanthes (Stoic philosopher), 137, 164, 192, 522, 576, 609, 642, 689, 743, 936, 968, 1106, 1141

Clearchus (Spartan commander), 318

Clement V (Pope), 94

Clement VII (Pope), 38, 50, 470

Cleobis (myth. son of Cydippe), 650

Cleombrotus (King of Sparta), 1249

Cleombrotus Ambraciota (philosopher), 405

Cleomenes I (King of Sparta), 25, 190, 635, 811, 852

Cleomenes III (King of Sparta), 398, 823

Cleopatra, 826, 1113

Clinias (Greek philosopher), 1119

Clisthenes (Tyrant of Sicyon), 658

Clitomachus (Greek writer), 559, 566, 1172

Clitus (Alexander’s general), 378

Clodomire (King of Aquitania), 316

Clovis, 248, 901

Coelius Rufus (orator), 781, 813

Colonna, Fabrizio (commander of Capua), 26

Commines, see Philippe de Commines

Conrad III (German king), 3, 4

Constantine I, ‘the Great’, 248

Constantine XIII (Roman emperor), 248

Constantius (Roman emperor), 720, 761

Copernicus Nicolaus, xxxvi, 642

Coras, Jean de (Toulouse lawyer), 1166

Cordus, Greuntius (Cremutius) (Roman historian), 450

Cortez, Fernando, 227

Coruncanius, Titus, 137

Cossii (Roman family), 142

Cossitus, Lucius, 110

Cossus (Roman senator), 383

Cotta, Aurelius (consul and orator), 137, 558, 612

Cotys, 1147

Cranaus (King of Athens), 1254

Crantor (Greek philosopher), 549, 1235

Crassus, Lucius (orator), 342, 522

Crassus, Marcus (Agelastus), 953

Crassus, Marcus (Dives) (triumvir), 530, 706

Crassus, Publius (Dives Mucianus), 79–80, 342

Crates of Thebes (Cynic philosopher), 153, 553, 609, 658, 660, 1075, 1080, 1211

Crantippus (Peripatetic philosopher), 991

Crinas of Massilia (Roman physician), 872

Crito (friend of Socrates), 16

Crito (son of Pythodorus), 552

Critolaus (Peripatetic philosopher), 1257

Croesus the Elder (King of Lydia), 85, 110, 329, 795, 1024

Ctesibius (Greek inventor), 1127

Ctesiphon, 1237

Curio (tribunes), 826, 1090

Curio (Roman orator), 1090

Cybele, 801, 1021

Cyneas (counsellor of Pyrrhus), 298

Cyppus (Italian king), 110

Cyrus the Great, 15, 20, 70, 85, 160–61, 216, 274, 280, 318, 323, 327, 384, 401, 649, 773, 839, 1012, 1024, 1062, 1097, 1149, 1199

Dagobert (Frankish king), 111

Damidas (Spartan), 392

Damocritus (Aetolian leader), 399

Dandamys the Wise (Indian philosopher), 898

Darius I, 27, 33, 48, 130–31, 145, 303, 628

Darius III, 852

Darwin, Charles, xxxii

Daunus of Apulia, 837

Daurat, see Dorat

David (King of Israel), 358

Decius Publius (father and son, consuls), 342, 583

Dejotarus (Tetrarch of Galatia), 779

Demandes (Athenian orator), 121, 908

Demetrius (Greek grammarian), 180

Demetrius (King of Macedonia), 456

Demetrius Phalerus (Greek orator), 708, 968

Demetrius Poliorcetes (King of Asia and Stratonice), 269

Democritus (Greek philosopher), 339, 349, 545, 559, 560, 568, 569–70, 575, 587, 604, 606, 610, 618, 627, 662, 672, 674, 1051, 1052, 1253

Demogacles (Greek soldier), 317

Demophon (Alexander’s steward), 186

Demosthenes, 280, 374, 639, 814, 822–3, 1021

Demothenes (Roman general), 688

Denisot, Nicolas (Comte d’Alsinois), 312

Diagoras the Atheist, 44, 576

Diana, 291

Dicearchus (Peripatetic philosopher), 100, 609, 657

Dido, 943

Diocles (Greek physician), 871

Diocletian, 298

Diodorus Cronus (dialectician), 10

Diodorus Siculus (Roman historian), 3

Diogenes of Apollonia, 575, 606

Diogenes of Sinope, 188, 214, 339–40, 394, 516, 660, 703, 814–15, 832, 859, 868, 1076, 1106, 1119, 1147, 1255

Diogenes Laertius, 467

Diomedes (Roman grammarian), 1070

Diomedon (Athenian commander), 17

Dion of Syracuse (philosopher), 145, 545

Dion Cassius (Greek historian), 818

Dion Chrysostomus (Sophist philosopher), 953, 1014, 1109, 1180

Dionysius the Elder (‘the Tyrant’), 5, 10, 78, 148, 156, 326, 479, 655–6, 722–3, 1023, 1042–3, 1059

Dionysius the Younger, 69

Dionysus, see Bacchus

Diopompus (Olympic contestant), 438

Domitian (Roman emperor), 203

Domitius, Lucius (Roman soldier), 687

Dorat (Daurat, French poet), 751

Dorlandus, Petrus, xxi

Draco (Athenian lawgiver), 716

Drusus Nero (brother of Tiberius), 773

Drusus, Julius (Marcus Livius), 912

Du Bellay, Guillaume, Seigneur de Langey, (co-author of Mémoires), 7, 78–9

Du Bellay, Jean (French cardinal), 39

Du Bellay, Joachim (poet) xv, 150, 192, 751

Du Bellay, Martin (co-author of Mémoires), 7, 24, 73, 255, 471

Du Chastel, Jacques (bishop of Soissons), 405

Du Guesdin, Bertrand, 13

Du Lude, Seigneur, 76

Du Velly, St Claude Dodieu (bishop of Rennes), 78

Dürer, Albrecht, 7

Ebreo, Leone, 988

Edward I (King of England), 14

Edward III (King of England), 286, 769, 776

Edward, Prince of Wales (Black Prince), 3, 286

Egeria, 716

Eginhard (Einhard) (historian), 471

Egmont, Lamoral, Count of, 28

Egnatius (conspirator), 142

Eleanor of Aquitaine, see Aliénor

Eleanora of Austria (consort of Francis I), xxi

Emmanuel (Manoel) I (King of Portugal), 55, 267

Empedocles, 153, 375, 569, 575, 606, 609, 610

Endymion, 998

Enghien, Count of, 315

Ennius, Quintus, (Roman poet), 18, 549

Epaminondas (Theban general), xxix, 4–5, 87, 225, 383, 451, 473, 496, 761, 855–7, 904–5, 940, 1260

Epeius, 792

Ephesius, 153

Epicharis (Roman courtesan), 820

Epicharmus (Greek poet), 170, 681

Epictetus, 544

Epicurus, xxxv, xli, 66, 184, 194, 246, 277, 282, 413, 450–51, 479, 549, 566–7, 571, 576, 581, 587, 592, 610, 618, 627, 629, 646, 657, 704–5, 940, 942, 1019, 1141, 1208, 1252

Epimenides the Wise (Cretan poet), 305, 808

Equicola, Mario (Italian writer), 989

Erasistratus (Greek physician), 610, 871–2

Erasmus, Desiderius, xvii, xix, xxviii, xxxiii, xlii, xlvii, li

Erilus of Carthage (Greek philosopher), 212

Eros (Cicero’s slave), 282

Escalin, Antoine (Baron de la Garde), 312

Escut, Thomas de Foix, Seigneur de 1’, 24

Estampes, Anne de P. de H, Duchesse d’, 471

Estienne, Henri (French printer), xxxiv

Estissac, Mme de, 432

Estissac, Jean d’ (M’s friend), 441

Estrées, Seigneur d’, 247

Eudamidas (Corinthian), 214–15

Eudamidas (King of Sparta), 797, 811

Eudoxus (Greek astronomer), 570, 1262

Eumenes of Cardia (Macedonian general), 24, 530, 900

Eunoe (Queen of Mauretania), 826

Euphorbus (Trojan hero), 624

Euripides, 165, 361, 560, 569, 589

Euthydemus of Chios (Sophist philosopher), 1051, 1197, 1220

Eutropius (Roman historian), 761

Evenus (Greek poet), 1227

Eyquem (family name of M), 712

Fabius, Quintus Maximus Rutilianus (Roman general), 328

Fabius, Quintus Maximus, Cunctator (Roman general and dictator), 64, 342

Fabius (family), 142

Fabri, Sisto, xli

Fabricius, Luscinus Caius (Roman hero), 331, 899

Fannia (granddaughter of Arria), 844

Fatua (myth. wife of Faunus), 980–81

Faunus (myth. god of shepherds), 980–81

Faustina, 593

Favonius, Marcus (supporter of Pompey), 1180

Favorinus (Roman philosopher), 1248

Favorinus of Arles (Greek philosopher), 1043

Felipe, Don (Philip of Burgundy), 28

Ferdinand I (German king), 9

Ferdinand V ‘the Catholic’ (King of Spain), 1209

Fernel (doctor to Henry II), 1234

Ficino, Marsilio, xlii, li, 988

Fimbria, Gaius, 688

Fioravanti (Italian physician), 873

Firmus (self-proclaimed Emperor of Alexadria), 1021

Flaccus, Pomponius, 898

Flaccus, Quintus Fulvius (Roman general), 328

Flaminius, Titus Quintius (Roman general), 228, 334, 796, 818, 985, 1249

Flavius, Subrius (Nero’s commander), 938–9

Flora (Roman courtesan), 695, 931

Florio, John, xliii

Florius (Roman historian), 22

Foix, de (family), 168

Foix, Diane de (Countess of Gurson), 163

Foix, François de, Count, 64, 167

Foix, Gaston de (Duke of Nemours), 315

Foix, Gaston III, Count of, 201

Foix, Paul de (French parliamentarian), 221, 1084

Foulk III (Count of Anjou), 64

Fouquerolle, Sieur de, 247

Francis of Assisi, St, 111

Francis of Sales, St, xxxiv

Francis I (King of France), 35–6, 38, 50, 79, 150, 318–19, 471

Francis II (King of France), 742

Francis, Duke of Brittany, 158

Franget, Seigneur de, 76

Fregoso, Octaviano, Duke, 26

Froissart, Jean, 24, 202, 468, 781

Fulvius (consul), 403–4

Fulvius (friend of Augustus), 403

Fulvius, Gnaeus (Roman general), 76

Furius, Camillus Marcus (Caesar’s legate in Gaul), 779, 823

Fuscus, Horatius (scribe to SPQR), 1131–2

Gabinus (Roman tribune), 826

Galba (friend of Maecenas), 981

Galba, Servius (praetor), 981

Galen, 605, 609, 610, 627, 883

Gallio, Junius (Roman senator), 226

Gallus, Cornelius (Roman poet), 94, 987

Gallus Vibius, 110

Ganistor of Naupactus, 531

Gaviac, Seigneur de (M’s uncle), 865

Gaza, Theodore (Italian professor), 180

Gellius Aulus (Roman writer), 812, 1227

Gelon (Tyrant of Syracuse), 894

George of Trebizond (17th-century Greek philosopher), 517, 739

Germain, Marie, 111

Germanicus Caesar (Roman emperor), 82, 187

Gervaise, St, 203

Geta (Roman emperor), 308

Ghibelline (family), 1182

Gide, André, xlii

Giraldus, Lilius Gregorius (Giglio Giraldi) (Italian poet), 251

Glaucia, 278

Gobrias, 628

Gondemar (King of Burgundy), 316

Gonzaga, Guy di and Ludovico di, 94

Gournay, Marie de, xliv, li, lv, 751–2

Gouveanus, Andreas (Gouvea, André de) (principal of Collège de Guyenne), 198

Gracchi (Roman family), 823

Gracchus, Tiberius (tribune), 212–13, 345, 673

Gracchus, Titus Sempronius, 582, 773–4

Grammont, Diane de (Countess of Guiche, known as Corisande d’Andoins), 220

Grammont, Philibert (Count of Guiche), 44

Gramont, Marguerite d’Aure de, 884

Gratinare, Mercurino de’, 737

Gregory XII (Pope), 1022

Grouchy, Nicholas (M’s tutor), 195

Gryllus (son of Xenophon), 940

Guast Alphonse d’Avalos, Marquis de (French general), 48

Guelph (family), 4, 1182

Guerrente, Guillaume (M’s tutor), 195, 198

Guevara, Antonio de (Spanish bishop and writer), 327

Guicciardini, Francesco, 7, 24, 50

Guillaume, Duke of Guyenne (William Duke of Aquitaine), 64

Guise, Charles de, Cardinal of Lorraine, 7–8, 817

Guise, François de, Duke of Lorraine, 140–41, 143, 306, 751, 805–6

Guise, Henri, Duke of, 1145

Gylippus (Spartan commander), 317

Hadrian, 688, 768, 868

Hannibal, 82, 255, 256, 316, 319, 368, 403, 840, 854, 1260

Harpasté, 782

Hector, 852

Hecuba (wife of Priam), 786

Hegesias (Greek rhetorician), 187, 340, 394, 938, 1260

Helen of Troy, 852

Helena (mother of Constantine), 248

Heligabulus (Elagabulus, Roman emperor), 243, 687, 1021

Helliodoros (Bishop of Tricca), 301

Hemon (leader of Chio), 1013

Henry II (King of France), 63, 94, 300, 309, 329 as Dauphin, 73

Henry III (King of France), 1136

Henry V (King of England), 789

Henry VII (King of England), 28–9

Henry of Navarre (later Henry IV of France), 1145

Henry (Fitzhenry), Duke of Normandy, 308

Heraclides of Pontus (Greek philosopher) 188, 575, 609, 968

Heraclitus, 153, 339, 540, 566, 606, 610, 645, 660, 662, 681, 1281

Herakleon of Megara (Gnostic philosopher), 180

Hercules, 152, 1137, 1172

Hermarchus of Mytilene (Greek philosopher), 704

Hermes Trismegistus (Greek writer), 594

Hermodius, 211, 361, 1014

Hermodorus (Greek poet), 292

Hermotimus (Greek mathematician), 624

Herodicus (Prince of Thessalania), 793

Herodotus, 29, 254, 305, 329, 448, 588, 645, 982