  - Adrasteia, presiding over the punishment of disembodied souls, 63.
- Aesculapius, sprung from a vicious stock, 22.
- Aesop, murder of, 34.
- Ajax, crime of, 37 n.
- Alexander, revenge of, on the Branchidae for the guilt of their ancestors, 35.
- Amphilochus, oracle of, 60 n.
- Apollodorus, the prey of terrific visions, 28.
- serving a cannibal feast to his associates in crime, 32.
- Archytas, forbearance of, 12.
- Aristo, punished for sacrilege, 23.
- Aristocrates, treachery of, 4.
- Artaxerxes Longimanus, penal discipline of, 64 n.
- Bessus, the parricide, betraying his crime from remorse, 24.
- Bion, the philosopher, cavils of, at the reality of inherited punishment, 52.
- character of, 52 n.
- Brasidas, death of, 2.
- Callippus, killed by the dagger with which he had procured Dion’s death, 22.
- Calondas, expiating the slaughter of Archilochus, 49.
- Cassander, not punished till he had restored Thebes, 7.
- Character, hereditary, 44.
- Children, inheriting the rewards and punishments due to their fathers, 39.
- Cimon, infamy and fame of, 16.
- Dionysius, left unpunished for the good that he might do, 18.
- Forbearance, the Divine, affording space for repentance, 13.
- Gelon, reformation of, 14.
- Glaucus, fraud and punishment of, 32.
- God, in his slowness to punish, an example to man, 11.
- Hereditary transmission of punishment no more mysterious than transitions in space, 42.
- Heritage of moral qualities lapsing in the first, and reappearing in some subsequent generation, 58.
- Hieron, reformation of, 14.
- Hipparchus, punishment of, anticipated in vision, 28.
- Immortality, made probable by God’s retributive providence, 48.
- Laws, human, often unintelligible, 9.
- Lethe, cavern of, 67.
- Lyciscus, treachery of, 5.
- Lydiades, a tyrant, and afterward a patriot, 15.
- Miltiades, a tyrant, yet a patriot, 16.
- Mitius, the murderer of, punished, 23.
- Municipal life and character, continuous, 43.
- Nero, doom of, 73.
- Odysseus, redeemed by his own virtues from the curse resting on his father, 22.
- Pausanias, haunted by the apparition of a victim of his lust and cruelty, 29.
- haunting the temple near which he died, 50.
- Peisistratus, a usurper, yet a beneficent ruler, 15.
- Periander, punishment of, deferred that he might first render service, 17.
- Pericles, of an accursed and infamous race, 28.
- Plato, quoted as making God an example to man, 10.
- forbearance of, 12.
- Plutarch, birthplace and residence of, vii.
- education of, viii.
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