ILVANUS: Perhaps Lamia Silvanus, a son-in-law of Marcus. (10.31)
OCRATES: Athenian philosopher (469–399 B.C.), teacher of PLATO. He spent
most of his life in his native city, and served with distinction in the
Peloponnesian War against Sparta. Although associated with several
members of the aristocratic junta that ruled Athens after its defeat in 404, he
refused to participate in their atrocities. He was executed by the Athenians
on a charge of impiety following the restoration of democracy; Plato’s
Apology purports to give his speech at the trial. (1.16, 3.3, 3.6, 6.47, 7.19,
7.66, 8.3, 11.23, 11.25, 11.28, 11.39)
OCRATICUS: Unknown; the comparison with SATYRON does not help identify
him. (10.31)
TERTINIUS: Not certainly identified. Tacitus mentions an army officer of this
name in the reign of Tiberius. But the reference to Baiae (a Roman resort on
the Bay of Naples) suggests a more likely candidate a generation or so later:
the wealthy Neapolitan physician Quintus Stertinius, mentioned by Pliny the
Elder (Natural History 29.7). (12.27)
ANDASIS: Philosopher mentioned along with one Marcianus; neither is
otherwise known. Some have suggested a scribe’s error for Basilides, listed
among Marcus’s teachers by other sources. (1.6)
ELAUGES: Apparently a lesser disciple of SOCRATES, unless the reference is to
the son of PYTHAGORAS by this name. (7.66)
HEODOTUS: Unknown, but he and BENEDICTA were most likely household
slaves. (1.17)
HEOPHRASTUS: Philosopher (c. 371–c. 287 B.C.) who succeeded Aristotle as
head of the Peripatetic school. (2.10)
HRASEA: Publius Clodius Thrasea Paetus (d. 66), Roman aristocrat (consul 56)
and father-in-law of HELVIDIUS Priscus. His opposition to the regime of
NERO (by whom he was eventually forced to commit suicide) was informed
by Stoic philosophy and in particular by the example of the younger CATO