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INDEX.
magnificent remnant of ancient
Home, 149; lɪis other public works,
ib. ; his character and death, ib. ;
chances of his succession to Augus-
tus, 151
--Postumus, son of Agrippa,
adopted by Augustus, iii. 153
Agrippina, daughter of Agrippa, mar-
ries Germanicus, iii. 152 ; Agrippina
the younger induces her husband
Claudius to adopt her son Nero,
190; poisonsClaudius, 191; is mur-
dered by Nero, 196
Alani evacuate Gaul, iii. 344
Alaric advances with the Visigoths,
iii. 341; destruction of Rome by, 345
Albinus, Clodius, proclaimed emperor,
iii. 261 ; defeat and death of, 264
--Sp. Postumius, and his brother
Aulus baffled by Jugurtha, ii. 321
Alcaeus, his epigram on the victory of
Cynoscephalae, ii. 170
Alemanni, a name comprehending
various distinct tribes, iii. 290, n. ; or
Suevi or Suabians, are defeated with
the Juthungi and Vandals, 301;
defeated by Probus, 303
Alexander Severus adopted by
Elagabalus, iii. 272 ; proclaimed
emperor, 273; murdered, 280
------the Great, his achievements
small compared to Hannibal’s, ii. 76 ;
partiality of Caracalla for, iii. 269
Alexandria, burning of the library of,
iii. 66; massacre of its inhabitants
by Caracalla, 269; taken, and its
inhabitants cruelly treated by Dio-
cletian, 310
Allectus, after usurping the imperial
power in Britain, conquered by a
general of Constantius, iii. 310
Allies, emancipation ofthe Italian,ii,295
Allobrogian ambassadors reveal the
conspiracy of Catiline, iii. 23
Alphabetical writing sprang from three
distinct places, vi. n,
Alpine tribes, reduction of the, iii.156
Alps, opinions as to the route of Han-
nibal across the, ii. 87 ; breaking the
rocks by vinegar, an absurd tale of
Livy, 90
Ambassadors, murder of the Roman,
by the Hlyrians, ii. 56; Roman, at
Carthage, their mode of proceeding,
83
Ambracia, siege of, one of the most
ingenious in all ancient history, ii. 183
Ammianus Marcellinus, character of
his works, iii. 337
Amnesty decreed concerning the as-
sassination of Cæsar, iii. 85
Anarchy at Rome, iii. 13
Andes, the birth-place of Virgil, iii. 105
Andriscus (see Pseudo-Philip)
Annales maximi, or Pontificum, au-
thentic documents, viii.
Anthcmius appointed emperor of the
West by Leo, the emperor of the
east, iii. 355
Antioch taken by Sapor, iii. 295
Antiochus, undeservedly called the
Great, ii. 175; his interference in
Greece, 176; is advised by Hannibal
not to make war on Rome without
alliances, 178 ; lands in Thessaly with
10,000 men, 172; defeated by the
Romans at Thermopylae, 181 ; his
fleet destroyed by the Romans at
Myonnesus, 184; defeated by Corn.
Scipio, at the battle of Magnesia,
186; humiliating peace accepted by
him, 188
---Epiphancs, his character
described in the Bible, ii. 214; circle
drawn round him by PopiIlhis, 228
Antiquity, most of the beautiful rem-
nants of Greek, destroyed by the
Scordiscans, ii. 314
Antoninus Diadumenianus, son of
Macrinus, killed with his father, iii.
272
--------Pius, T., adopted by Hadrian,
iii. 238; origin of his surname
Pius, 245 ; succeeds to the empire,
245; prepares the dissolution of the
empire, 246; state Ofjurisprudence,
science and manufactures, ib. ; esti-
mation of his character, ib.; adopts
M-AureliusAntoninus and L. Verus,
247 ; leaves at his death a treasure
of sixty-three millions sterling, 258
Antonius L., besieged by Octavian at
Pcrusia, iii. 106
--M., the orator, murdered by
Marius, ii. 376
Antony, Mark, tribune, iii. 53; his life
saved by Brutus, 84; nearest rela-
tion left by Julius Caesar, 85 ; de-
livers the funeral oration on Caesar,
86; declares in favour of the opti-
males, 89 ; his hatred of Cicero, ib. ;
declared a public enemy, 91; be-
sieges D. Brutus at Modena, 92;
defeated by Hirtius and Pansa, 93;
his flight, ib.∙, with Octavian and
Lepidus forms the Triumvirate, 95;
their proscriptions, ib. ; defeats Cas-
sius at Philippi, 101: gives Brutus
a magnificent burial, 103; invites
Cleopatra to Tarsus, 104; accom-
panies her to Alexandria, ib. ; mar-
ries Octavia, widow of C. Marcellus
and half-sister of Augustus, 108;
his disgraceful treatment of her, ib. ;
invades Armenia, takes Artavasdes
prisoner, and triumphs at Alexan-
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drill, 112; defeated by the Parthians,
ib. ; Plutarch's life of, ib. ; his base
conduct in divorcing Octavia and
marrying Cleopatra, 114; follows
Cleopatra in her flight from Actium,
115; suicide of, 117
Apollodoras, portrait of, the most
ancient portrait of an artist, lxxvi. ;
Trajan’s architect, iii. 228
Appian, his history of Rome, lxxiv. ;
lived at Rome as the agent of his
native city Alexandria, ib. ; the only
authority for the last war with
Carthage, ii. 244
Appius Claudius the Blind, poem of,
xxii.
Apnleius, his works a storehouse of
ancient Latin, iii. 242
Saturninus, L., compared
with Catiline, ii. 339; obtains the
tribuneship by murdering his oppo-
nent, 340; his agrarian law, ib.; is
joined by Marius, 341 ; causes Me-
tolius Numidicus to be dragged from
the senate by his viator, 342; causes
C. Memmius to be murdered, 342 ;
put to death, 343
Aquae Sextiac, the first Roman colony
beyond the Alps, ii.314
Aqueduct built by Claudius, supplied
Rome throughout the middle ages,
iii. 189
Aquileia, siege of by, Maximinus, ɪii.
282
Arabia Petraca, made a Roman pro-
vince by Trajan, iii. 227
Archimedes, his mechanical operations
in defence of Syracuse against the
Romans, ii. 127
Ardshir or Artaxerxes, his war with
the Romans, iii. 277
Argentea aetas of Roman literature,
i’ii. 192
Argos, the greatest among the Achaean
states, ii. 166
Arian persecution of the IIomoousii,
iii. 324
Aristion the Sophist usurps the govern-
ment of Athens, ii. 366
Aristonieus claims the kingdom of
Attains, ii. 271; defeated, 272
Annenia, the king of, receives his king-
dom as a fief from Trajan, iii. 226
Armenians, the flower of the Byzan-
tine armies, iii. 7
Arminius, revolt of, iii. 161 ; his strata-
gem against Varusjustified, 162
Army, the Roman, ii. 85; usual con-
stitution of, IlO
Arnobius, one of the earliest Christian
Latin writers, iii. 307
Arpinum, birth place of Marius and of
Cicero, ii. 332
Art, revival of, under Trajan, iii. 229;
Christianity falsely charged with its
destruction, 231
Asciilum, massacre of the Romans by
the Ihcentians at, ii. 355; fearful fate
of the inhabitants of, 359
Astapa, suicide of the population of,
ii. 139
Astures, war against the, iii. 155
Atellanae, extempore productions, ii.
202
Athanasius, Arian persecution of, iii.
324
AthenagorasjWOrks of, recommended,
iii. 244
Athens taken by Sulla, ii. 378
Atiliiis, C., defeats the Gauls, ii. 64
Attains, atrocities of, ii. 271 ; bequeaths
his kingdom to the Romans, ib.
--recognised by IIonorius as
his colleague in the empire, iii. 345
Atticus, T. Pomponius, annals of, xlvi
Attila invited to Italy by Honoria, iii.
352
Attius, a true genius in tragedy, ii. 394
August, the month Sextilis changes
its name to, iii. 118
Augustae, scriptores historiae, beneath
criticism, iii. 337
Augustan age of literature, period
when at its height, iii. 13Ü
Augustine, St., philosophic mind of,
iii. 339
Augiistuliis or Romulus last emperor
of the west, iii. 356
Augustus (Octavianus), inherits three-
fourths of Caesar’s wealth, iii. 86;
supported by Agrippa, 87 ; his
hypocrisy, 90; with Antony and
Lepidus forms the Triumvirate, and
publishes a proscription, 95; defeats
Bratus, 102; his cruelty after the
victory, ib. ; establishes the Julian
colonies in Italy, 105; takes Pemsia,
and sacrifices 300 of the principal
inhabitants at the altar of Divus
Julius, 107 ; defeats Antony at Ac-
tium, 115 ; the first Roman emperor,
119; surname of Augustus decreed
to Octavian, who had already ob-
tained the pramomen of Imperator,
120; concentration of all the powers
of the state in, 121; his character
and personal appearance, 147; su-
preme influence of his wife Livia,
148; gives his daughter Julia to
Agrippa, ib. ; his friendship for
Maecenas and Agrippa, 150; mar-
ries Julia to Tiberius, 152; whom
he adopts as his successor, 153; his
buildings, ib.; closes the temple of
Janus, 156; founds Augusta Vin-
delicorum (Augsburg), 157; diesat