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INDEX.
Consistorium Principis (state council),
organised by Hadrian, iii. 239 ; com-
pleted by Alexander Severus, 274
Constans, death of, iii. 321
Constantine the Great, character of,
iii. 310; puts Maximian to death,
314; the great triumphal arch of,
still extant, ib.∙, his treachery in put-
ting to death Licinms and his son,
316; his legislation, 318; his mixed
religion, ib.; certainly not a Chris-
tian, ib.; puts his son Crispus to
death, 319 ; divides the empire among
his three sons, ib.; his death, 320 ; his
buildings bare-faced robberies, 340
Constantine (the younger) defeated
and slain, iii. 321
Constantinople, a new Bome founded
at, iii. 319
Constantius, proclaimed Augustuswith
Galerius, iii. 312; his surname of
Chlorus, 312, n. ; dies at York, 313
--(the younger), death of,
iii. 324
Constitution of Bome, change in the,
ii. 160
Consulship degraded by the appoint-
ment of a child to the office, iii.
330
Consulships, interval of ten years be-
tween two, of the same man, ii. 185
Copyists, deception on the part of the
Greek, Ixxx
Corbulo’s success against the Parthians,
iii. 197
Corfinium the seat of the Italian go-
vernment, ii. 357
Corinth destroyed by Mummius, ii.
258; deserted, ⅛. ; Caesarestablishcs
a colony of Iibertini at, iii. 7 6
Corn raised to ten times its ordinary
price at Bome, ii. 121
Cornelia, daughter of Scipio, betrothed
to Tib. Gracchus, ii. 193
Cornelia, lex, de ambitu, ii. 231
Cornelians, the body guard of Sulla,
ii. 391
Cornelius Severus, poetry of, iii. 145
Correctores appointed by Sept. Seve-
rus, jurisdiction of the, iii. 267
Corsica surrendered by the Carthagi-
nians to the Bomans, ii. 56
Cosrhoes, king of the Parthians, con-
quered by Trajan, iii. 226
Courts of justice, iii. 21
Crassus, L., the first who imported
marble columns from Greece, ii. 396
-------P. Licinius, attacks Carbo, ii.
312
---M. Licinius, defeats Spartacus,
ii. 407; his cruel use of bis victory
over the slaves, ib. ; falls in the war
against the Parthians, iii. 38
Cretans, the, always notorius as pi-
rates, iii. 9
Crimen majestatis, prosecutions for the,
iii. 179
Crispus, son of Constantine, conquers
the fleet of Licinius, iii. 316; put to
death by his father, 319; his proba-
ble guilt, ib.
Critolaus defeated by Metellus, ii. 256
Cromwell, character of, iii. 12, 78, 174
Ctesiphon, taken by Trajan, iii. 226;
by Severus, 265; centreof the Per-
sian empire fixed at, 277
Curio, C. Scribonius, his enormous
debts paid by Caesar, iii. 51 ; de-
clares for Caesar, ib.; defeated and
slain in a battle against J uba, 58
Curtius, Q., discussion as to the time
when he lived, iii. 299
Cymri, see Cimbri
Cynoscephalae, ii. 168
Cyrus, revolt of the Persians under,
compared with their revolt against
the Parthians, iii. 276
Cyzicus, besieged by Mithridates, iii. 6
Dacia becomes a Boman province, iii.
225 ; given up to the Goths by Au-
relian, 300
Dacians, under Decebalus, defeat the
Bomans, who make a humiliating
peace, iii. 219; Boman institutions
fixed there, 226; a corrupt dialect
of Latin still spoken by their des-
cendants, Hi.
Dalmatians subdued by Metellus, ii.
313; Augustuswoundcd in his war
with the, iii. 154; revolt, 160
D’Anvilkfs maps, excellence of, xciii
Dccian persecution, the, iii. 286
Dccius, the grandson, Cicero’s error
respecting the self devotion of, xxx
Decius compelled to assume the purple,
iii. 286; defeat and death of, 292
Dccius Jubellius, by forged letters,
induces his soldiers to massacre the
Bhcgincs, ii. 1
Delatores, the, under Tibcrius, iii, 179 ;
Pliny’s account of them, 220; put
to death or banished by Trajan, 224
Demetrius Pharius, his character and
career, ii. 66
∆⅛os ofCarthage,howconstituted,ii. ɪ 5
Dcxippus the historian defeats the Go-
thic fleet in Piraceus, iii. 294
Diaeus Stratcgus of the Achaeans, de-
feated by Mummins, ii. 258
Dictator, the Consul’s right of appoint-
ing a, ii. 43
Didius Julianus, the emperor, put to
death, iii. 262
Diocletian, C. Valerius, puts Aniι∣s
Apcr to death, in order to fulfil a
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prophecy, iii. 305; his reign n great
epoch in Koman history, 306; his
character, 308; his plan for separa-
ting the East from the West, 309 ;
persecutes the Christians, 311; with
Maximian resigns the empire, ib.
Diodorus Siculus, his plan of writing
Iiistoiy in a synchronistic form, xlviii
Dion Cassius’ independent examination
of history, Ixxvii
---- Chrysostom, character of his
works, iii. 235
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, more ma-
nuscripts of, than of any other
ancient author, 1. ; masterly notes of
Sylburg on, lii.; his servile imitation
of Thucydides, liv.
--of Syracuse, peace concluded
between the Carthaginians and, ii. 4
Discipline of the Roman soldiers, fine
example of the, ii. 94
Division of the Empire, iii. 309
Domestic relations among the Romans
rarely amiable, ii. 297
Domitian succeeds Titus, iii. 216; his
character, ib.; his wars in Britain
under Agricola, 218; defeated in
Moesia by the Dacians, makes a
Iiunailiatin g peace, returns in triumph
and assumes the name of Dacicus,
219; his cruelty, 220; murdered by
his own officers, 221
Domitius Ahenobarbus, L., appointed
to succeed Caesar in Gaul, iii. 54
Donatists, cause of their separation,
iii. 348 ; fearfully persecuted for up-
wards of IOO years, ib.
Donatus, the father of Latin grammar,
iii. 336
Drakenborch1S edition of Livy, an
inexhaustible mine of the Latin lan-
guage, lxxi. ; with Duker, ranks first
among editors of ancient authors, ib.
Drusus poisoned by his wife Li via and
Sejanus, iii. 182
Duilius, C., decisive naval victory of,
ii. 25 ; first celebrates a naval tri-
umph, 26; his Victoriesinscribed on
the Columna rostrata, ib.
Dukcr’s profound knowledge of Latin,
lxxi. ; with Drakenborch ranks first
among editors Ofancicntauthors, ib.
Earthquakes in Italy, fifty-seven, in
the year of the battle of lake Tra-
siιncnus, ii. 103
Eclipses of the sun calculated backward
to that at the death of Romulus, ix.
Eenonius, victory of the Romans near,
ii. 26
Eilessa, capital of Osroenc, iii. 270
Edwtum perpetuum, collection of Iaus
formed by Hadrian, iii. 239
Egypt, condition of, under the Ptole-
mies, ii. 158; kings of, the only
proprietors of the soil, iii. 3
Egyptian history, boundaryoftrue, xv.
Elagabalus (M. Aurelius Antoninus),
his real name Avitus or Bassianus,
iii. 271; account of his family, й.;
priest at Emesa, ib. ; declared to be
a son of Caracalla, ib.; his name
branded in history above all others,
272; cut down by the soldiers, 273;
his body dragged into the Tiber and
his memory cursed, ib.
Elephants, fifty, sent to reinforce the
Carthaginians at Agrigentum, ii.21 ;
when first used by the Carthaginians,
32 ; use of, learned by the Macedo-
nians in India, ib.; killed in the
Circus with missiles, 36 ; a hundred
conveyed to Rome on rafts, 36
Eleusinian mysteries, access to the,
granted to the Romans, ii. 58
Eniosa, worship of the god EIagaba-
Ius at, iii. 271
Empire, sale of the, iii, 260; shared
by two sovereigns, 282 ; its division
into three great masses, 297
Enna, commonalty of massacred, ii.
126
Enneres, surpassing in magnitude our
ships of the line, ii. 28
Ennius, Q., Annales of Rome xxxii. ;
fragments of, xxxiv. ; character
of his poetry, ii. 205
Ephesus, the residence of Antiochus,
ii. 176
Epictetus, character of his works, iii.
249
Epirotcs,cruelty OfAeniilius Panllus to,
after the battle of Pydna, ii. 223
Epicydes and Hippocratcs, ii. 126
Equités constituted the only judges,
ii. 303 ; hostility between the Senate
and the, 344; 2400 of them put to
death by Sulla, 385
Eryx taken by the Romans, ii. 44 ; its
acropolis the tenq>le of Venus, ib.
Etruscan towns destroyed by Sulla, ii.
385; language, termination of a cer-
tain class of words in the, 404
Eudoxia invites Geuscric to Rome, iii.
353
Eumenes' complaint to the Romans
against Perseus, ii. 215
Eunus, leader in the servile war of
Sicily, ii. 270
Eutropius, a wretched author, Ixxiii
Fabius Maximus, Q., much overrated,
ii. 77 ; his surname Maximus, an in-
heritance, ib. ; appointed dictator,
106; celebrated stratagem by which
Hannibal deceived, 108; saying of