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INDEX.

Laenas, Popilius, persecutes the friends
of Gracchus, ii. 291

Lactus causes Commodus to be mur-
dered, and proclaims Eertinax empe-
ror, iii. 259

Laevius, the elegant lyric poet, in the
old Roman style, ii. 395

Lampridius makes Alexander Severus
the subject of a sort of Cyropaedia,
iii. 273

Land tax, amounting to one third of
the produce, ii. 191

Latin language, deterioration of the,
iii. 240

Latins, proposal of C. Gracchus to be-
stow the franchise on the, ii. 304 ;
receive the rights of Roman citizens
by the lex Julia, iii. 357

Laudationes funebres, sources of falsi-
fication of history, xiii.

Law of nations, violation of the, by the
Carthaginians, ii. 149

Laws, Roman, like those of the Koran
and Pcntatcuch, consisting of cases,
not of rules stated abstractedly, xxi.

Lays of ancient Rome, sources of
history, xiii. ; sung at banquets, xiv. ;
lays of Coriolanus, Curtius, the Ho-
ratii, the Tarquins,
ib.; verses of the
lay of the Horatii, preserved in Livy,
xviii.; similar lays in ancient and
modern times,
ib.

Learning, revival of, Ixxxii.

Leges Aclia and Fufia, iii. 230

Legions, sixteen years their period of
service, iii. 130

Lcntulus, the accomplice of Catiline,
iii. 22

Leo, the eastern emperor, requested
by the Roman senate to appoint a
Roman emperor under his suprem-
acy, iii. 355

Lepidus, M., at the head of the demo-
cratic party, ii. 397

----the triumvir, a contempti-
ble person, iii. 93 ; unites with An-
tony and Octavian in the triumvirate,
95; sacrifices his own brother in the
proscription,
ib.; receives Africa as
his portion of the empire, 109

Lcptis, birth place of Sept. Severus,
iii. 262

Lcx Aelia Sentia introduced by Au-
gustus, iii. 125

■----Julia et Papia Poppaea, iii. 168

--Pedia, iii. 94

Iacinian law restricting the possession
of land, ii 277 ; evasion of it,
ib. ; ob-
jections against its enforcement, 281

IJcinius Crassus, P., his opposition to
Carbo, ii. 312

-----— Macer, C., a distinguished
annalist, xliii.

Licinius Stolo, emancipates his son to
evade his own law, ii. 277

------C. Valerius, the emperor, con-
quered in two battles by Constantine,
iii. 315; he and his son put to death
by Constantine, 316

Ligurians, 50,000 transplanted into
Samnium, ii. 208

Lilybaeum, siege of, one of the most
obstinate efforts against one place
on record, ii. 37; Punic derivation
of the name, 39 ; description of t1ιe
Roman mode of besieging, 40

Limes broken through by the Germans
in the time of Alexander Severus,
iii. 275

Lingua vulgaris or τustica, under
Hadrian, iii. 239

Liternum, Scipio’s voluntary exile at,
ii.193

Livia Drusilla married to Augustus,
her unlimited influence over him for
fifty years, iii. 148; her father’s real
name Appius Claudius Pulclier, 171 ;
her influence over her son Tiberius
till her death, 180

Livius Andronicus, his translation of
the Odyssey, ii. 203

------Drusus, M., employed by the
senate to undermine C. Gracchus,
ii. 306

----(his son), character
of, ii. 348; attempts to reform the
courts of justice,
ib. ; opposed by
the équités, 349; his laws,
ib. ; his
dispute with the senate, 351; assas-
sinated, 352

Livy, has brought the early history of
Rome into disrepute, v. ; period of
the composition of his history, lvi. ;
the use he made of the history by
Dionysius, lvii.; the division of his
history into dccads, his own inven-
tion, lviii. ; his mode of composition,
lx. ; his hatred of the tribunician
power, lxiii.; his
Patavinitasi his
work as perfect and classical as any
in RoinanlitcraturejIxiv.; discovery
of a fragment of his ninety-first
book, Ixviii. ; Gronovius the best of
all writers on, lxxi.; astonishing
amount of philological knowledge
in Drakcnborclfs edition of,
ib.;
epitome of, unjustly attributed to
Floras, lxxii. ; no authority where-
cver he differs from Polybius, ii. 72;
particulars concerning, iii. 146; diffi-
culties of his style, 233

Loan raised by the Romans for equip-
ing a fleet, ii. 47; public, raised by
the Romans, 153

Loans to the state contracted with
disgraceful usury, ii. 121

INDEX.

373


Lon°∙inus, execution of, a stain on the
purpie of Aurelian, iii. 301

Lucan, his Pharsalia an unfortunate
epic, iii. 137; his character as a
poet, 193

Lucian, character of his works, iii. 243
Lucilius, C., his poetical style, ii. 395
Lucilla instigates Claudius Pompeianus
to assassinate her brother Commodus,
iii. 258; is put to death by Commo-
dus, 259

Lucrctius, poems of, iii, 132

LucuIIus familiarises the Romans with
Asiatic luxuries, iii. 6 ; his successes
against Mithridates, 7; routs the
army of Tigranes, and takes Tigra-
nocerta,
ib. ; mutiny in the army of, 8
--L., his perfidy to the people

of Cauca, ii. 261

Lusitanians, their geographical posi-
tion, ii. 261 ; treacherously massacred
by Ser. Sulpicins Galba, after being
assured of safety on a surrender,
262; carry on war under Viriathus
for eight years, 263; invite Serto-
rius to the command, 401

Lutatius CatuIus, C., sent against the
Cimbri, ii. 333 ; leader of the aris-
tocracy, 397

Macedonia, decay of the empire under
Antigonus Gonatas, ii. 155; second
Roman war with, 161; its extent
under Philip the third, 171; divided
into four republics, 225; rebellion
in, under a pscudo-Philip, 240 ; be-
comes a Roman province after
Mctclliis' victory at Pydna, 250

---Phalanx, formed by

Caracalla on invading Parthia,iii. 2 7 O
Macedonians, defeated by the Romans
at Argyrocastro, ii. 165; at Cynos-
ccphalae, 168; defeated under Per-
seus, by L. Acmilius Paullus, at the
battle of Pydua, 221; 150,000 of
them put to death, or sold as slaves,
223

Macharcs, son of Mithridates, kills
himself from fear ofhis father, iii. 10

Machiavellian policy of the Romans,
ii. 215

Macrianus usurps the purple and
assumes his sons as colleagues, iii.
297

Macrinus, M. OpiliiiH, murders Cara-
calla, and is proclaimed emperor,
iii. 270; disbands the veterans, and
enlists new soldiers, 271 ; the troops
declare for Elagabalus, 272; flees
with his son to Bithynia, where they
are put to death,
ib.

Macro supplants Scjanus, iii. 182;
conspires with Caligula against
Tiberius, who is suffocated, 183

Maecenas, Cilnius, effeminate charac-
ter of, iii. 150

Maecilius Avitus, sets himself up as
emperor, iii. 353

Maesa, sister of Julia Domna, and
mother of Soacmis and Mamaoa.
iii. 271 ; bribes the soldiers to pro-
claim her grandson Elagabalus, 272
Magnentius, revolt
of, iii. 321
Magnesia, battle of, ɪi. 186

Mago, his cruelty to the magistrates
of Gades, ii. 138; retires to the
Baleares,
ib.

Maharbal, his reflection on Hannibal’s
generalship in not attacking Rome
after the battle of Cannae, ii. 114

Majorian, high character of the empe-
ror, iii. 354; restores the Roman
empire,
ib.

Mamaea, mother of Alexander Se-
verus, iii. 271; his government, in
reality the regency of, 273; mur-
dered with her son, 280

Mamertines, take possession of Messa-
na, ii. 2 ; origin of their state, 6 ; the
Romans grant assistance to them
against the Carthaginians, 8

Mancinus, C. Hostilius, the consul,
compelled to make peace with the
Numantines, ii. 267 ; the senate
annul it and send him for punish-
ment to the Numantines, by whom
he is sent back,
ib.

Manilius, M,. and Marcius Ccnsorinus,
lead an army to Sicily and thence
to Carthage, ii. 236; are repulsed
from the city, 238

Manlius, L., with Rcgnhis, obtains a
Iiavalvictory OvertheCarthaginians,
at Ecnomus, ii. 29; recalled with
his army from Africa, 30

--Cn., defeated by the Cimbri
and Teutones, ii. 329

Manufactures, flourishing state of, in
the time of Antoninus Pius, iii. 246

Marcellus, M., Claudius, slays Virido-
marus, the leader of the Gauls, ii.
65; his character, the opposite of
that of Pabius, 78; opposed to
Hannibal at Nola, 119; takes Syra-
cuse, 128; the first who carries
Greek works of art to Rome,
ib.

■-----------concludes

peace with the Ccltiberians, ii. 260

------insults Caesar
by flogging a magistrate of Como,
iii. 50

Marcellus, M., surprised by Hannibal
and slain, ii. 130

■----(son of Octavia), the

hope of the Romans, dies prema-
turely, iii. 108

Marcia, concubine of Commodus,
causes him to be put to death, iii. 259



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