374
INDEX.
Marciana1 sister of Trajan1 character
of, iii. 224
Marcius Philippus1 Q., crosses Mount
Olympus, so as to pass round the
Macedonians, ii. 218
Marcomanni, and otlιer tribes advance
within the Roman frontiers, iii. 252
Mardia, battle of iii. 315
Marinus, Proclaimedemperorand mur-
dered, iii. 285
Maritime warfare of the Romans, at
first unsuccessful, ii. 25
Marius, C., first seeds of the civil war
between him and Sulla, ii. 321; his
origin, 323 ; his irritation developed
by the conspiracy to keep him down,
ib. ; his superstition, 324 ; his charac-
ter 325; as consul, concludes the
Jugurthine war, 326; appointed to
conduct the war against the Cimbri
and Teutones, 327; almost annihi-
lates the whole nation of the Teu-
tones, 335 ; defeats the Cimbri, 337 ;
called the third founder of Rome,
338 ; commands an army in the Social
war,359 ; inequalityoftheagesof Sul-
la and, 361; the command against
Mithridatcs taken from Sulla and
given to him, 367 ; his flight and cap-
ture in the marshes of Mintιιrnae,37O ;
exiled and dwells amidst the ruins of
Carthage, ib. ; recalled by Cinna1 re-
turns to Italy, 373; his seventh con-
sulship, 375; prophetic occurrence
during his boyhood, ib.; massacres
the flower of the senate, 376; car-
ries on the butchery by a band of
assassins, ib.; dies in a fit of rage, ib.
--the younger, probably only
an adopted son of Marius, ∏. 383;
defeated by Sulla, ib.; he and the bro-
ther of Telcsinus, kill each other,384
------a blacksmith, rules over Gaul
three days, iii. 297
Maroboduus, his Bohemian kingdom,
iii. 159; preparations of Tibcrius
against, 160; dies at Ravenna, 164
Marseilles, remarkable siege of, iii. 57
Masinissa1 king of Kumidia1 opposes
Scipio on his arrival in Africa, ii.
145 ; proved to have been a common
barbarian, 146; betrays the Cartha-
ginians into a defeat by Scipio, ib. ;
marries Sophonisba, whom he causes
to poison herself, 147 ; his xιnjust con-
duct to Carthagc, 233 ; defeats Has-
drubal, 234; undeserving of being
called the socius Jidelissimus of the
Romans, 239; bequeaths his king-
dom to his three sons, 315
Massiva murdered by Jugurtha, ii. 320
Massylians1 a people on the frontiers
of modern Tunis, ii. 145
Mathematics flourish under Antoninus
Pius, iii. 246
Matidia, her will set aside by M. Aure-
lius, iii. 256
Mauritanians quelled by Hadrian, iii.
237 ; their character, 281
Mausoleum, Hadrian’s, the greatest
building extant, iii, 244
Maxentius made Caesar by the Senate,
iii. 313; character of, 314; deposes
his father Maximian, and rules as a
tyrant, ib.; memorable war of Con-
stantine against, ib.; defeat and death
of, 315
Maximian, M. Valerianus, made col∙
league of Ilioclctian1 iii. 309; his
character, ib.; resigns the empire
with Diocletian, resumes his dignity,
312; marries his daughter Pausta
to Constantine, 314; besieged at
Marseilles, and put to death by
Constantine, ib.
MaximinusjC-JuliusVenis, the first
barbarian adventurer raised to the
empire, iii. 279; his hatreιl of all
persons Ofdistinction, 280; his cru-
elty, ib.; murdered with his son by
the soldiers, 282
Maximinus Daza appointed Caesar,
iii. 312; defeated by Licinius1 and
put to death, 315
Maximus proclaimed emperor, iii. 335
--Pupienus1 with Caclius Bal-
binus, proclaimed emperors by the
Senate, iii. 282; marches against
Maximinus, and returns to Rome
in triumph, 283; murdered with
Balbinus, ib.
Melville, general, his work on Hanni-
bal’s route across the Alps, ii. 88
Memmius, C., his measures in connex-
ion with the Jugurthine war, iɪ. 320 ;
put to death, 343
Mercenaries, the Carthaginian, whence
principally collected, ii. 40; their
revolt, 54
Mcrobaudes, fragments of, discovered
by Niebuhr, iii. 338
Merula, L., Iheflamen dialis, kills him-
self, ii. 375
Mesopotamia recognises the supremacy
of Rome, iii. 265
Messala, M., distinguishes himself in
the battle of Philippi, iii. IOl
Messana seized by the Mamcrtiiics1
ii. 2; importance of its possession
to the Carthaginians18 ; Romansin
possession of, besieged by the Syra-
cusans and Carthaginians, 9
Messanians massacred by their gue'`ts,
ii. 5
Metelli, high character of the family,
ii. 313
INDEX.
375
Mctellus, L. Caecilins, his victory over
the Cartliagimaiis, ii. 36
__Q. Caecilius, defeats Andris-
cus, the pseudo-Philip, ii. 250;
conquers the Achaean army under
Critolaus, 256; Iiis humanity to the
Greeks, 257
___(Numidicus), conducts tlιe
war against Jugurtha, ii. 322; his
unfair opposition to the ambition of
Marius, ib. ; Iiis character. 342 ; goes
into exile, ib.; is recalled, 343;
makes peace with the Samnites, 376
--Celer, Q., prevents Catiline’s
passage into Gaul, iii- 24
--Pius, Q., joins Sulla, ii. 382
Metres, comparison of the Xtoman and
Greek poetic, ii. 205
Micah’s Koman history, bad, Ixxxviii.
Micipsa, king of Numidia, son of Ma-
sinissa,, ii. 315; divides Iiiskingdom
between his two sons, and his nephew
Jugurtha, 316
Middleton’s life of Cicero, recommen-
ded, Ixxxviii.; iii. 97
Milan destined by nature to be a great
city, hi. 310
Milo kills Clodius, and is defended by
Cicero, iii. 39 ; exiled, ib.; his death
in an insurrection against Caesar, ib.
Mining, systematic, first introduced
into Spain by Hamilcar, ii. 69
Minturnae, terror of a slave Senttokill
Marius at, ii. 370
Miuucius Kufus, C. appointed pro-
dictator, ii. 108; defeated by Hanni-
bal, ιb.
Misitheus or TimesitIiciis, pτaefectus
praetorio, to Gordian III., murdered
by C. Julius Pliilippus, iii. 284
Mithridates, king of Pontus, unjustly
deprived of Phrygiaby the Romans,
ii. 364; gives the throne of Cappa-
docia to Ariarathes, ib. ; defeats
Nicomedes, 365; defeats two Roman
armies, il>.; Iiis Greek allies in Asia
Minor massacre 70,000 of the
Romans and Italicans, 366; is re-
cognised as sovereign of Asia Minor,
ib.; advances into Greece, ib. ; the
command in the war against him
given to Sulla by the Senate, ib. ;
defeated by Sullaat Chacronca, 377;
makes peace with Sulla, 379; L.
Murcna invades his territory, and is
defeated, 408 ; makes peace with the
Romans, ιb.; causes of the last and
great war against him, ib,; extent of
his dominions, iii. 1; a wretched
general, 5; his fleet takes all the
ships of the Romans, ib. ; pursued
by Iaicullus into Pontus, 7 ; takes
refuge with Tigranes1 ib. ; defeated
by Pompey, 10 ; poisons himself from
fear of being murdered by his son, 11
Monarchy, hereditary, established
through M. Aurelius, iii. 257
Montpellier, splendid ruins of a Roman
town near, iii. 209
Morelli, the Abbé, his discovery of a
manuscript of Dion Cassius, ii. 80
Motye, a Punicsettlcment in Sicily, ii. 13
Mueia Licinia, lex, its effect on the
Allies, ii 348
Mucianus, Lieinius, heads the Parthian
legions, who refuse obedience to Vi-
tellius, iii. 204; assists in raising
Vespasian to the throne, 206
Muminius destroys Corinth, ii. 258
Munda, battle of, iii. 72
Murena, Cicero’s oration for, iii. 26
Mutina, siege of, iii. 92
Myoniicssus, battle of, ii. 184
Mythology, Greek, introduced into
Italy, ii. 202
Nabis, tyrant of Sparta, one of the
greatest monsters in history, ii. 161 ;
the alliance with him a foul spot on
the honour of Rome, 172
Nacvius, his history of the first Punic
war, written in the Saturnian verse,
xxiii.; furnished Virgil with the
plan oftho Aeneid, xxv. ; persecution
of; by Metellus, ib.; account of his
verses, ii. 203
Naples, corruption of witnesses at, 302 ;
massacre at, 311
Napoleon, his 300 senators compared
to the δ⅛ιos of Sparta, ii. 15; his
Italian campaign, 74; his mistakes
as a general, iii. 6; taken by an
Austrian patrol, bribes the officer to
let him escape, 48; compared to
Trajan, 227; to Aurelian, 301 ; un-
justly charged with cowardice, 308
Navy of the Romans increased to 300
men-of-war, ii. 27
Nepos, Corn., his Iiie of Atticus one of
the best Latin biographies, iii. 218
Nero, Domitius, ascends the throne,
iii. 194; a pupil of Sencca and
Burras, ib. ; murders his mother
Agrippina, 196; burning of Rome
not to be attributed to him, ib. ;
restores the city, ib. ; Ordcrsthcdcath
of Seneca, 197; his insanity, 198;
his travels in Greece, ib. ; rewards
Corbulo for his victory over the
Parthians by death, ib. ; his suicide,
200
Nerva, M. Cocceius, his reign and that
of Trajan, the most obscure portions
ofRoman history, iii. 221; adopts
Trajan, 222; his death, 224
Nibelungen1 lay of, xvii.