INDEX.

Phtliiriasis, a disease which chiefly
occurs in the case of tyrants, ii. 392

Pighius, prod^ιgious learning of, iv. ; the
idea of his Annals a mistake, Ixxxiv

Pirates of the Mediterranean sup-
pressed by Pompey, iii. 9

Piso, L. Calpurnius, the first author of
forgeries in !Ionian history, xxxix.

—----- his opposition to the com-

mands of Tiberius, the most myste-
rious phenomenon in all Iloman
history, ιii. 178 ; with his wife
Munatia Plancina put to death, 179

Pitt compared to Hamilcar, ii. 67

Placentia, unsuccessful siege of, ii. 136

Placidia, wife of Constantius, iii. 347

Plague, the, spreads over the western
world, Africa excepted, iii. 251; in-
fluence of plagues on politics, litera-
ture, and art, ib. ; plagues at Athens,
in Germany(CalledtheBlackDeath),
and in Florence, ib.; 2,000 persons
buried daily during the plague at
Home, 256 ; rages in Mocsia, 299 ; its
devastations at different periods, 306

Platonism, New, took the place of
Paganism, iii. 325

Plautus, Koman character of his dra-
matis personae, ii. 204

Plebeian order, both censors first taken
from the, ii. 273

Vlebiscitum, first instance of its becom-
ing binding as a lex, ii. 60

Plebs urbana, date of the distinction
between, and the thirty-five tribes,
ii. 300

Pliny the younger, literary character
of, iii. 233

Plotina, wife of Trajan, her influence
on the conduct of Koman women,
iii. 224

Plutarch, character of his writings,
Ixxiii; iii. 235

Poetry, epic, iii. 136

Poetical tales, or lays, a source of early
Koman history, χiv.

Poisoning, execution of two Komau
ladies for, ii. 226

Police, improved by Augustus, iii. 126
Pollio, Asinius, character of his poetry,
iii. 133

Polybius the historian, one of the
Achaean hostages, ii. 225; selected
by Æmilius Paullus to educate Iiis
sons, ib.; his mediation to benefit
Greece, 259

Pompeii, destruction of, iii. 216

Pompeius, Q.,his peace WiththeNum-
antincs annulledby the senate,ii.266
--Rufus, Q., colleague of Sulla,
in the consulship, murdered at the
instigation of Cu. Pompeius Strabo,
ii. 371

Pompeius, Cn. (the Great), takes up
arms for Sulla, in Picenum, ii. 382 ∙
his character, 403 ; defeats Perperna
and puts him to death, 405 ; made
Consul with M. Licinius Crassus, ib. ∙
Subduesthe Piratesin the Mediterra-
nean, iii.9 ; sent against Mithridates,
whom he defeats, 10; compels Tigra-
ncs to a disgraceful peace, conquers
Syria, Egypt, and -Arabia, and plun-
ders Jerusalem, 11; undeserving of
the title of “the Great,” 12 ; the fiι⅛t
appointed sole Consul, 38; on Cae-
sar’s advance to Komo, retires to
Brundusium, 53; attacked by Caesar,
crosses to Illyricum, 56; winters at
Thessalonica, 59; repulses Caesar
from Dyrrachium, 61; his want of
judgment in conducting the civil
war, ib. ; follows Caesar into Thes-
saly, 62; defeated at Pharsalus, 63;
flees to Egypt, where he is murder-
ed by the authority of Ptolemy, 64;
epigram relating to his tomb, 65

■--and Sextus, establish

themselves in Spain, iii. 72; Cn. a
greater general than his father, ib. ;
they arc defeated by Caesar at the
battle of Munda, 72; Cn. killed, 73;
Sextus becomes leader of Pirates,
and master of Sicily, 109; makes
peace with the triumvirs at Misenum,
ib.; receives the triumvirs in Iiis
admiral-ship, ib. ; defeated by Octa-
vian, 113; murdered, ib.

---------Strabo, Cn. (father of
Fompcy the Great), defeats the
Italians near Asculum, and takes
the city, ii. 359 ; causes Q. Pompeius
Kufus to be murdered, 371 ; engages
unsuccessfully with China, 374; his
death, ib.

Poinponius killed in defending his
friend C. Gracchus, ii. 311

Pontus, account Ofthekingdom of,ii.363
Poors’-rates, the natural growth of a
free state, ii. 300

PoifilliusLaenas, his cruelties, ii. 292;
voluntary exile, 299

------- M , his embassy to Antiochus
Epiphancs, ii. 228

Foppaedius Silo, Q., consul of the Ita-
lian republic, ii. 356; opposes the
Romans with success, 359; his cha-
racter as a general, ib,

Porcia, daughter of Cato, wife of Bru-
tus, iii. 80; Obtainsfromherhusband
the secret of the conspiracy against
Caesar, 83

Porcius, Cato C., the consul,destroyed
by the Scordbcans, ii. 314

Postumus, M. Cassianus Latinius, the
emperor, his victories over the

INDEX.

379

Eranks and Alcinaniiians, iii. 296;
murdered, ib.

Potliimis, guardian of Ptolemy, expels
Cleopatra, iii. 64; his attempt on
Caesar’s life, 66

Praefectura aerarii, instituted by Au-
gustus, iii. 127 .

Praefectus praetorιo becomes clιιcl ot
the Consistorium principle, iii. 239;
prime ministcrundcιGordian III.284

Praefectus urb'ι, appointed by Augus-
tus, iii. 127

Praeneste, blockaded by Sulla, ɪi, 383;
who puts to the sword all its inhabi-
tants except the old Romans, 385

Praenomcn, Carthaginians mentioned
only by their, ii. 20 n.

Praetextatae, old national dramas,
ii. 202; compositions resembling
Shakespeare’s historical dramas, 394

Praetor, a second, appointed for the
peregrini, ii. 5 ɪ

Practorian guards or cohorts existed
from the earliest time», iii. 129; set-
tled at Rome by Augustus, who
establishes the Praetoria castra, ib. ;
consisted of 8000 men under Augus-
tus, ib. ; determine the fate of the
empire until the reign of Diocletian,
181; desert Didius Julianas, whom
they had made emperor, 261 ; resem-
bled the janissaries in their mutinous
s∣)irit and their cowardice, 262τι. ;
disarmed and disgraced by Sevsrus,
262; murder Ulpian, 274

Prefectures, division of the empire
into, iii. 297 n.

Prisons for debt attached to the houses
of the nobles, xxv.

Probus, M. Aurelius, proclaimed em-
peror, iii. 303 ; his wonderful activ ιty,
ib.; repels the Pranks and Aleman-
ni, and recovers Suabia, ib. ; his
popularity, 304 ; cause of his murder
by his soldiers, who afterwards la-
ment him, ib.

Propertius, poetry of, iii. 144

Proscription, first example of, set by
Sulla, ii. 385; by the triumvirs, of
wealthy persons, solely on account
Oftheirriches, iii. 96

Providence, belief in, strengthened by
history, ii. 59

Provence, called Altera Italia, iii. 126
Province, definition of a Roman, ii. 50;

first instance of the assignment of a,
to a pro-consul, for a definite period
longer than a year, iii. 34

Provinces distinguished into those of
Augnstusandof the Senate, iii. 124;
senatorial, their disappearance from
history, 287

Prudentius' verses on Julian, iii. 326

Prttsias, king of Bithynia, appears in
public at Rome dressed as a Roman
freedman, ii. 228; required by the
Romans to deliver up Hannibal, 201

Pseudo-Dcmetrius, of Russia, probably
not an impostor, ii. 248

—--Philip, a Thracian gladiator,

named Andriscus, a real impostor,
submitted to by the Macedonians as
king, ii. 248 ; invades Thessaly, and
is repulsed by Scipio Nasica, 249 ;
defeats Juvcntius; is defeated at
Pydna by Q. Caecilius Metellus,
taken prisoner and put to death, 250

Ptolcmy Pliiladelphus refuses a Ioau
to the Carthaginians, ii. 45; in alli-
ance with the Romans, 59

--Auletes expelled from Alex-
andria, comes to Rome, iii. 29;
causes the Alexandrian ambassadors
to be assassinated, ib. ; bequeaths bis
kingdom to his SOiiPtolemy Diony-
sus, and his daughter Cleopatra, 64

--Dionysus murders Pompey,
iii. 65 ; is drowned in the Nile, 66

Publicani, Ibimation of the class of, ii.
200; their great power, 314

Punic war, first, events which led to,
ii. I; its commencement, 9; dates
from the passage of the Romans
into Sicily, 10; ill conducted, ib. ;
divided into five periods, 19 ; lasted
twenty-four years, 49 ; terms of its
conclusion, ib. ; one of the first causes
of the degeneracy of the Romans, 51
--second, its magnitude com-
pared with the wars of modern
times, ii. 70; divided into six periods,
78 ; concluded by the battle of Zama,
152; its consequences, 153

--third, Causesof the, ii.232
Ptinica, pcrfιJia, ii. 75

Pydna, rout of the Macedonians at,
ii. 221

Pyrrhus, his faults as a general, iii. 6

Qιιadi, the, attack the Roman frontier
iii. 252

Qiiadrigarius¹S history of Rome, xl.

Quacstors increased to eight, ii. 52;
they form a Seminarium senatus, ib.

Quinctilian, the restorer of good taste
in literature, iii. 193

Quinctius Plamininus, L., unexampled
crime committed by, ii. 197

—y---∙ T., character of,

ii. 163 ; defeats the Macedonians, 165

Quinquercmes, construction of, ii. 23

Radagaisus the Goth, his invasion of
Italy, iii. 343