380
INDEX
Rastadt, murder of ambassadors at,
compared to that of Scipio’s ambas-
sadors at Carthage, ii. 149
Regions, their division into vici, iii. 126
Regulus, C. Atilius, defeats the Car-
thaginians, ii. 30; his impossible
demands from them, 31; his defeat
by Xanthippus, and surrender, 33 ;
his embassy to Rome, 37 ; Paulmier’s
demonstration of the Untenableiicss
of Iiis history, ib. ; probable reason
of the invention of it, ib. ; crime
committed by the family of, 38
-----M. the delator, Pliny’s ac-
count of; iii. 221
Reichard’s maps condemned, xciv.
Rcimarus, his Greek index to Dion
Cassius, lxxxi.
Rhegium, massacre of the people of,
by the Campanian legion, ii. 1 ; taken
by the Romans, 2
Rhodians, the, distinguished for sea-
manship, ii. 183; destroy the fleet
of Antiochus by throwing fire from
engines, 184; their national charac-
ter, 191; their submission, 227
Ricimer, his unlimited power under a
nominal emperor, iii. 354
Rimini, Arian council of, iii. 325
Roads, wooden, made by the Romans,
still subsisting, iii. 160n
Rollin’s work scarcely a Roman history,
Ixxxvii.
Roman citizens, their number only
four millions in the reign of Augus-
tus, iii. 126
------empire, its extent at the death
of Augustus, iii. 166; military forces
of the, ib.
Romans, not barbarians before they
adopted the civilization of the Greeks,
xxii. ; instance of their justice even
towards their rivals, ii. 55; instances
of their ceding part of their posses-
sions, 158 ; their generosity towards
Greece, 171; their corruption, 195;
time from which their great wealth
is to be dated, 225
Rome, permanent influence of, xcvi.;
its unhealthy atmosphere during the
summer months, ii. 105; besieged
and taken by Marius, 375; its his-
tory properly at an end when Au-
gustus becomes sole ruler, iii. 119;
improved by Augustus, 153 ; becomes
a military republic, 181 ; conflagra-
tion of, in the reign of Nero, 196;
restoration of, ib. ; vacancy of the
see of, 286 ; destroyed by the Goths,
345; plundered by Genseric, 353;
horrible destruction in, when taken
by Ricimer, 356
Romulus Augustulus, the last em-
peror of the west, iii. 356; permitted
by Odoacer to retire into private
life, 357
Roscius of Ameria, Cicero’s oration
for, iii. 17
Rntgersius' remarks on the paraphrase
of Aratus, iii. 216
RutiIius Lupus, P., commander of the
Italicans in the Social war, iɪ. 359
Saguntum1 date of the siege of, ii. 81 ;
heroic resistance of, 82 ; destroyed,
ib.; Livy’s description of the siege
a romance, ib.
St. Bernard, the Little, identification
of, as Hannibal’s route, ii. 88
Sallust, histories of, xlvii. ; models of
historiealeoɪnposition,ii 315 ; further
account of them, 393
Samnites and their allies, under TcIc-
sinns, defeated at the Collinc gate
by Sulla, ii. 384; 8,000 prisoners
surrounded and cut down by Sulla,
385
Sapor invades Syria, iii. 293; war of
Julian against, 328
Saraccns, derivation of the name of
the, iii. 295
Sardinia, excepting the mountainous
districts, subject to the Carthaginians,
ii. 14; taken possession of by tlɪe
Romans, 55
Sardinian mercenaries rebel against
the Carthaginians, ii. 55
Sarmatian tribes attack the Roman
frontier, iii. 252
Satuminus, L. Antonius, proclaimed
emperor, iii. 219 ; conquered and
put to death by AppiusMaximus, 220
Scaffoldings, Roman sailors exercised
on, ii. 24
Scaligcr, credulity of, iii.
Scarphaea1 the Achaeans routed at,
ii. 256
Scauri, Horace’s enτoneous notion
of the, ii. 318
SchjIlcr contrasted with Goethe, iii. 145
Scipio, Publius and Cn., sent with an
army to Spain, ii. 131; slain, 132
------P. Cornelius, faɪher of the great
Scipio, sent as consul to Spainagainst
IIannibaljii 84; defeated by Han-
nibal on the Ticiuus, 93; rescued by
his son, ib. ; retreats across the Po, ib.
-------Africanus, P.Corn.,as a general
inferior to Hannibal, ii. 71; his
character compared with Hannibal’s,
75; sent as proconsul to Spain, 133;
his great character, ib.; his supposed
religious imposture, ib. ; takes New
Carthage, 134; visits Syphax, 140;
made consul before the legal age,
141 ; project of making him consul
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381
and dictator for life, 142; invades
Africa, 144; Iiis ambassadors in-
sulted by the Carthaginians, 149;
defeats Hannibal at Zama, 151 ; the
first Boman styled the Great, 153 ;
called to account for money received
from Antiochus, 191; his indignant
answer, 192; withdraws into volun-
tary exile to Liternuin, and dies
in retirement, ιb.; his history of
his war» written in Greek, 207
Scipio, L. Corn, (brother of Scipio the
Great), his cμιarrel with Laelius,
ii. 185; commands an expedition
against Antiochus, his brother ac-
companying him as legate, ib. ; de-
feats Antiochus at Magnesia, 187
---Æmilianus, P. Corn., character
of, ii. 241 ; inferior to the elder
Scipio, 242; destroys Carthage, 247 ;
destroys Numantia, 269; his atro-
cious cruelty, ib. ; his sudden death,
294 ; improbability of his being
poisoned, 295
------Nasica, his success against the
Macedonians, ii. 221
---P. Corn., opposes Tib.
Gracchus, ii. 284
Scordiscans invade Macedonia and
Greece, ii. 314
Scriptorcs Historiac Augustae, bad
historical sources, iii. 246, 255 n.
Scythe-chariots an Asiatic invention,
ii. 187
Sebastian of Portugal, probably not an
impostor, ii. 248
'Σeβaστ6s, iii. 120. See Augustus.
Secular festival on the completion of
the thousandth year of the city cele-
brated with incredible splendour, iii.
285
Sejaims, Aelius, the friend of Tibcrius,
his character and elevation, iii. 181;
increases the praetorian guards, ib. ;
destroys Drusus and two sons of
Gcrmardcus, 182; put to death by
order of Tiberius, ib.
Seleucia, taken by Trajan, iii. 226;
taken by Avidius Cassius, 250
Scleueus Callinicus of Syria, Roman
alliance with, ii. 59
Sempronta judiciaria, lex, ii. 303
Sempronius, Tiberius, sent with a fleet
to Africa, ii. 84 ; defeated by the
Cartliaginians at the Trebia, 97
Senate, at first the representative of
the gentes and curiae ; vacancies
afterwards filled up by the Censors,
ii. 52; quaestors introduced into
the, ib. ; called on to appoint an
emperor, iiɪ. 302
Senators, 600 in number, ii. 391; in
what sense an electoral body
representing the people, ib. ; amount
of their census or pecuniary qualifi-
cation, iii. 4; 123
Scnatus Hispaniensis, established by
Sertorius, ii. 402
Seneca, L. Annaeus, his literary
character, iii. 192 ; the instructor of
Nero, 194; executed by order of
Nero, 197
Septimius instigates Ptolemy to mur-
der Pompey, iii. 64
Septimuleius, fills the head of C.
Gracchus, with lead, claiming the
reward of its weight in gold, ii. 311
Serjient measuring 120 cubits, Livy’s
story of a, ii. 30
Sertorius, Q., joins Cinna and Marius,
ii. 373 ; his character, 374; gains
the affections of the people of Spain,
400; invitation of the Lusitanians to
him, 401 ; forms a senate in Spain and
establishes an Academy for young
nobles, 402; his body of guards
devoted to die with him, ib. ; com-
pels Pompey to rccross the Pyrenees,
404; single stain on his character,
ib. ; murdered at a banquet by Per-
pcrna, 405
Servile war in Sicily, ii. 270
Servilius Glaucia, C., an accomplice of
Saturninus, ii. 340
Servius, the commentator on Virgil,
iii. 336
Scverianus with his legions cut off by
the Parthians, iii. 250
Severus, L. Septimius, proclaimed
emperor, iii. 261; affords protection
to Christianity, 263 ; his cruelty, ib. ;
destroys Byzantium after a siege of
three years, 264; defeats Clodius
Albinns near Lyons, ib. ; takes
Ctesiphon, 265; accompanied to
Britain by his sons Caracalla and
Geta, ib. ; his death, 267; decay of
arts in his reign, 231
--Alexander, the emperor,
adopted by Elagabalus, iii. 272; his
character and his weakness in re-
gard to his mother Mamaea, 273;
establishes the state council formed
under Hadrian, 274; contradictory
accounts of his war in the East,
against Ardshir, 277 ; his loss of
Eastern possessions, 278; marches
against the Germans, ib. ; murdered
with Mamaea, 280
---Cornnelius, account of his
poems, iii. 145
--Flavius, appointed Caesar, by
G alcrius, iii. 312 ; dies in an attempt
to invade Italy, 313
Ships, 120 built by the Romans on the
model ofa Carthaginian quinquereme