382
INDEX.
thrown on the coast, ii. 23; seven
hundred ships of war lost by the
Romans during the first P unie war, 5 3
Sicily, state of, under Agathocles and
Hiero, ii. 4; physical structure of,
18; the first country constituted a
Roman province, 50
Sicyon, congress of, ii. 165
Sidonius Apollinaris, Gallic Latinity
of, iii. 338
Sigonius, his remarks on Livy, iii. ;
and Panvinius, their gigantic pro-
gress in Roman Antiquities, Ixxxii.
Silius Italiens, the most wretched of
all poets, lxvi.
Sisenna, the historian, ii. 394
Slaves, their bravery at Beneventum
rewarded with liberty, ii. 122 ; their
vast numbers, 270
Slavonic nations advance from the
East, iii. 242
Soaemis, mother of'Elagabalus, iii∙ 271
Social war, one of the greatest in all
antiquity, ii. 354
Soldiers, mutinous character of the;
they murder Ulpian, iii. 274; mur-
der Alexander Severus, 280; and
Maximinus, 282
South winds, always dangerous storms
in the Mediterranean, ii. 35
Spain, extent of the Carthaginian
empire in, ii. 79 ; divided into two
provinces, 193; Coloniesin, founded
by Augustus, iii. 156; the country of
Trajan, Hadrian and Theodosius,334
Spaniards, national character of the,
ii. 131,139; Characteroftheancient
and modern, 264; ancient, not bar-
barians; their coins superior; their
inscriptions, 265
Spartacus, escaping with other gladia-
tors proclaims the freedom of the
slaves, ii. 406; defeats three prae-
tors, and two consular armies, ib. ;
defeated by Crassus, who impales
the bodies of the conquered along
the high roads, 407
Spendius, conspicuous in the revolt of
the Carthaginian mercenaries, ii. 54
Spoleto, Hannibal’s march to, ii. 104
Standing armies, established during
the Hannibalian war, ii. 195
State council, or Consistorium principis,
organised by Hadrian, iii. 239 ; per-
fected under AlexanderSeverus, 274
Stationary troops, system of, ii. 208
Statius, character of his Sylvae, iii. 217 ;
his Thebais an absurd poem, ib.n.;
his poem on one Septimius Severus,
262
-------Caecilius, writings of, ii. 394
Stilicho, his success against the bar-
barians, iii. 343; killed, 345
Streets, regular, first constructed by
the Carthaginians, ii. 246
Suabians, Suevi, or Alemanni, the,
begin to cross the Rhine, iii. 290
Sucro, insurrection at, ii. 140
Suetonius, characterof his history, iii.
170; Withouthistoricaltalent, 211
Suevi defeated by Caesar, iii. 44; ir-
ruption of the, 293; evacuate Gaid,
344
Sulla, L., colleague with Marius in the
social war, ii. 359; his character and
early history, 361 ; his fame raised
to the highest pitch in the Italian
war, ib.; appointed to conduct the
war against Mithridates, 366; his
command transferred to Marius, 367 ;
takes forcible possession of Rome,
369 ; gains the battle of Chaeronca
agamst Archelaus, 377; storms
Athens and massacres the inha-
bitants, 378; destroys Riraceus, ib.;
concludes peace with Mithridates,
379; defeats C. Fimbria, whose sol-
diers surrender, ib.; his magnani-
mity, 380 ; returns to Italy, 381 ;
defeats Norbanus near Capua, 382 ;
defeats young Marius, 383; defeats
the Samnites and allies under Tele-
sinus, at the Colline gate, 384; kills
8000 of the prisoners in the Campus
Martins, 385 ; massacres the Prac-
nestines, and destroys most of the
Etruscan towns ; publishes his pro-
scription lists, and destroys vast
numbers of Roman citizens, ib. ;
assigns colonies to his legions, 386;
his changes in the laws, 388 ; restores
the judicial power to the Senate,
389 ; is made dictator for an indefi-
nite period, and after two years re-
signs his power and retires to
Puteoli, 392; his death by phthɪria-
sis, ib.
Siilpicianus bids for the empire, iii. 260
Sulpicius, P., the tribune, transfers the
command in the Mithridatic war,
from Sulla to Marius, ii. 367 ; his
proposition the origin of the civil
war between them, ib. ; discussion of
his conduct, 368, killed, 369
--- Galba’s treachery in order-
ing a massacre of the Lusitanians,
ii. 262
--Severus, his masterly eccle-
siastical history, iii. 339
Swinburne, the first to give a clear
account of the battle of Cannae, ii.
112
Sybaris, coins of, vi.
Sycurium, battle of, ii. 216
Sylburg did more for Dionysius than
any other editor for his author, lii∙
INDEX.
383
Syphax, king of the Masasylians, visi-
ted by P. Scipio, ii. 140; marries
Soplionisbe, daughter of HasdrubaI,
145; defeated and taken prisoner
by LaeIius, 147 ; adorns tlɪe triumph
of Scipio, and dies in prison, ib.
Syracuse, siege of, ii. 127 ; taken by
Marcellus, 128; the most splendid
of all the Greek cities, ib.
Syria made a Koman province, iii. 11
Syrus, P., mimes of, iii. 146
Tacitus, character and value of Iiis
histories, iii, 170; his life of Agrico-
la one of tiιe greatest master-pieces
of biography, 218; origin of the
peculiarities of the writings of Sal-
lust and, 232
■--M. Claudius, princeps senates,
is proclaimed emperor, iii. 302; his
war against the Alani, 303; dies at
Tarsus, ib.
Tactics, peculiarity of Caesar’s, iii. 60
Tarentum, a Carthaginian fleet appears
before, to assist against the Komans,
ii, 2; taken after a siege of three
years, 130
Taxes reduced by Trajan, iii. 224;
raised by Caracallatoaiiunbearable
height, the vicesima hereditatu,m
being increased to a décima, 269;
reduced by AIexanderSevertis, 273;
heavy under Constantine, 317
Telesinus Pontius, with the Samnitcs,
defeated at the Colline gate by Sulla,
and kills himself, ii. 384 ; his brother
and young Marius kill each other,
385
Terence, character of his writings, ii.
394
Terentius Varro, C., probably not the
cause of the defeat of Cannae,
ii. 109
Terrorists, Prcnch, compared with
Maximinus, iii. 280
Tertullian, a storehouse of ancient
Latin, iii. 242
Tetrarchs of Judaca some of the, bore
the title of king, iii. 2
Tctricus, C. Pesuvius, reigns in Ganl
till the time of Aurelian, when he
voluntarily reunites it with the
Roman empire, iii. 297
Tenta, queen of the Illyrians, assassin-
ates the Roman ambassadors, ii. 57
Teutones and Cimbri overrun Gaul
and Spain, ii. 328; separate from
the Cimbri, 333; march to attack
Marius, 334; are defeated and their
nation annihilated, 335
Ihebes. taken by Metcllus, ii. 257
I heocritus put to death by Hiero, on
account of a satire, ii. 6
Theodosius made colleague in the
empire, iii. 333; justly called the
Great, 334; divides the empire
between his sons, 336
Thermopylae, Antiochus defeated
although occupying the pass of, ii.
181
Thucydides connects the physical
phenomena of the Peloponnesian
war, with the moral condition of the
people, ii. 103
Thirty tyrants, period of, the name
exploded, iii. 295
TiberiusClaudius Nero, considers his
marriage with Julia, daughter of
Augustus, one of disparagement, iii.
152; his early life, 171; connected
with the Claudian family by both
father and mother, ib.; his great
talents and industry, 172 ; with-
draws to Rhodes, 173; is adopted
by Augustus, ib. ; his great and diffi-
cult wars, ib. ; conquers the Pan-
nomians and Illyrians, ib. ; compels
the senate to oblige him to accept
the imperium, 174; change in his
conduct after his mother’s death,
180; enormous treasures amassed
by him, ib. ; his vicious character,
ib. ; influenced by Sejanus, he retires
to Capreae, 182; orders the arrest
of Sejanus, who is executed by
by order of the senate, and succeeded
in his influence over Tiberius by
Macro, 183; his death accelerated
ib.
TibnlIus, character of his poetry, iii.
142; his third book spurious, ib.
Ticinus, battle on the, ii. 93
Tigranes king of Armenia, his capital,
Tigranoccrta taken by LucuIIus, iii.
7 ; makes a disgraceful peace with
Pompey, 11
Tillcmonfs chronology of the reign
of Maximinus not possible, iii. 283
Tiridates, king of the Parthians, con-
quered by Corbulo, his long-remem-
bered visit to Rome to receive his
kingdom as a fief from Nero, iii.
198
Titus Condiictstliegovernmcnt during
the reign of his father Vespasian,
iii. 214; returns from Jeiusalem,
ib. ; dedicates the Colosseum, 215;
great fire at Rome, and eruption of
Vesuvius, destroying Herculaneuni
and Pompeii, in his reign, 216
Tradition, its influence in the politics
of several generations of certain
families, in Rome and England, ii.
311 n.
Trajanus, UIpius Nerva, his reign and
that of Nerva, the most obscure