381
INDEX.
portions of Roman history, iii. 221 ;
boni at Italien in Spain; adopted
by Nerva, 222; his accession, 224;
punishes the delatores, ib. ; his wife
Plotina, and his sister Marciana
exercise a favourable influence on
the character of the Roman women,
ib. ; his Dacian conquests, 225 ; his
expedition against Cosrhocs king of
the Parthians ; receives t tie homage
of the king of Armenia; takes
Seleucia and Ctesiphon, 226 ; places
a pretender on the throne of Partliia,
227 ; makes Arabia a Roman pro-
vince, and extends his empire as far
as Nubia, ib. ; his death, 228 ; his
buildings, 229 ; revival of art in his
reign, ib. ; paves the via Appia and
drains the Pomptinc marshes, ib. ;
improves the port at the mouth of
the Tilier, ib. ; forum Ulpium, and
column of Trajan, 230
Trasimenus, battle of lake, ii. 102
Trebia, battle on the, ii. 96; injudici-
ous conduct of the Roman army at,
ib. ; memorable for a battle in
modern history, ib.
Tribes, the four city, separated from
the rustic ones, ii. 77
Tribunes of the people, senators by
virtue of their office, ii. 53; their
power, 231; their despotic power,
274
Triremes, description of, ii. 22
Triumvirate, the, iii. 95
Turditani, their early civilisation,ii. 265
Tyrants, the thirty, iii. 295
Tyre, the port for all Asia, ii. 13
Ulpian, the jurist, made president of
the state council and commander of
the praetorian guards, ɪii. 274; mur-
dered by the soldiers, ib.; character
of the works of Papinian and, 289 ;
after him jurisprudence dies away,/5.
Unction received by Sept. Severus in
illness, iii. 263
Usurpers arise in Illyricum, Egypt,
Africa, Greece, Thessaly, and the
East, iii. 297
Usury forbidden by law but exten-
sively practised, ii. 200
Utica founded by the Tyrians, before
Carthage, ii. 11 ; revolts against the
Carthaginians, 54
Valens, Fabius, with A. Caecina, re-
volts against Galba, iii. 201 ; pro-
claims Vitellius, 202; defeats the
army of Otho at Bedriacum, 203
-------the emperor, accession of, iii.
330; slain with two-thirds of his
army by the Goths, 333
Valentinian, accession of the emperor
iii. 330
--II., is Augustus under the
guardianship of his mother Justina
iii. 335 ’
--III., obtains the crown
iii. 347
Valerian succeeds to the empire, iiɪ.
293; is attacked by the Franks,
Alemannians and Goths, ib. ; leads
his army against Sapor and the
Persians, 294; capitulates and be-
comes a prisoner, ib. ; his being
skinned alive doubtful, ib.
VaIeriani, soldiers of LucuIIus, incited
to insurrection by Clodius, iii. 8
Valerius Antias, Q., the most untrue
of all the Roman historians, xlii.
--Cato, poems of, iii. 133
--Flacciis, L., consul, ■ with
Cinna, undertakes the war against
Sulla, and is murdered by his legate
C. Flavius Fimbria, ii. 377
--Maximus,hisbookeonsidered
during the. middle ages, the most
important book next to the Bible,
xcvi.
--Triarius, C., defeated by
Mithridates, iii. 8
Valla first proved the existence of im-
possibilities in Livy’s narrative, iɪi.
Vandals, piracy of the, iii. 349
Varins, L., one of the greatest poets
iii. 143
■--Q., his hill against the suffrage
of the Italicans, ii. 353
Varro, C. Terentius, consul with
Æmilius Paullus, ii. 109; his cha-
racter, ib.
Varus, Quinctilius, commands the
army in Germany, iii. 161 ; hrs defeat
and suicide, 163; his army annihi-
lated, 164
Vandoncourt, General, his account of
the battle on the Trebia incorrect,
ii. 94
Vellcius Paterculus, character of his
writings, lxxii.
Veneti, allies of Rome in the great
Gallic war, ii. 66; conquered and
cruelly treated by Caesar, iii. 46
Venetians, the, of the Liburno-PeIas-
gian race, ii. 65
Veni, vidi, vici, occasion on which
Ca,sar used this expression, iii. 66
Venice, offices of state regularly sold
at,ii. 16; occasion Ofthefoundation
of, iii. 352
Vennonius, the annalist, xxxviii.
Vercingetorix, commander of the
Aedui and Arverni, iii. 48 ; his
magnanimous surrender to Caesar,
who drags him about in chains
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385
until he is led in triumph and put
to death, 49 ; one of the greatest
men of antiquity, ib.
Veras, !.. Aelius, adopted by Hadrian,
but dies before him, iii. 238
-------------Commodus, adopted
either by Antoninus Pius or M.
Aurelius, iii. 247 ; his dissolute cha-
racter, 250
Vespasianus, T. Plavius, with his le-
gions in Judaea, refuses obedience
to Vitellius, iii. 204 ; the restorer of
the state, ib. ; his character, ib. ;
arrives in Rome, 208 ; his character,
211 ; and that of his government^ 12 ;
effects an improvement in the Roman
mode of living, ib, ; lɪis execution of
Priscus a murder, 213; builds the
Colosseum and the temple of Peace,
ib. ; assisted by Titus in the latter
part of his reign, 214
Vesuvius, eruption of, destroying Her-
culaneum and Pompeii, iii. 216
ViaAppia paved with basalt by Trajan,
iii. 229
Vibius Virrius and twenty other sena-
tors of Capua, suicide of, ii. 129
Vicesima Iiereditatum increased to a
décima by Caracalla, iii. 269
Videant consules ne quid, etc., antiquity
of this formula, ii. 310 n.
Vienna, siege of, by Soliman, compared
with that of Antioch by Sapor, iii.
295
Virgil borrowed the plan of the Aeneid
from Naevius, xxiv., charge of ana-
chronism against him, groundless, ib.
called by Cicero, nιagnae spes altera
Bomae, iii. 80 ; the representative of
his age, 134 ; character of his poetry,
135; his desire to have the Aeneid
burned no affectation, 137 ; not
among the Roman poets of the first
order, 138
Viriathus maintains himself against
the Romans for eight years, ii. 263 ;
recognised as amicus popιdi Bornani,
ib. ; killed by assassins employed by
the Romans, ib,
Viridomarusleader of the Gauls, slain
by M. Claudius Marcellus, ii. 65
Visigoths, civilisation of the, iii. 332
Vitcllius, A., proclaimed emperor by
the Germans, iii. 202; his briɪt:il
manners and voracity, ib. ; defeats
Otho at Bedriacum, 203 ; puts 100
praetorians to death in revenge of
the murder of Galba, 204 ; murdered,
207
Voconia lex, forbidding making women
heirs, ii. 229
Vulso, CmManlius, defeats the Gala-
tians, ii. 19Ù
Wallachians, descendants of the
Dacians, still speak a corrupt dialect
OfLatin, iii. 226
Wedge, Roman fleet arranged against
the Carthaginian in form of a, ii. 28
Wellington, Duke of, the only general
in whose conduct of war we cannot
discover any important mistake, iii. 6
Wieland, his remarks on Horace, iii.
139
Wolf, F. Λ., his opinion on Cicero’s
letters to Brutus, iii. 92
Writing, early, in Italy, vi.
Xanthippus, the Lacedemonian, ap-
pointed to command the Cartha-
ginian army of mercenaries, iɪ. 33 ;
his phalanx destroys the whole
Roman army, ib.; takes Regulus
prisoner, ib. ; retires to his own
country, ib.
Xiphilinus, his abridgment of Diou
Cassius, iii. 211, 219, 252
Zama, battle of, terminates the second
Punic war, ii. 150
Zcnobia, her design of founding an
eastern empire, iii. 300 ; conquered
by Aurelian in the battles of Antioch
and Emesa, and besieged in Palmyra,
ib. ; taken prisoner, ¢6.; sacrifices
Longinus, ib.; Palmyra revolts and
is destroyed, 301
Zonaras, his history from the creation
to the death of Alexius Comnenus,
Ixxix ; taken from Joscphus and
Dion Cassius, ib.
Zosimus, his account of Decius, iii. 286
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