---- secretary of the Emperor, 551
Cæsias, treasurer of the commander of the cavalry, 200
Cafaves, a people of Africa, 532
Calatis, a town in European Scythia, 444
Calicadnus, a river in Isauria, 9
Callichorus, a river near the Euxine Sea, 290
Callimachus, an ancient Grecian general, 369
Callipolis, a city at the head of the Hellespont, 287
Callisthenes, a pupil of Aristotle, 166
Callistratus, an ancient orator, 554
Camaritæ, a tribe near the Euxine Sea, 290
Cambyses, king of Persia, 129
---- a river in Media, 337
Camels first seen by the Romans at the siege of Cyzicus, 340
Camenius, a Roman senator, 473
Camp of Hercules (Castra Herculis), a town in Germany, 161
Camp of Mars, a town in Dacia, 608
Camp of the Moors, a town or fortress in Mesopotamia, 173, 393
Canini, a people on the borders of Rhætia, 52
Canopus, a city of Egypt, 314
Cantichus, a gulf in Armenia, 332
Capellatum, a district on the borders of the Burgundians, 164
Capersana, a town in Syria, 179;
called also Capessana, 255
Caphareus, a promontory of Euboea, 286
Carambis, a promontory in Paphlagonia (now Cape Kerempe), 289
Carcinites, a river and bay on the Euxine Sea, 292
Carmania, a province of Persia, 338
Carnuntum, a city of Illyria, 559
Carpi, a people on the Danube, 446, 468
Carræ, a town of Mesopotamia, 177, 237, 320
Cascellius, a Roman lawyer, 556
Caspian, tribes of the, 291
Cassianus, Duke of Mesopotamia, 98, 176, 201, 396
Cassium, a town in Egypt, 312
Cassius, a mountain in Syria, 28;
Julian sacrifices to Jupiter upon it, 305
Castalia, a fountain in Phocis, at the base of Mount Parnassus, 303
Castucius, Count of Isauria, 8
Catadupi, the cataracts of the Nile, or the people who live near them, 307
Catalauni (Châlons sur Marne), 436
Cato, the censor, 16, 81, 88
Catulus, the ædile, 20
Caucalandes, a town in Sarmatia, 588
Cella, a tribune of the Scutarii, 105
Celse, a town in Phoenicia, 23
Cephalonesus, a town on the Borysthenes, 293
Ceras, a cape on the Propontis, 287
Cerasus, a town in Pontus, 289
Cercetæ, a tribe near the Euxine Sea, 291
Cercius, the charioteer of Castor and Pollux, 290
Cerealis, uncle of Gallus, 43;
(2) a master of the horse, 482, 564
Cethegus, a senator, beheaded, 471
Chærecla, a town in Libya, 313
Chalcedon, a town in Bithynia, 287;
inscription found on a stone in the walls of, 577
Chalcenterus, an author, 314
Chaldæa, 335
Chalites, a gulf in Armenia, 332
Chalybes, a tribe near the Caspian Sea, 290
Chamavi, a German tribe, 141
Charax, a town in Parthia, 338
Charcha, a town on the Tigris, 183
Chardi, a Scythian tribe, 341
Charietto, count of Germany, 144, 436
Charinda, a river in Media, 337
Charte and Chartra, towns in Bactria, 340
Chasmatiæ, a kind of earthquake, 139
Chauriana, a town in Scythia, 341
Chiliocomus, a district of Media, 321
Chilo, a Roman deputy, 469
Chionitæ, a tribe bordering on Persia, 99, 134, 176
Chnodomarius, a king of the Allemanni, 107, 112, 120;
taken prisoner and sent to Rome, 121;
his death, 121
Choaspa, a town in Arachosia, 343
Choaspes, a river in Media, 337
Choatres, a river in Parthia, 338
Chronius, a river of the Euxine Sea, 292
Chrysopolis, a city on the Propontis, 287
Cibalæ, a town in Pannonia, 566
Cicero, 5, 49, 61, 81, 84, 210, 245, 274, 284, 310, 406, 433, 443, 457,
462, 476, 491, 531, 555, 570, 617
Cilicia, description of, 27
Ciminian, a district in Italy, 140
Cimon, son of Miltiades, 145
Cineas, the ambassador of Pyrrhus, 100
Circesium, a town of Mesopotamia, described, 324, 325
Cius, a town on the Propontis, 287
Civilis, prefect of Britain, 455
Claritas, a Roman matron, 474
Claros, in Lydia, seat of a temple and oracle of Apollo, 210
Claudiopolis, a city in Isauria, 27
Claudius, prefect of Rome, 439, 542
Cleander, a prefect under the Emperor Commodus, 418
Clematius, a citizen of Alexandria, 2
Cleopatra, 313
Coche, a town in Persia, 363
Colchi, a tribe of Egyptian origin, 290
Colias, a Gothic noble, revolts, 592
Cologne (Colonia Agrippina), 86
Comedus, a mountain in the country of the Sacæ, 340
Comets, their nature, 401
Commagena, a province of Syria, 334
Commodus, the Roman Emperor, 507, 605
Como (Comum), a town in Italy, 48
Constans, son of Constantine, 2, 94
Constantia, daughter of Constantius, 423, 539
Constantianus, a tribune, 322, 482, 522
Constantina, daughter of Constantine the Great, 2, 37, 244, 245
---- a town in Mesopotamia, 178
Constantine the Great, 60, 81, 93, 97, 131, 419
Constantinople, 287;
threatened siege of, by the Goths, 622
Constantius the Emperor, his cruelty, 13;
summons Gallus to Italy, 23;
makes war on the Allemanni, 32;
his speech, 34-36;
retires to Milan, 36;
his jealousy, 37;
his severe treatment of Gallus's friend, 51;
invests Julian with the title of Cæsar, 70;
his weakness, 99;
his triumphal procession to Rome, 100;
his arrogance, 101;
erects an obelisk, 130;
reply to Sapor, 135;
receives the title of Sarmaticus, 156;
marches against the Limigantes, 204;
jealousy of Julian, 216;
besieges Bezabde, 237;
marries Faustina after the death of Eusebia, 253;
crosses the Euphrates, 255;
his speech to his army, 267;
unfavourable dreams and omens, 269;
his death, 271;
virtues and vices, 272;
buried at Constantinople, 276
Contensis, a town in Africa, 534
Coptos, a town in the Thebais, 312;
story of his wife, 291
Corax, a river flowing into the Euxine, 291
Corduena, a province belonging to the Persians, 175, 321, 393
Cornelius Gallus, procurator of Egypt, 129
Cornelius, a senator, 474
Coronus, a mountain in Media, 335
Costoboci, a Scythian tribe, 293
Cottius, a king on the Alps, 75
Craugasius, a noble of Nisibis, 200;
story of his wife, 201
Crescens, deputy-governor of Africa, 501
Cretio, count of Africa, 254
Crispus, son of Constantine the Great, 41
Crissæan Gulf in Western Locris, 140
Criu-Metopon, a promontory of Thrace, 289
Crocodiles in Egypt, 309
Croesus, 64
Ctesiphon, the winter residence of the Parthian kings, 334
Curandius, a tribune of the archers, 530
Curio, a Roman general, 530
Cybele, festival in honour of, 321
Cyclades, 286
Cydnus, a river in Cilicia, 27
Cylaces, a Persian eunuch, 463
Cynægirus, a Grecian general, 369
Cynossema, a promontory in Caria, now Cape Volpo, 287
Cyprus, 29
Cyrene, a city in Libya, 312
Cyreschata, a town in Sogdiana, 340
Cyria, a Mauritanian princess, 531
Cyrinus, 280
Cyropolis, a town in Media, 337
Cyrus, 90, 331
Cyzicus, 287;
besieged and taken by Procopius, 426;
taken by the Scythians, 591
D.
Dacia, 423
Dadastana, a town on the borders of Bithynia, 403
Dagalaiphus, captain of the domestics, 255, 347, 359, 388, 407;
sent by Valentinian to oppose the Allemanni, 415;
made consul, 428
Dahæ, a Scythian tribe, 290
Damascus, 28
Damasus, bishop of Rome, 441
Dames, 95
Dandaca, a town in the Tauric Chersonese, 292
Daniel, a Roman count, 546
Danube, description of the, 293
Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, 210;
(2) a town in Moesia, 445
Dardanus, a town in the Hellespont, 287
Darius, 331, 428
Darnis, a town in Libya, 312
Datianus, a Roman consul, 133
Davana, a town in Mesopotamia, 321
Davares, a people of Africa, 532
Decem Pagi (Dieuse), 86
Decentius, a tribune, 216
Decius (the Cæsar), 614
Delos, 139, 303
Delphidius, an orator, 160
Delta in Egypt, 309
Demetrius Chytras, a philosopher of Alexandria, 209
Democritus, 46, 88, 286
Demosthenes, 549, 554
Diabas, a river of Assyria, 334
Dibaltum, a city of Thrace, 600
Dicalidones, a tribe of Picts, 453
Didius, a Roman general, 443
Didymus, surnamed Chalcenterus, 314
Dieuse (Decem Pagi), 86
Dinarchus, a Grecian orator, 554
Dindyma, a mountain of Mysia, 287
Dinocrates, an architect, 313
Diocles, treasurer of Illyricum, 451
Diocletian, 59, 317
Diodorus, a count, 301
Diogenes, governor of Bithynia, 514
Diogmitæ, a kind of light-armed troops, 456
Dionysiopolis, 444
Dionysius, king of Sicily, 44, 64, 97
Dioscurias, a city on the Euxine, 290
Dipsades, a species of Egyptian serpent, 311
Discenes, a tribune, 202
Dius, a Mauritanian chief, 527
Divitenses, a German tribe, 424, 436
Domitian, the emperor, 168
Domitianus, prefect of the East, 23, 49
Domitius Corbulo, 48
Dorians, 73
Doriscus, a town in Thrace, 176
Dorostorus, a city of Thrace, 444
Dorus, a surgeon of the Scutari, 92
Dracontius, master of the mint, 301
Drangiana, a province of Persia, 342
Drepanum, a town in Bithynia, 425
Drepsa, a town in Sogdiana, 340
Druentia (the Durance), a river in Gaul, 77
Druids, 73, 74
Drusus, a Roman general, 443
Drypetina, daughter of King Mithridates, 95
Dulcitius, a Roman general, 455
Duodiense, a fort in Mauritania, 536
Dura, a town beyond the Tigris, in Mesopotamia, 326, 347, 391
Dymas, a river in Sogdiana, 340
Dynamius, 55
E.
Earthquakes in Africa, 137;
the supposed causes, 138
Ecbatana, an Assyrian town, 334
Eclipses, causes of, 214
Edessa, 236, 255
Elephantine, a city of Ethiopia, 307
Elephants, 376
Eleusis, 139
Eleutheropolis, a town in Palestine, 29
Emissa, a town of Syria, 23
Emodon, a mountain in Scythia, 341
Emona, 477
Engines, warlike, 323
Epicurus, 554
Epigonius, a philosopher, 25, 31
Epimenides, 486
Epiphania, a town in Cilicia, 300
Equitius, tribune of the Scutarii, 406;
made general and count, 414, 539;
his son Equitius a tribune, 611
Eratosthenes, 287
Erectheus, 84
Ermenrichus, king of the Ostrogoths, 583
Erythræ, a city in Ionia, 617
Esaias, a Roman noble, 477
Essedones and Essedon, a people and town of the Seres, 341
Eubulus, a citizen of Antioch, 22
Eucærius, proprefect of Asia, 506
Euctemon, an ancient astronomer, 407
Eumenius, 477
Eumolpias (Philippopolis), 278
Eupatoria, a city of the Tauri, 292
Euphrasius, master of the offices, 422
Euphrates, 199, 335
Euphronius, governor of Mesopotamia, 176
Eupraxius, master of the records, 450
Euripides, his tomb at Arethusa, 443
Europos, a city of Persia, 337
Eusebia, wife of the Emperor Constantius, 48;
her plots against Helena, 103, 253
Eusebius, an orator, surnamed Pittacos, 23, 31;
(ii.) High Chamberlain, 33, 36, 167, 281;
(iii.) surnamed Mattyocopa, 55;
(iv.) brother of Eusebia and Hypatius, 160, 253, 516;
(v.) Bishop of Nicomedia, 295
Euseni, an eastern people, near Persia, 29
Euses, a town in Gaul, 79
Eustathius, a philosopher, 136
Eutherius, prefect of the bedchamber, 93, 232
Eutropius, proconsul of Asia, 512
Evagrius, one of the emperor's household, 280
Exsuperius, one of the Victorian Legion, 361
F.
Fabius Maximus, 81
Fabricius Luscinus, 548
Fara, an island on the coast of Persia, 338
Farnobius, 587, 601
Faustina, the second wife of the Emperor Constantius, 253, 271, 423
Faustinus, a military secretary, 562
Felix, master of the offices, 233, 317
Fericius, a Mauritanian chief, 530
Ferratus, a mountain in Mauritania, 527
Festus, governor of Syria, 519;
his cruelties, 528
Fidustius, accused of magic, 505
Firmus, a Mauritanian chief, 525;
his flight, 533;
commits suicide, 537
Flavian, a Roman citizen, 502
Florentius, (i.) prefect of the Prætorian Guard, 110, 128, 216, 232,
253, 270;
(ii.) the son of Nigridianus, 58, 213, 279;
(iii.) the prefect of Gaul under Valentinian, 452;
(iv.) a tribune, 430;
(v.) Duke of Germany, 525
Fortunatianus, a count, 504
Forum of Trajan, 102
Fragiledus, a Sarmatian chief, 148
Franks, 58, 141, 235
Fraomarius, king of the Bucenobantes, a German tribe, 524
Frigeridus, a Roman general, 595, 600
Fritigern, general of the Goths, 587, 593, 607, 609
Frontinus, 472
Fullofaudes, military duke in Britain, 453
Fulvius, a Roman general, 81
G.
Gabinius, king of the Quadi, 539, 559
Galactophagi, a Scythian tribe, 341
Galatæ, the Gauls, 73
Galerius, 38
Galla, the mother of Gallus, 43
Gallienus, 4
Gallonatis, a fort in Mauritania, 531
Gallus, nephew of Constantine the Great, 1;
his atrocities, 2;
puts the principal persons at Antioch to death, 21;
summoned by the emperor, 37;
leaves Antioch and arrives at Constantinople, 39;
is sent to Istria, 41;
put to death, 42;
his personal appearance and character, 43
Gallus, a river in Bithynia, 426
Garamantes, an African tribe, 307
Garumna (the Garonne), 78
Gaudentius, 51, 95, 143, 254, 300
Gaugamela, a city in Adiabene, 334
Gaul, description of, 73;
its provinces, 79;
its inhabitants, 80;
produce, 81
Gaza (now Ghuzzeh), a city of Palestine, 29
Gazaca, a town in Media, 337
Geapolis, a town in Arabia, 338
Gedrosia, a province of Persia, 343
Gelani, a people of the East, near Persia, 134
Geloni, a tribe near the Caspian, 291
Genonia, a town in Parthia, 338
Genua (Genoa), chief town of the Ligures, 77
George, bishop of Alexandria, 300, 301
Gerasa, a town in Arabia, 29
Gerasus (the Pruth), 584
Germanianus, 255
Germanicopolis, in Bithynia, 456
Germanicus, 306
Germany, 78
Gerontius, tortured by Constantius, 12
Gildo, a Mauritanian chief, 526
Glabrio, Acilius, 17
Gomoarius, or Gumoharius, 233, 255, 269, 422, 429
Gordian, the elder, 421;
(ii.) the younger, 326
Gorgias of Leontinum, 554
Gorgonius, Cæsar's chamberlain, 48
Goths, 442, 445, 585;
invade Thrace, 599;
defeated by Frigeridus, 601;
massacre of the, 623
Gratian, the elder, 566;
(ii.) son of Valentinian, 448;
takes Equitius as his colleague, 551, 602, 605;
surprised by Sebastian, 607
Grumbates, king of the Chionitæ, 176, 185
Gruthungi, a tribe of Ostrogoths, 446, 583
Gundomadus, king of the Allemanni, 32, 111
Gynæcon, a town in the Persian province of Gedrosia, 343
Gyndes, a Persian river, 337
H.
Hadrian, 386, 571
Hadrianople, battle of, 610-615;
siege of by the Goths, 619;
raised, 620
Hadrianopolis, 39, 444, 607
Hannibal, 77;
buried at Libyssa, 295
Harax, a river in Susiana, 335
Hariobaudes, a tribune, 161, 162
Hariobaudus, a king of the Allemanni, 164
Harmozon, a promontory in Carmania, 332
Harpalus, one of Cyrus's lieutenants, 74
Hasdrubal, a Carthaginian general, 77
Hatra, an ancient town in Mesopotamia, 395
Hebrus (Maritza), a river in Thrace, 172
Hecatæus, an ancient geographer, 287
Hecatompylos, a town in Parthia, 338
Helen, wife of Julian, 71;
her death and burial, 244
Helenopolis (Frankfort-on-the-Maine), 425
Helepolis, a military engine used in sieges, 324
Helice, a town in Achaia, destroyed by an earthquake, 140
Heliodorus, a seer, 504;
his atrocities, 515;
death of, 517
Heliogabalus, 421
Heliopolis, a town of Syria, 131
Helpidius, prefect of the East, 253
Hendinos, a title given to the Burgundian kings, 495
Heniochi, a tribe near the Euxine, 290
Heraclea, a city of Thrace, called also Perinthus, 278
Heraclitus, the philosopher of Ephesus, 274
Herculanus, officer of the guard, 33
Hercules, 73
Hermapion, 132
Hermes Trismegistus, 270
Hermogenes, master of the horse, 33,
(ii.) of Pontus, prefect of the prætorium, 208, 253;
(iii.) a Roman general in Germany, 481
Hermonassa, an island in the Palus Mæotis, 291
Hermopolis, a city in the Thebais, 312
Herod, 29
Herodianus, 314
Herodotus, 311
Hesiod, 16
Hesperus, proconsul of Africa, 502
Hesychia, a Roman matron, 477
Hiaspis, a district on the Tigris, 169
Hiberia, a country in Asia, near Colchis, 463;
is divided between the Persians and Romans, 466, 549
Hibita, a station in Mesopotamia, 399
Hiera, an island on the coast of Sicily, one of the Ægates, 139
Hierapolis, a city in Commagena, 28, 267, 319;
(ii.) a city in Phrygia, 333
Hierocles, son of Alypius, governor of Britain, 514
Hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, 130
Hilarinus, a charioteer, 411
Hilarius, 505
Hileia, a town in Mesopotamia, 170
Hipparchus, the philosopher, 407
Hippias of Elis, 90
Hippocephalus, a suburb of Antioch, 270
Hippopotamus of Egypt, 310
Histros, a city of Thrace, 293
Homer, 20, 71, 170, 191, 270, 341, 442, 453, 479, 617
Honoratus, Count of the East, 3, 21
Hormisdas, a Persian prince, 102;
(ii.) a general of the emperor Julian, 347;
(iii.) son of the preceding, 427
Horre, a town in Mesopotamia, 183
Hortarius, king of the Allemanni, 107, 144, 161;
(ii.) a German noble, 525
Hucumbra, 374
Huns, 577-582
Hydriacus, a river in Carmania, 339
Hydrus, the, 310
Hymetius, proconsul of Africa, 471;
banished to Boæ, a town in Dalmatia, 472
Hypanis (the Bog), a river of Sarmatia, 291
Hypatius, a consul, brother of Eusebius, 160, 253, 516
Hyperechius, 426
Hyperides, a Grecian orator, 554
Hyrcania, a northern province of Persia, 339
Hystaspes, father of Darius, 336
I.
Ibis, the sacred bird of the Egyptians, 311
Ichneumon, an Egyptian reptile, 310
Iconium, a town in Pisidia, 5
Icosium, a town in Mauritania, 529
Idmon, an augur, 290
Igilgitanum, part of the coast of Mauritania, so called from the town
Igilgili (Iijeli), 526
Igmazen, king of Mauritania, 535
Ilus, son of Troas, 296
Imbros, an island off the coast of Thrace, 286
Immo, a Roman count, 261
Ingenuus, a rebel, 274
Innocentius, 121
Iphicles, a philosopher, envoy from Epirus, 561
Iris, a river flowing into the Euxine, 289
Isaflenses, a people of Africa, 534
Isauria, a province of Asia Minor, 6
Isaurians, rebellion of the, 5;
they besiege Seleucia, 8;
compelled by Nebridius to disperse, 10
Isocrates, 570
Izala, a mountain in Mesopotamia, 173
J.
Jacobus, treasurer of the commander of the cavalry, 200
Januarius, a relation of the Emperor Julian, 406
Jasonium, a mountain in Media, 339
Jaxamatæ, a Scythian tribe, 291
Jaxartæ and Jaxartes, a people and river of Scythia, 341
Jazyges, a people on the Palus Mæotis, 291
Jerusalem, the temple of, 317
Jews, 283
Jovian, chief officer of the guard, 276;
son of Varronianus, 388;
elected emperor after Julian, 388;
his treaty with Sapor, 393;
advances to Hatra, 395;
his severity, 399;
visits Tarsus, 402;
dies suddenly at Dadastana, 403;
his character, 405;
his body brought to Constantinople, 406
Jovianus, a secretary, 361, 398, 417
Jovinianus, a Persian satrap, 175
Jovinus, master of the horse, 256, 261, 279, 396;
commander of the forces in Gaul, 414;
his vigour, 436;
defeats the Germans, 458;
his execution, 501
Jovius, a quæstor, 256, 294
Juba, king of Mauritania, 308
Jubileni, an African tribe, 535
Julian, son of Constantius and Basilina, 383;
born at Constantinople, 295;
educated by Eusebius, bishop of Nicomedia, 295;
protected by Queen Eusebia, 48;
is invested with the title of Cæsar, 69;
married to Helena, 71;
made consul, 83;
marches against the Allemanni, 85;
temperate habits, 89;
his moderation, 91;
plots against, 93;
second consulship, 104;
his first campaign, 105;
his prudence, 107;
his speech to his soldiers, 109;
the Allemanni sue for peace, 126;
fixes his winter residence at Paris, 128;
attacks the Chamavi, 141;
military sedition, 142;
he crosses the Rhine, 163;
Constantius grows jealous of him, 216;
saluted as emperor, 219;
his dream, 223;
his letters to Constantius, 229;
elected emperor by the army, 234;
crosses the Rhine, and attacks the Attuarii, 235;
death of his wife Helena, 244;
pretended adherence to Christianity, 246;
defeats the Allemanni, 249;
speech to his soldiers, 250;
enters Sirmium, 257;
his letter to the senate, 259;
besieges Aquileia, 261;
his march through France, 267;
hears of the death of Constantius, and enters Constantinople, 278;
his severities, 279;
reforms the imperial palace, 281;
openly professes paganism, 283;
sets out for Antioch, 295;
visits the ancient temple of Cybele at Pessinus, and offers
sacrifices, 296;
winters at Antioch, 298;
forbids the masters of rhetoric to instruct Christians, 299;
prepares for an expedition against the Persians, 302;
orders the church at Antioch to be closed, 304;
writes his 'Misopogon,' 305;
marches into Mesopotamia, and arrives at Carrhæ, 320;
addresses his army, 328;
invades Assyria, 347;
captures and burns Pirisabora, 353;
addresses the army, 354;
his continence, 368;
his sacrifice to Mars, 369;
storms Maogamalcha, 357-362;
burns all his ships except twelve, 370;
his self-denial, 377;
alarmed by prodigies, 377;
wounded in fighting with the Persians, 379;
his dying speech, 381;
death, 383;
his character, 383-386;
his personal appearance, 387
Julian, uncle of the emperor, 317
Juliers (Juliacum Francorum), 127
Julius, a count commanding the army in Thrace, 422, 623
Justina, wife of Valentinian, 575;
sister of Cerealis, 482
Juvenal, 488
Juventius Siscianus, the quæstor, 413;
made prefect of the city, 441
K.
Kellen (Triæsinæ), a town in Germany, 161
L.
Lacotene, a town in Armenia, 236
Lagarimanus, a general of the Goths, 584
Laipso, a tribune, 121
Lamforctense, a town in Mauritania, 528
Lampadius, prefect of the prætorian guard, 55;
made prefect of the city, 440
Lampsacus, a city of Mysia, 287
Laniogaisus, a Frank and tribune, 59
Laodicea, a town of Syria, 28
Laranda, a town in Isauria, 8
Latinus, count of the domestics, 34
Laudias, a fort in Mesopotamia, 179
Laumellum, a town in Italy, 72
Lauricius, sent as governor to Isauria, 211
Lawyers, Roman, described, 555
Lazica, a province of Scythia, 465
Leap-year explained, 407
Leman (the Lake Leman), 79
Lemnos, an island off the coast of Thrace, 286
Lentia (Lintz), 52, 602
Lentienses, incursions of the, 53
Leo, a Pannonian, 407, 470, 551, 561
Leonas, quæstor of Constantius, 233
Leontius, prefect of Rome, 65
Leptis, a town in Africa, distress of, 497;
implores the emperor's aid, 499
Lesbos, an island on the Ægean Sea, 286
Letian, a German tribe, 231
Leuce, an island in the Black Sea, 292
Liberius, bishop of Rome, banished by Constantius for refusing to concur
in the deposition of Athanasius, 67
Libino, a count, sent by Julian against the Allemanni and slain, 247
Libya, 312
Libyssa, a town in Bithynia, 295
Limigantes, slaves of the Sarmatians, 151, 203;
their treachery, 151, 203, 205;
defeated, 207
Lions in Mesopotamia, 177
Londinium (London), 212, 454, 483
Lorne, a fort in Mesopotamia, 201
Lotophagi, mentioned by Homer, 20
Lucillianus, count of the domestics, and father-in-law of Jovian, 39, 159,
175, 257, 322, 396, 402
Lucullus, a Roman general who defeated the Thracians, 444
Lugdunum (Lyons), 79
Lupicinus, master of the horse, 163;
sent against the Picts, 212, 233;
(ii.) count of Thrace, 587, 589;
(iii.) one of the Gentiles, 460
Luscinus, 361, 548
Luscus, governor of Antioch, burnt to death, 25
Lusius, an officer under Trajan, 526
Lutetia (Paris), the capital of the Parisii, 78
Luto, count, 65
Lycaonia, part of Asia Minor, 7
Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, 88, 296, 572
Lyons (Lugdunum), 79
---- gulf of (Adgradus), 80
Lysimachia, 287
M.
Macellum, in Cappadocia, 48
Macepracta, a town in Assyria, 351
Maces, a promontory in the Persian Gulf, 332
Machamæus, a Roman general, killed, 374
Macrianus, a king of the Allemanni, 164, 494, 523, 552
Macrones, a people near the Euxine, 290
Mæotis Palus (the Sea of Azov), 291
Magi, 336
Maharbal, 170
Malarichus, commander of the Gentiles, 56, 57;
appointed by Jovian commander of the forces in Gaul, 396
Malechus Podosaces, 350
Mallobaudes, or Mellobaudes, 41, 56, 553, 603
Mamersides, 353, 363
Mamertinus, 255, 259, 279;
made prefect of Italy, with Africa and Illyricum, 414;
accused of peculation, 451
Mancinus, C. Hostilius, a Roman consul, 44
Manlius Priscus, a lieutenant of Pompey, 95
Maogamalcha, a city in Persia, 357
Maræccus, a river near the Caspian Sea, 291
Maranx, a district in Persia, 375
Maras, a Christian deacon, put to the torture, 32
Maratocupreni, a people in Syria, who lived by plunder, 48
Marcellianus, duke of Valeria, 539
Marcellus, 86;
master of the horse, 88;
cashiered, 92, 95;
(ii.) a kinsman of Procopius, kills Serenianus, 431;
seizes Chalcedon, 431;
taken and put to death, 432
Marcianopolis, a city of Thrace, 444, 589
Marcianus, 265;
(ii.) a rhetorician, 557
Marcius, an ancient seer, 4
Marcomanni, 538
Marcus Aurelius, 274, 538, 591
Mareades, 325
Margiani, a Persian tribe, 339
Mariandena, a district in Bithynia, 288
Maride, a fort in Mesopotamia, 201
Marius Maximus, 488
Marinus, a tribune, 51
Maronea, a town in Thrace, 286
Marseilles (Massilia), 79
Marses, a river in Assyria, 335
Martinus, a deputy-governor of Britain, 13;
commits suicide, 14
Masaucio, 416
Mascizel, a Mauritanian chief, 527
Masilla, 537
Massagetæ, 292, 328, 580
Massilia (Marseilles), 74, 79
Massisenses, a people of Mauritania, 527
Matrona, an Alpine mountain (Mont Genevre), 76;
(ii.) the Marne, a river in Gaul, 78
Maudio, count, 65
Mauritania, 526
Maurus, a Roman count, 220
Maxentius, a Pannonian, 452
Maxera, a river in Hyrcania, 339
Maximianopolis, a city in Thrace, 444
Maximinus, the Roman emperor, 4
---- prefect of Rome, 468;
his ferocity, 469, 470, 473-476
Maximus, prefect of Rome, 265
---- a celebrated philosopher, beheaded at Ephesus, 513
Mayence (Moguntiacus), stormed by Rando, a chief of the Allemanni, 457
Mazaca, a city in Cappadocia, 233
Mazices, a people in Mauritania, 529
Mazuca, a Mauritanian chief, 534
Mederichus, a king of the Allemanni, 113
Medianum, a fortress in Mauritania, 535
Media, 335
Mediolanum (Evreux), 79
Meiacarire, a small town in Mesopotamia, noted for its cool springs, 174
Melanchlænæ, a tribe near the Palus Mæotis, 291
Melanthias, a country palace of the Roman emperors, 606
Melas, a river in Pamphylia, 7
---- a bay (Gulf of Saros) on the coast of Thrace, 286
Melitina, a town in Lesser Armenia, 200, 236
Memoridus, tribune, 396
Memorius, prefect of Cilicia, 319
Memphis, a town of Egypt, 313
Menander, a poet, 270
Menapila, a town in Bactria, 340
Menophilus, the eunuch of king Mithridates, 95
Mephra, a town in Arabia, 338
Mercurius, a notary, nicknamed the Count of Dreams, 50
Merenes, a Persian general, 375
Meribanes, king of Hiberia, 253
Merobaudes, 574, 598
Meroe, a town in Ethiopia, 307, 312
Mesene, a town in Assyria, 334
Meseus, a river in Persia, 335
Mesopotamia, 134
Messala, prefect of Pannonia, 540
Meton, an ancient astronomer, 407
Metrodorus, 387
Metz (Mediomatricum), 79, 99
Midas, king of Phrygia, 296
Milan, 49
Milesiani, Athenian colonists, 291
Miletus, 468
Mimas, mount, 617
Minervius, consular governor, 473
Misopogon, the, 305
Mithridates, 94
Mnevis, 306
Modestus, count of the East, 208;
prefect of the prætorium, 506, 553
Moesia, one of the Danubian provinces, 146;
(ii.) a town in Parthia, 333
Moguntiacus (Mayence), 78
Monæcus (Monaco), 76
Montius, a quæstor, 24, 31;
his violent death, 25, 40, 49
Mopsucrenæ, a town in Cilicia, 271
Mopsuestia, 27
Mopsus, a celebrated seer, 27
Mosa (the Meuse), 127
Mosynæci, a tribe near the Euxine Sea, 290
Mothone, a town of Laconia, 434
Moxoëne, a province beyond the Tigris, 321, 393
Muderic, a Thuringian noble, 584
Murci, persons exempt from military service, 81
Murocincta, 575
Mursa, battle of, 63
Musones, a people in Mauritania, 531
Musonianus, prefect of the East, 81, 98, 136
Musonius, a rhetorician, afterwards deputy governor of Asia Minor, 456
Mygdonia, part of Bithynia, 288
Mygdus, a town in Phrygia, 424
N.
Nabathæi, a people of Arabia, 29
Nabdates, 362;
burnt alive, 364
Nacolia, a town in Phrygia, 430
Næssus, or Næsus, a town in Illyricum, 259, 414
Nagara, a town in Arabia, 338
Naharmalcha, a canal joining the Euphrates to the Tigris, 366
Nannenus, or Nannienus, Count of Britain, 493;
defeats the Allemanni, 603
Napæi, a tribe of the Caspian, 291
Naphtha, 333, 337
Narbona (Narbonne), capital of the following, 79
Narbonne, a province of Gaul, 78
Narses, king of the Persians, 327;
(ii.) a Persian nobleman, 134, 368
Nascon, a town in Arabia, 338
Natiso, a river near Aquileia, 262
Natuspardo, chief of the domestici, 461
Naulibus, 342
Nauplius, 286
Nazavicium, mountain of Scythia, 341
Neapolis (formerly Shechem, now Nablous), a town in Palestine, 29;
(ii.) a town in Africa, 313
Nebridius, count of the East, 10;
made quæstor by Julian, 233;
refuses to take the oath of allegiance, and retires from public
life, 251;
made prefect of the prætorium, 422
Nectaridus, prefect of Britain, 453
Nemesis, or Adrastea, 42
Nemetæ (Spiers) a city in Germany, 78
Neo-Cæsarea, a city in Pontus, 465
Neotherius, 416
Nepotianus, 467
Nestica, tribune of the Scutarii, 144
Neuri, a tribe of the Massagetæ, 580
Nevitta, master of the horse, 256, 258, 259, 265, 284, 347, 359
Nicæa in Bithynia, 295
---- in Gaul (Nice), 79
Nice, a town in Thrace, 606
Nicer (the Neckar), 480
Nicomedia, 137, 287, 295, 304
Nicopolis, 444, 591
Nigrinus, 260;
burnt alive, 264
Nile, 307;
its islands, 309
Nileus, son of Codrus, 288, 468
Nineveh, 176 (Ninus), 28, 334
Ninus, or Nineveh, 28
Niphates, 332
Nisæa, 339
Nisibis, a town in Mesopotamia, 30, 172, 178, 393;
its importance, 397
Nobles, Roman, vices of the, 487-491
Nohodares, a Persian noble, 10, 174;
killed, 380
Novesium (Nuys), 161
Novidunum (Nivors), 446
Nubel, a Mauritanian chief, 525
Numerius, prefect of Gaul, 160
Nymphæum, a temple in Rome sacred to the nymphs, 66
Nymphæus, a river in Mesopotamia, 183
O.
Obelisk, Egyptian, inscription upon an, 132
Obroatis, a town in Persia, 338
Ochus, a river in Bactria, 340
Ocricoli (Ocriculum), 100, 472
Octavianus, proconsul of Africa, 317
Odissos, 293, 444
Odrysæans, a people of Thrace, 443
OEa, a Roman colony in the province of Tripoli, 498
OEchardes, a people of Scythia, 341
Olybrius, prefect of the city, 469
Olympias, daughter of Abladius, 236
Ona, a river in Persia, 333
Ophiusa, a name of the Island of Rhodes, 139
Opitergium, a town in Pannonia, 538
Opurocarra, a mountain in Serica, 341
Orchomanes, a river in Bactria, 340
Orfitus, prefect of Rome, 14, 100, 439, 451
Oroates, a river in Persia, 335
Orontes, a river in Syria, 28
---- a mountain in Media, 335
Oropus, a town in Euboea, 554
Ortogordomaris, a river rising in Bactria, 342
Ortopana, a city of the Paropanisatæ, 342
Osdroene, or Osdruena, a province of Mesopotamia, 10, 28, 319, 347
Ostracine, a town in Egypt, 312
Oxian Marsh in Sogdiana, 340
Oxus, a river in Hyrcania, 339
Oxyrynchus, a town in Egypt, 313
Ozogardana, a city in Assyria, 350
P.
Pacorus, king of Persia, 334
Palea, town in Pamphylia, 8
Palestine, 29
Palladius, master of the offices, 279;
(ii.) a tribune and secretary, 498-502
Palm-tree, 356
Pannonia, 103, 146
Pantheon of Rome, 102
Panticapæum, 291
Paphius, a senator, 474
Paphos, its temple of Venus, 29
Papirius Cursor, 569
Para, son of Arsaces, king of Armenia, 465, 543-549
Parætonium, a town in Libya, 313
Paraxmalcha, a town on the Euphrates, 350
Parion, a town on the Hellespont, 287
Parnasius, prefect of Egypt, 209
Paropanisatæ, a tribe of Persians, 342
Parthenius, a river in Bithynia, 289
Parthia, 338
Parthiscus, a river in Sarmatia, 152
Pasiphilus, a philosopher, 512
Patares, straits between the Palus Mæotis and the Euxine, 291
Paternianus, 551
Patigran, a town in Media, 337
Patræ, a town in Achaia, 209
Patricius, 505, 510
Patruinus, a Roman noble, 67
Paulus, surnamed "The Chain," 13, 14;
his character, 207;
despatched as a judge with Modestus to the East, 208;
his cruelties, 209, 210, 280
Pelagia, a name given to the Island of Rhodes, 139
Pelusium, a city in Egypt, 312
Pentadius, a notary, 41;
made master of the offices, 232, 279
Pentapolis, a province of North Africa, 312
Peregrinus, a philosopher, 513
Pergamius, accused of magical practices, 505
Persepolis, a town of Persia, 338
Persia, described, 331-337;
its rivers, 337
Persians, also called Parthians, 216;
their sovereigns called brothers of the sun and moon, 330;
description of their country, 331-337;
deliberate on public affairs at their banquets, 171
Pescennius Niger, 428
Pessinus, a town in Phrygia, 429;
its temple of Cybele, 296
Petobio (Pettau), a town in Noricum, 40
Petronius, his influence over Valens, 418
Petrus Valvomeres, 66
Peuce, an island in the Euxine Sea, 293
Phæacians, 170, 453
Phalangius, governor of Boetica, 473
Phanagorus, an island in the Palus Mæotis, 291
Pharos, an island and lighthouse near Alexandria, 313
Phasis, a river and city in Colchis, 290
Philadelphia, a town in Arabia, 29
Philagrius, 248
Philippopolis, a town in Thrace, formerly Eumolpias, now Philippopoli,
258, 278, 431, 444;
destroyed by the barbarians, 591
Philistion, 558
Philoromus, a charioteer, 66
Philoxenus, a poet, 64
Philyres, a tribe near the Euxine, 290
Phineus, a soothsayer, 288
Phocæans, 74
Phocus, 312
Phoenicia, 28
---- a town on the Tigris, called also Bezabde, 225
Phronemius, 422;
exiled to the Chersonesus, 432
Phrygia, 380
Phrynichus, an Athenian dramatist, 468
Phyllis, a river flowing into the Euxine, 288
Picenses, a Sarmatian tribe, 155
Pictavi (Poictiers), 79
Picts and Scots, 212, 453;
harass the Britons, 413
Pigranes, a Persian general, 368
Piri, a mountain in Germany, 481
Pirisabora, a town in Persia, 351;
captured and burnt by Julian, 353
Pistoja, a town of Tuscany, ominous occurrence at, 439
Pityus, an island in the Euxine, 289
Plato, 90, 315, 383, 554
Plautian, 418, 507
Plotinus, 270, 314
Podosaces, chief of the Assanite Saracens, 350
Pola, a town in Istria, 41
Polemonium, a town of Pontus, 289
Pollentianus, a tribune, 518
Polybius, the historian, 353
Pompey, 146
Portospana, a town in Carmania, 339
Posthumus, 274
Potentius, a tribune, 615
Prætextatus, 285, 457, 473
Priarius, king of the Allemanni, killed, 603
Priscus, a philosopher, 383
Probus, 461;
his cowardice, 540, 551, 560
Proconnesus, an island in the Propontis, 287
Procopius, 159;
message from, 175, 320, 401;
attempts a revolution in the East, 415;
his former career, 417;
saluted as emperor, 421;
his successes, 424, 425;
his death, 431
Profuturus, 594, 599
Prophthasia, capital of Drangiana, 342
Prosper, count, 37, 82, 136
Protagoras, 286
Provertuides, 453
Ptolemais, 312
Ptolemy the geographer, 287
Pylæ, a town on the borders of Cilicia and Cappadocia, 297
Pyramids of Egypt, 311
Pythagoras, 315
Q.
Quadi, neighbours of the Sarmatians, 103, 146, 148;
ravage Pannonia, 413, 538
Quadriburgium, 161
Quintianus, a senator, 507
Quintilii, two Roman brothers, 490
R.
Rabannæ, a Scythian tribe, 341
Rainbows, causes of, 241
Ramestes, an Egyptian king, 132
Rando, a chief of the Allemanni, 457
Rauracum, a town on the Rhine (Basle) 34, 79, 255
Rebas, a river flowing into the Euxine, 288
Regulus, 17
Rehemena, a province beyond the Tigris, 393
Reman, a Roman fortress in Mesopotamia, 183
Remi (Rheims), 79, 86
Remigius, 64, 455, 497, 525;
commits suicide, 551
Remora, a tribune given as a hostage to the Persians, 394
Resaina, battle of, 328
Rha (the Volga), 291
Rhine, its course described, 52
Rhinocolura, a city of Egypt, 312
Rhone, its course described, 79, 80
Rhodes, 139
Rhodope, 258, 287, 443
Rhombites, a river of the Sauromatæ, 291
Richborough (Rutupiæ), 212, 254
Richomeres, count of the domestics, 595, 598
Rigomagum (Rheinmagen), 87
Robur, a Roman fortress near Basle, 551
Roemnus, a river in Persia, 341
Rogomanis, a river in Persia, 337
Romanus, count, 455, 497, 525
Rome, its state of morals described, 15;
its buildings, 101, 102;
danger of a famine at, 203
Romulus, a senator, 264
Rothomagi (Rouen), 79
Roxolani, a Sarmatian race, 291
Rufina, put to death for adultery, 477
Rufinus, commander of the prætorian guard, 51, 96
---- prefect of the prætorium, 451, 461;
his character, 451, 461
---- Aradius, 317
Rumitalca, a tribune, 425
Rumo, a Sarmatian chief, 148
Ruricius, 455, 498, 501
Rusticianus, a priest, 498
Rusticus Julianus, 447
Rutupiæ (Richborough), 212, 454
S.
Sabaiarius, or beer-drinker; a name given by the inhabitants of
Chalcedon to the emperor Valens, 425
Sabaria, a town in Pannonia, 563
Sabastios, 264
Sabinianus, 169, 171, 189
Sacæ, the, 340
Saccumum, a town in Italy, 140
Saga, a town in Scythia, 341
Saganis and Sagareus, rivers in Carmania, 339
Salamis, celebrated for its temple of Jupiter, 29
Salia, his sudden death, 509
Salices, a town in Thrace, 595
Salii, a tribe of Franks, 141
Saliso (Spiers), 86
Sallust, the historian, 81
Sallustius (i.), prefect of Gaul, 255;
consul with Julian, 317;
opposes the Persian war, 325;
(ii.) prefect of the East, 381;
refuses the imperial dignity after Julian's death, 388;
ambassador to the Persians, 393;
succeeded in the prefecture by Nebridius, 422
Salmaces, a Mauritanian chief, 528
Samosata, a town of Syria, 28, 168, 236
Sanctio (Seckingen), 247
Sangarius, a river flowing into the Euxine, 288
Santones (Saintes), 79
Sapaudia (Savoy), 80
Saphrax, a general of the Goths, 583, 610
Sapor, king of Persia, 98;
letter to Constantius, 134;
his designs, 167;
wounded at Amida, 185;
invades Mesopotamia, and lays siege to Singara, 223;
captures it, 224;
takes Bezabde, 228;
makes peace with the Romans, 393;
his treachery, 463;
renews the war, 463;
invades Armenia, 465;
his aggression, 503;
his proposals to Valentinian, 549
Saqires, a tribe near the Euxine, 290
Saracens, 11, 307, 322, 332, 350, 391, 622
Saramanna, a town of Hyrcania, 339
Sargetæ, a nation near the Euxine, 292
Sarmatians, 103, 146, 154;
ravage Pannonia, 413, 540
Saturninus (i.), superintendent of the palace, 280;
(ii.) a general against the Goths, 598
Saulieu (Sedelaucum), 85
Sauromaces, 468
Sauromatæ, 291, 580
Saxons, 413, 454;
make incursions into the Roman territory, 493, 567
Scævolæ, the, 555
Scipio, P.C., 17, 77
Sciron, a pirate, 6
Scordisci, formerly inhabitants of Thrace, 442
Scorpion, a military engine, 197;
its structure, 322
Scots and Picts, 212, 413, 453
Scudilo, commander of the Scutarii, 34, 42
Scytalæ, a species of Egyptian serpent, 311
Scythia, described, 341
Scythians, 229, 550
Scythopolis (Bethshean), in Palestine, 208
Sebastian, duke of Egypt, 321, 396, 458;
surprises the Goths, 607, 615
Seckingen (Sanctio), 247
Secundinus, 347
Sedratyra, a town in Gedrosia, 343
Segestani, a warlike tribe, 187
Seine (Sequana), 78
Sele, a Persian town, 335
Seleucia (Selefkieh), a city in Syria, 28;
(ii.) a town in Persia, also called Coche, 363
Seleucus Nicator, 28
Selymbria, a Megarian colony, 287
Semiramis, 19
Sens (Senones), 79
Sera, capital of Serica, 341
Serapion, king of the Allemanni, 107
Serapis, his temple at Alexandria, 314;
also at Turgana, 338
Serdica, a town in Bulgaria, 95
Serenianus, duke of Phoenicia, 22, 41, 414;
defends Cyzicus, 427;
his death, 431
Sergius, 381, 461
Serica, a country bordering on Scythia, 341
Servilius, the conqueror of Cilicia, 27
Severus (i.), the Emperor, 395, 507;
(ii.) master of the horse, 103;
at the battle of Strasburg, 113, 141, 143;
master of the infantry under Valentinian, 447, 493
Sextius Calvinus, 81
Sicani, ancient occupants of Sicily, 556
Sicinius Dentatus, 381, 461
Sidon, a city of Phoenicia, 28
Silvanus, 55;
attempts to assume the imperial dignity, 59;
is killed in a Christian church, 63
Simonides (i.), the lyric poet, 16, 90;
(ii.) a philosopher, 512;
burnt alive, 513
Simplicius, 209;
cruelty of, 477
Sindi, a tribe near the Euxine, 293
Singara, a town in Mesopotamia, 170;
besieged and taken by Sapor, 223, 224;
given up to the Persians, 393
Sinope, in Paphlagonia, 289
Sintula, tribune of the stable, 217, 221
Sirmium, 257
Sisara, a fort in Mesopotamia, 173
Sitifis, a town in Mauritania, 501, 502
Sizyges, a Scythian tribe, 341
Socrates, 488
Socunda, a town in Hyrcania, 339
Sogdiana, a province of Persia, 340
Sole, a town of Hyrcania, 339
Solicinium, 459
Solon, 64, 88, 315
Sophanes, a general under Xerxes, 369
Sophocles, 383
Sophronius, prefect of Constantinople, 421
Sopianæ, a town in Valeria, a province of Pannonia, 468
Sosingites, a lake in Assyria, 333
Sotera, a town in Persia, 342
Sparti, a Persian regiment, 200
Spectatus, a Roman tribune, 136
Sphinx, 309
Sporades, islands in the Ægean sea, 286
Stagira, the birthplace of Aristotle, 443
Stesichorus, a Greek lyric poet, 488
Sthenelus, his monument, 290
Strasburg, battle of, 113-118
Subicarense, a fortress in Mauritania, 538
Succi, a narrow pass in Mount Hemus, 258, 265, 267, 443
Sueridus, a Gothic chief, revolts, 592
Sugarbarritanum, a town in Mauritania, 529
Suggena, a Mauritanian general, 531
Sumere, a fort on the Tigris, 390
Sunon, a lake in Bithynia, 426
Suomarius, king of the Allemanni, 107;
his submission, 143
Supræ, a barbarian troop, 548
Surena, the title of the Persian commander-in-chief, 354, 358;
ambassador from Sapor, 393
Susa (Shushan), a city of Persia, 335
Syagrius, 481
Syene, a town of Egypt, 312
Sylla, 88, 116
Symmachus, a senator, 265;
prefect of Rome, his character, 439
Symplegades, islands in the Bosporus, 288
Synhorium, a fortress in Armenia, 95
Syria, 28
T.
Tabiana, an island in the Persian gulf, 338
Tages, a soothsayer, 143, 245
Taifali, a Gothic tribe, 155
Talicus, a Persian river, 341
Tamsapor, a Persian general, 98, 134, 169, 201
Tanais (the Don), 291
Tanaitæ, a tribe of the Alani, 583
Taphra, a town in Arabia, 338
Tapurian mountains in Persia, 340
Tarquitius, a soothsayer, 378
Tarratius Bassus, 473
Tarsus, a town in Cilicia, 27;
Julian buried at, 404
Tauri, a tribe near the Euxine, 291
Taurini (Turin), 72
Tauriscus, a conqueror of Spain, 73
Taurus, a quæstor, 39;
prefect in Italy, 253
Tenedos, an island in the Ægean sea, 286
Teredon, a city at the mouth of the Euphrates, 332
Terence, 439
Terentius, a Roman general, 465, 544
Tertullus, prefect of Rome, 203, 259
Teuchira, a town in Cyrene, 312
Teutomeres, chief of the Protectores, 51
Teutones, incursions of the, 591
Thalassius (i.), prefect of the East, 4, 23;
(ii.) an officer in one of the law courts at Rome, 298
Thasos, now Thaso, 286
Thebes, a city in Egypt, 129, 312
Themiscyra forest, inhabited by Amazons, 289
Themistocles, 571
Theodorus, 505, 506, 511
Theodosius (i.), 453;
assists the Britons, 483;
his success, 485, 526, 527, 538;
(ii.) the younger, 541
Theodotus, 305
Theognis, a poet, 508
Theolaiphus, count, 271
Theophanes, a river of the Sauromatæ, 291
Theophilus, governor of Syria, 22, 82
Theopompus, 296
Thermodon, a river of Pontus, 289
Thilsaphata, a town in Mesopotamia, 397
Thilutha, a fort on the Euphrates, 349
Thiodamas, 302
Thmuis, a town in Egypt, 313
Thrace, 442;
description of the country and the people, 287, 443, 444
Thucydides, 191, 343
Thule, 171
Thuringians, 583;
revolt, 588;
defeat an army under Lupicinus, 590
Thynia, a district of Bithynia, 288
Tibareni, a people of Pontus, 290
Tiber, 542
Tibris, 289
Ticinum (now Pavia), 72
Tigaviæ, a town of Mauritania, 530
Tigris, 333
Timagenes, a Greek writer, 73
Tingetanum, a fort in Mauritania, 531
Tios, a town of the Euxine, 289
Tipata, a town in Mauritania, 532
Tiphys, the pilot of the Argonauts, 290
Tiposa, a town in Mauritania, 529
Tisias, an ancient Greek orator, 554
Tochari, a Bactrian tribe, 340
Tolosa (Toulouse), 79
Tomi, a city of Thrace, 293
Tomyris, a queen of Scythia, 331
Totordanes, a river of the Sauromatæ, 291
Toxandria, a town built by the Franks, 141
Tragonice, a town of Persia, 338
Trajan (i.), the Emperor, 29, 102, 395, 440;
(ii.) count of Armenia, 503, 547;
his battle with the Goths, 595, 608, 615
Transcellensis, a mountain in Mauritania, 529
Trapezus, a Sinopean colony in Pontus, 289
Trebatius, a lawyer, 556
Treves (Treviri), 79
Tribocci, a tribe on the Upper Rhine, 120
Tricapæ (Troyes), 79
Tricesimæ (Kellen), 161
Tricorii, a people of the Alps, 77
Tripoli, 496, 551
Troglodytæ, a tribe near the Red Sea, 293
Tubusuptum, a town in Mauritania, 527
Tungri (Tongres), 78, 141
Turgana, an Arabian island, 338
Tyana, a town in Cappadocia, 333, 402
Tyndenses, a people of Mauritania, 527
Tyras (the Dniester), 293
Tyre, 28
Tyros, a town on the Euxine, 293
U.
Ultra, the son of Aspacuras, 466
Ur, a fort in Persia, 396
Urbicius, duke of Mesopotamia, 549
Urius, king of the Allemanni, 107, 164
Ursatius, 413, 415
Ursicinus, king of the Allemanni, 107, 164
---- master of the horse in the East, 30, 36;
recalled, 37;
danger of, 47;
goes to Cologne, 61, 86, 180, 189, 190;
charges against, 213
Ursinus, contest with Damasus for the bishopric of Rome, 441
Ursulus, 96, 280
Usafer, a Sarmatian noble, 149
Uscudama, a town in Thrace, 39, 444
V.
Vadomarius, king of the Allemanni, 32, 247, 248, 425, 503
Vagabanta, a town of Mesopotamia, 504
Valens of Thessalonica, 274
Valens chosen emperor of the East by his brother Valentinian, 413;
his alarm at the successes of Procopius, 424;
sends Vadomarius to besiege Nicæa, and proceeds himself to
Nicomedia, 425;
his cruelty, 433;
marches against the Goths, 445;
attacks the Gruthungi, 446;
returns to Constantinople, 447;
his suspicious character, 507;
reply to Sapor, 549;
omens of his death, 576;
receives an embassy from the Goths, 585;
sends Victor into Persia, 594;
leaves Antioch for Constantinople, 606;
marches to Hadrianople, 609;
his death, 614;
his vices, 616
Valentia (Valence), 32, 79
---- a province of Britain, 485
Valentine, a Pannonian, 484, 568
Valentinian, chosen emperor, 406;
his conduct, 407;
saluted as Augustus, 409;
his speech, 409;
creates his brother Valens tribune and master of the horse, 412;
arrives at Constantinople, 412;
takes as his colleague in the imperial dignity his brother Valens, 413;
his cruelty, 433;
invests his son Gratian with the imperial dignity, 448;
sends Theodosius to Britain, 453;
marches against the Allemanni and gains a victory, 458;
defeats the Goths at Solicinium, and returns to Treves, 461;
fortifies the banks of the Rhine, 480;
makes overtures of peace to the Burgundians, 495;
his cruelties, 521;
makes peace with Macrianus, 552;
marches against the Quadi, 562;
his dream, 563;
his death, 564;
review of his reign, 567;
his character, 569-573
Valentinian II. chosen emperor, 575
Valentinus, a tribune, 166
Valeria, a province of Pannonia, so named after the daughter of
Diocletian, 204, 468
Valerian, officer of the domestics, 461
Valerianus, master of the horse, 615
Valerius Publicola, 17
Vangiones (Worms), 78
Vardanes, the founder of Ctesiphon, 334
Varronianus, the father of Jovian, 388
---- the son of Jovian, 403
Vasatæ (Bazas), 79
Vatrachites, a river of Persia, 337
Vecturiones, a nation of the Picts, 453
Velia, a town in Lucania, 74
Ventidius, lieutenant of Antony, 328
Venustus, 317, 473
Verissimus, count, 92
Verrinianus, 60, 181
Vertæ, allies of the Persians at the siege of Amida, 187, 193
Vestralpus, a king of the Allemanni, 107, 164
Veteranio, 46
Vetranio, captain of the Zianni, 377
Victa, a town in Mesopotamia, 228
Victohali, a Gothic tribe, 150
Victor Aurelius, the historian, 259
Victor, a Sarmatian, 347, 356, 366, 445, 609
---- a tribune given as a hostage to the Persians, 394
Victorinus, 473
Viderichus, son of Vithimiris, 583
Viduarius, king of the Quadi, 151
Vienna (Vienne), 79
Vincentius, tribune of the Scutarii, 300
Virgantia (Briançon), 76
Virgil, 72, 202, 586
Vitalianus, count, 403
Vithicabius, king of the Allemanni, 458
Vithimiris, king of the Eastern Goths, 583
Vitrodorus, son of Viduarius, 151
Vocontii, a people of Gaul, 67
Z.
Zabdiceni, a people of Mesopotamia, 225, 393
Zagrus, montes, 335
Zamma, son of a Mauritanian chief, 525
Zariaspes, a river in Bactria, 340
Zeno, a celebrated Stoic, 31
Zeugma, a town on the Euphrates, 179
Zianni, an Armenian tribe, 377
Ziata, a fortress in Mesopotamia, 193
Zinafer, a Sarmatian chief, 148
Zizais, son of a king of the Sarmatians, 148
Zombis, a town in Media, 337
Zopyrus, 169
Zoroaster, 336
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