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Apamia, a city in Syria, 28

INDEX.

Apis, the sacred Egyptian bull, 306
Apodemius, the secretary for the pro-
vinces, 41, 46; sentenced to be
burnt alive, 280

Apollinarii, father and son, the former
governor of Phoenicia, the latter
steward of the palace, 26

Apollo, the Cimæan, 334; of Daphne,
303; the Palatine, 320; the Smin-
thian, 286

Apollonia, a city of Thrace, 293
in Assyria, 334
Apollonius of Tyana, 270
Apronianus, prefect of Rome, 317;
suppresses the magicians, 411
Aprunculus Gallus, an orator and sooth-
sayer, afterwards governor of Nar-
bonne, 277

Aquileia, the capital of Venetia, 261;
besieged by Julian, 261; surenders,
264

Aquitani, a nation of Gaul, 78

Arabia reduced to a Roman province
by the Emperor Trajan, 29; Arabia
Felix, 338

Arabis, a river in the country of the
Drangeani, 342

Aracha, a town in Susiana, 335, 337
Arachosia, a Persian province, 342
Arachotoscrene, a marsh in Arachosia,
343

Aradius, count of the east, 317
Araharius, a Sarmatian chief, 149

Arar, a river in Gaul (the Saone), 80
Arator, duke, 481

Aratus the poet, 299, 386

Araxates, a river in Sogdiana, 340

Araxius, prefect of the prætorium, 422

Arbaca, a city in Arachosia, 343

Arbela, a city in Adiabene, 334

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Arethusa, a town in Thrace, the burial-
place of Euripides, 443
Argæus, a mountain in Cappadocia, 233
Argonauts, the, 27

Ariana, a province of Persia, 342
Arias, a river in Arcana, 342
Ariaspe, a town in the province of
Drangiana, 342

Arimaspi, a fierce one-eyed nation
bordering on Persia, 332
Arimphæi, a nation bordering on the
Euxine, 292

Arinchi, a savage tribe near the Euxine,
291

Arintheus, a tribune, 54; commands
the left wing of the army under
Julian, 347; ambassador to the
Persians, 393, 446

Aristænetus, prefect of Bithynia, lost
his life in an earthquake, 138
Aristarchus the grammarian, 314
Aristides, 558

Aristobulus consul with Diocletian,
317

Arles (Arelate), a town on the Rhone.

79

Armenia conquered by Galerius, 134;
its restoration to the Persians de-
manded by Sapor, 135; abandoned
by Jovian in the treaty of Dura,
394, 549

Armonius, a mountain in Asia Minor,
289

Arsaces, the first king of the Parthians,
330

king of Armenia, an ally of Con-
stantius, 235; of Julian, 318; taken
prisoner by the Persians, 394; pat
to death, 463

Arsacia, a city of Media, £37

Arsiana, a city of Susiana, 335

Arbetio, 36, 47, 92; made consul, 71, Arsinoë, a city of Cyrene, anciently

213

Arboreus, high chamberlain, 49

Arbor Felix, fortress of, 605

Arcadius, a river of the Euxine, 289
Archelaus, a general of King Mithri-
dates, 116

Archimedes the mathematician, 407
Ardea, a town in Persia, 338
Areans, a sect, 485
Areopagus, 518

called Tauchira, and now Tochira, 312
Artabannes, a Persian satrap, 463
Artabius, a river in Gedrosia, a district
of Persia, 343

Artacana, a city of Parthia, 338
Artemis, a river in Bactria, 340
Artemisia, queen of Caria, 487
Artemius, deputy-governor of Rows,

146

duke of Egypt, 300

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Asp, the largest species of serpent in Bacchus, 290

Egypt, 311

Aspabota, a city of Scythia, 341
Aspacara, a tribe of the Seres, 341
Aspacuras, a Persian satrap, 466
Asparata, a city of the Beta, 341
Assanite Saracens, 350

Assyria, the wife of Barbatio, 165

a province of Persia, in the time
of Ammianus called Adiabene, 333
Astacia, a city of Bactria, 340

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Astracus, a city in Bithynia, also called Balista, a military engine for discharg-

Nicomedia, 287

Atacotti harass the Britons, 413
Athagoræ, a Scythian tribe, 341
Athanaric, a Gothic chief, 447, 583
Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, his
character, 67

Athos, a mountain in Macedonia, 286
Athribis, a city of Egypt, 313
Athyras, a port in the Propontis, 287
Ati, a people near the cataracts of the
Nile, 308

Atlas, a mountain in Africa, 50
Attuarii, a tribe of Franks, 235
Auch (Ausci), a town in Aquitania, 79
Augury, modes of, 245
Augusta (Londinium), the capital of
Roman Britain, 483
Augustamnica, a province of Egypt, 312
Augustus, Emperor, his correction of
the calendar, 408

Aulion, a cave near the Euxine, 290
Aurelian, the Emperor, 570
Aureolus, a conspirator against Con-
stantius, 274

Austoriani, a people of Mauritania, 413
Autun (Augustodunum), the chief town
of the Ædui, 79

Auxerre (Autosidorum), a city in Gaul,

85

Avenches (Aventicum), the capital of
the Helvetii, 79

ing stones, described, 322

Bappo, a tribune, commander of the
Promoti, 54

Baraba, a town in Arabia Felix, 338
Barbatio, count of the domestics, 40;
promoted to the command of the
infantry, 104, 136; a swarm of
bees on his house regarded as a bad
omen, 165; an arrogant and trea-
cherous man, 166; beheaded, 166
Barbitani, mountains in Persia lying
towards India, 343
Barchalbas, a tribune, 430
Bards, the poets of Gaul, 74
Barzala, a fort in Mesopotamia, 179
Barzimeres, tribune of the Scutarii, 546
Basilica of Sicininus in Rome, probably
the church of Santa Maria Maggiore,
441

Basilina, mother of the Emperor Julian,
383

Basilisk, a kind of Egyptian serpent,
311

Bassianus, a Roman of noble family, 515
Bassus, prefect of Rome, 146
Batne, a town near the Euphrates,

where an annual fair was held, 10
Battus, a Spartan, the founder of
Cyrene, 312

Bautis, a river in Serica, 341
Bazas (Vasata), a town in Gaal, 79

INDEX.

Bebase, a town in Mesopotamia, 178
Bebrycia, a district in Bithynia, 288
Belga, the most warlike people of Gaul,
78

Belias, a river of Mesopotamia which
falls into the Euphrates, 321
Bellovædius, a tribune given as a host-
age to the Persians, 394
Berenice, also called Hesperides, a town
in Libya, 312

Berca, a city of Thrace, 444
Berytus, a city of Phoenicia (the modern
Beirut), 28

Besa, the name of an Egyptian deity, 208
Besançon, a city of the Sequani, 79, 253
Besbicus, an island in the Propontis, 287
Bessi, a Thracian tribe, 444
Beta, a people in Serica, 341
Bezabde, a town on the Tigris formerly
called Phonice, 225, 266; captured
by Sapor, 227; unsuccessfully be-
sieged by Constantius, 237-239
Bineses, a Persian satrap, 394
Bingen (Bingium), a town in Germany,
161

Bisula, a river (the Weichsel), 292
Bitaxa, a town of the Ariani, 342
Bitheridus, a German noble, 525
Bithynia, 288

Bizes, a river of the Euxine, 288
Blemmyæ, a people near the cataracts
of the Nile, 11

Boæ, an island on the coast of Dalmatia,
279

Bonitus, a Frank, the father of Silvanus,
63

Bonmunster (Bononia), a town in Pan-
nonia, 257

Bonn (Bonna), a town in Germany, 161
Borion, a promontory in Egypt, 307
Bosporus, the Thracian (the Straits of
Constantinople), 288

the Cimmerian (Straits of Yene-
Kali), 70

Bostra, a city of Arabia, 29
Boulogne (Bononia), a town in Gaul,

212

Bourdeaux (Burdegala), a city in Aqui-
tania, 79

Brahmans, 336, 470

|Briançon (Vigantia), 76

629

Brigantia (the lake of Constance), 52
Brisoana, a Persian river, 337
Britain, corn exported to Rome, 161;
pearls found in the British sea, 345;
suffers from the incursions of the
Picts and Scots, 212, 453; invaded
by the Saxons, 413; distress of, 453;
Theodosius goes to assist, 483
Bruchion, a quarter in Alexandria,
inhabited by opulent persons, 314
Brumat (Brocomagus), a city of Ger-
many, 86

Bucenobantes, a tribe of the Allemanni
524

Buffaloes in Egypt, 309

Bura, a town destroyed by an earth-
quake, 140

Burgundians, 495; their kings called
Hendinos, 495; their chief priest
called the Sinistus, 496
Busan, a fort in Mesopotamia, 183
Byzantium (Constantinople), 287
Byzares, a people near the Euxine,

290

C.

CABILLONUM (Chalons sur Marne), 98,
436

Cabyle, a town in Thrace, 607
Cadusii, a tribe on the Caspian Sea,

332

Cæranius, a philosopher, 520
Gæsarea, formerly Mazaca, a town in
Cappadocia, 233

a town in Mauritania, 534
a town in Palestine, 29
Cæsariensis, a province of Mauritania,
526

Carius, prefect of Constantinople,

422

secretary of the Emperor, 551
Cæsins, 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

Branchida, an oracle in the Milesian Callimachus, an ancient Grecian gene-

territory, 511

ral, 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

Cella, a tribune of the Scutarii, 105
Celse, a town in Phoenicia, 23
Cephalonesus, a town on the Borys
thenes, 293

Ceras, a cape on the Propontis, 287
Cerasus, a town in Pontus, 289
Cercetæ, a tribe near the Euxine Sea,
291

Camels first seen by the Romans at Cercius, the charioteer of Castor and

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

Pollux, 290

Cercusium, a fortress in Mesopotamia,
324

Cerealis, uncle of Gallus, 43; (2)

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
Charca, 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, 21
Chilo, a Roman deputy, 469

Cassianus, Duke of Mesopotamia, 98, Chionite, a tribe bordering on Persia,

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
Castricius, Count of Isauria, 8
Catadupi, the cataracts of the Nile, or

the people who live near them, 307
Catalauni (Chalons sur Marne), 436
Cato, the censor, 16, 81, 88
Catulus, the ædile, 20

Caucalandes, a town in Sarmatia, 589

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,

INDEX.

462, 476, 491, 531, 555, 570,
617

Cilicia, description of, 27
Ciminia, a district in Italy, 140
Cimon, son of Miltiades, 145
Cineas, the ambassador of Pyrrhus, 100
Circesium, a town of Mesopotamia,
described, 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
Cola, a town near the Hellespont,

287

Cœni Gallicani, a station in Bithynia, 38
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

631

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

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