Rhebas, a river flowing into
Euxine, 288

Phine, its course described, 52
Rhinocolura, a city of Egypt, 312
Rhone, its course described, 79, 8)
Rhodes, 139

Rhodope, 258, 287, 443

Rhombites, a river of the Sauromatæ,
291

Richborough (Rutupia), 212, 254
Richomeres, count of the domestics,
595, 598

Rigomagum (Rheinmagen), 87

Robur, a Roman fortress near Basle,
551

Ræmnus, a river in Persia, 341
Kogomanis, a river in Persia, 337
Homanus, 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,

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 Ne-
bridius, 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

Sapires, a tribe near the Euxine, 290
Sapor, king of Persia, 98; letter to
Constantius, 134; his designs, 167;
wounded at Amida, 185; invades
Mesopotamia, and lays siege to Sin-
gara, 223; captures it, 224; takes
Bezabde, 228; makes peace with the
Romans, 393; his treachery, 463;
renews the war, 463; invades Ar-
menia, 465; his aggression, 503;
his proposals to Valentinian, 549
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
Thrace, 442
Scorpion, a military engine, 197;
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 Gerosia, 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, 286
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

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, 52
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

Transcellensis, a mountain in Mauri-

tania, 529

Trapezus, a Sinopean colony in Pontus,

289

Trebatius, a lawyer, 556
Treves (Treviri), 79

Tribocci, a tribe on the Upper Rhine,

120

Tricapa (Troyes), 79
Tricesima (Kellen), 161
Tricorii, a people of the Alps, 77
Tripoli, 496, 551

Troglodyta, 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 Dneister), 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
Ursacius, 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 Damarus 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 Ni-

645

comedia, 425; his eruelty, 433;
marches against the Goths, 445; at-
tacks the Gruthungi, 446; returns
to Constantinople, 447; his suspi.
cious character, 507; reply to Sapor,
549; omens of his death, 576; re-
ceives 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 Con-
stantinople, 412; takes as his col-
league 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
Solicinum, 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, se
named after the daughter of Diocle-
tian, 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
Vasate (Bazas), 79
Vatrachites, a river of Persia, 337
Vecturiones, a nation of the Picts, 453
Velia, a town in Lucania, 74

646

Ventidius, lieutenant of Antony, 328
Venustus, 317, 473
Verissimus, count, 92
Verrinianus, 60, 181

Verta, 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
Victohali, a Gothic tribe, 150
Victor Aurelius, the historian, 259
Victor, a Sarmatian, 347, 356, 366,
445, 609

& 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

Virta, a town in Mesopotamia, 228

Vital

Vithicabius,
Vithimiris, king u
583

Vitrodurus, son of Viduarius, 151
Vocontii, a people of Gaul, 67

Z.

ZABDICENI, a people of Mesopotamia,
225, 393

Zagrus, montes, 335

Zaita, a fortress in Mesopotamia, 193
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