Decimum (Ad), battle of, iv., 302.
Decius, consul, iv., 443 note.
Decius, emperor, defeats Philip, i., 257;
reign, ib.; birth, ib. note; marches
against the Goths, 258; Gothic war
of, 265 sqq.; death, 268; persecutes
the Christians, ii., 120 and note;
iii., 437 and note.

Decius the Younger, death, i., 269.
Decius, Roman patrician, iv., 431.

Dengisich, son of Attila, on the banks of
the Danube, iii., 502; invades the
Eastern Empire, ib.; death, ib.
Denmark, crusaders from, vi., 362;
kingdom of, restored to the empire,
vii., 245.

Deogratias, Bishop of Carthage, assists
the prisoners of Gaiseric, iv., 7 and
note.

Depopulation, in third century, i., 303.

note.

Decretals, the Forged, v., 292.

Decumates, i., 357 and note.

Decurions, or Curiales, ii., 204.

Majorian, iv., 20.

note; at siege of Damascus, v., 446
sq.; valour of, 448 and note.

Derbend, iv., 277 and note; gates of,
penetrated by the Mongols, vii., 10.

Deification of emperors, i., 75, 76.

Dejal, or the Antichrist, v., 418.

camp at Constantinople, 196.

Desiderius, brother of Magnentius, made
Cæsar, ii., 257 note; death, 258 note.

note.

Delators, i., 95, 109. Cp. ii., 220.
Delbene, Sannuccio, vii., 267 note.
Delbrück, on payment of Roman soldiers,
i., 133 note; on framea, i., 250
note.

Delhi, conquered by the Sultan of Gazna,
vi., 235; Timour at, vii., 53.
Delian, Peter, revolt of, in Macedonia,
v., 233 note.
Delphi, ii., 452.

Delphicum, royal banqueting hall at
Rome, Constantinople and Carthage,
iv., 304 note.

Delphidius, in Gaul, ii., 302; widow of,
iii., 162.

Delphinus, Gentilis, vii., 311.
Demaratus, iv., 364 note.
Demetrias, granddaughter of Proba, iii.,
346 and note.

Demetrius, brother of John II., vi., 457
and note; voyage of, to Venice, vii.,
110, 116.

Demetrius, despot of Epirus, siege of
Rhodes by, v., 472 and note.
Demetrius, Egyptian prelate, ii., 64 and
note.

Demetrius Poliorcetes, vi., 96 note.
Demetrius, son of Marquis of Montferrat,
vi., 450.

Democedes of Crotona, iv., 387 note.
Democritus, philosopher, vi., 487 note.
Demosthenes, iv., 279.

Demotica given to Count of St. Pol, vi.,

436 and note; massacre of the
Latins at, 441; Cantacuzene as-
sumes the purple at, 521; Empress
Anne besieged in, by the Bulgarians,
vii., 29.
Denarius (coin), ii., 207 note.

Charlemagne, v., 286 note; con-
quered by Charlemagne, 286.
Deslisle, William, geographer, vi., 66
note.

"Despina," queen, restored by Timour
to Bajazet, vii., 64.

Despot, title bestowed by the Greek em-
perors, vi., 84.

Deuterius, chamberlain, iii., 296 note.
Develtus (town), captured by Krum, vi.,
140 note.

Devonshire, earls of, see Courtenay.
Dexippus, i., 286 note.
D'Herbelot, his Bibliothèque Orientale,
v., 429 and note.
Dhoulacnaf, Arab title of Sapor, ii., 238.
Diadem, imperial, introduced by Aure-
lian and Diocletian, i., 412 and note;
vi., 83 and note.
Diadumenianus, i., 152; death, 156.
Diamonds, i., 60 and note.
Diamper, synod of, v., 162.
Diarbekir (or Amida), despoiled by
Saladin, vi., 355.

Diarium Parmense, vii., 217 note.
Diarium Urbis Romæ, vii., 311.
Dibra, two provinces of, vii., 159 note.
Dicæarchus, iii., 73 note.

Dicanice, Greek name for the imperial
sceptre, vi., 485 note.

Didot, A. F., on Aldus Manutius, vii.,
135 note.
Didymus, prince of the Theodosian
house, opposes Constantine the

Tyrant, iii., 288 and note.
Diedo, Venetian sea captain, vii., 185 note.
Diehl, C., on African forts, iv., 267 note.
Diet of the Tartars, see Couroultai; of
the Huns, iii., 82 note; German,
v., 327, 329.

Dinarchus, iv., 296 note.
Dioceses (civil), ii., 180 sq.
Diocletian (C. Aurelius Valerius Dio-
cletianus), i., 354; election, 375 and
notes; reign, 377 sqq.; associates
Maximian, 379; associates Galerius
and Constantine, 381; defence of the
frontiers, 388; policy, ib.; settle-
ment of the Germans, Sarmatians,
etc., 390 and note; wars in Egypt
and Africa, 391 sqq. and note; sup-
presses alchemy, 393; Persian wars
of, 394 sqq.; at Antioch, 398; re-
ceives Galerius, 399; negotiates with
Persia, 401; his moderation, 402;
triumph, 406; titles of, 406 note;
edict of maximum prices, ib.; at
Nicomedia, 408; system of Imperial
Government, 409 sqq.; assumes the
diadem, 412; administration, 413
sqq.; increase of taxation under,
414; abdication, 415, 416; at Sa-
lona, 418 sqq.; baths at Rome, 433
and note; treatment of the Chris-
tians, ii., 124 sqq.; first edict, 130;
second edict, 136; third and fourth
edicts, ib.

Diocletianopolis, besieged by the Avars,
v., 60.

Diodorus, Count, ii., 497.
Diodorus, heretic, v., 113.

Diodorus Siculus, on the priesthood, ii.,
338 note; iv., 179 note; on the
Caaba, v., 350 and note.

Dionysius of Telmahre, Patriarch of
Antioch, v., 471 note.

Dionysius, poetical geographer, v., 458
note.

Diophantus of Alexandria, vi., 32 note.
Dioscorus, Patriarch of Alexandria, sup-

ports Eutyches, v., 130; disgrace
of, 131; deposed and banished,

133.

Dioscurias (town), i., 282 note; iv., 399;
fortifications of, 402.

Diospolis, image at, v., 266 and note.
Diplokionion, or Beshik Tash, vii., 189
note.

Dir, Slav king, vi., 155 note.
Dirhem (drachma), vi., 5 note.
Disabul, Khan of the Turks, iv., 380 and
note; receives the Roman ambassa-
dors, 381 sq.

Dispargum, residence of Clodion, King
of the Franks, iii., 479; site of, ib.
note.

Ditch, battle of the, v., 387.
Dithmar, chronicle of, vi., 156 note.
Dius, iv., 184 note.

Diva, or Male, ii., 332 note.
Divetesion, long tunic worn by the
Byzantine emperors, vi., 83 note.
Divination, ii., 415.
Divinity, titles of, assumed by Diocletian
and Maximian, i., 411.
Divorce, iv., 509 sqq.; limitations of the
liberty of, 510 sq.

Dlugossius, Johannes, his history of Po-
land, vii., 6 note.

Dniester, Gothic fleet on, i., 309; Visi-
gothic camp on, iii., 96.

Docetes, gnostic sect, ii., 358, 359 and
note; their opinion on the nature of
Christ, v., 107 sq.

Docles, name of Diocletian, i., 377
note.

Doclia (town), i., 377 note.

231.

Diogenes, officer of Justinian in Rome,
iv., 437.

Dion Cassius, i., 37 note, 75 note; his

father, 82 note; enemy of Didius
Julianus, 117 note, 131, 137; consul
under Alexander Severus, 168.
Dionysius I. of Syracuse, v., 28 note;
vii., 193 note.

Dionysius of Alexandria, ii., 105.
Dionysius of Byzantium, ii., 151 note.
Dionysius of Corinth, ii., 53 note.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, on Roman
constitutional history, iv., 471 note.
Dionysius, Bishop of Milan, banishment
of, ii., 395.

Doge of Venice, institution of, vi., 398.
Dogs, sent from Europe to Bajazet, vii.,
40 note.

Dolfino, Giovanni, Doge of Venice, vi.,
434 note.

Domestic, Great, office of, vi., 86 and
note.

Domestics, revolt of, against Commodus,
i., 105; schools of, ii., 199.
Dominic, St., hermit, vi., 280; Life of,
ib. note.

Dominus, title of the emperor, i., 410

and note; refused by Julian, ii., 451
and note; adopted by the Popes, v.,
282 and note; on papal coins, vii.,

222.

337.

Dromones, or Byzantine galleys, vi., 96
and note.

Domus, class of Roman house, iii., 325.
Donation, of Constantine, ii., 307 note;

forgery of, v., 292; of Charlemagne,
291; of Constantine, 292 and note.
Donatists, schism of, ii., 353 sqq.; re-
volt of, 410 sqq.; religious suicides
of, 412 sq.; persecution of, iii., 426,
427 and notes.

Donatus, African bishop, ii., 352.
Donatus, on topography of Rome, vii.,
337 note.

Dongola, ruins of, v., 175.

Dorcon, horse of Heraclius, v., 96 note.
Doria, Genoese admiral, vi., 536.
Dorotheus, eunuch, protects the Chris-
tians, ii., 125.

Dorotheus, religious enthusiast, vi., 387.
Dorotheus, selects the Institutes of Jus-
tinian, iv., 501.

Druids of Gaul, i., 35.

Drungarius (Great), office of, vi., 86.
Druses of Mount Libanus, vi., 265 and
note.

Drusus, German conquest of, lost by
Varus, i., 22 note; iii., 40 note.
Dryden, fable of Theodore and Honoria,
iii., 274 note; quotation from, vii.,
201 note, 289 note.

Dubis, Persian camp at, iv., 396.
Dubos, Abbé, i., 38 note; on the state
of Gaul, iii., 472 note; on influence
of climate in relation to the Romans,
vii., 219 note.

Ducange, C. du Fresne, vi., 10 note; on
the Catalans, 504 note; his editions
of Byzantine writers, vii., 217.
Ducas, Greek historian of the Turks, vii.,
75 note, 78 note; on schism of Con-
stantinople, 203; account of the de-
struction of Venetian ship by the
Turks, 174 and note; history of,
printed, 182 note; ambassador to
sultan, 203 note.

Ducas, see Constantine XI.
Ducat, derivation of the name, vii., 107
note.

Ducenarius, imperial procurator, ii., 122
note.

Duels (judicial), see Judicial combat.
Duke, Latin title, iv., 135 and note.
Dukes of the frontier, i., 314 and note;
vi., 86.

Dukes, military, ii., 187; established by
Narses in Italy, iv., 453 and note.
Dumatians, tribe of, v., 352.
Dunaan, Prince of the Homerites, iv.,
412 and note, 413.

Dura on the Tigris, ii., 548 and note;
treaty of, 550 and note; taken by
Nushirvan, iv., 392.

note.

Dracon, river, vi., 288 note.
Dracontius, master of the mint, ii.,
497.

Dragoman, office of, vi., 85.
Dragon city, iii., 82 note.
Drenco, river, Attila receives the em-
bassy of Theodosius at, iii., 469.
Drepanum, i., 429 note; crusaders at,
vi., 286 note.

Dristra or Durostolus, vi., 167 note;
Swatoslaus at, 168.

Drogo, brother of William of Apulia, vi.,
187 note; death of, 189.

of, 207; taken by Robert Guiscard,
209; name of, ib. note; Bohemond
at, 336; Latins land at, 407;
Michael Angelus at, 440.
Durham, bishopric of, iv., 165.
Durostolus, see Dristra.
Dyeing industries, iv., 243 sq. and note.
Dyrrachium, fortifications of, iii., 281;

treasure of Amalasontha at, iv.,
323; taken by the Lombards, 368;
Belisarius at, 427; see Durazzo.

EAGLE, Roman, i., 11 and note.
Earthquakes, at Jerusalem, ii., 485; a.d.

iv., 464 sq.

Easter, v., 144 and note.

Eastern Empire, see Greek Empire.
Eba, the elder, v., 514.

Ebermor, deserts to the Roman camp,
iv., 329.

Ebionites, ii., 11 and note; opinions of,
358 and note; opinion on the incar-
nation, v., 104; their gospel, 105
note.

Ebn Schounah, vii., 58; see Ibn
Shihna.

Ebredunum, or Iverdun, Roman fleet at,
iii., 476 note.

Eburacum (Roman colonia), i., 40 note.
Eobatana, i., 223, 405; ii., 538 note;

Tower of Oblivion at, iii., 56 and
note; identified with Ganzaca, v.,
88 note; use of the name, vi., 63
and note; see Ganzaca.
Ecclesiastes, Book of, authenticity of,
iv., 314 note.
Ecclesiastical order, ii., 335; government,
discussion of its nature, vii., 309.
Ecdicius, præfect of Egypt, ii., 501.
Ecdicius, son of Avitus, defended Au-
vergne, iv., 16 note, 42; family of,
ib. note.

Ecebolus, iv., 228.

Eclectus, conspiracy of, i., 105.
Eclipses, ii., 74.

Ecthesis, of Heraclius, v., 150.
Edda, i., 260.

Edeco, lieutenant of Roderic the Goth,
v., 505.

Edecon, father of Odoacer, ambassador

of Attila, iii., 459; his interviews
with Chrysaphius, 467; his confes-
sion and repentance, ib.; defeats
the Scyrri, iv., 53.

Edessa, described, i., 224 and note;
battle of, 290; Christianized, ii., 69
and note; Sabinian at, 288; church
of, oppressed by Julian, 498; shrine
of St. Thomas at, iii., 267 note;
tribute paid by, iv., 251; strength-
ened by Justinian, 273; siege of,
275 note, 276, 396; destroyed by
Chosroes, v., 74 and note; Heraclius
at, 94 and note; school at, 156 and
note; conversion of, 264 note; image
of Christ at, 265 sq.; captured by
Arabs, 471 and note; taken by
Zimisces, vi., 63; principality of,
310 and note; retaken by Sultan
Zenghi, 310 note, 349; county of,
331 note; Timour at, vii., 50.
Edicts, of the prætors, iv., 478 and note;
perpetual edict, 479 and note.

Edobic, general of Constantine, defeat
and death of, iii., 361.
Edom, kingdom of, ii., 79.

Edris (Idris), founder of the Edrisite
caliphate, vi., 55 note.

Edrisi, on the Christianity of the Nu-
bians, v., 175 note; on geography
of Arabia, 332 note.
Edrisites of Mauritania, caliphs of the,
vi., 23; founding of the, 23 and
note.

Edward, Count of Savoy, vi., 517 note.
Edward I., of England, in the East, vi.,
378.

Edward III. of England, letter of, against

Clement VII., vii., 296 note.
Egbert, his intercourse with Charle-
magne, v., 310 note.

154.

Egica, King of the Goths in Spain, iv.,
Egilona, widow of Roderic, v., 513.
Eginhard, marries daughter of Charle-
magne, v., 303 note.
Egregius, rank of, ii., 171 note.
Egripons (Negroponte), vi., 406 note.
Egypt, province of, described, i., 27;

language of, 42 and note; popu-
lation, 54; revenue, 173; rebellion
of Firmus in, 333; works of Probus,
361; revolts from Diocletian, 391
sqq.; Christianity in, ii., 63; Au-
gustal præfect of, 180; kings of,
334 note; monks in, 401; given to
Theodosius, iii., 125; wheat ex-
ported from, iv., 242 and note,
marriage laws in, 512; conquered
by Chosroes, v., 76; date of, ib.
note, 173; invaded by Saracens,
474 sqq.; description of, 486 sqq. ;
population, 487 sq. and notes,
revenues of, ib. note; church of,
under the Saracens, 522 sq.; vine-
yards of, destroyed by. Hakem, vi.,
265; invaded by Seljuks, 267; con-
quered by Turks, 350 sqq.; invaded
by the Mongols, vii., 15; Sultan of,
submits to Timour, 69.
Egyptian language, i., 42 and note.
Egyptian worship, prohibited, i., 35.
Egyptians, disabilities of the, i., 42; dis-
pute the election of Gregory, iii.,

158.

Einsiedeln, Anonymous of, vii., 316 note,
317 note.

Eisenach, in Thuringia, iii., 493 note.
Ekmiasin (Etchmiazin), Monastery of,
v., 169.

Ektag, Mount, probably Mount Altai, iv.,
380 note,