Elagabalus, i., 154; bravery, 156; reign, | Emperors, Roman, election and desig-
ib. sqq.; death, 161; wears silk, iv.,
245.
Elburz (Mount), Magians at, v., 519.
Eleanora, wife of Edward I., vi., 378
note.
Eleans, exempt from war, iii., 258 and
note.
Election of bishops, ii., 335 and note.
Electors of Germany, v., 327 and note.
Electus, chamberlain of Commodus, i.,
105.
Elephant, era of the, see Eras.
Elephantine, island, i., 393; altar of
concord destroyed by Justinian at,
iv., 272 note.
Elephants at Rome, i., 371.
Eleusinian mysteries, Julian initiated
into the, ii., 464 and note; put an
end to, iii., 258.
Eleusis, destroyed by Alaric, iii., 258.
Eleuthero- (or Free) Laconians, vi., 74
sq.
Eleutherus, river, ii., 240.
Elias, Nestorian Bishop of Damascus, v.,
114 note.
Elijahs, patriarchs of Mosul, v., 160.
Elis, cities of, ii., 452.
Ellac, son of Attila, death of, iii., 502;
King of the Acatzires, ib.
Elmacin [Ibn al Amid al-Makin], His-
tory of the Saracens, v., 74 note, 428
note; on victories of Caled, 430; on
Egypt, 488 note; on Arabian coin-
age, vi., 5 note.
Elpidius, physician of Theodoric, iv., 217.
Elpidius, Prætorian præfect of the East,
ii., 430 note.
Elusa, birthplace of Rufinus, iii., 229
note.
Emaus, crusaders at, vi., 321.
Emblemata, iv., 496 note.
nation of the, i., 80; their jurisdic-
tion over the Church, ii., 333; office
of pontifex maximus, ib. and note;
public speeches of, 475 sq.; legisla-
tive power of, iv., 481 sq.; rescripts
of, 482 sq.; of the West, v., 310
sqq.; jurisdiction of emperors of
the West in Rome, 319; weakness
of the German, 328; of Constanti-
nople, vi., 79 sqq.; adoration of, 87
and note; revival of learning under,
108.
Empire, see Roman Empire, Greek Em-
pire, Western Empire.
Engaddi, town near the Dead Sea, men-
tioned by Pliny, iv., 64 note.
Engebert sends Libri Carolini to Hadrian
I., v., 298 note.
Engines of war, vi., 306 and note.
England, see Britain.
Enguerrand VII., see Sire de Coucy.
Ennodius, account of embassy of Epi-
phanius, iv., 47 note; panegyric of,
191 note; oration of, 193 note;
Bishop of Pavia, ib.; libell of, 208
note.
Enoch, book of, v., 363 note.
Epagathus, Præfect of Egypt, i., 168.
Ephemeris of Ausonius, iii., 141 note.
Ephesus, temple of, i., 54, 288; Church
of St. John at, iv., 265; pillaged
by the Paulicians, vi., 125; re-
covered by Alexius I., 335; Louis
VII. at, 343 note; taken by the
Turks, vii., 28.
Ephrem, St., on monks, iv., 79 note.
Epictetus, Arian bishop, ii., 431.
Epicureans, i., 33.
Epicurus, religious devotion of, 34 note;
bequeaths his garden, iv., 281;
birth of, 282 note.
Emeralds, iv., 274 and note; large em- Epidaurus, iii., 73 note.
erald at Cairo, vi., 350 note.
Emerita or Merida, iii., 364, see Merida.
Emesa, Elagabalus declared emperor at,
i., 155; worship of the sun at, 158;
defies Sapor, 292; residence of
Odenathus of Palmyra, 326; battle
of, 328; arsenal at, 389; Heraclius
at, v., 395; army of Heraclius at,
448; captured by the Saracens, 458
sq.; recovered, vi., 63; acknow-
ledges the Sultan, 267.
Emir al-Omra, vi., 58 and note.
Emir (Amir) or admiral, title of, vi., 86.
Emirs, Arabian, in Spain, vi., 23 note.
Emma, mother of Tancred, vi., 292 note,
308 note.
Emperor of the Romans, title of, vi., 106.
Epigenes, quæstor, iii., 442.
Epiphania, see Eudocia, daughter of
Heraclius.
Epiphanius, Bishop of Pavia, ambassa-
dor of Ricimer, to Anthemius, iv.,
46 and note; intercedes for the
people of Pavia, 59 note, 206, 207
and note.
Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, iii., 398
note.
Epiphany, Christian Festival of, ii., 432
and note.
Epirus, subdued by Alaric, iii., 295;
province of, ceded to Bulgaria, vi.,
137 and note; islands and towns
of, subdued by Robert Guiscard,
204; despots of, 439 sqq.
Episcopal authority, see Bishops.
Eponina, i., 87 note.
Epulones, iii., 199 and note.
Equestrian order, i., 15 and note; pro-
posed revival of, vii., 235 and note.
Equitius, Master-General of Illyricum,
iii., 65.
Eraric, the Rugian, iv., 422 note.
Erasmus, on Hilary, ii., 370 note; ac-
count of Chrysostom, iii., 395 note;
life of St. Jerome, iv., 70 note;
publishes the Greek testament, 97
note; religious opinions of, vi., 133
sq.; system of Greek pronuncia-
tion, vii., 131 note, 135; Life of, ib.
note.
Erbe or Lambesa, metropolis of Nu-
midia, v., 494.
Erchempert, chronicler, vi., 178 note.
Erdaviraph, one of the seven Magi, i., 214.
Erdély, Hungarian name of Transyl-
vania, vi., 153 note.
Eregli, see Heraclea.
Erichtho, of Lucan, iii., 18 note.
Erivan, caravan station, v., 170.
Erixo, iv., 505 and note.
Eros and Anteros of the Platonists, ii.,
464 note.
Erzeroum (Carin), taken by Persians, v.,
74 note; Timour at, vii., 56.
Escander Dulcarnein, Arabic legend of,
vi., 245 note.
Eschinard, P., description of the Cam-
pagna, vii., 247 note.
Esimonton, see Azimus.
Eskishehr, see Dorylæum.
Eslam, daughter of, iii., 464 and note.
Eslaw, ambassador of Attila, iii., 442;
pronounces before Theodosius the
reproof of Attila, 468.
Esquiline (Mount), i., 322 note.
Essenians, ii., 50.
Esserif Essachalli, Arabian philosopher,
vi., 201 note.
Estachar [Istakhr] or Persepolis, v.,
436 note; Arabs in the valley of,
436.
Este, house of, origin of, vi., 202 note.
Esthonia, province of, iii., 61.
Estius, ii., 372 note.
Etruscans, i., 23; vices of the, iv., 535
and note.
Euboea, derivation of name Negroponte,
vi., 406 note; inhabitants trans-
ported to Constantinople, vii., 210
note.
Eucharist, divers opinions concerning,
vi., 131.
Eucherius, son of Stilicho, iii., 293;
religion of, 297.
Euchrocia, matron of Bordeaux, execu-
Eudæmon, of Carthage, iii., 436.
Eudæmonis, a virgin, ii., 402 note.
Eudamidas, of Corinth, iv., 255 note.
Eudes, Duke of Aquitain, repels the
Saracens, vi., 14; marries his
daughter to Munuza, 15; seeks aid
from Charles Martel, 17; letters of,
to the Pope, 18 note.
Eudocia, Athenais, consort of Theo-
dosius II., character and adventures
of, iii., 409 sqq.; account of, by
John Malalas and by Socrates, ib.
note; her paraphrase of the Old
Testament, 410; pilgrimage
Jerusalem, 410; disgrace and exile,
411 sq. and notes; death, 412.
Eudocia, daughter of Valentinian III.,
marries Hunneric the Vandal, iv.,
Eudocia, wife of Heraclius, v., 72, 94 note.
Eudocia or Epiphania, daughter of
Heraclius, v., 94 and note; 185
note.
Eudocia Ingerina, mother of Leo VI.,
v., 216 note.
Eudocia Baianê, wife of Leo VI., v.,
221 note.
Eudocia, daughter of Constantine IX.
(VIII.), v., 231.
Eudocia, widow of Constantine X., v.,
237 and note; philosophical studies
of, 238; learning of, vi., 111 and
note; attacked by Alp Arslan, 247 ;
marries Romanus Diogenes, ib.
Eudocia, niece of Manuel Comnenus, v.,
248.
Eudocia of Damascus, v., 455.
Eudoxia, wife of Arcadius, daughter of
Bauto, iii., 235, 236; accuses Eutro-
pius, 390 and note.
Eudoxia, daughter of Theodosius the
Younger, marries Valentinian III.,
iii., 420, 505; obliged to marry Pe-
tronius Maximus, iv., 4; implores
the aid of Genseric, ib.; carried
captive to Carthage, 7; restored by
Genseric, 30.
Eudoxia, see Eudocia, wife of Heraclius.
Eudoxus, Arian Bishop of Constanti-
nople, iii., 26 and note.
Eudoxus (Eudocimus), son of Constan-
tine Copronymus, v., 201.
Euelthon, King of Cyprian Salamis, v.,
10 note.
Eugenius, chamberlain, iii., 481.
Eugenius III., Pope, vii., 228.
Eugenius IV., Pope, vii., 105; opposed
by the Council of Constance, 105;
deposed at Council of Basil, 117;
receives Oriental embassies, 119;
forms league against the Turks, 147
sq.; spurious epistle of, to King of
Ethiopia, 161 note; expelled, 301;
funeral of, 305; builds wall round
the Coliseum, 333.
Eugenius, the rhetorician, made emperor
by Arbogastes, iii., 190; paganism
of, ib. note; death, 194.
Eugippius, Life of St. Severinus by, iv.,
54 note, 60 note.
Eugraphia, widow at Constantinople,
persecutes Chrysostom, iii., 397 note.
Eugubine Tables, iv., 473 and note.
Eulalia, St., of Merida, iv., 13.
Eulalius, count of the domestics, testa-
ment of, iv., 255.
Eulalius, philosopher, iv., 284.
Eulogia, sister of Michael Palæologus,
vi., 485; conspires against her
brother, 494.
Euric, King of the Visigoths, assassin-
ates his brother Theodoric, iv., 41;
persecutes the Orthodox party, 88;
dominions of, 107 sq.; first Gothic
prince who wrote laws, 132.
Euripides, i., 281.
Europe, population of, i., 46 and note;
change in climate of, 231; present
state of, iv., 176 sq.; political system
of, in fifteenth century, vii., 300 note.
Europus, i., 223 note; iv., 184 note; Beli-
sarius at, 395.
Eusebia, wife of Constantius II., friend-
ship of, to Julian, ii., 270, 271;
friendly reception of Julian, 272;
her supposed jealousy of Julian,
274 and note; death, 430 and note.
Eusebius, Bishop of Vercellæ, ii., 395.
Eusebius, chamberlain of Honorius, his
death, iii., 333.
Eusebius, Count of Ticinum, orders
execution of Boethius, iv., 216 note.
Eulogies and benedictions at Constanti-Eusebius, neo-Platonist, ii., 464.
Eulogius, Patriarch of Alexandria, ac-
count of, v., 171 and note.
Eulogius, St., of Cordova, v., 523 note.
Eumenius, the orator, i., 57 note, 386
note; Professor of Rhetoric at
Autun, 423 note; panegyric of, ii.,
309 note.
Eunapius, history of the Sophists, ii.,
461 note, 513 note; on the Gothic
war, iii., 63 note; on the ravages of
the Goths, 123 note; fanaticism of,
218.
Eunomians, disabilities of the, under
Theodosius, iii., 160.
Eunomius, ii., 372 and note; shelters
Procopius, iii., 13 note, 149.
Eunuchs, i., 412; power of, ii., 260
sq.; character of, 261; power of,
under Arcadius, iii., 380 and note.
Euphemia, daughter of John of Cappa-
docia, iv., 257.
Euphemia, daughter of Marcian, marries
Anthemius, iv., 33.
Euphemia, St., church of, council held
in, v., 132.
Euphemius, expedition of, to Sicily, vi.,
40 and note; death, 41.
Euphrates, victories of M. Antoninus on
the, i., 10; navigation of, ii., 536,
537 note; source of, iv., 273 and
note.
Euphrosyne, daughter of Constantine
VI., marries Michael the Second,
V., 203, 209.
Euphrosyne, wife of Alexius Angelus, vi.,
392.
Eusebius of Cæsarea, as a historian, i.,
470 and note; ii., 125 and note; on
Palestine martyrs, 146 note; re-
mark on his style, ib.; silence on
death of Crispus, 223 note; account
of Constantine's conversion, 323 and
note; friendship with Constantine,
326; description of the Church at
Jerusalem, 340 note; supports Arius,
365; accepts the Homoousion, 377;
character of, ib. note; at the Coun-
cil of Tyre, 387.
Eusebius of Nicomedia, supports Arius,
ii., 365; exile, 377; recall, 378;
educates Julian, 457 and note;
Bishop of Constantinople, iii., 150
note.
Eusebius Scholasticus, poem on the
Gothic war, iii., 394 note.
Eusebius, the eunuch, chamberlain of
Constantius, ii., 261; questions
Gallus, 268; fall of, 440; death, 447.
Eustace, the elder brother of Godfrey of
Bouillon, vi., 289.
Eustathius, Archbishop of Thessalonica,
vi., 110, 227 note.
Eustathius, Bishop of Antioch, ii., 378;
death, 404.
Eustathius of Cappadocia, ii., 283 note.
Eustathius of Epiphania, iv., 271 note.
Eustochium, daughter of Paula, iv., 69.
Euthalites or Nephthalites (White Huns),
iii., 91 and note, 92; conquests of,
iv., 274; defeat Perozes, King of
Persia, 275; conquered by the Turks,
376; by Nushirvan, 411; in Trans-
oxiana, v., 441 note.
Euthalius at Terracina, iv., 344.
Eutharic, grandson of Berimund, iv.,
218 note, 321.
Eutherius, chamberlain of Julian, ii., 428.
Euthymius, Patriarch of Constantinople,
v., 221 note.
Eutropia, sister of Constantine, i., 432
note; ii., 218; death, 256.
Eutropius, father of Constantius, i., 381.
Eutropius, the eunuch, iii., 190; opposes
Rufinus, 235 sq.; magistrate and
general, 380; power over Arcadius,
ib.; consul, 382 and note; venality
and injustice, 382 and note; de-
grades Abundantius, 383; exiles
Timasius, 384; calls council of war,
388 and note; fall of, 389 sq.
Eutropius, the historian, ii., 216 note;
date of his History, 264 note, 548
note.
Eutyches, heresiarch, iii., 467 note.
Eutyches, abbot, v., 126 note; heresy of,
129 sqq:
Eutychian heresy, suppressed by Pul-
cheria, iii., 407; controversy in the
East, iv., 105.
Eutychius, exarch, forms a league with
Liutprand, v., 283 note.
Eutychius, historian, v., 75 note; Annals
of, 428 note, 474 note; on taking
of Alexandria by the Saracens, 479,
480 note.
Euxine, Roman naval station on the, i.,
20; circumnavigation of, iv., 397
and note.
Evagrius, description of the Church of
St. Euphemia at Chalcedon, iii.,
392 note; on the Isaurian war, iv.,
271 note; on Emperor Maurice, v.,
21 note.
Evander the Arcadian, iv., 36.
Evodius, Bishop of Uzalis, iii., 223 note.
Exarchate, given to the Popes, v., 290
and note.
Exarchs, title of, in Africa, iv., 310; of
Ravenna, 452 and note; extinction
of, v., 284; governor of Septem re-
ceived title of, 502 note.
Excise, i., 176 and note.
Excommunication, ii., 54, 344, 345.
Exercitus, i., 12 and note.
Exeter, colony planted at, by Athelstan,
iv., 161 note.
Exorcism of demons, ii., 30 s sq.; its place
in Christian propaganda, 31 note.
Expositio totius Mundi, iii., 434 note,
435 note.
Ezra, adored as the son of God by the
Jews of Mecca, v., 360 and note.
Ezzerites, in Greece, v., 73.
FABRICIUS, his Bibliotheca Græca, vi.,
110 note.
Facciolati, Duke of Constantinople, vi.,
525.
Factions, of the circus, iv., 234 sq.
Fadella, daughter of the Emperor Mar-
cus, i., 100; death of, 146.
Fadl-allah, vizir, his Persian history of
the Mongols, vii., 5 note.
Faenza, vanguard of Theodoric betrayed
at, iv., 191; battle at, 423.
Fasulæ, iii., 280 and note; taken by
Belisarius, iv., 350.
Falcandus, Hugh, on Palermo, vi., 76
note; on Sicily, 228 sq.; his Historia
Sicula, 227 note.
Falcidian portion, term in Roman law
of inheritance, iv., 522.
Falconry, introduced by the Lombards
into Italy, v., 28 and note; price of
falcons in Palestine, vi., 334; see
Hawking.
Falco Sosius, i., 111 and note.
Famine, rare under the empire, i., 58.
Fano, i., 320.
Farage (Faraj), Circassian ruler, vii., 57.
Faras, families or generations; term in
Lombard law, v., 27 note.
Farghāna, territory of, i., 397 note; v.,
438 and note; subdued by the Sara-
cens, 441 note.
Farmah, see Pelusium.
Fars, subdued by the Arabs, v., 435 note;
Bowides at, 519 note; dynasty of,
vi., 57 note.
Farsistan, mountains of, Yezdegerd flies
to, v., 435.
Fasti, Consular, iv., 128 and note.
Fathers of the Church, visions in the
Apostolic, ii., 30 note; morality of,
36 sqq.; on marriage, 38 sqq.; on
war and politics, 40 sq.; belief of,
in pagan gods, 127 note; works
illustrating their superstition, iii.,
221 note; Greek translations of
Latin, vi., 462.
Fatima, daughter of Ali, v., 416.
Fatima, daughter of Mahomet, iii., 418
note; married Ali, v., 406; death,
407.
Fatimids, v., 405 sqq.; in Egypt and
Syria, 418 and note; caliphs of the,
reign at Cairo, vi., 23; usurp the
provinces of Africa, 42; succeed
the Ikhshidids, 56 note, 59; in
the Holy Land, 264; lose Egypt,
Faun, the Barberini, discovery of, iv.,
337 note.
Faunus, i., 364.
Fausta, daughter of Maximian, i., 436; | Fire, Greek, see Greek fire.
receives Maximian, 441; children Fire signals, see Beacons.
of, ii., 218; disgrace and death, 223, Fire worship, i., 216 and note.
224.
Firmicus Julius, i., 429 note.
Firmum (Fermo), Council of War be-
tween Belisarius and Narses at, iv.,
348 note.
Faustina, daughter of Antoninus Pius, i.,
84, 91.
Faustina, widow of Constantius II., sup-
ports Procopius, iii., 15.
Faustinus, Roman noble, iii., 310 note.
Faustus, account of Armenian war, iii.,
55 note.
Fava, or Feletheus, King of the Rugians,
conquered by Odoacer, iv., 59.
Faventia, see Faenza.
Felicissimus, i., 337.
Felix, an African bishop, execution of,
ii., 134, 352 note.
Felix, Archbishop of Ravenna, blinded
by Justinian II., v., 195 note.
Felix II., anti-Pope, election of (A.D. 356),
ii., 403 note; expulsion, 406.
Felix IV., Pope, grandfather of Gregory
the Great, V., 35.
Felix V., vii., 113; retires to Ripaille,
119 and note.
Felix, St., tomb of, at Nola, iii., 349.
Ferdusi, the Persian poet, iv., 387 note;
lines of, quoted by Mahomet II.,
vii., 208.
Fergana, see Farghāna.
Fergus, cousin of Ossian, iii., 45 note.
Ferishta, Persian writer, vi., 235 note.
Ferramenta Samiata, i., 315 note.
Ferrara, John Palæologus at, vii., 112;
council at, ib.; duchy of, united to
Urbino, 308.
Ferreolus, Bishop of Ufez, monastic rule
of, iv., 72 note.
Festivals, attitude of the Christians to
pagan, ii., 19 and notes; prohibited,
iii., 214 and note; four great, of
the Latin Church, v., 39 and note.
Feu Grégeois, see Greek fire.
Fez, Edrisite kingdom of, founded, vi.,
55 and note.
Fidei-commissa, iv., 522 note, 523.
Fihl (Pella), battle of, v., 456 note.
Filioque controversy, vi., 382 sq.
Finances, of the Roman empire, i., 171
sqq.; administration of, under Con-
stantine, ii., 197 sqq., 202 sqq.; laws
of Majorian concerning, iv., 19 sq.;
in ninth to twelfth centuries, vi., 77
sq.
Fines, in the army, ii., 191; for schism,
iii., 427.
Flaccus, Granius, iv., 472 note.
Flagellation, practice of, by the monks,
vi., 279 and note.
Flamens, Roman, iii., 199 and note.
Flaminian Way, stations of, iv., 443
note.
Flaminius, ii., 190 note.
Flamsteed, on comets, iv., 463.
Flavian family, i., 81 and note.
Flavian, Bishop of Antioch, iii., 179.
Flavian, ecclesiastic, iii., 157 note.
Flavian, Patriarch of Constantinople,
opposes Eutyches, v., 129; perse-
cuted by the second Council of
Ephesus, 131; death, 131.
Flavianus and Diodorus, ii., 404.
Flavianus, pagan senator, iii., 202 note.
Flavius Asellus, count of the sacred
largesses, iv., 43.
Fléchier, Bishop of Nismes, his life of
Theodosius, iii., 125 note.
Fleury, Abbé de, Inst. of Canon Law, ii.,
342 note; Ecclesiastical History of,
vii., 86 note; continuator of, on
schism of Constantinople, 119 note,
141 note; on appeals to Rome, 223
note.
Flor, Roger de, see Roger de Flor.
Florence, siege of, by Radagaisus, iii.,
279; origin of, ib. note; Pandects
at, iv., 499; council of, vii., 113;
revival of Greek learning at, 129.
Florentius, Prætorian præfect of Gaul,
ii., 302; character of, 422; flight,
428, 436; disgrace, 448.
Florianus, i., 346, 349 note; usurpation
and death, 350.
Finns, language of, allied to Hungarian, Florin, vii., 107 note.
vi., 145 and note.
Firdusi, see Ferdusi.
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Florus, Prince, vi., 471.
Florus, Roman historian, vii., 246.
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