A.D. 378.] RETREAT OF THE GOTHS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.
accessible beauties of the city, and the immensity of its population; also the vicinity of the strait which divides the Black Sea from the Egean. Then after destroying the works which they had constructed, having sustained greater losses than they had inflicted, they raised the siege, and roamed at random over the northern provinces, which they traversed without restraint as far as the Julian Alps, which the ancients used to call the Venetian Alps.
8. At this time the energy and promptitude of Julius, the commander of the forces on the other side of Mount Taurus, was particularly distinguished; for when he learnt what had happened in Thrace, he sent secret letters to all the governors of the different cities and forts, who were all Romans (which at this time is not very common), requesting them, on one and the same day, as at a concerted signal, to put to death all the Goths who had previously been admitted into the places under their charge; first luring them into the suburbs, in expectation of receiving the pay which had been promised to them. This wise plan was carried out without any disturbance or any delay; and thus the Eastern provinces were delivered from great dangers.
9. Thus have I, a Greek by birth, and formerly a soldier, related all the events from the accession of Nerva to the death of Valens, to the best of my abilities; professing above all things to tell the truth, which, as I believe, I have never knowingly perverted, either by silence or by falsehood. Let better men in the flower of their age, and of eminent accomplishments, relate the subsequent events. But if it should please them to undertake the task, I warn them to sharpen their tongues to a loftier style.
ABANNI, a people of Africa, 533 Abarne, a town in Mesopotamia, noted for its hot springs, 182 Abdera, the birthplace of Protagoras and Democritus, 286 Abdigidus, a tribune, 173 Abienus, a senator, 477, 478 Abii, a people of Persia, 339 Ablabius, prefect of the prætorium, 236
Abora, or Chaboras, a river in Meso- potamia, 111 Abydos, 287
Abydum, a town in Thebais, 208 Achæi, a Caspian tribe, 290 Achaiacala, a fort on an island in the Euphrates, 350 Acheron, the river, 289 Acherusian cave, the, 289 Acilius Glabrio, the first Roman to
whom a statue was erected, 16 Acimiacum, a town in Hungary,
Acon, a port on the Euxine Sea, 289 Aconti, a species of serpent in Egypt, 311
Acontiama, a narrow defile between Thrace and Macedonia, 443 Acropatena, a province of Media, 335 Adaces, a Persian Satrap, killed, 374 Addense, 531
Adelphius, prefect of Rome, 92 Adiabas, a river in Assyria, 334 Adiabene, a province of Assyria, 176, 320, 333
Adrastea, the goddess of retribution, led also Nemesis, 42, 281 Aas, king of the Argives, 41 Altaus, keeper of the records, 56, 58 gean Sea, 286
Elian, Count, 182, 183; crucified by the Persians, 200
Enus, a city of Thrace, 286, 444 Africanus, Governor of the second Pan nonia, 50, 95
Agabana, a fortress in Persia, 463 Agathocles, king of Sicily, 44 Agathyrsi, a tribe near the Palus Mæotis, 291
Agazaca, a city of the Paropanisata,
Agenaricus, king of the Allemanni, 113 Agilimundus, a chieftain of the Quadi, 151
Agilo, an equerry, 34, 266; pro moted to the prefecture by Julian, 279; recalled to military service by Procopius, 422; intercedes for his father-in-law Araxius, 432
Aginatius put to death by Maximin 474
Aiadalthes, a tribune, 181
Alani, a Scythian tribe, 291, 328, 580, 581, 599, 611 Alatheus, 583, 587, 611 Alavivus, a general of the Goths, 585, 587
Albani, allies of the Persians, 176, 197 332
Albinus of Etruria, 56
Alexander the Great, 41, 46, 89 Alexander of Heliopolis, 319 Alexandria, a village near Rome, 131 in Egypt, 300; described, 31? its temples and library, 314; it schools, 315
a city in Arachosia, 343 in Ariana, 342
in Carmania, 339
an island in Persia, 338
a town in Sogdiana, 340
Alfenus, a distinguished lawyer, 558
Alicodia, a city in Bactria, 340 Aligildus, a count, 271, 277 Aliso, a tribune, 427 Alitrophagi, a Scythian tribe, 341 Allemanni, or Germans-these names are used promiscuously by Ammi- anus-defeated at the battle of Stras- burg, 118, 247; lay waste Gaul and Rhætia, 413, 414, defeated by Jovinus, 438, 567; make incursions into the Roman territory, 602; are defeated, 604
Allobroges, a nation of Gaul, 81 Alpheus, a river rising in Arcadia, 53 Alps, the Cottian, 75; the Julian, 259; the Grecian, 76; the Penine, 76; Hannibal's passage of the, 77 Alypius of Antioch, 317, 514 a Roman noble, 471
Amantius, a soothsayer, 472 Amanus, a mountain range in Cilicia,
Amardus, a river in Media, 337 Amastris, a city in Paphlagonia, 289 Amazons, one of the Caspian tribes, 291; defeated by the Athenians,
289 Amicenses, a Sarmatian tribe, 154
Amida, a city of Mesopotamia, 174; besieged by Sapor, 185; betrayed by a deserter, 192; courage of the gar- rison, 195; a sortie of the Gallic troops, from, 195, 236
Amiens (Ambians), a city in Belgium,
Anatolius, an officer of the palace, 304 Anaxagoras the philosopher, 287; pre dicted the fall of stones and earth- quakes, 315 Anaximander, a Milesian philosopher,
Anazarbus, a city of Cilicia, 27 Anchialos, a city of Thrace, 293, 444 Ancorarius, a mountain of Mauritania, 531
Ancyra, a city of Galatia, 296, 403, 426 Andernach (Antumacum), 161 Andocides, a Grecian orator, 554 Andriscns of Adramyttium, 44, 421 Andronicus, a poet, Anepsia, wife of Victorinus, 475, 473 Anicii, the, a noble family at Rome, Anthemusia, a province of Mesopo Anniba, a mountain in Scythia, 341
tamia, 10 Anthropophagi, a Scythian tribe, 580 Antinoöpolis, a city in Egypt, 312 Antibes (Antipolis), a town in Ga:1, 79 Antioch in Syria, 28; visited by the Emperor Julian, 297; by Jovi, Antiochia, in Persia, 339 Antiphon, a Greek orator, 554
Aminias, a Persian general, 369 Amisus, a city in Pontus, 289 Ammianus, his noble birta, 199 placed under Ursicinus, governor of Nisibis, by the Emperor Constantius, 30; returns to Italy, 37; his in- dustry, 45; sent into Gaul, 60; sent back to the East, 103; visits Thebes, 130; recalled, 171; escapes Antoninopolis, a town in Mestaris,
from Nisibis, 173; sent to Jovini-
built by Constantius, 182
anus, satrap of Corduena, 175; Antoninus, a wealthy merchant, fa
narrow escape of, 181; arrives at Antioch, 200; accompanies Julian in his expedition against the Persians,
wards one of the protector. Antonius, a tribune, 415 his treachery, 169
326; returns with Jovian, 402; his Anzaba, a river in Mesopotami,
advice to future historians, 623 Ampelius, prefect of Otricoli, 472
Apamia, a city in Assyria, 334, 3 --a city in Thrace, 387
Apamia, a city in Syria, 28 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; surrenders, 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, 209, 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
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, 237
Arsiana, a city of Susiana, 335
Arbetio, 36, 47, 92; made consul, 71, Arsinoë, a city of Cyrene, anciently
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 Roma,
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