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A.D. 378.] RETREAT OF THE GOTHS FROM CONSTANTINOPLE.

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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.

INDEX.

A.

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,

205

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

Adonis, 186

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,

342

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

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INDEX.

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,

27

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,

79, 453

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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,

139

Anazarbus, a city of Cilicia, 27
Anchialos, a city of Thrace, 293, 444
Ancorarius, a mountain of Mauritania,
531

209

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-

401

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

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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

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 Roma,

146

duke of Egypt, 300

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