Asp, the largest species of serpent in Bacchus, 290
Aspabota, a city of Scythia, 341 Aspacara, a tribe of the Seres, 341 Aspacuras, a Persian satrap, 466 Asparata, a city of the Beta, 341 Assanite Saracens, 350
Assyria, the wife of Barbatio, 165
a province of Persia, in the time of Ammianus called Adiabene, 333 Astacia, a city of Bactria, 340
Bacchylides, the lyric poet, 383 Bactra, a river in Bactria, 340 Bactrians, 339
Bætica, a consular province of Spain,
Bagrada, a river in Persia, 337 Bainobaudes, a tribune of the Scutari, 39, 105; (2) a tribune of the Cornuti, 106; killed in the battle of Stras- burg, 121
Astracus, a city in Bithynia, also called Balista, a military engine for discharg
Atacotti harass the Britons, 413
Athagoræ, a Scythian tribe, 341
Athanaric, a Gothic chief, 447, 583
ing stones, described, 322
Bappo, a tribune, commander of the
Baraba, a town in Arabia Felix, 338
Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, his Barbatio, count of the domestics, 40;
Athos, a mountain in Macedonia, 286 Athribis, a city of Egypt, 313 Athyras, a port in the Propontis, 287 Ati, a people near the cataracts of the Nile, 308
Atlas, a mountain in Africa, 50 Attuarii, a tribe of Franks, 235 Auch (Ausei), a town in Aquitania, 79 Augury, modes of, 245 Augusta (Londinium), the capital of
Roman Britain, 483 Augustamnica, a province of Egypt, 312 Augustus, Emperor, his correction of the calendar, 408
Aulion, a cave near the Euxine, 290 Aurelian, the Emperor, 570 Aureolus, a conspirator against Con- stantius, 274
Austoriani, a people of Mauritania, 413 Autun (Augustodunum), the chief town Batne, a town near the Euphrate,
where an annual fair was held,
Auxerre (Autosidorum), a city in Gaul, Battus, a Spartan, the founder of
Avenches (Aventicum), the capital of Bautis, a river in Serica, 341
Bazas (Vasata), a town in Gaul, 79
Bebase, a town in Mesopotamia, 178 Bebrycia, a district in Bithynia, 288 Belga, the most warlike people of Gaul, 78
Belias, a river of Mesopotamia which falls into the Euphrates, 321 Bellovædius, a tribune given as a host- age to the Persians, 394 Berenice, also called Hesperides, a town in Libya, 312
Beroa, a city of Thrace, 444 Berytus, a city of Phœnicia (the modern Beirut), 28
Besa, the name of an Egyptian deity, 208 Besançon, a city of the Sequani, 79, 253 Besbicus, an island in the Propontis, 287 Bessi, a Thracian tribe, 444 Beta, a people in Serica, 341 Bezabde, a town on the Tigris formerly called Phoenice, 225, 266; captured by Sapor, 227; unsuccessfully be- sieged by Constantius, 237-239 Bineses, a Persian satrap, 394 Bingen (Bingium), a town in Germany,
Brigantia (the lake of Constance), 52 Brisoana, à Persian river, 337 Britain, corn exported to Rome, 161; pearls found in the British sea, 345; suffers from the incursions of the Picts and Scots, 212, 453; invaded by the Saxons, 413; distress of, 453; ́ Theodosius goes to assist, 483 Bruchion, a quarter in Alexandria, inhabited by opulent persons, 314 Brumat (Brocomagus), a city of Ger- many, 86
Bucenobantes, a tribe of the Allemanni 524
Buffaloes in Egypt, 309
Bura, a town destroyed by an earth- quake, 140
Burgundians, 495; their kings called
Hendinos, 495; their chief priest called the Sinistus, 496
Busan, a fort in Mesopotamia, 183 Byzantium (Constantinople), 287 Byzares, a people near the Euxine,
CABILLONUM (Chalons sur Marne), 98, 436
Cabyle, a town in Thrace, 607 Cadusii, a tribe on the Caspian Sea,
Caranius, a philosopher, 520 Gæsarea, formerly Mazaca, a town in Cappadocia, 233
a town in Mauritania, 534 a town in Palestine, 29 Cæsariensis, a province of Mauritania, 526
Carius, prefect of Constantinople,
secretary of the Emperor, 551 Cæsius, treasurer of the commander of the cavalry, 200
Cafaves, a people of Africa, 532 Calatis, a town in European Scythia,
Calicadnus, a river in Isauria, 9 Callichorus, a river near the Euxine Sea, 290
Branchidæ, an oracle in the Milesian Callimachus, an ancient Grecian gene-
Cambyses, king of Persia, 129
— a river in Media, 337
Cella, a tribune of the Scutarii, 103 Celse, a town in Phoenicia, 23 Cephalonesus, a town on the Bory Ceras, a cape on the Propontis, 287 thenes, 293 Cerasus, a town in Pontus, 289 Cerceta, a tribe near the Euxine Sea, 291
Camels first seen by the Romans at Cercius, the charioteer of Castor and
the siege of Cyzicus, 340 Camenius, a Roman senator, 473 Camp of Hercules (Castra Herculis), a town in Germany, 161 Camp of Mars, a town in Dacia, 608 Camp of the Moors, a town or fortress in Mesopotamia, 173, 393 Canini, a people on the borders of Rhætia, 52
Canopus, a city of Egypt, 314 Cantichus, a gulf in Armenia, 332 Capellatum, a district on the borders of the Burgundians, 164 Capersana, a town in Syria, 179; called also Capessana, 255 Caphareus, a promontory of Euboea,
Carambis a promontory in Paphlagonia (now Cape Kerempe), 289 Carcinites, a river and bay on the
Carmania, a province of Persia, 338 Carnuntum, a city of Illyria, 559 Carpi, a people on the Danube, 446, 468 Carræ, a town of Mesopotamia, 177,
Cascellius, a Roman lawyer, 556 Caspian, tribes of the, 291
Cercusium, a fortress in Mesopotamia, 324
Cerealis uncle of Gallus, 43; (2)
master of the horse, 482, 564
Cethegus, a senator, beheaded, 471 Chalcedon, a town in Bithynia, 287; Chærecla, a town in Libya, 313
inscription found on a stone in the walls of, 577 Chalcenterus, an author, 314
Chalybes, a tribe near the Caspian Sea, Chalites, a gulf in Armenia, 332
Chamavi, a German tribe, 141 Charca, a town on the Tigris, 183 Charax, a town in Parthia, 338 Charietto, count of Germany, 14, Chardi, a Scythian tribe, 341
Charinda, a river in Media, 337 Charte and Chartra, towns in Bactria, 340
Chasmatiæ, a kind of earthquake, 130 Chauriana, a town in Scythia. 341 Chiliocomus, a district of Media, 21 Chilo, a Roman deputy, 469
Cassianus, Duke of Mesopotamia, 98, Chionitæ, a tribe bordering on Persia,
Cassium, a town in Egypt, 312 Cassius, a mountain in Syria, 28; Julian sacrifices to Jupiter upon it,
Castalia, a fountain in Phocis, at the
base of Mount Parnassus, 303 Castricius, Count of Isauria, 8 Catadupi, the cataracts of the Nile, or the people who live near them, 307 Catalauni (Chalons sur Marne), 436 Cato, the censor, 16, 81, 88 Catulus, the ædile, 20
Caucalandes, a town in Sarmatia, 588
462, 476, 491, 531, 555, 570, 617
Cilicia, description of, 27
Ciminia, a district in Italy, 140 Cimon, son of Miltiades, 145
Cineas, the ambassador of Pyrrhus, 100 Circesium, a town of Mesopotamia, described, 325
Cius, a town on the Propontis, 287 Civilis, prefect of Britain, 455 Claritas, a Roman matron, 474 Claros, in Lydia, seat of a temple and oracle of Apollo, 210 Claudiopolis, a city in Isauria, 27 Claudius, prefect of Rome, 439, 542 Cleander, a prefect under the Emperor Commodus, 418
Clematius, a citizen of Alexandria, 2 Cleopatra, 313
Coche, a town in Persia, 363 Cola, a town near the Hellespont, 287
Cœni Gallicani, a station in Bithynia, 38 Colchi, a tribe of Egyptian origin, 290 Colias, a Gothic noble, revolts, 392 Cologne (Colonia Agrippina), 86 Comedus, a mountain in the country of the Sacæ, 340 Comets, their nature, 401 Commagena, a province of Syria, 334 Commodus, the Roman Emperor, 507, 605
Como (Comum), a town in Italy, 48 Constans, son of Constantine, 2, 94 Constantia, daughter of Constantius, 423, 539
Constantianus, a tribune, 322, 482,
Constantina, daughter of Constantine the Great, 2, 37, 244, 245
a town in Mesopotamia, 178 Constantine the Great, 60, 81, 93, 97, 131, 419 Constantinople, 287; threatened siege of, by the Goths, 622 Constantius the Emperor, his cruelty, 13; summons Gallus to Italy, 23; makes war on the Allemanni, 32; his speech, 34-36; retires to Milan, 36; his jealousy, 37; his severe treatment of Gallus's friend, 51; invests Julian with the title of
Cæsar, 70; his weakness, 99; his triumphal procession to Rome, 100; his arrogance, 101; erects an obelisk, 130; reply to Sapor, 135; receives the title of Sarmaticus, 156; marches against the Limigantes, 204; jealousy of Julian, 216; besieges Bezabde, 237; marries Faustina after the death of Eusebia, 253; crosses the Euphrates, 255; his speech to his army, 267; unfavourable dreams and omens, 269; his death, 271; virtues and vices, 272; buried at Constantinople, 276
Contensis, a town in Africa, 534 Coptos, a town in the Thebais, 312; story of his wife, 291
Corax, a river flowing into the Euxine,
Corduena, a province belonging to the Persians, 175, 321, 393
Cornelius Gallus, procurator of Egypt,
Cornelius, a senator, 474
Coronus, a mountain in Media, 335 Costoboci, a Scythian tribe, 293 Cottius, a king on the Alps, 75 Craugasius, a noble of Nisibis, 200; story of his wife, 201
Crescens, deputy-governor of Africa,
Cretio, count of Africa, 254 Crispus, son of Constantine the Great,
Crissæan Gulf in Western Locris, 140 Criu-Metopon, a promontory of Thrace, 289
Crocodiles in Egypt, 309 Croesus, 64
Ctesiphon, the winter residence of the Parthian kings, 334
Curandius, a tribune of the archers, 530
Curio, a Roman general, 530 Cybele, festival in honour of, 321 Cyclades, 286
Cydnus, a river in Cilicia, 27 Cylaces, a Persian eunuch, 463 Cynægirus, a Grecian general, 369 Cynossema, a promontory in Caria, now Cape Volpo, 287 Cyprus, 29
Damasus, bishop of Rome, 441
Dindyma, a mountain of Mysia, 287 Dinocrates, an architect, 313 Diocles, treasurer of Illyricum, 451 Diocletian, 59, 317 Diodorus, a count, 301 Diogmitæ, a kind of light-armed troeps, Diogenes, governor of Bithynia, 514
Dionysiopolis, 444
Dionysius, king of Sicily, 44, 64, 97 Dioscurias, a city on the Euxine, 290 Dipsades, a species of Egyptian serpent, 311
Dius, a Mauritanian chief, 527 Discenes, a tribune, 202 Divitenses, a German tribe, 424,436 Domitian, the emperor, 168 Domitianus, prefect of the East, 23, 49 Domitius Corbulo, 48 Dorians, 73
Doriscus, a town in Thrace, 176 Doros, a surgeon of the Scutari, 92
Dandace, a town in the Tauric Cher- Dorostorus, a city of Thrace, 444
Daniel, a Roman count, 546 Danube, description of the, 293 Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, 210; (2)
a town in Mosia, 445
Dardanus, a town in the Hellespont,
Darnis, a town in Libya, 312 Datianus, a Roman consul, 133 Davana, a town in Mesopotamia, 321 Davares, a people of Africa, 532 Decem Pagi (Dieuse), 86 Decentius, a tribune, 216
Delphidius, an orator, 160
Dracontius, master of the mint, 301 Drangiana, a province of Persia, 342 Drepsa, a town in Sogdiana, 340 Drepanum, a town in Bithynia, 425 Druentia (the Durance), a river in Gaul,
Drusus, a Roman general, 443 Drypetina, daughter of King Mithri dates, 95
Dulcitius, a Roman general, 455 Duodiense, a fort in Mauritania, 536 Dura, a town beyond the Tigris, in Mesopotamia, 326, 347, 391 Dymas, a river in Sogdiana, 340 Dynamius, 55
Demetrius Chytras, a philosopher of EARTHQUAKES in Africa, 137; their
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