INDEX.

Egypt, 311

B.

Bacchylides, the lyric poet, 383
Bactra, a river in Bactria, 340
Bactrians, 339

Bætica, a consular province of Spain,

473

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

Nicomedia, 287

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

Promoti, 54

Baraba, a town in Arabia Felix, 338

character, 67

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

of the Edui, 79

where an annual fair was held,

85

Cyrene, 312

the Helvetii, 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,

161

Brahmans, 336, 470

Briançon (Vi gantia), 76

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,

290

C.

CABILLONUM (Chalons sur Marne), 98,
436

Cabyle, a town in Thrace, 607
Cadusii, a tribe on the Caspian Sea,

332

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,

422

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,

444

Calicadnus, a river in Isauria, 9
Callichorus, a river near the Euxine
Sea, 290

territory, 511

ral, 369

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,

522

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,

291

Corduena, a province belonging to the
Persians, 175, 321, 393

Cornelius Gallus, procurator of Egypt,

129

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,

501

Cretio, count of Africa, 254
Crispus, son of Constantine the Great,

41

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