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,
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- Acimincum, a town in Hungary,
Acone, a port on the Euxine Sea, 289 Acontiæ, a species of serpent in Egypt, 311
Acontisma, 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, called also Nemesis, 42, 281 Adrastus, king of the Argives, 41 Adesius, keeper of the records, 56, 58 Egean Sea, 286
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, 187, 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, 313 its temples and library, 314; in 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, 556
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
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 from Nisibis, 173; sent to Jovini- anus, satrap of Corduena, 175; narrow escape of, 181; arrives at Antioch, 200; accompanies Julian in his expedition against the Persians, 326; returns with Jovian, 402; his advice to future historiaus, 623 Ampelius, prefect of Qtricoli, 472
Amphiaraus, an ancient seer, Amphilochius, a Paphlagonian, 252 Amphisbæna, a serpent, 311 Amphitheatre at Rome, 102, 411 Amphitris, a Spartan, the charioteer of
Castor and Pollux, 290
Amudis, a fort in Mesopotamia, 173 Amycus, king of the Bebrycii, 288 Anaphe, an island in the Ægean Sea,
Anatha, a fortress in Mesopotamia, 347
Anatolis, prefect of Illyricum, 204; master of the offices, 234; his death,
Anatolius, an officer of the palace, 504 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
Ancyra, a city of Galatia, 296, 403, 426 Andernach (Antumacum), 161 Andocides, a Grecian orator, 554 Andriscus of Adramyttium, 44, 421 Andronicus, a poet, 209
Anepsia, wife of Victorinus, 475, 473 Anicii, the, a noble family at Rome, 98 Anniba, a mountain in Scythia, 341 Anthemusia, a province of Mesopo- tamia, 10
Anthropophagi, a Scythian tribe, 580 Antibes (Antipolis), a town in Gaul, 79 Antinoöpolis, a city in Egypt, 312 Antioch in Syria, 28; visited by the Emperor Julian, 297; by Jovian,
Antiochia, in Persia, 339 Antiphon, a Greek orator, 554 Antoninopolis, a town in Mest potamia, built by Constantius, 182 Antoninus, a wealthy merchant, after wards one of the protectores, 168; his treachery, 169 Antonius, a tribune, 415 Anzaba, a river in Mesopotamia, 175 Apamia, a city in Assyria, 334, 338 a city in Thrace, 287
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 Cimaan, 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, 299, 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,
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; put 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
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 Rome,
Artogerassa, a city of Armenia, 464 Arzanena, a province of Mesopotamia,
Ascalon, a city of Palestine, 29 Ascanimia, a mountain in Scythia, 340 Asclepiades the philosopher, 304 Asclepiadotus, count, 65
Asia Minor, description of, 289 Asmira, a mountain in Serica, 341
Avernus, a lake in Campania, 489 Avitianus, deputy-governor of Africa, 451
Axius, a river of Macedonia, 258 Azmorna, a city of Hyrcania, 339 Azov, sea of (Palus Mæotis), 288, 577, 582
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 Betæ, 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 Scutarii, 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 Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, his 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 (Ausci), 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 of the Edui, 79
Auxerre (Autosidorum), a city in Gaul, 85
Avenches (Aventicum), the capital of the Helvetii, 79
ing stones, described, 322
Bappo, a tribune, commander of the Promoti, 54
Baraba, a town in Arabia Felix, 338 Barbatio, count of the domestics, 40; promoted to the command of the infantry, 104, 136; a swarm of bees on his house regarded as a bad omen, 165; an arrogant and trea- cherous man, 166; beheaded, 166 Barbitani, mountains in Persia lying towards India, 343
Barchalbas, a tribune, 430 Bards, the poets of Gaul, 74 Barzala, a fort in Mesopotamia, 179 Barzimeres, tribune of the Scutarii, 546 Basilica of Sicininus in Rome, probably the church of Santa Maria Maggiore, 441
Basilina, mother of the Emperor Julian, 383
Basilisk, a kind of Egyptian serpent, 311
Bassianus, a Roman of noble family, 515 Bassus, prefect of Rome, 146 Batne, a town near the Euphrates,
where an annual fair was held, 10 Battus, a Spartan, the founder of Cyrene, 312
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 Belgæ, 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
Berca, a city of Thrace, 444
Berytus, a city of Phoenicia (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 Betæ, 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
Bisula, a river (the Weichsel), 292 Bitaxa, a town of the Ariani, 342 Bitheridus, a German noble, 525 Bithynia, 288
Bizes, a river of the Euxine, 288 Blemmyæ, a people near the cataracts of the Nile, 11
Boæ, an island on the coast of Dalmatia, 279
Bonitus, a Frank, the father of Silvanus, 63
Bonmunster (Bononia), a town in Pan- nonia, 257
Bonn (Bonna), a town in Germany, 161 Borion, a promontory in Egypt, 307 Bosporus, the Thracian (the Straits of Constantinople), 288
the Cimmerian (Straits of Yene- Kali), 70
Bostra, a city of Arabia, 29 Boulogne (Bononia), a town in Gaul,
Bourdeaux (Burdegala), a city in Aqui- tania, 79
Brahmans, 336, 470
Briançon (Virgantia), 76 Brigantia (the lake of Constance); 52 Brisoana, a 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
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-
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