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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-
Acimincum, a town in Hungary,

205

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

Adonis, 186

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

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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

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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,

139

Anatha, a fortress in Mesopotamia,
347

Anatolis, prefect of Illyricum, 204;
master of the offices, 234; his death,

253

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,

401

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

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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; 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

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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,

146

duke of Egypt, 300

Artogerassa, a city of Armenia, 464
Arzanena, a province of Mesopotamia,

393

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

BABYLON, 334

Asp, the largest species of serpent in Bacchus, 290

Egypt, 311

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

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 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-

Nicomedia, 287

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,

212

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

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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-

territory, 511

ral, 369

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