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Callipolis, a city at the head of the
Hellespont, 287

Callisthenes, a pupil of Aristotle, 166
Callistratus, an ancient orator, 554
Camaritæ, a tribe near the Euxine Sea
290

Cambyses, king of Persia, 129

a river in Media, 337

Cella, a tribune of the Scutarii, 105
Celse, a town in Phoenicia, 23
Cephalonesus, a town on the Borys
thenes, 293

Ceras, a cape on the Propontis, 287
Cerasus, a town in Pontus, 289
Cercetæ, 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

Pollux, 290

Cercusium, a fortress in Mesopotamia,
324

Cerealis, uncle of Gallus, 43; (2) a

master of the horse, 482, 564
Cethegus, a senator, beheaded, 471
Chærecla, a town in Libya, 313
Chalcedon, a town in Bithynia, 287;
inscription found on a stone in the
walls of, 577

Chalcenterus, an author, 314

Capellatum, a district on the borders of Chaldæa, 335
the Burgundians, 164

Capersana, a town in Syria, 179; called
also Capessana, 255
Caphareus, a promontory of Euboea,
286

Carambis a promontory in Paphlagonia

(now Cape Kerempe), 289
Carcinites, a river and bay on the
Euxine Sea, 292

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,
237, 320

Cascellius, a Roman lawyer, 556
Caspian, tribes of the, 291
Cassianus, Duke of Mesopotamia,
176, 201, 396

Chalites, a gulf in Armenia, 332
Chalybes, a tribe near the Caspian Sea,

290

Chamavi, a German tribe, 141
Charax, a town in Parthia, 338
Charca, a town on the Tigris, 183
Chardi, a Scythian tribe, 341
Charietto, count of Germany, 144,
436

Charinda, a river in Media, 337
Charte and Chartra, towns in Bactria,
340

Chasmatiæ, a kind of earthquake, 139
Chauriana, a town in Scythia, 341
Chiliocomus, a district of Media, 21
Chilo, a Roman deputy, 469
98, Chionitæ, a tribe bordering on Persia,
99, 134, 176

Cassium, a town in Egypt, 312
Cassius, a mountain in Syria, 28;
Julian sacrifices to Jupiter upon it,
305

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

Chnodomarius, a king of the Allemanni,

107, 112, 120; taken prisoner and
sent to Rome, 121; his death, 121
Choaspa, a town in Arachosia, 343
Choaspes, a river in Media, 337
Choatres, a river in Parthia, 338
Chronius, a river of the Euxine Sea,
292

Chrysopolis, a city on the Propontis,
287

Cibalæ, a town in Pannonia, 566
Cicero, 5, 49, 61, 81, 84, 210, 245,

274, 284, 310, 406, 433, 443, 457,

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, 592
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

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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

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Dames, 95

Dindyma, a mountain of Mysia, 287
Dinocrates, an architect, 313
Diocles, treasurer of Illyricum, 451
Diocletian, 59, 317

Diodorus, a count, 301

Diogenes, governor of Bithynia, 514
Diogmitæ, a kind of light-armed troops,

456

Dionysiopolis, 444

Dionysius, king of Sicily, 44, 64, 97
Dioscurias, a city on the Euxine, 290
Dipsades, a species of Egyptian serpent,
311

Discenes, a tribune, 202
Dius, a Mauritanian chief, 527
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

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Dracontius, master of the mint, 301
Drangiana, a province of Persia, 342
Drepanum, a town in Bithynia, 425
Drepsa, a town in Sogdiana, 340
Druentia (the Durance), a river in Gaul,
77

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Demetrius Chytras, a philosopher of EARTHQUAKES in Africa, 137; their

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Delta in Egypt, 309

Alexandria, 209

Democritus, 46, 88, 286

Demosthenes, 549, 554

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supposed causes, 138

Ecbatana, an Assyrian town, 334

Eclipses, causes of, 214

Edessa, 236, 255

Elephantine, a city of Ethiopia, 307
Elephants, 376

Eleusis, 139

Eleutheropolis, a town in Palestine,

29

Elusa (Elause), a town in Gaul, 79

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Erythræ, a city in Ionia, 617

Esaias, a Roman noble, 477

F.

FABIUS MAXIMUS, 81
Fabricius Luscinus, 548

Fara, an island on the coast of Persia,
338

Farnobius, 587, 601

Faustina, the second wife of the Em-

Faustinus, a military secretary, 562
peror Constantius, 253, 271, 423
Felix, master of the offices, 233, 317
Fericius, a Mauritanian chief, 530
Ferratus, a mountain in Mauritania,
527

Festus, governor of Syria, 519; his
cruelties, 528

Fidustius, accused of magic, 505

Essedones and Essedon, a people and Firmus, a Mauritanian chief, 525; his

town of the Seres, 341
Eubulus, a citizen of Antioch, 22
Eucarius, proprefect of Asia, 506
Euctemon, an ancient astronomer, 407
Eumenius, 477

Eumolpias (Philippopolis), 278
Eupatoria, a city of the Tauri, 292
Euphrasius, master of the

422

Euphrates, 199, 335

offices,

Euphronius, governor of Mesopotamia,

176
Eupraxius, master of the records, 450
Euripides, his tomb at Arethusa, 443
Europos, a city of Persia, 337
Eusebia, wife of the Emperor Constan-
tius, 48; her plots against Helena,
103, 253
Eusebius, an orator, surnamed Pittacus,
23, 31; (ii.) High Chamberlain, 33,
36, 167, 281; (iii.) surnamed Mat-
tyocopa, 55; (iv.) brother of Euse-
bia and Hypatius, 160, 253, 516;
(v.) Bishop of Nicomedia, 295
Euseni, an eastern people, near Persia,

29

Eustathius, a philosopher, 136
Eutherius, prefect of the bedchamber,
93, 232

Eutropius, proconsul of Asia, 512
Evagrius, one of the emperor's house-
hold, 280

Exsuperius, one of the Victorian Legion,
361

flight, 533; commits sucide, 537
Flavian, a Roman citizen, 502
Florentius, (i.) prefect of the Pretorian
Guard, 110, 128, 216, 232, 253,
270; (ii.) the son of Nigridianus, 58,
213, 279; (iii.) the prefect of Gaul
under Valentinian, 452; (iv.) a tri-
bune, 430; (v.) Duke of Germany,

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Gaza (now Ghuzzeh), a city of Pales-
tine, 29

Gazaca, a town in Media, 337
Geapolis, a town in Arabia, 338
Gedrosia, a province of Persia, 343
Gelani, a people of the East, near Persia,
134

Geloni, a tribe near the Caspian, 291
Genonia, a town in Parthia, 338
Genua (Genoa), chief town of the
Ligures, 77

George, bishop of Alexandria, 300,
301

Gerasa, a town in Arabia, 29
Gerasus (the Pruth), 584
Germanianus, 255

Germanicopolis, in Bithynia, 456
Germanicus, 306
Germany, 78

Gerontius, tortured by Constantius, 12
Gildo, a Mauritanian chief, 526
Glabrio, Acilius, 17

Gomoarius, or Gumoharius, 233, 255,
269, 422, 429

Gordian, the elder, 421; (ii.) the
younger, 326
Gorgias of Leontinum, 354
Gorgonius, Cæsar's chamberlain, 48
Goths, 442, 445, 585; invade Thrace,
599; defeated by Frigeridus, 601;
massacre of the, 623

Gratian, the elder, 566; (ii.) son of
Valentinian, 448; takes Equitius as
his colleague, 551, 602, 605; sur-
prised by Sebastian, 607

Grumbates, king of the Chronitæ, 176,
185

Gruthungi, a tribe of Ostrogoths, 446,
583

Gundomadus, king of the Allemanni,
32, 111.

Gynæcon, a town in the Persian pro-
vince of Gedrosia, 343
Gyndes, a Persian river, 337
H.

HADRIAN, 386, 571

Hadrianople, battle of, 610-615; siege
of by the Goths, 619; raised, 620
Hadrianopolis, 39, 444, 607
Hannibal, 77; buried at Libyssa, 295
Harax, a river in Susiana, 335
Hariobaudes, a tribune, 161, 162
Hariobaudus, a king of the Allemanni,
164

Harmozon, a promontory in Carmania,

332

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