iii. 227; restored to the Byzantine emperors, vii. 238. TARTARY, its situation and extent, iii. 203; conquered by Toulun, iv. 44. TASILLO, duke of Bavaria, his treasons punished, vi. 174.
TASSO, enchanted grove of, vii. 226 and note S.
TATARS, or Tartars, their situation and connection with the Mongols, iii. 294, notes; why called Tartars in- stead of Tatars, 295, note S.; iden- tical with the Scythians, 294, note; their pastoral manners, 295; diet, 296; habitations, 297; exercises, 299; government, 300; probably a Mongolian tribe, viii. 2, note S.; de- scent of the, 3 and note M. TATIAN, præfect of the East, and his son Proculus, ruined by Rufinus, iv. 3. TAURIS, residence of Tiridates, called Ecbatana, ii. 88.
TAURIS, or Gandzaca, city of, v. 402, note.
TAUROBOLIA, ii. 265, note. TAURUS, prætorian præfect, presides in the council of Rimini, iii. 69. TAURUS, consul and præfect of Italy, flies on the approach of Julian, iii. 117; banished to Vercellæ, 127. TAXATION, Romans exempted from, i. 294; reimposed by Augustus, 298; provincial, reduced by Al. Severus to 1-30th, 302; account of, ib. note S.; increase of under Diocle- tian, ii. 96; on property by Galerius, 113; system of in the Roman em- pire at this period, 114, note S.; how adjusted by Constantine the Great, 134; direct, preferred by Constan- tine, 333; on land how levied, 335; on crops, &c., exacted in kind, 336.
TAYEF besieged by Mahomet, vi. 255;
surrenders, 256; date, ib. note S. TEBESTE, the modern Tibesh, remains
of, v. 213, note; battle of between the Romans and Moors, 214. TECRIR, Arabian war-cry, its meaning, vi. 314, note. TEIAS, Gothic commander, occupies Verona, v. 232; elected to succeed Totila, 235; marches to the relief of Cumæ, besieged by Narses, ib.; de- feated and slain at Mount Lactarius, 236.
TEKRIT, captured by Tamerlane, ii.
TEUTONIC KNIGHTS.
410; site of, ib. note S.; the birth- place of Saladin, ib.
TELEMACHUS, St., killed in attempting to separate the gladiators, iv. 41. TELHA, Arabian chief, revolts with Zobeir against Ali, vi. 274; defeated and slain, 275 and note M. TEMPLARS, knights, vii. 231 and note. TEMPLE of Solomon, v. 74, note (v. Jerusalem).
TEMPLE, Sir William, his account of Timour censured, viii. 69, note. TEMPLES, pagan, destroyed by Theo- dosius, iii. 414 and note M.; crusade of Marcellus bishop of Apamea against, 415.
TEMUGIN, v. Zingis. TEPHRICE, fortified by Carbeas the
Paulician, vii. 53; taken and de- stroyed by Basil the Macedonian, 54. TERBELIS, the Bulgarian, assists Jus- tinian II. to regain the throne, vi.
78. TERMINUS, the god, refuses to move, i. 143.
TERRASSON, character of his 'Jurispru- dence Romaine,' v. 260, note. TERTULLIAN, his sentiments not to be deemed general among the Christians, ii. 167, note G.; his exultation on the subject of the last judgment, 177; suggested desertion to Chris- tian soldiers, 188, note; date of his Apology, 212, note; when a Monta- nist calumniated the Agapæ, 229, note; his account of the edicts of Tiberius and M. Antoninus, 255; argument of against the Patripas- sians, iii. 47; boast of Christian knowledge, 51 and note; purity of his worship, 432.
TESSERE, or dice, Roman game of de- scribed, iv. 81 and note. TESTAMENTS, nuncupatory, of soldiers, iii. 214, note; Roman laws respect- ing, v. 308; ceremony of making, 309; distinction between inherit- ance and legacies, ib.; codicils and trusts, 310.
TETRICUS reigas in Gaul by the influ- ence of Victoria, ii. 18; betrays his army to Aurelian, 19; date of his fall, ib. note; adorns the triumph of Aurelian, 27; reinstated in his rank, 28; banquet to Aurelian, 29. TEUTONIC KNIGHTS Conquer Prussia, 1.
378, note; when founded, vii. 231, note.
THABOR, Mount, dispute concerning the divine light of, vii. 404; the light established as an article of faith in the Greek church, 406. THAIR, king of Yemen, overruns Persia, ii. 367; subdued by Sapor, ib. THAMUD, caverns of the tribe of, vi. 240, note.
THANET, isle of, assigned by Vorti-
gern to his Saxon auxiliaries, iv. 387.
THAPSACUS, fords of, on the Euphrates, iii. 190.
THEATRICAL ENTERTAINMENTS of the Romans described, iv. 86. THEBEAN legion, apocryphal story of its martyrdom, ii. 267, note; three different legions, 392, note. THEBARMA, or Ormia, birthplace of Zoroaster, v. 403 and note M. THEBES, in Egypt, kings of, i. 248, note; circumference of, ii. 295. THECLA, sister of the emperor Michael III., concubine of Basil I., vi. 97, note S.
THEFT, Roman laws regarding, v. 315. THEMES, or military governments of the
Eastern empire, account of, vii. 5; list of, ib. note S. THEMISTIUS, address to Jovian in the
name of the Senate of Constanti- nople in favour of toleration, iii. 230.
THEODATUS marries Amalasontha and ascends the throne of Italy, v. 128; puts her to death, ib.; secret nego- ciations with Justinian, ib.; weak character, 130; signs an ignomini- ous treaty with Justinian, ib.; dialogue with Peter the Byzantine ambassador, 131; changes from despair to presumption, 132; de- posed by his army, 135; assassi- nated, ib.
THEODEBERT, king of Austrasia, invades
Italy, v. 151; attacks at once the Romans and Goths, ib.; reduced to treat with Justinian, 152; killed by a wild bull, ib.
THEODEMIR, father of Theodoric, sole king of the Ostrogoths, v. 3. THEODEMIR, Gothic prince of Murcia and Carthagena, his treaty with Ab- delaziz, son of Musa, vi. 362. THEODORA, wife of Constantius, ii. 112.
THEODORA, Consort of Justinian, her birth and early history, v. 42; cap- tivates and marries Justinian, 44; associated in the empire, 45; private life, ib.; tyranny, 46; virtues, ib.; journey to the Pythian baths and death, 47; partiality for the blue faction, 42 and 51; firmness in the Nika sedition, 54; conspiracy against John of Cappadocia, 70; revenge on, ib.; secret intrigues at the court of Italy, 129 and note G.; buys the papal chair for the deacon Vigilius, 145; compels Belisarius to pardon his guilty wife Antonina, 160; restores to the latter her lover Theo- dosius, ib.; letter to Belisarius, 161; her spiritual discord with Justinian, vi. 38.
THEODORA, her singular marriage with the emperor Theophilus, vi. 93; re- gent, ib.; zeal in restoring images ib.; empress, her sanguinary perse- cution of the Paulicians, vii. 52. THEODORA, daughter of Constantine IX., reigns jointly with her sister Zoe, vi. 110; sole reign, ib.; death, 111. THEODORA, daughter of John Cantacu- zene, her marriage with Orchan, Turkish prince of Bithynia, viii. 26. THEODORA, sister of Marozia, her amours and intrigues, vi. 182. THEODORA, widow of Baldwin III. of Jerusalem, becomes the concubine of Andronicus Comnenus, vi. 126. THEODORE ANGELUS, despot of Epirus, seizes and imprisons the emperor Peter of Courtenay, vii. 336; expels Demetrius, son of Boniface, and seizes the kingdom of Thessalonica, 337. THEODORE of Mopsuestia, condemned of heresy by the second council of Constantinople, vi. 39, sq. THEODORE, Monk of Tarsus and primate of Britain, account of, vi. 44, note. THEODORET, bishop of Cyrrhus, his charity towards Maria the Cartha- ginian exile, iv. 188; condemned of heresy, vi. 39, sq.
THEODORIC, Son of Alaric, becomes king of the Visigoths on the death of Wallia, iv. 224; besieges Arles and Narbonne without success, ib.; his family, 226; resolves to avenge the mutilation of his daughter by
her father-in-law Genseric, king of the Vandals in Africa, ib.; is pre- vented by the invasion of Gaul by Attila, ib.; forms an alliance with Aëtius and the Romans, 233; marches against the Huns, 234; killed at the battle of Châlons, 237.
THEODORIC II. acquires the Gothic sceptre by the murder of his brother Torismond, iv. 260; character, ib.; expedition into Spain, 262; defeats and puts to death Rechiarius, king of the Suevi, 263; recalled by the death of Avitus, ib.; acquires the territory of Narbonne, 287; assassi- nated by his brother Euric, ib. THEODORIC the Ostrogoth, his birth and education, v. 1, sq.; genealogical table of his family, 2, note S.; illite- rateness of, 2, note, and 3, note M.; intrusted with the defence of the Lower Danube by Zeno, 3; date of his accession, ib. note S.; forced by the Triarian Goths to revolt against Zeno, 6; treaty, 7; marches into Italy with the consent of Zeno, 8; defeats Odoacer on the Sontius, 9; on the Adige, ib.; solicits the aid of the Visigoths in Gaul, ib.;
proached by his mother for flight, 10 and note; subdues all Italy ex- cept Ravenna, ib. ; reduces and mur- ders Odoacer, ib.; proclaimed king of Italy, ib.; reign, ib.; partition of lands, 11; foreign policy, 13; extent of his dominion, 15; war with the emperor Anastasius and defeat of his general Sabinian, 16; naval armament, ib.; transactions in Gaul, 17; published no Gothic laws, ib.; his Latin edict, ib. note and note S.; connection with the Byzantine Court, 18; administration of justice, ib. and note M.; revenue, 18, note S.; visits Rome, 20; restores and protects the public monuments, 21; residence at Verona, 22; an Arian, 23; his tole- ration, 24; vices of his government, 25; provoked to persecute the Ca- tholics, 26; puts Boethius to death, 31; executes Symmachus, 33; re- morse and death, ib.; tomb at Ra- venna, 34 and note M. THEODORIC, Son of Triarius, v. 6; killed, 7 and note.
THEODORUS, Mallius, merit and promo-
tions of, ii. 318, note; consul with Eutropius, iv. 139.
THEODORUS the deacon, his Acroases, vi. 425, note M.
THEODOTUS Of Hierapolis, base adula- tion of Constantius, iii. 118. THEODOSIAN CODE, dates often altered, ii. 135, note; when published, 303, note; digested by the younger Theo- dosius, v. 271 and note S.; account of its framing, 279, note M.; disco- very of the first five books, ib. THEODOSIOPOLIS, foundation and site of, iv. 168 and note.
THEODOSIUS, father of the emperor, despatched by Valentinian I. to the assistance of the Britons, iii. 270; founds the province of Valentia, 271; made master-general of the cavalry, ib.; defeats the Alemanni, ib.; sup- presses the revolt of Firmus in Africa, 274; beheaded at Carthage, under Gratian, 275.
THEODOSIUS the Great, his distinction between a Roman prince and Par- thian monarch, ii. 344, note; magical prediction of his succession, iii. 243, note; repulses the Sarmatians from Moesia, 288; made emperor of the East by Gratian, 343; birth and character, ib.; genealogical table, 344, note S.; private life, 345; pru- dent conduct of the Gothic war, 347; illness at Thessalonica, 348; enter- tains Athanaric at Constantinople, 350; buries him with splendour, ib.; treaty with Maximus, 362; the first orthodox emperor, 363; baptism, ib.; edict establishing the Trinity, ib.; practical argument of Archilochius in favour of orthodoxy, 364; banishes Damophilus, Arian archbishop of Constantinople, 368; forcibly instal Gregory Nazianzen, ib.; expels the Arian clergy throughout the East, 369; publishes severe edicts against heretics, 370; establishes inquisitors of the faith, 374; visit to the fugi- tive Justina and her son at Thessalo- nica, 383; marries Galla, sister of the latter, 384; espouses the cause of Valentinian II., ib.; defeats Max- imus on the Save, ib.; makes his triumphal entry into Rome, 386; his virtues, ib.; faults, 387; clemency towards the seditious Antiochians, 390 orders the seditious Thessalo
nicans to be massacred, 392; in- fluence of St. Ambrose over, 393; excommunicated by him and sub- jected to public penance in the cathedral of Milan, 394, 8q.; restores Valentinian II. in the pro- vinces usurped by Maximus, 396; consults the Egyptian hermit John respecting the usurpation of Euge- nius, 399; repulsed by Arbogastes at Aquileia, 401; his troops desert to Theodosius, ib. ; defeat and deaths of Eugenius and Arbogastes, 402; sole emperor, 403; appoints his sons Arcadius emperor of the East and Honorius emperor of the West, ib.; death, ib.; proposition to the senate whether Jupiter or Christ shall be worshipped, 411; date of that event, ib. note; inquiry as to its truth, ib. note M.; prohibited sacrifices, 413; destroyed the heathen temples, 414; laws how evaded, 421; last and peremptory edict against paganism, 422; patronized meritorious pagans, 425; family of in Spain oppose the invasion of the usurper Constantine, iv. 55; posterity of, 294 and note. THEODOSIUS the Younger, surrounds Constantinople with walls, ii. 295 and note; reception of the relics of St. Chrysostom, iv. 158; education and character, 162; marries Eudocia, 164; Persian war, 166; truce of one hundred years, 167; despatches an army to Italy against the usurper John, 172; devout triumph for his death, 173; relinquishes the Western empire to Valentinian III., 174; ac- quires Western Illyricum, ib.; final dissolution of the unity of the Roman government, ib.; pays tribute to the Huns, 192; increased by Attila, 193; disgraceful peace with the latter, 205; approves the plot for the assas- sination of Attila, 217; severely reproved by Eslaw, Attila's ambas- sador, ib.; death, 218; his conduct in the dispute between Cyril and Nestorius, vi. 20; banishes Nesto- rius and proscribes his opinions, 23. THEODOSIUS III., emperor of Constan- tinople, deposed by Leo the Isau- rian, vi. 81; inscription on his tomb, ib.
THEODOSIUS, son of the emperor Mau- rice, beheaded by Phocas, v. 387.
THEODOSIUS, paramour of Antonina, wife of Belisarius, history of, v. 158; turns monk, 159; death, 160 and note M. THEODOSIUS, the deacon, murdered by his brother Constans II., vi. 75. THEODOSIUS, deacon of Syracuse, cap- tured and imprisoned by the Sara- cens, vi. 409. THEODOSIUS, patriarch of Alexandria, his contest with Gaian, vi. 59; deposed, 60; conferences with Jus- tinian, 61.
THEODOSIUS, a revenue officer, invested with the purple by the troops of the Obsequian theme, vi. 379.
THEOLOGIANS, how esteemed among the Huns, iv. 303.
THEOPHANES, the chronicler, account of, v. 391.
THEOPHANO, empress of Leo V., pro- cures a fatal respite for Michael the Phrygian, vi. 90.
THEOPHANO, wife of Romanus II., ori- gin and character, vi. 103; poisons her husband and father-in-law, 104; intrigues with Nicephorus Phocas, ib.; her marriage with him refused by the patriarch, 105 and note M.; intrigues with John Zimisces, ib.· conspires with him against Phocas, ib.; exiled by him, 106. THEOPHANO, daughter of the emperor Romanus, marries the son of Otho the Great, vii. 25; regent of Rome, Italy, and Germany, ib. THEOPHILUS, Consular of Syria under Gallus, murder of, ii. 390. THEOPHILUS, surnamed the Unfortu- nate, emperor of Constantinople, vi. 91; tyranny, 92 and note S.; un- grateful execution of Theophobus, 93; death, ib. ; his singular marriage, ib.; the last and most cruel of the Iconoclasts, 165.
THEOPHILUS, son of Michael the Stam-
merer, emperor of Constantinople, his warlike character, vi. 413; takes and razes Sozopetra, ib.; defeated at Amoricum by the caliph Motassem, 414. THEOPHILUS, bishop of Antioch, de- clines to produce one raised from the dead, ii. 179. THEOPHILUS, archbishop of Alexandria, character, iii. 418 and note; de- molishes the Serapeum, 419; seconds
Eudoxia in persecuting Chrysostom, iv. 154; flies from Constantinople,
THEOPHILUS, Christian missionary to the Sabeans or Homerites, iii. 25 and note M.
THEOPHILUS, the jurist, his servile
opinion respecting the arbitrary power of the emperor, v. 270. THEOPHOBUS, Sassanid prince, com- mander of the Persians in the service of the emperor Theophilus, refuses to rebel against that monarch, vi. 92; beheaded by Theophilus, 93. THERAPEUTE, described, ii. 210, note. THERME of Diocletian, ii. 113, note. THERMANTIA, wife of Honorius, and sister of Maria, divorced, iv. 62. THERMOPYLÆ, straits of, strengthened by Justinian, v. 79.
THESSALONICA, sedition at, iii. 391; the citizens massacred by order of Theodosius, 392; kingdom of, vii. 324; united to the empire of Nice, 343. THEUDELINDA, daughter of Garibald, king of Bavaria, marries Autharis, king of Lombardy, 7. 353; her second husband succeeds to the king- dom, ib.
THEUDES, Gothic king of Spain, be- sieges Ceuta, v. 123; refuses assist- ance to Gelimer, king of the Vandals, 124.
THEURGY or magic of the Platonists, iii. 142 and note.
THIBAUT, Count of Champagne, leader
of the fourth crusade, vii. 289; death, 294.
THILUTHA, fortress of, resists the arms of Julian, iii. 193. THOMAS, St., said to have preached Christianity in India, vi. 51; his shrine near Madras visited by the ambassadors of Alfred, ib.; gospel of, 226, note.
THOMAS, St., Christians of on the coast of Malabar, vi. 51, and 53, note M. THOMAS, a noble Greek, his valiant de- fence of Damascus, vi. 308; skill in archery, ib.; wounded by the wife of Aban, 309; repulsed by Caled, ib.; exile, 311.
THOMAS the Cappadocian disputes the title of Michael II., and besieges Constantinople, vi. 91; taken and executed, ib.
THOR, Cave of, Mahomet's concealment in, vi. 242; legends respecting, ib. and note S.
THRACE described, i. 159; colonized by the Bastarnæ, ii. 48; gold mines of, iii. 327 and note; Goths settled in by Theodosius, 352.
THRASIMUND, king of the African Van dals, his religious sentiments, iv. 329. THUNDERING LEGION, story of the, ii. 256 and note.
THURINGIA, subdued by Attila, iv. 196. THURINGIANS, their cruelty to the Franks on the retreat of Attila, iv. 239 and note.
THYATIRA, church of, when founded, ii. 207; battle of, iii. 242; site, ib. notes.
THYSDRUS, city of, i. 310 and note. TIARA, or triple crown of the popes, origin and meaning of, viii. 250, note.
TIBER, inundations of the, viii. 272 273, note M.
TIBERIAS, the residence of the Jewish patriarch, iii. 155; besieged by Sala- din, vii. 257; battle of between Saladin and Guy de Lusignan, ib. and note M.
TIBERIUS, adopted by Augustus, i. 212; character, 217; used the forms of justice, 219; first assumed the privilege of majestas, ib. note W.; conduct towards Germanicus' widow, ib. note; fixes the prætorians at Rome, 242; abolishes half the excise on the reduction of Cappadocia, 298, note; supposed edict of in favour of the Christians, ii. 256. TIBERIUS, captain of the guards, asso- ciated in the empire by the younger Justin, v. 342; accession, 343; de- clares his wife Anastasia empress, ib.; assumes the name of Constan- tine, 344; his virtues, ib.; names Maurice as his successor, 345; death,
ib.; his war with the Persians, 365. TIBUR or Tivoli, town of, viii. 210; siege of by the modern Romans, ib. TIGRANOCERTA, city, ii. 88, note. TIGRIS, passage of the by Julian, iii. 203.
TIL or Tula river, v. 176 and note M. TILLEMONT, his Life of St. Augustin, iv. 182, note; character as an eccle siastical historian, vi. 34, ncte.
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