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Lawyers, Roman, described, 555
Lazica, a province of Scythia, 465
Leap-year explained, 407

Lemannus (the Lake Leman), 79
Lemnos, an island off the coast of
Thrace, 286

Lentia (Lintz), 52, 602
Lentienses, incursions of the, 53

Leo, a Pannonian, 407, 470, 551,
561

Leonas, quæstor of Constantius, 233
Leontius, prefect of Rome, 65
Leptis, a town in Africa, distress of,
497; implores the emperor's aid, 499
Lesbos, an island on the Egean Sea,
286

Leuce, an island in the Black Sea,
292

Liberius, bishop of Rome, banished by
Constantius for refusing to concur
in the deposition of Athanasius, 67
Libino, a count, sent by Julian against
the Allemanni and slain, 247
Libya, 312

Libyssa, a town in Bithynia, 295
Limigantes, slaves of the Sarmatians,

151, 203; their treachery, 151, 203,
205; defeated, 207

Lions in Mesopotamia, 177
Londinium (London), 212, 454, 483
Lorne, a fort in Mesopotamia, 201
Lotophagi, mentioned by Homer, 20
Lucillianus, count of the domestics, and
father-in-law of Jovian, 39, 159,
175, 257, 322, 396, 402

637

Luscus, governor of Antioch, burnt to
death, 25

Lusius, an officer under Trajan, 526
Lutetia (Paris), the capital of the Pa-
risii, 78

Luto, count, 65

Lycaonia, part of Asia Minor, 7
Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, 88,
296, 572

Lyons (Lugdunum), 79

gulf of (Adgradus), 80
Lysimachia, 287

M.

MACELLUM, in Cappadocia, 48
Macepracta, a town in Assyria, 351
Maces, a promontory in the Persian
Gulf, 332

Machameus, a Roman general, killed,
374

Macrianus, a king of the Allemanni,
164, 494, 523, 552
Macrones, a people near the Euxine,
290

Mæotus Palus (the Sea of Azov), 291
Magamalcha, a city in Persia, 357
Magi, 336
Maharbal, 170

Malaricus, commander of the Gentiles,
56, 57; appointed by Jovian com-
mander of the forces in Gaul, 396
Malechus Podosaces, 350

Mallobaudes, or Mellobaudes, 41, 56,
553, 603

Mamersides, 353, 363

Mamertinus, 255, 259, 279; made
prefect of Italy, with Africa and
Illyricum, 414; accused of pecula-
tion, 451

Mancinus, C. Hostilius, a Roman
consul, 44

Manlius Priscus, & lieutenant of
Pompey, 95

Lucullus, a Roman general who defeated Maraccus, a river near the Caspian Sea,

the Thracians, 444
Lugdunum (Lyons), 79

Lupicinus, master of the horse, 163;
sent against the Picts, 212, 233; (ii.)
count of Thrace, 587, 589; (iii.) one
of the Gentiles, 460
Luscinus, 361, 548

291

Maranx, a district in Persia, 375
Maras, a Christian deacon, put to the
torture, 32

Maratocupreni, a people in Syria, who
lived by plunder, 48

Marcellianus, duke of Valeria, 539

Marcellus, 86; master of the horse,
88;
cashiered, 92, 95; (ii.) a
kinsman of Procopius, kills Serenia-
nus, 431; seizes Chalcedon, 431;
taken and put to death, 432
Marcianopolis, a city of Thrace, 444,
589

Marcianus, 265; (ii.) a rhetorician,
557

Marcius, an ancient seer,
Marcomanni, 538

Marcus Aurelius, 274, 538, 591
Mareades, 325

Margiani, a Persian tribe, 339

Medianum, a fortress in Mauritania,
535
Media, 335

Mediolanum (Evreux), 79
Meiacarire, a small town in Mesopo-
tamia, noted for its cool springs,
174

Melanchlani, a tribe near the Palus
Mæotis, 291

Melantheas, a country palace of the
Roman emperors, 606
Melas, a river in Pamphylia, 7

a bay (Gulf of Saros) on the
coast of Thrace, 286

Mariandena, a district in Bithynia, 288 | Melitina, a town in Lesser Armenia,

Marius Maximus, 488

Marinus, a tribune, 51

Maronea, a town in Thrace, 286

Marseilles (Massilia), 79

Marses, a river in Assyria, 335

Martinus, a deputy-governor of Britain,
13; commits suicide, 14
Masaucio, 416

Mascizel, a Mauritanian chief, 527
Masilla, 537

Massagetæ, 292, 328, 580
Massilia (Marseilles), 74, 79
Massissenses, & people of Mauritania,

527

Matrona, an Alpine mountain (Mont
Genevre), 76; (ii.) the Marne, a
river in Gaul, 78

Maride, a fort in Mesopotamia, 201
Maudio, count, 65
Mauritania, 526

Maurus, a Roman count, 220
Maxentius, a Pannonian, 452
Maxera, a river in Hyrcania, 339
Maximianopolis, a city in Thrace, 444
Maximinus, the Roman emperor, 4

- prefect of Rome, 468; his ferocity,
469, 470, 473-476
Maximus, prefect of Rome, 265

a celebrated philosopher, be-
headed at Ephesus, 513
Mayence (Moguntiacum), stormed by
Rando, a chief of the Allemanui, 457
Mazaca, a city in Cappadocia, 233
Mazices, a people in Mauritania, 529
Mazuca, a Mauritanian chief, 534
Mederichus, a king of the Allemanni,

113

Memoridus, tribune, 396

200, 236

Memorius, prefect of Cilicia, 319

Memphis, a town of Egypt, 313
Menander, a poet, 270

Menapila, a town in Bactria, 340
Menophilus, the eunuch of king Mithri
dates, 95

Mephra, a town in Arabia, 338
Mercurius, a notary, nicknamed the
Count of Dreams, 50

Merenes, a Persian general, 375
Meribanes, king of Hiberis, 253
Merobaudes, 574, 598

Meroë, a town in Ethiopia, 307, 312
Mesene, a town in Assyria, 334
Meseus, a river in Persia, 335
Mesopotamia, 134

Messalla, prefect of Panuonia, 540
Meton, an ancient astronomer, 407
Metrodorus, 387

Metz (Mediomatricum), 79, 99
Midas, king of Phrygia, 296
Milan, 49

Milesians, Athenian colouists, 288
Miletus, 468

Mimas, mount, 617
Minervius, consular governor, 473
Misopogon, the, 305
Mithridates, 94
Mnevis, 306

Modestus, count of the East, 208; pre-
fect of the prætorium, 506, 553
Masia, one of the Danubian provinces,
146; (ii.) a town in Parthia, 338
Moguntiacus (Mayence), 78
Monæcus (Monaco), 76

INDEX.

Montius, a quæstor, 24, 31; his violent
death, 25, 40, 49
Mopsucrenæ, a town in Cilicia, 271
Mopsuestia, 27

Mopsus, a celebrated seer, 27
Mosa (the Meuse), 127

Mossynæci, a tribe near the Euxine
Sea, 290

Mothone, a town of Laconia, 434
Moxoëne, a province beyond the Tigris,
221, 393

Munderic, a Thuringian noble, 584
Murci, persons exempt from military
service, 81
Murocincta, 575

Mursa, battle of, 63

Musones, a people in Mauritania, 531
Musonianus, prefect of the East, 81,
98, 136

Musonius, a rhetorician, afterwards

deputy governor of Asia Minor, 456
Mygdonia, part of Bithynia, 288
Mygdus, a town in Phrygia, 424

N.

NABATHÆI, a people of Arabia, 29
Nabdates, 362; burnt alive, 364
Nacolia, a town in Phrygia, 430
Næssus, or Næsus, a town in Illyricum,
259, 414

Nagara, a town in Arabia, 338
Naharmalcha, a canal joining the Eu-
phrates to the Tigris, 366
Nannenus, or Nannienus, Count of
Britain, 493; defeats the Allemanni,

603

Napai, a tribe of the Caspian, 291
Naphtha, 333, 337

Narbona (Narbonne), capital of the fol-
lowing, 79

Narbonne, a province of Gaul, 78
Narses, king of the Persians, 327; (ii.)
a Persian nobleman, 134, 368
Nascon, a town in Arabia, 338
Natiso, a river near Aquilea, 262
Natuspardo, chief of the domestici, 461
Naulibus, 342
Nauplius, 286

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Neo-Cæsarea, a city in Pontus, 465
Neotherius, 416
Nepotianus, 467

Nestica, tribune of the Scutarii, 144
Neuri, a tribe of the Massigetæ, 580
Nevitta, master of the horse, 256, 258,
259, 265, 284, 347, 359
Nicea in Bithynia, 295

in Gaul (Nice), 79
Nice, a town in Thrace, 606
Nicer (the Neckar), 480
Nicomedia, 137, 287, 295, 304
Nicopolis, 444, 591

Nigrinus, 260; burnt alive, 264
Nile, 307; its islands, 309
Nileus, son of Codrus, 288, 468
Nineveh, 176 (Ninus), 28, 334
Ninus, or Nineveh, 28
Niphates, 332
Nisæa, 339

Nisibis, a town in Mesopotamia, 20,

172, 178, 393; its importance, 397
Nobles, Roman, vices of the, 487-491
Nohodares, a Persian noble, 10, 174;
killed, 380

Novesium (Nuys), 161
Novidunum (Nivors), 446
Nubel, a Mauritanian chief, 525
Numerius, prefect of Gaul, 160
Nymphæum, a temple in Rome sacred
to the nymphs, 66

Nymphæus, a river in Mesopotamia,
183

0.

OBELISK, Egyptian, inscription upon
an, 132

Obroatis, a town in Persia, 338
Ochus, a river in Bactria, 340

Nazavicium, mountain of Scythia, 341
Neapolis (formerly Shechem, now Na-Ocricoli (Ocriculum), 100, 472

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Parion, a town on the Hellespont
287

Parnasius, prefect of Egypt, 209
Paropanisatæ, a tribe of Persians, 342
Parthenius, a river in Bithynia, 289
Parthia, 338

Parthiscus, a river in Sarmatia, 152
Pasiphilus, a philosopher, 512
Patares, straits between the Palus
Maotis and the Euxine, 291
Paternianus, 551

Patigran, a town in Media, 337
Patræ, a town in Achaia, 209
Patricius, 505, 510

Patruinus, a Roman noble, 67
Paulus, surnamed "The Chain," 13,
14; his character, 207; despatched
as a judge with Modestus to the
East, 208; his cruelties, 209, 210,
280

Pelagia, a name given to the Island of
Rhodes, 139

Pelusium, a city in Egypt, 312
Pentadius, a notary, 41; made master
of the offices, 232, 279
Pentapolis, a province of North Africa,
312

Peregrinus, a philosopher, 513
Pergamius, accused of magical prac
tices, 505

Persepolis, a town of Persia, 338
Persia, described, 331-337; its rivers

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Pharos, an island and lighthouse near | Priarius, king of the Allemanni, killed,
Alexandria, 313

603

Phasis, a river and city in Colchis, Priscus, a philosopher, 383

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a town on the Tigris, called also
Bezabde, 225

Phronemius, 422; exiled to the Cher-
sonesus, 432
Phrygia, 380

Phrynichus, an Athenian dramatist,
468

Phyllis, a river flowing into the
Euxine, 288

Picenses, a Sarmatian tribe, 155
Pictavi (Poictiers), 79

Picts and Scots, 212, 453; harass the
Britons, 413

Pigranes, a Persian general, 368
Piri, a mountain in Germany, 481
Pirisabora, a town in Persia, 351; cap-
tured and burnt by Julian, 353
Pistoja, a town of Tuscany, ominous
occurrence at, 439

Pityus, an island in the Euxine, 289
Plato, 90, 315, 383, 554

Plautian, 418, 507

Plotinus, 270, 314

Probus, 461; his cowardice, 540, 551,
560

Proconesus, an island in the Propontis,
287

Procopius, 159; message from, 175,
320, 401; attempts a revolution in
the East, 415; his former career,
417; saluted as emperor, 421; his
successes, 424, 425; his death, 431
Profuturus, 594, 599

Prophthasia, capital of Drangiana, 342
Prosper, count, 37, 82, 136
Protagoras, 286
Provertuides, 453
Ptolemais, 312

Ptolemy the geographer, 287
Pyla, a town on the borders of Cilicia
and Cappadocia, 297
Pyramids of Egypt, 311
Pythagoras, 315

Q.

QUADI, neighbours of the Sarmatians,
103, 146, 148; ravage Pannonia,
413, 538
Quadriburgium, 161

Quintianus, a senator, 507
Quintilii, two Roman brothers, 490

R.

RABANNE, a Scythian tribe, 341
Rainbows, causes of, 241
Ramestes, an Egyptian king, 132
Rando, a chief of the Allemanni, 457
Rauracum, a town on the Rhine (Basle)
34, 79, 255
Regulus, 17

Podosaces, chief of the Assanite Sara- Rehimena, a province beyond the

cens, 350

Pola, a town in Istria, 41

Polemonion, a town of Pontius, 289

Pollentianus, a tribune, 518
Polybius, the historian, 353
Pompey, 146

Portospana, a town in Carmania, 339
Posthumus, 274

Potentius, a tribune, 615

Prætextatus, 285, 457, 473

Tigris, 393

Reman, a Roman fortress in Mesopo-
tamia, 183

Remi (Rheims), 79, 86

Remigius, 64, 455, 497, 525; commits
suicide, 551

Remora, a tribune given as a hostage to

the Persians, 394

Resaina, battle of, 328

Rha (the Volga), 291

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