struct an authentic narrative, which would show how Rome, from a republic whose power included only a portion of central Italy, extended her conquests so that she became mistress of all the countries surrounding the Mediterranean; how her free republican constitution, originally calculated for a single city and its community of citizens, found itself converted into the central point of an enormous empire of dependencies; and how that constitution, being unfitted for the government of a vast body of provincial subjects, and unable to overcome the dangers which it created, was strangled by the powers which her military successes had called into being; until the Roman world, exhausted by civil wars, sank into repose under the mild dominion of the dictator Cæsar, and of his nephew, the wise Augustus. In this history much must remain incomplete, uncertain, unknown; but the great outlines are as firmly marked as in a modern history, composed with brighter lights and from ampler materials; and the historical inquirer will meet with a richer return for his labours, than if he bewildered himself with vain attempts to distinguish between fact and fiction, in the accounts of the foundation of Rome, the constitution of Servius, the expulsion of Tarquin, the war with Porsena, the creation of the dictatorship and tribunate, the decemviral legislation, the siege of Veii, and the capture of Rome by the Gauls; or even the Licinian rogations, and the Samnite wars. ADDITIONS AND CORRECTIONS. Page 23. The conspiracy of the slaves is mentioned by Joannes Antiochenus, § 44, Fragm. Hist. Gr. vol. iv. p. 555; but it is placed in the sixth year of the Republic, in the consulship of Cassius and Sulpicius. According to Dionysius, it occurred in the ninth year of the Republic, in the consulship of Cominius and Larcius; but he makes Sp. Cassius one of the consuls of the preceding, and S. Sulpicius one of the consuls of the succeeding year; above, p. 53. P. 25, note 87. § 45, ib. P. 28, n. 96. With the passage of Suidas compare Joann. Antioch. Compare Joann. Antioch. ubi sup. who has Maunλios. P. 91, line 14, for punishment, read banishment. P. 216, 1. 5, for Appius, read Oppius. P. 244, n. 221, last line but one, for Appius, read Oppius. P. 363, 1. 8, after Dionysius, insert' some excerpts of Appian,' P. 436, n. 70. Aristotle, in his dikaιóμara móλewv, Fragm. Hist. Gr. vol. ii. p. 180, fr. 255, stated that Alexander the Molossian, upon the invitation of the Tarentines, sailed to assist them in the war against the barbarians with fifteen ships and other transports. Aristotle outlived Alexander about nine years. P. 468, n. 170. The battle between Narses and Totila, in 552 a.d., was fought near a place called Busta Gallorum in the Umbrian territory ; Procop. Bell. Goth. iv. 29. Procopius derives the name from a defeat of the Gauls by Camillus. Gibbon, c. 43, refers it to the battle of Sentinum, at which Gauls were engaged. P. 475, n. 190, line 6, for ratus read natus. P. 526, n. 107. Cyrus is classed with Lycurgus, as a type of political excellence, in Plat. Epist. iv. P. 425, n. 35, for writer, read writers. P. 482, 1. 1, for confined not merely, read not confined. INDEX. ABERRIGINES, i. 395. Aborigines, their appearance in Italy, i. 272; they expel the Siceli from Acheron, a river in Italy, ii. 437. Acron, king of Cænina, i. 421, ii. 277. Actium, temple at, founded by Æneas, i. 312. Acusilaus of Argos, an early logographer, ii. 495. T. Æbutius, a Roman master of the horse, ii. 30. Ediles, two plebeian conceded, ii. 72; election of, transferred from the Ægesta, its foundation, i. 317. Ægestus, son of Numitor, i. 366. L. Æmilius defeats the Etruscans, ii. 145. Mamercus Æmilius, a Roman dictator, defeats the Veientes, ii. 275; Q. Æmilius, a consul, ii. 477. Enaria, named from Æneas, i. 325. Enea, in Macedonia, derived from Æneas, i. 308. Eneas, legend of, treated by Bochart, i. 5; time of his landing in Latium, ib.; the island of Prochyta, ib.; he lands at Laurentum, in Latium, Æneas Silvius, king of Alba, i. 362. Eneas, the tactician, his work 'On the Defence of Towns,' ii. 310. Enus in Thrace, derived from Æneas, i. 308. Eolic migration, the, ii. 550. Equians, the, their hostilities with the Romans, ii. 108, 127, 140, 145, 157, Equimelium, ii. 272. Erarium, place of deposit for senatus-consulta, i. 142; on the Capitol, Eschylus, his' Persæ,' ii. 503. Esculapius, his statue brought to Rome, ii. 486. Æsymneteia, a Greek office, ii. 26, 229. Africa, visited by Greek and Trojan heroes i. 316. Agathocles, on the foundation of Rome, i. 398, 399. Agrarian laws, Roman, the first proposed, ii. 129; discussions, &c. relating Agriculture encouraged at Rome, i. 418. Menenius Agrippa, his apologue of the Belly and Limbs, i. 257; ii. 66, Agrippa, king of Alba, i. 365. Ahala, origin of the name, ii. 271. Ahenobarbus, origin of the name, ii. 32, n. 105. Aius Locutius, temple built to, ii. 339. Alba Longa, the metropolis of Rome, i. 267, 373; founded by Ascanius, i. 459. Alban kingdom, its duration, i. 367; the accounts of it unhistorical, i. 369. Alban lake, portentous swelling of, ii. 300, 301; the story examined, L. Albinius conveys the Vestal Virgins, &c. to Cære, on the taking of Albula, primitive name of the Tiber, i. 364. Album, a whitened board, i. 155, n. 80. Alcæus, ii. 552, 553. Alcenor, an Argive champion, ii. 514. Alcimus, on the foundation of Rome, i. 400. Alemæonidæ, ii. 513, 532. Alexander of Epirus, his expedition to Italy, i. 58; ii. 435–439. Alexander the Great, the supposed embassy of the Romans to him, i. 60; his complaint about the Italian pirates, i. 62. Alexander Polyhistor, on the Alban kings, i. 372. Alfius, his history of the Punic war, i. 39, n., 99. Alienus, L., a plebeian ædile, ii. 191. Allia, battle of, ii. 324; its topography, ii. 342. Allifæ, capture of, ii. 460. Amasis, king of Egypt, ii. 513, 518. Ambracia, its memorials of Æneas, i. 312. Amulius, king of Alba, i. 366; he usurps his mother's throne, i. 377. Anarchy at Rome for five years, consequent on proposition of the Licinian rogations, ii. 374; account of it examined, ii. 378-380. Anaxandrides, king of Sparta, ii. 513. Anchiasmos visited by Æneas, i. 313. Anchises, his tombs, i. 340. Anchisia, Mount, in the territory of Mantinea, i. 311. Anius, king of Delos, i. 309. Anna, sister of Dido, i. 317. Annales, meaning of the term, i. 90, 91. Annales pontificum, i. 90, 155; also called Annales Maximi, i. 155; origin Annalistic style, contrasted with legendary, ii. 360. Annalists, Roman, i. 90; meaning of the term in Niebuhr, i. 92. Annonæ præfectus, ii. 269. Antenor, his treachery, i. 305. Antias, Q. Valerius, his history of Rome, i. 25; his knowledge of the early period, i. 88. Antiates, the, defeated by Cominius, ii. 84. Antigonus, his probable time, i. 94; he treated the early Roman history, Antiochus, his statement respecting the Ausones and Opici, i. 129, 275, 276. Antium, stipulated for by Rome in a treaty with Carthage, ii. 3; repaired Antonius, one of the decemviri, ii. 209. Anxur, capture of, ii. 289; recovered by the Volscians, and recaptured, ii. 299. Aphrodisias, origin of its name, i. 310. VOL. II. 0 0 |