INDEX

TO VOL. IV.

A

ACHAIA, described by a medal, 106, 108.

Adda and the Adige described, 177, 178.

Adrian, medals struck on his progress through the empire, 104.
Æqui Falisci of Virgil, their habitation, 329.

Africa, explained by a medal, 96, 97. Its noxious animals des
cribed by the poets, ibid.

Alban lake, 326.

Albano, for what famous, 325, 326.

Albula river, 320.

Ambrose, (St.) his resolute behaviour towards Theodosius
the Great, 168.

Ambrosian library at Milan, 148.

Ancona, its situation, 218.

Anio river, 322, 323.

Anthony (St.) of Padua, his magnificent church, 181. A natur-
al perfume arising from his bones, with a conjecture upon it,
and his famous sermon to an assembly of fish, 181 to 188,
The titles given him by a poor peasant, 188.

Antioch, described on a medal, and by the poets, 114.
Antiquaries, and writers of antiquities, wherein faulty, 298.
Uncertainty of their knowledge, 303.

Antiquities, two sets in Rome, and the great difference betwixt
them, 288.

Antium, its extensive ruins, for what famous heretofore,284,285.
Antoninus Pius, two coins stamped in his reign, 96.

Anxur, its pleasant situation, 239 to 241.

Apennine mountains described by the Latin poets, 229.
Aquapendente, its fine situation, 329.

Aqueducts, Roman, 324.

Arabia represented on a medal, and described by the poets,
115, 116.

Ariosto, his monument in the Benedictine church at Ferrara,
207.

Augustus, explanation of a medal stamped to his memory, 91.
Another of his medals, 64.

Aurelius, Marcus, his medal, 273. Abundance of his statues at
Rome, 307, 312.

Baja, the winter retreat of the old Romans, 257.

Barber of Milan, his conspiracy to poison his fellow citizens,
171.

Bartholomew (St.) his famous statue in the great church at
Milan, 166.

Bear baiting, Claudian's description of it, 179.

Bolsena, lake and town, 328.

Brass, ancient and modern, distinguished by the taste, 120.
Brescia, why more favoured by the Venetians than any other of
their dominions; and its iron works, 177.

Britannia, description of her by a medal, 106.

C.

Caduceus, or rod of Mercury, described on a medal, 68.

Cæsars, Roman, the character ascribed to them on medals,
126.

Cajeta, why so called, 281.

Cap worn by the eastern nations, 83.

Caprea described, 245, 267. Its fruitful soil, 267. Some ac-
count of the medals found in it, 269, 272.

Cassis, a French port, its pleasant neighbourhood, 153.

Catacombs of Naples, 256.

Cennis, a mountain between Turin and Geneva, 156.

Ceres, more statues of her at Rome than of any other of their
deities, 306.

Charles Borromée, (St.) his subterraneous chapel in Milan, with
an account of him, and a comparison of him to the ordinary
Saints in the church of Rome, 166.

Charles V. a medal on his resigning the crown to Philip III. 131.
Chastity described on a medal, 42 to 45.

Chronogrammatists German, ridiculed, 133.

Church, danger of it represented on a Pope's coin, 137.
Cimmerians, where placed by Homer, 280.

Civita Vecchia, its unwholesome air, 335.

Claudius, a medal of his explained, 70.

Clitumnus, the quality of its waters, 222.

Coin, old, licked by an antiquary to find out its age, 120.
Coins of the old Romans compared to Gazettes, 122.

Coins,ancient and modern,the different workmanship in each,137.

Coins, ancient, the collections of them very deficient, 311.
Colonna Infame, a pillar at Milan, 171.

Commodus, explanation of one of his medals, 77 to 79.

Concord, described on a medal, 35.

Constantine, Emperor, the sign that appeared to him in the
heavens, 79. A coin of his explained, 56.

Constantine, his medals and triumphal arch, 317.

Cornu-copia explained, 35, 67, 78.

Corona radiata, on medals, why it represented the sun, 93.
Craggs, (Mr.) Secretary, his character by Mr. Pope, 8.

Cremera river, 328.

Cumæ, very much changed from what it was, 279.

D.

Daci, a medal on Trajan's victory over them, 81.

Domitian, Martial, censured for reflecting on his memory, 84.
Dunkirk, the motto of a medal on that town censured, 136.

E.

Echo, at Milan, a very surprising one, 172.

Egypt, described by a medal, 99. Its fertility, ibid. Its sistrum,
ibid. Its idolatry, 100.

English courted by the pope to settle at Civita Vecchia, 335.
Equity described on a medal, 45.

Eternity described on a medal, 46.

F.

Fano, from whence so called, 218.

Ferrara, thinly inhabited, and the town described, 207.

Foligni town, 222.

Fortune, translation of Horace's ode to her, 42.

France described by a medal, 103,

French medals, an account of them, 135.

Frescati, its fine walks and water-works, 323.

Fruitfulness, emblem of it on a medal, 74.

Gabinus lake, 324.

G.

Galba, a coin of his explained, 34.

Gallienus, a medal of his, 274.

Garigliano described, 239.

Gaurus mountain, 253.

Genoa, its description, 157. Its bank no burthen to the Gen-
oese, 159. Why incapable of being made a free port, 335.
Its gulf, 155.

Genoese, their manners described, and their character by the
modern Italian and Latin poets, 157. Their indiscretion, and

why they were obliged lately to be in the French interest;
their fleet, and its service, 160. Their doge claims a crown
and sceptre from their conquest of Corsica, 161. An advan-
tage arising to them from it, and a different maxim observed
by the ancient Romans, ibid.

George (St.) his church at Verona, 180.
German chronogrammatists ridiculed, 133.
Germanicus his medal, 316.

Good will, an emblen of it on a medal, 70.

Gordianus Pius, a medal of his explained, 37.

Grotto del Cani, experiments made in it, 258. Reasons for the
effects of its vapours, 259.

Grotto Obscuro, 271.

Gulf of Genoa, its nature, 155.

H.

Happiness, an emblem of it on a medal, 59.

Heliogabalus, a medal of his explained, 38.

Henry the Eighth of England, his letter to Ann of Bulleyn, 319,
Homer, his apotheosis, 308.

Honour joined on a medal with Virtue, 34,

Hope described on a medal, 59.

I.

Januarius, (St.) the liquification of his blood a bungling trick,
its origin, 242.

Jensano, the palace there, 325.

Innocent XI. (Pope) his coin to represent the danger of the
church, 137.

Inscription on medals examined, &c. 224.

Ischia, by the ancients called Inarime, some account of it, 277.
Italians, the usual furniture of their libraries, 169. Their man-
ners compared to the French, 173. Reasons of the aversion
of the common people to the French, 175. Their extravagant
tomb-stones, 180. The difference betwixt their poetical and
prose language, 200. A great help to their modern poetry,
ibid. A great custom among them of crowning the virgin,

211.

Italy described by a medal, 104.

Italy divided into many principalities, as more natural to its situ-
ation, 173. Its present desolation and comparison with its
ancient inhabitants, 255. Its rivers described by Silius Itali-
cus, 231.

Judea described on several old coins, &c. 110.

Justina, (St.) her church one of the finest in Italy, 189.

L.

Labarum, a military ensign of the Romans, described, 80.
Lago di Como, formerly Larius, 177. Described by Claudian,
179. Di Garda, or Benacus, described by Virgil, 177.
Lapis Vituperii, what, and how applied, 189.

Lares, resembled by a German to a jug-bottle, 298.

Larva of the Roman actors, what, 299.

Lawyers, their great numbers and constant employment among
the Neapolitans, 247.

Legend on medals examined, &c. 128.

Leghorn, a free port, and the great resort of other nations to
it, 332. The advantages the great duke receives from it, ibid.
Liberty, description of it on a medal, &c. 56.

Liris, or the Garigliano described, 239.

Loretto, its prodigious riches, and why never attacked by the
Christians or Turks, 220. A description of the holy house, 221,
Lorain, Duke of, killed at the battle of Pavia, his interment
there, and inscription on his tomb, 162,

Lucan, his prophecy of the Latian towns, 327.

Lucius Verus, a medal on his victory over the Parthians, &3.
Lucrine lake, 253.

M.

Marcus Aurelius, explanation of three of his coin, 86 to 91.
Marino (St.) its situation, extent, founder, and original, 213,
214. Its antiquity, and form of government, 215.
Martial censured on the memory of Domitian, 84.

Mary Magdalen, the deserts rendered famous by her penance
described by Claudian, 153.

Mauritania described on a medal, 101.

Medallions described, 123.

Medals, ancient, dialogues on their usefulness, 9.

Medals, Roman, illustrated by the Latin poets, 94.

Medals, a parallel between the ancient and modern ones, 120.
Why the ancients made them of brass or copper, 121. When
They passed as current coin, 122. Their mottos or inscrip-
tions inquired into, 126. &c. Account of French ones, 135.
Medallic history of the popes, 137. Pope's verses on the
treatise of medals, 7.

Medallists, who are the most skilful in the world, 310. Use-
fulness of the Medallic science, 311.

Meleager, his statue and story, 293.

Mercury's rod, or Caduceus, described on a medal, 68. &c.
Mevania furnished all Italy with herds for their sacrifices, 223