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Apollo, his oracle at Delphi consulted by the Romans, ii. 300, 301; colossal
statue of, sent by the Carthaginians to Tyre, ii. 319.

Apollodorus, on the foundation of Rome, i. 398.

Appian, his treatment of early Roman history, i. 74; on the Alban kings,
i. 361; his account of the ancient Licinian law and its revival, ii. 388—
390.

Appian aqueduct, ii. 481; Appian road, ib.

Apulians, the, an alliance with them formed for the first time by the
Romans, ii. 443.

Aquillius, consul, defeats the Hernicans, ii. 128.

Ara Maxima, its origin, i. 289.

Arcadians, their colony to Latium, i. 283.

Archias communicates to Herodotus information respecting the siege of
Samos, ii. 520.

Archidamus III., his expedition to Tarentum, i. 58; ii. 434.

Archilochus, a Greek poet, mentions Gyges, king of Lydia, ii. 552.

Archo, the wife of Poris, i. 220.

Archons of Athens, ii. 548.

Ardea, besieged by Tarquinius Superbus, i. 516; refers a dispute with
Aricia to the arbitration of Rome, ii. 267-269; place of refuge to
Camillus, ii. 321.

Aremulus, king of Alba, i. 365; his death, ib.; his subaqueous palace,
i. 375.

Argives and Lacedæmonians, combat between 300 champions on each
side, ii. 514, 515.

Argo, its course by the western coast of Italy, i. 331.

Argolis, invasion of, by Cleomenes, ii. 517.

Argus, the hero, burning of his grove, ii. 517.

Aricia, its foundation, i. 363; refers a dispute with Ardea to the arbitra-
tion of Rome, ii. 267-269.

Arion and the Dolphin, ii. 537-

Aristodemus Malacus, history of, i. 198; he shelters Tarquinius Superbus,
ii. 33; further notices of him, ii. 44, 93, 521, 523.

Aristogiton, see Harmodius.

Ariston, king of Sparta, ii. 513.

Aristotle, his account of the capture of Rome by the Gauls, i. 59; the
work of marvellous stories attributed to him, contains many notices
of Italy, i. 95; his account of the burning of the ships by the Trojan
women, i. 320; his account of the usual mode of the rise of the Greek
despots, ii. 230; an observation of his respecting revolutions, ii. 236;
his statement that Rome was taken by the Celts, ii. 350.

Aristus mentions a Roman embassy to Alexander the Great, i. 60, 61.
Arnold, Dr., his History of Rome, i. 12; his censure of Polybius for
ignorance of geography, i. 130; his opinion on the authenticity of
the numbers of the early census, i. 175; considers the early Roman
history to have been formed from family traditions and funeral
orations, i. 195; his view of the narrative of the dictatorship of Cin-
cinnatus, ii. 177; on the fall of Veii and the exploits of Camillus,
ii. 320, 348; his opinion of Manlius, ii. 370.

Arrian, his account of the embassies from the western nations to Alexander
the Great, i. 60; his remarks on the supposed embassy of the Romans,

Arsia, battle of, ii. 11, and n. 37.

Aruns, of Clusium, ii. 322.

Arval Brothers, i. 386.

Ascanius, the son of Æneas, i. 307, 352; his reign, i. 353.

Asclepiades, mentions a Roman embassy to Alexander the Great, i. 60,
61.

Asellio, P. Sempronius, his history of his own time, i. 27; his views upon
causes in history, i. 50.

Asylum of Romulus, i. 267, n. 3, i. 419.

Aternian law, ii. 193, 194.

Athenian history, notices of, ii. 508, &c., 548, &c,

Atinius, his dream, ii. 104.

Atossa, daughter of Cyrus, ii. 504.

Atrium Cacî, i. 240.

Atrium Regium at Rome, i. III.

T. Pomponius Atticus, his chronological work, i. 174; his account of the
great Roman families, i. 191.

Atys, an Alban king, i. 364.

Aufidius, Cn., his Roman history, in the Greek language, i. 26.

Augurs, their records, i. 169.

Augury at the foundation of Rome, i. 390.

Q. Aulius, master of the horse, killed in the second Samnite war, ii. 459.
Aurunci, the, defeated by Servilius, ii. 60.

Aventine hill, fortified by Ancus Marcius, i. 466; its addition to the city,
i. 544; division of, among plebeians, ii. 182, 183; occupied by the
army in insurrection, ii. 212.

Aventinus, king of Alba, i. 366,

Bachofen, see Gerlach.

Baiæ, its name connected with Æneas, i. 325.

Bail, first instance at Rome of a person accused of a public crime being
admitted to it, ii. 164, n. 4.

Banier, Abbé, on the interpretation of mythology, i. 345.

Beaufort, Louis de, his Dissertation on the uncertainty of the early Roman
History, i. 6; considers the early Roman history to have been chiefly
derived from the memoirs of the great families, i. 195; his view of
the supposed victory of Camillus, ii. 348.

Becker, his work on Roman Antiquities, i. 12; thinks that the laws
of the Twelve Tables were destroyed at the Gallic conflagration,
i. 158.

Bellovesus and Sigovesus, their migration in the time of Tarquinius
Priscus, i. 479.

Bias of Priene, his advice to the Ionians, ii. 525.

Bochart, on the legend of Æneas, i. 5.

Bolæ, capture of, ii. 294.

Bosporus, Thracian, bridge made across it by order of Darius, ii. 505.

Brazen statue, the earliest made at Rome, ii. 135.

Brennus, king of the Gauls, at the capture of Rome, his reported excla-

mation of Væ victis ! ii. 333, 346.

L. Junius Brutus, his statue on the Capitol, i. 107; his relationship to the
Tarquins, i. 517; his visit to Delphi, i. 518; he induces the people to
banish the Tarquins, i. 519; he is created consul, ib.; condemns, and
witnesses the execution of, his two sons, for conspiring to restore the
Tarquins, ii. 6; his death in single combat with Aruns Tarquin, his
body honourably carried to Rome, a funeral oration delivered over it
by his colleague, and a year's mourning of matrons for him, ii. 11.
Buildings, subaqueous, i. 365.

Bulla aurea, its origin, i. 473.

Burial, intramural, allowed to Valerius Publicola and his descendants,
contrary to usual Roman practice, ii. 22.

Burning of the ships by the Trojan women, i. 319.

Burning of nine tribunes, ii. 139.

Busta Gallica, origin of the name, ii. 332.

Buthrotum, visited by Eneas, i. 312.

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Cacus, his slaughter by Hercules, i. 289, 290.

Cæcilius, his comedy, i. 232.

Cædicius and the Romans in Veii appoint Camillus dictator, ii. 330.

Cælian hill, i. 428; its addition to Rome, i. 544.

Cælius comes to Rome in the time of Romulus, i. 422; or in the time of
Servius Tullius, i. 508.

Cære, place of refuge to the Vestal Virgins on the capture of Rome, ii.
327. Cærite franchise, ii. 337.

Cæsar, C. Julius, his historical works, i. 20; his statue placed near those
of the kings, i. 107; wore the dress of the Alban kings, i. 374.

Cæsar, C. Augustus, his autobiography, i. 43; he called Livy a Pompeian,

i. 44.
Caieta, the scene of the burning of the Trojan ships, i. 322; named from
the nurse of Æneas, i. 326; from the Argo, i. 331.

Callias, on the foundation of Rome, i. 397.

Callimachus, on the foundation of Enus, i. 309.
Cambyses, ii. 519.

Camers, the ancient name of Clusium, ii. 406.

Camillus, L. Furius, appointed dictator, ii. 202; his vow of a tenth of the
spoils of Veii to Apollo, ii. 303; his triumph for the taking of Veii,
ii. 304; his vow, how performed, ii. 304, 305; his treatment of the
treacherous schoolmaster of Falerii, ii. 306; his exile, ii. 317, 321;
examination of his history as so far related, ii. 316-318; is appointed
dictator on the capture of Rome by the Gauls, ii. 330; he defeats the
Gauls, ii. 333, &c.; after, destroying them, attends to reparation of
temples, &c., ii. 339; receives the title of second founder of Rome
from his share in the rebuilding of the city, ii. 340; observations on
this part of his history, ii. 344, 346-349; is again appointed dictator,
and defeats the Volscians, ii. 363, 365; is appointed dictator on the
disturbance connected with the Licinian rogations, but soon abdicates,
ii. 375; is again appointed dictator on account of an invasion of the
Gauls, ii. 376 (whom he defeats, 400); his death, ii. 399.

Campanians, the, take Cuma from the Greeks, ii. 283; put themselves
under the protection of Rome when hard pressed by the Samnites,
ii. 411.

Campus Martius, ii. 7, 10.

Canuleius, a tribune, proposes a law permitting the intermarriages of patri-

cians and plebeians, ii. 255.

Capenates, the, send succours to Veii, ii, 299.
Capetus, king of Alba, i. 364.

Caphyre, founded by Æneas, i. 311.

Capitol, place of deposit for archives, i. 146, 148; struck by lightning,
i. 150; its siege by the Gauls, i. 151; ii. 324, &c.; occupied by the
army of Hercules, i. 288; seizure of, by Herdonius, ii. 173, 174.

Capua, founded by Capys, i. 325; its foundation legends, ib.; is taken by
the Samnites from the Etruscans, ii. 283.

Capys, king of Alba, i. 364.

Carmen, sometimes means a form of words, i. 224.

Carmenta, the mother of Evander, i. 284.

Carthage, visited by Æneas, i. 315; first treaty between Carthage and
Rome, ii. 3; some other treaties between them, ii. 409.

Carthaginians, the, first sent an army to Sicily, 431 B.C., ii. 282.

Sp. Carvilius, a consul, triumphs for victory over the Samnites, ii. 470.
Casa Romuli, i. 238, 239; ii. 355.

Casci, origin of the name, i. 280, n. 43.

Sp. Cassius, his treaty with the Latin cities, i. 145; inscription on his
statue, i. 147; is master of the horse to the first dictator, ii. 26; elected
a consul by the people at the time of the first secession, ii. 67; dedi-
cates a temple to Ceres, Liber, and Libera, ii. 85; concludes a treaty
with the Latins, ib.; in a subsequent consulship proposes the first
agrarian law, ii. 129; is accused of aiming at regal power, and put to
death, ii. 132-135.

Castrum Minervæ, in Iapygia, visited by Eneas, i. 314.

Cato, M. Porcius, his Origines,' i. 34; his orations, i. 48; he first wrote
a history of Rome in Latin, i. 86; his study of Greek literature, ib.,
n. 35; his means of knowledge respecting early Roman history, i. 87;
how far his Crigines' contained an account of ancient Italian ethno-
logy, i. 128; his account of the contents of the Pontifical annals, i. 157 ;
his account of the Roman custom of singing the praises of celebrated
men at banquets, i. 203; his account of Troy, founded by Eneas,
i. 332; of the wars of Eneas in Latium, i. 338.

Catrou and Rouillé, their Roman history, i. 3.

Catulus, Q. Lutatius, his work on his own consulship, i. 23.

Caudine Pass, the, disastrous surrender of a Roman army at, ii. 445-447;
examination of history of the disaster, and of its consequences, ii.
448-458.

Caudine surrender, memory of it, i. 118; ii. 458.

Cecrops I., king of Athens, ii. 548.

Celer, he slays Remus, i. 391.

Celeres, the body-guard of Romulus, i. 414.

Censors, their official documents, i. 136; records of the census, their
destruction by fire, i. 150; their registers, carefully preserved, i. 174;
extract from the censorial records in Varro, i. 175; creation of the
censorship, ii. 265; the term of it reduced, ii. 279; a law providing
that one of the censors at least should be a plebeian, ii. 433.
Census of king Servius, i. 175; census, according to the Servian law, insti-
tuted by Valerius and Lucretius, consuls, ii. 13; Servian census

enforced by Larcius, dictator, ii. 26; the due holding of the census
the cause for the appointment of censors, ii. 265.

Centuries, voting by, gives preponderance to the wealthier citizens; tribes,
voting by, to a simple majority of the people, ii. 100.

Centurion, aged, oppressed by a merciless creditor, story of an, ii. 59.
Cephalon of Gergis, his account of the migration of Æneas to Thrace, i. 308;
on the foundation of Rome, i. 399.

Cethegus, M. Cornelius, the earliest Roman distinguished for eloquence,
i. 48.

Chariot of clay, ominous swelling of a, ii. 16.

Charisius, his fragment on the Saturnian metre, i. 242.

Charon of Lampsacus, appears to have been the first Greek writer of con-
temporary history, ii. 494, 495; his chronological work on the kings
of Sparta, ii. 546.

Charondas, the lawgiver of Catana in Sicily, ii. 222.

Chief magistrates, discrepancies concerning their identity show want of
contemporary records, ii. 280.

Chromius, an Argive champion, ii. 514.

Chronicles of foreign states, as sources of Roman history, i. 197.
Cicero, C. Claudius, a tribune of the plebs, ii. 191.

Cicero, M. Tullius, his writings illustrative of contemporary Roman his-
tory, i. 21; his writings on early Roman history, i. 75; his alleged
ignorance of the ancient constitution, i. 132; his account of the early
Roman historians, i. 40, 97; his account of the Pontifical annals,
i. 157; his account of an eclipse mentioned by Ennius, i. 159; on the
mendacity of funeral panegyrics, i. 188; his views on the imitation of
Greek models, i. 234; and on the early Roman literature, ib.; on the
election of Servius Tullius, i. 487; on the classes of Servius, i. 491;
his dialogue De Claris Oratoribus,' ii. So; he distinguishes between
the tables of the first, and those of the second, decemvirs, ii. 202,
221, 249.

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Cinæthium, in Laconia, named after a companion of Æneas, i. 309.
Cincinnatus, L. Quinctius, called to the dictatorship while at plough, ii.

176; conquers the Equians, triumphs, and abdicates, ib.; the credi-
bility of the narrative considered, î. 177, &c.; appointed dictator at
eighty years of age, on occasion of the alleged treason of Mælius,

ii. 270.

Cincinnatus, T. Quinctius, dictator, subdues the Prænestines, ii. 372.
L. Cincius Alimentus, his Roman history, i. 36; his family and life, i. 78;
he wrote in Greek, i. 79, 82; the object of his history, ib.; his share
in public affairs, i. 81; his diligence, i. 85; his account of the pre.
eminence of Alba, i. 131; on Tarpeia, i. 423; his version of the story
of the death of Mælius, ii. 271.

Cineas, his conversation with Pyrrhus, i. 66.

Circe, placed on the coast of Latium, i. 328.

Circeii, its foundation, i. 515; stipulated for, in treaty with Carthage, by
Rome, ii. 3; submits to Coriolanus, ii. 107.

Claudian house, origin of, ii. 21.

Appius Claudius the first, dedicated shields with portraits of his ancestors,
i. 183, n. 18; originally a Sabine, named Attus Clausus, ii. 21.
Appius Claudius, son of the preceding, his death, difficulties attending the
account of it, ii. 155, 156.

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