Appius Claudius, grandson of Appius Claudius the first, one of the first C. Claudius, uncle of the decemvir, ii. 204, 224, 256, 257. M. Claudius, a client of the decemvir, employed by him in his attempt Appius Claudius Cæcus, his speech on the embassy of Cineas, i. 179; Claudius, the emperor, his speech preserved at Lyons, i. 201. Cleomenes I., king of Sparta, ii. 517. Cleonymus, his expedition to Italy, i. 58; ii. 439. Cleopatra, her suicide, i. 220. Cleopatra, daughter of Philip of Macedon, ii. 436. Clinias, on the foundation of Rome, i. 400. Clisthenes, of Athens, reforms of, ii. 221. Clitarchus, his account of the embassy of the Romans to Alexander the Great, i. 60, 61. Clodius, his work on chronology, i. 152. Cloelia, swims across the Tiber, ii. 19. Q. Cloelius, consul, declares his colleague dictator, ii. 25. Cluilius, king, or dictator, of Alba, i. 454. Clusium, attacked by the Gauls, ii. 323; desertion of, by the other ii. 341. Cluverius, his views on early Roman history, i. 4. Clypei, Roman, whence derived, when given up for scuta, ii. 432. Cocalus, his daughters killed Minos, i. 276, n. Horatius Cocles, his statue, i. 166; his celebrated exploit, ii. 14. Codrus, last king of Athens, ii. 548. Collatia, its capture by the Romans, i. 473. L. Tarquinius Collatinus, one of the first two consuls, accused of sympathy Colonial system of Rome, its origin, i. 415. Colonies ex secessione, ii. 65; Roman coloniæ, in the technical sense, what Columna rostrata, overthrown by lightning, i. 151. Cominius, Pontius, bringing a message to the Romans besieged in the P. Cominius, a consul, takes Corioli, ii. 84. Comitia curiata, and comitia tributa, ii. 152, 215. Comitium, origin of the name, i. 427. Commentarii censorum, i. 136; pontificum, i. 169; meaning of the word Compitalia, instituted by Servius Tullius, i. 487. Concord, temple of, ii. 377. Consualia, festival of, identified with an Arcadian festival, i. 287; its Consuls, establishment of their office, ii. 2; eligibility of plebeians for the Corinth, a portion of the history of, ii. 533-537. Coriolanus, C. Marcius, his first military service, ii. 30, n. 104; distin- Corn, scarcities of, at Rome, ii. 15, 92, 269. Cornelia, a matron guilty of poisoning, ii. 485. A. Cornelius Cossus, military tribune, or consul? kills Tolumnius, king of C. Cornelius Arvina, a dictator, in the second Samnite war, ii. 445. M. Cornelius, a decemvir, ii. 205. Corsica, a Roman expedition to, with the purpose of founding a city, M. Valerius Corvus, his cognomen, how obtained, ii. 402, 407; he defeats M. Crassus takes 2000 pounds of gold from the temple of Jupiter Capito- Crater, golden, sent by the Romans as an offering to Delphi, ii. 305. Cremera, the, catastrophe at, ii. 146. Croesus, king of Lydia, ii. 524. Crustumerium, its foundation, i. 363. Cumæ, histories of, i. 198, 396; the place of refuge of the Tarquins, ii. 93; Curiatii, the three, i. 455; their combat with the Horatii, ib. Curtian lake, different accounts of the origin of its name, i. 425; ii. 410. Cylon, memory of his attempt, i. 100; ii. 532. Cypselus, his time, i. 470; origin of his name, i. 478; ii. 533. Cyrus, king of Persia, ii. 515, 524; his life by Xenophon, a political Damastes mentions the Trojan matron Romè, i. 63. Darius, king of Persia, ii. 503; his Scythian expedition, ii. 504-508. Debts, general remission of, at Athens, by Solon, ii. 86. Decemviri, election of the first Decemvirate, ii. 196, 197; they exercise government, 201, &c.; their final overthrow, 213, 214; examination Decius the younger, devotes himself to death at the battle of Sentinum, P. Decius Mus, devotes himself to death at the battle of Veseris, ii. 425. Delphi, oracle at, consulted by the Romans, ii. 300, 301; temple at, burn- Demaratus, king of Sparta, is deposed, and withdraws to the court of Demetrius Poliorcetes, his message to the Romans, i. 58. Manius Curius Dentatus, consul, with his colleague P. Cornelius Rufinus, Dicæarchus, his work on the Spartan constitution, ii. 544. Dictator, first appointment of a, at Rome, ii. 25; origin and nature of his Dido, visit of Æneas to, i. 315; unknown to the Greek writers, ib. Dio Cassius, on the freedom of history under the republic, i. 53, n. 137; Diocles of Peparethus, unknown to Dionysius, i. 96; his date and his Diodorus, mentions the embassies of the Western nations to Alexander the Dionysius of Chalcis, on the foundation of Rome, i. 400. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, his character of the early Roman historians, authentic materials, ii. 73-84; his notice of mistakes of some Roman Dioscuri, the, apparition of, at the battle of the lake Regillus, ii. 30, 31; Doliola, ii. 327, 328. Dorians, settlement of, in the Peloponnesus, ii. 547. Draco, the Athenian legislator, ii. 532. Drusus, Claudius, aimed at royalty, i. 106, n. 24. Duilian inscription, i. 148. Duilius, a tribune of the people, his moderation and firmness, ii. 253. Duris, of Samos, his history of Agathocles, ii. 468. Eagles, near Rome, i. 516. Eating of their tables by the Trojans, i. 332. Echard, Lawrence, on early Roman history, i. 2. Eclipses, registered in the Annales Maximi, i. 159; their importance as omens, ib., n. 94. Egeria, i. 110; her colloquies with Numa, i. 447. Egeria Vallis, i. 110. Aruns Tarquinius Egerius, i. 473. Gellius Egnatius, the Samnite general, killed at the battle of Sen- tinum, ii. 467. Elyma, its foundation, i. 317. Elymi, their migration to Sicily, i. 274. Ennius, his Annales, i. 54; his account of an eclipse in 350 U.c., i. 159; his poetical character, i. 232. Ephors, a Spartan magistracy, ii. 544. Ephorus, his history, ii. 540. Epicadus, completed the memoirs of Sylla, i. 23. Epicharmus, his prose discourse to Antenor, i. 64, n. 177. Epirus, kings of, ii. 435, n. 70. Eratosthenes, on the foundation of Rome, i. 400. Eryx, visited by Æneas, i. 317. Eryx, a son of Venus, i. 317. Esquiline hill, its addition to the city, i. 544. Ethnology, Italian, how far preserved by tradition, i. 127; its un- certainty, i. 294. Etis, origin of its name, i. 310. Etruscans, their literature, i. 199; their histories, i. 200; their national origin, i. 282. Etruscan soothsayers, claimed a peculiar skill in the interpretation of lightning, ii. 143. Euphorion, on the foundation of Ænus, i. 309. Europe, modern, intimate connexion of, with ancient Rome, ii. 555. Euryleon, son of Æneas, i. 352. Eutropius, his Roman history, i. 73. Evander, the leader of a colony from Arcadia to Italy, i. 283; his mythical Evidence, external, its importance in history, i. 13-18. Fabii, their derivation from Hercules, i. 293, n. 93. Fabii, the, 300; their expedition to the Cremera, and catastrophe, ii. 144-147; the Fabius Maximus, Cunctator, his funeral oration on his son, i. 179. M. Fabius, Pontifex Maximus, devotes the aged senators to death on the C. Fabius Dorso, goes forth from the capitol besieged by the Gauls, and M. Fabius Ambustus, story of the two Fabia, his daughters, in its alleged Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus, master of the horse to L. Papirius Cursor, Q. Fabius Gurges, son of the preceding, defeated by the Samnites, ii. 472. Fannius, C., his Roman history, i. 29. Fasces, derived from the kings, an emblem of supreme power, i. 104; Fasti compiled by M. Fulvius Nobilior, i. 173. Fatua, wife of Faunus, i. 209. Fauns, their verses, i. 207; they were native Italian deities, i. 208. Faustulus, i. 384, 385, 387, 388; his death, i. 391. Februarius, singular story of, intended to explain the shortness of the month February, ii. 399, n. 105. Feciales, their institution, i. 466. Ferguson, his Roman history, i. 9. Feriæ Latina, a third day added to the, in commemoration of the return Ficus Ruminalis, i. 382, n. 89. |