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Appius Claudius, grandson of Appius Claudius the first, one of the first
decemvirate, ii. 197; of the second, ii. 200; his attempt upon the
chastity of Virginia, and the consequences; the fall of the decemvirate,
and his own death, ii. 207-216; examination of the account given us
of his person and conduct, ii. 224-229, 237, 238.

C. Claudius, uncle of the decemvir, ii. 204, 224, 256, 257.

M. Claudius, a client of the decemvir, employed by him in his attempt
upon Virginia, ii. 207, &c.

Appius Claudius Cæcus, his speech on the embassy of Cineas, i. 179;
inscription to his memory, i. 187; his important censorship, ii. 481;
his blindness, ii. 482, 483.

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
Etruscan cities, and embassy from, to Rome, ib. this account examined,

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
with the Tarquinian cause, his exile, ii. 6, 7, 8.

Colonial system of Rome, its origin, i. 415.

Colonies ex secessione, ii. 65; Roman coloniæ, in the technical sense, what
distinctively, ib., n. 207.

Columna rostrata, overthrown by lightning, i. 151.

Cominius, Pontius, bringing a message to the Romans besieged in the
Capitol, swims the Tiber, ii. 330.

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
commentarius, i. 169, n. 124.

Compitalia, instituted by Servius Tullius, i. 487.

Concord, temple of, ii. 377.

Consualia, festival of, identified with an Arcadian festival, i. 287; its
origin, i. 420; its institution ascribed to Romulus, ib.

Consuls, establishment of their office, ii. 2; eligibility of plebeians for the
consulship proposed, ii. 255; first plebeian consul appointed, 366 B.C.,
ii. 262, 376.

Corinth, a portion of the history of, ii. 533-537.

Coriolanus, C. Marcius, his first military service, ii. 30, n. 104; distin-
guishes himself at the taking of Corioli, ii. 84; sustains a repulse for
the consulship, advocates the keeping up the price of corn, popular
indignation and proceedings against him, his exile, ii. 97–103; ex-
cites the Volscians against Rome, and is made, with Tullus for his
colleague, general of the Volscian army, ii. 105-107; his hostilities
against the Romans, ii. 107-109; raises the siege of Rome at the
entreaties of an embassy of Roman matrons headed by his mother and
wife, ii. 110, 111; is put to death at the instigation of Tullus, ii. 111;
comparison of different accounts of various particulars respecting him,
ii. 113-116; review of his history, ii. 116–129.

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
the Veientes, thus gaining the second spolia opima, ii. 275-278.

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,
ii. 487.

M. Valerius Corvus, his cognomen, how obtained, ii. 402, 407; he defeats
the Samnites, ii. 412; appointed dictator, quells a mutiny, ii. 417.
Corssen, on the songs at Roman banquets, i. 205.

M. Crassus takes 2000 pounds of gold from the temple of Jupiter Capito-
linus, ii. 336, 352.

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;
interesting chapter in its history, ii. 521-523 (referred to, ii. 20, 44,).
Curia Hostilia, i. 110.

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
romance, ii. 525-529.

Damastes mentions the Trojan matron Romè, i. 63.

Darius, king of Persia, ii. 503; his Scythian expedition, ii. 504-508.
Debts, disturbances, &c., in relation to, at Rome, ii. 57, 64, 85, &c.; 372,
374, &c.; 479.

Debts, general remission of, at Athens, by Solon, ii. 86.
Decemviral laws, their preservation, i. 112.

Decemviri, election of the first Decemvirate, ii. 196, 197; they exercise
their power with sobriety and moderation, ii. 198, 199; election of
the second Decemvirate, 199-201; their arbitrary and tyrannical

government, 201, &c.; their final overthrow, 213, 214; examination
of the extant account of the Decemvirate, 216-252.-See also Appius
Claudius, Siccius, Twelve Tables, Virginius.

Decius the younger, devotes himself to death at the battle of Sentinum,
ii. 403, 404.

P. Decius Mus, devotes himself to death at the battle of Veseris, ii. 425.
Deioces, account by Herodotus of his making himself king of the Medes, a
political romance, ii. 529.

Delphi, oracle at, consulted by the Romans, ii. 300, 301; temple at, burn-
ing and rebuilding of, ii. 513; oracle at, consulted by Crœsus, ii. 525.
Demaratus, his migration from Corinth to Tarquinii, i. 470.

Demaratus, king of Sparta, is deposed, and withdraws to the court of
Persia, ii. 517.

Demetrius Poliorcetes, his message to the Romans, i. 58.

Manius Curius Dentatus, consul, with his colleague P. Cornelius Rufinus,
ends the third Samnite war, ii. 473.

Dicæarchus, his work on the Spartan constitution, ii. 544.

Dictator, first appointment of a, at Rome, ii. 25; origin and nature of his
office considered, ii. 46–49; first plebeian dictator appointed, 356 B.C.,
ii. 397.

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;
his treatment of early Roman history, i. 74; his knowledge of the
ancient constitution, i. 122; on the Alban kings, i. 361.

Diocles of Peparethus, unknown to Dionysius, i. 96; his date and his
account of the foundation of Rome, i. 408.

Diodorus, mentions the embassies of the Western nations to Alexander the
Great, i. 61; his authorities for Sicilian history, i. 69; his notices of
Roman history, i. 73; his knowledge of the Latin language, i. 74; his
date of the foundation of Rome, i. 367; the catastrophe of Cremera
the first event in Roman history after the time of the kings noticed
by him, ii. 147; his narrative of the capture of Rome by the Gauls
unusually copious, ii. 347.

Dionysius of Chalcis, on the foundation of Rome, i. 400.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, his character of the early Roman historians,
i. 42; plan and contents of his history, i. 71; he continues the history
of Polybius, i. 72; his remarks on the Roman funeral orations, i. 182;
his account of the songs relative to Romulus and Remus, i. 210; dis-
tribution of his history, i. 245; groundwork of his narrative, ib.; his
speeches, i. 246; his account of the Aborigines, i. 279; on the dis-
persion of the Pelasgians, i. 281; on the Tyrrhenians, i. 282; on
Lupercal and the Lupercalia, i. 287; on the expedition of Hercules to
the West, i. 288; his account of the burning of the ships by the
Trojan women, i. 321; on the tombs of Eneas, i. 340; on the ex-
pedition of Æneas to Latium, i. 344; his date of the foundation of
Rome, i. 367; on the Roman religion, i. 416; on the classes of Servius
Tullius, i. 489; his view of the regal form of government, i. 541;
summaries of the accounts given by him and by Livy of the first
fourteen years of the Roman commonwealth, ii. 52-54; the dis-
crepancies in which show the absence of authentic annals, ii 54; he
carefully marks the synchronism of Roman and Greek history, ii. 55;
is in general much fuller than Livy, ii. 61; his copious narrative of
the secession to the Mons Sacer could not have been written from

authentic materials, ii. 73-84; his notice of mistakes of some Roman
historians concerning the period of the despotism of Dionysius the
elder, ii. 94, 95; summary of chronological discrepancies between him
and Livy relating to the history of Coriolanus, inconsistent with the
preservation of authentic Fasti, ii. 116; his copious narrative of the
events of 455 B.C., ii. 184—191; what dependence to be placed on it?
ii. 192, 193; his description of the early Greek historians, ii. 498; his
account of the early Roman historians not unlike it in regard to the
sources of their materials, ib. and 499 (i. 89, n. 39,).

Dioscuri, the, apparition of, at the battle of the lake Regillus, ii. 30, 31;
belief as to their appearance at battles, of Grecian origin, ii. 49.
Dius Fidius, a temple consecrated to him on the Quirinal hill, ii. 161.
Dodona, visited by Æneas, i. 312.

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 reference to the poem of Nævius on the first Punic war, i. 207;

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
character, i. 286.

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
narrative how far to be considered historical ? ii. 147-149.

Fabius Maximus, Cunctator, his funeral oration on his son, i. 179.

M. Fabius, Pontifex Maximus, devotes the aged senators to death on the
capture of Rome by the Gauls, ii. 328.

C. Fabius Dorso, goes forth from the capitol besieged by the Gauls, and
offers a family sacrifice, ii. 329.

M. Fabius Ambustus, story of the two Fabia, his daughters, in its alleged
connexion with the bringing forward of the Licinian rogations, ii. 373,
374; credibility of it examined, ii. 377, 378.

Q. Fabius Maximus Rullianus, master of the horse to L. Papirius Cursor,
dictator, condemned by him for fighting without orders, but rescued
by the soldiers, ii. 443; his victory over the Samnites at the battle of
Sentinum, ii. 467; acts as lieutenant to his son, and defeats C. Pontius,
the Samnite commander, ii. 472; his censorship, in which he gains the
surname of Maximus, ii. 484.

Q. Fabius Gurges, son of the preceding, defeated by the Samnites, ii. 472.
Fall of stones, in the reign of Tullus Hostilius, i. 164.

Fannius, C., his Roman history, i. 29.

Fasces, derived from the kings, an emblem of supreme power, i. 104;
division of them between the consuls variously represented, ii. 2;
lowered to an assembly of the people by Valerius, ii. 12; custom
introduced by him that the consul should take the axes out of them
in the city, ib.; the axes resumed by Larcius, dictator, ii. 26; the
fasces borne in turns before the members of the first decemvirate,
ii. 198; but before the members of the second simultaneously, ii. 201.
Fasti Capitolini, i. 173.

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.
Faunus, his oracle, i. 208; king of the Aborigines, i. 284, 298.

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
of the plebs after the secession to the Mons Sacer, ii. 72.

Ficus Ruminalis, i. 382, n. 89.

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