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Fidena, a Roman colony, revolts to the Veientes, ii. 275; is taken by
A. Servilius, ii. 278.

L. Tarutius Firmanus, cast the horoscope of Rome, i. 393.

C. Valerius Flaccus, his claim to sit in the senate, i. 117.

Flamen of Quirinus, the, and the Vestal Virgins, bury some of the sacred
objects on the capture of Rome by the Gauls, ii. 327.

Flavius, Cn., published the calendar of days for legal proceedings, i. 135.
171; ii. 481, 482; his inscription on a chapel near the comitium,
i. 177, n. 155.

Florus, his Roman history, i. 73.

Fortuna Muliebris, a temple built to, at the public expense, ii. 112.
Fortune, worshipped by the Romans under a great variety of epithets,

ii. 123.

Fossa Cluilia, i. 454.

Fossa Quiritium, i. 467.

Fregellæ, establishment of a Roman colony at, complained of by the
Samnites, ii. 442.

Frontinus, his military anecdotes on early Roman history, i. 75.

Fucine lake, ii. 313.

Mettius Fuffetius, his election as dictator of Alba, i. 454; his treachery
and death, i. 458.

Funeral orations at Athens, i. 180; at Rome, i. 181; on Roman matrons,
their origin, i. 183; ii. 305.

Gabii, its foundation, i. 363; the place in which Romulus and Remus were
educated, i. 386; it is besieged by Tarquinius Superbus, i. 513 ; it is
taken by the stratagem of Sextus Tarquinius, ib.; its treaty with
Rome, inscribed on a wooden shield, i. 143, 514.

Gaia Cæcilia, her statue, i. 108, n. 32.

Gallic wars, ii. 399-403; examination of accounts of, ii. 404-408.
Gallic tumults, much dreaded at Rome, ii. 400, and n. 107.

Gaul, Trojan settlers in, i. 327.

Gauls, their migrations in the time of Tarquinius Priscus, i. 479–481 ;
their first war with the Romans, their capture and conflagration of
Rome, (i. 151;) ii. 322-339; examination of extant accounts of this
part of the history, 340-356.

Gegania, second wife of Tarquinius Priscus, i. 485.

L. Geganius, sent as one of the envoys to Sicily to procure corn, ii. 94.
Geese, sacred, of Juno, their alarm of the garrison in the capitol, ii. 331;
recognised by the belief of later times, ii. 345; customs in comme-
moration of it, ib.

Gellius, Cn., his Roman history, i. 28; his knowledge of the early period,
i. 88; on the rape of the Sabines, i. 420.

Gellius, Aulus, mentions a memoir of the Porcian family, i. 191.

Gelon, Sicilian despot, i. 94.

Genucius, a tribune of the people, proposes (or revives the question of) an
agrarian law, ii. 151; his death, ib.

T. Genucius, a decemvir, ii. 197.

Georgius Syncellus, on the Alban kings, i. 361.

Gerlach and Bachofen, their history of Rome, i. 12; their view of the

statement of Cincius respecting Alba, i. 131; on the historical cha-
racter of the accounts of the Alban kingdom, i. 370.

Geryones, oxen of, i. 289–292.

Glabrio, C. Acilius, his history of Rome in Greek, i. 33.

Governments, constant tendencies in forms of, not to be inferred from
single instances, ii. 57, (and n. 185,) 58.

Governments, mixed, the doctrine of, probably originated in the school of
Plato, ii. 100, n. 25.

Tib. Gracchus, procures re-enactment of the agrarian law of Licinius, ii. 388.
Greeks, their ignorance of Rome in early times, i. 59, 63, 64.
Greek fleet on the coast of Campania, i. 63; ii. 408.

Greek history, memory of certain events in, kept up by adventures which
befel works of art connected with them, ii. 319; commencement of
age of contemporary Greek history, ii. 494; difference between the
origins of Greek and of Roman history, i. 97; ii. 497; commencement
of a connected account of the affairs of the principal Greek states,
ii. 551.

Greek laws, embassy from Rome to inquire concerning, ii. 195, 196.
Greek despots, rise of, ii. 230.

Greek expeditions to Italy, ii. 434—441.

Greeks, Asiatic, the, subjugated by the kings of Lydia and Persia, ii. 524.
Greek colonies, little means of judging concerning the authenticity of the
dates given for their foundation, ii. 550; their foundation legends
mostly fabulous, ib.

Greek poets, a long series of, antecedent to the commencement of Roman
literature, ii. 552.

Gregory the Great, i. 264, n. 47.

Goettling thinks that the Annales Maximi were not preserved for the period
before the burning of the city, i. 158.

Grote, Mr., on the Trojan war, i. 301; remarks the connexion of most of the
splendid phænomena of Grecian history with the dependence in which
the Asiatic Greeks were held by the inland barbaric powers, ii. 525;
remarks that the Attic orators sometimes confound Solonian and post-
Solonian Athens, ii. 530, 531; notes the return of the Heraclidæ as
the epoch of transition from mythical to historical Greece, ii. 547.
Gyges, king of Lydia, ii. 524.

Hadrian, the emperor, his remark on the difficulty of proof of treason,
ii. 371.

Hannibal, his knowledge of Greek, i. 78, n. 16.

Harmodius and Aristogiton, statues of, carried off by Xerxes, and sent
back by Alexander, ii. 319; their celebrated attempt, ii. 509.
Hecatæus, his mention of towns in Italy, i. 63; notice of his writings,

ii. 495.

Hegesippus, his account of the migration of Æneas to Thrace, i. 308.
Helenus, his meeting with Æneas, i. 313.

Hellanicus, mentions the Trojan matron Romè, i. 63; his account of
Italian expeditions to Sicily, i. 274; his explanation of the name
Italy, i. 278; his account of the flight of Æneas from Troy to Pallene,
i. 306; his account of the foundation of Rome, i. 314, 330, 396; wrote
near the commencement of contemporary Greek history, ii. 494; his

relation to the history of the epoch of the Ionic revolt and the Persian
war, ii. 502.

Helots, alleged derivation of their name, ii. 544.

Hemina, L. Cassius, his Roman history, i. 30; his knowledge of the early
period, i. 88.

Heraclidæ, return of the, ii. 547-

Heraclides Ponticus, his mention of the capture of Rome by the Gauls,
i. 59; ii. 350.

Heraclides Lembus, on the burning of the Trojan ships, i. 321; on the
foundation of Rome, i. 397.

Hercules, his expedition to the West, i. 288; his settlement near the
Palatine hill, ib.; different versions of the story of his passage through
Italy, i. 289.

Turnus Herdonius, i. 511.

Herdonius, a Sabine, seizes the capitol, ii. 173, 174.

Herennius, his advice to his son Pontius, the Samnite general, ii. 456.
Hermippus, a biographical writer, ii. 510.

Hermodorus of Ephesus, said to have advised the decemvirs in the enact-
ment of the Twelve Tables, ii. 222.

Herodotus, wrote near the commencement of Greek contemporary history,

ii. 494. six years old when the last event related in his history took

place, ii. 501.

Hernicans, the, mulcted of part of their territory, ii. 128.
Hersilia, i. 420, 426, 453.

Hesiod, verse of, translated in the Annales Maximi, i. 167.

Hieronymus of Cardia, his account of the Ita'an campaign of Pyrrhus,
i. 65; his treatment of the early Roman history, i. 94.
Hipparchus, younger brother of Hippias, his death, ii. 509.
Hippias, despot of Athens, his ejection, ii. 509.

Historians, early, of Rome, their dry and jejune style, i. 40; their suffi
ciency as historical witnesses, i. 42, 50; their high social position,
i. 43; they took notice of prodigies, i. 50; they framed the history of
the first four and a half centuries of Rome, i. 94.

Historiography, Roman, had originally an official character, i. 97; Greek,
originated with private writers, ib.

History, constitutional, its propagation by oral tradition, i. 113-127; its
connexion with events, i. 126; ii. 282.

Hooke, his Roman history, i. 3; he controverts the views of Beaufort, i. 9;
his account of the derivation of the early Roman history from family
memorials and funeral orations, i. 193, 194; makes no mention of
poems among the sources of early Roman history, i. 202; on the
settlement of Eneas in Latium, i. 345; his view of the death of Sp.
Cassius, ii. 136; of the account of Kæso Quinctius, ii. 168; of the
case of Manlius, and of his relation to Camillus, ii. 369.

Horace, his allusion to the custom of singing the exploits of brave men at
banquets, i. 204.

Horatia, slain by her brother, i. 456; her tomb, ib.

Horatii, the three, i. 455; their combat with the Curiatii, ib.

M. Horatius, an opponent of the decemvirs, ii. 204, 213.

Tullus Hostilius, third king of Rome, his election, i. 453; his war with

Alba, i. 454; his demolition of Alba, i. 458; his war with the Latins,
i. 460; his death, ib.; character of the history of his reign, i. 461.

Hostius, his poem on the Istrian war, i. 55.

L. Hostius, the first parricide at Rome, i. 418.

Howel, Dr., on early Roman history, i. 2.

Human sacrifices, ii. 430, n. 53.

Icilius, the betrothed husband of Virginia, ii. 208, 212, 215.

Ilia, daughter of Numitor, i. 366.

Ilienses, in Sardinia, i. 327.

Indian history, its sources, i. 244.

Inscription on a linen breast-plate, in the temple of Jupiter Feretrius,
i. 147; inscription commemorative of the victory of T. Quintius
Cincinnatus, i. 148; Duilian inscription, ib.

Insignia of Roman kings, their origin, i. 472.

Instauratitius dies, ii. 105.

Institutional legends, ii. 46.

Insula Tiberina, ii. 10; a fane erected in it to Esculapius, ii. 486.

Interest on money, alleged prohibition of, ii. 417.

Interregnum, after the death of Romulus, i. 442.

Interrex, Roman, a reminiscence of the regal period, i. 102; nature of the
institution under the kings, i. 442.

Ionic revolt, ii. 501.

Ionic migration, ii. 550.

Iphigenia, sacrifice of, ii. 243.

Isocrates, his' Archidamus,' ii. 539.

Italia, extension of the name, i. 272; various origins of the name, i. 278.

Italus, king of the Enotri, i. 276; other accounts respecting him, i. 278;
he is supposed to migrate from Sicily to Italy, i. 279.

Iulus, the son of Æneas, i. 352; the son of Ascanius, i. 357.

Janiculum, fortified by Ancus Marcius, i. 467, 545; occupied by the
Veientes, ii. 150; and recovered, ib.

Johannes Lydus, his allusions to early Roman history, i. 76.
Johannes Malalas, on the Alban kingdom, i. 368.

Josephus, his remarks on the recency of history, and absence of authori
tative public registration, in Greece, ii. 496, 497.

Juba, his Roman history, i. 31.

C. Julius, a decemvir, accuses a patrician before the people, ii. 198.

L. Junius, (assuming the additional name of Brutus,) leader of the seces-
sion to the Mons Sacer, ii. 69, &c.; appointed one of the first tribunes
of the people, ii. 72.

Juno, statue of, transported from Veii to Rome, ii. 304; temple to Juno
Regina founded by Camillus, ib.

Juno Moneta, temple of, built on the site of the house of Manlius, ii. 367,

410.

Jupiter Capitolinus, temple of, its foundation legend, i. 474; its erection
by Tarquinius Superbus, i. 512; its dedication by the consul Horatius,
ii. 13.

Jupiter Stator, his temple, i. 426; a temple vowed to him by Atilius,
ii. 469.

Jupiter of Terrors, memorial altar erected to him on the Mons Sacer,
ii. 72.

Jupiter Feretrius, temple of, ii. 276.

Jupiter Pistor, and Jupiter Soter, altars of, why so named, ii. 332.

Jupiter Imperator, statue of, brought from Præneste to Rome, ii. 372.
Jupiter, a large statue of, on the Capitol, described as dedicated from the
cuirasses, &c., of the sacred Samnite band, ii. 470.

Jus civile Flavianum, ii. 482.

Jus civile Papirianum, i. 142.

Kæso Fabius, accuses Sp. Cassius, (of aiming at royalty,) ii. 132; con-
sequently unpopular, and not supported by his army, ii. 142; leader
(according to Livy) of the Fabii to the Cremera, ii. 144.

Kæso Quinctius, son of L. Q. Cincinnatus, falsely accused of a brutal
homicide, goes into exile, ii. 167.

King of the sacrifices, i. 105.

King, institution of a, by the Veientes, disliked by the other Etruscans ?
ii. 297.

Kings, Roman, memory of them, i. 102; their insignia transferred to the
high Roman magistrates, i. 103; hatred of kings under the republic,
i. 106; ii. 5; statues of the Seven kings in the Capitol, i. 107; their
insignia, i. 472; character of their history, i. 526; their names, i. 530;
form of their government, i. 531; proceedings in their election, i. 532;
traces of a hereditary right of succession, i. 533; their limited powers,
i. 534.

Lacedæmonians, their custom of wearing long hair, origin of, ii. 515;
alliance between them and Croesus, ii. 525; they discouraged literature,
therefore had no native historians, ii. 544; their kings, beginning of
contemporary registration of their names and length of their reigns,
not to be certainly determined, ii. 545.

Læstrygones, placed at Formiæ, i. 328.

M. Lætorius, a centurion, appointed by the people to dedicate a temple of
Mercury, ii. 61.

Landowners of Syracuse, expulsion of, by their serfs, ii. 67.

Lands, public, of Rome, management of, a most important grievance of
the plebeians, ii. 291, &c.

T. Larcius, first Roman dictator, ii. 25.

Larentalia, i. 385.

Latins, war of Tullus Hostilius against them, i. 460; they assist the Tar-
quinian cause, ii. 23; are defeated by the Romans at the lake Regillus,
ii. 29, 30; the Romans renew a former treaty with them, ii. 32; a
Latin revolt, ii. 353; they abandon their alliance with Rome, and war
ensues, ii. 422, 423; they are defeated in the battle of Veseris, ii. 425;
final reduction of Latium by the Romans, ii. 426; examination of
accounts of it, ii. 427-432.

Latinus, king of the Aborigines. i. 298; his parentage, i. 300; his war with
the Rutuli, i. 334; a founder of Rome, i. 396.

Latinus Silvius, king of Alba, i. 362.

Launa, daughter of Anius, i. 309, 335.

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