Triumph, Roman, its origin, i. 422; triumph refused to the consuls Valerius
and Horatius by the senate, but granted by a vote of the people (first
instance?), ii. 254; triumph, very pompous, of Camillus, ii. 304;
triumph of Postumius, consul, in defiance of the prohibition of the
senate, ii. 469.
Troy, war of, its mythical character, i. 301, ii. 552; relics of, i. 349; in-
ference as to its historical character, from the practice among the
Romans of not continuing any siege through the winter, until the
year 405 B.C., ii. 298, n. 6.
Troy, a place so called near Laurentum, i. 332.
Tuditanus, C. Sempronius, his Roman history, i. 29; his knowledge of the
early period, i. 88.
Tullia, the wife of Tarquin, i. 504; she takes part in the murder of her
father, i. 506.
Tullius, Servius, sixth Roman king, his statue, i. 107; his laws, i. 140; his
portentous generation, i. 164; his census, i. 175; his birth, i. 482; he
marries the daughter of Tarquinius Priscus, i. 483; he acquires the
regal power by irregular means, i. 483, 485; his popular measures,
i. 486; his census, i. 488; his division of classes, i. 489; he makes a
league with the Latin classes, i. 502; he founds two temples of For-
tune, ib.; his victories over the Etruscans, i. 503; his death, i. 506;
origin of the name Servius, i. 507; his other name, Mastarna, i. 508;
his fortification of Rome, i. 545.
Tullus, Attius, receives Coriolanus, and aids him against Rome, ii. 107, &c.;
causes him to be killed by his partisans, ii. III.
Tusculum, its foundation, i. 363.
Tutula, or Philotis, story of her exploit, ii. 364. See Nona Caprotinæ.
Twelve Tables, mentioned poetry, i. 235; ten tables of laws originally set
forth by the first decemvirs, ii. 198; two new tables added, by the
second decemvirs, ii. 202; the twelve tables engraved on brass, ib.;
the first ten tables equitable and wise, the additional two unjust,
according to Cicero, ii. 202, 221, 249; alleged Greek origin of the
twelve tables, improbable, ii. 221, 222; story of another form of Greek
origin of them, ií. 222; our knowledge of them confined to fragments
in quotations, ii. 219; they were not a constitutional code, ii. 220;
the twelve tables themselves difficult to be reconciled with the account
of their composition and enactment, ii. 249–251.
Tyrtæus, his poems, ii. 541.
Tyrrhenians, i. 282.
Ulysses, his name connected with Italy and Sicily, i. 327, 329.
Unciarium fenus, ii. 397, 398.
• Væ victis !' ii. 333, 356.
Valentia, i. 395.
Valerius Maximus, his anecdotes on early Roman history, i. 75; his
account of Roman ancestorial portraits, i. 184; his account of the
Roman custom of singing the praises of celebrated men at banquets,
i. 203.
P. Valerius Publicola chosen consul, ii. 7; gains the surname Publicola,
ii. 12; Valerian laws, ib., and n. 41; pronounced the first funeral
oration, i. 182; his funeral at the public expense, i. 185, ii. 22.
Manius Valerius, ii. 63, 67, 68, 80.
M. Valerius Corvus, ii. 402, 407, 412, 417.
Varro, his extract from the censorial records, i. 175; on Etruscan histories,
i. 200; on the custom of boys singing ancient poems at banquets,
Vates, their verses, i. 207, 210.
Veientes, hostilities between them and the Romans, ii. 11, 140, &c.; 275,
&c.; 286, &c.
Veii, siege of, ii. 298; its capture, by Camillus, ii. 303; review of the
account of the siege, ii. 309-321.
Velitræ, a colony to, decreed by the senate, ii. 96.
Velleius, identifies the agrarian law of Tiberius Gracchus with that of
Licinius, ii. 390.
Veneti, the, irruption of into Cisalpine Gaul draws off the Gauls from
Rome, according to Polybius, ii. 335.
Verrugo, a Roman garrison in, cut off by the Volscians, ii. 289.
Vertot, his work on the Revolutions of Rome, i. 3.
Veseris, battle of, ii. 424.
Vestal virgins, their origin, i. 417, 447; punishments of Vestal virgins for
unchastity, ii. 141, 152, 485; a Vestal accused, but acquitted, and
cautioned, ii. 296; care of the sacred things taken by the Vestal
virgins at the capture of Rome by the Gauls, ii. 327.
Veturia and Volumnia, their embassy to Coriolanus, ii. 110.
Victor, S. Aurelius, his work, De Origine Gentis Romanæ, i. 73; his
work, De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ, ib.
Vicus Sceleratus, i. 506.
Vicus Tuscus, ii. 21.
Viminal hill, its addition to the city, i. 544.
Vindicius, gives information of a conspiracy for the restoration of the
Tarquins, ii. 6; his manumission, ii. 10.
Virgil, his allusions to early Roman history, i. 75; his account of the voyage
of Eneas to Italy, i. 307; his account of the course of Eneas from
Macedonia to Sicily, i. 309-315; he takes Eneas to Carthage, i. 315;
describes him as returning to Sicily, i. 317; his account of the burning
of the Trojan ships, i. 321, 322; his account of games and of the
Ludus Troja, i. 322; on the Alban kings, i. 361; on the duration of
the Alban kingdom, i. 367.
Virginia, attempt of Appius Claudius, decemvir, to gain possession of her,
ii. 207, 211; she is killed by Virginius her father, ii. 211; the attempt
on her, and the murder of Siccius, the immediate causes assigned for
the overthrow of the decemvirs, ii. 236.
Virginius, L. (see preceding art.), raises an insurrection against Appius,
ii. 212, &c.; examination of the story of Virginia and her father, ii.
237, 244.
Viridomarus, king of the Gauls, killed by Marcellus, ii. 277.
'De Viris Illustribus Urbis Romæ,' see Victor.
Volero Publilius, important political movement originated by, ii. 151–153.
Volscians, hostilities between them and the Romans, ii. 58, 84, 107, &c.,
140, 145, 157, 254, 286, 363.
M. Volscius Fictor, his false evidence against Kæso Quinctius, ii. 167.
Vopiscus, his account of a record of the pontiffs in the reign of Romulus,
i. 166.
Vultures, augury of, at the foundation of Rome, i. 390, 407; do not occur
near Rome, i. 516.
Wise men of Greece, the seven, ii. 553.
Wolf of Romulus, i. 377, 383, 385.
Wolves, ominous appearances of, ii. 163, and n. 218.
Writing, use of, at Rome, i. 153.
Xenophon, his Cyropædia, ii. 525-529.
Yoke, or jugum, passing under it, ii. 447, n. 105.
Zacynthus, visited by Æneas, i. 310.
Zaleucus, a legislator of the Locrians in Italy, ii. 532.
Zeno, his history of the expedition of Pyrrhus to Italy and Sicily, i. 65.
Zonaras, a follower of Dio Cassius and Plutarch, i. 75; his treatment of
early Roman history, ib.; his version of the treason of M. Manlius,
ii. 367.
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