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ABERRIGINES, i. 395.

Aborigines, their appearance in Italy, i. 272; they expel the Siceli from
Latium, ib.; they change their name to Latins, i. 273; they expel the
Siceli from Italy, ib.; meaning and etymology of the name, i. 279;
primitive inhabitants of Italy, i. 280; their kings, i. 299.

Acca Larentia, i. 385.

Accius, his poem of 'Annales,' i. 55.

Acesta, i. 318.

Acestes, i. 318.

Acheron, a river in Italy, ii. 437.

Acron, king of Cænina, i. 421, ii. 277.

Actium, temple at, founded by Eneas, i. 312.
Acusilaus of Argos, an early logographer, ii. 495.

T. Æbutius, a Roman master of the horse, ii. 30.

Ediles, two plebeian conceded, ii. 72; election of, transferred from the
curiæ to the tribes, ii. 153; two curule ædiles to be elected from the
patricians, ii. 377.

Ægesta, its foundation, i. 317.

Egestus, son of Numitor, i. 366.

L. Æmilius defeats the Etruscans, ii. 145.

Mamercus Æmilius, a Roman dictator, defeats the Veientes, ii. 275;
again dictator, reduces the term of the censorship, ii. 279; a third time
dictator, ii. 284.

Q. Æmilius, a consul, ii. 477.

Enaria, named from Æneas, i. 325.

Enea, in Macedonia, derived from Æneas, i. 308.

Æneas, legend of, treated by Bochart, i. 5; time of his landing in Latium,
i. 298;
his celebrity, i. 303; his parentage, ib.; his reign in Troy,
i. 304; his treachery to the Trojans, i. 305; his flight from Troy,
i. 305-7; legends respecting his voyages, i. 307; names of his wives,
ib., n. 33; he founds Enus in Thrace, i. 308; and Ænea in Mace-
donia, ib.; he visits Delos, i. 309; and Cythera, ib.; he founds
Pergamum, in Crete, i. 310; he visits Zacynthus, i. 310; legends con-
necting him with Arcadia, i. 311; he visits Leucas, i. 312; Actium, ib.;
Ambracia, ib.; Buthrotum, ib.; Dodona, ib.; Anchiasmus, or
Onchesmus, i. 313; reaches Italy at the Castrum Minervæ, i. 314;
routes by which he reaches Drepanum, i. 315; his diversion to Car-
thage, ib.; he returns to Eryx, i. 317; his ship preserved as a relic,
i. 322; his ship fabricated by Mercury, ib.; he sails by the promontory
of Palinurus, i. 323; he passes the island of Leucosia, i. 324; Misenum,

ib.; the island of Prochyta, ib.; he lands at Laurentum, in Latium,
i. 326, 331; he founds Lavinium, i. 335; he marries Lavinia, i. 337
339; his death, i. 339; and apotheosis, ib.; his tombs, i. 340; his
birth from the goddess Venus, i. 348; monuments of his presence,
i. 349; he founds Rome, i. 396.

Eneas Silvius, king of Alba, i. 362.

Æneas, the tactician, his work 'On the Defence of Towns,' ii. 310.
Enus in Thrace, derived from Eneas, i. 308.

Eolic migration, the, ii. 550.

Equians, the, their hostilities with the Romans, ii. 108, 127, 140, 145, 157,
175, 187, 203, 254, 284-6, 363.

Equimelium, ii. 272.

Erarium, place of deposit for senatus-consulta, i. 142; on the Capitol,
i. 148; its destruction by fire, ib. ; its remains, i. 149.

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Eschylus, his Persæ,' ii. 503.

Esculapius, his statue brought to Rome, ii. 486.

Æsymneteia, a Greek office, ii. 26, 229.

Africa, visited by Greek and Trojan heroes i. 316.
Agaclytus, citation from, ii. 537-

Agathocles, on the foundation of Rome, i. 398, 399.
Agathocles, master of Sicily, ii. 440.

Agrarian laws, Roman, the first proposed, ii. 129; discussions, &c. relating
to it, 136-139; agrarian law proposed, or again brought forward,
ii. 151; agrarian laws, individual character of each, ii. 158 (294); an
agrarian law of a novel character carried, ii. 182; delayed agrarian law
again brought forward, ii. 184; agrarian system, importance of, in
Rome, compared with the Greek states, ii. 293; agrarian rogation of
Licinius, ii. 374, 384, &c.

Agriculture encouraged at Rome, i. 418.

Menenius Agrippa, his apologue of the Belly and Limbs, i. 257; ii. 66,
71, 80; his death, and his funeral at the public expense, ii. 85.

Agrippa, king of Alba, i. 365.

Ahala, origin of the name, ii. 271.

Ahenobarbus, origin of the name, ii. 32, n. 105.

Aius Locutius, temple built to, ii. 339.

Alba Longa, the metropolis of Rome, i. 267, 373; founded by Ascanius,
i. 353; its wars with Rome, i. 454; its demolition by the Romans,

i. 459.
Alba, an Alban king, i. 364.

Alban kingdom, its duration, i. 367; the accounts of it unhistorical, i. 369.
Alban kings, their reigns, i. 358.

Alban lake, portentous swelling of, ii. 300, 301; the story examined,
ii. 311, &c.

L. Albinius conveys the Vestal Virgins, &c. to Care, on the taking of
Rome by the Gauls, ii. 327.

Albula, primitive name of the Tiber, i. 364.

Album, a whitened board, i. 155, n. 80.

Alcæus, ii. 552, 553.

Alcenor, an Argive champion, ii. 514.

Alcimus, on the foundation of Rome, i. 400.

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Alemæonidæ, ii. 513, 532.

Alexander of Epirus, his expedition to Italy, i. 58; ii. 435—439.

Alexander the Great, the supposed embassy of the Romans to him, i. 60;

his complaint about the Italian pirates, i. 62.

Alexander Polyhistor, on the Alban kings, i. 372.

Alfius, his history of the Punic war, i. 39, n., 99.
Algidus, Mount, ii. 175.

Alienus, L., a plebeian ædile, ii. 191.

Allia, battle of, ii. 324; its topography, ii. 342.
Alliensis dies, i. 101; ii. 325, 351.

Allifæ, capture of, ii. 460.

Amasis, king of Egypt, ii. 513, 518.

Ambracia, its memorials of Æneas, i. 312.

Amulius, king of Alba, i. 366; he usurps his mother's throne, i. 377.

Anarchy at Rome for five years, consequent on proposition of the Licinian
rogations, ii. 374; account of it examined, îì. 378–380.

Anaxandrides, king of Sparta, ii. 513.

Anchiasmos visited by Eneas, i. 313.

Anchises, his tombs, i. 340.

Anchisia, Mount, in the territory of Mantinea, i. 311.

Anius, king of Delos, i. 309.

Anna, sister of Dido, i. 317.

Annales, meaning of the term, i. 90, 91.

Annales pontificum, i. 90, 155; also called Annales Maximi, i. 155; origin
of their name, i. 156; divided into 80 books, ib.; kept by the Pontifex
Maximus, ib.; their contents, i. 157; contained mention of eclipses,
i. 159; citation from, in Gellius, i. 166; their destruction in the Gallic
conflagration, i. 168; contained a statement on the Silvii, i. 370.
Annalis lex, i. 90.

Annalistic style, contrasted with legendary, ii. 360.

Annalists, Roman, i. 90; meaning of the term in Niebuhr, i. 92.

Annius, L., his demands on behalf of the Latins, ii. 422.

Annonæ præfectus, ii. 269.

Antenor, his treachery, i. 305.

Antias, Q. Valerius, his history of Rome, i. 25; his knowledge of the early

period, i. 88.

Antiates, the, defeated by Cominius, ii. 84.

Antigonus, his probable time, i. 94; he treated the early Roman history,
ib.;
his account of the foundation of Rome, i. 401.
Antiochus, his statement respecting the Ausones and Opici, i. 129, 275, 276.
Antipater, L. Cælius, his Roman history, beginning with the Punic wars,
i. 28; his account of the founder of Capua, i. 325.

Antium, stipulated for by Rome in a treaty with Carthage, ii. 3; repaired
to (being then the chief city of the Volscians) by Coriolanus, ii. 105;
capture of by the Romans, ii. 157.

Antonius, one of the decemviri, ii. 209.

Anxur, capture of, ii. 289; recovered by the Volscians, and recaptured,

ii. 299.

Aphrodisias, origin of its name, i. 310.

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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. 11II.

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.

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