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 Croesus, 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, ü. 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 Eneas, 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 Latinæ, 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.

Fidenæ, 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