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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 Italian 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,
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.

530;

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.

Læstry gones, 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
Latín revolt, ii. 363; 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.

Laurentum, origin of the name, i. 331.

Lausus, son of Numitor, i. 366.

Lavici conquered, and its territory divided among Roman settlers, ii. 292.
Lavinia, daughter of Latinus, i. 335; she is married to Æneas, i. 337; her
son by Æneas, i. 352.

Lavinium, founded by Æneas, i. 335.

Laws engraved on brass, i. 138; laws attributed to the kings, i. 139; their
destruction by fire, i. 150; the Romans had no written laws in early
times, i. 171.

Laws, written, possession of, and decisions according to, considered by the
Greeks as democratic, ii. 219.

Leclerc, on the Pontifical annals, i. 169, n. 124.

Lectisternium, i. 163; when first resorted to, ii. 357.

Legends, of early Roman history, their different sorts, i. 432.

Legendary style, the characteristics of, ii. 360.

Leges regiæ, i. 139, 140, 433, 526.

Leonidas, king of Sparta, his death at Thermopylæ, ii. 518.

Leucas, visited by Eneas, i. 312.

Leucosia, island of, visited by Æneas, i. 324.

Levesque, his views on the early Roman history, i. 10, n. 25.

Libri lintei, i. 172; ii. 258, 276, 279.

C. Licinius Stolo, leader of the plebeian party in a great constitutional
struggle, ii. 373.-See following art.

Licinian rogations, proposed, and after much difficulty, carried, ii. 374-376;
rogation 1, concerning debts, ii. 374, 382, 383, 397, 398; rogation 2,
agrarian, (i. 113,) ii. 374, 383—392; Licinius fined for a breach of it,
(i. 113,) ii. 387; rogation 3, abolishing consular tribunes, and requir
ing at least one of the consuls to be a plebeian, ii. 374, 392-397;
examination of account of this political struggle, ii. 380-82. (An
additional proposition by Licinius for the increase of the curators of
sacred things, some of them to be plebeians, ii. 374, 375.)

Lictors, derived from the kings, i. 103.

Lights on the Roman spears, in 503 B.C., i. 165.

Ligyes, their migration to Sicily, i. 275.

Liparæ, islands, piracy carried on by the inhabitants of, ii. 305, 306.
Literature, lateness of its cultivation at Rome, i. 155, 237; ii. 552.
Livius Andronicus, his life and poetry, i. 231.

Livy, on a reading in Epit. 53, i. 34; his principal object was to write
contemporary history, i. 44; analysis of the contents of his history,
i. 45; his mention of prodigies, i. 51; his account of the knowledge of
the Romans respecting Alexander the Great, i. 61; contents of his
first eleven books, i. 71; his statement respecting the destruction of
records before the burning of Rome, i. 152, ii. 240; he rarely men-
tions prodigies in the first decad, i. 161; his account of prodigies
in the Second Punic War, i. 162; on the mendacity of funeral pan-
egyrics and ancestorial inscriptions, i. 188, 189, ii. 445; is supposed
by Niebuhr to cite a fragment of a poem on the trial of Horatius,
i. 224; the main object of his history, i. 247; his narrative of the
early Roman history derived from the preceding historians, i. 248;
his views on historical evidence, i. 249; his preface, i. 249, n. 13; he
rationalizes marvellous incidents, i. 250; his later books, i. 252, n. 21,
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writers whom he chiefly followed, i. 255; his treatment of prodigies,
i. 255; his speeches, i. 256, 259; on the supposed destruction of his
works by Gregory the Great, i. 264, n. 47; on the aborigines, i. 280;
his account of Troy in Latium, i. 332; on the voyage of Eneas to
Latium, i. 344; on the duration of Alba, i. 367; on the classes of
Servius Tullius, i. 489; he remarks the fitness of the time at which
the change from regal to consular government took place at Rome,
ii. 3; comparison of his accounts and those of Dionysius, of the first
fourteen years of the Roman commonwealth, ii. 52, 54 [see Diony
sius];
his narrative of the period containing the institution of tribunes
of the people, compared with that of Dionysius, ii. 62-84 [see Diony-
sius]; chronological discrepancies between him and Dionysius relat-
ing to the history of Coriolanus, ii. 116 [see Dionysius]; he describes
a method by which the consuls often cheated the soldiers of their
booty, ii. 141; his statement of the Terentillian rogation, ii. 166; his
account of the events of the year 455 B.C., inconsistent with the copious
narrative of them by Dionysius, ii. 184, 191 [see Dionysius]; his
notice of the first sending of an army to Sicily by the Carthaginians,
ii. 282; his account of the grounds of the Veientine war, ii. 287; his
belief that Alexander the Great, if he had turned his arms against
Rome, would have found in her a successful opponent, ii. 362; he
notes his wonder on reading the account of the perpetual renewal of
the Volscian and Equian armies in the historians nearer to [not con-
temporary with] the time, ii. 365; his view of the agrarian law of
Licinius, ii. 391.

Lucanians, the Romans first form an alliance with them, ii. 443.

L. Lucceius, his Roman history, i. 27.

Luceres, one of the Roman tribes, i. 412.

Lucretia, wife of L. Tarquinius Collatinus, her rape, i. 516; she kills her-

self, i. 517, 523.

Lucullus, his Greek history of the Marsic War, i. 27.

Lucumo, an Etruscan grandee, ii. 322.

Ludus Troja, i. 323.

Lupa, its ambiguous meaning, i. 250.

Lupercal cave, the, i. 109, 238, 287.

Lupercalia, identified with an Arcadian festival, i. 287.

Lycurgus, the Spartan lawgiver, ii. 542.

Macaulay, Mr., on the poetical character of events in the early Roman
history, i. 217; on a passage of Fabius Pictor, i. 238.

Macer, C. Licinius, his Roman history, i. 24; considered the Roman dic-
tatorship to have been imitated from Alba, ii. 26.

Machiavel, his view of the early Roman history, i. 2; did not fully com-
prehend the true character of the Roman agrarian laws, ii. 137, n.
143; his mode of accounting for the establishment of the decemvirate,
ii. 233; n. 10I.

Sp. Mælius, distributes corn among poor plebeians, ii. 270; is accused of
aiming at royalty, ib.; and killed, ib. and 271; our information not
such as to enable us to judge of his character, ii. 273, 274.

Mænius, a tribune, proposer of an agrarian law, ii. 295.
Magister populi, used for dictator, i. 170.

Magistrates, lists of, i. 173.

Mallet, on the duration of tradition, i. 98.

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