Octavius Mamilius, i. 511.

Mandrocles executes a bridge over the Bosporus for Darius, ii. 505.
M. Manlius saves the Capitol, ii. 331; is accused of treasonable designs,
ii. 365, 366; condemned and executed, ii. 366, 367; a different version
by Zonaras of his treason, ii. 367; satisfactory means of judging of his
guilt not presented to us by ancient writers, ii. 371, 372.

T. Manlius, exploit by which he obtains the surname of Torquatus, ii. 401;
causes his son to be executed for engaging in a combat contrary to
orders, ii. 424; hence the expression, Manliana imperia, ib.

M. Claudius Marcellus, his funeral oration on his father, i. 179.
Marcius calls the Romans Trojugenæ, i. 342.

Ancus Marcius, fourth king of Rome, his election, i. 465; he institutes the
feciales, i. 466; his wars, ib.; his public works, i. 467; he establishes
Latin settlers at Rome, i. 468; his two sons, i. 471; they murder Tar-
quinius Priscus, i. 477.

Marquardt, his continuation of the work of Becker on Roman Antiquities,

1. 12.

Marriages of the gods, i. 348, n. 207.

Marriages, mixed, between the Romans and Latins, ii. 28.

Mars, his intercourse with Rhea Silvia, i. 379.

Massilia, its foundation, i. 480, 481.

Massilian chronicles, their existence supposed by Niebuhr, i. 202.

Master of the horse, appointment of a, by the first dictator, ii. 26.

Matrons, Roman, origin of their privileges, i. 428; and of additional privi-

leges granted to them, ii. 305.

Matronalia, festival of, its origin, i. 428.

Massaliots, treasury of, at Delphi, ii. 306.

Megara, compulsory repayment of interest enacted at, ii. 383.

Melissa, wife of Periander, ii. 536.

Memnon, his account of the message sent by Alexander the Great to the
Romans, i. 62.

Merchants, brought news in antiquity, i. 95, n. 61.

Messala, his work on the great Roman families, i. 191.

Messenian wars, ii. 539-542.

L. Cæcilius Metellus, his advice to the Romans to abandon Italy after the
battle of Cannæ, i. 79, n. 18.

Q. Cæcilius Metellus, his funeral oration upon his father, i. 179.

Geminius Metius, a distinguished Tusculan, killed by T. Manlius, son of
the consul, M. Manlius Torquatus, in single combat, ii. 424.

Mezentius, king of the Etruscans, i. 353.

Mimnermus, his elegy on the battle of the Smyrnæans against Gyges, ii.
552, 553.

Mines, Veii taken by means of one, ii. 362, 303; notices of some mines in
ancient warfare, ii. 310.

L. Minucius appointed prefect of the annona, ii. 269.

Misenum, passed by Æneas, i. 324.

Mucius, his celebrated exploit, ii. 17; he is rewarded with a grant of land,

ii. 19.

Müller, K. O., on the migration of the Siceli to Sicily from Italy, i. 274;
on the overthrow of the Tarquins, i. 526; on the meaning of the name
of the Tarquins, i. 530, 539.

Mure, Colonel, his views on tradition, ii. 493; he speaks of the Dorian
revolution as forming a marked line between the mythical and real in
the Grecian annals, ii. 547·

Mutiny of a Roman cohort, soon joined in by a large body of other
soldiers, ii. 416; amicably quelled, ii. 417; accounts of it, examined,
ii. 417–421.

Myron of Priene, his history of the first Messenian War, ii. 540.

Nævius, his date, 56, 232; his poem on the First Punic War, ib.; it is
referred to by Ennius, i. 207; his poetical character, i. 232; mentions
the visit of Eneas to Dido, i. 316.

Nænia, i. 211.

Nail, fixing a, in a temple, i. 142, 176; it becomes a religious ceremony,
i. 177; ii. 409, 460, 485.

Napoleon, his strategetical criticism on Virgil's account of the capture of
Troy, ii. 177, n. 35, 190.

Spurius Nautius described as a descendant of a companion of Æneas,
ii. 68.

Attus Navius, the augur, cuts the whetstone, i. 476.

Neapolis, a treaty between it and Rome, mentioned by Livy as extant,

ii. 443.

Nemesis, theory of, repeatedly recognised in the Roman history, ii. 342.
Newton, Sir Isaac, on the duration of tradition, i. 98.

Nexum, account of abolition of law of, bears internal marks of credibility,

ii. 479.

Nicostrata, the mother of Evander, i. 284.

Niebuhr, B. G., his remarks on Beaufort, i. 9, n. 23; on Hooke, ib.; his
Roman History, its importance, i. 10; his treatment of the subject, ib.;
his use of the terms annals' and 'annalists,' i. 92-4; his opinion
on the propagation of constitutional history by oral tradition examined,
i. 114-27; his interpretation of the word 'populus,' i. 123; his view
of the period of the kings, i. 125, n. 101; his opinion on the accounts
of early Italian ethnology, i. 128; his view of the statement of Livy
respecting the destruction of records in the Gallic conflagration, i. 153;
his interpretation of the eclipse mentioned by Ennius, i. 160; his view
of the antiquity of the Roman funeral orations, i. 186; on the histories
of the great Roman families, i. 191; on a history of the Fabian family,
i. 192; on the existence of contemporary histories during the Samnite
wars, i. 195; on the Etruscan writers cited by the emperor Claudius,
i. 201; his hypothesis respecting the derivation of Roman history from
popular poems, i. 202, 235; on the songs at Roman banquets, i. 205 ;
his account of the supposed poems from which the early Roman history
was derived, i. 212; date of the supposed poems, i. 214; their sup-
pression by Ennius, ib. ; he discovers traces of metre in passages of
prose, i. 224, 225; he supposes Piso to have introduced the rationalist
interpretation into Roman history, i. 250; he supposes Livy to have
treated the early history in an ironical spirit, i. 251; his view of Livy
as a painter, i. 252; he considers Livy and Dionysius to have been

ignorant of the constitution of Rome, i. 261; he thinks that the truth
can be restored from the expressions which they misunderstood, i. 262 ;
on the investigation of primitive ethnology, i. 268; on the interchange
of mythical names, i. 270; on the migration of the Siceli from Italy to
Sicily, i. 274; on the forgery of the list of the Alban kings, i. 372; on
the division of Rome between the Romans and Sabines, i. 437; on the
destruction of Alba, i. 463; on the origin of the Roman plebs, i. 468;
on the curiæ, i. 498; on the difference between the reigns of the first
two and last five Roman kings, i. 529; on the gradual extinction of
the powers of the Roman kings, i. 538; his view of the primitive Roman
constitution, i. 542; his inference as to decline of Rome shortly after
the expulsion of the Tarquins, from treaty between Rome and Car-
thage, ii. 3, 4; he thinks that from the first secession a true narrative
of events in Roman history may, by conjectural combination, be reco-
vered from the extant accounts, ii. 90; his treatment of the story of
Coriolanus, ii. 124-126; his great merits in explaining and illustrating
the agrarian system of Rome, ii. 137, n. 143; his strange hypothesis
with regard to the Fabian occupation of the Cremera, ii. 149; he con-
siders the narrative of the first dictatorship of Cincinnatus improbable,
and originating in a poem, ii. 177; he conjectures that the account of
the first eight years of the war of Veii is derived from the annals, but
of the last two from a poem containing the exploits of Camillus,
ii. 320; his view of the supposed victory of Camillus over the Gauls,
ii. 349; his view of the character of M. Manlius, ii. 370; he reforms
the story of the First Samnite War, according to his own views of
internal probability, ii. 414; his indignation at the execution of C.
Pontius, ii. 457, n. 134.

Nona Caprotinæ, the name of a festival, i. 431, ii. 364.

Norba, a Roman colony sent to, ii. 96.

Nostoi, of the heroes, i. 301.

Numa Pompilius, his meetings with Egeria, i. 110; discovery of his sacred
books, i. 111, 167; his law respecting patria potestas, i. 139; other
laws of Numa, i. 140; his regulations on sacred things, i. 141; his
birthplace, age, and election, i. 445; his pacific character, i. 446; his
religious institutes, i. 447; his colloquies with Egeria, ib.; his death,
i. 448; character of his reign, ib.; he was believed to have been the
scholar of Pythagoras, i. 449; he was said to have introduced metallic
money at Rome, i. 452; his wife and children, i. 453.

Numitor, king of Alba, i. 366; he is deposed by Amulius, i. 378; he
exposes Romulus and Remus, i. 382.

Numitoria, the mother of Virginia, ii. 207.

Numitorius, maternal uncle of Virginia, ii. 208, 212, 215.

Ocresia, the mother of Servius Tullius, i. 482.

Ogulnii, the two, their proposal for rendering plebeians eligible as pontiffs

and augurs, ii. 484.

Old men, their memory of public events in antiquity, i. 118.

Olympic victors, register of, ii. 546, 547.

Olympias, the wife of Philip of Macedon, ii. 436.

Onchesmus visited by Æneas, i. 313.

Onomarchus, his confiscation of the treasures of Delphi, ii. 306.

Orations, Roman, from the Punic wars to the end of the Republic, i. 47.
Orbinia, a Vestal virgin, executed for unchastity, ii. 152.

Orestes, his bones transported to Sparta, ii. 513.
'De Origine Gentis Romanæ,' see Victor.
Orosius, his Universal History, i. 73.

Orthagorida, dynasty of the, at Sicyon, ii. 538.
Ortiagon, his wife, i. 220.

Othryades, a Lacedæmonian champion, ii. 514.
Ovation, the, origin of, ii. 22.

Ovid, his allusions to early Roman history, i. 75; his account of the burn-
ing of the temple of Fortune, i. 108; his account of the Rustica
Vinalia, i. 353; his account of the Fabian expedition to the Cremera,
ii. 144, and n. 165.

Oxen, the speaking of, a common Roman prodigy, ii. 162, n. 217.

Pacuvius, his poetry, i. 232.

Palapolis, possession of it gained by the Romans, ii. 443.

Palanto, i. 287.

Palatine hill, various origins of its name, i. 285, 286; the seat of the original
foundation of Rome, i. 390, 543.

Palilia, institution of the festival, i. 392.

Palinurus, promontory of, approached by Æneas, i. 323; receives its name
from the pilot of Eneas, ib.

Pallantia, i. 287.

Pallantium, in Arcadia, the town of Evander, i. 283; near the Tiber, i. 285.
Pallas, the founder of Pallantium, in Arcadia, i. 285; the son of Evander,
ib.; a son of Hercules and Launa, i. 286.

Palm tree, its growth in Italy, i. 515; the serpent of Esculapius said to
climb up one at Antium, i. 515, n. 127; ii. 486.

Papirius, Caius, i. 141.

Papirius, Manius, i. 141.

Papirius, Sextus, i. 141.

L. Papirius Cursor, dictator, his severity toward his master of the horse,
ii. 443, 444; his great victories (as master of the horse, or as consul ?)
over the Samnites, ii. 448; again dictator, conquers the Samnites, and
triumphs, ii. 460.

Parentalia, derived from Æneas, i. 340.-

Patres conscripti, ii. 9.

Patricians, their origin, i. 413; generally described in early Roman history
as the war-party, while the plebeians are described as desirous of
peace, ii. 57; Coriolanus, the first patrician condemned by the people,
ii. 102; a struggle between the patricians and plebeians as to the
choice of consuls, ii. 141; a violent conflict between them caused by
the proposals of Volero, ii. 152-154; riotous proceedings of patricians
in preventing the people from voting, ii. 186; contests between the
patricians and plebeians proceed notwithstanding supposed settlement
effected by the decemviral code, ii. 254; great constitutional struggle
between the patricians and plebeians, ending in the passing of the
Licinian laws, ii. 373, &c.

Patron of Thyrium, i. 313.

Pausanias, narrative of the Messenian wars in his history of Greece, ii. 540.
Peculium of Sp. Cassius, ii. 134.

Pelasgi, their migration from Greece to Italy, i. 273;

their dispersion

from Italy, i. 281; are said to have founded Rome, i. 395.
Penates, brought by Eneas from Troy to Italy, i. 340.
Pergamum, in Crete, stories of its foundation, i. 310.
Periander, despot of Corinth, ii. 534-537.

Perizonius, on the evidences of early Roman history, i. 5; his conjecture
respecting the poetical origin of the early Roman history, i. 202.

Persian customs, &c., interwoven by Xenophon in his Cyropædia, ii. 526

-529.

Phalaris, bull of, ii. 319.

Phidon, king of Argos, ii. 545.

Philinus, his history of the First Punic War, i. 38, 39, 198; his account
of the early treaties between Rome and Carthage, i. 144.

Philip of Macedon, ii. 436.

Phrynichus, his two historical dramas, ii. 503.
Pictor, Q. Fabius, his Roman history, i. 37; his age, ib.; his family and
life, i. 78; he wrote in Greek, i. 79; object of his history, ib.; his
share in public affairs, i. 81; his reasons for writing in Greek, i. 82;
his treatment of the early period of Rome, i. 83; he is the earliest
Roman historian, i. 89; his knowledge of the ancient constitution,
i. 122; on the legend of Romulus and Remus, i. 238; on Tarpeia,
i. 423; may have been induced by hereditary feelings to collect all
extant [not, however, to be accounted authentic] accounts of the
Fabian expedition to the Cremera, ii. 148.

Picus, a king of the Aborigines, i. 298.

Pila Horatia, i. 457.

Pilgrim fathers, in New England, instance of a colony ex secessione, ii. 65.
Pilitus, L. Otacilius, his memoirs of Pompeius, i. 24.

Pinarii, i. 289, 293.

Pinarius, i.

395.

Pipe-players, the, migration of, ii. 485.

Pisistratic period at Athens, ii. 508–513.

Piso, L. Calpurnius, his early Roman history, i. 30; his knowledge of the
early period, i. 88; he is considered by Niebuhr as the author of the
rationalist system of interpretation in Roman history, i. 250; on Tar-
peia, i. 423; his version of the story of Sp. Mælius, his authority for
it not to be now discovered, ii. 271.

Plague, or pestilence, the, several occurrences of, at Rome, ii. 151, 161,
296, 357, 369, 399, 486 (those at pp. 161, 296, described as if from
contemporary registration).

Platonic Dialogue of Hipparchus (at least a production of the Socratic
school), ii. 512.

Plautus, his comedy, i. 232.

Plebeians, their origin, i. 413, 468 [in vol. ii. see many particulars relating
to the plebeians under Agrarian laws, Debt, Licinian rogations,
Patricians, Tribunes, &c.].

Plebiscita, enactment declaring them binding on the whole community
(existing accounts of this enactment irreconcilable), ii. 215, 433-
Pliny, on the populi Albenses, i. 375, n. 69; he incidentally mentions his
having read a treaty granted by Porsena to the Romans, ii. 39; on
the scarcity of gold at Rome in early times, ii. 336.