Chapter CXXIII: Book CXL (4)
Mutines, having learned the art of war under Hannibal, is very
troublesome to the Romans in Sicily, xxv. 40; xxvi. 21.
Is ill-treated by Hanno, 40.
Surrenders Agrigentum to the Romans, xxvii. 5.
Mutiny of Roman soldiers, iv. 50; xxviii. 24, &c.
Mycenica, near Argos, xxxii. 39.
Myla, river, xxiv. 30, 31.
Myndus, xxxvii. 16.
Mysia, xxxviii. 39.
Nabis, tyrant of Lacedæmon, xxix. 12.
Forms an alliance with Philip, xxxii. 38.
Sends aid to the Romans, 40.
War is declared against him by the other states of Greece, xxxiv. 24.
He refuses the terms of peace offered by the Romans, 36.
Being besieged in Lacedæmon, he is forced to comply with them, 40.
The Achæans declare war against him, xxxv. 25.
He is defeated, 30.
Put to death, 35.
Nadagara, a conference there between Scipio and Hannibal, xxx. 29.
Nævian gate, ii. 11.
Nævius Crista, Q., prefect of allies, drives Philip out of his camp
at Apollonia, xxiv. 40.
——, Balbus, L., prætor, xlv. 13.
——, M., said by some to be the accuser of P. Scipio, xxxviii. 56.
——, Q., commissioner of a colony, xxxiv. 53; xxxv. 40.
——, Matho, Q., prætor, xxxix. 32.
Nail driven by a dictator, vii. 3; ix. 28. viii. 18.
Narnia, colony, x. 9, 10.
Refuses supplies, xxvii. 9; xxix. 15.
Narnian tribe, vi. 5; xxix. 37.
Nasos, or Island, part of Syracuse, xxv. 24.
Taken by the Romans, 30.
Navius, Accius, i. 36.
——, Q., advises to mix footmen with the cavalry, xxvi. 4.
His brave conduct, 5.
Naupactum, xxvi. 26; xxvii, 30; xxxvl. 30.
Naustathmus, port at Phocæa, xxxvii. 31.
Nautius, C., consul, ii. 52.
Again, iii. 25.
He routs the Sabines, xxvi. 29.
——, Rutilus, C., consul, iv. 52.
——, Sp., consul, ii. 39.
——, Rutilus, Sp., consular tribune, iv. 35.
Again, 45.
——————, commands the cohorts of the allies, x. 41.
Is honoured for his bravery, 44.
Neapolis, viii. 22.
Its ambassadors offer gold to the Romans, who accept the smallest
bason, xxii. 32.
Its lands are ravaged by Hannibal, xxiv. 13.
Nemean games, the direction of them given to Philip, xxvii. 30, 31;
to T. Quintius, xxxiv. 41.
Nepete, is taken by the Etrurians, and recovered by the Romans,
vi. 9, 10.
A colony is settled there, 21.
It refuses supplies, xxvii. 9.
Is punished, xxix. 15.
Neptune, equestrian, i. 9.
A lectisternium to obtain his favour, v. 13; xxii. 10.
Neptunian lake, xxxix. 44.
Nerulum, stormed by the Romans, ix. 20.
Nessus, river, xlv. 29.
Nicæa, city, on the Malean bay, xxviii. 5; xxxv. 26.
Nicander, a leader of pirates, xxxvii. 11.
——, Ætolian prætor, xxxviii. 4, 5.
Nicias, Achæan prætor, xxviii. 8.
——, Macedonian, put to death by Perseus, xliv. 10.
Nico forms a conspiracy, and betrays Tarentum to Hannibal, xxv. 8, 9.
Kills D. Quintius, xxvi. 39.
Is killed in the capture of Tarentum, xxvii. 16.
Nicodamus, Ætolian general, xl. 5.
Nile river, xliv. 19.
Nola, taken by the Romans, ix. 28.
Is besieged by Hannibal, xxiii. 14, 16.
Again, 43, 46.
The plebeian party invite Hannibal, xxiv. 13.
Nomentan road, iii. 52.
Nomentum, taken by Tarquinius Priscus, i. 38; iv. 22.
Norba, Roman colony, ii. 34.
Is attacked by the Privernians, vii. 42.
Maintains constant friendship with the Romans, xxvii. 10.
Nortia, Etrurian goddess, vii. 3.
Novendiale sacrum, or nine days’ festival, i. 31; xxi. 62; xxv. 7;
xxvi. 23, &c.
Novensiles, deities, viii. 9.
Nuceria, ix. 38.
Is taken by Hannibal, xxiii. 15, 16.
The inhabitants are removed to Atella, xxvii. 30.
Numa Pompilius, is chosen king, i. 18.
His various religious institutions, 21.
His commentaries, 32.
His books of philosophy discovered, xl. 29.
Numerius Decimius, Samnite, xxii. 24.
Numicius, river, i. 2.
——, L., Latin prætor, summoned to Rome, viii. 3.
——, Priscus, T., consul, defeats the Volscians, ii. 63.
Numidians, xxi. 22; xxiv. 48; xxix. 23, 31, 34; xxx. 12; xxxv. 11.
_See_ Syphax, Masinissa, Gala.
Numisius, Latin general, viii. 11.
Numitor, king of Alba, i. 3, 5.
Numitorius, L., chosen tribune in an assembly of the tribes, ii. 58.
Nursians promise soldiers to Scipio, xxviii. 45.
Nymphius betrays Palæpolis to the Romans, viii. 25, 26.
Ocriculum, ix. 41; xxii. 11.
Octavius Metius, x. 41.
——, Cn., prætor, xxviii. 38.
He captures eighty Carthaginian ships, 46.
Is sent ambassador to Africa, xxxi. 11.
Made commissioner of a colony, xxxiv. 45.
Prætor, xliv. 17.
He triumphs over Macedonia, xlv. 42.
Octolophus, in Dassaretia, xxxi. 36.
Odrysians, xxxix. 53; xliv. 42.
Oeneum, xliii. 19.
Oenus river, xxxiv. 28.
Oesalces succeeds his brother Gala in the kingdom of Numidia,
xxix. 29-31.
Oeta, mount, the highest part called Callidromos, xxxvi. 15, 22, 30;
xxxvii. 5; xli. 22.
Ofilius Calavius, a Campanian, his opinion of the silence of the Romans
going home from Caudium, ix. 6.
Ogulnius, Aul., military tribune, xxxiii. 36.
——, Cn. and Q., plebeian tribunes, propose a law to open the priesthood
to plebeians, x. 6.
Are curule ædiles, 23.
——, M., is sent into Etruria to purchase corn, xxvii. 3.
Olba, in Sardinia, ravaged by Hamilcar, xxvii. 6.
Olcades, islands, conquered by Hannibal, xxi. 5.
Olympia, xxvi. 24; xlv. 28.
Olympian games, xxvii. 35; xxviii. 7.
——, Jupiter, xxiv. 21.
Olympias, mother of Alexander the Great, viii. 24.
——, city, formerly Connocondylum, xxxix. 25.
Olympium, temple, near Syracuse, xxiv. 33.
Olympus, mount, xxxviii. 18-20, 23.
Olzinium, xlv. 26.
Onesimus, a Macedonian, is received kindly by the Roman senate,
admitted an ally, and presented with a house and land, xliv. 16.
Onomastus, by order of Philip, massacres the Maronites, xxxix. 34;
xl. 8.
Opimia, a vestal, buried alive, xxii. 57.
Opimius Pansa, L., quæstor, x. 32.
Opiternius, L., a Faliscian, a leader of the Bacchanals, xxxix. 17.
Oppia, a vestal, condemned for a breach of chastity, ii. 42.
Oppia and Cluvia, Campanian women, their liberty and goods are restored
by the Romans, xxvi. 33, 34.
Oppius, C., plebeian tribune, iii. 54.
————, præfect of allies, is surprised by the Gauls, and slain, xxxi. 2.
————, proposer of the law forbidding women the use of golden ornaments,
and a debate about that law, xxxi. 1, 2, &c.
——, L., plebeian tribune, xxxii. 28.
——, Salinator, L., commander of a fleet protecting Sicily, xxxv. 23;
prætor, 24.
——, M., leader of the seceding soldiers, iii. 51.
——, Cornicen, Sp., decemvir, iii. 35.
Is left in Rome with Ap. Claudius, 41.
Endeavours to assist him, 49.
Assembles the senate, 50.
Accused, and ordered into prison, he lays violent hands on himself,
58.
Ops, her temple struck by lightning, xxxix. 22.
Opus, is sacked by Attalus, xxviii. 7.
Dissensions there, xxxii. 32.
Its port Cynus, xxviii. 6.
Oracle of Delphi, i. 56; v. 15; xxix. 10,11.
——, of Jupiter, at Dodona, viii. 24.
Orbitanium, xxiv. 20.
Orestis, xxvii. 33.
Oretans, xxi. 11.
Oreum, xxviii. 5, 7, 8.
Taken by the Romans, xxviii. 6.
Again, by them and Attalus, xxxi. 46; xxxiii. 31, 34.
Oricum is taken by Philip, and retaken by the Romans, xxiv. 40;
xxvi. 25; xxxiv. 51, 52; xlv. 33.
Oringis, or Aurinx, xxviii. 3.
Oroanda, xxxviii. 18, 37, 39.
Oroandes, a Cretan, robs Perseus of his treasure, xlv. 6.
Oropus, xlv. 27.
Orsua and Corbis determine, in single combat, their dispute about the
throne, xxviii. 21.
Orthobula, wife of Proxenus, is condemned for poisoning her husband,
xli. 25.
Ortiagon, a Gallic chief, xxxviii. 19.
His wife’s ill-treatment and revenge, 24.
Ortona, ii. 43.
Oscan silver, from Osca, now Huesca in Spain, xxxiv. 10.
Oscians, inventors of the Atellan farce, vii. 2.
Ossa, mount, xlii. 54.
Ostia, built at the mouth of the Tiber, by Ancus Marcius, i. 33;
xxii. 11, 27; xxiii. 38; xxv. 20; xxvii. 22; xxix. 14.
Otacilius, T., prætor, xxii. 10.
Is sent as proprætor with a fleet to Sicily, xxiii. 32.
Is disappointed in a near prospect of the consulship, by Q. Fabius,
xxiv. 7, 9; xxv. 31; xxvi. 1, 22, 23.
Ovation, iii. 10, &c.
Ovile, enclosure in the field of Mars, where the centuries gave their
votes, xxvi. 22.
Ovius Paccius, Samnite priest, directs the ceremonies in devoting the
soldiers, x. 8.
Pachynum, promontory, xxiv. 27, 35; xxv. 27.
Pactius and Vibius, brothers, men of eminence in Bruttium, apply to
Q. Fabius, xxvii. 15.
Padus, now Po, river, v. 33, 35; xxi. 43, 47, 52.
Pæonia, xxxiii. 19; xxxviii. 17; xxxix. 54.
Afterwards called Emathia, xl. 3.
Pæstum, viii. 17; xxii. 36; xxvi. 39; xxvii. 10.
Palæpharsalus, xliv. 1.
Palæpolis, viii. 22.
Surrendered to the Romans, xxv. 26.
Palatine hill, i. 5, 7, 33; ii. 10; xxix. 37.
Palinurus, promontory, xxxvii. 11.
Pallene, xxxi. 45; xxxviii. 28; xliv. 11; xlv. 30.
Palm branches first given in token of victory at the Roman games,
x. 47.
Palumbinum taken by the Romans, x. 45.
Pamphylia, xxxvii. 23, 40; xliv. 14; xlv. 22.
Pan, Lycæan, called by the Romans Inuus, i, 5.
Panætolium, general assembly of the Ætolians, xxxi. 29, 32; xxxv 32
Pandosia, viii. 24.
Is surrendered to the Romans, xxix. 38.
Panormus, in Sicily, xxiv. 36; xxix. 1.
——, in Samos, xxxvii. 11.
Pantaleon, Ætolian chief, protects Eumenes at Delphi, xlii. 15.
Pantauchus, ambassador, and intimate friend of Philip, xlii. 39;
xliv. 23.
Surrenders Berœa to the Romans, 45.
Paphlagonia, i. 1.
Papirian tribe, viii. 37.
——, cruelty, x. 3.
Papirius Crassus, C., consular tribune, vi. 18.
——, Maso, C., xxi. 25.
Dies pontiff, xxv. 2.
——, Turdus, C., plebeian tribune, xli. 6.
——, Carbo, C., prætor, xliv. 17.
——, L., consular tribune, vi. 22, 38.
————, prætor, viii. 17.
————, a detestable usurer, viii. 28.
——, Crassus, L., consul, iv. 21.
——————, consul, iv. 30.
——————, dictator, viii. 12.
Consul, 16.
Again, 19.
Master of horse, 36.
——, Cursor, L., consular tribune, vi. 5.
Again, 11.
He was censor when the city was taken, ix. 34.
——————, master of horse, viii. 12.
Consul, 23.
Dictator, 29.
Determines to punish Fabius, his master of horse, for fighting
contrary to orders, 30, 34.
On the request of the people, forgives him, 35.
Is made consul a second time, ix. 7.
He takes Luceria, and sends the Samnites under the yoke, 10.
Is a third time consul, 15.
Triumphs, 16.
Is made consul a fourth time, 22.
A fifth, 28.
Dictator a second time; he triumphs over the Samnites, 40.
——————, consul, x. 9.
Pays little attention to auspices, 40.
Triumphs over the Samnites, 46.
Is chosen prætor, 47.
——, Mugillanus, L., consul, iv. 7.
The first censor, 8.
Is consul a second time, 30.
Consular tribune, 42.
Interrex, 43.
——————, consul, viii. 23.
——, M., one of the elders, slain by the Gauls on their entering Rome,
v. 41.
————, a commissioner for the liquidation of debts, vii. 21.
——, Atratinus, M., consul, iv. 52.
——, Crassus, M., consul, iv. 12.
Dictator, viii. 17.
————, Mugillanus, M., consular tribune, iv. 45.
Again, 47.
Papirius, Sp., prætor, vi. 22.
Again, 27.
————, informs his uncle, the consul, of a defect in the auspices,
x. 40.
Parilia, festival, xl. 2.
Parma, Roman colony, xxxix. 55.
Parnassus, mount, xlii. 16.
Paroreia, xxxix. 27; xlii. 51.
Paros, island, xxxi. 15.
Parthenius, mount, xxxiv. 26.
Parthians, ix. 18.
Parthinians, xxix. 12; xxxiii. 34.
Patara, capital of Lycia, xxxiii. 41; xxxvii. 15.
Patavium, x. 2; xli. 27.
Patræ, xxxvi. 21; xxxviii. 29.
Patrician chastity, its chapel, x. 23.
Patricians, why so called, i. 8; x. 8.
They insist that they only have the power of taking auspices, and
consequently a right to magistracies, and the command of armies,
iii. 1; vi. 41; vii. 6.
Their contest with the plebeians about the consulship, iv. 1.
Is compromised, 6.
Renewed, vi. 34; vii. 18-28; x. 15.
They claim the offices of prætor and curule ædile, vi. 42; vii. 1.
They have the power of appointing an interrex, vi. 41.
Are not eligible to plebeian magistracies, iv. 25.
The law is repealed which forbade their intermarrying with plebeians,
iv. 6.
Pausanias, prætor of Epirus, xxxii. 10; xxxvi. 9.
Pausistratus, prætor of Rhodes, xxxiii. 18; xxxvii. 11.
Pedanius, T., centurion, throws the standard among the enemy, and
forces the Carthaginian camp, xxv. 14.
Pedum taken by Coriolanus, ii. 39; vii. 12.
By Camillus, and the inhabitants made citizens of Rome, viii. 13.
Pelagonia, xxvi. 25; xxxi. 39.
Pelignians, viii. 6, 29.
Revolt, and are defeated, ix. 41.
Peace is granted to them, 45; x. 30.
Pella, xxvi. 25; xliv. 42-46.
Pellene, xxxiii. 14, 15.
Pellina, xxxi. 39.
Pelliti, tribe of Sardinians, xxiii. 40.
Peloponnesus, i. 7.
Pelops, king of Lacedæmon, xxxiv. 32.
Pelusium, xliv. 19.
Pelusian mouth of the Nile, xlv. 11.
Penestia, xliii. 19-21; xliv. 11.
Peneus, river, xxxii. 15; xlii. 38, 55, 60; xliv. 6; xlv. 29.
Pennine, summit of the Alps, v. 35; xxi. 38.
Pentrian tribe of Samnites, ix. 31; xxii. 61.
Peparethus, island, xxviii. 5.
City, xxxi. 28.
Peræa, xxxii. 34, 35.
Pergamus, xxix. 11; xxxi. 46; xxxvii. 18, 19.
Perolla resolves to kill Hannibal, xxii. 8.
Perpenna and Petillius, Roman ambassadors, imprisoned by Gentius,
xliv. 27.
Perrhæbia, xxxi. 41; xxxii. 15; xlii. 36, 53; xliv. 35.
Perseus, Macedonian general, xxvi. 25.
————, son of king Philip, xxxi. 28.
Quarrels with his brother Demetrius, xl. 6-16.
His forgery of letters detected, 54, 55.
He gets possession of the kingdom, 57, 58.
Prepares for war against the Romans, xli. 22, 23.
Is accused at Rome by Eumenes, xlii. 11-13.
Employs assassins to murder Eumenes, 15, 16;
and Rammius of Brundusium to poison the Roman ambassadors, 17.
Confers with Q. Marcius, 39-43.
Collects a very large army, 51.
Is worsted by the Romans, 59, 66.
Gains advantages in Thrace and Illyria, xliii. 18-23.
Is utterly defeated at Pydna by Æmilius Paullus, xliv. 42.
Flies to Samothrace, 46;
where he and his children are taken, xlv. 6, 7;
and are led in triumph, 40.
Persians, ix. 18, 19; xxxvi. 15.
Perusia, ix. 37, 40; x. 30, 31, 37; xxiii. 17; xxviii. 45.
Pessinus, xxix. 10, 11.
Petelia, xxiii. 20, 30; xxvii. 26.
Peteline grove, vi. 20.
Petillii, accusers of Scipio Africanus, xxxviii. 54.
Petra, xl. 22; xliv. 32.
Phalanna, xlii. 54, 65.
Phalanx, Macedonian, compared with Roman troops, viii. 8; ix. 19.
Phalera, xxvii. 30; xxxv. 43; xxxvi. 29.
Phanæ, harbour, xxxvi. 43; xlv. 10.
Phaneas, or Phæneas, Ætolian prætor, xxxii. 32, 34; xxxviii. 8.
His dispute with M. Acilius, xxxvi. 28.
Pharnaces, king of Pontus, sends ambassadors to Rome, xl. 20.
Pharsalus, iii. 35; xxxvi. 14.
Phaselis xxxvii. 23.
The fleet of Antiochus, commanded by Hannibal and Apollonius,
is defeated there, 24.
Pheræ, xxxii. 13; xxxiii. 6; xxxv. 30; xxxvi. 9, 14.
Phileas, Tarentine, xxv. 7.
Philemenus betrays Tarentum to Hannibal, xxv. 8, 9; xxvii. 16.
Philetærus, brother of Eumenes, xlii. 55.
Philip, king of Macedonia, xxii. 33.
Forms an alliance with Hannibal, xxiii. 33, 39.
Commences hostilities by taking Oricum, and is obliged to fly from
Apollonia, xxiv. 40.
Makes several incursions on the Thessalians and others, xxvi. 25;
xxvii. 30; xxviii. 7.
Concludes a peace with the Romans and Ætolians, xxxix. 12.
Demands the Macedonian prisoners, who had served under Hannibal,
and is refused by the senate, xxx. 42.
War is renewed, xxxi. 8.
He ravages Attica, 14.
Besieges Abydos, 16.
Makes a fruitless attempt on Athens, 24.
Is defeated by the Romans, 37.
Holds a conference with the consul Quintius, xxxii. 10.
Is defeated, and flies to Thessaly, 12.
At another conference he obtains a truce, 36;
but his application to the senate is rejected, 37.
He makes an alliance with Nabis, 38;
who breaks it, 39.
He is utterly defeated by Quintius, xxxiii. 7, 9.
A peace is concluded, 13.
He assists the Romans against Antiochus, xxxvi. 13.
Is offended at the behaviour of the Romans, xxxix. 23, 29.
His cruelty to Herodicus and his family, xl. 4.
His sons quarrel, 5-16.
He employs Didas to poison Demetrius, 24.
Discovers the villany of Perseus, and resolves to leave the crown
to Antigonus, but dies, 54, 55.
Philip, præstor of Epirus, xxix. 12.
——, of Megalopolis, defends Pellinæum, xxxvi. 13.
Is sneered at by king Philip, 14.
Is made governor of Zacynthus, 32.
——, governor of Cassandrea, xliv. 12.
Philippic, golden coin, xxxvii. 59; xxxix. 5, 7.
Philippopolis, xxxix. 25, 53.
Philo, of Chalcis, xxxvii. 4.
Philocles, Macedonian general, xxxi. 16; xxxii, 16; xxxiv. 32.
Ambassador to Rome, xl. 20.
Philocrates, Rhodian ambassador, xlv. 25.
Philodemus betrays mount Euryalus to the Romans, xxv. 25.
Philopœmen, prætor of Achaia, xxxv. 25.
Defeated in a sea-fight by Nabis, 26.
His method of acquiring skill in war, 28.
Surprises and vanquishes Nabis on land, 27, 29.
Is taken by the Messenians, and poisoned, xxxix. 50.
Philostratus, prætor of Epirus, xliii, 23.
Phlius, xxviii. 7.
Phocæa, xxxvii. 31.
Taken by the Romans, 32.
Phocæans, xxxiii. 32, 34; xxxviii. 39.
Phocis, xxviii. 7.
Phœnice, in Epirus, xxix. 12.
Phragandæ, xxvi. 25.
Phrygia, xxix. 11.
Phrygians, xxxvii. 40; xxxviii. 17.
Phthiotians, xxxiii. 36; xxxvi. 15.
Phylace, xlv. 26.
Picenian territory, xxii. 9.
Picenum, xxi. 62; xxvii. 43.
Pieria, xxxix. 26; xliv. 9.
Pierian wood, 43.
Pinarii, priests of Hercules, i. 7.
Pinarius, L., governor of Enna, suppresses an insurrection,
xxiv. 37, 39.
————, consul, ii. 56.
——, Mamercinus, L., consular tribune, iv. 25.
——, L., master of horse, vii. 3.
Prætor, 25.
——, M., prætor, xl. 18.
Piræeus, port of Athens, xxxi. 25, 26; xxxv. 50; xxxvi. 42.
Pisæ, xxi. 39; xxxiv. 56; xl. 43.
Pisaurum, colony, xxxix. 44.
Pisidia, xxxv. 13, 14; xxxvii. 56; xxxviii. 15
Pisistratidæ, Hippias and Hipparchus, sons of Pisistratus, xxxi. 44.
Pisistratus, a Bœotian of eminence, put to death for the murder
of Brachyllas xxxiii. 28.
Piso, the historian, i. 55; ii. 58; ix 44; x. 9; xxv. 39.
Pithecusæ, island, viii. 22.
Pityusa, island, xxviii. 37.
Placentia, colony, xxi. 56.
The Roman troops take refuge there, 57, 59.
It is besieged by Hasdrubal, xxvii. 39.
The siege raised, 43.
It is sacked by Gauls and Ligurians, xxxi. 10.
Placentians, xxxiii. 23.
Their lands wasted, xxxiv. 56
Plains, Old, name of a place, xxv. 16.
Plator, Macedonian, governor of Oreum, gives it up to the Romans,
xxviii. 6, 7.
——, brother of Gentius, murdered by him, xliv. 30.
Plautius, C., consul, vii. 12.
Master of horse, 17.
——, consul, vii. 27.
Again, viii. 1.
——, consul, triumphs over the Privernians, viii. 20.
Censor, ix. 29, 33.
——, Hypsæus, L., prætor, xxxvii. 47.
Plebeian nobles, xxii. 34, 35.
Pleminius, Q., proprætor, takes one of the citadels of Locri, xxix. 6.
Is appointed by Scipio governor of the city, displays great cruelty
and avarice, and robs the temple of Proserpine, 8.
Is sent to Rome in chains. 21;
and put to death for a plot to burn the city, xxxiv. 44.
Plestina taken by the Romans, x. 3.
Pletorius, C., commissioner of a colony, xxxiv. 45.
Ambassador to Gentius, xlii. 26.
Pleuratus, king of Illyria, xxvi. 24; xxvii. 30; xxviii. 5;
xxxi. 28; xxxviii. 7; xliv. 30.
Politorium, i. 33.
Pollian tribe, viii. 37.
Pollentia, or Polentia, colony, xxxix. 44; xli. 27.
Polusca, ii. 33.
Polyaratus, a man of power in Rhodes, xliv. 23, 29; xlv. 22.
Polybius, a writer deserving great credit, xxx. 10, 45.
Polyænus, of Syracuse, his free and moderate address to his countrymen,
xxiv. 22.
Polyphantes, Macedonian general, xxvii. 32; xxviii. 5.
Polyxenidas, a Rhodian, commander of Antiochus’s fleet, defeated
by the Romans, xxxvi. 45.
Imposes on the Rhodian commander, defeats and kills him,
xxxvii. 10, 11.
Is defeated by the Romans and Rhodians, 30.
Pomærium, i. 26, 44.
Pometia, _see_ Suessa.
Pompeii, ix. 38.
Pompeius, L., military tribune, xlii. 65.
Pomponius, L., præfect of allies, xxv. 1.
————, an infamous farmer of the revenues, 3.
——, Matho, Man., master of horse, abdicates, because his appointment
proved to be irregular, xxii. 33.
Prætor, 35; xxii. 55; xxiii. 24; xxvi. 23.
——————, plebeian ædile, xxviii. 10.
——, M., deputed to carry an offering to Delphi, xxviii. 45.
Prætor, xxix. 11.
Appointed to command a fleet, xxx. 2.
——, M., plebeian tribune, protests against a war with Rhodes, xlv. 21.
——, Sex., xxi. 51.
——, M., plebeian tribune, accuses L. Manlius, whose son deters him
from the prosecution, vii. 45.
Pomptine tribe, vii. 15.
——, lands, ii. 34; iv. 25; vi. 5, 21.
Wasted by locusts, xlii. 2.
Pontiff, chief, created by Numa, his duties and privileges, i. 20;
iv. 44.
Inferior pontiffs, xxii. 57.
Pontificius, Ti., plebeian tribune, proposer of the Agrarian law,
ii. 44.
Pontius Cominius, swimming down the Tiber, conveys intelligence from
Camillus to the besieged in the Capitol, v. 46.
——, C., Samnite general, shuts up the Roman army in the defiles of
Caudium, and sends them under the yoke, ix. 1—15.
Popilius Sabellus, C., distinguishes himself in fight, xli. 4.
——, Lænas, C., consul, xlii. 9.
Ambassador to Antiochus and Ptolemy, xliv. 19; xlv. 10.
————, M., consul, overthrows the Tiburtians, vii. 12.
Again consul, 17.
A third time, 23.
A fourth, 26.
——, M., consul, ix. 21.
——, P., ambassador to Syphax, xxvii. 4.
——, T., xxvi. 6.
Porcian law, x. 9.
Porcius Licinius, L., lieutenant-general, xxvi. 6.
Plebeian ædile, xxvii. 6.
Prætor, xxxv. 39.
——, L., consul, xxxix. 33.
——, Licinius, L., xl. 34.
——, Cato, M., quæstor to Scipio, xxix. 25.
Consul, xxxiii. 42.
Pleads in support of the Oppian law, xxxiv. 2.
Goes into Spain, 8.
And effectually subdues all the country as far as the Iberus, 17.
Triumphs, 46.
Shows himself a bitter enemy to Scipio Africanus, xxxviii, 54.
Censor, xxxix. 41.
Acts with strict severity, 42, 44.
Favours the Rhodians xlv. 25.
Porcius Cato, M., prætor, xxxii. 7.
Porsenna, Lar, or Lartes, king of Clusium, entertains the Tarquins,
and makes war on the Romans, ii. 9.
Besieges Rome, 11.
Restores the hostages, and concludes a treaty of friendship with
the Romans, 15.
Porsenna’s goods for sale, whence the phrase, ii. 14.
Postumia, a vestal, rebuked for too much attention to dress, iv. 44.
Postumius, A., dictator, vanquishes the Latins at Regillus,
and triumphs, ii. 19, 20.
Is made consul, 21.
——, Albus, A., consul, iii. 4.
Ambassador to the Æquans, is affronted by their general, 25.
——, Regillensis, A., consular tribune, overpowers the Tarquinians,
v. 16.
Again consular tribune, vi. 22.
——, Tibertus, A., master of horse, iv. 23.
Dictator; defeats the Æquans and Volscians, 26, 29.
——, Albinus, A., prætor, xxxix. 23.
————, Luscus, A., consul, xl. 35.
Censor, xli. 27.
——, Luscus, A., commissioner to settle Macedonia, xlv. 17.
——, Albinius, L., consular tribune, vi. 1.
Again, 22.
——, Megellus, L., consul, triumphs over the Samnites, ix. 44.
Proprætor, x. 26.
Again consul, 32.
Triumphs over Etruria, in opposition to the senate and people, 37.
——, L., consul elect, cut off with his army in the wood Litina,
xxiii. 24.
——, Albinus, L., prætor, xl. 35.
Triumphs over Lusitania, xli. 7.
Consul, 28.
Candidate for the censorship, xliii. 14.
Flamen Quirinalis, xlv. 15.
——, M., consular tribune, iv. 31.
Fined 10,000 asses, 41.
——, Albinus, M., consular tribune, v. i.
——, Regillensis, M., consular tribune, iv. 49.
Stoned by his army, 50.
——, Purgensis, M., a contractor for supplying the armies, outlawed,
and his property confiscated, for fraudulent practices,
xxv. 3, 4.
——, P., consul, triumphs over the Sabines, ii. 16.
——, Sp., consul, iii. 2. Decemvir, 33.
——, Albus, Sp., consular tribune, v. 26.
Overcomes the Æquans, 28.
——, Sp., consul, viii. 16.
Censor, 17.
Master of horse, 23.
Again consul, ix. 1.
Is sent under the yoke at Caudium, 6.
——, Regillensis, Sp., censor, vi. 27.
——, Albinus, Sp., prætor, xxxvii. 47.
Consul, xxxix. 6.
Augur, 45.
Potidania, xxviii. 8.
Potitian family, priests of Hercules, i. 7.
Delegate the office to slaves, and the family becomes extinct,
ix. 29.
Præneste, vi. 29; vii. 12.
Prænestines revolt, vi. 21.
Are conquered, and the statue of Imperial Jupiter is removed to Rome,
28.
They aid the Pedans, and are punished, viii. 12, 14.
Five hundred Prænestines defend Casilinum, xxiii. 17, 19.
Are rewarded, 20.
Prærogative century, v. 18; x. 22.
Prætor, chosen out of the patricians to administer justice in the city,
vi. 42; vii. 1.
Was elected under the same auspices, and considered as a colleague of
the consuls, iii. 55; viii. 32.
The first plebeian, viii. 1.
Prætorium, general’s pavilion, vii. 12.
Prætutian lands, xxii. 9; xxvii. 45.
Praxo, a woman of distinction at Delphi, confidant of Perseus,
xlii. 15, 17.
Priene, xxxviii. 13.
Priests chosen by Numa out of the patricians, i. 20.
Plebeians added, x. 6, 8.
Primigenia, Fortuna, xxix. 36.
Prince or chief of the senate, the mode of choosing him altered,
xxvii. 11.
Prison, first, built in Rome, i. 33.
Private prisons, vi. 36.
Privernum, the inhabitants ravage the Roman territory, vii. 15.
Are defeated, and their city taken, by C. Marcius, 16.
Renew the war, are conquered, and two parts of their lands taken
from them, viii. 1.
Again commence hostilities, are conquered, and their senate banished
beyond the Tiber, 19, 20.
Undaunted reply of one of their ambassadors, 21.
Procas, king of Alba, i. 3.
Proconsul, first mentioned by Livy, iii. 4.
The first who was continued in command on the expiration of his
consulate, Publius Philo, viii. 26.
Proconsuls had no authority in the city, xxvi. 9.
Proculus Giganius Maurinus, consul, iv. 12.
————, Julius, i. 16.
————, Virginius, consul, his contest with his colleague about the
Agrarian law, ii. 41.
Prodictator, Q. Fabius Maximus, xxii. 8.
Propontis, sea, xxxviii. 16, 18.
Prosecution, capital, ii. 52.
Pecuniary, xxvi. 3.
Proserpine, xxiv. 39.
Her temple at Locri robbed by Pleminius, xxix. 7.
Complaint made by the Locrians, 18.
By the prætor Minucius, xxxi. 12;
who replaces the treasure, 13.
_See_ xxix. 20, 21.
Proxenus, Ætolian, poisoned by his wife, xli. 25.
Prusias, king of Bithynia, solicited by Antiochus to join him in war
against the Romans, is prevented by a letter from Scipio Africanus,
xxxvii. 25.
After giving refuge to Hannibal, he consents to surrender him
to T. Quintius, xxxix. 51.
Proposes to mediate between the Romans and Perseus, xliv. 14.
Comes to Rome, and behaves with abject meanness, xlv. 44.
Prytanis, the title of the chief magistrate of Rhodes, xlii. 45.
Pteleum, xxxv. 43.
Is demolished, xlii. 67.
Ptolemy Philopater, king of Egypt, his statue affords refuge to Magius
the Capuan, xxiii. 10.
He renews a treaty of friendship with the Romans, xxvii. 4.
Offers to repress the inroads of Philip xxxi. 9.
——, king of Egypt, xxxii. 33.
Marries the daughter of Antiochus, xxxv. 13.
——, and Cleopatra, king and queen of Egypt, offer aid to the Romans
against Antiochus, xxxvii. 3.
Implore their assistance against him, xliv. 19.
The elder Ptolemy is reconciled to his brother and sister, and
received in Alexandria, xlv. 11.
They are saved from the attempts of Antiochus by Roman ambassadors,
12.
Publicans, farmers of the revenue, furnish supplies to the troops
at their own expense, on being promised payment when money should
come into the treasury, xxiii. 48, 49.
Fraudulent practices and turbulent behaviour of some of them,
xxv. 3, 4.
Publicius Bibulus, C., plebeian tribune, his charges against Marcellus
and the patricians, xxvii. 21.
——, L., military tribune, xxii. 53.
Publilian tribe added, vii. 15.
Publilius, C., confined for his father’s debts, viii. 28.
——, Volscus, L., consular tribune, v. 12.
——, Q., plebeian tribune, during the dissensions excited by Manlius,
supports the cause of the senate, vi. 19;
and commences a prosecution against Manlius, 20.
——, Philo, Q., consul, defeats the Latins, is nominated dictator,
procures laws to be passed in favour of the commons, viii. 12.
He is the first plebeian prætor. 15.
Is made master of horse, 16.
Censor, 17.
Consul a second time, 22.
He is the first person continued in command on the expiration of
his consulate, and the first that triumphed when out of office,
26.
Consul a third time, ix. 7.
He vanquishes the Samnites, 13-15.
——, T., plebeian augur, x. 9.
——, Volero, a plebeian, refuses to enlist in the army, and appeals
to the tribunes and to the people, ii. 55.
Is chosen plebeian tribune, 56.
Proposes a law, that plebeian magistrates should be elected in
assemblies of the tribes;
is re-elected tribune, _ibid._
Publilius, Volero, consular tribune, v. 13.
Pupinian district, xxvi. 9.
Pupius, Cn., a commissioner to build a temple of Concord, xxii. 33.
——, L., candidate for the prætorship, xxxix. 39.
Prætor, 45.
——, P., one of the first plebeian quæstors, iv. 54.
Puteoli, xxiv. 12; xxv. 22; xxvi. 17.
Attacked in vain by Hannibal, xxiv. 13.
Pydna, xliv. 6, 10, 42.
Sacked by the Romans, 45.
Pylæ, or Thermopylæ, xxxii. 4.
Pylæmenes, king of the Heneti, i. 1.
Pylaic council, xxxiii. 35.
Pylos, xxvii. 30.
Pyra, on mount Œta, the place were Hercules was burned, xxxvi. 30.
Pyrene, promontory, xxvi. 19.
Pyrenæan mountains, ii. 23.
Harbour, xxxiv. 8.
Pyrgus, fort, xxvii. 32.
Pyrrheum, fort, at Ambracia, xxxviii. 5, 6.
Pyrrhias, prætor of Ætolia, defeated by Philip, xxvii. 30.
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, his kind treatment of Roman prisoners,
xxii. 59.
His character mentioned by Scipio, xxxv. 14.
He was warned by the Romans to guard against poison, xxxix. 51.
His dishonourable death a punishment for robbing the temple of
Proserpine, xxix. 17.
Pyrrhus’s camp, name of a place in Macedonia, xxxii. 13; xxxv. 27.
Pythagoras, the Samian philosopher, posterior to Numa, i. 18.
Some supposed that Numa’s books were written by him, xl. 29.
——, son-in-law of Nabis, governor of Sparta, xxxiv. 25.
Makes a vigorous defence, 39.
Pythian Apollo, his answer brought by Fabius Pictor the historian,
xxiii. 11.
Pythium, xlii. 53; xliv. 2, 35.
Pytho, Macedonian, governor of Cassandrea, repulses the Romans,
xliv. 12.
Quadrants, contributed by the people to bury Valerius, iii. 18.
Quadrigati, coin so called, xxii. 52.
Quadrireme, galley of four banks of oars, xxx. 25.
Quadruplator, a term of reproach, iii. 72.
Quæstors, first mentioned by Livy, ii. 41.
Their number doubled, iv. 43.
First plebeian, 54.
Quæstorium, part of a camp taken by the Samnites, x. 32.
Quinquatrus, feast of Minerva, lasting five days, xxvi. 27; xliv. 20.
Quinquereme, five-banked galley, xxi. 17.
Quintian family, iii. 12.
Meadows, 26.
Quintii, Albans made Roman senators i. 30.
Quintilis, month, the nones appointed for the Apollinarian games,
xxvii. 23.
Calling magistrates into office, v. 32.
Knights reviewed, ix. 46.
Quintilius Varus, xxx. 1.
——, Cn., dictator, to drive a nail in the Capitol, viii. 18.
——, Varus, M., consular tribune v. 1.
——, M., xxx. 18.
——, Varus, P., prætor, xxix. 38; xxx. 1.
Defeats Mago in Insubrian Gaul, 18.
————, flamen of Mars, xliv. 18.
——, Sextus, consul, iii. 42.
——, Varus, T., xxxix. 31.
Quintius Cincinnatus, consular tribune, iv. 49.
——, Cæso, warmly opposes the tribunes, iii. 11.
Is falsely charged with murder, is the first that gives bail to the
people, goes into exile, 13.
——, Flamininus, Cæso, commissioner to build a temple of Concord,
xxii. 33.
——, Cincinnatus, C., consular tribune, vi. 32.
——, Capitolinus, Cn., first curule ædile, vii. 1.
——, D., of obscure birth, remarkable for bravery and conduct,
commander of a Roman fleet, is killed in a sea-fight with
the Tarentines, xxvi. 39.
——, L., military tribune, viii. 25.
——, Cincinnatus, L., supplicates the people in favour of his son Cæso,
iii. 12.
Consul, 19.
Refuses to be re-elected consul, 21.
Is called from the plough to the dictatorship, 26.
Surrounds and vanquishes the Æquans, and sends them under the yoke,
27, 28.
Is presented by his army with a golden crown, and triumphs, 29.
A candidate for the decemvirate, fails, 35.
Executes the business of censor with moderation, iv. 6.
Is again dictator, 13.
——, L., son of Cincinnatus, consular tribune, iv. 16.
Master of horse, 17.
Consular tribune, 35.
Again, 44.
A fourth time, vi. 6.
Again, 32.
Recovers Tusculum, 33.
——, Capitolinus, L., consular tribune, vi. 11.
——, Flamininus, L., augur, xxv. 2.
Prætor, xxxi. 49.
——, Crispinus, L., prætor, xxxix. 6.
Commissioner of a colony, 55.
Triumphs over the Celtiberians and Lusitanians, xxxix. 42.
——, Flamininus, L., brother of the consul Titus, admiral of the fleet
on the coast of Greece, xxxii. 16.
Consul, xxxv. 10.
Is expelled the senate for barbarous cruelty, xxxix. 42.
Quintius Cincinnatus, P., consular tribune, iv. 61.
——, Q., consular tribune, vi. 36.
——, Barbatus Capitolinus, T., consul, appeases the fury of the populace,
ii. 56.
Is thanked by the senate, 57.
A favourite of the soldiers, 60.
Is raised again to the consulship by the patricians, and by a
stratagem defeats the Volscians, 64.
Commissioner of a colony, iii, 1.
Consul a third time, 2.
Proconsul, rescues the consul from imminent danger, 4, 5.
Pleads in favour of Cæso Quintius, 12, 13.
Quæstor, arraigns Volscius, on whose evidence Cæso had been
condemned, 25.
A candidate for the censorship, is disappointed, 35.
A fourth time consul, 66.
His character, 69.
He defeats the Æquans and Volscians, 70.
Interrex, iv. 7.
A fifth time consul, 8.
A sixth, he nominates L. Quintius Cincinnatus dictator, 13.
Supplicates the people in favour of T. Quintius, son of Cincinnatus,
41.
——, Cincinnatus Pennus, T., iv. 26.
His disputes with his colleague, and activity in the field, 27, 29.
Again consul, 30.
Consular tribune; unsuccessful at Veii, 31.
Shares in victory with the dictator, 32, 33.
Is brought to trial, and acquitted, 41.
——, Capitolinus, T., son of Capitolinus, consul, iv. 43.
Consular tribune, 61.
——, Cincinnatus, T., consular tribune, vi. 4.
Again, 18.
Dictator; he subdues the Prænestines, 28, 29.
And in his triumph conveys to the Capitol the image of Imperial Jove,
brought from Præneste.
——, Capitolinus, T., consular tribune, and master of horse, vi. 11.
——, T., consular tribune, vi. 38.
——, Pennus, T., master of horse, vi. 42.
——, T., dictator, vii. 9.
Master of horse, 11.
Consul, 18.
——, Pennus, T., consul, vii. 22.
——, T., chosen as leader by the troops in mutiny, vii. 39, 41.
————, commissioner of a colony, viii. 16.
——, Crispinus, T., appointed by Marcellus to the command of a fleet,
xxiv. 39.
Prætor, xxvii. 6.
Consul, 21.
Is wounded, 27.
Disconcerts a scheme of Hannibal, 28.
Dies of his wound, 33.
——————, his singular encounter with Badius, a Campanian, xxv. 18.
——, Flamininus, T., curule ædile, exhibits stage plays with great
magnificence, xxxi. 4.
Consul, xxxii. 7.
Sails to Greece, 9.
Holds a conference with Philip, without effect, 10.
Defeats Philip, 12.
Is obliged to raise the siege of Atrax, 18.
Holds another conference with Philip, which produces a truce, but not
a peace, 32, 37.
Gives Philip a total overthrow, xxxiii. 9, 10.
Concludes a peace with him, 13, 24, 30.
Proclaims liberty to the states of Greece, 32.
Leads an army to Argo, xxxiv. 25.
Lays siege to Lacedæmon, 26.
Refuses at first to listen to Nabis, and afterwards grants him peace,
40.
Triumphs during three days, 52.
Procures the siege of Naupactum to be raised, xxxvi. 35.
Censor, xxxvii. 58; xxxviii. 28.
Augur, xlv. 44.
Quirinal flamen created by Numa, i. 20.
——, hill added to the city, i. 44.
Quirinus, i. 20; v. 52; viii. 9.
His temple, iv. 21.
Dedicated, and adorned with spoils of the enemy, x. 46.
Quirites, why so called, i. 13.
Quiritian trench made by Anc. Marcius i. 33.
Rabuleius, Man., decemvir, iii. 35.
Racilia, wife of Quintius Cincinnatus, iii. 26.
Ramnius, L., a Brundusian, tempted by Perseus to poison the Roman
ambassadors and officers, discovers the matter to the Romans,
xlii. 17, 41.
Ramnenses, or Ramnes, one of the first tribes, and a century of
knights, i. 13, 36; x. 6.
Reate, xxv. 7; xxvi. 11.
Promises soldiers to Scipio, xxviii. 45.
Red rocks, ii. 49.
Sea, xlv. 9.
Regillum, town of the Sabines, ii. 16.
Regillus, lake, near which Postumias routed the Latins, ii. 19, 20;
vi. 2.
Religion established by Numa, i. 19.
A passion for foreign religious rites prevails, iv. 30.
Religious worship performed with more piety than magnificence,
iii. 57.
The bad consequences of introducing foreign modes of worship, xxv. 1.
Remus, made prisoner, and given up to Amulius; assists in restoring his
grandfather, and is slain by his brother, i. 5.
Retius, M., ambassador to Gaul, xxvii. 36.
Revenue managed by the censors, iv. 8.
Rhaphia, xxxv. 13.
Rhæteum, promontory, xxxvii. 9, 37; xxxviii. 39.
Rhætians, v. 33.
Rhea Sylvia, i. 3, 4.
Rhegium, faithful to the Romans, xxiii. 30.
Attempted by the Carthaginians, xxiv. 1; xxvi. 12; xxix. 6.
Furnishes the Romans with a supply of ships, xxxvi. 42.
Rhinocolura, xlv. 11.
Rhion, or Rhium, strait between Naupactum and Patræ, being the entrance
to the bay of Corinth, xxvii. 30; xxviii. 7.
Rhisiasus, of Pellene, threatens his son Memnon with death, if he
persists in obstructing the proceedings of a council of the Achæans,
xxxii. 22.
Rhizon, xlv. 26.
Rhodians, send ambassadors to compose disputes between Philip and the
Ætolians, xxvii. 30; xxviii. 7.
Send a fleet to aid the Romans against Philip, xxxi. 46.
Recover Peræa from the Macedonians, xxxiii. 18.
Join their fleet to the Roman against Antiochus, xxxvii. 9.
Defeat his fleet, commanded by Hannibal, xxiii. 24.
Again, in conjunction with the Romans, defeat Polyxenidas, 30.
Receive Lycia and Caria, after the reduction of Antiochus,
xxxviii. 39.
Send to the Roman consul a menacing embassy in favour of Perseus,
xliv. 14.
Implore pardon of the Roman ambassadors, and punish the advisers
of their misconduct, xlv. 10.
Juvencius Thalna, prætor, proposes to the Roman commissioners
a declaration of war against Rhodes, and is opposed by the
tribunes, 21.
Rhoduntia, one of the summits of mount Œta, near Thermopylæ,
xxxvi. 16, 18.
Rhone, xxi. 31; xxvii. 39.
Crossed by Hannibal, xxi. 26.
Rings laid aside in mourning, ix. 7.
Rome, built by Romulus, i. 16.
Augmented by the destruction of Alba, 30.
Surrounded with a stone wall, 38.
Besieged by Porsenna, ii. 11.
Sacked and burned by the Gauls, v. 41, 42.
Rebuilt, 55, and vi. 4.
Its situation and advantages described, v. 54.
Doubled by the accession of the Sabines, i. 13.
Attempted by Hannibal, xxvi. 10.
Suffers much by fire, xxiv. 47; xxvi. 27.
Romans, their magnanimity, iv. 6.
Love of liberty, ii. 15; vi. 19.
Moderation in prosperity, xxx. 42.
Fortitude in adversity, ix. 3.
Love of their country, xxiii. 49; xxiv. 18; xxvi. 36.
Gratitude to its friends, ii. 10, 13; v. 47.
Justice, v. 27.
Regard to religion, i. 21.
Military abilities, ix. 17, 19. _See_ Army, Camp, Discipline.
They long held poverty in honour, _see_ Poverty.
It is the character of a Roman, both to act and to suffer with
fortitude, ii. 12.
Romilius, T., consul, brought to trial on a charge made by Cl. Cicero,
iii. 31.
Decemvir, 33.
Romular, afterwards Ruminal, fig-tree, ni. 4.
Romulea taken by the Romans, x. 17.
Romulus Sylvius, king of Alba, i. 3.
———. son of Rhea, kills his brother Remus; builds a city on the
Palatine hill, and, from his own name, calls it Rome, i. 16.
Forms the government, enlarges the city, opens a sanctuary, and forms
a senate, 8.
Orders the seizure of the Sabine women, 9.
Overthrows the Cæninians, killing their king, offers the grand spoils
to Jupiter Feretrius, and dedicates to him the first temple in Rome,
10.
Defeats the Antemnians and Crustumnians, 11.
Distressed in battle with the Sabines, vows a temple to Jupiter
Stator, 12.
Makes peace with the Sabines, and divides the city into thirty
curias, 13.
Conquers the Fidentians and Veians, appoints three hundred celeres
to guard his person, 15.
Dies, and is esteemed a divinity, 16.
Rorarian soldiers, viii. 8.
Roscius, L., Roman ambassador, killed by order of Tolumnius, iv. 17.
Ruscino, where some states of Gaul assembled, with intent to oppose
Hannibal, xxi. 24.
———, a sea-port in Africa, xxx. 10.
Rusellan lands, x. 4.
Wasted, and the city taken, 37.
Rutilius Crassus, Sp., consular tribune, iv. 47.
——, P., plebeian tribune, warmly opposes the censors, and brings them
to trial, xliii. 16.
Is fined, and disfranchised, xliv. 16.
——, Calvus, P., prætor, xlv. 44.
Rutulians vanquished by Æneas, i. 2.
By Tarquinius the Proud, 57.
Sabatine tribe, vi. 5.
Sabatines, xxvi. 33.
Sabellan cohorts, x. 19.
Country, viii. 1.
Sabine women seized by the Romans, i. 9.
Put an end to the fight between the Romans and Sabines; their names
given to the curias, 13.
Sabines make war on the Romans, i. 9, 10.
Seize the citadel, 11.
Maintain a furious fight, and afterwards make a peace, 13.
Are attacked and conquered by T. Hostilius, 30, 31.
Those who removed to Rome with Tatius reside on the Capitol and
citadel, 33.
The Sabines are attacked, and defeated by Tarquinius, 36, 37.
Make preparations for war, ii. 16.
Sue for peace, 18.
Make a predatory inroad as far as the Anio, and are dispersed, 26.
Renew the war, and are defeated, 31.
Join the Veians against Rome, and are overthrown, 53.
Advance to the gates of the city, 63, 64.
Recommence hostilities, iii. 26, 30.
Are defeated, 63.
Sacred Mount, ii. 32; iii. 52.
Street, ii. 13.
Rites, foreign, forbidden at Rome, xxv. 1.
Shocking rites of the Samnites, x. 38, 39.
Sacred spring, xxxiv. 44.
Sacrifices, several extraordinary, performed by direction of the
Sibylline books xxii. 57.
The anniversary sacrifice of Ceres omitted after the battle of Cannæ,
xxii. 56.
Sacriportus, harbour, near Tarentum, xxvi. 39.
Sagmina, vervain, i. 24; xxx. 43.
Saguntum, an opulent city on the Iberus, xxi. 7.
Besieged and taken by Hannibal, the inhabitants throw their valuables
and themselves into a fire, 14, 15.
Spanish hostages are kept at Saguntum, xxii. 22.
It is retaken by the Romans, and restored to its old inhabitants,
xxiv. 42; xxviii. 39.
Saguntines, threatened by Hannibal, send ambassadors to Rome,
xxi. 2, 6.
Show great firmness in supporting the siege, 11.
Send an embassy to Rome with thanks to the senate, xxviii. 39.
Another embassy, xxx. 21.
Salapia, xxiv. 20, 47.
Surrendered to Marcellus with the Carthaginian garrison, xxvi. 38;
xxvii. 1.
Salapians overreach Hannibal, xxvii. 28.
Salarian street, vii. 9.
Salassians dwelling on the Alps, xxi. 38.
Salera, in Africa, xxix. 34.
Salernum, colony, xxxii. 29; xxxiv. 45.
Salii, twelve priests of Mars instituted by Numa, i. 20.
Twelve more vowed by Tullus, and called Agonales, or Colline, 27.
Salinator, why Livius was so surnamed, xxix. 37.
Sallentines conquered, ix. 42.
Some of their towns revolt to Hannibal, xxv. 1.
Their country, x. 2; xxiv. 20.
Salonius, C., commissioner of a colony, xxxiv. 44; xlii. 4.
——, P., alternately military tribune and chief centurion, entreats the
senators not, on his account, to refuse the demands of the
mutinous soldiers, vii. 41.
Salpinians infest the Roman lands, v. 31, 32.
Salsula, vii. 19.
Salyi, or Salyes, or Salluvii, people of Gaul, v. 35.
Their mountains, xxi. 26.
Samæans, in Cephallenia, break the peace, which had been concluded,
and are besieged, xxxviii. 28.
After a vigorous defence the city is taken, and sacked, 29.
Same, or Samos, island, xxxvi. 42.
Samians, xxxi. 31; xxxiii. 20.
Samnites, form an alliance with the Romans, vii. 19.
Origin of the war between those states, 29.
Ambassadors sent to the Samnites, receive a rude and menacing answer,
31.
War is proclaimed, 32.
A furious battle, in which the Samnites are defeated, 33.
Are again defeated in Samnium, 36.
A third time, 37.
They send ambassadors to sue for peace, viii. 1.
The old treaty is renewed, 2.
They join the Lucanians against Alexander of Epire, 17.
Answer with haughtiness the expostulations of the Romans, 23.
Are expelled Palæpolis, 26.
Defeated by Fabius, master of horse, 30.
Again, by Papirius, dictator, 36.
Make a truce for a year, break it, and, after a desperate engagement,
are defeated, 38, 39.
Entrap the Roman army at the Caudine forks, ix. 2;
and after violent exertions, and suffering many defeats, 13-16,
21-23, 27, 31, 40, 41;
they submit, and are sent under the yoke, 42.
Their gold and silver shielded battalions, 40.
The old treaty is renewed with them, 45.
They take arms again, and are worsted, x. 12.
Fight a furious battle, and are obliged to fly into Etruria, 16.
Are again defeated, 19.
Again, and their general taken, 20.
They join the Etrurians, Umbrians, and Gauls, 21.
With the Gauls invade the Roman territories, 27;
and are defeated, 29.
Their character as soldiers, 28.
They are defeated in a bloody battle, 31.
They assault the Roman camp, 32; and are repulsed, 33.
Seven thousand of them are sent under the yoke, 36.
Again, by Papirius, xli. 42.
Their towns taken, 45.
They, excepting the Pentrians, revolt to Hannibal, xxii. 61.
Their country severely ravaged by Marcellus, xxiii. 42.
Samnites, gladiators so called, ix. 40.
Samnium, vii. 32.
Samothrace, island, xliv. 25.
Perseus takes refuge there, 45, 46; xlv. 2, 5.
Samus, island, xxxvii. 10, 11, &c.
Sangarius, river, abounding with fish, xxxviii. 18.
Sappinian tribe, district of Umbria, xxxi. 2; xxxiii. 37.
Sardes, xlv. 34.
Sardians, or Sardinians, xxi. 16.
Send a secret embassy to the Carthaginians, xxiii. 32.
Are vanquished by the Romans, 40.
Entirely subdued, 41.
Successes of Sempronius against them, xli. 12.
Sardinia, island, xxi. 1; xxii. 31.
Ravaged by a Carthaginian fleet, xxvii. 6.
A Roman army ordered to be sent thither, xli. 9.
Are conquered by Sempronius Gracchus, and a picture hung up, xli. 28.
Sarpedon, promontory, xxxviii. 38.
Sarus, river, fleet of Antiochus shipwrecked at its mouth, xxxiii. 41.
Saticula, vii. 32, 34.
Besieged by the Romans, ix. 21.
Taken, 22. Its territory, xxiii. 14.
Its inhabitants commended by the Romans, xxvii. 10.
Satricum, taken from the Romans by Coriolanus, ii. 39.
By the Romans from the Volscians, vi. 8.
By the Prænestines and Volscians, 22.
Burned by the Latins, 33.
The Antians settle a colony there, and the Romans sack and burn
the city, vii. 27.
The Volscians take post at Satricum, viii. 1.
It is taken by Papirius, ix. 16.
Saturæ, interludes, vii. 2.
Saturnalia, instituted, ii. 21.
Proclaimed to last a day and a night, and to be observed for ever,
xxii. 1.
Saturn’s temple, ii. 21.
Sacrifices and a lectisternium at it, xxii. 1.
Satyrus, Rhodian ambassador, xlii. 14.
Scævola. _See_ Mutius.
Scantinius, P., pontiff, xxiii. 21.
Scaptian tribe added, viii. 17.
Scaptius, P., persuades the Roman people in a case where they are
arbitrators, to assume to themselves some lands in dispute between
the Ardeans and Aricians, iii. 71.
Scarcity, and consequent disturbances, ii. 34; iv. 12.
Scea, called Tripolis, xliii. 55.
Scerdilædus, king of Illyria, xxvi. 24; xxvii. 30; xxviii. 5.
——, son of Gentius, xliv. 32.
Scharphia, xxxvi. 19.
Schœnus, merchant, informs Quintius of the roads to Perrhæbia,
xliv. 35.
Sciathus demolished by Philip, xxxi. 28, 45; xxxv. 43.
Scissis, xxi. 60.
Scodra, capital of Illyria, xliii. 20; xliv. 31, 32; xlv. 26.
Scodrus, mount, xliv. 31.
Scopas, prætor of the Ætolians, xxvi. 24.
Makes war on the Acarnanians, 25.
Carries a large body of troops to Egypt, xxxi. 43.
Scorpions, engines, the number found in New Carthage, xxvi. 47.
Scotussa, xxviii. 5, 7.
Plain of Scotussa, or Melambium, xxxiii. 6.
Scribonius Curio, C., plebeian ædile, prosecutes farmers of the public
lands, xxxiii. 42.
Is made chief curio, xli. 21.
Prætor, xxxiv. 54.
——, L., deputy from the Roman prisoners, taken by Hannibal, xxii. 61.
——, Libo, L., commissioner of the exchequer, xxiii. 21. _See_ xxii.
61. Prætor, xxix. 11.
————, prætor, xxxv. 10.
————, prætor, xxxix. 23.
Scultenna, river, at which the Ligurians are defeated by C. Claudius,
xli. 12, 18.
Scyllæum, promontory, xxxi. 44; xxxvi. 42.
Scyrus, xxxi. 45; xxxiii. 30.
Seamen supplied by private persons, xxiv. 11.
Secession of the commons to the Sacred Mount, ix. 32, 33;
to the Aventine, iii. 50, 51;
and thence to the Sacred Mount, 52.
Of the soldiers, viii. 39, 52.
Sedentary occupations, people of, summoned to take arms, viii. 20.
Sedetania country wasted by Mandonius, xxviii. 24; xxix. 2.
Sedetanians join the Romans, xxxiv. 20.
Seditious commotions at Rome, ii. 23, 28, 56; iii. 66, &c. &c.
Segistica, xxxiv. 17.
Seguntia, xxxiv. 19.
Seleucia, Macedonian colony, xxxiii. 41; xxxviii. 17.
Seleucus, son of Lysimachus, xxxiii. 40.
——, son of Antiochus, xxxiii. 40.
Recovers Phocæa, xxxvii. 11.
Wastes the country of Pergamus, and lays siege to the city,
xxxvii. 18.
Is compelled by Diophanes, an Achæan, to retire out of the country,
21.
Selinus taken by Antiochus, xxxiii. 20.
Sellius, A., plebeian tribune, iv. 42.
Selymbria, xxxiii. 39.
Sempronius Blæsus, quæstor, is slain with one thousand of his men,
xxii. 31.
——, A., consul, ii. 21.
Again, 34.
——, Atratinus, A., one of the first consular tribunes, iv. 7.
Again, 44.
A third time, 47.
Master of horse, vi. 28.
————, C., consul, his negligence and rashness, iv. 37.
He is accused by L. Hortensius, plebeian tribune, and saved by the
entreaties of the military tribunes of his army, 42.
Is again accused, and condemned, 44.
——, Blæsus, C., brings to trial Cn. Fulvius, for the loss of his army,
xxvi. 2.
————, Cn., lieutenant-general under Q. Fulvius, xxvii. 6.
————, C., plebeian ædile, xxxix. 7.
Prætor, 32.
——, Longus, C., commissioner of religious affairs, xli. 21.
——, Atratinus, L., consul, iv. 7.
Censor, 8.
——, Tuditanus, M., on the capture of New Carthage, appointed arbiter
in the dispute about a mural crown, xxvi. 48.
Prætor, xxxvii. 47.
Consul, xxxix. 23.
Chief pontiff, 46.
Dies of the plague, xli. 21.
————, P., ambassador to Ptolemy Epiphanes, xxxi. 2.
Curule ædile, is made prætor, xxiv. 43, 44; xxv. 3; xxvi. 1.
Censor, xxvii. 11.
Consul, xxix. 11.
Makes peace with Philip, 12.
Engages in an irregular combat with Hannibal, and is worsted;
engages him again, and gains the victory, 36.
——, Sophus, P., plebeian tribune, ix. 33.
Inveighs against Appius Claudius, censor, and orders him to be
imprisoned, 34.
Consul, he enjoys a triumph, 45.
Is made pontiff, x. 9.
Prætor, 21.
——, Blæsus, P., plebeian tribune, opposes the grant of a triumph
to P. Cornelius Scipio, xxxvi. 39.
Sempronius Gracchus, P., plebeian tribune, and Caius, accuse Acilius
Glabrio of peculation, xxxvii. 58.
——, Longus, P., prætor, xxxix. 32.
——, Gracchus, Tib., master of horse, xxii. 57.
Sends corn and nuts down the river to the besieged in Casilinum,
xxiii. 19.
Curule ædile, is made consul, 24.
Supports the spirits of the senate, 25.
Takes the command of the volunteer slaves, 32.
His services, 35-37.
He defeats Hanno, xxiv. 14, 15.
Gives freedom to the volunteer slaves, 16.
Again consul, 43.
His actions in Lucania, xxv. 1.
He is insnared by treachery, and his body is sent to Hannibal, 16.
————, when very young, is made augur, xxix. 38.
Chosen, as remarkably spirited, by Scipio, for an expeditious
journey to Philip, xxxvii. 7.
——, Longus, Tib., consul, xxi. 6.
Is sent into Sicily, 17.
Recalled, and joins his colleague, 51.
Is defeated by Hannibal, 55.
Fights Hannibal again, is successful at first, but worsted
afterwards, 59.
Fights Hanno with good success, xxiii. 37.
——, Gracchus, Tib., plebeian tribune, although at enmity with Scipio
Africanus, stops the prosecution against him, and receives thanks
from the senate for his honourable conduct, xxxviii. 53.
Prevents the imprisonment of L. Scipio, 60.
————, commissioner of a colony, xxxix. 55.
Prætor, xl. 35.
Consul, xli. 8.
Triumphs over the Celtiberians, 7.
——, Longus, Tib., son of Caius, commissioner of religious affairs,
xxvii. 6.
Prætor, xxxiii. 24.
Consul, xxxiv. 42.
Informs the senate of an insurrection in Liguria, 56.
——, Musca, Tib., commissioner of lands, xlv. 13.
Sena, colony, xxvii. 46.
Senate, instituted by Romans, consisting of one hundred members,
called Patres, and their descendants, Patricians, i. 8.
Why called Conscript Fathers, ii. 1.
Their number augmented on the destruction of Alba, i. 17, 30;
to two hundred and to three hundred by the first Tarquinius,
called Fathers of Inferior Birth, 35.
Is diminished by the cruelty of Tarquinius the Proud, 49;
and filled up by Brutus, ii. 1.
Chiefs of the Albans chosen into the senate, i. 30.
The first mention by Livy of a plebeian senator, v. 12.
Appius Claudius procures the admission of sons of freed-men into the
senate, but this practice is not followed, ix. 46.
The rule altered, which required the senate’s previous approbation of
a law, before it was passed by the people, i. 17.
Senators chosen first by the kings, 8, 30, 35;
afterwards by the consuls, ii. 1;
and from the year 300, by the censors, iv. 8.
After the battle of Cannæ, a dictator created to choose the senate,
xxiii. 22.
Prince of the senate generally the member alive who had been censor
first, xxvii. 11.
This rule not always observed, 13.
A particular place assigned to senators at the public shows,
xxxiv. 54.
Decrees of the senate first kept by the ædiles in the temple
of Ceres, iii. 55.
Afterwards in the treasury, 9.
Decree of the last necessity, 4.
Senators forbidden to deal in merchandise, xxi. 63.
Liable to a fine for non-attendance, iii. 38.
Judgment of the senate, auctoritas, iv. 57.
Senones, people of Gaul, advance to Clusium, and to Rome, v. 35.
_See_ Gauls.
Surround and cut to pieces a Roman legion, x. 26.
Sentina, x. 27, 30.
Sepinum taken by L. Papirius, x. 44, 45.
Seppius Lesius, the last Campanian who was chief magistrate at Capua,
xxvi. 6, 13.
Sergia, practised in poisoning, put to death by a dose of her own
composition, viii. 18.
Sergius, C., consular tribune, vi. 5.
Again, 11.
A third time, 27.
——, L., carrying an offering to Delphi, taken by pirates,
and dismissed, v. 28.
——, Fidenas, L., military tribune, v. 16.
Consul, 17.
Consular tribune, 25.
A second time consul, 30.
A second time consular tribune, 35.
A third time, 45.
——————, consular tribune, iv. 35.
——, Manlius, decemvir, iii. 35.
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