Accius, a player, or pantomi-
mist, vi. 70.

ACESTES, a king of Sicily, who
kindly entertained Eneas in his
travels, being himself a Trojan on
the mother's side, vii. 235.

| and measures, the price of corn
and other provisions; provided for
solemn funerals and plays; and su-
perintended the cleansing of the
streets and conduits, iii. 162, 179.
x. 102.

ÆGEUM MARE, part of the Me-

ACILIUS GLABRIO, a senator of
singular prudence and fidelity, iv.94.
ACENITUS, an usher, who was
paid out of the gains of his master,
vii. 218.

ACTIUM, a promontory of Epi-
rus, famous for the naval victory
gained by Augustus over Mark An-
tony and Cleopatra, ii. 109.

ACTOR, a great warrior, van-
quished by Turnus, who carried off
his weighty spear.
He came from
Aurunca, a city of Latium in Italy,
ii. 100.

EACUS, a son of Jupiter by
Ægina, king of Enopia. The re-
putation of his justice was so great,
that, after his death, they made
him, by Pluto's permission, judge
of the infernal bench, with his two
assessors, Minos and Rhadaman-
thus, i. 10.

EDILIS, an officer who took
care of the repairs of temples and
public buildings; regulated weights

ÆGERIA, iii. 17. See NUMA.
EGYPTUS, the country of Egypt,
so called from Ægyptus, the bro-
ther of Danaus, who reigned there,
vi. 526. xv. 2, 45, 116.

ELIA, a lady of quality, but
poor, vi. 72.

ELIUS LAMIA was descended
from the Lamian family. The em-
peror Domitian took away his wife,
and afterwards put him to death,
iv. 154. vi. 384.

EMILIUS SCAURUS, a factious
and daring Roman, who committed
many crimes, but had the art of
concealing them, vi. 32. vii. 124.

ÆMILIA GENS, a noble family in
Rome, which produced many great
men, viii. 3.

ÆMUS, a famous player, vi. 197.
ENEAS, a Trojan prince, son of
Venus and Anchises, who, after
the siege of Troy, came into Italy,
where he married Lavinia, daugh-
ter of king Latinus, and succeeded
him in his kingdom, i. 162. v. 139.
xv. 167.

ETHIOPIA, a country in Africa,

lying partly on this side, and
partly beyond the Equator, ii. 23.
vi. 599. vii. 33. x. 150.

AFRICA, one of the four divisions
of the world, vii. 149. x. 148.
xi. 142.

AGAMEMNON, the leader of the
Greeks in the Trojan war, xiv. 286.
AGANIPPE, a famous fountain
of Boeotia, in Greece, sacred to the
Muses, called also Hippocrene. It
rose out of Mount Helicon, and
ran into the river Permessus, vii. 6.
AGAVE, the name of a tragedy,
vii. 87.

AGRIPPA, Herod, the brother
and husband of Berenice, eaten up
by worms for his pride, vi. 157.
AGRIPPINA, mother of Nero,
daughter of Germanicus, and sister
of Caligula, wife, first to Domitius,
and afterwards of Claudius, whom
she poisoned with a mushroom,
that she might make her son Nero
emperor, vi. 619.

AJAX, a warrior in the Grecian
camp against Troy, the son of Tele-
mon by Hesione, the most valiant
Greek next to Achilles, vii. 115.
x. 84. xiv. 213. xv. 65.

ALABANDA, a city in Caria, in-
famous for effeminate men and
loose singing women, iii. 70.

ALBA, a city of Italy, built by
Ascanius, the son of Æneas, iv. 61.
xiii. 117.-The Alban Hills bore a
pleasant grape, and the vines have
not yet degenerated, v. 33.

ALCESTIS, the wife of Admetus,
king of Thessaly. Her husband,
being sick, sent to the Oracle, and
was answered, that he must die,
unless one of his relatives would
die for him; they all refused, and
then she magnanimously submitted
herself to that fate, vi. 652.

ALCINOUS, a king of the island
Corcyra, whose orchards were fa-
mous for the most choice fruits,
xv. 15.

ALCITHOE, a tragedy written by
Paccius, vii. 12.

ALEXANDER the Great, son of
Philip, king of Macedon, xiv. 311.
ALLEDIUS, the name of a glut-
ton, v. 118.

ALLOBROGES, the Transalpine
Gauls, who inhabited the countries
now called Savoy and Piedmont,
vii. 214. viii. 13.

ALPES, the mountains that divide
Italy from Gaul, x. 152, 166. xiii.
462.

AMBROSIUS, a piper, vi. 77.

AMMON, a name of Jupiter. The
oracle of Ammon, which existed in
Libya, was the most celebrated in
the world, vi. 554.

AMPHION, the son of Jupiter by
Antiope. He and his fourteen
children were killed by Apollo, for
the pride of his wife Niobe, who
insulted Latona, and therefore was
turned into a marble statue, vi. 173.

AMYDON, a city of Macedon,
iii. 69.

ANCONA, the metropolis of Pice-
num, in Italy, built by the Greeks,
on the shore of the Adriatic sea, iv.40.

ANCUS MARTIUS, the fourth
king of the Romans, v. 57.

ANCILIA, brazen shields, twelve
in number; one fell from heaven:
the rest were fabricated by Numa
after the same pattern, ii. 126.

ANDROMACHE, the wife of Hec-
tor, a masculine lady, and very tall,
vi. 502.

ANDROS, an island in the Ægean
sea, iii. 70.

ANTEUS, a giant, begot by Nep-
tune upon the Earth. When he
found himself weary, he recovered
his health and spirits by touching
the Earth his mother; and there-
fore, when Hercules wrestled with
him, he held him up in the air,
that the Earth should not refresh
him, iii. 89.

ANTI-CATONES, two large books
written by Cæsar, reflecting upon
the memory of Cato-Major, vi. 337.

ANTICYRA, a town of Phocis,
famous for hellebore, xiii. 97.

ANTIGONE, daughter of Edipus
king of Thebes, whose death forms
the subject of one of Sophocles'
tragedies, viii. 229.

ANTIOCHUS, a Greek actor, iii. 98.
ANTILOCHUS, son of Nestor and
Eurydice, slain by Memnon, x. 253.
ANTIPHATES, king of the Læs-
trigones, eaters of human flesh,
xiv. 20.

ANTONIUS, Marcus, one of the
three sanguinary and cruel Trium-
virs, who, with Augustus and Lepi-
dus, divided the Roman empire
among them, viii. 105. x. 123.

ANUBIS, the son of Osiris and
Isis; all these three were wor-
shipped by the Ægyptians; Anubis
under the form of a dog, Osiris of
an ox, vi. 533.

AONIDES, a name given to the
Muses, because Aonia was sup-
posed to be particularly frequented
by them, vii. 59.

APICIUS, a famous epicure, in
the days of Nero, who spent an
immense patrimony in gluttony;
and, becoming indigent and de-
spised, hanged himself, iv. 23. xi. 3.

APOLLO, the god of physic, mu-
sic, and poetry, i. 128. vii. 37.
xiii. 203.- -APOLLO-PALATINUS
had a temple at Rome, in which
the judges determined causes, and
in which there was an extensive
library of law books founded by
Augustus Cæsar, vii. 37.

APPULA, a country lady, vi. 64.
APULIA, a country in Italy,
near the Adriatic sea, very rich in
flocks of sheep, whose wool had
the preference of all others, iv. 27.
AQUINUM, a town of the Latins
near Samnium, the birth-place of
Juvenal, where Ceres had a temple,
iii. 319.

ARABARCHES, a vulgar official
person among the Greeks or Ara-
bians, i. 130.

ARACHNE, a Lydian maid turned
into a spider by Pallas, whom she
had challenged to weave with her,
ii. 56.

ARCHEMORUS, the son of Lycur-
gus, king of Nemæa, in Thrace.
He was killed by a serpent while
under the care of his stepmother
Hypsipyle. The Nemean games
were instituted in his honour, vii.
235.

ARCHIGENES, a physician, a na-
tive of Syria, who practised at Rome,
vi. 235. xii. 98. xiv. 252.

ARISTOTLE, Son of Nicomachus
the physician, was a native of Sta-
gyra, a city of Thrace; scholar to
Plato, tutor to Alexander the
Great, and founder of the Peripate-
tic philosophy, ii. 6.

ARMENIA, a large country of
Asia, subject to the Romans,
viii. 169.

ARPINUM, a city of Italy, in the
kingdom of Naples, illustrious for
being the birth-place of Marius
and Cicero. ARPINUS was a name
given to any native of the city,
viii. 237, 245.

ARTAXATA, the capital of Ar-
menia, in Asia, ii. 170.

ARVIRAGUS, a king of Britain,
and an inveterate enemy to the
Romans in the reign of Domitian,
iv. 127.

ARUSPEX, a soothsayer, whose
business it was to cleanse and pu-
rify places polluted by any mon-
strous or portentous event, vi. 396,
549.

ASSARACUS, the son of Tros, the
father of Capys, and grandfather of
Eneas, x. 259.

ASTURIUS, an upstart fellow,
who aggrandised himself by the
most debasing means, and after-
wards monopolized many places of
profit and advantage, iii. 29, 212.

ASTREA, the goddess of Justice,
vi. 19.

ASYLLUS, a sword-player, vi.266.
ATELLAN Interludes, so called
from Atella, a city of the Osci,
where they were first used, vi. 71.

ATHENS, the capital of Greece,
iii. 86. vii. 205. ix. 101. x. 127.
xv. 110.

BRITANNICUS, the son of Clau-
dius and Messalina, so named be-
cause under Claudius a part of Bri-
tain was subdued. He was deprived
of his right to the empire by the
cunning of Agrippina, the mother
of Domitius Nero, and at last poi-
soned by that emperor, vi. 124.

BRUTIDIUS, a rhetorician and
famous historian, x. 83.

BRUTUS, Lucius Junius, who
saved his life by affecting to be a
fool in the court of Tarquinius Su-
perbus. His own sons conspiring
to restore the regal power, were by
him put to death, for daring to
subvert that system he had endea-
voured to establish, iv. 103. vii. 182.

xiv. 43.

BUBULCUS, a general name for
any clownish fellow, vii. 116.

CACUS, son of Vulcan, a robber
and stealer of cattle in Italy, slain
by Hercules, and dragged out of
his cave by the heels, v. 125.

CADITIUS, a very severe judge,
xiii. 197.

CASONIA, the wife of Cæsar
Caligula, whom she charmed with
a love-potion, made of Hippoma-
nes, which drove him into such
madness of love, that he would
often exhibit her naked to his
friends, vi. 615.

man, famous for his high descent
and virtuous demeanour, vii. 90.
viii. 38.

CAMILLUS, a celebrated Roman,
made five times Dictator on ac-
count of his eminent character, ii.
154. xvi. 15.

CAMPANIA, a country of Italy,
of which Capua was the capital, x.
283.

CANNE, an obscure village in
Apulia, made famous by a great
victory which Hannibal gained over
the Romans, vii. 163.

CANOPUS, a city of Ægypt, vi.84.
xv. 46.

CANTABRI, an uncivilized peo-
ple of Spain, who were conquered
by Augustus. They are now called
Biscayans, xv. 108.

CANUSIUM, a city in the king-
dom of Naples, vi. 149.

CAPENA, one of the gates of
Rome, iii. 11.

CAPITO, son-in-law of Tigelli-
nus, accused of bribery, and con-
demned, viii. 93.

CAPPADOCIA, a country of Asia
Minor, the inhabitants of which
were much despised by the Ro-
mans, vii. 15.

CAPREE, an island on the coast
of Naples, x. 72.

CARFINIA, a prostitute, ii. 69.
CARRINAS SECUNDUS, a rheto-

xiv. 87.

CALES, a town of Campania in
Italy, famous for excellent wine, i. 69.
CALLIOPE, the chief of the Nine
Muses, the mother of Orpheus,
and said to be the inventress of
heroic verse, iv. 34.

from Athens to Rome, but was ba-
nished by Caligula for declaiming
against tyrants, vii. 205.

CARPATHUS, an island in the
Mediterranean sea, xiv. 278.
CARPOPHORUs, a famous player,
vi. 198.

CARTHAGE, the chief city of
Africa, and rival of Rome, vi. 170.

CARUS, a common informer, i. 36.

CASSANDRA, the daughter of
Priam and Hecuba, to whom Apol-
lo imparted the gift of prophecy,
with the provision that, though true,
they were never credited, x. 262.