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The Empresses of Rome

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Ablabius, 283

Acerronia Pollia, 102

Acholius, 318

Acte, 95, 105, 121

Actium, 19

Adultery at Rome, 26, 200

Ælia Capitolina, 160

— Pætina, 62, 80

Æmilianus, L. A. L., 130, 131

Ætius, 344, 345, 346

Afer, 253

Agrippa, M. V., 25, 26, 27

— son of Julia, 33, 35–6

Agrippina, the elder, 33, 37, 41, 42, 46

— the younger, 54, 65, 67, 80, 81, 82–104

— memoirs of, 14, 44, 64, 73, 80

Ahenobarbus, C. D., 81

Albinus, 196, 197, 198

Alexander Severus, 212, 219–21, 222–31

Alexandra, St., 256

Alexandria, 159, 207

Alexandrian Chronicle, the, 307, 311

Alexianus. See Alexander

Ambrose, St., 266, 314, 315, 318, 319

Anastasia, 288

Anicetus, 100, 102, 103, 111

Annius Verus, 164

“Anonymus Valesii,” 267

Antinous, 157, 159

Antioch, 27, 145, 171

Antonia, 81

Antoninus Pius, 162, 163, 165–8, 169

Apollodorus, 153

Appian, 202

Appius Silanus, 68

Appuleia Varilia, 42

Arcadia, 328

Arcadius, 320, 321, 323, 325, 326–32

Argentocoxus, 203

Argobastes, 321

Arintheus, 325

Arsenius, 320

Asiaticus, Valerius, 71–2

Astrology at Rome, 85

Ataulph, 341, 342

Athanasius, 295, 296

Athenais, 333, 334

Athens, 158

Attalus, 239

Attianus, 142, 147, 149, 153

Attila, 345, 346

Auctions of Caligula, the, 54, 57

Augustans, the, 119, 120

Augustine, St., 274, 314

Augustulus, 350

Augustus, title of, 19

Aurelian, 241, 245–51

Avitus, 348

Bacchanalia, the, 74

Baiæ, 53, 101

Balbinus, 235, 236

Barbatoria, 14

Baring-Gould, Mr., 3, 90, 91, 100, 103, 118

Baronius, 256, 311

Basil, St., 310

Bassani, 186

Bassianus, the elder, 195

— the younger. See Caracalla

Bassianus, Senator, 273

— V. A. See Elagabalus

Bassus, Pomponius, 217

Bauto, 326

Berenice, 130

Boissier, M., 136

Boniface, Count, 344

Britannicus, 65, 76, 83, 86, 92, 96

Bruttius Præsens, 182

Burrus, 85, 92, 95, 103, 107, 108

Bury, Prof., 211, 273, 277, 280, 346

Cænis, 128–9

Cæsar, Julius, 6, 10

Cæsonia, Milonia, 55, 56, 59, 130

Caius Cæsar = Caligula

Caius, son of Julia, 32–3

Caledonians, the, 203

Caligula, 37, 49–59

Callistus, 80

Calpurnia, 75, 79, 84

Calpurnius Piso, 52

Candidian, 263

Capitolinus, Julius, 166, 172, 173

Capreæ, 34, 48

Caracalla, 196, 199, 202, 203, 204–9

Caractacus, 84

Carinus, 252–4

Carnuntum, 261

Carus, 251

Cassianus Postumus, 242

Cassiodorus, 267

Cassius, Avidius, 175, 177

Castricia, 330

Ceionia, 170

Celsa, Nonia, 210, 213

Celsus, 153

Centumcellæ, 182

Charito, 306

Christians, persecution of the, 257–9

Chrysaphius, 336, 337

Chrysostom, John, 327, 328, 329, 330–2

Cinna, 20

Circus, the, 7

— factions of the, 56, 109, 124

Claudii, the, 9

Claudius, 60, 61, 62, 64–76, 79–82, 141

— II, 244

Cleander, 187

Cleopatra, 8, 10, 13, 18, 19

— servant of Claudius, 73, 79

Clodia, 12

Cohen, 238, 253, 307

Cologne, 84, 138

Commodus, L. C., 157, 162

— L. V., 169, 170, 172, 175, 180

— son of Marcus, 172, 181, 182–9

Constans, 286, 289

Constantia, 273, 275, 276, 283

— wife of Gratian, 313

Constantina, F. J., 288, 289, 290–3

Constantine, 260, 271–85

— the younger, 286, 287

Constantinople, founding of, 283, 284

Constantius, 254, 260, 266–71

— the younger, 286, 287, 289, 290, 292–304

— General, 342

Contubernium, 129

Corbulo, Domitius, 130

Cornificia, 205

Corruption at Rome, 21, 34, 136–7

Crepereius Gallus, 102

Crinitus, Ulpius, 250

Crispilla, Quintia, 236

Crispina, 183, 184

Crispus, 274, 278–82

— Passienus, 67

Curia mulierum, 6, 202

Daza, 259

“Deaths of the Persecutors,” 256, 258

Decius, 237

Delmatius, 286, 287

Dexippus, 225

Diadumenianus, 210

Didia Clara, 192, 193

Dill, Dr. S., 136

Dio, 9, 15, 16, 26, 29, 43, 45, 51, 64, 73, 84, 95, 99, 114, 129, 131, 133, 142, 146, 169, 176, 188, 200, 202, 207, 228

Diocletian, 253–60, 261, 262

Divination at Rome, 85

Dominica, Albia, 307, 308, 310

Domitia Lepida, 68, 89

— Longina, 130, 131–5

Domitian, 130–4

Domitian, Prefect, 292

Domitilla, Flavia, 128, 130

Domna, Julia, 194, 195, 196–209

Domus Vectiliana, 190

Drepanum, 266

Drusilla, daughter of Agrippina, 51

— daughter of Cæsonia, 55, 59

Drusus Nero, 15

— son of Agrippina, 47

— son of Livia, 24, 31, 37, 41, 61

Duruy, 148, 156, 161, 172, 239

Eboracum, 155, 203

Eclectus, 188, 193

Elagabal, 195, 215

Elagabalus, 200, 211–21

Eleuthera, St., 256

Emesa, 195, 209, 212

Empress, the title, 9

Ennia, 50–1

Ephesus, 158

Epicureanism, 164

Etruscilla, Herennia, 237

Eucer, 110

Eudocia, 334–8

Eudoxia, 325, 326, 327–31

— Licinia, 335, 346, 347

Euphemia, 348

Eusebia, Aurelia, 294, 296–301, 303

Eusebius, Bishop, 249, 257, 262, 267, 275, 279, 287, 296

— eunuch, 295

Eutropia, Galeria Valeria, 254, 270, 283

Eutropius, 325, 326, 327, 328

— historian, 200, 206, 257, 268, 272, 275, 279

Fabia, 180, 181

Fadilla, 187

— Julia, 158

— Junia, 230

Falco, 190

Fausta, 271, 272, 277, 278–82

Faustina, the elder, 163, 164–8

— the younger, 169, 170–8

— Maxima, 304, 308

— Rupilia, 164

Faustinopolis, 177

Felix, 112

Firth, Mr., 267, 277, 280

Flaccilla, Ælia, 317, 318

Flaminian Circus, 30

Flavian, Archbishop, 336, 337

Forum, the, 7, 19

— of Trajan, the, 143

Freedmen at Rome, 62, 63, 68

Fronto, 166, 172

Fucine Lake, 87

Fulvia, 10, 12, 13

Fundana, Galeria, 123, 124, 125, 126–8

Furnilla, Marcia, 129, 130

Gainas, 329

Galba, Sulpicius, 67, 120, 123

Galerius, 254, 256, 258, 260, 261

Galla, 317, 318, 319, 320, 321

Gallienus, 238, 239, 242, 244

Gallus, 237, 290–4

Gannys, 212

Gardner, A., 299

Genseric, 347

Germanicus, 37–8

Geta, 196, 201, 202, 204, 205

Gibbon, 2, 45, 131, 136, 141, 169, 211, 224, 225, 228, 239, 245, 247, 248, 267, 274, 278, 301, 331, 337

Glycerius, 349

Golden House of Nero, 115, 129

Gordianus, 234

— the younger, 236

Görres, Dr., 279

Göteke, 270

Gratian, 307, 312, 313, 314

Greece, Nero in, 119

Gregorovius, 151, 156, 161

Güldenpenning, 317

Hadrian, 139, 141, 142, 145, 147, 149–63, 169

Hannibalian, 286, 287, 288

Helena, 265, 266–70, 277, 278, 282–3

— wife of Julian, 297, 298, 299–304

Henderson, Mr., 90, 109

Herennianus, 241

Herod, 27

— Agrippa, 49, 59

Herodes, 241

Herodian, 200, 201, 206, 225

“Historia Augusta,” the, 45, 142, 146, 150, 152, 166, 172, 175, 188, 205, 206, 211, 217, 249, 257

Hodgkin, Mr., 346

Honoria, 335, 342, 344, 345

Honorius, 317, 321, 323, 324, 341, 342

Hortensius, 19

Hostilianus, 237

Huns, the, 344

Ifland, Dr., 317

Imperator, the title, 9

Jerome, St., 267, 279

Jerusalem, 159, 160

Josephus, 112, 130, 132

Jovian, 306, 307

Julia, daughter of Octavian, 23–30

— the younger, 33–4

— daughter of Drusus, 66–7

— daughter of Titus, 131

— Livilla, 65

Julian, the Emperor, 140, 166, 172, 227, 282, 284, 288, 290, 296–305

Julianus, Didius, 192, 193

Julius, son of Julia, 32–3

Junia Claudilla, 49

— Silana, 98

Junius Silanus, 49, 50

Justina, Aviana, 311, 312–17, 318, 319

Juvenal, 137

Kornemann, Professor, 45

Lactantius, 258, 261, 272

Læta, 313

Lætus, 188, 190, 193

Lake Agrippa, 114

Lampridius, 200, 203, 224, 225

Leontius, 296

Lepida, Domitia, 68, 89

— wife of Galba, 123

Lepidus, 54

— the Triumvir, 6, 8, 17

Libanius, 296

Liberius, 296

Licinius, 262, 263, 273–5

— the younger, 276, 278

Livia, 6, 8, 9, 10, 15–17, 19–21, 24–44

— Medullina Camilla, 61

— Orestilla, 52

Liviada, 20

Livilla, 41, 47, 54

Livius Drusus Claudianus, 9

Locusta, 90, 96

Lollia Paulina, 52, 55, 80, 83–4

Lollius, 32

Londinium, 155

Lucilla, 175, 179, 183, 184

Lucius Domitius = Nero

Lucullan Gardens, the, 71, 72, 75

Lugdunum, 54

Lutetia, 154

Luxury at Rome, 16, 34, 54

Lycisca, 69

Macellum, 290

Macrinus, Opilius, 208, 209–12

— Sallustius, 225

Macro, 50–1

Macrobius, 27

Mæcenas, 12, 18

Mæonius, 241, 242

Mæsa, Julia, 200, 202, 211–19

Magnentius, 289, 290, 292

Malala, John, 337

Mamæa, Julia, 211, 219, 222–31

Marcella, 24, 25, 26

Marcellinus, Ammianus, 234, 284, 291, 294, 299, 300, 311

— Chronicle of, 319, 337

Marcellus, 24, 25

Marcia, 185–9, 193

Marcian, 339, 347

Marciana, 139, 140, 144

— Paccia, 196

Marcus Aurelius, 162, 164, 167, 169–78

Mardonius, 296

Maria, 324

Marina, 307

— daughter of Eudoxia, 331

Mariniana, 238

Marius, 243

— Maximus, 173, 175, 176

Mark Antony, 6, 8, 10, 12, 13, 18, 19

Marriage, Roman, 268–9

Marsa, 330

Matidia, the elder, 139, 144, 148

— the younger, 139

Maxentius, 261, 273

Maximian, 254, 261, 271–2

Maximin, 261, 262, 263

Maximinus, 229, 230, 232–5

Maximus, 314, 315, 316, 318

— Petronius, 346–7

— Pupienus, 235, 236

Memnia, 226

Mercurius, 295

Merivale, 2, 32, 37, 41, 43, 73, 90, 141, 147, 172

Messalina, Statilia, 118, 119, 121, 123

— Valeria, 60, 61, 62, 63–78, 141

Metaphrastes, 320

Milvian Bridge, 29

Minervina, 274

Mnester, 70, 76

Montius, 292

Naissos, 266

Narcissus, 63, 68, 75, 76, 79, 87, 92

Negri, Gaetano, 298

Nepos, Julius, 349

Nepotian, 290

Nero, son of Agrippina the elder, 47

— the Emperor, 80, 81, 85, 86, 89, 93, 95, 96–121

Nerva, M. C., 135

Nicæa, Council of, 277

Nicomedia, palace of, 255

Niger, 196, 197

Nigrinus, 153

Nîmes, mausoleum at, 148

Numerianus, 252, 253

Octavia, 13, 18, 24, 26, 33

— daughter of Messalina, 65, 76, 80, 86, 95, 96, 97, 99, 105, 108–11

Octavian, 6, 7, 8, 9, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17–21, 24–36

Odenathus, 240–2

Odoacer, 350

Olybrius, 349

Oppian Law, the, 5

Orbiana, Sallustia Barbia, 225

Orestes, 349

Orosius, 267, 279

Orphanages, 144, 168, 177

Ostia, 74

Otho, Salvius, 101, 106, 108, 110, 123

Paganism, insincerity of, 216

Pagans, origin of name, 314

Pagi, 256

Palatine Hill, the, 7, 10, 19

Palladium, the, 216

Pallas, 63, 80, 83, 85, 96

Palma, 153

Palmyra, 240, 241, 246

Pandateria, 30, 47, 111

Papianilla, 348

Paris in the fourth century, 302

Paris, the actor, 98, 132

Paula, Julia Cornelia, 216

Paulina, 234

Paulinus, 333, 334, 336

Paulus, 295

Perennis, 185

Pertinax, 189–91

Petronia, 124

Petronius, 307

Philanthropy in the Roman world, 144, 168, 177

Philip, the Emperor, 236, 237

Philostorgius, 280, 287, 293

Philostratus, 202

Pipara, 239

Piso, C. C., 38, 39

Pissamena, 313

Placidia, Ælia Galla, 324, 334, 341, 342–5

— the younger, 349

Planasia, 35

Plancina, 38, 39

Plautia Urgulanilla, 61

Plautianus, 199–201

Plautilla, 199, 201

Pliny, 9, 42, 139

Plotina, 138–48

Polemo, 166, 167

Pollio, Trebellius, 240, 247

Polybius, 63

Pompeianus, Claudius, 181, 184, 205

Pompeius Planta, 138

Pompey, 8

Poppæa, 99, 107, 108, 110–17

— Sabina, 72, 107

Poppæus Sabinus, 107

Porphyry of Gaza, 329

Prætorian Guards, the, 50, 58, 61, 119, 227

Prisca, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261–4

Probus, 251

Procopius, 308–9

Puech, Professor, 329, 332

Puellæ Faustinianæ, 168, 177

Pulcheria, 317, 328, 332–9

Puteoli, 53

Pyrallis, 55

Pythagoras, 114

Quadratus, 184, 185

Quietus, Lusius, 152, 153

Quintilius, 245

Religion at Rome, 216

Renan, 136, 172

Ricimer, 348, 349

Rome, burning of, 114

Romula, 256, 258

Rostra, the, 29

Rubellius Plautus, 98

Rufinus, 325, 326, 327

Rufus Crispinus, 108

Sabina, 139, 144, 148, 149–61, 202

Sabinus, 131

Sacred Way, the, 8

Sallustius, 307

Salona, 260

Salonina, Cornelia, 239, 244

Saloninus, 242

Sapor, 240, 247

Saturninus, 337

Scantilla, Manlia, 192, 193

Schultz, O., 45

Scotland, 203

Scribonia, 12, 13, 14, 22

Seeck, Dr., 279

Sejanus, 41, 42, 47

Selinus, 146

Senaculum, 214

Senate, the Roman, 43, 93, 103, 111, 119, 153

Seneca, 31, 66, 77, 85, 93, 95, 96, 97, 107, 108, 110, 115

Serena, 324

— St., 256

Servianus, Ursus, 149, 162

Serviez, Roergas de, 3, 4, 32, 33, 67, 87, 90, 112, 146, 153, 166, 207

Servilia, 11

Severa, Julia Aquilia, 216

— Marcia Otacilia, 237

— Valeria, 307, 311, 312

Severian, 263

— Bishop, 330

Severina, Ulpia, 250

Severus, 261

— deacon, 337

— Livius, 348

— Septimus, 193, 194–204

Sextilia, 124, 125, 126, 127

Sextus Pompeius, 10, 12, 17

Sidonius Apollinaris, 280, 348

Silanus, Junius, 95

— Lucius, 95

Silius, Caius, 72, 73, 74, 76

Silvagni, V., 3

Simeon Stylites, 338, 348

Sinuessa, 90

Smyrna, 158

Soæmias, Julia, 200, 203, 211, 212, 213, 214–21

Socrates, the historian, 312

Sosibius, 71, 72

Sozomen, 276

Spartianus, 146, 155, 157, 160

Sporus, 118, 121

Stahr, A., 3

Stilicho, 324, 325

Stoicism, 66, 135, 144, 162, 164, 168

Subura, 6, 9, 21, 29

Suetonius, 31, 40, 42, 45, 48, 53, 55, 64, 88, 90, 134, 155

Suidas, 296

Suillius, 71

Sulpicianus, 192

Sura, 142, 150

Syria and Rome, 222

Tacitus, 9, 14, 31, 41, 43, 44, 45, 46, 64, 72, 79, 80, 83, 90, 95, 99, 111, 125

— the Emperor, 251

Tarvey, Mr., 32

Tertulla, Arricidia, 129

Tertullus, 171

Tetricus, 243, 249

Theatre, the Roman, 58, 109

Thebes, 159, 160

Theoclea, 230

Theodora, Flavia Maximiana, 270, 283

Theodoret, 310, 316

Theodosius, 313, 314, 316, 317–21

— II, 328, 332–8

Theophanes, 336, 337

Theophilus, 304, 330

Thermantia, A. M., 324

Thessalonica, massacre of, 319

Thirty Tyrants, the, 239

Tiberius Claudius Germanicus, 65

— — Nero, 10, 11, 14, 15, 40

— the Emperor, 10, 24, 25, 28, 31, 32, 34, 35, 36–42, 46–9

Tigellinus, 110, 116

Tillemont, 307, 312, 324, 326, 330, 331

Timesitheus, 236

Timolaus, 241

Titiana, Flavia, 190, 191

Titus, 129, 131

— Ollius, 107

Tivoli, 156, 160

Toledo, Council of, 269

Trajan, 135, 138, 139–46

Tranquillina, Furia Sabina, 236

Triaria, 127

Triumphal procession, 7

Ulpianus, Domitius, 227, 228

Urbica, Magnia, 253

Urgulania, 40, 61

Vaballath, 241, 242

Valens, 307, 308, 309, 310

Valentinian, 307, 311–13

— II, 313, 318, 319, 321

— III, 335, 342, 343, 346

Valeria, 256, 257, 259, 260, 261–4

Valerianus, 238

Valerius Messala Barbatus, 62

Vandals, the, 344, 347

Velabrum, 6, 7, 9

Verina, 349

Vespasian, 127, 128–9, 138

Vestal Virgins, 132

Vestinus, Atticus, 118

Vetranio, 289

Vettius Valens, 74, 76

Vibidia, 75

Vice in the Roman Empire, 136–7, 144

Victor, Aurelius, 161, 165, 200, 207, 257, 268, 279, 284

— — “Epitome,” 148, 206, 280, 312

Victoria, 242–4

Victorinus, 243

Vindex, 120

Vipsania, 28

Vitellius, the elder, 56, 71, 75, 80, 82, 124

— the Emperor, 124–8

Volusianus, 237

Vopiscus, 245, 247

Wilkins, M. G., 197, 207

Woman, position of, at Rome, 4–6

Xenophon, 91

Zabda, 246

Zenobia, 240, 241, 242, 244–50

Zonaras, 268, 272, 276, 303

Zosimus, 234, 245, 248, 249, 257, 267, 272, 276, 280, 284, 298, 316, 320

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