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INDEX AND PRONOUNCING VOCABULARY
takes Jerusalem, 466; his triumph, 466; enters the First Triumvirate, 468; rivalry between him and Caesar, 471; civil war, 472, 473; his death, 473.
Pompey, Gnæus, son of the preceding, 473 n. 6.
Pompey, Sextus, 473 n. 6.
Pom-po´ni-us, 561.
Pontifex Maximus, 365.
Pontiffs, College of, 365.
Pŏn´tīne (or pŏn´tin) marshes, 476.
Pontius Gavius, Samnite general, 399.
Pontus, state in Asia Minor, 286 n. 3.
Popes. See Papacy.
Po-sei´don, 13 1.
Posi-do´ni-a, 158.
Posilipo (pō-sē-lē´pō), grotto, 403.
Pot-i-dæ´a, Corinthian colony, 155 n. 5; revolt of, against Athens, 220; captured by Philip II, 267.
Prætorian guard, corps created by Augustus, 494 n. 1; disbanded by S. Severus, 516.
Præ´tors, original title of the consuls, 377; creation of the office, 392
Prax-it´elēs, 306.
Prē´fect, prætorian, 516.
Prē´fec-tures, the subdivisions of the later Roman Empire, 528.
Prehistoric Age, defined, 1; in what way knowledge of, secured, 2; divisions of, 2; in Egypt, 22; in Greece, 115–125.
Princeps, the title, 485.
Printing, art of, among the Chinese, 103.
Prod´i-cus, 330 n. 4.
Pro-me´theus, the Titan, 318 n. 2.
Propy-læ´a, the, 216.
Pro-tag´o-ras, 330 n. 4.
Provinces, first Roman, 414; government of, reformed by Augustus, 4S7; condition of, under the Antonines, 511–513.
Psam-met´i-chus I, 30, 31.
Ptol´emy, Claudius, astronomer, 338.
Ptolemy I, Soter, 291, 292 ; II, Philadelphus, 292.
Public lands, Roman, how acquired and how administered, 380–382; plebeians given right to occupy, by Licinian Laws, 392; at the time of the Gracchi, 442, 443.
Publilian Law, 379 n. 2.
Punic War, First, 405–413; Second, 419–427; Third, 436–438.
Punjab (pōōn-jäb´), the, 92.
Pyd´na, battle of, 431.
Py´los, seized and fortified by the Athenians, 226, 227.
Pyramids, the, 24; as tombs, 39.
Pyramid Kings, 24, 25.
Pyr´rho, the skeptic, 336.
Pyr´rhus, takes command of the Tarentines, 400; campaigns in Italy, 400, 401; in Sicily, 401; defeated at Beneventum, 401.
Py-thag´o-ras, 328.
Pyth´i-a, the, 133.
Pythian games, 135.
Quæstors (kwĕs´tŏrs), 38 r.
Quinqueremes (kwĭn´kwḗ-rēms), 409 n. 3; first fleet of, built by the Romans, 409; number lost by Romans in First Punic War, 412.
Quin-til´i-an, 560.
Quirites (kwĭ-ri´tēz), 357.
Races of mankind, 14–17 and notes; table of, 19.
Radagaisus (rad-a-gā´sus), 538, 539.
Raæ´ti-a, 487.
Ra-mē´ses II, 28–30; mummy of, 38.
Ram´nēs, the, 368.
Reg´u-lus, A-til´i-us, Roman general, made prisoner by Carthaginians, 410; as an ambassador, 410; legend of his death, 411.
Rē-ho-bō´am, 77.
Rhe´ġi-um, founded, 158.
Rhodes, island, 111; settled by Dorians, 123; center of Hellenistic culture, 286 n. 3; school of sculpture at, 307.
Riç´i-mer, Count, 546.
Rimini (rē´mēnē), 604.
Roderic, Visigothic king, 599.
Roman colonies.See Colonies.
Roman Empire, definitely established by Augustus, 484–487; greatest extent under Trajan, 506; public sale of, 515; its final division, 536; the Eastern, 536;
