Westmorland, Roman road in, 377; sur-
vival of Keltic speech in, 546
West Saxons, invasion of Britain by, 380;
conquests of, 380 Whitby, 379
Whymper, Edward, sees halo on the Matter- horn, 4
Wid, River. 8m Utus Widimir, King of the Ostrogoths, 429, 438; comes to relief of Theodoric, 439; settles in Pannonia, 468; attacks Italy, 471
Wig, traditional ancestor of royal family of Wessex, 384
Wight, Isle of, included in defence of coast, 378 ; Jutes in, 382 sq., 389 ; kingdom of, 389
Wihtgar, nephew of Cerdic, said to have occupied the Isle of Wight, 383, 389 Willibrod, Benedictine missionary, 541 Winchester (Venta Belgarum), Romano- British town, 373 ; Roman road through, 376
Wipbach. See Frigidus Withicab, King of the Alemanni, murdered, 224
Withimir, King of the Ostrogoths, defeated and slain, 215, 253
Withington, Roman pavement at, 614 note Woden, chief divinity of Teutonic mytho- logy, 386 Wdrpe-Bach, 186 Wolkoi (Volcae). See Walchen Worcestershire, kingdom of Hwicoe includes part of, 390
Worms, taken by the Alemanni, 66, 266;
victory of AStius at, 361 Wreocensaete. Sec Shropshire Wroxeter (Viroconium or Urioonium), Ro- mano-British town, 373; results of ex- cavations at, 374; 380; Roman roads at, 376 sq.
Wilrtemberg, 853 note Wulfila, Gothic general, commands for Honorius in Gaul, 274 Wyrtgeorn. See Vortigern
X an ten, country of the Chattuarii, 295 Xystus. See Sixtus
Yenisei, River, 324
Yexdegerd I, King of Persia, commercial treaty with, 462 ; makes his brother king of Armenia, 463; persecutes Christians, 464 ; death, ib.
Yesdegerd II, King of Persia, at war with Rome, 466 sq.
York (Ebur&cum), death of Constantius at,
3 ; Roman fortress at, 309 ; Roman town, 370; Roman civilisation in the vale of. 372; foundation of, 373; Roman road at, 377
York, Bishop of, at Council of Arles, 12 Yorkshire, Roman forts in, 369; Deira includes part of, 390 ; El met part of, 391 Yseel (Isala), River, Saxons return to, 69; Chamavi settled near, 295 ; 296
Zabdicene, 74
Zabern, Julian reaches, 66 sq. ; Julian fortifies pass of, 68; 209 note Zaragoza, Majorian at, 309 Zaragoza, Council of, reference to monasti- dam in canons of, 532 Zeno, Emperor of the East (Tarasicodisaa), 113 ; makes treaty with Burgundian king, 284 ; coins of, found in Childeric’s tomb, 299; makes peace with Gaiseric, 311; driven out by Basiliscus, 429, 437, 473, 515; becomes sole emperor, 431, 472: restored, 435, 473, 515 ; receives embassy from Western Empire, 435, 443 ; statues of, eet up in Rome, 436; sends Theodoric to Italy, 438 ; 467 ; leader of Isaurians, 470 ; marries Ariadne, ib . ; made maffister militum, ib . ; reveals treachery of Arda- burius, 471 ; and the affairs of the Western Empire, 474 ; and Ulus, 475 sq. ; treats with both Theodorics, 476 sq.; gives up Verina to 111 us, 476; promotes Ulus. 477; 478; and the succeesion, 479; death, ib . ; sale of property of, 480 ; 483 ; policy of, 515 ; and the Henoticon, 516 sq. : excommunicated by Simplicius, 517, 518 : closes school of Edessa, 519; land legis- lation under, 560 sq.
Zeno, son of the Emperor Zeno, dies, 479 Zeno, leader of Isaurians, defends Con- stantinople 467 ; made maffister mildlum per Orientem , ib. ; death, ib.
Zenonis, wife of Basiliscus, favours Armatus. 473
Zeugitana (Africa Proconsularis), assigned to Vandrls, 307, 413 ; 316; Catholic clergy expelled from, 320 ; 410 Zizais, King of the Sarm&tae Liberi, 71 Zonaraa, cited, 61 note Zosimus, Bishop of Rome, 151, 179 sq. ; decretal letters of, 182
Zosimus, historian, 21 ; opposes Christianity.
113 ; cited, 8, 15, 236, 273 Zlilpich (Tolbiacum), a principal city of the Ripu&rian Franks, 300 ; battle at, ib. Zuiderzee, 296; Saxons settled near, 3S4
