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I.— INDEX OF NAMES


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Abercius, bishop of Hieropolis, an apocryphal letter of M., II. 299

Accius (Attius) L., born 170 B.C., a Roman tragic poet: chooses out his words, I. 5; Marcus to fill himself with, II. 5; bracketed with Plautus and Sallust as using a certain kind of word (passage mutilated), II. 115; Niebuhr, Actio for Titio, I. 167; called inaequalis, II. 49

Acheruns, the Lower World, "walled in" with rivers, etc., II. 14; herb of death sought in its meadows, II. 17

Achilles, his armour-bearer Patroclus (Patricoles, Cod), I. 167, II. 175; fleetness of, II. 61; exploits of, II. 199; shield of, II. 109

Acilius, censor, "marks" M. Lucilius a tribune for illegal conduct, I. 215

Acilius Glabrio slays a lion in the amphitheatre at Albanura, I. 211

Adherbal, King of Kumidia, his character (from Sallust), II. 163; his letter to the Senate while besieged in Cirta, II. 143

Adurselius (? ), mi Cod. Ambr. 02, I. 168n.

Aedon, a vowel in, dwelt on by harpers, II. 107

Aegrilius Plarianus, tee Plarianus

Aelius Stilo, copyist of the works of Cicero and other writers, I. 167

Aemilius Pius, apparently a pupil of Fronto, recommended to Passieaus Rufus, II. 191

Aenaria, an island off Naples with inland lake, I. 85, 39

Aeschines, the philosopher and disciple of Socrates, mentioned in mutilated passage, II. 50

Aesculapius, specially worshipped by Pius and Marcus, I. 50n.; God of Pergamum, I. 51

Aesopus, a great tragic actor of Cicero's time, I. 165; how he practised acting with a mask, II. 69

Africa, taxes of, farmed by Saenius Pompeianus, I. 233; Africans taken captive by Scipio, II. 29; tres triumphi de Africanis . . ., II. 151

Africanus, see Scipio

Agamemnon, Homer's description of, I. 94, 99

Agrigentines, inventors (?) of ploughs (Cato), II. 201

Ajax, the bull's-hide shield of, II. 107

Albanum, Domitian's villa in the Alban Hills, I. 211; Marcus at (?), II. 315

Albinus, Aulus Postumius, defeated at Cirta (? Suthul), II. 21; Sallust's description of Spurius Albinus' army, II. 163

Albinus, Clodius, proclaimed emperor in Britain and slain by Severus, promoted by Marcus, 311, 13; loyal to M. ibid.

Albucius, an old Roman poet called by Fr. aridus, II. 49; where M in ton Warren suggests Abuccius from Varro, R. R. ill. 6, 6

Alcibiades, as pupil of Socrates, I. 103; II. 11, 61

Alexander, council at his death, from a Gallic rhetorician, n. Ill; his empire divided into satrapies {praefecturae), U. 203; and Apelles, II. 59

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