Timasius, master-general of the army
under the emperor Theodosius, is dis-
graced and exiled under Arcadius, iv.

172.

Timothy the Cat conspires the murder of
Proterius archbishop of Alexandria,
and succeeds him, vi. 35.
Tipasa miraculous gift of speech bestow-
ed on the Catholics, whose tongues had
been cut out there, iv. 408.
Tiridates king of Armenia, his character,
and history, i. 412. Is restored to his
kingdom by Diocletian, 413. Is ex-
pelled by the Persians, 416. Is restor
ed again by treaty between the Ro-
mans and Persians, 423. His conver-
sion to Christianity, and death, ii.
315.

Titus admitted to share the Imperial dig-
nity with his father Vespasian, i. 83.
Togrul Beg, sultan of the Turks, his reign
and character, vii. 165. He rescues
the caliph of Bagdad from his enemies,
167.

Toledo taken by the Arabs under Tarik,

vi. 390.

Toleration, universal, its happy effects in
the Roman empire, i. 32. What sects
the most intolerant, 228. note.
Tollius objections to his account of the
vision of Antigonus, ii. 404. note.
Torismond, son of Theodoric king of the
Visigoths, attends his father against
Attila king of the Huns, iv. 282. Bat-
tle of Chalons, 286. Is acknowledged
king on the death of his father in the
field, 288. Is killed by his brother The-
odoric, 315.

Torture, how admitted in the criminal
law of the Romans under the empe-
rors, ii. 273.

Totila is elected king of Italy by the
Goths, v. 253. His justice and mode-
ration, 255. Besieges and takes the
city of Rome, 259. Is induced to
spare Rome froin destruction, at the
instance of Belisarius, 263. Takes
Rome again, 268. Plunders Sicily,
269. Battle of Tagina, 274. His death,
275.

Toulunides, the Saracen dynasty of, vi.

461.

Tournaments preferable exhibitions to the
Olympic games, vii. 216.

Tours, battle of, between Charles Mar-
tel and the Saracens, vi. 424.
Toxandria, in Germany, is over-run and
occupied by the Franks, ii. 370.

Traditors, in the primitive church, who,
ii. 203.

Trajan, emperor, his conquest of Dacia,
i. 6. His conquests in the East, 7.
Contrast between the characters of
him and Hadrian, 8. His pillar de-
scribed, 53. Why adopted by the em
peror Nerva, 86. His instructions to
Pliny the younger for his conduct to.
ward the Christians, ii. 164. Descrip-
tion of his famous bridge over the Da-
nube, v. 90. note.

Trajan, count, his treacherous murder of
Pera king of Armenia, iii. 298.
Transubstantiation, the doctrine of, when
established, vii. 289.

Trebizond, the city of, taken and plun-
dered by the Goths, i. 295. The dukes
of, become independent on the Greek
empire, vii. 356. Is yielded to the
Turks, viii. 163.

Tribigild the Ostrogoth, his rebellion in
Phrygia against the emperor Arcadius,
iv. 175.

Tribune, the office of, explained, i

73.

Tribonian, his genius and character, v.
325. Is employed by Justinian to
reform the code of Roman laws,
327.

Trinity, the mysterious doctrine of, iii.
11. Is violently agitated in the schools
of Alexandria, 16. Three systems of,
18. Decisions of the council of Nice
concerning, 21. Diferent forms of the
doxology, 24. Frauds used to support
the doctrine of. iv. 406.

Tripoli, the confederacy of, cruelly op-
pressed under the government of
count Romanus, ii. 286.

Trisagion, religious war concerning, vi.

37.

Troops, Roman, their discipline, i. 11..
When they first received pay, 178.
Cause of the difficulty in levying them,
ii. 263. See Jovians, Palatines, and
Pretorian bands.

Troy, the situation of that city, and of
the Grecian camp of besiegers, de-
scribed, ii. 225.

Turin, battle of, between Constantine
the Great and the lieutenants of Max-
entius, ii. 28.

Turisund, king of the Gepide, his honour-
able reception of Alboin the Lombard,
who had slain his son in battle, v.
383.

- Turks,their origin, v. 204. Their primitive

institutions, 206. Their conquests,
207. Their alliance with the emperor
Justinian, 210. Send auxiliaries to
Heraclius, 472.

Turks, grow powerful and licentious un-
der the Saracens, vi. 454. Terror ex-
cited by their menacing Europe, vii.
73. Their military character, 76. They
extend themselves over Asia, 157.
Reign of Mahmud the Gaznevide,
158. Their manners and emigration,
162. They subdue Persia, 164. Dynas-
ty of the Seljukians, 165. They invade
the provinces of the Greek empire,
169. Reformation of the Eastern cal-
endar, 179. They conquer Asia Minor,
182.

Their capital city, Nice, taken by
the crusaders, vii. 228. The seat of
government removed to Iconium, 258.
Valour and conquests of Zenghi, 269.
Character of sultan Noureddin, 270.
Conquest of Egypt, 271. Origin and
history of the Ottomans, 470. Their
first passage into Europe, 474. Their
education and discipline, viii. 38. Em-
bassy from, to the emperor Sigismond,
62. Take the city of Constantinople,

152.

Turpin, the romance of, by whom, and

when written, vii. 196. note.

Twelve Tables, review of the laws of, v.

305. Their severity, 364. How the
criminal code of, sunk into disuse,
366.

Tyrants of Rome, the popular conceit of
the thirty investigated, i. 309.
Tyre is besieged by Saladin, vii. 281.
Tythes assigned to the clergy as well by
Zoroaster as by Moses, i. 227. note.
Were first granted to the church by
Charlemagne, vi. 195.

V

Vadomair, prince of the Alemanni, is
sent prisoner to Spain by the emperor
Julian, iii. 89. His son murdered by
the Romans, 272.

Valens, general of the Illyrian frontier,
receives the title of Cæsar from Lici-
nius, ii. 44. Loses his new title and
his life, 45.

Valens, the brother of the emperor Va-
lentinian, is associated with him in the
empire, iii. 243. Obtains from his
brother the Eastern portion of the em-
pire, 244, His timidity on the revolt

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of Procopius, 249. His character, 255.
Is baptised by Eudoxus, and patronises
the Arians, 260. Is vindicated from
the charge of persecution, 262. His
edict against the Egyptian monks,
266. His war with the Goths, 302.
Receives the suppliant Goths into the
Roman territories, 342. His war with
them, 351. Is defeated and killed at
the battle of Hadrianople, 362. His
eulogium by Libanius, 363.
Valens, the Arian bishop of Mursa, his
crafty pretension to divine revelation,
iii. 33.

Valentia, a new province in Britain, set-
tled by Theodosius, iii. 285.
Valentinian I. his election to the empire,
and character, iii. 240. Associates his
brother Valens with him, 243. Divides
the empire into the East and West,
and retains the latter, 244. His cruelty,
254 His civil institutions, 256. His
edicts to restrain the avarice of the
clergy, 265. Chastises the Alemanni,
and fortifies the Rhine, 272. His ex-
pedition to Illyricum, and death 307.
Is vindicated from the charge of poly-
gamy, 509.

Valentinian II. is invested with the Im-

perial ornaments in his mother's arms,
on the death of his father, iii. 311.
Is refused, by St. Ambrose, the privi
lege of a church for him and his mo-
ther Justina, on account of their Arian
principles, 413. His flight from the in-
vasion of Maximus, 420. Is restored
by the emperor Theodosius, 437. His
character, 438. His death. 440.
Valentinian III. is established emperor
of the West, by his cousin Theodosius
the Younger, iv. 210. Is committed to
the guardianship of his mother Pla-
cidia, 212. Flies, on the invasion of
Italy by Attila, 295. Sends an embas-
sy to Attila to purchase his retreat,
296.
Murders the patrician Atius,
Ravishes the wife of Petronius
Maximus, 302. His death, and cha-
racter, 304.

301.

Valentinians, their confused ideas of the

divinity of Jesus Christ, vi. 8. note.
Valeria, empress, widow of Galerius, the
unfortunate fates of her and her mo-
ther, ii. 39.

Valerian is elected censor under the em-

peror Decius, i. 278. His elevation to
the empire, and his character, 284. Is
defeated and taken prisoner by Sapor

Y Y

king of Persia, 303. His treatment,
307. His inconsistent behaviour to-
ward the Christians, ii. 188.
Vandals. See Goths.

Their successes in Spain, iv. 214.
Their expedition into Africa under
Genseric, 216. They raise a naval
force and invade Italy, 310. Sack of
Rome, ib. Their naval depredations
on the coasts of the Mediterranean,
335. Their conversion to the Christian
religion, 393. Persecution of the Ca-
tholics, 399.

Expedition of Belisarius against
Gelimer, v. 121. Conquest of, 134.
Their name and distinction lost in
Africa, 141. Remains of their nation
still found in Germany, 143.
Varanes. See Bahram.
Varangians of the north, origin and his-
tory of, vii. 85.

Varronian, the infant son of the emperor
Jovian, his history, iii. 239.
Vataces, John, his long and prosperous
reign at Nice, vii. 367. 374. His cha-
racter, 391.

Vegetius, his remarks on the degeneracy
of the Roman discipline at the time of
Theodosius the Great, iii. 448.
Veli, the siege of that city, the æra of the
Roman army first receiving regular
pay, i. 178.

Venice, foundation of that republic, iv.
293. Its infant state under the exarchs
of Ravenna, v. 403. Its growth and
prosperity at the time of the fourth
crusade, vii. 315. Alliance with
France, 317. Divides the Greek em-
pire with the French, 350.
Veratius, his mode of obeying the law of
the twelve tables respecting personal
insults, v. 363.

Verina, empress, the widow of Leo, de-
poses Zeno, v. 4. Her turbulent life,
ibid.

Verona, siege of, by Constantine the
Great, ii. 29. Battle of, between Sti-
licho the Roman general, and Alaric
the Goth, iv. 47.

Verres, why his punishment was inade-
quate to his offences, v. 368.
Vespasian, his prudence in sharing the
Imperial dignity with his son Titus,
i. 83.

Vestals, Roman, their number and pecu-
liar office, iii. 450.
Vetranio, the Roman general in Illyri-
cum, assumes the purple, and enters
into an alliance with the Gaulish

usurper Magnentius, ii. 324 Is reduced
to abdicate his new dignity, 326.
Victoria exercises the government over
the legions and province of Gaul,
i. 338.

Victory, her statue and altar, in the senate-
house at Rome, described, iii. 452.
The senate petitions the Christian ein-
perors to have it restored, 453.
Vigilantius, the presbyter, is abused by
Jerom for opposing monkish supersti-
tion, iii. 474. note.

Vigilius, interpreter to the embassy from
Theodosius the younger to Attila, is
privy to a scheme for the assassination
of Attila, iv. 253. Is detected by At-
tila, 262.

Vigilius purchases the papal chair of Be-
lisarius and his wife, v. 171. Insti-
gates the emperor Justinian to resume
the conquest of Italy, 270.

Vine, its progress, from the time of Ho-
mer, i. 59.

Virgil, his fourth eclogue interpreted into
a prophecy of the coming of the Mes-
siah, ii. 410. Is the most ancient wri-
ter who mentions the manufacture of
silk, v. 65.

Vitalian, the Gothic chief, is treacher-

ously murdered at Constantinople,
v. 41.

Vitalianus, prætorian præfect under the

He

emperor Maximin, put to death by
order of the senate, i. 200.
Vitellius, emperor, his character, i. 89.
Vitiges, general of the Barbarians under
Theodatus king of Italy, is by his
troops dec ared king of Italy, v. 159.
He besieges Belisarius in Rome, 161.
Is forced to raise the siege, 176.
is besieged by Belisarius in Ravenna,
181. Is taken prisoner in Ravenna,
184. Conforms to the Athanasian
faith, and is honourably settled in
Asia, 185. His embassy to Chosroes
king of Persia, 221.
Vitruvius the architect, his remarks on
the buildings of Rome, iv. 106.
Vizir, derivation of that appellation, vi.
264. note.

Ukraine, description of that country,

i. 275.

Uldin, king of the Huns, reduces and

kills Gainas the Goth, iv. 183. Is
driven back by the vigilance of the
Imperial ministers, 195.

Ulphilas, the apostle of the Goths, his
pious labours, iv. 392. Propagated
Arianism, 398.

Ulpian, the lawyer, placed at the head
of the council of state, under the em-,
peror Alexander Severus, i. 168. Is
murdered by the prætorian guards,

173.

Voconian law, abolished the right of fe-

male inheritance, v. 354. How evad-
ed, 358.

Voltaire prefers the labarum of Constan-
tine to the angel of Licinius, ii. 404.
note. His reflections on the expenses of
a siege, iv. 493. note.

Vortigern, king of South Britain, his in-
vitation of the Saxons for assistance
against his enemies, iv. 468.
Vouti, emperor of China, his exploits
against the Huns, iii. 330.
Upsal, anciently famous for its Gothic
temple, i. 271.

Urban II. pope, patronises Peter the
Hermit in his project for recovering
the Holy Land, vii. 193. Exhorts the
people to a crusade, at the council of
Clermont, 197.

Urban V. pope, removes the papal court
from Avignon to Rome, viii. 239.
Urban VI. pope, his disputed election,
viii. 241.

Ursacius, master of the offices under the
emperor Valentinian, occasions a re-
volt of the Alemanni by his parsimony,
iii. 269.

Ursicinus, a Roman general, his treache-
rous conduct to Sylvanus in Gaul, ii.
352. Is superseded in his command
over the Eastern provinces, 367. Is
sent back again to conduct the war
with Persia under Sabinian, ibid. Is
again disgraced, 368.

Ursini, history of the Roman family of,
viii. 210.

Ursulus, treasurer of the empire under
Constantius, unjustly put to death by
the tribunal of Chalcedon, iii. 109.
Usury. See Interest of money.

W

Walachians, the present, descendants

from the Roman settlers in ancient
Dacia, i. 331. note.

Wales is settled by British refugees from
Saxon tyranny, iv. 474. 477. The
bards of, 480.

Wallia is chosen king of the Goths, iv.

154. He reduces the barbarous invad-
ers of Spain, 155. Is settled in Aquitain,
156.

War and robbery, their difference, vi. 232.

Evolutions and military exercise of the
Greeks, vii. 32. Military character of
the Saracens, 34. Of the Franks and
Latins, 36.

Warburton, bishop of Gloucester, his lite-
rary character iii. 148. note. His labours
to establish the miraculous interruption
to Julian's building the temple of Je-
rusalem, 151, 152 notes.
Warna, battle of, between the sultan
Amurath II. and Ladislaus king of
Hungary and Poland, viii. 106.
Werdan, the Greek general, defeated by
the Saracens at Aiznadin, vi. 332.
Wheat, the average price of, under the
successors of Constantine the Great,
iii. 178. note.

Whitaker, Mr. remarks on his account of
the Irish descent of the Scottish nation,
iii. 282. note.

White, Mr. Arabic professor at Oxford,
character of his sermons at Bampton's
lecture, vi. 423. note.

Wilfrid, the apostle of Sussex, his bene-

nevolent establishment at Se'sey,iv.479.
William I. the Bad, king of Sicily, vii.

152.

William II. the Good, king of Sicily,
vii. 153.

Windmills, the use of, from whence de-
rived, vii. 379.

Wine, the use of, expressly prohibited by
Mahomet, vi. 258.

Wisdom of Solomon, when, and by whom
that book was written, iii. 9.
Wolodomir, great prince of Russia, mar-
ries Anne, daughter of the emperor
Romanus, vii. 27. His conversion to
Christianity, 97.

Women, in hereditary monarchies, allow-
ed to exercise sovereignty, though in-
capable of subordinate state offices, i.
167. How treated by the Roman civil
laws, v. 341. The Voconian law, how
evaded, 358. Are not excluded from
Paradise by Mahomet, vi. 262.

X

Xenophon, his description of the desart of
Mesopotamia, iii. 189.

Xerxes, the situation of his bridge of boats
for passing over to Europe, pointed out

ii. 224.

Y

Yermuk, battle of, between the Greeks
and the Saracens, vi. 345.

Yezdegerd, king of Persia, his reign the
æra of the fall of the Sassanian dynas-
ty, and of the religion of Zoroaster, vi.
317.

Yezid, caliph of the Saracens, vi. 302.

Z

Zabergan invades the Eastern empire with
an army of Bulgarians, v. 286. Is re-
pulsed by Belisarius, 288.
Zachary, pope, pronounces the deposition
of Childeric king of France, and the
appointment of Pepin to succeed him,
vi. 177.

Zano, brother of Gelimer the Vandal
usurper conquers Sardinia, v. 130. Is
recalled to assist his brother, 131. Is
killed, 132.

Zara, a city on the Sclavonian coast, re-
duced by the crusaders for the republic
of Venice, vii. 321.

Zenghi, sultan, his valour and conquests,
vii. 269.

Zeno, emperor of the East, receives a sur-
render of the Imperial government of
the Western empire, from the senate
of Rome, iv. 363. The vicissitudes of
his life and reign, v. 3. His Henoti
con, vi. 35,

Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, her character
and history, i. 339.

Zingis, first emperor of the Moguls and
Tartars, parellel between him and At-
tila, king of the Huns, iv. 235. His
proposal for improving his conquest in
China, 243. His birth and early milita-
ry exploits, vii. 451. His laws, 452.
His invasion of China, 455. Carisme,
Transoxiana, and Persia, 456. His
death, 457.

Zizais, a noble Sarmatian, is made king
of that nation by the emperor Constan-
tius, ii. 359.

Zobeir, the Saracen, his bravery in the
invasion of Africa, vi. 374.

Zoe, first the concubine, becomes the
fourth wife of the emperor Leo the
philosopher, vi. 114.

Zoe, wife of Romanus III. and Michael
IV. emperors, vi. 123.
Zoroaster, the Persian prophet, his high
antiquity, i. 221. note. Abridgment of
his theology, 222. Provides for the
encouragement of agriculture, 225.
Assigns tythes to the priests, 226.

note.

Zosimus, his representation of the op-
pression of the lustral contribution, ii.
284.

Zuinglius the reformer, his conceptions
of the Eucharist, vii. 64.
Zurich, brief history of that city, viii.
179.