Of these pilgrims, and of every reader, the attention will be excited by an hiftory of the decline and fall of the Roman empire; the greatest, perhaps, and moft awful scene, in the hiftory of mankind. The various caufes and progreffive effects are connected with many of the events most interesting in human annals: the artful policy of the Cæfars, who long maintained the name and image of a free republic; the disorders of military defpotifm; the rise, establishment, and fects of Christianity; the foundation of Conftantinople; the divifion of the monarchy; the invasion and fettlements of the Barbarians of Germany and Scythia; the inftitutions of the civil law; the character and religion of Mahomet; the temporal fovereignty of the popes; the restoration and decay of the Western empire of Charlemagne ; the crufades of the Latins in the Eaft; the conquefts of the Saracens and Turks; the ruin of the Greek empire; the state and revolutions of Rome in the middle age. The hiftorian may applaud the importance and variety of his fubject; but, while he is confcious of his own imperfections, he must often accufe the deficiency of his materials. It was among the ruins of the Capitol that I firft conceived the idea of a work which has amufed and exercifed near twenty years of my life, and which, however inadequate to my own wishes, I finally deliver to the curiofity and can dour of the public.
N. B. The Roman Numerals refer to the Volume,
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ABAN, the Saracen, heroifm of his widow, ix. 234.
Abbaffides, elevation of the houfe of, to the office of
caliph of the Saracens, ix. 344.
Abdallah, the Saracen, his excurfion to plunder the fair
of Abyla, ix. 241. His African expedition, 281.
Abdalmalek, caliph of the Saracens, refuses tribute to
the emperor of Conftantinople, and establishes a national
inint, ix. 328.
Abdalrahman, the Saracen, establishes his throne at Cor-
dova in Spain, ix. 349. Splendour of his court, 352.
His eftimate of his happinefs, 354.
Abdelazir, the Saracen, his treaty with Theodemir the
Gothic prince of Spain, ix. 307. His death, 310.
Abderame, his expedition to France, and victories there,
ix. 338. His death, 343.
Abdol Motalleb, the grandfather of the prophet Mahomet,
his hiftory, ix. 115.
Abgarus, enquiry into the authenticity of his correfpond-
ence with Jefus Chrift, ix. 6.
Abgarus, the last king of Edeffa, fent in chains to Rome,
i. 276.
Ablavius, the confidential præfect under Constantine the
Great, a confpiracy formed against him on that emperor's
death, iii. 99. Is put to death, IOI.
Abu Ayub, his hiftory, and the veneration paid to hist
memory by the Mahometans, ix. 326. xii. 55.
Abubeker, the friend of Mahomet, is one of his firft
converts, ix. 138. Flies from Mecca with him,
Succeeds Mahomet as caliph of the Saracens, 180.
His character, 205.
Abu Caab commands the Andalufian Moors who fubdued
the island of Crete, ix. 368.
Abu Sophian, prince of Mecca, confpires the death of
Mahomet, ix. 143. Battles of Reder and Ohud, 152.
Befieges Medina without fuccefs, ISS. Surrenders
Mecca to Mahomet, and receives him as a prophet, 160.
Abu Taber, the Carmathian, pillages Mecca, ix. 386.
Abulfeda, his account of the fplendour of the caliph Moc-
tader, ix. 352.
Abulpbaragius, primate of the Eaftern Jacobites, fome
account of, viii. 290. His encomium on wifdom and
learning, ix. 356.
Abundantius, general of the Eaft, and patron of the
eunuch Eutropius, is difgraced and exiled by him, v. 310.
Abyla, the fair of, plundered by the Saracens, ix. 242.
Abyffinia, the inhabitants of, described, vii. 297. Their
alliance with the emperor Juftinian, 298. Ecclefiaftical
hiftory of, viii. 302.
Acacius, bishop of Amida, an uncommon inftance of
epifcopal benevolence, v. 348.
Achaia, its extent, i. 31.
Acre, the memorable fiege of, by the crufaders, x. 356.
Final lofs of, 376.
Actions, Inftitutes of Juftinian refpecting, viii. 64.
Actium, a review of Roman affairs after the battle of, i. 78.
Adauctus, the only martyr of diftinction during the per-
fecution under Diocletian, ii. 393.
Adolphus, the brother of Alaric, brings him a reinforce-
ment of troops, v. 243. Is made count of the domeftics
to the new emperor Attalus, 250. Succeeds his brother
as king of the Goths, and concludes a peace with
Honorius, 270.
Adoption, the two kinds of, under the Greek empire,
Adoration of the Roman emperor, cuftom of, and deri-
vation of the term, x. 26.
Adorno, the Genoefe governor of Phocæa, conveys A-
murath II. from Afia to Europe, xi. 294.
Adrian I. pope, his alliance with Charlemagne against the
Lombards, ix. 32. His reception of Charlemagne ar
Rome 36. Afferts the fictitious donation of Constantine
the Great, 40.
Adultery, diftinctions of, and how punished by Auguftus,
viii. 77. By the Chriftian emperors, 79.
Alia Capitolina founded on mount Sion by Hadrian,
Elius Patus, his Tripartite, the oldeft work of Roman
jurisprudence, viii. 18.
Emilianus, governor of Pannonia and Mæfia, routs the
barbarous invaders of the empire, and is declared em-
peror by his troops, i. 335.
Eneas of Gaza, his atteftation of the miraculous gift of
fpeech to the Catholic confeffors of Tipafa, whose ton-
gues had been cut out, vi. 234.
Eneas Sylvius, his account of the impracticability of an
European crufade against the Turks, xii. 62. His epi-
gram on the deftruction of ancient buildings in Rome,
Era of the world, remarkable epochas in, pointed out
vii. 128.
Gelalæan, of the Turks, when fettled, x. 225.
Aerial tribute, in the Eastern empire, what, vii. 87.
Etius, furnamed the Atheist, his character and adventures,
iii. 266. 278. 297.
The Roman general under Valentinian III. his
character, vi. 7. His treacherous fcheme to ruin count
Boniface, 9. Is forced to retire into Pannonia, 21.
His invitation of the Huns into the empire, 31. Seizes
the adminiftration of the Western empire, 73. His
character as given by Renatus a cotemporary hiftorian,
74. Employs the Huns and Alani in the defence of Gaul,
76. Concludes a peace with Theodoric, 8o. Raifes the
fiege of Orleans, 88. Battle of Chalons, 94. His pru-
dence on the invafion of Italy by Attila, 105. Is mur-
dered by Valentinian, 112.
Africa, its fituation and revolutions, i. 33. Great revenue
raised from, by the Romans, 212. Progrefs of Christi-
anity there, ii. 302. Is diftracted with religious difcord
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in the time of Conftantine the Great, iii. 243. Character
and revolt of the Circumcellions, 316. Oppreffions
of, under the government of count Romanus, iv. 245.
General state of Africa, 248. Revolt of count Boniface
there, vi. 9. Arrival of Genferic king of the Vandals,
12. Perfecution of the Donatifts, 13. Devastation of,
by the Vandals, 16. Carthage furprised by Genferic,
22. Perfecution of the Catholics, 223. Expedition of
Belifarius to, vii. 140. Is recovered by the Romans,
158. The government of, fettled by Juftinian, 159.
Revolt of the troops there, under Stoza, 302. Deva-
ftation of the war, 308. Invafion of, by the Saracens,
ix. 280. Conqueft of, by Akbah, 287. Decline and
extinction of Chriftianity there, 317.
Revolt and
independence of the Saracens there, ix. 388.
Aglabites, the Saracen dynafty of, ix. 388.
Agiae, a Roman lady, patronifes St. Boniface, ii. 395.
Agricola, review of his conduct in Britain, i. 5.
Agriculture, great improvement of, in the western coun-
tries of the Roman empire, i. 68. State of, in the
Eaftern empire, under Juftinian, vii. 73.
Ajax, the fepulchre of, how distinguished, iii. 9.
Aiznadin, battle of, between the Saracens and the Greeks,
Akbab, the Saracen, his exploits in Africa, ix. 287.
Alani, occafion of these people invading Afia, ii. 57.
Conqueft of, by the Huns, iv. 300. Join the Goths
who had emigrated into Thrace, 325. See Goths,
and Vandals.
Alaric, the Goth, learns the art of war under Theodofius
the Great, v. 69. Becomes the leader of the Gothic
revolt, and ravages Greece, 148. Efcapes from Stilicho,
154. Is appointed mafter general of the Eaftern Illy-
ricum, 155. His invafion of Italy, 158. Is defeated by
Stilicho at Pollentia, 164. Is driven out of Italy, 168. Is,
by treaty with Honorius, declared mafter-general of the
Roman armies throughout the præfecture of Illyricum,
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