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194. His pleas and motives for marching to Rome, 210.
Encamps under the walls of that city, 212. Accepts a
ranfom, and raifes the fiege, 240. His negociations
with the emperor Honorius, 243. His fecond fiege of
Rome, 249. Places Attalus on the Imperial throne,
250. Degrades him, 253. Seizes the city of Rome
255. His fack of Rome compared with that by the
264. Retires from Rome, and
His death and burial, 269.

emperor Charles V.
ravages Italy, 266.
Alaric II. king of the

Goths, his overthrow by Clovis

king of the Franks, vi. 263.

Alberic, the fon of Marozia, his revolt, and government
of Rome, ix. 72.

Albigeois of France, perfecution of, x. 79.

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Alboin, king of the Lombards, his hiftory, viii. 93. His
alliance with the Avars against the Gepidæ, 95. Reduces
the Gepida, 96. He undertakes the conqueft of Italy,
97. Overruns what is now called Lombardy,
Affumes the regal title there, 102. Takes Pavia, and
makes it his capital city, 103. Is murdered at the in-
ftigation of his queen Rofamond, ibid.

Alchemy, the books of, in Egypt, deftroyed by Diocle-
tian, ii. 113.

Aleppo, fiege and capture of, by the Saracens, ix. 253.
Is recovered by the Greeks, 397. Is taken and facked
by Tamerlane, xi. 267.

Alexander II. pope, establishes the papal election in the
college of cardinals, xii. 102.

Alexander archbishop of Alexandria, excommunicates Arius
for his herefy, ii. 258.

Alexander Severus, is declared Cæfar by the emperor
Elagabalus, i. 196. Is raised to the throne, 198.
Examination into his pretended victory over Artaxerxes,
278. Shewed a regard for the Christian religion, ii. 369.
Alexandria, a general maffacre there, by order of the
emperor Caracalla, i. 180. The city defcribed, 372.
Is ruined by ridiculous inteftine commotions, 373. By
famine and peftilence, 347. Is befieged and taken by

Diocletian, 374. The Chriftian theology reduced to a
fyftematical form in the school of, ii. 299. Number
of martyrs who fuffered there in the perfecution by De-
cius, 351. The theological fyftem of Plato taught in
the fchool of, and received by the Jews there, iii. 249.
Questions concerning the nature of the trinity, agitated
in the philofophical and Christian schools of, 252.257.
Hiftory of the archbishop. St. Athanafius, 280. Out-
rages attending his expulfion and the establishment of his
fucceffor, George of Cappadocia, 300. The city dif
tracted by pious factions, 307. Difgraceful life and
tragical death of George of Cappadocia, iv. 99. Refto-
ration of Athanafius, 103. Athanafius banished by
Julian,105. Suffers greatly by an earthquake, 274.
Hiftory of the temple of Serapis there, v. 91. This
temple, and the famous library, deftroyed by bishop
Theophilus, 93. Is taken by Amrou the Saracen,
ix. 270. The famous library deftroyed, 273.
Alexius Angelus, his ufurpation of the Greek empire,
and character, xi. 15. Flies before the crufaders, 37.
Alexius I. Comnenus, emperor of Conftantinople, viii. 394.
New titles of dignity invented by him, x. 23. Battle
of Durazzo, 166. Solicits the aid of the emperor
Henry III. 170. Solicits the aid of the Chriftian princes
against the Turks, 245. His fufpicious policy on the
arrival of the crufaders, 275. Exacts homage from them
278. Profits by the fuccefs of the crufaders, 322.
Alexius II. Comnenus, emperor of Conftantinople, viii. 404.
Alexius Strategopulus, the Greek general, retakes Con-
ftantinople from the Latins, xi. 100.

Alexius, the fon of Ifaac Angelus, his efcape from his
uncle, who had depofed his father, xi. 16. His treaty
with the crufaders for his reftoration; 28. Restoration
of his father, 42. His death, 49.

Alfred fends an embaffy to the fhrine of St. Thomas in
India, viii. 285.

Algebra, by whom invented, ix. 360.

Ali, joins Mahomet in his prophetical miffion, ix. 139.

His heroifm, 155. 157. His character, 179. Is chofen
caliph of the Saracens, 182. Devotion paid at his tomb,
189. His pofterity, 190.

Aligern, defends Cumæ, for his brother Teias, king of the
Goths, vii. 341. Is reduced, 343.

Allectus murders Carafius, and ufurps his ftation, ii. 105.
Allemanni, the origin and warlike fpirit of, i. 342. Are

driven out of Italy by the fenate and people, 343. Invade
the empire under Aurelian, ii. 19. Are totally routed,
22. Gaul delivered from their depredations by Conftan-
tius Chlorus, 108. Invade and establish themselves in
Gaul, iii. 169. Are defeated at Strasburgh by Julian,
176. Are reduced by Julian in his expeditions beyond
the Rhine, 181. Invade Gaul under the emperor Valen-
tinian, iv. 222. Are reduced by Jovinus, 224. And
chaftifed by Valentinian, 227. Are fubdued by Clovis
king of the Franks, vi. 251.

Alp Arslan; fultan of the Turks, his reign, x. 212.
Alypius, governor of Britain, is commiffioned by the em-

peror Julian to rebuild the temple of Jerufalem, iv. 84.
Amala, king of the Goths, his high credit among them,
i. 324.

Amalafontha, queen of Italy, her history and character,
vii. 175. Her death, 179.

Amalphi, defcription of the city, and its commerce, X. 154-
Amazons, improbability of any fociety of, ii. 39.

Ambition, reflections on the violence, and various opera-
tions of that paffion, viii. 421.

Ambrofe, St. compofed a treatise on the trinity, for the
ufe of the emperor Gratian, v. 3. His birth, and pro-
motion to the archbishopric of Milan, 31. Opposes the
Arian worship of the empress Juftina, 33. Refuses obe-
dience to the Imperial power, 38. Controls the emperor
Theodofius, 59. Impofes penance on Theodofius for
his cruel treatment of Theffalonica, 61. Employed his
influence over Gratian and Theodofius, to infpire them
with maxims of perfecution, 78. Oppofes Symmachus,
the advocate for the old Pagan religion, 84. Comforts

the citizens of Florence with a dream, when befieged by Radagaifus, 180.

Amida, fiege of, by Sapor king of Perfia, iii. 162. Receives the fugitive inhabitants of Nifibis, iv. 177. Is befieged and taken by Cabades king of Perfia, vii. 114. Amir, prince of lonia, his character, and paffage into Europe, xi. 231.

Ammianus the hiftorian his religious character of the emperor Conftantius, iii. 277. His remark on the enmity of Chriftians toward each other, 320. His account of the fiery obftructions to reftoring the temple of Jerufalem, iv. 86. His account of the hoftile contest of Damafus and Urfinus for the bifhopric of Rome, 219. Teftimony in favour of his hiftorical merit, 348. His character of the nobles of Rome, v. 220.

Ammonius, the mathematician, his measurement of the circuit of Rome, v. 235.

Ammonius, the monk of Alexandria, his martyrdom viii. 233.

Amorium, fiege and deftruction of, by the caliph Motaffem. ix. 378.

Amphilochus, bishop of Iconium, gains the favour of the

emperor Theodofius by an orthodox bon mot, v. 13. Amphitheatre at Rome, a description of, ii. 87. xii. 196. Amrou, his birth- and character, ix. 262. His invafion and conqueft of Egypt, 264. His administration there, 277. His description of the country, 278. Amurath I. fultan of the Turks, his reign, xi. 236. Amurath II. fultan, his reign and character xi. 375. Anachorets, in monkifh hiftory, defcribed, vi. 210. Anacletus, pope, his Jewish extraction, xii. 114. Anaftafius I. marries the emprefs Ariadne, vii. 6. His war with Theodoric, the Oftrogoth king of Italy, 19. His œconomy celebrated, 81. His long wall from the Propontis to the Euxine, 107. Is humbled by the Catholic clergy, viii. 261.

Anaftafius II. emperor of Conftantinople, viii. 333. His preparations of defence against the Saracens, ix. 329.

Anaftafius, St. his brief history and martyrdom, viii. 186.
Anatho, the city of, on the banks of the Euphrates, de-
fcribed, iv. 130.

Andalusia, derivation of the name of that province, ix. 296.
Audronicus, prefident of Lybia, excommunicated by Syne-
fius bishop of Ptolemais, iii. 235.

Andronicus Comnenus, his character, and first adventures,
viii. 405. Seizes the empire of Conftantinople, 416.
His unhappy fate, 419.

Andronicus the Elder, emperor of Conftantinople,
fuperftition, xi. 163. His war with his grandfon and ab-
dication, 169.

Andronicus the Younger, emperor of Conftantinople, his
licentious character, xi. 167. His civil war against his
grandfather, 169. His reign, 173. Is vanquished and
wounded by fultan Orchan, 229. His private applica-
tion to pope Benedict XII. of Rome, 306.

Angora, battle of, between Tamerlane and Bajazet,
xi. 271.

Anianus, bishop of Orleans, his pious anxiety for the
relief of that city when befieged by Attila the Hun,
vi. 88.

Anician family at Rome, brief hiftory of, v. 215.

Anne Comnena, character of her hiftory of her father,
Alexius I. emperor of Conftantinople, viii. 394. Her
confpiracy against her brother John, 397.

Anthemius, emperor of the Weft, his defcent, and in-
veftiture by Leo the Great, vi. 157. His election con-
firmed at Rome, 158. Is killed in the fack of Rome
by Ricimer, 177.

Anthemius, præfect of the Eaft, character of his adminif
tration, in the minority of the emperor Theodofius the
younger, v. 337.
Anthemius the architect, inftances of his great knowledge
in mechanics, vii. 94. Forms the design of the church
of St. Sophia at Conftantinople, 97.

Anthony, St. father of the Egyptian monks, his history,

vi. 195.

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