ways sprang up at Easter, in readiness for baptisms, whence we may infer that it was fed by the melting of the winter snow in the Abruzzi. There is not a touch of sentiment at St. Cyprian's superseding Leucothea; nothing of the feeling which is so strong in Boethius, that nothing earthly lasts.
Cassiodorus's tranquil reliance on the stability of what was left of the old world is even surpassed by Maximianus, a noble of Etruria, who in his old age composed half a dozen elegies, which have a certain mawkish pathos and sweetness: the best of them is the first, which is full of his regrets for his lost youth, in which he felt himself possessed of all the talents and all the virtues of all the heroes and all the sages; he found himself hardy, and thought himself a Stoic. The rest of the poems are consecrated to a very outspoken narrative of his amours, in most of which he played the part of dupe: in the first we are a little surprised to find that he had conscientious scruples, as he did not contemplate marriage, and more than surprised to find that they were removed by the authority of Boethius. One can hardly imagine Cicero giving such counsel to Cælius or Curio; one cannot imagine Seneca giving such counsel to any pupil but Nero.
The cynicism of a declining race is too strong for the unmistakable progress in religious ideas, and the undeniable progress in speculative ideas, which is not disproved by a falling-off in speculative power. It was time that Latin Literature should retire into the cloister, that Latin civilization should become a memory.
Agnes, St., legend of, in Prudentius,
366; St. Ambrose, oldest author-
ity for, 399.
Agricola, Julius, 179, 184; Tacitus,
Life of, 188-190, 206.
Agrippa the Younger, 215.
Agrippina, Seneca recalled by, 3;
memoirs of the Younger, 212.
Amateur writers of Statius's day, 61,
77.
Ambrose, St., Hymns of, 397, 405;
penance of Theodosius, 398; work
on Paradise, 398; follows Philo,
398, 399; "Good of Death," 399;
"De Officiis Ministrorum," 399,
419; ethical standard of, 400; on
celibacy, 401; "Hexaemeron,"
402; on Naboth and Tobias,
against encroachments and usury,
402; five books "De Verbo," 403;
on his brother's death, 404; Let-
ters, 404.
Ammianus Marcellinus, 339; con-
tinues Tacitus, 340; specimen of
his style, 341, 342; dread of impe-
rial favorites, 343; religious opin-
ions, 344; respect for omens, 345 ;|
on betrayal of Vadomarius, 346;
edited by Erfurdt, 347; geogra
phy of, untrustworthy, 347; men-
tion of barbarians in office, 349;
defeat of Valens, 349.
Ancient art, history of, Pliny's con-
tributions to, 160.
Anicius, house of, 450.
Annæi, 50, 103.
Antimachus, 49, 55.
Antonius Primus, 203.
Aper, M., 185.
Apicata, wife of Sejanus, 212.
Apollonius Rhodius, 68; his Medea,
70.
Apuleius, L., 100; date and family,
248; popular lecturer, 249; ac-
cused of vanity, 250; of magic,
251; harangue on the God of Soc-
rates, 252; on Plato, 253; "Met-
amorphoses," 254-258; worship
of Isis, 255, 256; Cupid and Psy-
che, 256, 257; "Florida," 259;
compilations and paraphrases,
260.
Aqua Alsietina, 177; Claudia, 177.
Aqueducts, Martial's petition for
leave to use, 106; such rights
jealously limited, 177; Frontinus
in charge of Roman, 176; his
work on, 177, 178.
"Aratea," translated by Cicero,
Germanicus, and Avienus, 353.
Aristocracy, contempt of, fatal to
Otho and Vitellius, 197; treach-
ery of, 198.
Aristophanes, compared to Juvenal,
127.
Aristotle, followed by Seneca, 15-17.
Arnobius, 317; the "Christian Cic-
ero," 322; St. Jerome on, 328.
Aufidius Bassus, continued by Pliny,
144.
Augustan Histories, 304; five or six
authors of, 308; contributions as-
signed to Elius Spartianus, Ælius
Lampridius, Vulcacius Gallicanus,
Julius Capitolinus, Trebellius Pol-
lio, and Vopiscus, 306–314; judg
ment on different emperors, and
traits de mœurs, 315.
Augustin, St., on the religion of the
nursery, 279; Romans a chosen
people, 321; resemblance to Pru-
dentius, 364; on St. Ambrose,
400; St. Jerome's letters to, 417,
418; his youth, 418; "Contra
Academicos," 419; "De Vitâ
Beatâ," "De Ordine," and Solil-
oquies, 420; Confessions, 420-
423; intercourse with St. Am-
brose, 422;
'De Doctrinâ Chris-
tianâ," 424; Commentaries, 425;
controversies with the Arians,
Manichees, Pelagians, and Do-
natists, 425, 426; on the Trinity,
426; correspondence, 427; “City
of God," 428 -433;" antifatalism,
430; New Platonists, 430; com-
parative chronology, 431; Beatific
Vision, 433; miracles, 433; re-
tractations, 435.
Avidius Cassius, 120; life of, 314.
Avienus, Rufus Festus, author of
translations, abridgments,
paraphrases, 353.
Avienus, Flavius, a fabulist, 381.
Avis incendiaria, 153.
Avitus, Alfius, 298.
Avitus, Bishop of Vienne, 444.
Aulus Gellius, 264; "Attic Nights,"
265; popularity of, 266; on gram-
matical points, 267; Socratic dia-
logue, 268; Favorinus, 268, 269;
literary judgments of, 270; style
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and vocabulary, 271; followed by
Macrobius, 394.
Aurelian, Life of, by Vopiscus, 306,
309-313; civil administration of,
309; food supply and fortifica-
tions of Rome by, 310, 311.
Ausonius, Decimus Magnus, 335, ". ;
Epigrams, 354; Play of the Seven
Sages, 355; poem on employ-
ments of the day, 356; Idyll on
the Moselle, 357, 358; on a paint-
ing at Trèves, 359.
Autun, public schools of, 330; en-
dowed by Eumenius; taxation of,
reduced, 332.
Barbarians, consulship opened to,
349.
Barea, Servilius Barea Servius, 218.
Barth, 62.
Basil, St., 401, 402.
Bassus, Julius, governor of Bithynia,
164.
Baths, right to water supply, 178.
Bede, Ambrosian hymns known to,
405.
Berosus, 22.
Bestius, 84.
Blæsus, 236.
Bocchoris, legendary expulsion of
the Jews by, 199.
Boethius, 449; his defence of Albi-
nus, 450; writings on logic, music,
and geometry, 451; "Consolations
of Philosophy," 451-458.
Bookseller, Martial refers to his, 107.
Bona Mens, Seneca's favorite con-
ception of, 15.
Britain, Seneca's investments in, 5.
Britannicus, 212.
Buddhists, Pliny's humanitarianism
forestalled by, 147.
Burrus, 3.
Caballus, Juvenal's use of, 139.
Cæcilius, Sex. Cæcilius Africanus,
238.
Cæsar, unique style of, 180.
Calenus, 139.
Caligula, remarks on Seneca, 2.
Callicrates, 313.
Callistratus, 239.
Callistus, St., 285.
Calpurnius, 35.
Capella, Martianus, 442.
Capito, Ateius, 236, 237.
Capito, a Lycian, 339.
Carlyle, 179.
Civil law, three books on, by Sabi-
nus, 237.
Claudian. See Claudius Claudianus.
Claudian period, poetry of, 35; books
of, intended for recitation, 142.
"Carmen Apologeticum," of Com- Claudianus Mamertus, 446.
modian, 298.
Carthage, 242.
Cassian, St., 366.
Cassian, 439; on monastic life, and
"Collationes Patrum," 440.
Cassiodorus, 460; his letters, 461,
464-467; History of the Goths,
461, 462; Chronicle, sources of,
462; Commentary on the Psalter,
462, 463.
Cassius, Q. Longinus, founder of
Cassian school of jurisprudence,
237.
Castra Vetera, topography of, in Tac-
itus, 191.
Cato, 12; speech of, in Lucan, 42;
fable attributed to the Elder, 139.
Cato, Dionysius, moral aphorisms
of, 302, 303.
Catullus, 128, 133.
Claudius, progressive innovations of,
205; alleged assassination of, 213;
Suetonius's Life of, 226.
Claudius Claudianus, of Alexandria,
367, 368; mythological poems, 368,
369; historical poems, 370; at-
tacks on Rufinus and Eutropius,
371, 372; Roman feeling of, 373;
war of Gildo, 373; religion of, 375;
versification of, 375.
Claudius Eusthenius, 307.
Claudius Maximus, proconsul in Apu-
leius's time, 249.
Claudius Quadrigarius, 270.
Claudius Tryphoninus, 239.
Comitatus, Tacitus's account of Ger-
man, 192.
Commodianus, 297; two poems by,
298.
Compilations of 4th century, 337.
Causidicus, orator, degenerates into, Compitalia, 377.
Censorship, revival of, 390.
Centurions, oppression by, 184.
Cerealis, 190.
Cernulare, a coinage of Seneca's, 32,
33.
Chaldæans, 166; Favorinus on, 268.
Charisius, a grammarian, 387.
Chorographia Pliniana, 297.
Chrysostom, St., on monasticism, 407.
Cicero, Marcus Tullius, "De Naturâ
Deorum," 17; estates of, owned
by Silius, 63; undervalued by Pe-
tronius, 101; Quinctilian on de-
livery of, 174; language contrasted
with Tacitus, 190; defence of, by
Suetonius, 231; latest writer ad-
mired by Fronto, 245; Republic
of, known through Macrobius, 394;
"De Officiis," 399.
Cicero, Marcus Q., drinking exploits
of, 157.
Ciceronian oratory, criticised by Tac-
itus, 187, 188.
Civilis, revolt of, 198, 208.
"Conjectanea," Capito's great work,
236.
Conjuratos, or liegemen of a Roman
general, 312.
Conington, Professor, on Persius's
imitations, 84.
Consulship of Olybrius and Probi-
nus, poem on, 368, 369.
Consulship of Mallius Theodorus,
370.
Cooks, unsalable books bought by,
76.
Corbulo, 184, 211.
Corinthian bronzes, 13; Trimalchio
on, 95; perfume of, 109.
Cornelia, Lucan's, 46.
Cornelius Bocchus, 297.
Cornelius (St.), 294.
Cornutus, edits Persius's Satires, 78;
his master, 81, 85.
Corporations, Roman, 88.
Corruption in the provinces, 164.
Corvinus, 128.
Cotta Messalinus, Tiberius's letter
on prosecution of, 208.
Credo quia impossibile, correct ver-
sion of Tertullian's, 287.
Crispinus, Juvenal's denunciation of,
132.
Cupid and Psyche, story of, 256, 257.
Curiatius Maternus, 28.
Curtius, Quintus, 304.
Cyprian of Antioch, 290.
Cyprian (St.), of Carthage, 289;
Letter to Donatus, 290; reply to
Demetrius, 291; treatise on the
Plague, 292; on Patience, Zeal,
and Envy, Exhortation to Martyr-
dom, 293; place in ecclesiastical
history, 293; controversy with the
confessors, 294; work on the unity
of the Church, 295; against the
Jews, 295; "De Opere et Elee-
mosynis," 366, n. ; commemorated
by Prudentius, 366.
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Delatores, universal reprobation of,
132; greatest rage of, under Do-
mitian, 194.
Demetrianus (or Demetrius), 291.
Demetrianus, a friend of Lactantius,
329.
Dialogue on the decline of eloquence,
ascribed to Quinctilian, 171.
Dialogue on oratory of Tacitus, 179.
Dictys and Dares, apocryphal histo-
ries of, 385.
Digests, 238, 239.
Dio, 224.
Diogenes Laertius, 261.
Diomedes, grammarian, 387.
Dioscorides, 300.
Diviners, 136.
Dolabella, Cornelius, 136, n.
Domitian, occupied with poetry, 67;
Suetonius's view of his adminis-
tration, 230.
| Domitius, follower of Pompeius, 46,
47.
Domitius, grammarian, 267.
Donatus, a confessor, 221; Lactan-
tius's work addressed to, 325,
328.
Donatus, Ælius, grammarian, 317;
Grammar and Commentaries, etc.,
of, 387; St. Jerome studies under,
406.
Donatus, Tiberius Claudius, the
Younger, 389.
Dracontius, 443: "Hexaëmeron "
and "Satisfactio," 444-
Dream of Scipio, commented by Ma-
crobius, 394.
Drepanius, Latinus Pacatus, 334;
praise of Theodosius, 335.
Druids turned professors, 355.
Druidesses, prophecy of, 309.
Drusus, 143, 213.
Ebert, 273, 364.
"Ecclesiastical writers," by St. Je-
rome, 231.
Economic condition of different
classes, according to Martial, 106;
to Juvenal, 123; to Pliny, 167.
Edict of the curule ædiles, comment-
ed on by Sabinus, 237; by Ulpian,
239; by Julius Paulus, 239.
Edict, prætor's, superseded by edict-
um perpetuum, 242.
Education, Pliny's foundation at Co-
mum for, 168; of children intrust-
ed to Greek dependents, 188.
Elections, contested, in the Church,
344, 391, 397, 408.
Electricity, importance to Roman
ideas, 17.
Emerson, 92.
Endowments, 168, 242; charitable,
of the age of Trajan, 327; relig
ious, spared by Constantine, 391.
Ennodius, author of puzzles and epi-
grams, 459; Panegyricon Theo-
doric, "Eucharisticum," Letters
and Lives of St. Epiphanius and
Antonius, 460.
Epicurus quoted by Seneca, 14.
Epigrams, Seneca's, on natural phe-
nomena, 19; on his exile, 23; of
Ovid and Lucan, 42; of Tacitus,
48; Martial's, to Flaccus, 67, n.;
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