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i6f., 19, 44ff., 125, 135,1381.,

204

Ferrill, Arther 27

Field of Mars,
see
Campus

Martius Firmus 72 Flaccilla, Aelia 106 Florentiana 79 Forum of Trajan 178 Forum Romanum 71, 147 France,
see
Gaul Franklin, Benjamin, v Franks 3, 131, 133, 179 Frigeridus, Renatus 15 Frigidus (Vipava), R. 9 Fritigern 7

Gaiseric (Genseric) 15ft., 2off., 36,

46, I2iff., i39f. Galatia 128 Galerius 79 Gallienus 113 Gamaliel vn 170 games, gladiators 59f., 81, 133 Garumna (Garonne), R. 72 Gaudentius 65

Gaul (France) xn, 11, 14-17, 2if., 36, 46, 54, 65f., 72-5, 79, 81, 90, 93, 95, 116, 130, 137, 139, i49f., 167^., 177, 180, 186, 193, 203

Genseric,
see
Gaiseric

Germans xif., 2ff„ 6-12, 14, i6f., 19- 23, 27, 31, 33, 37, 39, 42, 44f., 58, 75f., 79, 81, loiff., ii5f., n8f., 121, 123-41, 179, i8if., 196, 201, 204;
see also
Alans, Angles, Burgundians,

Franks, Goths, Heruli, Jutes, Ostrogoths, Saxons, Suevi, Vandals, Visigoths Gibbon, Edward xi, 4f., 11, 23, 28, 34, 40, 43, 70, 93, 116,123,

137,   148, 166, 195
Gildo 72, 118
gladiators,
see
games
Gnostics,
see
Manichaeans
Gospels,
see
Luke, Mark,

Matthew Goths, 3, 14, 16, 44, 127, i32f.,

138,      154; see
also
Ostrogoths,
Visigoths

governors, provincial 76, 80, 93ft.

Gozolas 170

grain,
see
agriculture

Gratian 6ff., 30, 33, i03f., 106,

ii5f., 124, 159, 167, 175, Greeks, Greece 4, 10, 55, 80, 98,

115ft, 123, 197-200 Gregory of Nazianzus, St. 198 guerillas, see brigands Gundobad 21

Hadrianopolis (Adrianople, Edirne) 7f., 42, 44, 59, 115, 125, 131,136, i8if., 189

Hellespont 203

hereditary obligations 38, 82, 8
9
ff.

Herder, Johann von 99 heresies 162-6, 20of.;
see also

Arius, Donatus hermits 145L, 155 Heruli 133

Hibernia (Ireland) 91 Hieronymus, St., see Jerome Hippo Regius 161 Hispania, see Spain
Historia Augusta
30, 45, 52 Hodgkin, Thomas 178 Homer 178 homosexuality 138 Honoratus, St. 149 Honoria i8f., 65

Honorius 9L, i2ff., 28, 46, 63, 73, 102,104,116, ii9f., 125, 127,129,160, 164,199

Horace 140

Horatius Codes 68, 181
hospitalitas,
'billeted guests', 125, 127

Huns 7, 15-19, 45, 66, 81, 121, 131, 133, 179

Illiberis (Elvira) 186 Illyricum 3, 53, 93, 95;
see also

Dalmatia Innocent 1, Pope (St.) 157,186,

189

Iranians 6;
see also
Persia Ireland,
see
Hibernia Israel,
see
Palaestina Istanbul,
see
Constantinople Izmit,
see
Nicomedia

Jerome, St. 11, 45, 70, 72L, 133, 146-9, 153, 157, 164, 180, i88f., 193

Jerusalem 169, 191

Jesus Christ,
see
Christianity

Jews, Judaism 55, 128, 166, 168-

John Cassian i49f.

John Chrysostom, St. 63, 72, 176

John the Baptist, St. 146

Jones, A.H.M. 85, 203

Jordan, David P., 195

Jordanes 16, 127

Jovian 4,113

Judaea,
see
Palaestina

Judah 1 ha-Nasi 168

Juilly,
see
Julius

Julian the Apostate 4, 37, 44, 79, 83, 91, 101, 152, 158, 163, 169, 175, 202

Julius Quilly) 73

Julius Caesar,
see
Caesar

Julius Nepos,
see
Nepos

Julius (of Carthage) 72

Junius Bassus,
see
Bassus

Justin 1 22 Justina 7 Justinian 1 96 Jutes 17, 126

Kadikoy,
see
Calchedon Kayseri,
see
Caesarea Knights
(equites)
82

Lactantius 189

law(s), edicts, lawcourts 8, 39, 41, 43, 53-8, 6iff., 66. 76f., 83ft., 91, 95-9, 101, 109, 121, 129, 132, 140, 146;
see also
Euric, Justinian 1, Theodosius 11 Leo (chancellor of Euric) 140 Leo 1 (eastern emperor) 122 Leo 1 the Great, Pope (St.) 157,

i6if., 168, 179L, 199L Leontius 72

Lerina I. (S. Honorat, Lerins Is.), 149

Lezigny,
see
Licinius

Libanius 42, 56, 84, 177

Libya 114, 200;
see also
Tripolitana

Licinius (Lezigny) 73

Liger, (Loire), R. 126

Liguge,
see
Locoteiacus

Limonum,
see
Pictavi

Locoteiacus (Liguge) 148

Loire, R.,
see
Liger

Louis ix, St., King of France 169

Lucius (bishop) 151

Lugdunum (Lyon) 177

Luke, St. 157L

Lutetia (Paris) 6

Luxor,
see
Thebes

Lyon,
see
Lugdumum

Macaulay, T.B. 68 Macedonia 130 Machiavelli, Niccold 28 Macrobius 73L, 178, 181 Magnus Maximus 8, 33, 107L,

116, 167, 170 Mainz,
see
Moguntiacum

Majorian 21, 28, ^(., 57, 85, 92,

96, 122, i8of. Majus Monasterium

(Marmoutier) 149 Manichaeans, Mani 146, 166-9 Marcellinus 20 Marcellinus, Ammianus,
see

Ammianus Marcian 18, 121 Maria 10

Marius, Gaius 182 Mark, St. v

Marmoutier,
see
Majus

Monasterium Marseille,
see
Massilia Martianus Capella Martin of Tours, St. 149, 167, 186 Marx, Karl, Marxism 4, 42, 59, 68,

192

Massilia 42, 64, 150 Matthew, St. 152 Mauretania 16, 59, 72, 93, 165 Maximus, Magnus,
see
Magnus

Maximus Maximus, Petronius,
see

Petronius Maximus Medao, R. 19

Mediolanum (Milan), 3, 19, 69, 94, 102, 105, 114, 156, 159,176, 179

Melania the elder, St. 154 Melania the younger, St. 72 Mesopotamia 166, 168 Metelli 104

Milan, see Mediolanum Milevis, Mileum (Miia),
see

Optatus Mincius (Mincio), R. 19 mints,
see
coinage Mishnah 168

Mitrovica, Sremska, see Sirmium Moesia 3, 13, 79; see
also
Dacia

Mediterranea, Ripensis Moguntiacum (Mainz) 6, 11 Momigliano, Arnaldo 171 Monasterium Majus,
see
Majus

Monasterium

monks, monasticism 83, 145-155,

187, 201, 205 Montesquieu, C.L. de S., 34, 74 Morocco, see Mauretania mosaics 72, 97, i02f. Mosella (Moselle), R. 178 Murranus 134^

Naissus 13

Namatianus, Rutilius,
see
Rutilius Narbo (Narbonne) 14, 81, 127 Nazanzus, see Gregory Neckar, R., see Nicer Nectarius 161 Neon 103 Nepos, Julius Netherlands 2 Nibelungenlied 17 Nicepherium Callinicum (Ragga) 157

Nicer (Neckar), R. 6

Nicomedia (Izmit) 113

Ni§, see Naissus

Nola, see Paulinus

Notitia Dignitatum, see Record of

Official Posts
Novempopulana 116 nuns i45f-, 155

Octavian, see Augustus Odoacer 22, 33, 46, 79, 123,179 Olybrius 107

Olympiodorus 13, 73, 101
On Matters of Warfare
(De
Rebus Bellicis)
33,
y]i.,
51, 52, 75, 84,

91/ 95, 97- 136
On the Calling of All Nations (De Vocatione Omnium Nationum)
187

Optatus of Milevis 131, 156, 2oif. oratory,
see
rhetoric Orestes 21

Orientius of Ausci 195 Origen 185 Orontes, R. 128

Orosius 75, 127, 129, 133, 138, i95f.

'Orthodox' (Eastern) church 197-

200 Ostia 20

Ostrogoths 7, 10, 22, 37 Otho 108

Pachomius 146

Padus, (Po), R. 19

paganism 151, 155, 158-62, 164,

166, 175-81, 185, 193, 195; see

also
Rutilius Namatianus,

Symmachus, Zosimus Palaestina (Syria Palaestina,

Israel), 114, 146, 149, i68f.; see

also
Jews Palladas 150L Palo,
see
Alsium Panium,
see
Priscus Pannonia 5, 149 Paris,
see
Lutetia Parthia 2f., 183 Passau, see Castra Batava Paul, St. 128, 132, 146, i52f., 158,

188, 191 Paul the Hermit 146 Paula 153

Paulinus of Nola 76, 129L, 147,

180, 186 Paulinus of Pella 130 Pavia, see Ticinum Pelagius, Pelagians i9if., 200 Pella, see Paulinus Peloponnesian War persecutions, see heresies,

paganism Persia 3, i67f., 182, 203 Peter, St. 180, 200 Petronell,
see
Carnuntum Petronius Maximus 71 Petronius Probus, see Probus Philagrius 134 Pictavi (Poitiers) 6 Picts

Piganiol, Andre 23

Placidia, Galla 13-16, 102, 120, 127

Plato 188, 191 Pliny the elder 1 Po, R., see Padus Poitiers, see Pictavi Pope, Alexander 154 Porphyrius 44 Posidonius 188

Praetextatus, Vettius Agorius 156 prefects, praetorian 53, 63, 78,

93* Priscillian 167

Priscus Attalus 12, 109, 179

Priscus of Panium 43, 53, 81, 98

Proba 76

Probus, Marcus Aurelius

(emperor) 52 Probus, Petronius (praetorian

prefect) 53, 63, 78, 95 Procopius (historian) 15 Procopius (usurper) 204
Protester, see Querolus
Prudentius 129, 132, 159, 183 Psalms 165

Pyrgi (Santa Severa) 72

Querolus (Protester) 66

Radagaisus 10,
37
Raphael
19

Raqqa, see
Nicephorium

Callinicum Ravenna 12, 22, 33, 69, 94, I02f.,

105, 110, 120, i22f, 179 rebellions, internal 3, 31-4
Record of Official Posts (Notitia

Dignitatum)
34, 36f. Renatus Frigeridus, see Frigeridus revolts, internal, see rebellions Rhenus (Rhine), R. 2ff., 6, iof.,

13- 17-
34>
42, 44^ 93- "9' 128, 182, 203

rhetoric, rhetoricians, oratory 9,

56, 79, 84, 95, 98, 100, i76f. Ricimer 2off., 33, i22f., 125

Robertson, William 9

'Romania' 127, 179

Rome i2f., 2off., 29, 59f., 69, 71, 73, 102, 105, 156, 170, 179L, i83f., 188-91, 199;
see also
Campus Martinus, Colosseum, Forum of Trajan, Forum Romanum, Senate

Romulus 181

Romulus Augustus (Augustulus)

22, 123, 181 Rufinus 10, n6f., 132, 138 Russia,
see
Soviet Union Rutilius Namatianus 72, 129, 151,

i6if., 170, 180, 184 Sabinus (Savigny) 73 Sahara Desert 1 Saint Honorat,
see
Lerina Salonae (Solin) 120 Salonica,
see
Thessalonica Salvian 42, 61, 64-7, 73ft., 81, 83,

92, 95, I29f., 133, 157, 181, 196 Samarobriva,
see
Ambiani Santa Severa,
see
Pyrgi Sapaudia (Savoy) 17 Sardis (Sart),
see
Eunapius Sarmatae 6 Savaria 149 Savigny,
see
Sabinus Savoy,
see
Sapaudia Savus, R. 3

Saxons 6, 11, 17, 126, 130,133, 137

Scipios 104, 181 Scotland,
see
Caledonia
Scriptores Historiae Augustae, see

Historia Augusta
sculpture,
see
art Scythia Minor 149 Senate, Senators, Senate-House

(Curia) if., 12, 22, 28ft., 38ft.,

69-79, 9
8
'
10
4f-» ii9/ i3i' 147'

i49f., i59f., i78f. Septimius Severus,
see
Severus Serdica (Sofia) 3 Serena 9

serfs 42, 62 Seronatus 95 Severus (bishop) 169 Severus, Septimius 2, 40 Severus, Sulpicius,
see
Sulpicius Sibylline Books 161 Sicily 21, 7if.

Sidonius Apollinaris 46, 54, 65, 74L, 81, 95, 97, 102, 122, i3of., 133L, 170, 178-81,184

Simon Magus 166

Singidunum (Belgrade) 115

Siracusa,
see
Syracuse

Siricius, Pope (St.) 151, 153,168, 186, 199

Sirmium (Sremska Mitrovica) 3,

6, 8, 102 slaves 4, 41, 45, 58f., 62, 66, 72,

97,128, 202 Sofia,
see
Serdica
solidus, see
coinage Solin,
see
Salonae Soviet Union xii, 7, 17, 19;
see also

Ukraine Spain (Hispania) 14L, 2if., 65f.,

72, 93, 135, 139, 147, i67f., 186,

203 Spies 91

Sremska Mitrovica,
see
Sirmium Stilicho 9-13, 37, 42, 116-20,125,

132, i38f., 161 Stoics 188

Strasbourg,
see
Argentorate subsidies 10, 121, 133 Suevi 11

Sulpicius Severus 149 Syagrius 74f., 134 Symmachus, Avianius, 77 Symmachus, Quintus Aurelius

30, 56, 70ft., 7
5
ff., 79, 97, 133,

159, 178, 183 Synesius 38, 42, 45, 103, 131   * Syracuse (Siracusa),
see
Chrestus Syria 114, 157

Syria Palestina,
see
Palaestina Szombathely,
see
Savaria

Tacitus 28,140

taxation 2f., 51, 53ft., 58, 6of., 63ft.,
67L, y6f.,
81, 83, 92, 95, 204

Tertullian 152, 180, i85f. Thebes (Luxor) 146 Themistius 100 Theodoret of Cyrrhus 170 Theodoric the Great (Ostrogoth) 22

Theodoric 1 (Visigoth) 19 Theodosius 1 the Great 8ff., 28,

30, 37, 41, 44f., 53, 62f., 76, 81,

83ff., 9of., 97, ioif., 106, ii5f.,

i3if., 152, i56f., i59f., i63f.,

167-170, 188, 194 Theodosius 11, Theodosian Code

83, 96, 98, 105, 119ft., 162, 167,

170, 199 Theodosius, Flavius (father of

Theodosius 1) 8 Thessalonica (Salonica) 138, 199 Thompson, E.A. 7 Thrace,
see
Constantinople,

Priscus Tibatto 66 Tiber, R. 131, 153 Tibullus 179 Ticinum 3, 12, 42
Toledoth Yeshu
169 Tolosa (Toulouse) 11, 14 Toynbee, Arnold 4 Trajan 178

Treveri (Trier) 3, 6, 11, 13, 45, 81,

102,   131
Tripoli tan(i)a 114
Turoni (Tours),
see
Martin

Ukraine 7 Ulfilas 137 updating v, xii Ursulus 51

Valens (brother and colleague of Valentinian 1) 5, 7, 37, 44, 92,

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