History of the Wars, Books III and IV: The Vandalic War

by Procopius

• Uliaris, body-guard of Belisarius, III. [xix. 23];
• his stupid action at Decimum, III. [xix. 24];
• kills John the Armenian accidentally, [iv. 15] ff.;
• takes refuge in a sanctuary, IV. [iv. 21];
• spared by Belisarius, IV. [iv. 25]
• Ulitheus, trusted body-guard of Gontharis, IV. [xxv. 8];
• bears messages to Antalas, IV. [xxv. 8-11], [19];
• at Gontharis' order assassinates Areobindus, IV. [xxvi. 32], [33], [xxvii. 20];
• marches with Artabanes against Antalas, IV. [xxvii. 25] ff.;
• killed by Artasires at the banquet of Gontharis, IV. [xxviii. 19] ff.

• Valentinian, son of Constantius, reared by Theodosius, III. [iii. 5];
• made emperor of the West, III. [iii. 8];
• captures John and after brutal abuse kills him, III. [iii. 9];
• his viciousness resulting from early training, III. [iii. 10], [11];
• loses Libya to the empire, III. [iii. 12];
• receives tribute and a hostage from Gizeric, III. [iv. 13];
• returns the hostage, III. [iv. 14];
• slays Aetius, III. [iv. 27];
• outrages the wife of Maximus, III. [iv. 16] ff.;
• slain by him, III. [iv. 15], [36];
• son of Placidia, III. [iii. 10];
• father of Eudocia and Placidia, III. [v. 3], [vi. 6];
• husband of Eudoxia, III. [iv. 15];
• members of his family receive rewards from Justinian and Theodora, IV. [ix. 13]
• Valerian, commander of auxiliaries, III. [xi. 6];
• sent with Martinus in advance of the African expedition, III. [xi. 24], [xi. 29];
• meets the Roman fleet at Methone, III. [xiii. 9];
• on the left wing at the battle of Tricamarum, IV. [iii. 4];
• Martinus sent to him in Numidia, IV. [xiv. 40];
• summoned to Byzantium, IV. [xix. 2]
• Vandals, a Gothic people, III. [ii. 2];
• whence they came into the Roman empire, III. [i. 1], [iii. 1] ff.;
• a portion of them left behind and lost to memory, III. [xxii. 3], [13];
• settle in Spain, III. [iii. 2];
• their alliance sought by Boniface, III. [iii. 22], [25];
• cross from Spain into Libya, III. [iii. 26];
• defeat Boniface in battle, III. [iii. 31];
• besiege Hippo Regius, III. [iii. 32], [34];
• defeat a second Roman army, III. [iii. 35];
• secure possession of Libya, III. [xxii. 4];
• send Moors to Sardinia, IV. [xiii. 43];
• take the church of St. Cyprian at Carthage from the Christians, III. [xxi. 19];
• invade Italy and sack Rome, III. [v. 1] ff.;
• their numbers together with the Alani, III. [v. 18-20];
• absorb all barbarian peoples associated with them except the Moors, III. [v. 21];
• Leon sends an expedition against them, III. [vi. 1] ff.;
• driven out of Sardinia by Marcellianus; III. [vi. 8];
• defeated in Tripolis by Heraclius, III. [vi. 9];
• lost Mt. Aurasium to the Moors, IV. [xiii. 26];
• enter into an "endless peace" with the emperor Zeno, III. [vii. 26];
• make war on the Moors, III. [viii. 1], [2];
• suffer a great disaster at the hands of the Moors, III. [viii. 15-28];
• defeated by the Moors, and become enemies of the Goths, III. [ix. 3];
• defeated many times by the Moors, IV. [x. 29];
• Justinian prepares an expedition against them, III. [x. 1] ff.;
• lose Tripolis, III. [x. 22-24];
• and Sardinia, III. [x. 25-27];
• letter addressed to them by Justinian, III. [xvi. 12-14];
• recover Sardinia, III. [xxiv. 1];
• defeated by the Romans at Decimum, III. [xviii. 1] ff.;
• greatly feared by the Roman army III. [xix. 27];
• collected by Gelimer in the Plain of Boulla, III. [xxv. 1] ff.;
• besiege Carthage, IV. [i. 3];
• invite the Huns to join them, IV. [i. 5];
• defeated by the Romans at Tricamarum, IV. [ii. 4] ff.;
• taken to Byzantium by Belisarius, IV. [xiv. 17];
• some of them go to the East, while the others escape to Libya, IV. [xiv. 17-19];
• together with their women, sent out of Libya, IV. [xix. 3];
• upon invitation of Stotzas, join the mutineers, IV. [xv. 3], [4];
• accumulate great wealth in Africa, IV. [iii. 26];
• not trusted by the Libyans, III. [xvi. 3];
• their effeminacy as a nation, IV. [vi. 5-9];
• their women, as wives of the Romans, incite them to mutiny, IV. [xiv. 8], [9];
• priests of, incite Romans of Arian faith to mutiny, IV. [xiv. 13];
• Vandals' estates, established by Gizeric, III. [v. 12];
• Vandals of Justinian, IV. [xiv. 17]
• Veredarii (Latin), royal messengers, III. [xvi. 12]
• Vespasian, Roman emperor, father of Titus, IV. [ix. 5]
• Vigilantia, mother of Prejecta, and sister of Justinian, IV. [xxiv. 3]
• Visigoths, a Gothic people, III. [ii. 2];
• their alliance with Arcadius, III. [ii. 7];
• the destruction wrought by them in Italy, III. [ii. 11-12];
• settle in Spain, III. [iii. 26]; IV. [iv. 34];
• invited to form alliance with the Vandals, III. [xxiv. 7]

• Zabe, called "First Mauritania";
• subjugated by Solomon, IV. [xx. 30]
• Zacynthus, island off the coast of Greece, III. [xiii. 21];
• its inhabitants the victims of Gizeric's atrocity, III. [xxii. 15], [17], [18]
• Zaïdus, commander of Roman infantry, III. [xi. 7]
• Zaunus, son of Paresmanes, and father of Leontius and Rufinus, IV. [xix. 1], [xx. 19]
• Zeno, emperor of the East;
• husband of Ariadne, and father of Leon the younger, III. [vii. 2];
• shares the empire with his infant son, III. [vii. 3];
• flees into Isauria, III. [vii. 18];
• gathers an army and marches against Basiliscus, III. [vii. 20];
• meets Harmatus and receives the army by surrender, III. [vii. 21];
• captures Basiliscus and banishes him, III. [vii. 22], [24];
• becomes emperor a second time, III. [vii. 23];
• kills Harmatus, [ibid.];
• forms a compact with Gizeric, III. [vii. 26]
• Zerboule, fortress on Mt. Aurasium, IV. [xix. 19], [20];
• besieged by the Romans, IV. [xix. 23-27];
• abandoned by the Moors, IV. [xix. 28-32]

Transcriber's Note: Periods added in index to some instances of Roman numerals to conform to rest of index.

Index Errata:

Under Adriatic Sea "Melite" should read "Melita"
"Apollonaris" should read "Apollonarius"
"Arethusa" should read "Arethousa" (also under Syracuse)
Under Ariadne "Zenon" should read "Zeno"
Also under: Basiliscus, brother of Berine
Basiliscus, son of Harmatus
Gizeric
Harmatus
Leon the younger
"Atalaric" should read "Antalaric"
Under Atalaric "Amalasuntha" should read "Amalasountha"
"Centenarium" should read "Centenaria"
"Dromon" should read "Dromone"
"Gepaides" should read "Gepaedes"
Also under: Singidunum
Sirmium
Under Gizeric "Olyvrius" should read "Olybrius"
Also under: Olyvrius
Placidia
"Heraclius" should read "Heracleius"
Also under: Tripolis
Vandals
Under Iaudas "Mephanius" should read "Mephanias"
"Iourpouthes" should read "Iourphothes"
Under John, the mutineer, "Pamphilus" should read "Pasiphilus"
"Juppiter" should read "Jupiter"
Under Leontius "Zaunus" should read "Zaunas"
Also under: Zaunus
"Leptes" should read "Leptis"
"Medeos" should read "Medeus"
"Medissinissas" should read "Medisinissas"
Under Zaunus "Paresmanes" should read "Pharesmanes"

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