Excesses of the, and their suppression, [150]

Agnes, St., legend of, ii. [319]

Agricultural pursuits, history of the decline of, in Italy, i. 266.

Efforts to relieve the agriculturists, 267

Albigenses, their slow suicides, ii. [49]

Alexander the Great: effect of his career on Greek cosmopolitanism, i. 229

Alexandria, foundation of, i. 230.

Effect of the increasing importance of, on Roman thought, 319.

The Decian persecution at, 451.

Excesses of the Christian sects of, ii. [196], [197], note