A Smaller History of Rome / from the Earliest Times to the Establishment of the Empire - William Smith; Eugene Lawrence

Pacuvius, M., [275].
Palæopolis taken, [56].
Palladius, [350].
Palmyra, fall of, [325].
Pannonia, mutiny in, [296].
Panormus, defeat there of Carthaginians, [73].
Pansa, C. Vibius, Consul, defeated by Antony, and slain, [255].
Papinianus, [350].
Papius Mutilus, C., [179];
defeated by Sulla, [180].
Paterculus, Velleius, [346].
Patres Majorum and Minorum Gentium, [17].
Patricians, [12];
struggles between them and the Plebeians, [29];
ascendency of the Patricians, [29].
See Plebeians.
Patronus, [12].
Paulus, [350].
Peligni, [3].
Pergamus, [106];
made a province, [147].
Perperna, M., re-enforces Sertorius in Spain, [200];
becomes jealous of Sertorius, and assassinates him, [202];
is defeated by Pompey, [202].
Perseus succeeds Philip as king of Macedon, [134];
defeated by L. Æmilius Paullus, [135];
death, [136].
Persius, [345].
Pertinax, Emperor, [318].
Pescennius Niger, [319].
Petreius, M., [221].
Petronius Arbiter, [348].
Phædrus, [346].
Pharnaces, conspiracy of, against Mithridates, [213];
confirmed in position of the kingdom of the Bosporus, [213].
Philip, Emperor, [324].
Philip V., king of Macedon, enters into a treaty with Hannibal, [107];
appears in the Adriatic with a fleet, and lays siege to Oricus and Apollonia, [107];
takes Oricus, but is driven from Apollonia, and burns his fleet, [107];
in alliance with the Achæans, and at peace with the Ætolians and Romans, [108];
assists Hannibal at Zama, [108];
attacks the Rhodians and Attalus, king of Pergamus, [108];
treats with Antiochus for the partition of Egypt, [108];
besieges Athens, which is relieved by a Roman fleet, [108];
sues for peace after his defeat in the battle of Cynoscephalæ, [109];
refuses to take part with Antiochus against the Romans, [110];
his death, [134].
Phœnicians, [68].
Phalanx, [122].
Phraates, king of the Parthians, [291].
Picenum, [2].
Piracy in the Mediterranean suppressed by Pompey, [310].
Piso, Cn. Calpurnius, [218].
Placentia taken and destroyed, [118].
Plautia Papiria, Lex, [180].
Plautus, T. Maccius, [273].
Plebiscita, [40], [51];
and Leges, [121].
Plebs, Plebeians, origin of the, [14];
sufferings of the, [30];
Ager Publicus, [30];
secession of Plebeians to the Sacred Mount, [31];
institution of Tribunes of the Plebs, [31];
Agrarian Law introduced by Sp. Cassius, [31].
Pliny, Secundus Major, [349].
Pœni, [68 (note)].
Pollio, Asinius, [286].
Pomœrium, [9], [20].
Pompædius Silo, Q., [178].
Pompeiopolis, [210].
Pompeius Strabo, Cn., in Social War, [180].
Pompey (Cn. Pompeius Magnus), early life and career, [200-1];
receives the surname of Magnus, [201];
sent to Spain as Proconsul against Sertorius, [201];
failures and successes, [201];
defeats Perperna, [202];
concludes the war, [202];
elected Consul, with Crassus, [203];
restores the Tribunitian power, [203];
suppresses piracy in the Mediterranean, [210];
supersedes Lucullus in the East, [211];
defeats Mithridates in Lesser Armenia, [211];
receives the submission of Tigranes, [212];
his conquests in Syria and Palestine, [212-13];
returns to Italy, [213];
his Triumph, [223];
Senate refuses to sanction his measures in Asia, [224],
but afterward ratifies them, [225];
forms cabal with Cæsar and Crassus (first Triumvirate), [225];
marries Cæsar's daughter Julia, [225];
meets Cæsar and Crassus at Luca, [236];
Consul with Crassus, [236];
obtains government of Spain, [236];
his new theatre at Rome opened, [236];
his wife Julia dies, [237];
elected sole Consul, [238];
becomes hostile to Cæsar, [239];
measures in opposition to Cæsar, [239-40];
invested by the Senate with command of the army, [240];
retreats before Cæsar, [242];
embarks for Greece, [242];
besieged by Cæsar at Dyrrhachium, [244];
forces Cæsar to retreat, [244];
defeated by Cæsar at Pharsalia, [245];
flies to Egypt, [245];
slain there, [245].
Pompey, Sextus, in alliance with M. Antony, [264];
master of the sea, [264];
forms alliance with Octavian and Antony, [264];
rupture of the alliance, [265];
defeats Octavian's fleet, [265];
his own fleet defeated by M. Agrippa, [266];
is taken prisoner, and put to death at Miletus, [266].
Pontiffs, [12], [51].
Pontine Marshes, [4].
Pontius, C., defeats the Romans, [57], [58];
is defeated and put to death, [59].
Pontius, the Samnite, [193].
Pontus, [106];
kingdom of, [186];
made a Roman province, [212].
Porcius Cato, M. See Cato.
Populus Romanus, [14].
Porsena, Lars, marches against Rome in aid of Tarquin, [26];
bridge defended by Horatius Cocles, [26];
C. Mucius Scævola, [27];
Clœlia swims across the Tiber, [27];
Porsena withdraws his army, [27];
war with the Latins, [28];
battle of the Lake Regillus, [28];
death of Tarquinius Superbus, [28].
Præneste surrenders, [193].
Prætor Peregrinus, [117].
Prætors, afterward called Consuls, [25].
Prætors and Prætorship, [51], [117].
Principes, [122].
Privernum, conquest of, [56].
Probus, Emperor, [326].
Proconsuls, [118].
Propertius, Sextus Aurelius (poet), [280].
Proprætors, [118].
Proscriptio, what it was, [193].
Provinces, Roman, [147].
Provocatio, [121 (note)].
Prusias, king of Bithynia, shelters Hannibal, [131].
Publilian Law, [31 (note)], [36].
Publilian Laws, [51].
Publicani, [119 (note)].
Pulcheria, [351].
Punic War, First, [68-76];
Second, [82-105].
Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, assists the Tarentines, [62];
defeats the Romans near Heraclea, [62];
sends Cineas to negotiate a peace, [63];
terms rejected, [63];
takes Præneste, [63];
winter quarters, at Tarentum, [63];
embassy of Fabricius, [63];
proposal to poison Pyrrhus, [64];
releases Roman prisoners without ransom, [64];
crosses over into Sicily, [64];
is repulsed at Lilybæum, [64];
returns to Italy, [64];
seizes the treasures of the temple of Proserpine at Locri, [65];
his remorse, [65];
is defeated at Beneventum, [65];
returns to Greece, and is slain, [65].

Q.

Quæstio Perpetua, [197].
Quæstor; and Quæstorship, [4], [117].
Quintilianus, M. Fabius, [348].
Quintius, P., speech of Cicero for, [216].
Quirites, [11 (note)].

R.

Rabirius, C., [219].
Ramnes, [12].
Rasena, [5].
Regillus, Lake, battle of, [28].
Regulus, M. Atilius, defeats the Carthaginians, [72];
is defeated by Xanthippus, [73].
Regulus, M. Atilius, sent, as prisoner, with an embassy, to Rome, [73], [74];
advises the Senate to reject the terms, [74];
returns, and is put to death, [74].
Remus and Romulus, [9];
Remus slain, [10].
Repetundæ, [128 (note)].
Republic established at Rome, [25];
end of, [270].
Rhea Silvia, legend of, [8].
Rhodes, [107];
school of rhetoric at, [215].
Rogatio and Lex, [49 (note)].
Roma Quadrata, [9].
Roman Literature, sketch of, [272-285];
Poetry: Saturnian Metre and the Drama, [272];
M. Livius Andronicus, [272], [273];
Cn. Nævius, [273];
Q. Ennius, [273];
T. Maccius Plautus, [273];
P. Terentius Afer, [274];
Q. Cæcilius, L. Afranius, [274];
M. Pacuvius, [275];
L. Accius, [275];
Atellanæ Fabulæ, Mimes, [275];
Dec. Laberius, P. Syrus, [275];
Fescennine Songs, [276];
Satires, [276];
C. Lucilius, [276];
T. Lucretius Carus, [276];
Valerius Catullus, [276];
P. Virgilius Maro, [277];
Q. Horatius Flaccus, [278];
Albius Tibullus, [280];
Sextus Aurelius Propertius, [280];
P. Ovidius Naso, [281].
Prose Writers—Q. Fabius Pictor, [282];
L. Cincius Alimentus, [282];
M. Porcius Cato, [282];
M. Tullius Cicero, [282];
M. Terentius Varro, [283];
C. Julius Cæsar, [283];
C. Sallustius Crispus, [284];
Cornelius Nepos, [284];
Titus Livius, [284].
Rome, situation and first inhabitants, [7];
legends and early history, [8];
first four kings, [9-15];
last three kings, [16-28];
foundation of, [9];
destroyed by the Goths (Senones) under Brennus, [47];
rebuilt, [48];
pestilence at, [62];
sacked by Alaric, [341].
Romulus, birth of, [9];
slays Remus, [10];
rape of Sabine virgins, [10];
war with Sabines, [10];
reigns conjointly with Titus Tatius, [11];
succeeds T. Tatius as ruler of the Sabines, and thus becomes solo ruler, [11];
his death, [11];
institutions, [12].
Romulus Augustus, [343].
Rorarii, [123].
Rufinus, [339].
Rufus, Q. Curtius, [347].
Rullus (Tribune), [219].
Rupilius, P., captures Tauromenium and Enna, and ends the First Servile War, [147].
Rutilius Rufus found guilty and banished, [175].
Rutilius Lupus, P., Consul, [179];
defeated and slain, [179].

S.

Sabellians, [3].
Sabine virgins, rape of, [10].
Sabini, [3], [11 (note)].
Sacred Mount, first secession to, [31];
second secession, [39].
Sacrovir, [297].
Saguntum captured, [81].
Salii, priests of Mars, [13].
Sallustius Crispus, C., [284].
Salvius, leader of the slaves in Sicily, [172];
assumes the surname of Tryphon, [172].
Salvus Julianus, [350].
Samnites, history, [53];
tribes, [53];
conquer Campania and Lucania, [53];
attack the Sidicini and Campanians, [53];
enter into war with the Romans, [54];
are defeated at Mount Gaurus, [54];
peace [54];
second of Great War with the Romans, [57];
quarrel between Q. Fabius Maximus and L. Papirius Cursor, [57];
Samnite general, C. Pontius, defeats the Romans at the Caudine Forks, [57], [58];
treaty rejected by the Romans, [58];
successes of the Romans, and peace, [58];
third war, [59];
battle of Sentinum, [59];
defeat, and peace, [59].
Samnium and Samnites, [4].
Sapor, king of Persia, [336].
Sardinia obtained from Carthage, and formed into a Roman province, [77];
revolt in, [115];
Prætor for, [118].
Satires, Roman, [276].
Saturnian Metre, [272].
Saturninus elected Tribune, [174];
brings in an Agrarian Law, [174];
murders Memmius, [174];
is declared a public enemy, [174];
pelted to death with tiles by the mob, [175].
Scipio, Cneius, in Spain, [95];
slain there, [95].
Scipio, P. Cornelius, marches to oppose Hannibal, [83];
killed in Spain, [95].
Scipio Africanus Major, P. Cornelius, his early life, [99];
elected Proconsul, and goes to Spain, [100];
captures New Carthage, [100];
defeats Hasdrubal, [101];
master of nearly all Spain, by a victory (place uncertain), [101];
crosses over to Africa, [101];
quells insurrection and mutiny in Spain, [101];
captures Gades, [102];
returns to Rome, and is elected Consul, [102];
passes over to Sicily, and thence to Africa, [103];
besieges Utica, [103];
is opposed by Hasdrubal and Syphax, whom he defeats, [103];
defeats Hannibal near Zama, [104];
returns to Rome, [105];
prosecuted, [131];
retires from Rome, [131];
death, [131].
Scipio Africanus Minor, [140];
captures and destroys Carthage, [142];
sent to Spain, [145];
opposes Ti. Gracchus, [153];
found dead in his room, [153].
Scipio, L. Cornelius (Asiaticus) appointed to the command against Antiochus, who had invaded the kingdom of Pergamus, [111];
defeats Antiochus near Magnesia, and returns to Rome, [111];
prosecution of, [130].
Scipio Nasica, P. Cornelius, subdues the Boii, [114].
Sempronian Laws, [157].
Senate, [12], [119].
Senators bribed by Jugurtha found guilty by a commission, [164].
Senatus Consultum, [120].
Seneca, [301];
his writings, [349].
Seneca, M. Annæus, [348].
Senones, [45].
Septimius Severus, Emperor, [320];
penetrates to the interior of Scotland, [321].
Sertorius Macro, [299].
Sertorius, Q., in Spain, [200];
defeats Q. Metellus, [200];
is opposed to Pompey, [201];
assassinated by Perperna, [202].
Servile War at Carthage, [77].
Servile War in Sicily, First, [146-7];
Second, suppressed by M. Aquillius, [172].
Servilius, Q., murdered, [178].
Servius Tullius, succeeds Tarquinius Priscus, [18];
reforms the constitution, and divides the territory, [18];
increases the city, and surrounds it with a wall, [20];
forms an alliance with the Latins, [20];
his death, [22];
his two daughters, [22].
Seven hills of Rome, [20 (note)].
Sextius, L., first Plebeian Consul, [50].
Sicily invaded by the Romans, [69-71];
made subject to the Romans, except Syracuse, [76];
Prætor for, [118];
under Augustus, [287].
Sicinius Dentatus slain, [38].
Sidicini, [53].
Silanus, [297].
Slaves under the Romans, [146].
Social War, or Marsic War, [178-180].
Socii, or Allies, [66];
troops furnished by, [123].
Sociorum Præfecti, [123].
Soli, afterward Pompeiopolis, occupied by pirates, [210].
Spain in two provinces, [114];
Prætors for, [118];
under Augustus, [287].
Spanish Wars, [143-146].
Sparta, [107].
Spartacus, a gladiator, excites an insurrection of slaves, [202];
devastates Italy with a large army of slaves, [203];
defeated by Crassus, [203];
slain in battle, [203].
Spolia opima won by A. Cornelius Cossus, [43].
Statius, P. Papinius, [344].
Stilicho, [339].
St. Chrysostom, [311].
Suffetes, [68].
Sulla, C. Cornelius, early life and character, [167];
Quæstor with Marius in Africa, [168];
gains over Bocchus, and entraps and makes a prisoner of Jugurtha, [167];
in Social War, [180];
Consul, [181];
rivalry with Marius, [182];
enters Rome with his army, and takes possession of the city, [183];
leaves Rome for the East, [184];
plunders Athens, [188];
victory at Orchomenus, [189];
makes peace with Mithridates, [189];
overcomes Fimbria, [189];
defeats the younger Marius, and enters Rome, [192];
battle with the Samnites and Lucanians for the possession of Rome, [192];
Allies defeated, [193];
elected Dictator, [193];
his massacres and proscriptions, [194];
elected Consul, [194];
his Triumph, and assumed title of Felix, [194];
his military colonies, [194], [195];
his reforms, [194], [195];
resignation of Dictatorship, retirement, and death, [195];
his legislation, [190-193].
Sulpicius Rufus, P., sells himself to Marius, [182];
put to death, [183].
Supplicatio, [125].
Synorium, fortress of, [211].
Syphax, at war with Carthage, [95];
is visited by Scipio, but, falling in love with Sophonisba, daughter of Hasdrubal, becomes an ally of the Carthaginians, [101];
defeated by Scipio and Masinissa, and flies into Numidia, [103];
is pursued and taken prisoner by Lælius and Masinissa, [103].
Syracuse captured by Marcellus, [94].
Syria, condition of, [106];
made a Roman province, [212].
Syrus, P., [275].

T.

Tacitus, Emperor, [326].
Tacitus, the historian, [346].
Tarentum, [60], [62];
captured, [65].
Tarpeia, [10].
Tarquinius Priscus, Lucius, his birth and descent, [16];
elected 5th king of Rome, [16];
defeats the Sabines and captures Collatia, [16];
takes also many Latin towns, and becomes ruler of all Latium, [16];
constructs the cloacæ, [16];
lays out the Circus Maximus, and institutes the games of the Circus, [17];
increases the Senate, the Equites, and the Vestal Virgins, [17];
appoints Servius Tullius his successor, [18];
his reign and death, [18].
Tarquinius Superbus, Lucius, succeeds Servius Tullius, [22];
his tyranny, [22];
alliance with the Latins, [22];
war with the Volscians, [23];
founds the temple named the Capitolium, [23];
purchases the three Sybilline books, [23];
attacks and captures Gabii, [23];
sends to consult the oracle at Delphi, [23];
besieges Ardea, [24];
Lucretia ravished by Sextus Tarquinius, [24];
death of Lucretia, [25];
is expelled from Rome with his sons, [25];
attempts to regain the throne, [25];
his Etruscan allies defeated, [26];
dies at Cumæ, [28].
Terentius Afer, P., [274].
Teutones and Ambrones enter France, in march for Italy, [170];
defeated and destroyed by Marius, [171].
Theodosius, Emperor, [339].
Thurii, [60].
Tiberius, [201];
divorced from his wife, [292];
succeeds Augustus, [295];
retires to Capreæ, [298];
death, [299].
Tibullus, Albius (poet), [280].
Tigranes, king of Armenia, receives his father-in-law Mithridates, [207];
defeated by Lucullus at Tigranocerta, [208];
acts in concert with Mithridates, [209];
submits to Pompey, [212].
Tigranes the younger revolts against his father, [212].
Tities, [12].
Titus takes Jerusalem, [303];
emperor, [304].
Trajanus Decius, Emperor, [324].
Trajanus, M. Ulpius, Emperor, [307];
conflict with the Dacians, [308];
leads an army into Assyria, [308];
death, [309].
Trasimenus, Lake, Roman army destroyed at, [86].
Triarii, [123].
Triarius defeated by Mithridates, [208].
Tribes, Assembly of the, [121].
Tribunes, [31], [117], [121].
Tribuneship degraded by Sulla's laws, [197].
Tribuni Militum, [123].
Tributum, a property-tax, [121].
Triumph, the general's, [124].
Triumvirate, First, [225];
Second, [256].
Triumviri visit Greece to inquire into the laws, [37].
Tullianum (dungeon), [221].
Tullus Hostilius elected to succeed Numa, [13];
battle of the Horatii and Curiatii, [13];
conquers the Albans, [14];
conquers the Etruscans, [14];
punishes Mettius Fuffetius, [14];
destroys Alba Longa, and removes inhabitants to Rome, [14];
his reign and death, [14].
Turmæ, [123].
Twelve Tables, [38].

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