Minos, the historic, 63
Mirabeau, the love letters of, 40
Mithridates, defeat of, 19;
- the conquests of, 197
Mohammedan, the position of the, 236
Mommsen, the apologies of, 243
Morales, the two, at Rome, 155
Morini, the, a tribe in Gaul, 86
Mosca olearia, a new species of, 190
Municipia, the splendour of the, 110
Museum, the, at Alexandria, 55
Mythology, the imagination of, 197
N
Naiads, the maidens of Cleopatra dressed as, 40
Naples, the ruins of, 92;
- the city of, 218
Naples, the Gulf of, 119
Napoleon I., mentioned, 63, 210
Natural History, the, by Pliny, 183
Nero, Emperor, 96,
- elected, 103;
- frivolity of, 105;
- debauches of, 114;
- the cowardice of, 121;
- careless government of, 125;
- St. Paul contrasted with, 133;
- the suicide of, 135
Newspapers, the fortunate lack of, in Rome, 173
Nile, the Roman protectorate in the valley of the, 46
Nimes, the inhabitants of, 175
Nones, the days of the, 9
Notre Dame, the cathedral of, 140
Nuptial banquets, the cost of, 9
O
Octavia, divorce of, 40;
- the wife of Nero, 124, 127
Oil, the exportation of, 218
Oligarchy, the, at Rome, 81
Olive groves, the wealth of the, 189
Olympus, the delights of, 59
Opimius, the consulate of, 198
Orient, the metropolises of the, 15
Oriental Empire, the, of Rome, 57
Oriental state, the conquest of an, 15
Orientalism, the invasion of, 225
Ostia, Tiberius starts for, 163
Ovid, the representatives of, 149;
- the work of, 150
P
Paintings, of Pompeii, the, 229
Palatine, a journey to the, 7;
- polygamy in, 118
Palestine, the annexation of, 49;
- uprising in, 166
