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Octavius, war with Brutus, 408.

—— war with Cinna, 320.

Optimates, the, 264.


Papirius Cursor, 129.

Patricians, the, 66, 77.

—— Licinian laws relating to, 106, 107.

Philippi, battle of, 408.

Pirates, the, 341.

Plebeians, the, 66, 77-79, 83.

—— Licinian laws relating to, 107-108.

Pompey, 331, 336, 340.

—— expedition to Palestine, 348.

—— his flight, 381.

—— member of First Triumvirate, 361.

—— Pirates defeated by, 341-344.

—— rivalry with Cæsar, 375.

—— war against Mithridates, 345.

Pontius, Gaius, Samnite leader, 124, 126, 128, 129.

Prætors, the, 108.

Proculus, vision of, 23.

Proscriptions of Sulla, the, 334.

Punic War, the First, 155 et seq.

—— The Second, 172 et seq.

Pyrrhus, King of the Epirots, 141.

—— at battle of Asculum, 151.

—— at battle of Heraclea, 145-148.

—— defeat of, 153.

—— his elephants, 147, 150, 154.


Quirinalia, the, 23.


Regulus, story of, 158, 161, 165-167.

Regulus (son of above), war with Gauls, 169, 170.

Remus, story of, 5, 7.

—— death of, 13.

Roma, story of, 2.

Rome, founding of, 1, 12.

—— Republic founded, 52.

Romulus, story of, 5-7.

—— founding of Rome by, 11, 12.

—— his end, 22.

—— war with the Sabines, 14-21.


Sabine War, the, 14-21.

Samnite wars, the, 119 et seq.

Samnites, the, defeated by Sulla, 331.

Saturninus, land reforms of, 307.

Scipio, Cornelius, or Africanus, 203.

—— death of, 270.

—— campaigns against Hannibal, 178, 183, 220.

—— and Gaius Marius, 281, 295.

—— New Carthage captured by, 215.

—— triumph of, 231.

Scipio (grandson of above), 251.

—— destruction of Carthage by, 253.

—— Publius, 215.

Schoolmaster of Falerii, the treacherous, 94.

Sentinum, battle of, 135.

Servius Tullius, story of, 38-42.

Sextus, expedition against Rome, 63, 65.

—— Gabii taken by treachery of, 43-45.

—— and Lucretia, the Roman matron, 49.

Silvia, story of, 4, 5, 9.

Social War, the, 312.

Spartacus, the Gladiator, 338.

Sulla, 356.

—— campaign against King Jugurtha, 290.

—— Cinna's fear of, 323.

—— death of, 336.

—— enters Rome, 311.

—— Mithridates defeated by, 329.

—— Proscriptions of, 334.

—— rivalry with Marius, 311.

—— Samnites defeated by, 331.

—— Siege of Athens by, 328.

Sulpician laws, the, 313.

Sutrium, siege of, 110.

Syphax, King, 219, 224.


Tanaquil, 35, 38, 39.

Tarentines, the, war with Romans, 141, 143, 144, 152.

Tarpeian Rock, story of, 17.

Tarquin the Proud, alliance with Lars Porsenna, 56, 61.

—— attempt to enter Rome, 56.

—— death of, 65.

—— downfall of, 48-51, 52-54.

—— Gabii taken by, 43-45.

—— revolt against Servius, 41, 42.

Tarquinius Lucius, 34, 35.

Teutones, conquered by Marius, 297.

Tiberius Gracchus, and Octavius, 261.

—— death of, 266.

—— reforms of, 259-268.

Torquatus, 120.

Trasimenus, Lake, battle of, 187.

Trebio, battle of, 183.

Tribunes, the, 66.

Triumvirate, The First, 350, 361, 369.

—— The Second, 405.

Tullia, 41, 42, 51.

Tullius Hostilius, 28.

—— war with the Albans, 28.

—— war with the Etruscans, 31.


Valerius, 50, 54, 63.