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INDEX.
- Pol-len′ti-a, battle at, 339.
- Po-lyb′i-us, 202.
- Pol′y-carp, 322.
- Pol′y-clē′tus, 186.
- Po-lyc′ra-tēs, no.
- Pol′yg-no′tus, 188, 189.
- Po-lyx′e-na, 189, n.
- Pompadour (pṓn-pä′door′), Madame de, 650.
- Pompeii (pom-pā′yee), 316, 317, n.
- Pontifex Maximus, 230.
- Pontiffs, college of, at Rome, 230.
- Pontus, 170, n.
- Pope, Gregory VII., 452–455.
- Popes. See Papacy. Gregory I., 378; Stephen II., 404; Leo III., 406, 407; Gregory II., 417; Urban II., 439, 440; Gregory VII., 452–455; Innocent III., 455; Martin V., 458; Alexander V., 458; Pius V., 537; Leo X., 544; Clement VII., 545; Sixtus V., 558; Gregory XIII., 577; Pius VII., made prisoner by Napoleon, 681; Pius IX., 714.
- Popish Plot, 621.
- Pompey, C. Neius, the Great, in Spain, 285; defeats gladiators, 285, 286; defeats pirates, 287, 288; conducts the Mithridatic War, 288; conquers Syria, 288; his triumph, 289; enters triumvirate, 291; rivalry with Csesar, 293–296; his death, 296.
- Portugal, acquired by Philip II., 535; becomes independent of Spain, 538, n.; in Napoleonic wars, 679.
- Po′rus, Indian king, 165.
- Por′tus Ro-ma′nus, 311.
- Poseidon (po-si'don), 102.
- Pot′i-dæ′a, 147.
- "Potsdam Giants," 644.
- Prse-nes′te, 244.
- Præ-to′ri-an guard, formation of, 309; disbanded, 326.
- Pragmatic sanction, 645.
- Prāgue (Ger. präg), peace of (1866), 704.
- Prax-it′e-lēs, 186.
- Pres′ton Păns, battle of, 631.
- Pretender, the Old, 628; the Young, 631.
- Pride's Purge, 612.
- Printing in China, 14.
- Pro′bus, Roman emp., 329.
- Prod′i-cus, 205.
- Proscriptions, under the second triumvirate, 302.
- Pro-tag′o-ras, 205.
- Protectorate, the English, 615, 616.
- Protestation, the Great, 604.
- Protestantism. See Reformation.
- Protestants, origin of name, 525.
- Province, first Roman, 254.
- Prussia, duchy of, 642, 643; rise of, 642–646.
- Psalms, authorship of, 64, n.
- Psam-met′i-chus I., 24, 25.
- Ptol′e-mies, kingdom of the, 172, 173.
- Ptol′e-my, Claudius, the astronomer, 214.
- Ptol′e-my I., Soter, 172, 173; II., Philadelphus, 173; III., Eu-er-ġe′-tes, 173.
- Public lands in Italy, 274, 275.
- Punjab (pŭn-jawb′), conquered by Darius I., 79.
- Pultowa (pol-tä'va), battle of, 638.
- Punic War, first, 247–253; second, 258–266; third, 269–272.
- Puritan literature, 617.
- Puritanism, its extreme severity, 625.
- Puritans, origin of, 556.
- Pu-te′o-li, 284.
- Pyd′na, battle of, 268, 269.
- Py′los, 150.
- Pym (Pĭm), John, 609.
- Pyramid kings, 20.
- Pyramids, the, 31, 32; battle of the, 669.
- Pyrenees (pĭr'e-nḗz), treaty of the, 591.
- Pyr′rho, 212.
- Pyrr′hus, k. of Epirus, 244–246.
- Py-thag′o-ras, 204.
- Pyth′i-a, 105.
- Que-bec, heights of, 631.
- Ra, 45.
- Races of mankind, 2; table of, 7.
- Racine (rä-seen′), 599.
- Rad-a-gai′sus, 341.
- Railroads, 729, 730.
