M.

Mabog, i. 439

Macaron, i. 339.

Mace, iii. 114.

Macedonia described, i. 261, 297.

Macedonicus, Q. Metellus, ii. 149, 193, 194.

Macer, Æmilius, ii. 477.

Macer, Calvus Licinius, iv. 204; vi. 144.

Macir, iii. 114.

Mackerel, ii. 386, 387.

Macrobii, ii. 101, 132, 133.

Macrobius quoted, vi. 458.

Macrocollum, iii. 190.

Macron Teichos, i. 305.

Mad dog, bite of, ii. 316, 317; iv. 248; v. 83, 84, 331, 405, 406, 407; vi. 23, 210.

Maddening honey, iv. 342.

Madder, iv. 148; v. 38, 39.

Madeira, ii. 106.

Madness, canine, ii. 316 —caused by animals licking the skin, iii. 61.

Madon, v. 107.

Madrepores, iii. 210, 211; v. 225.

Mæander, i. 461, 463, 467.

Mæcenas, C. Cilnius, ii. 476.

Mæcenatian wines, iii. 242.

Mæna, ii. 413.

Mænalus, i. 287.

Mænian column, ii. 238.

Mænius, C., vi. 156.

Mæonia, i. 465.

Mæotis (fish), vi. 63.

Mæotis. _See_ “Palus Mæotis.”

Maggots, ii. 546; iii. 42 —in the brains of stags, 48.

Magi, ii. 70; iv. 380, 383, 384, 398, 410, 414; v. 31, 62, 64, 65, 66, 67, 124, 159, 293, 398, 428; vi. 21.

Magic (including amulets, charms, enchantments, philtres, spells, and superstitions), =i.= 83, 84; =iii.= 30, 435, 534, 535; iv. 18, 44, 49, 60, 102, 105, 178, 199, 234, 243, 325, 336, 372, 373, 380, 385, 398, 414, 445, 496, 510; =v.= 22, 28, 30, 31, 35, 42, 46, 47, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 73, 82, 87, 89, 97, 125, 131, 139, 159, 160, 188, 189, 191, 248, 254, 256, 257, 265, 266, 269, 279, 281, 282, 283, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 289, 291, 292, 293, 294, 298, 299, 301, 302, 304, 305, 306, 307, 309, 310, 311, 312, 313, 316, 317, 331, 339, 340, 345, 346, 349, 350, 354, 355, 361, 364, 365, 366, 367, 390, 394, 395, 398, 399, 400, 410, 411, 421, 422, 423, 424, 425, 426, 427, 428, 429, 435, 436, 439, 440, 441, 443, 448, 451, 453, 454, 455, 456, 458, 463, 464, 466, 467, 468, 522; =vi.= 3, 4, 11, 12, 19, 21, 22, 23, 32, 39, 47, 48, 57, 205, 210, 327, 328, 360, 361, 362, 404, 405, 408, 424, 429, 431, 434, 437, 438, 441, 442, 444, 446, 447, 448, 449, 450, 451, 453, 461.

Magical plants, v. 62-68.

Magicians, v. 159 —their practices, v. 313 —and Magic, a history of, v. 421-429.

Magma, iii. 166.

Magna Græcia, i. 182 —described, i. 222.

Magnes, vi. 355.

Magnesia described, i. 296.

Magnet, vi. 209, 356, 356.

Magnetes, i. 471.

Magnitude of the stars, i. 85, 86.

Mago, his writings, iv. 10 —quoted, iii. 488; iv. 360, 361.

Magon, i. 212.

Magpie, ii. 508, 522.

Magydaris, iv. 147, 148.

Maiæ, ii. 425.

Maigre, ii. 392, 396.

Majorca, i. 211.

Makron Teichos, iii. 208.

Mala, iii. 293.

Malaca, i. 156.

Malache, iv. 284.

Malachite, vi. 429.

Maladies, in which wine should be administered, iv. 274, 275, 276 —peculiar to various nations, v. 271, 272.

Malaga, i. 156.

Malea, i. 283.

Maledictions, iii. 82.

Maleus, ii. 46.

Maleventum, i. 229.

Maliac Gulf, i. 293.

Mallet-shoots, iii. 148.

Mallos, i. 447.

Mallow-tree, iv. 156.

Mallows, iv. 218, 282-285.

Malobathrum, iii. 153; iv. 493.

Malope, iv. 284.

Maltha, i. 138, 139; vi. 375.

Malum terra, v. 288.

Malundrum, v. 167, 168.

Malvane, i. 385.

Malvoisie, iii. 244.

Mamertine wines, iii. 242.

Mammæ, iii. 82.

Mamurra, vi. 324.

Man, his obligations to Nature, =ii.= 117 —the only tearful animal, 118 —his helplessness, 119 —the frail tenure of his life, 120 —his inhumanity to man, 120 —diversified powers and might of Nature displayed in, 121 —his brain, =iii.= 47, 48 —his face, 49 —his forehead, 49 —his eye-brows, 49 —his eyes, 49, 50, 51 —peculiarities in his members, 86 —resembled by the ape, 86, 87 —his audacity, =iv.= 130, 131 —remedies derived from, =v.= 276, 277, 278, 286, 287, 288.

Mancinus, L. H., vi. 231.

Mandi, ii. 133.

Mandragora, v. 138, 139, 140.

Mandrake, of Scripture, iv. 397 —superstitions as to, v. 139.

Manes, existence of the, ii. 218.

Manfredonia, i. 227.

Manganese, vi. 330, 380.

Mangrove, iii. 117.

Mani, ii. 455, 456.

Manilius, M. ii. 554 —his alleged work quoted, i. 19, 26, 57.

Manilius Antiochus, vi. 302.

Manna, iii. 115, 128; v. 25.

Manteium, ii. 8.

Mantichora, ii. 280, 297.

Mantinea, i. 286.

Mantua, i. 252.

Manure, iii. 456-460, 472, 481.

Manuring, of trees, iii. 531, 532 —of land, iv. 68, 69.

Mapalia, i. 387.

Maple, iii. 367; v. 21.

Marathon, i. 290 —battle of, vi. 248.

Marble, i. 388, 496; iii. 439; vi. 306-309, 323-328 —coloured, vi. 224.

Marcasite, vi. 440.

Marcellus, M., ii. 166; iii. 68; vi. 390.

March, Ides of, iv. 84.

Marchantia, v. 161.

Marcia, i. 81.

Marcian Waters, v. 487.

Marcion, v. 369.

Marcipor, vi. 81.

Mare that conquered when with foal, ii. 543.

Mareotis, Lake, i. 401, 419.

Mares impregnated by the wind, i. 365; ii. 322.

Margarides, iii. 175.

Margiane, ii. 31.

Margus, ii. 31.

Maria, tomb of, vi. 409.

Mariandyni, ii. 3.

Marius, C., i. 176, 195, 199; ii. 485; iii. 88, 89; iv. 13; vi. 73, 136.

Mariva, ii. 89.

Marjoram, iv. 268, 334, 335.

Market-dues, iv. 152, 153.

Marl, iii. 453, 454, 455.

Marmaridæ, i. 397.

Marmaritis, v. 64.

Maronean wine, ii. 236.

Marriage customs, ii. 336; iii. 315, 316; v. 382.

Marrow, iii. 63, 76; v. 327 —spinal, iii. 76, 77 —human, produces serpents, ii. 345.

Marrubium, iv. 290, 271, 292.

Mars, ii. 23 —Ultor, vi. 206.

Marsi, ii. 126; v. 81.

Marsian War, ii. 137; iii. 329, 332.

Marsus, Domitius, vi. 221.

Marsyas, i. 234, 461, 462; ii. 281; iv. 307; v. 478, 479.

Marsyas of Macedon, iii. 157.

Marten, ii. 308.

Martial quoted, i. 92, 122, 249; ii. 333; iv. 184, 430; v. 19; vi. 80, 92, 131, 132, 182, 266, 402.

Martinet, ii. 521.

Marum, iii. 147.

Marvellous works in Egypt, vi. 334-340.

Marvels connected with fire, vi. 383.

Masks of Comedy, v. 134.

Masinissa, i. 387, 391—ii. 150, 201.

Maspetum, iv. 146.

Massagetæ, ii. 34.

Massaris, iii. 155; iv. 461.

Massæsyli, i. 383.

Massic wine, iii. 241.

Massica, i. 195.

Massicot, vi. 240.

Massilia, i. 177 —wines of, iii. 242.

Mastich, iii. 132; v. 17, 19, 20.

Mastos, v. 214.

Masts, invention of, ii. 235.

Mastya, ii. 3.

Matapan, i. 282.

Mattiacum, v. 479.

Mauri, i. 383.

Mauritania, the two kingdoms of, i. 374.

Maurusii, i. 383.

Mausoleum described, vi. 316, 317.

Mausolus, v. 106; vi. 316, 324.

Maximus, the dwarf, ii. 157.

Maxula, i. 390.

Mead, iii. 261.

Meal, various kinds of, iv. 441, 442.

Measures, Greek and Roman—_See_ “Introduction to vol. iii.” —invention of, ii. 226.

Mecenius, Egnatius, slays his wife, iii. 252.

Mecon aphrodes, v. 261.

Meconis, iv. 231.

Meconitis, vi. 453.

Meconium, iv. 277.

Medea, i. 258, 266, 306; ii. 10; v. 81; vi. 453.

Media described, ii. 28, 69.

Medica, iv. 53, 54.

Medicaments for trees, iii. 532, 533, 534.

Medicinal compositions, remarks in disparagement of, iv. 439, 440.

Medicinal remedies borrowed from animals, ii. 291-294.

Medical art, origin of the, ii. 224; v. 370 —the frauds of, 3 —the practice of, 156, 157, 158, 376-381 —changes in the system of, 374.

Mediolanum, i. 247.

Medion, v. 255.

Mediterranean, trees and shrubs of, iii. 209, 210.

Medius, iv. 302.

Medusa, ii. 106.

Medusæ, vi. 46.

Medlar, iii. 314; iv. 512.

Megabyzus, vi. 261, 275.

Megalium, iii. 164.

Megara, i. 289—iv. 244 —prophecy of the fall of, iii. 418, 419.

Megaris, i. 288.

Megasthenes, i. 499.

Megisba, ii. 53.

Mela, M. Annæus, iv. 174.

Mela, Pomponius, i. 268 —quoted, i. 177, 336, 337, 364, 403, 405.

Melamphyllos, iv. 421.

Melampodes, ii. 179 —understood the language of birds, 530.

Melamprasion, v. 236.

Melampsythium, iii. 248.

Melanaëtos, ii. 481.

Melanchlæni, ii. 11.

Melancholy, remedies for, v. 355.

Melancoryphus, ii. 511; vi. 428, 442.

Melancranis, iv. 361.

Melandrya, ii. 385.

Melanthion, iv. 270, 271.

Melanthius, vi. 245, 303.

Melanurus, vi. 9, 63.

Melas, i. 449.

Meleager, i. 275, 322.

Meleagrides, ii. 507; iv. 151.

Meles, ii. 310.

Melichloros, vi. 460.

Melichrus, vi. 460.

Melichrysos, vi. 436.

Melicraton, iii. 261.

Melilote, iv. 330, 335, 336, 374.

Melinum, iii. 161; iv. 497; vi. 238.

Melissophyllum, iv. 247, 248, 340, 373, 374.

Melissus, C. Mæcenas, ii. 240; v. 299.

Melitæi, i. 267.

Melite, i. 267.

Melitene, i. 442; ii. 7.

Melitinus, vi. 360, 361.

Melitites, iii. 250; iv. 438.

Melligo, iii. 6.

Melons, iv. 158.

Melothron, iv. 466, 467.

Members of man, peculiarities in, iii. 86.

Memnon, ii. 99 —birds of, 506 —statue of, vi. 328, 329.

Memnonia, vi. 453.

Memnonides, ii. 506; iv. 151.

Memory, ii. 164, 165 —loss of, 165 —seat of, iii. 88.

Memphis, i. 409.

Menæchmus, i. 372; vi. 145, 182, 183.

Menander, ii. 357; iv. 205; vi. 146.

Menander, the poet, ii. 175; v. 423, 523; vi. 323 —quoted, iv. 28, 295, 519; vi. 30.

Menapii, i. 353.

Menas, vi. 302.

Mendes, the unguents of, iii. 160, 161.

Menecrates (artist), vi. 302.

Menecrates, the poet, ii. 357.

Menenius Agrippa, vi. 131.

Menestratus, vi. 317.

Meninx, i. 402.

Menismini, ii. 135.

Menodorus, vi. 187.

Menogenes the cook, ii. 147.

Menstrual discharge, ii. 151, 152 —marvels connected with, v. 304-307.

Menstruation, ii. 150, 151, 152; iv. 199.

Mentastrum, iv. 256.

Mentor, the artist, ii. 185; vi. 135, 138.

Mentor and the Lion, ii. 271.

Mephitis, Temple of, i. 122.

Mercurialis, v. 92, 93, 94.

Merges, iv. 103.

Merida, i. 366.

Mermaids, ii. 363.

Mer-men, ii. 363.

Meroë, i. 107, 411; ii. 100, 101.

Meroïs, v. 65.

Merops, ii. 516.

Mesembria, i. 306.

Mesogitic wine, iii. 246.

Mesoleucon, v. 254, 255.

Mesoleucos, vi. 454.

Mesopotamia, i. 444; ii. 70.

Messages, by pigeons, ii. 519.

Messala, the censor, ii. 147.

Messala, M. V., ii. 477; vi. 144 —owed his healthiness to wine, iii. 243.

Messala, vi. 221.

Messalina, ii. 541; v. 373.

Messalinus, Cotta, iii. 276.

Messana, i. 217.

Messapia, i. 225.

Messene, i. 282.

Messenia, i. 282.

Messina, i. 217.

Mestus, i. 304.

Metæ, i. 34.

Metagonitis, i. 387.

Metalla, vi. 350, 351.

Metals, soldering of, vi. 111.

Metapontum, i. 224.

Metellus, L., ii. 131, 192; iv. 8.

Metellus, Q., ii. 191, 192.

Metellus, the pontiff, his articulation, iii. 62.

Meteorites, vi. 438.

Meteors, i. 59, 60, 63, 64.

Methone, i. 282, 296.

Methora, ii. 46.

Methymna, i. 487.

Metimanus, ii. 150.

Meton, iv. 127.

Metopium, iii. 161, 162, 288, 289.

Metrodorus, artist and philosopher, vi. 277, 303.

Metrodorus, of Chios, iv. 303.

Metrodorus, of Scepsis, i. 270.

Meum, iv. 295, 296.

Meuse, i. 348.

Mevania, i. 239.

Mica, vi. 369.

Micciades, vi. 308.

Mice, of Pontus, =ii.= 308 —that swallow gold, 350, 351 —various kinds of, 350, 351 —prognostics derived from, 350 —that gnaw iron, 350 —singing, 351 —of the Nile, 472 —their fecundity, 544, 545 —remedies derived from, v. 392. _Also see_ “Mouse.”

Micipsa, i. 391.

Micon, vi. 141, 186, 241, 249, 281.

Mictis, i. 351.

Micton, iv. 303.

Midas, vi. 71.

Migration of birds, ii. 503-506.

Milan, i. 247, 248.

Mildew, iii. 529; iv. 96, 97.

Miletus (place), i. 466, 467.

Miletus (writer), v. 368.

Milfoil, v. 61, 221.

Miliaria, iv. 455.

Militaris, v. 68.

Military services, gifts for, vi. 86.

Milk, offerings of, i. 4 —particulars relative to, iii. 83 —in woman, 83 —in animals, 83 —what is the thinnest, 84 —the richest, 84 —curdled, iv. 257, 258 -impregnated by plants, v. 116 —of Arcadia, 116 —woman’s, remedies from, 302, 303 —medicinal uses of, 319-322.

Milky Way, iv. 98.

Millefolium, v. 61.

Millepedes, v. 417.

Millet, iv. 38, 444 —wine from, iii. 256.

Milliarium aureum, i. 203.

Millstones, vi. 339.

Milo, T. Annius, i. 88; vi. 346, 347.

Milo the wrestler, ii. 161; vi. 440.

Miltiades, vi. 248.

Miltites, vi. 363, 364.

Miltos, vi. 120.

Miltwaste, v. 228, 229.

Mimas, i. 469.

Mimosa, iii. 184; v. 43, 67.

Mind, greatness of, ii. 166 —vigour of, 166.

Mineral waters, v. 485, 494, 493, 496 —extravagant use of, 496.

Minerals of Spain, i. 173, 174.

Minerva Musica, vi. 180.

Minium, vi. 119, 120-124.

Minorca, i. 211.

Minos, ii. 89.

Minsas, v. 63.

Mint, iv. 192, 193, 256-259.

Minturnæ, i. 195.

Minute works of art, ii. 163; vi. 184, 323.

Minyanthes, iv. 375.

Miraculous properties of wines, iii. 262.

Mirage, ii. 135.

Mirmillo, ii. 148.

Mirror-stone, iv. 344; vi. 368, 369.

Mirrors, vi. 126, 127, 214, 280, 422.

Misenum, i. 196.

Mistletoe, iii. 391, 433-436; v. 5, 6.

Mists, i. 91 —prognostics derived from, iv. 122.

Misy, iv. 144; vi. 198, 199, 200.

Mithrax, vi. 453.

Mithridate, iv. 515; v. 79, 130, 380.

Mithridates, King, i. 333; ii. 19; iv. 515; v. 78, 79, 102; vi. 92, 390, 451, 467 —his extraordinary memory, ii. 165.

Mithridatia, v. 102.

Mitra, ii. 91.

Mitulus, vi. 41.

Mitylene, i. 487, 488.

Mnaseas, vi. 467.

Mnason, vi. 267.

Mnemonics, ii. 165.

Mnemosyne, fountain of, v. 477.

Mnesides, iii. 158.

Mnesigiton, ii. 243.

Mnesitheus, iv. 388.

Mocha-stone, vi. 440.

Modellers, ancient, vi. 284, 285, 286.

Modelling, the art of, vi. 283, 284, 285.

Modena, i. 242.

Modogalinga, ii. 45.

Mœnus, ii. 384.

Mœris, Lake, i. 409; vi. 336.

Mœsia, i. 264.

Molar stones, vi. 359.

Molemonium, v. 168.

Moles (abortions), ii. 151.

Moles (animals), ii. 353 —have no sight, iii. 50 —remedies derived from, v. 429.

Mollugo, v. 192, 193.

Molluscum, iii. 368.

Mollusk, vi. 65.

Molochitis, vi. 429.

Molon, v. 165, 166.

Moly, v. 87, 88.

Molybdæna (plant), v. 141, 142.

Molybdæna (metal), vi. 112, 118, 218, 219.

Molybditis, vi. 117.

Mona, i. 109, 351.

Monapia, i. 351.

Monarchy, ii. 227.

Monboddo, Lord, his theory, ii. 134.

Mongols, ii. 9, 15.

Monkeys, ii. 347.

Monoceros, ii. 281.

Monochromes, vi. 247.

Monocoli, ii. 130.

Mons Sacer, the secession to, iv. 152, 153.

Monsters, human, ii. 136, 137; iii. 95.

Month, work to be done in each, iv. 81-108.

Moon, particulars connected with the, i. 31-34, 36-40 —its effect upon fish, ii. 424 —its influence, iii. 415, 417, 480; iv. 97, 107, 110, 111 —revolutions of, 111, 112 —conjunction of, 101 —prognostics from, 119, 120.

Moons, several seen at once, i. 63.

Moral disposition, indications of from the appearance, iii. 96.

Morbus pediculosus, ii. 191, 209.

Morimarusa, i. 342.

Morini, i. 353.

Morion, v. 138, 139, 140.

Mormorion, vi. 453.

Mormyr, vi. 65.

Morochthos, vi. 453.

Morphew, remedies for, v. 461.

Morphnos, ii. 482.

Morse, iii. 57.

Mortar, vi. 373.

Mortars, stones for, vi. 367.

Mosa, i. 348.

Mosaic pavements, vi. 378, 379.

Moses, v. 425.

Moss, iii. 154; v. 499.

Moss agate, vi. 440.

Mossylum, ii. 96.

Motacilla, ii. 551; vi. 446.

Moths, iii. 22, 41.

Motions of the stars, i. 47, 48.

Mountain green, vi. 107, 108.

Mourning, signs of, iii. 398.

Mouse, of Egypt, ii. 308 —increase of its liver, iii. 70. _And see_ “Mice.”

Mouse-barley, iv. 445, 446; v. 250.

Mouth, the grasshopper has none, iii. 32 —remedies for sores of the, v. 431.

Mouths of the Nile, i. 420.

Mucianus, L., i. 148; ii. 138.

Mucianus, the augur, ii. 487.

Mud-mullet, ii. 402.

Mugwort, v. 107.

Mulberries, iii. 319, 320; iv. 508, 509.

Mulc, vi. 457.

Mule-gnat, iii. 21; v. 469.

Mules, ii. 323 —their nature, 324, 325 —barren, 325 —other peculiarities of, 326 —shod with gold, vi. 132.

Mulio, iii. 21; v. 469.

Mullet, ii. 397, 398, 401, 402, 403.

Mulsum, ii. 215; iii. 246; iv. 437.

Multipedes, v. 417.

Mulucha, i. 385.

Mummies, the coffins of, iii. 180.

Mummius, his capture of Corinth, vi. 163, 232.

Munatius, P., iv. 307.

Munda, i. 461; vi. 358.

“Mundus,” the term, i. 13, 14, 17.

Municipia, i. 154.

Muræna, ii. 394, 407-411; iv. 299; vi. 6, 7 —preserves for the, ii. 469.

Murex, ii. 413, 428, 441-445; vi. 29.

Muria, v. 503, 504, 509.

Murrhine vessels, vi. 70, 286, 392, 393, 394.

Murrhitis, vi. 454.

Murviedro, i. 166.

Mus, P. Decius, iv. 393.

Mus cabirinus, ii. 308.

Musa, Antonius, iv. 182; v. 372.

Musæa, vi. 366, 391.

Musæus, iv. 387.

Muscatella wine, i. 195.

Muses, i. 290, 296.

Museum, the Sallustian, ii. 157.

Mushrooms, iv. 428, 429.

Music, theatrical, iii. 408.

Musical, inventions, ii. 230 —scale applied to the pulsation, v. 372.

Musmon, ii. 339; v. 329.

Mussels, vi. 41 —gigantic, vi. 5.

Must, iii. 249, 250 —how prepared, 263, 264 —properties of, iv. 468, 469.

Mustaceum, iii. 332.

Mustard, iv. 197, 288, 289, 290.

Mustela (fish), ii. 401.

Mutina, i. 60, 142, 242.

Muza, ii. 64.

Muziris, ii. 65.

Mya margarifera, ii. 437.

Myagrus (plant), v. 256.

Myagrus (artist), vi. 188.

Myax, vi. 40.

Mycenæ, i. 284.

Mycon, vi. 152.

Myconian wine, iii. 246.

Myconos, i. 318; iii. 46.

Myes, ii. 436.

Mygdones, i. 299.

Mygdonia, i. 301.

Myiagros, ii. 507.

Myiodes, the divinity, v. 408.

Myisca, vi. 41.

Mylasa, i. 463.

Myoctonon, v. 220.

Myosota, v. 255, 256.

Myosotis, v. 255, 256.

Myosoton, v. 224.

Myra, i. 456.

Myriandros, i. 438.

Myrica, iii. 202; v. 29, 30, 31.

Myriophyllon, v. 61.

Myriza, v. 61, 62.

Myrmecides, the sculptor, ii. 163; vi. 323, 454.

Myrmecitis, vi. 459.

Myrobalanum, iii. 142, 143; iv. 495.

Myron, vi. 168, 169, 173, 174, 318.

Myrrh, iii. 129-132 —prices of, 131.

Myrrha, v. 61, 62.

Myrrhine. _See_ “Murrhine.”

Myrrhina, iii. 253.

Myrrhis, v. 61, 62, 195.

Myrsilus, i. 372.

Myrsineum, iv. 296, 297.

Myrsinitis, vi. 454.

Myrtidanum, iii. 257; iv. 521.

Myrtis, v. 195.

Myrtites, iii. 257.

Myrtle, iii. 328 —anecdotes relative to, 328, 329 —varieties of, 330, 331 —used for wines, 331 —used in ovations, 331, 332 —remedies derived from, iv. 519.

Myrtoän Sea, i. 309, 317.

Myrtopetalos, v. 259, 260.

Mys, vi. 139.

Mysia described, i. 488.

Mystus, wine of, iii. 246.

Myxa plum, iii. 178.

Myxon, vi. 33.

N.

Nabatæi, i. 422; ii. 88; iv. 364.

Nabun, ii. 277.

Nails, the human, iii. 87 —peculiarities in the, 87 —paring of, v. 285 —maladies of, 458 —malformed, vi. 53.

Napata, ii. 99.

Naphtha, i. 139; v. 476; vi. 293, 294.

Naples, i. 197.

Napy, iv. 197.

Narbonensis, i. 174 —wines of, ii. 243.

Narbonne, i. 174, 175.

Narcissinum, iii. 161.

Narcissitis, vi. 459.

Narcissus, iv. 316, 367, 368.

Nard, iii. 119, 120, 121; iv. 369, 370 —Indian, iii. 165.

Nardinum, iii. 165.

Narona, i. 260.

Narthex, iii. 205.

Nasamones, i. 397; ii. 126.

Nasamonitis, vi. 454.

Nassa, ii. 421.

Nasturtium, iv. 191, 251, 252.

“Nasutus,” the term, iii. 55.

Nations, how affected by climate, i. 110, 111 —exterminated by animals, ii. 295 —modes of cultivation pursued by various, iv. 61 —maladies peculiar to certain, v. 271, 272.

Natrix, v. 256.

Nature, considered by Pliny to be identical with God, i. 25 —her ingenuity displayed in the insect world, iii. 1, 2 —the providence manifested by, iv. 396 —her wondrous powers, v. 1 —a comparative view of, vi. 464.

Naucerus, vi. 183.

Naucratis, i. 408, 421.

Naucydes, vi. 169, 183.

Naulochum, i. 277, 467.

Naumachia, iii. 416, 419.

Naupactus, i. 275.

Nauplius, sailing, ii. 422.

Nausicaa, vi. 265.

Naustathmus, i. 218.

Nautilus, ii. 419, 429.

Navalia, vi. 321.

Navel-wort, v. 143.

Navigation, i. 97, 98.

Navius, Attus, iii. 310, 311; vi. 157.

Nasica, Scipio, ii. 179.

Naxos, i. 320 —stone of, vi. 327.

Nealces, vi. 266, 279, 280.

Neapolis, i. 197.

Nearchus, ii. 115.

Nearer Spain described, i. 164.

Nebritis, vi. 454, 460.

Necepsos, i. 148.

Nechthebis, vi. 332, 341.

Neck, iii. 63 —remedies for pains in the, v. 343.

Necklaces of amber, vi. 401.

Necron, Isle of, vi. 395.

Nectarites, iii. 259.

Negropont, i. 316.

Nemausum, i. 179, 180.

Nemea, i. 287.

Nemean Games, iv. 192.

Nemesis, i. 290; vi. 310 —seat of, iii. 88.

Nenuphar, v. 107.

Neoptolemus of Paros, iii. 100.

Nep, iv. 261, 262.

Nepos, Cornelius, i. 147.

Nereïds, ii. 363, 364.

Neritus, i. 311.

Nero, the Emperor, i. 279, 288; ii. 26, 99, 149; iii. 92, 137; iv. 15, 428; v. 358; vi. 109, 167, 175, 183, 185, 216, 246, 261, 393, 402, 403, 409 —his birth, ii. 143 —his sight, iii. 51 —his use of thapsia, 206 —his study of magic, v. 428.

Nero, Tiberius, his rapid journey, ii. 162.

“Nervus,” the term, ii. 160; iii. 77.

Nervii, i. 354.

Nepenthes, iv. 377; v. 81.

Nests of birds, ii. 513, 514, 515.

Nettle, iv. 351, 352, 402, 403, 404 —eaten, 352.

Neuras, v. 128, 129, 262.

Neuroïdes, iv. 233.

Neurospastos, v. 49.

New birds, the, ii. 529.

New Carthage, i. 157, 163, 170.

Niam Niams, the, a people with tails, ii. 134.

Nicæa, i. 184, 493.

Nicæus, the wrestler, ii. 145, 146.

Nicander, ii. 357.

Nice, i. 184.

Nicephorion, ii. 71.

Niceratus (artist), vi. 183, 186.

Niceratus (writer), v. 523.

Niceros, vi. 268.

Nicias (artist), vi. 275, 276.

Nicias (general), i. 38.

Nicias (writer), vi. 467.

Nicknames, ii. 147.

Nicobulus, iii. 157.

Nicolaüs of Damascus, iii. 176.

Nicomachus, vi. 245, 267, 268.

Nicomedes, King, ii. 313.

Nicomedia, i. 494.

Nicophanes, vi. 268, 297.

Nicopolis, i. 274; ii. 19.

Niger, Sextus, iii. 156.

Niger, Trebius, ii. 355.

Niger, river, i. 382.

Night-hawk, ii. 488, 539.

Nightingale, ii. 509, 510 —white, ii. 510.

Nightmare, ii. 316; v. 89, 256, 449.

Nightshade, iv. 384, 385, 386; v. 266.

Nigidius Figulus, ii. 114 —quoted, 152.

Nigris, i. 395, 404; ii. 281.

Nigritæ, i. 404.

Nile, alluvion of the, i. 117; iii. 186; v. 81 —description of, i. 410 —promoter of fertility, ii. 135, 136 —mice of the, 472 —water of, like glue, iii. 189.

Nilion, vi. 429.

Nilometer, i. 414.

Nineveh, ii. 27, 70.

Ninguaria, ii. 108.

Ninus, the city, ii. 27, 70.

Niobe, the fountain, i. 284.

Niobe and her children, the group of, vi. 315.

Nipparene, vi. 454.

Nipples, only in man the male has them, iii. 82.

Nismes, i. 179, 180.

Nisus (bird), ii. 551.

Nisyros, i. 484, 485.

Nitre, iv. 164.

Nitrum, v. 512-519.

No, i. 416, 418.

Noctua, ii. 492.

Noir antique, vi. 325.

Nola, i. 198.

Nomades, i. 335, 387; ii. 83, 90, 134.

Nomenclator, vi. 81.

Nomentum, i. 233 —vines of, iii. 223.

Nomes of Egypt, i. 407.

Nonacris, i. 287.

Nonius Struma, vi. 416.

Norici, i. 262.

Northern regions of Europe described, i. 339.

Nostrils, the, iii. 55, 56 —exponents of ridicule, 55 —discharges of blood from, 79 —remedies for diseases of, v. 145, 150.

Notia, v. 71; vi. 454.

Novara, i. 247.

Novaria, i. 247.

Nulo, Mount, ii. 130.

Numa, Pompilius, i. 84, 233; iv. 4; vi. 10 —his books discovered, iii. 191, 192 —his law on wine, 252.

Numantia, i. 171; vi. 132.

Numenius, ii. 86.

Numidia, described, i. 387 —the marble of, vi. 325.

Numidicæ, ii. 528.

Nundinæ, iv. 6, 7; v. 285.

Nurseries for plants, iii. 464-467.

Nus, the river, v. 477.

Nut, the several varieties of, iii. 315-319.

Nut-galls, iii. 350.

Nutriment, iii. 97.

Nyctalopy, ii. 341; iv. 335; v. 336, 337.

Nyctegreton, iv. 335.

Nyma, v. 256.

Nymphæ, iii. 17.

Nymphæa, v. 107.

Nymphæa heraclia, v. 132.

Nymphæa nelumbo, iv. 45.

Nymphæa pteris, v. 245, 246.

Nymphæum, i. 142, 261.

Nymphæus, i. 295.

Nymphodorus, i. 270.

Nysa, ii. 50.

O.

Oak, i. 285; iii. 341, 342.

Oar, invention of the, ii. 235.

Oäsites, i. 409.

Oats, iv. 54, 55, 56, 446, 455.

Obelisks, iii. 419; vi. 331-334 —at Rome, vi. 333, 334, 335.

Obliquity of the zones, i. 102.

Obsian glass, vi. 381.

Obsian stone, vi. 381, 382, 455, 463.

Obsidian, vi. 381, 382, 455, 463.

Occhus, iii. 115.

Oce, iii. 90.

Ocean, surrounding the earth, i. 98, 99, 100.

Ocelis, ii. 64.

Ochra, vi. 237.

Ochre, vi. 235, 236, 363 —red, 120 —yellow, 140, 141.

Ocimoïdes, v. 55, 56.

Ocimum, iv. 191, 249, 250, 356 —cursed when sown, 178.

Ocinum, iii. 511; iv. 52, 53.

Ocriculum, i. 191, 239.

Ocrisia, vi. 384.

Octavius, Cneius, vi. 158, 159.

Oculata, vi. 63.

Oculus, iii. 496.

Odd numbers, v. 287.

Odinolytes, vi. 4.

Odontitis, v. 257.

Odours, the nature of, iv. 321, 322, 323.

Odrysæ, i. 303.

Œa, i. 393, 401.

Œnanthe, ii. 511, 512; iii. 155, 161; iv. 380, 460 —oil of, iv. 488, 489.

Œnanthinum, iii. 255, 289.

Œneus, i. 275.

Œnophorus, vi. 177.

Œnopides, iv. 128.

Œsophagus, iii. 64.

Œsypum, iii. 133; v. 383, 384, 385.

Œtum, iv. 349.

Ogygia, i. 223.

Oica, vi. 454.

Oil, first use of, ii. 226 —of œnanthe, iv. 488, 489 —of almonds, 490 —of laurel, 490, 491 —of chamæmyrsine, 491 —of cypress, 491 —of citrus, 491 —of walnuts, 491 —of Cnidium, 491 —of mastich, 491 —of balanus, 492 —of cyprus, 492 —of balsamum, 492, 493 —of henbane, 493 —of lupines, 493 —of narcissus, 493 —of radishes, 493, 494 —of sesame, 494 —of lilies, 494 —of Selga, 494 —of Iguvium, 394 —of pitch, 494. _And see_ Olive oil.

Oils, artificial, iii. 162, 163, 286-291; iv. 488-494.

Oleander, v. 37.

Oleaster, iii. 285, 287.

Olenum, i. 280.

Oleron, i. 360.

Oliaros, i. 319.

Olisipo, i. 364, 365; vi. 422.

Olive, Indian, iii. 111 —of Arabia, 135 —omphacium made from, 154 —the history of, 277 —its introduction into Europe, 277 —its growth, 277, 278 —its nature, 278 —varieties of it, 278-284 —victors crowned with its leaves, 284, 285 —culture and preservation of, 285, 286 —wild, 418, 419 —aged trees of, 430, 431 —culture of, 486, 487, 488 —leaves of, iv. 484 —blossom of, 484, 485.

Olive oil, iii. 278, 279 —where produced, 279, 280 —its qualities, 280, 281 —nature of, 284 —making of, 286. —remedies derived from, iv. 488.

Olives, white, iv. 485 —black, 486.

Ollar stone, vi. 368.

Ololygones, iii. 62.

Olusatrum, iv. 193, 194, 248.

Olympia, i. 281 —Games at, ii. 232; v. 408, 493.

Olympiads, i. 281.

Olympias of Thebes, iv. 303.

Olympias, wind, iii. 523.

Olympicus, vi. 468.

Olympiodorus, iii. 157.

Olympus, i. 295, 489.

Olynthos, i. 304.

Olyra, iv. 441.

Olyros, i. 280.

Omani, ii. 83.

Ombre (fish), ii. 393.

Ombria, vi. 454.

Omens, iii. 94, 313, 336 —from poultry, 479 —from birds, 509 —from bees, iii. 19 —evil, 68 —fortunate, 70 —from trees, 395. _Also see_ “Portents.”

Omentum, iii. 73.

Omphacium, iii. 153, 154, 255, 459, 460, 488.

Omphalocarpos, v. 227, 228.

On, i. 418.

Onager, ii. 324; v. 332, 351.

Onear, v. 196.

Onesicritus, i. 150; ii. 60.

Onions, iv. 168, 169, 171, 173, 176, 222.

Onitis, iv. 268.

Onobrychis, v. 62.

Onochilis, iv. 356.

Onochilon, iv. 410, 411.

Onoclia, v. 238.

Onopordon, v. 258.

Onopyxos, iv. 353.

Onosma, v. 257.

Onotheres, v. 196.

Onyches (fish), ii. 428, 475.

Onyx, vi. 329, 419, 420, 431.

Oönæ, i. 342.

Opal, vi. 415, 416, 417, 436, 437.

Ophicardelon, vi. 455.

Ophiogenes, ii. 125; v. 237.

Ophion, v. 329.

Ophir, vi. 380.

Ophites, vi. 327, 367.

Ophiusa, v. 65.

Ophrys, v. 214, 215.

Ophthalmic preparations, iv. 208; vi. 367.

Opici, v. 376.

Opilius, Aurelius, v. 368.

Opimian wine, ii. 237; iii. 254.

Opium, iv. 230, 231, 275, 276, 277.

Opobalsamum, iii. 149.

Opocarpathon, v. 332; vi. 25, 40.

Opopanax, iii. 152.

Oporice, v. 52.

Oppius, C., iii. 99.

Opuntia, iv. 358.

Opus, i. 292.

Orach, iv. 419, 420.

Orage, iv. 282, 283; v. 241.

Orange (town), i. 178.

Orata, Sergius, ii. 468.

Oratis, ii. 67.

Orbis (fish), vi. 7, 9, 24.

Orca, ii. 365, 366.

Orcades, i. 351.

Orchis, v. 189, 190, 240.

Orchomenus, i. 286, 294 —seed of, iii. 405, 406, 407.

Orcus, i. 296.

Oreoselinon, iv. 180, 248.

Orestes, his body found, of gigantic size, ii. 156.

Origanum, iv. 266, 268; v. 90 —Heracleotic, iv. 266-270.

Orion, ii. 156.

Orios, v. 259, 260.

Oritæ, ii. 134.

Oritis, vi. 454.

Ornithogale, iv. 357, 358.

Orobanche, iv. 455.

Orobethron, v. 172.

Orobia, iii. 128.

Orobus, iv. 51.

Orodes, ii. 31.

Orontes, i. 437, 438.

Oropus, i. 290.

Orpheus, i. 303, 305; iv. 301; v. 423.

Orphus, ii. 395.

Orpiment, vi. 104, 105, 220.

Orpine, v. 67.

Orthagoriscos, vi. 9, 24.

Ortolan, ii. 504.

Ortospanum, ii. 41.

Ortygia, i. 319.

Ortygometra, ii. 504.

Oruros, ii. 72.

Oryges, ii. 346.

Oryx, i. 67; iii. 89, 90 —its body a preventive of thirst, ii. 550.

Oscines, ii. 495.

Osiris, i. 417.

Osiritis, v. 429.

Ossa, i. 295.

Osseous stones, vi. 358.

Ossifrage, ii. 487.

Ossuna, i. 161.

Osthanes, v. 277, 365, 366, 424, 425.

Ostia, i. 192 —construction of the harbour at, ii. 366; iii. 420; vi. 333.

Ostraceum, vi. 55.

Ostracias, vi. 455.

Ostracites, vi. 360.

Ostracitis, vi. 444, 455.

Ostrich, ii. 478, 479.

Ostrys, iii. 202, 203.

Osyris, v. 258.

Otho, M., iii. 167.

Othoninum, iv. 135.

Othonna, v. 257.

Otis, ii. 500.

Otranto, i. 226.

Otter, vi. 35.

Otus, ii. 156, 504.

Outline painting, vi. 229.

Ovations, myrtle used in, iii. 331, 332.

Ovid, his birth-place, i. 231 —his place of banishment, 306 —his “Halieuticon,” ii. 391—vi. 6, 65 —probably mistranslated by Pliny, iii. 352 —mentioned, iv. 126 —his works quoted, =i.= 4, 19, 26, 38, 43, 44, 82, 84, 100, 119, 131, 135, 199, 214, 219, 232, 234, 243, 258, 265, 306, 472, 493; =ii.= 90, 106, 338, 409, 545; =iii.= 44, 82, 133, 332, 385, 424, 529, 535; =iv.= 44, 84, 99, 197, 293, 337, 346, 426; =v.= 41, 283, 397, 434, 474, 476, 477; =vi.= 6, 7, 65, 66, 68, 173, 187, 206, 260, 264, 277, 315, 318, 345, 397.

Oviedo, i. 172.

Oviparous animals, ii. 532.

Ovum anguinum, v. 389.

Owl, horned, ii. 492.

Owlet, ii. 492, 494.

Oxalis, iv. 287.

Oxen, the generation of, ii. 326, 327 —of the best quality, 327 —peculiarities in, 329 —not killed by the ancients, 328 —with powers of speech, 330 —fed on fish, iii. 98.

Oxus, ii. 32.

Oxycedrus, iii. 178.

Oxygala, v. 323, 324.

Oxylapathum, iv. 287.

Oxymeli, iii. 261; iv. 481.

Oxymyrsine, iv. 521; v. 143.

Oxys, v. 268.

Oxyschœnos, iv. 361.

Oyster-beds, i. 196 —artificial, ii. 467, 468.

Oyster-bread, iv. 39.

Oysters, ii. 458, 463, 464, 468, 469; vi. 25-28 —of neither sex, ii. 546 —have no hearing, 547 —have sense of touch, 548 —when wholesome to eat, vi. 26 —of gigantic size, vi. 27, 28.

Ozæna, ii. 420.

Ozænitis, iii. 120.

Ozolæ, i. 276.

P.

Pachynum, i. 217, 218.

Pactolus, i. 465.

Pacuvius, vi. 230.

Padua, i. 252.

Padus, i. 243, 246.

Padusa, i. 244.

Pæanitis, vi. 456.

Pædagogus, vi. 88.

Pæderos (plant), iv. 421.

Pæderos (stones so called), vi. 417, 433, 436.

Pænula, ii. 333.

Pæonia, v. 88, 89, 248, 249.

Pæstum, i. 208.

“Pætus,” origin of the name, iii. 53.

Pagæ, i. 278, 288.

Pagasa, Gulf of, i. 324.

“Page,” origin of the English word, vi. 88.

Pagur, ii. 425; vi. 48.

Pain, endurance of, ii. 164 —intensity of, v. 86, 87.

Painters, journeymen, thefts by, vi. 122, 123 —celebrated, 246-268.

Painting, the art of, ii. 184; vi. 223, 224, 228, 229, 230, 231, 232, 234, 235, 245, 246-282 —invention of, ii. 236 —use of chrysocolla in, vi. 108, 109 —cinnabaris used in, vi. 121, 122, 123.

Pala, iii. 110.

Palæmon, Rhemmius, his successful culture of the vine, ii. 235, 236.

Palæogoni, ii. 51.

Palæphatus, v. 420.

Palæsimundus, ii. 53.

Palæstina, i. 425.

Palamedes, ii. 229.

Palantium, i. 286.

Palatium, i. 286.

Palencia, i. 171.

Paleness, how produced, v. 328.

Palibothra, ii. 42, 43, 45.

Palimpissa, v. 18.

Palinurum, i. 208.

Palinurus, i. 208.

Paliurus, iii. 200, 381; v. 46.

Palladium, rescue of the, ii. 192.

Palladius quoted, iv. 303.

Pallene, i. 300.

Pallium, vi. 275.

Palm, iii. 169-174, 200, 460; iv. 494, 495 —leaves of, iii. 377 —used for writing, 186 —wine from the, 257.

Palm (a measure), vi. 290.

Palm-stones, vi. 358.

Palma, i. 211, 235.

Palmensian wines, iii. 242.

Palmyra, i. 445.

Paludamentum, iv. 390.

Palus Mæotis, i. 98, 99, 326; ii. 1, 2, 14.

Pampeluna, i. 169.

Pamphagi, ii. 104.

Pamphile, iii. 26.

Pamphilus, the actor, ii. 147.

Pamphilus, the artist, vi. 255, 273.

Pamphylia described, i. 452.

Panaces, asclepion, v. 89 —heracleon, 90, 94 —chironion, 90 —centaurion or pharnacion, v. 90, 91 —siderion, 91.

Panænus, vi. 247, 248, 374.

Panætius, i. 498.

Panathenaicon, iii. 161.

Panax, iii. 152; iv. 203, 265.

Pancaste, vi. 259.

Panchrestos, iv. 509, 510, 511.

Panchrus, vi. 455.

Panchrysos, ii. 94.

Pancration, iv. 234.

Pancratium (plant), v. 261, 262.

Pandæ, ii. 48.

Pandion, King, ii. 65.

Pandore, ii. 133.

Panels for painting, iii. 414.

Paneros, vi. 455.

Pangæum, i. 302, 303.

Pangonus, vi. 455.

Panhormus, i. 218.

Panic (grain), iv. 21, 38, 444.

Panormus, i. 280.

Panorpis, iii. 30, 35.

Panotii, i. 343.

Pantellaria, i. 403.

Panthera, or leopard, its gratitude, ii. 272, 273 —description of, 274 —singular antidote used by, 293 —remedies derived from, v. 219.

Pantherinæ, iii. 196.

Panticapæum, i. 327, 334.

Panticapes, i. 332.

Papaverata, ii. 337.

Paper, the discovery of it, iii. 185, 186 —how made, 186, 187 —various kinds of, 186-190 —qualities of, 189, 190 —defects in, 190, 191 —scarcity of, 193 —remedies derived from, v. 37.

Paphlagonia described, ii. 3.

Papirius, L., ii. 140 —his vow, iii. 253.

Pappus, iii. 204; iv. 354; v. 146, 147.

Paps of animals, iii. 82, 83.

Papyrus, iii. 185-189, 193; v. 36. _Also, see_ “Paper.”

Parabeste, ii. 57.

Parætonium (place), i. 397.

Parætonium (a plaster), vi. 238.

Paralion, iv. 279, 280.

Paralios, v. 179.

Parallels, division of the earth into, ii. 110.

Paralysis, remedies for, v. 450.

Parapanisus, the river, i. 341.

Parapotamia, iii. 155.

Parasitical insects, ii. 459; iii. 40.

Parasitical plants, iii. 207, 206, 433, 434; iv. 199.

Parchment, invention of, iii. 186.

Pard, ii. 265, 272, 274, 250.

Pardalianches, ii. 293; v. 218-222.

Pardalion, v. 252.

Pardalios, vi. 460.

Pardalium, iii. 161.

Pardon of the gods, how asked, iii. 88.

Parentalia, iv. 44.

Pargetting, vi. 374.

Parian Chronicle, i. 319.

Parian marble, vi. 309.

Parietary, iv. 357.

Parilia, iv. 159.

Parisii, i. 356.

Parks for wild animals, ii. 345.

Parma, i. 183, 242.

Parmenio, i. 473.

Parmeniscus, iv. 127.

Parnassus, i. 277.

Paropanisus, the mountains of, ii. 33, 46.

Paros, i. 319.

Parra, ii. 512; iv. 101.

Parrhasia, i. 286.

Parrhasius, vi. 251-254.

Parrot, ii. 522, 523 —has the hardest head, iii. 47.

Parrot-seed, iv. 350.

Parsley, iv. 192, 246, 247.

Parsnip, iv. 165, 166, 218, 219, 222; v. 124.

Parthenion, v. 92, 93, 94.

Parthenis, v. 106.

Parthenium, iv. 383, 406, 407.

Parthenope, i. 197.

Parthia, described, ii. 68 —the waters of, v. 484.

Parthians, their cookery, ii. 531; iii. 107 —eat grasshoppers, 32 —eat locusts, 37 —their tainted breath, 97 —their drunkenness, 274 —the Roman expedition against, 313 —their delicate bread, iv. 40.

Partridge, i. 323; ii. 516, 517; iv. 357, 406, 417 —of Paphlagonia has a double heart, iii. 65.

Parturition, methods of facilitating, v. 463, 464.

Pasines, ii. 81.

Pasiteles, vi. 137, 145, 285, 319, 321.

Passagarda, ii. 70.

Passernices, vi. 370.

Paste used for making paper, iii. 191; iv. 443.

Pastern bones, iii. 90.

Pastinaca (fish), ii. 408, 411, 452, 460; vi. 24, 25 —venomous, 12.

Pastinaca erratica (plant), v. 124. _Also, see_ “Parsnip.”

Patala, ii. 51.

Patale, i. 108; iii. 119.

Patara, i. 456.

Patavium, i. 252.

Patetæ, iii. 176.

Patmos, i. 321.

Patna, ii. 43, 45.

Patræ, i. 279.

Patras, i. 279.

Patrobius, vi. 289.

Patrocles the geographer, ii. 39, 115.

Patroclus (artist), vi. 169.

Paul, Saint, i. 201, 267, 297, 300, 304, 447, 456, 457, 491, 492.

Paulinus, Pompeius, vi. 133.

Paulus, L. Æmilius, i. 302; vi. 171, 277, 346.

Pausanias quoted, i. 215, 278.

Pausias, iv. 305; vi. 273, 274.

Pausilypum, i. 214; ii. 467.

Pavements, vi. 376-379.

Paxos, i. 310.

Peaches, iii. 293, 294, 296; iv. 508 —of Persia, poisonous, iii. 296 —Pliny’s singular notions as to, iv. 508.

Peacock, ii. 495, 496 —its vanity, 495 —fattened for food, 496 —remedies derived from, v. 413.

Peahen, ii. 538.

“Pearl,” alleged origin of the word, vi. 66.

Pearl oyster, ii. 481, 432, 436, 437.

Pearls, ii. 430-436 —when first used at Rome, 440 —of Britain, 437 —costliness of, 437, 438, 439.

Pears, iii. 300-303 —remedies derived from, iv. 502.

Pease, iv. 46.

Pebbles, white and black, ii. 187.

Pectines, ii. 428.

Pectoral, iv. 291.

Pectunculus, vi. 64.

“Pecunia,” origin of the word, iv. 5; vi. 89.

Pedius, his supreme happiness, ii. 199.

Pedius, Q., vi. 231.

Pegasi (beasts), ii. 279.

Pegasi (birds), ii. 530.

Pegasus, i. 291.

Pegma, vi. 94.

Pelamides, ii. 385.

Pelagiæ, ii. 444.

Pelasgi, i. 187.

Pelecinon, v. 262.

Pelican, ii. 527, 528.

Peligni, i. 231.

Pelion, i. 295.

Pella, i. 298; v. 491; vi. 264.

Pellitory, iv. 357.

Peloponnesus described, i. 278.

Pelops, his rib, v. 288.

Pelops, the writer, v. 523.

Pelorides, vi. 41.

Pelorus, i. 209, 217, 219.

Pelusium, i. 420.

Peneus, i. 295, 296.

Penicilli, v. 520.

Penicillus, vi. 250.

Pennyroyal, iv. 259, 260, 261.

Pentapetes, v. 122, 123.

Pentadactyli, vi. 62.

Pentaphyllon, v. 122, 123.

Pentapolis, i. 395.

Pentelicus, i. 289.

Pentorobus, v. 88, 89, 248, 249.

Peony, v. 88, 89, 248, 249.

Peparethos, wine of, iii. 247.

Peplis, iv. 280, 281; v. 261.

Pepones, iv. 157, 211.

Pepper-tree, iii. 111, 112, 113, 396.

Pepperwort, iv. 203, 269, 270.

Peræa, i. 427.

Peraticum, iii. 116.

Perch, ii. 395.

Percnos, ii. 482.

Perdicium, iv. 357, 383, 406, 407.

Perekop, Gulf of, i. 332.

Perfumes, burnt at funerals, iii. 137 —extravagance in, 137 —a description of, 160-165 —mixed with oil, 166.

Perga, i. 452.

Pergamum, i. 478.

Pergula, iv. 307.

Periander, i. 498.

Periboëtos, vi. 177.

Pericarpum, v. 131, 132.

Pericles, vi. 179 —adventure of his slave, iv. 407.

Periclymenos, v. 261, 262; vi. 188.

Perileucos, vi. 456.

Perillus, vi. 168, 187.

Perimula, ii. 47, 431.

Periphoretos, vi. 172.

Peristereon, v. 121, 122.

Peristereos, v. 130.

Periwinkle (plant), iv. 339, 382; v. 57.

Periwinkles (fish), ii. 427, 428, 470 —gigantic, 470.

Perna (fish), vi. 66.

Perorsi, i. 404.

Perpressa, iv. 368, 369; v. 186.

Perperene, i. 474; v. 482.

Perrhæbi, i. 271, 275.

Persea, iii. 296.

Persepolis, ii. 69.

Perseus, King, i. 299, 302.

Persia, trees of, iii. 117.

Persian Gulf, ii. 66 —trees of, iii. 117.

Persian tree, iii. 182.

Persians, their use of perfumes, iii. 136.

Persica, iii. 296.

Persicon napy, v. 268, 269.

Persis, the province of, ii. 68.

Persolata, v. 124.

Personata, iii. 348.

Pertinax Helvius, i. 186.

Perugia, i. 190.

Perusia, i. 190.

Pescara, i. 231.

Pesoluta, iv. 386.

Pessinus, i. 492.

Petasus, vi. 342.

Petauristæ, iii. 40.

Peter, Saint, i. 426.

Petilium, iv. 328.

Petorita, vi. 215.

Petosiris, i. 148.

Petrichus, iv. 205.

Petrifactions, v. 482; vi. 438, 461.

Petritan wine, iii. 246.

Petroleum, i. 138; v. 478.

Petronius, P., ii. 99.

Petronius, T., vi. 393.

Petroselinum, iv. 248.

Peucedanum, v. 126.

Peucestes, vi. 176.

Peucini, i. 348.

Pezenas, i. 180.

Pezica, iv. 144.

Phædrus quoted, ii. 315; iii. 102; iv. 13.

Phaëthon, i. 243; vi. 397.

Phagrus, ii. 393; vi. 48.

Phalacrocorax, ii. 529.

Phalangion (plant), v. 263.

Phalangitis, v. 263.

Phalangium (insect), ii. 353; iii. 29; v. 400.

Phalaris, v. 264; vi. 187 —the first tyrant, ii. 227.

Phaleræ, ii. 170; vi. 77.

Phalerides, ii. 528.

Phalerum, i. 289.

Phallovitroboli, vi. 70.

Phanagoria, ii. 14.

Phanias, iv. 388.

Phaon, i. 274; iv. 398.

Pharanitis, vi. 433.

Pharnaces, ii. 128; v. 90.

Pharos, i. 479; vi. 339.

Pharsalia, i. 294, 295; v. 159.

Pharusii, i. 406.

Pharynx, iii. 62.

Phaselis, oil of, iv. 494.

Phasganion, v. 134, 135.

Phasiolon, v. 251, 252.

Phasis, ii. 10.

Phaulias, iii. 433.

Phausia, v. 482.

Phazania, i. 398.

Pheasant, ii. 528.

Phellandrion, v. 264.

Phellos, i. 456.

Phellusa, i. 488.

Phemonoë, ii. 554.

Pheneus, i. 287.

Phengites, vi. 369, 370.

Pheos, iv. 401.

Pheræ, i. 280, 283, 294.

Pherecydes, i. 112; ii. 209.

Phiala, i. 413; ii. 331.

Phidias, ii. 185; vi. 168, 170, 171, 247, 310, 311.

Philadelphus, Ptolemæus, ii. 92, 93, 94.

Philæ, i. 415.

Philæni, i. 393.

Philanthes, iv. 356.

Philanthropos, v. 71, 227, 228.

Philemon (geographer), i. 373.

Philemon (poet), ii. 555.

Philetæria, v. 102, 103.

Philinus, iv. 303.

Philip, King, i. 300, 304; his wound, ii. 183.

Philippi, i. 304.

Philippopolis, i. 303.

Philippus of Medma, iv. 127.

Philiscus, vi. 319.

Philistides Mallotes, i. 372.

Philistina, i. 245.

Philistion, iv. 302.

Philistus, ii. 356; iii. 100.

Philochares, vi. 229.

Philocles, vi. 229.

Philon, ii. 184; vi. 188.

Philonides, i. 373.

Philostephanus, ii. 242.

Philoxenus (artist), vi. 268.

Philoxenus (poet), vi. 467.

Philtres, ii. 321; iv. 219. _Also, see_ “Magic.”

Philyra, iv. 306; v. 2.

Philyræ, iii. 366.

Phlegra, i. 300.

Phlegræan Plains, i. 197.

Phlius, i. 280, 281.

Phloginos, vi. 455.

Phlogitis, vi. 460.

Phlomis, v. 127, 128.

Phlomos, v. 127.

Phlox, iv. 333, 334, 336.

Phocæ, ii. 369.

Phocis described, i. 276.

Phœnice (country) described, i. 433.

Phœnice (barley), iv. 445, 446.

Phœnicitis, vi. 456, 459.

Phœnicobalanus, iii. 143; iv. 495.

Phœnicopterus, ii. 528.

Phœnicurus, ii. 511.

Phœnix, ii. 479, 480, 481; iii. 43.

Pholöe, i. 287.

Phonolite, vi. 446.

Phorinean wine, iii. 248.

Phradmon, vi. 168.

Phrenion, iv. 379.

Phrenitis, remedies for, v. 198, 452, 453.

Phryganea, iii. 42.

Phryganion, v. 455.

Phrygia described, i. 490.

Phrygian stone, vi. 362.

Phryne, vi. 178, 259, 312.

Phrynion, v. 128, 129, 262.

Phthia, i. 294.

Phthiotis, i. 294.

Phthiriasis, ii. 191, 209; iv. 227; v. 206, 468 —internal, iv. 165.

Phthirophagi, ii. 11.

Phthisis, remedies for, v. 355, 356.

Phu, iii. 121; iv. 370.

Phycis, ii. 414.

Phycitis, vi. 456.

Phycos, iii. 209, 210.

Phycos thalassion, v. 193.

Phylace, i. 297.

Phylarchus, ii. 241.

Phyllis, iii. 385, 386.

Phyllon, v. 263.

Phyllos, iv. 405.

Physalus, ii. 454.

Physema, ii. 432.

Physeter, ii. 361.

Physicians, an account of, v. 372-376 —their ignorance, v. 377, 378, 380; vi. 120, 121, 194, 195 —their avarice, v. 379 —their cruelty, v. 381.

Physiognomists, vi. 260.

Physiognomy, observations upon, iii. 96.

Physis, vi. 462.

Phyteuma, v. 263.

Piacenza, i. 242.

Picarel, vi. 45.

Picatum, iii. 238; iv. 476; vi. 371.

Picenum, i. 235.

Picris, iv. 359, 417.

“Pictor,” the surname, vi. 230.

Pictures, high prices of, ii. 184.

Picus, ii. 495.

Pie, ii. 515, 522, 523.

Pieria, i. 294.

Pig. _See_ “Swine.”

Pigeons, an account of, ii. 517-520 —messages by, 519 —high prices of, 520.

Pigments, vi. 235.

Pileus, vi. 267.

Pilgrims to Saint Jago, ii. 428.

Pimpernel, v. 137.

Pina, ii. 436.

Pinaster, ii. 292, 356.

Pindar, his name honoured by Alexander, ii. 174 —his writings quoted, i. 297.

Pindus, i. 273, 293, 295.

Pine, i. 246; iii. 355, 356.

Pine-nuts, iii. 292; iv. 512.

Pinites succinifer, vi. 397, 401.

Pinna, ii. 450.

Pinnotheres, ii. 426, 451.

Pinus cedrus, iii. 178.

Piombino, i. 187.

Pip (in poultry), ii. 537; v. 32, 41.

Piperitis, iv. 203, 267, 268.

Piræicus, vi. 268.

Piræus, i. 289.

Pirates, ii. 97.

Pisa, i. 287.

Pisæ, i. 287.

Pisaurum, i. 238.

Piscenæ, i. 180.

Pisces, the Constellation, ii. 407.

Pisciculus, Junius, vi. 321.

Pisidia described, i. 451.

Piso, L., i. 147; iii. 67, 273, 276.

Pissasphaltos, iii. 364; v. 18, 19.

Pisselæon, iii. 288; v. 18; vi. 297.

Pissinum, iii. 290; iv. 494.

Pissoceros, iii. 6.

Pistacia, iii. 178.

Pistachio-nuts, iii. 317; iv. 515.

Pistoia, i. 190.

Pistorium, i. 190.

Pistrix, ii. 361.

Pitane, i. 473.

Pitch, iii. 264-267, 361, 362 —remedies derived from, v. 17.

Pitch-oil, iii. 290. _Also, see_ “Pisselæon.”

Pitch-tree, iii. 356, 357; v. 13.

Pitched wines, iii. 238; iv. 476; vi. 371.

Pithecusa, i. 214.

Pituita, ii. 537.

Pityocampæ, v. 404.

Pityus, ii. 12.

Pityusa, i. 312; v. 14, 15.

Pityussæ, i. 211.

Placentia, i. 242.

Plague, its course, ii. 208.

Plaice, ii. 407.

Plaids, probable allusion to, ii. 338.

Planaria, i. 213.

“Plancus,” origin of the name, iii. 89.

Plancus, i. 10; ii. 147, 440.

Plane-tree, iii. 103-106 —aged, 431 —remedies derived from, v. 20, 21.

Planets, i. 19, 20, 27-31, 40, 41, 42, 48, 49 —their influence on human life, ii. 204.

Plangus, ii. 482.

Plant of Fulvius, v. 187.

Plantago, v. 109, 129, 130.

Plants, wines made from, =iii.= 257, 258 —propagated by seed, 460, 461 —propagation of, 461-487 —prognostics derived from, =iv.= 125 —growth of, 155, 156 —roots of, 170 —blossoms of, 170, 171 —growth of, 177, 178 —of which there is but one kind, 179 —sown at the autumnal equinox, 197 —garden, maladies of, 199, 200 —for bees, 339, 340 —stems of, 355, 356 —leaves of, 356 —eared, 357 —properties of, 389 —for colouring the body, 389, 390 —for dyeing, 90, 391 —that grow on the head of a statue, =v.= 68, 69 —on the banks of a river, 69 —in a sieve, 69 —upon a dunghill, 69 —moistened with the urine of a dog, 69 —wild, 77, 78, 79 —delineated in colours, 80 —authors who have written upon, 80, 81, 82 —medicinal properties of, 83, 84, 85 —enquiries of the ancients into, 217, 218 —ages of, 270 —how their efficacy may be ensured, 271.

Plastæ, vi. 284.

Plaster of Paris, vi. 330.

Plastering, vi. 374.

Plastice, vi. 163.

Platanista, ii. 384.

Platæ, i. 291.

Platea, ii. 522.

Plating, vi. 215.

Plato, i. 148; ii. 174; iv. 436 —his works quoted, i. 120; vi. 174.

Platyceros, iii. 44.

Platyophthalmon, vi. 115.

Platyphyllos, v. 188.

Plautus, mentioned, iii. 275 —quoted, i. 261, 396; iv. 40, 107, 145, 150, 346; v. 391, 485.

Plinthia, Fountain of, v. 480.

PLINY, addresses Titus Vespasianus, =i.= 1-11 —states the object of his work, 5, 6 —the sources whence derived, 6, 7 —alludes to his Roman History, 6, 7 —inveighs against plagiarism, 7, 8 —against empty titles of books, 8 —states the general design of his work, 9 —his work on Grammar, 9 —his contempt for his slanderers, 10, 11 —his opinions on the Deity, 20-25 —does not believe in a superintending Providence, 22, 23 —inveighs against superstition and infidelity, 23 —against human pride, 24 —considers Nature identical with God, 25 —laments the perverseness of mankind, 93 —enlarges in praise of Italy, 181 —guilty of adulation, 181 —his death noticed, 197 —censures others for credulity, 376 —inveighs against falsehood, 381 —proofs of his own credulity, 405, 406 —exclaims against luxury, =ii.= 55 —a probable lapse of memory by, 80 —his gloomy views of human life, 118, 119 —his credulity, 121 —possible error by, 127 —his credulity, 132 —his visit to Africa alluded to, 138 —repines at the frail tenure of life, 141 —his metaphorical style, 142 —his superstition, 151, 152, 155 —his opinion on the final conflagration of the world, 156 —his hatred of war, 166 —his desponding views on human happiness, 187 —repines at the frailty of, 207 —thinks a short life desirable, 207 —considers sudden death a blessing, 213 —his singular notion as to a happy death, 216 —denies the immortality of the soul, 218 —censures the credulity of the Greeks, 283, 284 —a mistake made by, 318 —his work on the use of the javelin, 320 —exclaims against luxury, 438, 439 —errors committed by, 488; =iii.= 104 —exclaims against extravagance in perfumes, 137 —a mistake made by, 155 —inveighs against luxury, 167, 168 —his ignorance of vegetable physiology, 197 —errors committed by, 203, 205 —exclaims against avarice and disregard of knowledge, 216, 217 —against drunkenness, 270-274 —refers to his visit to the Chauci, 339 —a mistake probably committed by, 352 —errors committed by, 359, 365, 374 —a mistake probably made by, 387 —errors committed by, 390, 392 —error in transcribing, 441 —takes a more cheerful view of things, =iv.= 3 —commends old times, 8, 9 —misquotes Columella, 27 —error committed by, and his probably imperfect knowledge of Greek, 56, 57 —his ambiguous language, 99 —accidental omission by, 114 —contemplates a work, probably, which he did not write, 150 —inveighs against luxury, 150, 151 —against gluttony, 152 —mistakes made by, 163, 179, 180 —contradicts himself, 206, 207 —mistakes probably made by, 216, 266 —two errors committed by, 279 —contradicts himself, 321 —mistake made by, 323 —errors probably committed by, 334, 338 —a lapse of memory by, 361 —exclaims against profligacy, 390 —against luxury and effeminacy, 395 —against the derision of his enemies, 395 —mistakes probably made by, 397, 399, 406 —error committed by, 410 —mistakes probably made by, 413, 422, 460 —errors committed by, 464, 492 —mistake probably made by, 495 —his singular notion as to peaches, 508 —error probably committed by, 508 —his credulity, 520 —commends the ancient manners, =v.= 3 —errors probably committed by, 3, 4, 23 —instances of his credulity, 64-67 —repines at the general indifference to knowledge, 77, 78 —refuses to credit some marvels, 82 —inveighs against magic, 87 —a possible lapse of memory by, 100 —mistake made by, 104 —mistake probably made by, 106 —absurd error committed by, 111 —singular mistake made by, 131 —mistake possibly made by, 137 —inveighs against magic, 159, 160 —against gluttony, 169 —admires the research of the ancients, 218, 219 —his belief in first causes, 219 —error committed by, 236 —inveighs against magic, 237 —error committed by, 240 —error probably committed by, 273 —his great but unsuspecting credulity, 275 —his horror of cruelty, 276, 278 —approves of suicide, 278 —inveighs against magicians, 307 —his rare attempts at wit, 318 —inveighs against magic, 355 —exclaims against immorality, 378 —inveighs against the Greeks, 381 —against magic, 395, 400, 427 —mistake probably made by, 509 —his credulity, =vi.= 2, 3 —effusion of wit, 21 —mistake made by, 25 —exclaims against avarice, 68, 69 —against obscenity, 70 —against the use of gold, 71 —against vast retinues of slaves, 81 —mistake made by, 116 —effusion of wit, 129 —laments the downfall of Roman morals, 136, 137, 138 —his credulity, 205 —mistake made by, 245 —commends the simplicity of ancient times, 271 —exclaims against luxury, 306 —commends the ancient simplicity, 349 —exclaims against the depravity of taste, 351, 352 —inveighs against luxury, 391, 392 —against the falsehoods of magic, 405 —instances of his credulity, 407, 408 —mistake made by, 422 —exclaims against the practices of magic, 434, 450.

“Pliny’s graft,” iii. 478.

Plistolochia, iv. 284; v. 116, 117.

Plistonicus, iv. 302.

Plocamus, Annius, ii. 53.

Plotius, L., betrayed by his perfumes, iii. 169.

Plough, first use of, ii. 226, 227 —described, iv. 62.

Ploughing, iv. 62-66 —seasons for, iii. 359.

Plover, ii. 527.

Plum, iii. 294, 295, 296; iv. 507, 508; v. 236 —of Egypt, iii. 184.

Plumbago (plant), v. 141, 142.

Plutarch quoted, i. 79, 157, 302; iv. 407.

Pluto, i. 219.

Pnigitis, vi. 299.

Po, i. 186, 243.

Podium, vi. 402.

Poetry, origin of, ii. 231.

Poison, animals that live on, ii. 548; iii. 98 —of serpents, iii. 57, 58 —taken internally, 323 —remedies for, v. 130, 332, 333, 334, 407, 408; vi. 19 —in rings, vi. 80.

Poisonous, fungi, iv. 430 —honey, iv. 431, 432.

Polecat, ii. 310.

Polemonia, v. 102, 103, 127.

Polenta, iv. 28, 29, 442.

Poles of the magnet, vi. 356, 357.

Poles, or stakes, iii. 494, 495.

Poley, iv. 325, 326, 356, 372, 373.

Polias, vi. 460.

Polium, iv. 325, 326, 356, 372, 373.

Pollio, Asinius, i. 310; ii. 177, 239; vi. 318.

Pollio, Carvilius, vi. 134.

Pollio, Nævius, the giant, ii. 156.

Pollio, Romilius, his old age, iv. 437, 438.

Pollio, Vedius, his cruelty, ii. 410.

Polyacanthos, iv. 353.

Polyanthemum, iv. 353.

Polybius, i. 370 —the voyage of, 378 —his history quoted, 169.

Polycles, vi. 169, 170, 183, 319.

Polycletus, vi. 152, 168, 171, 172.

Polycnemon, v. 209.

Polycrates, vi. 81, 82, 386, 387.

Polycritus, iii. 157.

Polydorus, i. 305.

Polygala, v. 262.

Polygnotus, vi. 141, 185, 241, 249.

Polygonatos, iv. 405.

Polygonoïdes, v. 57.

Polygonos, v. 259, 260.

Polyidus, vi. 188.

Polymita, ii. 338.

Polypi, ii. 407, 408, 416-421; vi. 36, 50 —sailing, ii. 410 —their hatred of cunila, 548.

Polypodion, v. 175, 176, 243.

Polypus of the nose, v. 176.

Polythrix, v. 132; vi. 460.

Polytrichos, iv. 415, 416, 417.

Polyzonos, vi. 460.

Pomegranate, iii. 200, 201 —remedies derived from, iv. 498-502.

Pomes described, iii. 293, 294.

Pometia, i. 204; ii. 154.

Pompeii, i. 82, 197; iii. 228 —wines of, iii. 244.

Pompeiopolis, ii. 5.

Pompeius, Cneius, i. 161.

Pompeius Magnus, i. 164, 414, 424; ii. 35; v. 78, 79; vi. 390, 391 —his theatre, ii. 136 —resemblance to him, 147 —his conquests, 167.

Pompeius, Sextus, ii. 213, 391.

Pompholyx, vi. 202, 203.

Pompilos, ii. 388, 419.

Pomponianus, Scipio, vi. 225.

Pomponius, Sextus, iv. 440.

Pomptine Marshes, i. 194.

Pontic mouse, ii. 550.

Pontica, vi. 455.

Pontus, animals of, iii. 69. _Also, see_ “Euxine.”

Poplar, iii. 154, 376; v. 21, 22 —used for training the vine, iii. 218.

Poppæa, v. 340; vi. 132, 403 —bathes in asses’ milk, iii. 84 —the funeral of, 137.

Poppy, iv. 196, 275-279 —when to sow, 81 —used for linen, 138.

Porcelain, vi. 392.

Porcupine, ii. 305.

Porphyrio, ii. 530, 537.

Porphyrites, vi. 328.

Porpoise, ii. 377.

Porrigo, remedies for, iv. 227; v. 409.

Porsena, King, i. 84; vi. 160, 206 —his Labyrinth, vi. 342.

Port Mahon, i. 212.

Portico of Octavia, i. 164.

Porto Fino, i. 185.

Portents, v. 280, 281, 282. _Also, see_ “Magic,” “Omens,” and “Prodigies.”

Portraits, vi. 224-228 —waxen, iv. 346.

Porus, ii. 48.

Posca, iii. 266; iv. 219.

Posia, iii. 282, 283.

Posias, vi. 280, 281.

Posideum, i. 466.

Posidonius (artist), vi. 139, 188.

Posidonius (philosopher), i. 149.

Posilippo, i. 214.

Posis, vi. 285.

Potamaugis, v. 65.

Potamogiton, v. 172.

Poterion, v. 128, 129, 262.

Pothos, iv. 338.

Potidæa, i. 300.

Potter’s wheel, ii. 226.

Pottery, invention of the art of, ii. 225 —works in, vi. 286, 287.

Poultices, iv. 447.

Poultry, the art of cramming, ii. 531 —law as to, 531 —remedies derived from, v. 399.

Pozzuolane, iii. 420; vi. 289, 373.

Pozzuolo, i. 196.

Præcordia, iii. 70.

“Prælegare,” meaning of the word, vi. 87.

Præneste, i. 201.

Prætetianum, iii. 239.

Prætexta, ii. 337, 338, 411, 447, 448; vi. 72.

Prætutia, i. 235 —wines of, iii. 242, 246.

Pramnian wine, ii. 237.

Prase, vi. 429.

Prasii, ii. 52.

Prasion (plant), iv. 268, 290, 291, 292.

Prasion (stone), vi. 429.

Prasoïdes, vi. 427.

Prason, iii. 210.

“Prata,” derivation of the word, iv. 12.

Praxagoras, iv. 301.

Praxiteles, ii. 185; vi. 169, 177, 178, 272, 311, 312, 313.

Precepts most useful in life, ii. 178.

Precious stones, first use of, vi. 366 —engraving on, 389, 390 —defects in, vi. 411 —that suddenly make their appearance, 461 —artificial, 462, 463 —forms of, 462 —mode of testing, 463.

Precocity, instances of human, ii. 158 —sign of an early death, 209 —in trees, iii. 389.

Pregnancy, ii. 141.

Prester, iv. 280, 474; vi. 20.

“Prevarication,” meaning of the word, iv. 64.

Priaponnesus, i. 485.

Priapus, i. 326, 485, 489.

Prices, of trees, iii. 438, 439 —of drugs, vi. 143, 144 —immoderate, of statues, 163, 164.

Priene, i. 467.

Primary colours, iv. 326.

Primipilus, iv. 394.

Pristæ, vi. 173.

Pristis, ii. 359.

Privernian wine, iii. 241.

Privet, iii. 372; v. 32.

Prochyta, i. 214.

Procilius, ii. 354.

Proconnesus, i. 496; ii. 144.

Procreation at will, v. 67.

Proculeius, C., ii. 196; vi. 376.

Prodigies, i. 115, 116; v. 280, 281, 282 —celestial, i. 596 —connected with trees, iii. 526, 527 —connected with the hearth, vi. 384.

Production of plants, the natural order of, iii. 379, 380.

Products of trees, iii. 119.

Prœtus, the daughters of, v. 96.

Progeny, numerous, ii. 149, 150.

Progne, i. 307.

Prognostics, as to length of life, iii. 96 —derived from the sun, iv. 117, 118, 119 —from the moon, 119, 120 —from the stars, 120, 121 —from thunder, 121 —from clouds, 121 —from mists, 122 —from water, 122, 123 —from tempests, 123 —from aquatic animals and birds, 123, 124 —from quadrupeds, 124, 125 —from plants, 125 —from food, 125.

Promenade, arched, vi. 339.

Prometheus, ii. 226; vi. 71, 386.

Propagation of plants, iii. 461-467.

Propolis, iii. 6, 7; iv. 346, 434; v. 22.

Propontis, islands of, i. 496.

Propylæum, vi. 318.

Prose, first writer in, ii. 231.

Proserpin, i. 219.

Proserpinaca, v. 264.

Prostypa, vi. 284.

Protesilaüs, i. 297, 308; iii. 431.

Protogenes, vi. 188, 257, 258, 259, 264-267.

Protropum, iii. 240, 250.

Proverbs, i. 8, 10, 229; vi. 256, 262.

Pruning, iii. 509-515 —errors in, 531.

Prusa, i. 493, 494.

Prusias, i. 493; ii. 154.

Psetta, ii. 396.

Pseudoanchusa, iv. 410.

Pseudobunion, v. 61.

Pseudodictamnon, v. 115, 116, 172.

Pseudonard, iii. 120.

Psimithium, vi. 219, 220.

Psittacus, ii. 522, 523.

Psoricon, vi. 199.

Psychotrophon, v. 111, 112.

Psylli, i. 393; ii. 125, 289; iii. 30; v. 129.

Psythium, iii. 248.

Pteris, v. 245, 246.

Pteron, vi. 317.

Pterophoros, i. 336.

Pterygia, v. 510.

Ptisan, iv. 28, 29, 446.

Ptolemæus, i. 440; iii. 157; vi. 260.

Ptolemais, i. 396, 434; ii. 94.

Ptyas, v. 497.

Publicani, vi. 84, 85.

Publicius, ii. 147.

Public-houses, ii. 459.

Publius Syrus, ii. 344.

Puce, ii. 450.

Pucinum, wine of, iii. 239.

Pulcher, Claudius, vi. 231.

Pulegium, iv. 259, 260.

Pulmentarium, iii. 303; iv. 32.

Pulmo marinus, ii. 458; vi. 46.

Puls, iv. 32, 443.

Pulsation, v. 372.

Pumpkins, iv. 157.

Pumice, vi. 365, 366, 367.

Punic apple, iii. 200, 201; iv. 498-502.

Punjaub, ii. 16.

Pupils of the eyes, double, ii. 127, 128 —the nature of, iii. 52, 53.

Purgatives, iv. 518, 519.

Purification, vi. 292 —of the city of Rome, ii. 492, 493.

Purple, i. 435; ii. 442-450 —vestments, 442, 443 —when first used at Rome, 447.

Purples, ii. 441-445.

Purpurariæ, ii. 106.

Purpurissum, vi. 242.

Purslain, iii. 204; iv. 280, 281, 282.

Purulent eruptions, remedies for, v. 357.

Puteal, iii. 310.

Puteoli, i. 196, 214.

Pycnocomon, v. 175.

Pydna, i. 298, 300.

Pygargus, ii. 347, 482, 483.

Pygmies, i. 306, 464; ii. 101, 132.

Pylos, i. 282.

Pyracantha, v. 46.

Pyrallis, ii. 551; iii. 42.

Pyramids of Egypt, i. 418; vi. 335-338.

Pyrausta, iii. 42.

Pyren, vi. 459.

Pyrene, i. 157.

Pyrenees, i. 166, 360, 361, 363.

Pyrgoteles, ii. 184; vi. 389.

Pyrites, vi. 359.

Pyritis, vi. 460.

Pyromachus, vi. 170, 183, 184.

Pyropus, vi. 189.

Pyrosachne, iii. 201.

Pyrrhic dance, ii. 231.

Pyrrho, ii. 160.

Pyrrhocorax, ii. 529.

Pyrrhopœcilon, vi. 331.

Pyrrhus, King, i. 226; ii. 128; iii. 70; v. 288 —his jewel, vi. 387, 388.

Pythagoras (artist), vi. 168, 174.

Pythagoras, the philosopher, i. 29, 52, 486; vi. 159 —his opinion on beans, iv. 44 —his work on plants, v. 62, 63 —his visit to the East, 82.

Pythagorean philosophers, i. 148, 149.

Pythagorean philosophy, the, iii. 192.

Pytheas (artist), vi. 140.

Pytheas, the geographer, i. 150.

Pythius, vi. 130.

Pythonoscome, ii. 502.

Pyxacanthus, Chironian, iii. 114.

Q.

Quadrupeds, prognostics derived from, iv. 124, 125.

Quails, ii. 503, 504 —subject to epilepsy, 505 —not eaten, 505.

Quartz, vi. 371, 372, 453.

Queen-bee, iii. 10, 17.

Quercus, iii. 346.

Quicklime, vi. 373.

Quicksets, iii. 499, 502.

Quicksilver, swallowing of, iv. 220 —description of, vi. 113, 114.

Quinces, i. 488; iii. 392, 393, 398 —remedies derived from, iv. 496, 497.

Quincunx, iii. 468.

Quindecimviri, ii. 191; v. 280.

Quinquatria, iv. 159; vi. 280.

Quinquefolium, v. 122, 123.

Quintii, family of the, vi. 78.

Quinzy, remedies for, v. 161, 434, 435, 436.

Quorra, i. 395.

R.

Rabbits, i. 212; ii. 348, 349 —of Bætica have a double liver, iii. 70.

Rabelais quoted, ii. 304, 414; v. 427.

Rachias, ii. 53.

Radicula, iv. 148, 149; v. 39, 40.

Radishes, iv. 161-165, 215-218.

Ragwort, v. 146.

Raia, ii. 411.

Rain, place where there is none, i. 123 —its influence upon plants, iii. 442, 443 —signs of, iv. 124.

Rainbow, i. 89, 90 —its influence, iii. 451.

Rain-water, v. 483.

Raisin wine, iii. 249.

Raisins of the sun, iii. 249; iv. 463, 464.

Ram, ii. 332 —in love with a woman, ii. 498.

Rameses, i. 418.

Rampions, iv. 507; v. 72.

Ranunculus, iv. 248, 379; v. 148, 149, 150.

Rape, iv. 47, 48, 161, 213, 214.

Raphanos agria, v. 180, 181.

Rascasse, vi. 30.

Raspberry, v. 50.

Ratumenna, the horses of, ii. 320.

Raurici, i. 355.

Raven, ii. 491, 492 —speaking, 524, 525 —used for hunting, 525.

Ravenna, i. 241.

Razors, invention of, ii. 237.

Razor-sheath, ii. 547; iii. 50.

Realgar, vi. 220, 240.

Reaping-hook, iv. 92.

Reate, i. 133, 233 —asses of, ii. 323.

Receding of the sea, i. 116, 117.

Reclining-chairs, iii. 409.

Red hair, iv. 483; v. 342.

Red ochre. _See_ “Ochre.”

Red Sea, ii. 66 —gulfs of, 91 —monsters of, 360 —trees of, iii. 117 —plants of, 211 —marvels of, vi. 5, 6.

Reddle, vi. 363.

Rediculus, the field of, ii. 525.

Red-throat, ii. 511.

Reed-beds, iii. 493.

Reeds, iii. 403-409; v. 35, 36; vi. 58 —gigantic, ii. 129; iii. 405 —scented, v. 36.

Regal unguent, iii. 166.

Reggio, i. 209, 243.

Regillus, Lake, vi. 86.

Register of the Triumphs, i. 497.

Regret, deaths from, ii. 181.

Regulus, Atilius, iv. 11.

Reindeer, ii. 304.

Relief, vi. 454.

Religious ideas attached to certain parts of the body, iii. 88.

Religious observances, iii. 92.

Remedies derived from man, v. 276, 277, 278, 286, 287, 288 —from the dead, 292, 293.

Remora, ii. 412, 413, 414; vi. 2, 3.

Rennet, ii. 298; iii. 84.

Repositorium, ii. 379; iv. 125; vi. 132.

Reproduction of stone, vi. 358.

Reseda, v. 265, 266.

Resemblance, of children to parents, ii. 145 —strong, instances of, 145-148.

Resin, iii. 361, 362, 363 —cedar, 179 —medicinal properties of, v. 15, 16, 17.

Respiration, iii. 67, 97 —of insects, ii. 3 —of fish, 367, 368.

Reticulated building, vi. 373.

Revolutions of the planets, i. 27-31.

Rex, Q. Marcius, vi. 352.

Rex Sacrorum, iii. 66.

Reynolds, Sir Joshua, quoted, vi. 263.

Rhacoma, v. 265.

Rhagiane, ii. 28.

Rhamnos (plant), v. 50.

Rhamnus (place), i. 290.

Rhamsesis, vi. 331, 332.

Rhætian wines, iii. 242.

Rhenus, i. 348, 349, 350.

Rhegium, i. 208, 209, 216.

Rhine, i. 348, 349, 350.

Rhinoceros, ii. 278; iii. 46, 89, 90.

Rhinocolura, i. 425.

Rhion, i. 275.

Rhizophora mangle, iii. 117.

Rhodanus, i. 175.

Rhodes, described, i. 483 —wines of, iii. 248 —Colossus of, vi. 165.

Rhodinum, iii. 160, 289.

Rhoditis, vi. 461.

Rhododendron, iii. 373, 374; v. 37.

Rhodope, i. 272, 299, 303.

Rhodopis, vi. 338.

Rhodussæ, i. 496.

Rhœas, iv. 278, 379.

Rhœcus, vi. 283, 342.

Rhœteum, i. 477.

Rhoïtes, iii. 257.

Rhombus, ii. 389, 396, 452.

Rhone, i. 175.

Rhopalon, v. 107.

Rhubarb, v. 265.

Rhus, v. 38 —erythros, 38.

Rhysaddir, i. 385.

Ribes, iii. 74.

Rice, iv. 28.

Riches, immense, instances of, vi. 93, 94, 129, 130, 131.

Ricinus (plant), iii. 287.

Ridicule, how expressed, iii. 55.

Rimini, i. 241.

Ringdove, ii. 508, 518.

Rings, curtain, iii. 183 —gold, vi. 71-75 —right of wearing, 76 —how worn, 80.

Riphæan Mountains, i. 336; ii. 23.

Risardir, i. 379.

River-crab, vi. 23.

River-frog, vi. 21.

River-snail, vi. 24.

Rivers, wonders of, i. 131-138.

Roach, ii. 391.

Rob, iii. 249.

Robigalia, iv. 99.

Robur, excrescences of the, v. 6.

Rocket (plant), iv. 250, 251.

Rocks split with vinegar, iv. 480.

Rodarum, v. 69, 70.

Rome, described, i. 202 —sway of, v. 218 —tutelary deity of, 282 —siege of, by the Gauls, vi. 75, 76 —painters of, 229, 230, 231 —paintings exhibited at, 231-234 —marvellous buildings at, 345-355.

Romulus, i. 202, 204; iv. 3; vi. 158 —his inspection of wines, iii. 252 —and Remus, suckled by a wolf, iii. 310.

Roots, of trees, iii. 393 —loosening of, 390, 394 —of plants, 491, 492; iv. 170 —plants without, 142.

Ropes, materials for, iv. 141.

Roscius, the actor, ii. 185.

Rosemary, iv. 203; v. 40.

Roses, iv. 310-314, 364, 365, 366 —of Pæstum, i. 208 —oil of, iii. 289.

Rostra, ii. 238; iii. 342; vi. 156.

Rostrum, iii. 342.

Royal disease, why jaundice was so called, iv. 488.

Rubellio, vi. 57.

Rubellite, vi. 405.

Rubeta, ii. 298; iii. 98; iv. 102; v. 128, 303; vi. 22.

Rubia, iv. 148; v. 38, 39.

Rubico, i. 241.

“Rubric,” the word, vi. 123.

Rubrica, vi. 120, 236, 237.

Rubrius, the actor, ii. 147.

Ruby, vi. 420-425.

Rue, iv. 191, 192, 252-256.

Rufus, Julius, v. 154.

Rufus, Messala, ii. 239.

Rufus, P. Cornelius, ii. 206.

Rufus, Suillius, ii. 140.

Rufus, Vibius, iii. 276.

Rumex, iii. 7; iv. 287.

Ruminalis, iii. 310.

Rumination, ii. 549, 550.

Rumpotinus, iii. 219; v. 69.

Runners have the spleen cauterized, iii. 73.

Rupicapra, ii. 346, 347.

Ruptures, remedies for, v. 205.

Ruscus, iv. 521 —hypophyllum, 518.

Rush, iii. 403, 411; iv. 361 —sweet-scented, iii. 144; iv. 364.

Rust, vi. 209, 210, 211.

Rut, earth from a, v. 429.

Rutubis, i. 379.

Rutupæ, oysters of, vi. 27.

Rye, iv. 31, 52.

S.

Saave, i. 263.

Saba, iii. 124.

Sabæi, ii. 87; iii. 124.

Sabbath, v. 480.

Sabelli, i. 232.

Sabini, i. 191, 234, 235.

Sabinus Fabianus, iv. 126.

Sabinus, Masurius, ii. 239.

Sabinus, Titius, ii. 313.

Sabis, the divinity, iii. 128.

Sabota, iii. 128.

Sabrata, i. 399.

Sacæ, ii. 33, 34.

Sacal, vi. 399.

Saccharon, iii. 114.

Sachets, iii. 166.

Sacopenium, iv. 195, 196, 274, 275.

Sacrament, the Holy, a possible reference to, v. 427.

Sacred rites, wines not used in, iii. 263.

Sæpia (fish), ii. 359, 389, 416, 417; vi. 31 —ink of the, 58.

Sæpia (colour), vi. 241.

Sætabis, i. 170.

Saffron, iv. 319, 320, 321, 370.

Saffron-water, iv. 321.

Sagapenon, iv. 195, 196, 274, 275.

Sagaris, ii. 2.

Sagda, vi. 456.

Sage, iv. 449, 450; v. 164.

Sagmen, iv. 391.

Saguntum, i. 166 —Temple at, iii. 424.

Sailcloth, iv. 132.

Sails, invention of, ii. 235.

Saïs, i. 408, 421.

Sala, i. 377.

Salads, iv. 153.

Salamander, ii. 545, 546 —eaten by the wild boar, iii. 98 —poisonous, 98 —remedies from, v. 397.

Salamis, i. 315.

Salarian Way, v. 506.

Salerno, School of health at, i. 207; iv. 167, 214, 223.

Salernum, i. 207.

Salicastrum, iv. 465, 466.

Salii, iv. 309.

Salinuca, iv. 325, 372.

Salivation, v. 254.

Sallee, i. 377.

Sallustius Dionysius, v. 523.

Salmon, ii. 404.

Salona, i. 259.

Saloniani, ii. 150.

Salpa, ii. 404.

Salpe, v. 369.

Salsugo, v. 506, 507.

Salt, why the sea is, i. 129, 130 —towers of, ii. 84 —good for cattle, 549 —water, plants benefited by, iv. 201 —an account of, v. 500-506 —nature of, 509-512 —“Salt,” figurative use of the word, 505, 506.

Salted cake, iv. 4.

Salted fish, vi. 20, 21.

Salted wines, iii. 247, 248.

Saltpans, v. 503.

Saltpetre, v. 512.

Salvia, iv. 449, 450; v. 164.

Salvitto, ii. 147; vi. 225.

Salvius, ii. 161.

Samaria described, i. 425, 427.

Sammonium, i. 313.

Samnites, i. 232 —their arms, ii. 160.

Samolus, v. 42.

Samos, i. 485 —earth of, vi. 298 —stone of, v. 365.

Samosata, i. 443.

Samothrace, i. 324 —rings of, vi. 79.

Samothracia (stone), vi. 456.

Sampsuchinum, iii. 163.

Sampsuchum, iv. 334, 335, 378, 370.

Sancus, the divinity, ii. 336.

Sand, used in bread, iv. 37 —various kinds of, v. 490, 499 —used for cutting marble, vi. 326 —for making glass, 379, 381.

Sandalides, iii. 175.

Sandaliotis, i. 216.

Sandaraca, vi. 220, 239, 240.

Sandaraca (of bees), iii. 7.

Sandaresos, vi. 424.

Sandastros, vi. 423, 424.

Sandix, v. 39; vi. 240.

Sangarius, ii. 3.

Sangenon, vi. 417, 436.

Sangualis, ii. 487.

Sanguiculus, v. 348.

Sanguinaria, v. 259, 260.

Sanguisuga, ii. 259.

Sanni Heniochi, ii. 10.

Santarem, vi. 216.

Santerna, vi. 110.

Saone, i. 175.

Sap of trees, iii. 379, 383; v. 164.

Sapa, iii. 248, 264, 269, 270; iv. 481, 482 —lees of, 484.

Sapenos, vi. 433.

Sapphire, vi. 420, 427, 434, 435, 437.

Sapphiros, vi. 432.

Sappho, i. 274; iv. 398.

Sappinia, iii. 292.

Saraceni, i. 422.

Saracens, ii. 88.

Sarcitis, vi. 456.

Sarcocolla, iii. 185; v. 52.

Sarcophagus, i. 124; vi. 357.

Sarda, vi. 418, 420, 425, 426, 443.

Sardanapalus, i. 447.

Sardes, i. 465.

Sardines, v. 264.

Sardinia, i. 215 —earth of, vi. 300.

Sardonic laugh, ii. 208.

Sardonyx, vi. 387, 417, 418.

Sarepta, i. 435.

Saripha, iii. 207.

Sarmatæ, i. 329 —their horses, ii. 320.

Sarmati, i. 344.

Samiatia described, i. 329.

Saronic Gulf, i. 278, 285.

Sarpedon, his letter, iii. 193.

Sarsaparilla plant, iii. 402.

Sartago, iii. 362.

Sasernæ, the, ii. 554.

Sasonis, i. 267.

Satarchæ, i. 333.

Satrapies, ii. 50, 51, 57.

Saturnia, i. 204.

Saturninus, L. Volusius, ii. 150; iii. 79.

Satyrion, v. 190, 191, 192.

Satyrs, i. 406; ii. 132, 348, 549.

Satyrus, vi. 467.

Sauritis, vi. 456.

Sauromatæ, ii. 13.

Saurus (artist), vi. 322.

Saurus (fish), vi. 38.

Savin, v. 41.

Savus, i. 263.

Sawfish, ii. 359.

Saxifragum, iv. 415, 416, 417.

Saxum, vi. 300.

Scævola, Q. Mutius, iii. 275.

Scalabis, i. 365.

Scaldis, i. 353.

Scales, ii. 405 —fish without, v. 508.

Scales of iron, vi. 211, 212.

Scallions, iv. 171, 173.

Scallops, ii. 417; vi. 43, 44.

Scamander, i. 476.

Scammony, v. 176, 177.

Scandia, i. 351.

Scandinavia, i. 343 —the island of, ii. 263.

Scandix, iv. 349, 423.

Scapus, iii. 189.

Scarabæus, v. 416, 454 —nasicornis, iii. 34.

Scaritis, vi. 459.

Scars, obliteration of, v. 209, 210, 260.

Scarus, ii. 400, 401.

Scaurus, M., vi. 163, 306, 307, 349, 350, 390.

Scenitæ, i. 422, 445; ii. 74, 83, 86.

Scepsis, i. 474.

Scheda, iii. 190.

Schillerspath, vi. 412.

Schirri, ii. 151.

Schistos, vi. 363.

Schœni, v. 64.

Schorl, vi. 453.

Sciadeus, vi. 64.

Sciæna, ii. 393.

Sciapodæ, ii. 130.

Sciatica, v. 441.

Scilly Islands, i. 367; vi. 212.

Scincus, ii. 288; v. 318.

Scinde, ii. 51.

Scio, i. 486.

Scipio Africanus, the Elder, ii. 143; iii. 235.

Scipio Africanus, the Younger, ii. 525; vi. 132 —his funeral mentioned, ii. 194 —the first who shaved constantly, 237.

Scipio, L., Asiaticus, i. 4.

Scipio, L., his memory, ii. 164.

Scipio, Metellus, ii. 355.

Scipios, nickname given to the, ii. 147.

Scironian Rocks, i. 289.

Scolex of copper, vi. 197, 198.

Scolopendra, ii. 452; iii. 35; v. 417.

Scolymos, iv. 299, 353, 354, 425, 426.

Scomber, ii. 386; v. 508.

Scopa regia, iv. 318; v. 95.

Scopas, vi. 313, 314, 316, 317, 324, 343.

Scops, ii. 530, 531.

Scordotis, v. 102.

Scoria of copper, vi. 194.

Scoria of lead, vi. 218.

Scorpæna, ii. 464; vi. 64.

Scorpio (plant), iv. 350, 352, 405; v. 128, 270.

Scorpion, iv. 381, 414; v. 222, 284 —which injures the natives only, ii. 354 —an account of, iii. 29, 30, 31 —winged, 30 —remedies for the sting of, v. 330, 331.

Scorpion-fly, iii. 30.

Scorpion-grass, iv. 350, 352, 405; v. 110.

Scorpitis, vi. 459.

Scorpiuron, iv. 413, 414, 415.

Screech-owl, ii. 492 —with teats, iii. 82.

Scripture quoted, i. 156, 201, 304, 380, 418, 422, 423, 425, 426, 428, 429, 430, 431, 432, 433, 434, 435, 436, 440, 442, 452, 456, 457, 460, 474, 492; ii. 75, 90; iv. 122, 397; v. 425, 509; vi. 30, 79, 115, 259.

Scrofa, G. Tremellius, iii. 99.

Scrofula, why so called, ii. 343 —remedies for, v. 161, 162, 342, 434, 435, 436; vi. 37.

Sculptors, celebrated, vi. 308-323.

Sculptures at Rome, vi. 315, 316.

Scumbling, vi. 263, 265.

Scutari, i. 495.

Scutcheons, grafting by, iii. 483, 484, 485.

Scybelites, iii. 248.

Scylacium, i. 222.

Scylla, i. 209, 216, 217.

Scyllæum, i. 209, 284.

Scyllis, vi. 278, 380.

Scyritæ, ii. 131.

Scyros, i. 319, 321.

Scythe, iv. 91, 92.

Scythia, described, i. 329, 330; ii. 36 —the peoples and tribes of, 34, 122; v. 110, 111 —the animals of, ii. 262.

Scythian Ocean, ii. 23.

Scythians, their cavalry, ii. 318 —poison their arrows, iii. 97, 98.

Scythice, v. 110. 111, 163.

Scythopolis, i. 432.

Sea, the, i. 97, 98, 128, 129, 130 —receding of, 116, 117 —ebb and flow of, 124-128 —largest animals in, ii. 358, 361 —monsters of, 359, 460 —animals of, 459, 460 —a list of, vi. 59-65 —water of, mixed with wines, iii. 247 —remedies derived from, v. 496, 497, 498 —voyages by, advantages of, 496, 497.

Sea-blackbird, ii. 389.

Sea-cabbage, iv 241; vi. 39.

Sea-calf, ii. 298, 369, 380, 381; vi. 24.

Sea-dogs, or dogfish, ii. 377, 433, 456, 457, 458.

Sea-dragon, ii. 416.

Sea-eagle, great, ii. 482, 483.

Sea-elephant, ii. 364.

Sea-fennel, v. 141.

Sea-fish, when first eaten at Rome, vi. 10.

Sea-fleas, ii. 459,

Sea-fox, ii. 452.

Sea-frog, ii. 412, 452; vi. 21.

Sea-hare, iii. 59, 460; v. 332; vi. 4, 5.

Sea-holly, iv. 397.

Sea-kite, ii. 415.

Sea-lice, ii. 459; vi. 33.

Sea-lizard, vi. 33.

Sea-locust, ii. 423, 424.

Sea-lungs, ii. 458; vi. 46.

Sea-men, ii. 363; vi. 60.

Sea-mew, ii. 513.

Sea-mice, ii. 406, 466; iii. 59; vi. 29.

Sea-monster to which Andromeda was exposed, ii. 364.

Sea-needle, ii. 466.

Sea-nettle, ii. 453, 454; v. 187.

Sea-ram, ii. 364, 452.

Sea-raven, vi. 61.

Sea-scallop, ii. 248, 249.

Sea-scorpion, vi. 53.

Sea-serpents, ii. 362.

Sea-snails, preserves for, ii. 470.

Sea-sparrow, ii. 407.

Sea-spider, ii. 416, 460.

Sea-stars, ii. 458, 474; vi. 19.

Sea-swallow, ii. 415.

Sea-thrush, ii. 389.

Sea-trees, ii. 362; vi. 60.

Sea-urchin, ii. 427; iii. 58; vi. 25.

Sea-weasel, vi. 12.

Sea-weed, v. 193, 232; vi. 28.

Sea-wheels, ii. 363, 467.

Sea-wolves, ii. 488.

Sea-wort, iv. 21; vi. 39.

Seals (animals), ii. 369; vi. 74, 79.

Seals (for letters), vi. 389, 390, 431.

Sealskin, vi. 46.

Seasons, the, i. 66, 67, 68 —for sowing, iv. 72, 73, 74 —epochs of, 78, 79 —signs of, 93, 94.

Sebaste, i. 427.

Sebastia, ii. 6.

Sebennys, wine of, iii. 246.

Sebosus, i. 147.

Secale, iv. 52.

Secundilla, the giantess, ii. 157.

Secundus, Pomponius, ii. 238.

Securidaca, v. 262.

Sedigitæ, iii. 86.

Sedition caused by a raven speaking, ii. 524.

Sedum, iv. 58; v. 144.

Seed, iii. 460, 461 —quality of, iv. 69, 70 —at what age unproductive, 69, 70.

Seed-plots, iii. 464-467.

Segesta, iv. 4.

Segobriga, i. 171.

Segontia, i. 172.

Seia, iv. 4; vi. 370.

Σελάχη, ii. 412.

Selago, v. 41, 42.

Selenite, vi. 368, 369.

Selenitis, vi. 456.

Selenomancy, vi. 449.

Seleucia, i. 438, 440; ii. 73.

Seleucides, ii. 507.

Selgicum, iii. 290; iv. 494.

Selinus, i. 218, 220, 448.

Selinusian earth, vi. 299.

Sellæ, i. 272.

Semiramis, ii. 6, 33; vi. 93 —in love with a horse, ii. 318.

Semnion, v. 65.

Semper mustum, iii. 249.

Seneca, L., Annæus, ii. 114; iii. 235 —his works quoted, i. 60, 61, 64, 70, 73, 77, 81, 83, 85, 92, 97, 101, 113, 114, 117, 119, 121, 128, 132, 135, 136, 413, 414; ii. 40, 76.

Senogallia, i. 238.

Senones, i. 243, 356.

Senses, ii. 546, 547.

Sensitive plant, v. 67.

Sensitiveness of water animals, ii. 451.

Sentiments, expression of the, iii. 95.

Sentius, C., iii. 255.

Sepiussa, i. 485.

Seplasia, iii. 357; vi. 143, 195.

Seps, iv. 516; v. 407.

Septa, iii. 419; vi. 316.

Septentrional Ocean, i. 341; ii. 20.

Septimuleius, vi. 91.

Septuagint, i. 479.

Sepulchres adorned with chaplets, iv. 308.

Sequani, i. 355.

Seræ, ii. 54, 55.

Serapias, v. 189, 190.

Serapio, vi. 269.

Serapion, the philosopher, i. 149.

Serenus, Annæus, poisoned, iv. 430.

Seres, ii. 35, 132; iii. 101, 107, 117; vi. 208, 465, 466.

Sergius, M., his valour, ii. 172.

Sergius, Paulus, i. 148.

Serica, ii. 36.

Serichatum, iii. 142.

Seriphium, v. 235; vi. 41.

Seriphus, i. 318.

Seris, iv. 235.

Serpent-charmers, ii. 125; iii. 58.

Serpentine, vi. 367.

Serpents, i. 92, 194, 212 —their power of fascination, ii. 261 —of immense size, 261, 262 —their combats with stags, 301, 302 —that injure strangers only, 253, 254 —oviparous, 540 —produced from human marrow, 545 —how driven away, 548 —suck eggs, 548, 549 —liking for wine, 549 —attacked by the spider, 552 —affection shown by, 552 —teeth of, iii. 57, 58 —poison of, 57, 58 —with feet, 90 —eaten by swine, 97 —a shrub full of, 115 —their antipathy to certain trees, 365, 366 —remedies for injuries inflicted by, v. 118, 119, 328, 329, 330, 392, 396, 397; vi. 20.

Serpents’ eggs (adder gems), v. 388, 389, 390.

Serpents’ Island, i. 331.

Serrani, family of the, iv. 132.

Serranus, iv. 9.

Serratula, v. 111, 112.

Sertorius, Q., i. 166; ii. 168; iv. 394 —and the white hind, ii. 301.

Serum, iii. 84.

Servia, i. 264.

Servility condemned, iii. 217.

Servius on Virgil quoted, i. 194, 410, 455.

Servius Tullius, King, i. 143; vi. 384.

Sesambri, ii. 103.

Sesame, ii. 90; iv. 36, 444.

Sesamoïdes, iv. 444, 445.

Sesculysses, i. 8.

Seselis, ii. 299.

Sesostris, ii. 92; vi. 94.

Sesothes, vi. 331.

Sestos, i. 308; ii. 486.

Setia, i. 195.

Setine wines, iii. 239; iv. 471.

Sevenfold echo, vi. 345.

Severus, Cassius, v. 288.

Sewers at Rome, vi. 347, 348.

Sex, indications of, before birth, ii. 141 —changes of, 138 —children of one, 149 —of issue, how ensured, v. 93, 289 —in trees, iii. 359.

Sextiæ, v. 472.

Sextilius, v. 368.

Sexual congress, the, v. 292, 297.

Sexual parts of animals, iii. 91, 92.

Sexual passions, stimulants of the, v. 365, 366. _And see_ “Aphrodisiacs.”

Shad, vi. 65.

Shadows, when and where there are none, i. 107, 108 —thrown by trees, iii. 473.

Shaking lands, i. 122.

Shakspeare quoted, ii. 143, 153.

Shame, iii. 80.

Sharks, ii. 456, 457, 458. _And see_ “Dog-fish.”

Shaving, the practice of, ii. 236, 237.

Sheba, ii. 87.

Sheep, ii. 331 —their propagation, 331 —covered, 332 —colonic, 332 —their wool, 333, 334, 335 —shapes of, 338, 339.

She-goat, destructive to the olive, iii. 291, 292.

Shell-fish, ii. 458 —various kinds of, 428, 429 —why honoured at Cnidos, 413, 414 —generation of, 463.

Shells of Venus, ii. 429.

Shepherd’s dog, ii. 315.

Shields, invention of, ii. 227 —with portraits, vi. 227, 228.

Shingles (disease), v. 24, 199.

Shingles (for building), iii. 101, 355.

Ships, invention of, ii. 233, 234 —of war, 234, 235, 236 —building of, iii. 416 —colouring of, vi. 245.

Shiverings, cold, remedies for, v. 449, 450.

Shoes, invention of, ii. 224 —mullet-coloured, 402.

Shooting stars, iv. 120.

Shop-paper, iii. 189.

Shortlived trees, iii. 432.

Shortness of life, indications of, iii. 96.

Shoulders, remedies for diseases of, v. 436.

Showers of milk, blood, flesh, iron, wool, and tiles, i. 87, 88.

Shrewmouse, its bite venomous, ii. 353.

Shrubs, wines made from, iii. 260 —used for training the vine, 495-517.

Shushan, ii. 62.

Sibyl, i. 474; ii. 179 —her books, iii. 193.

Sicelicon, v. 135.

Sicily described, i. 216.

Sickle, iv. 91, 92.

Sicyon, i. 280.

Side, which is the strongest, ii. 158 —remedies for pains and affections in the, v. 164, 440, 441.

Sideboards, vi. 132, 135.

Sideration, iii. 520.

Siderite, vi. 407.

Siderites, vi. 407.

Sideritis (plant), v. 94, 95, 162.

Sideritis (a stone), vi. 355, 454, 456, 457.

Sideropœcilos, vi. 456, 457.

Sidon, i. 435; vi. 380.

Siege, usages at, v. 281, 282.

Sieve, plants that grow in a, v. 69.

Siga, i. 385.

Sigeum, i. 308, 476.

Sight, acuteness of, ii. 162 —theory of, iii. 50, 51, 52 —mole destitute of, iii. 50 —of snails, iii. 50.

Sigilmessa, i. 382.

Signets, vi. 74, 79, 81, 389, 390.

Signia, i. 201.

Signine composition, vi. 288.

Signine wines, iii. 241; iv. 471.

Signum, vi. 167.

Siguenza, i. 172.

Sikhs, ii. 47.

Sil, vi. 140, 141.

Silanion, vi. 169, 183.

Silanus, D., iii. 275; iv. 10.

Silanus, M., ii. 149.

Silaüs, v. 186.

Sile, iv. 221.

Siler, v. 31.

Silex, vi. 371, 372.

Sili, v. 71.

Silicia, iv. 51, 52; v. 74, 75.

Siligo, iv. 29, 32, 33, 35, 440.

Siliqua, iii. 181, 368.

Siliquastrum, iv. 267, 268.

Silk, ii. 36; iii. 26, 27, 377; v. 273 —or cotton, alluded to, ii. 131 —vestments of, iii. 26, 27 —chaplets of, iv. 309.

Silkworm, iii. 25, 26 —larvæ of, 25 —of Cos, 26.

Sillig, his labours on Pliny, iv. 519; v. 272; vi. 1.

Sillybum, iv. 425; v. 168.

“Silo,” the name, iii. 56.

Silphium, i. 396, 398; iv. 431, 432.

Silures, i. 351.

Silurus, i. 410; ii. 108, 382, 383.

Silver, used on the stage, vi. 94 —how found, 111, 112, 113 —scoria of, 116 —gilding of, 124 —testing of, 125, 126 —colouring and enamelling of, 128 —various uses of, 137, 138 —artists in, 138, 139, 140.

Silver chalk, iii. 454; vi. 301.

Silver lead, vi. 191.

Silver mines, vi. 112.

Silver plate, luxury in, vi. 131, 132 —frugality of the ancients in, 132, 133 —enormous prices of, 135, 136.

Simia hamadryas, ii. 348.

Simiæ, menstruation of the, ii. 151.

Similago, iv. 34.

Simoïs, i. 476.

Simon, vi. 187.

Simonides, i. 322; ii. 165, 231.

Simonides, the Younger, ii. 116.

Simus, the writer, iv. 388.

“Simus,” the name, iii. 56.

Sindbad, the Sailor, and the story of Aristomenes, iii. 66.

Sindos, ii. 13.

Sinews, remedies for diseases and affections of, v. 202, 203, 358, 457, 458; vi. 50.

Singara, i. 444.

Singing, aided by plates of lead, vi. 216.

Singing of birds, iii. 94 —how prevented, vi. 272.

Sinigaglia, i. 238.

“Sinister,” meaning of the word, vi. 72.

Sinon, ii. 229.

Sinope, ii. 4.

Sinopis, vi. 235, 236.

Sinuessa, v. 474.

Siphnus, i. 318.

Sipontum, i. 227.

Sipylum, i. 470.

Siræum, iii. 248.

Sirbonian Lake, i. 425.

Sirbytum, ii. 103.

Sirenes (bees), iii. 17.

Sirens, i. 197; ii. 530.

Siriasis, iv. 414; v. 465, 466, 467.

Sirius, ii. 316; iii. 11.

Sisymbrium, iv. 197, 293.

Sittacene, ii. 78.

Sium, iv. 424, 425; v. 172.

Size, instances of unusual, ii. 155, 156, 157.

Skarpanto, i. 483.

Skate, vi. 33.

Skin, coverings of the, iii. 81.

Skirrets, iv. 166-169, 220.

Sky, colours of the, i. 60, 61 —rattling of arms in, 88.

Slabs of marble, vi. 324, 325, 326.

Slave-dealing, ii. 148; iv. 381.

Slavery, introduction of, ii. 227.

Slaves, iii. 373; iv. 9, 381; vi. 79, 81, 129, 130, 302 —sold at high prices, ii. 185, 186.

Sleep, of fish, ii. 367 —of other animals, 552, 553 —the mind retiring into itself in, ii. 553 —animals without, iii. 48 —provocatives of, v. 467.

Slips, propagation by, iii. 464.

Slugs, v. 409.

Smaragdus, vi. 388, 408, 414.

Smarides, vi. 45.

Smegma, vi. 204.

Smell of juices, iii. 325, 326.

Smilax, the maiden, and the youth Crocus, iii. 402.

Smilax, the plant, iii. 402.

Smilis, vi. 342.

Smintheus, i. 475.

Smoked wines, iv. 473.

Smoke-plant, v. 142.

Smoking, instances of the practice of, iv. 362; v. 55, 164, 356; vi. 220.

Smoothing of paper, iii. 190.

Smyrna, i. 470.

Smyrnium, iv. 203; v. 266, 267.

Smyrus, vi. 64.

Snails, ii. 311 —valued as a food, 312 —destitute of sight, iii. 50 —used as a diet, v. 437, 438 —remedies derived from, 463.

Snapdragon, v. 131.

Sneezing, v. 297.

Snow, region of, i. 336 —reddened by insects, iii. 42 —used for cooling water, v. 486.

Snow-partridge, ii. 529.

Snow-water, v. 483.

Soap, v. 342.

Soapstone, vi. 368, 458.

Soapwort, v. 162.

Social War, vi. 78.

Socondion, vi. 433.

Socrates (artist), vi. 277, 318.

Socrates (philosopher), his sedateness, ii. 159 —the wisest of men, 178; vi. 159 —how put to death, v. 140.

Soft fish, ii. 416.

Soft stones, vi. 371.

Sogdiani, ii. 33.

Soils, the various kinds of, iii. 446-455 —crops adapted to certain, iv. 59, 60.

Solanum, v. 266.

Soldering of metals, vi. 111.

Sole (fish), ii. 388, 396.

“Solecism,” origin of the word, i. 448.

Solen, ii. 547; iii. 50; vi. 64.

Soles of the feet, iii. 89 —perfumed, 167.

Soli, i. 448.

Solinus quoted, i. 202, 234, 333 —a mistake by, ii. 137.

Solipuga, ii. 295; iv. 445; v. 403.

Solis gemma, vi. 456.

Solo, iv. 303.

Solstice, the winter, iv. 82, 83 —the summer, 92-97.

Solstitial grapes, iii. 256.

Somphus, iv. 212.

Sonchos, iv. 426, 427; v. 314.

Sonticus morbus, vi. 361.

Sophocles, iv. 387 —his burial, ii. 174 —his death, 213 —his works quoted, iv. 25, 375.

Soracte, i. 121; ii. 128.

Soranus, Valerius, i. 11, 102.

Sorbs, iii. 314; iv. 512.

Soriculata, v. 273.

Sornatius, v. 522.

Sorrel, iv. 287; v. 258.

Sorus, vi. 64.

Sory, vi. 198, 199.

Sosigenes, i. 30, 148; iv. 76.

Sosimenes, iv. 302.

Sostratus, vi. 174, 339.

Sotacus, vi. 385.

Sotades, i. 498.

Sotira, v. 368.

Souchet, iv. 383.

Soul, its immortality denied, ii. 218 —in plants, iii. 101.

Sour apples, iv. 497.

Sour-krout, iv. 167, 236.

Southernwood, iv. 334, 377, 378; v. 106, 232.

Sow, womb of the, iii. 75 —a great delicacy, 75.

Sow-bread, v. 125, 126.

Sow-thistle, iv. 426, 427.

Sowing, rotation in, iv. 68 —seed required for, 71, 72 —proper times for, 72, 73, 74 —winter, 79, 80.

Spa, v. 476.

Spagas, iii. 265.

Spain described, i. 153, 160 —how colonized, 157 —its minerals, 173, 174 —its high rank among nations, vi. 465.

Spalatro, i. 259.

Spanish broom, v. 28.

Sparganion, v. 122, 123.

Sparrow, ii. 518.

Sparta, i. 283.

Spartacus, iii. 331; vi. 93.

Spartel, i. 374.

Sparus, vi. 457.

Spartopolias, vi. 460.

Spartum, iii. 7, 187; iv. 139-142; v. 28, 29.

Spathe, iii. 155; iv. 495, 496.

Specillum, ii. 215.

Specular iron, vi. 356, 363.

Specular stone, iv. 344; vi. 368, 369.

Spells. _See_ “Magic.”

Spelt, iv. 19, 24, 31, 32.

Sperchius, i. 293.

Sphacos, iv. 449, 450; v. 12.

Sphæromancy, v. 427.

Sphæx, iii. 24.

Sphagnos, iii. 145, 146; v. 12.

Sphere, invention of the, ii. 230.

Sphingia, ii. 95, 100.

Sphingium, ii. 549.

Sphinx, ii. 118, 279; vi. 167, 389 —Egyptian, 336, 337.

Sphondyle, v. 271.

Sphragis, vi. 237, 431.

Sphyrene, vi. 66.

Spiders, attack the serpent, ii. 552 —an account of, iii. 27 —their webs, 27, 28 —generation of, 29 —remedies derived from, v. 415, 416.

Spignel, iv. 295, 296.

Spikenard, iii. 120.

Spilumene, vi. 177.

Spina regia, iii. 107, 208.

Spinal marrow, iii. 63.

Spinelle ruby, vi. 420.

Spinning, invention of, ii. 224; iv. 136.

Spinther, the actor, ii. 147.

Spinturnix, ii. 493.

Spiræ, vi. 375.

Spissum, iii. 167.

Spitter, iii. 44.

Spitting of blood, remedies for, v. 343, 344.

Spittle, human, kills serpents, ii. 126 —particulars relative to, v. 288, 289, 290 —of females, 304.

Splanchnoptes, iv. 407; vi. 183.

Spleen, iii. 73 —animals without, 73 —cauterized in runners, 73 —small in certain animals, 73 —remedies for diseases and affections of, v. 181, 182, 345, 346, 439, 440; vi. 41, 42.

Spleenwort, v. 228, 229.

Splenion, v. 95, 96.

Spodium, iv. 485, 505; vi. 202, 203 —of lead, 218.

Spodos, vi. 202, 203.

Spoleto, i. 240.

Spoletum, i. 240.

Spondylium, iii. 153; v. 12.

Spondylus, vi. 65.

Sponges, ii. 454, 455, 456; v. 519-522.

Spongites, vi. 362.

Spongitis, vi. 457.

Sponsalia, ii. 437.

Spontaneous growth of trees, iii. 394, 395, 396.

Spoonbill, ii. 522.

Sporades, i. 320.

Spotted marble, vi. 325.

Sprains, remedies for, v. 200, 357.

Spring flowers, iv. 336, 337.

Spring-wagtail, ii. 522.

Springs, hot. _See_ “Hot springs.”

Spurge, iv. 228; v. 177, 179, 180.

Squalls, i. 79, 80.

Squalus, ii. 289, 412.

Squatina, ii. 380, 411, 452.

Squill, iv. 241, 242, 243 —vinegar, 241, 242, 480, 481.

Squillace, i. 222.

Squinting, iii. 53.

Squirrel, ii. 310, 311.

Stabiæ, i. 206.

Stachys, v. 55.

Stacte, iii. 130, 131.

Stag-beetle, iii. 33 —used as an amulet, 34 —remedies derived from, v. 454.

Stagira, i. 301.

Stagmint, v. 209.

Stagonia, iii. 128.

Stagonitis, iii. 152.

Stags, an account of, ii. 299-302 —ruminate, 549 —maggots in their brain, iii. 48 —with four kidneys, 73.

Stag-wolf, ii. 284.

Stakes, iii. 495.

Stalactites, v. 482.

Standard of the Roman legions, ii. 485, 486.

Stanko, i. 484.

Stannum, vi. 212, 214, 215.

Staphis, iv. 464.

Staphyle, iv. 466, 467.

Staphylinos, iv. 218, 219.

Staphylodendron, iii. 368.

Staphylus, i. 373.

Starch, iv. 19, 20, 446.

Starfish, ii. 458, 474.

Starlings, ii. 506, 507, 524.

Stars, an account of the, i. 19, 20, 23, 25-31, 35, 36, 42-50, 52, 53, 59, 64 —first observations of the, ii. 235 —their influence on fish, 397 —arrangement of, according to days and nights, iv. 74-77 —rising and setting of, 77, 78 —prognostics derived from, 120, 121.

Star-thistle, iv. 401.

Statice, v. 172, 173.

Statine wine, iii. 241; iv. 471.

Statonian wine, iii. 242.

Statue, plants growing on the head of, v. 68, 69.

Statues, of gold, vi. 105, 106 —of silver, 136, 137 —of brass, 154-158 —of iron, 206 —the heads of, changed, 224.

Statyellæ, v. 472.

Steatitis, vi. 458.

Steatomata, v. 110.

Stelephuros, iv. 357.

Stelis, iii. 434.

Stellio, iii. 31; v. 397, 402, 403 —figurative use of the name, v. 451.

Stemmata, vi. 278.

Stems of plants, iv. 355, 356.

Stephaneplocos, iv. 305; vi. 273.

Stephanomelis, v. 205.

Stephanus, vi. 318.

Stephanusa, vi. 177.

Stergethron, v. 144.

Sterile trees, iii. 202.

Sterility, iv. 97-101 —remedies for, iv. 101, 102.

Stertinius, Q., v. 373.

Stesichorus, ii. 510.

Sthenelus, Acilius, iii. 234, 235.

Sthennis, vi. 169, 187.

Stibi, vi. 115, 116.

Stilo, Ælius, ii. 477.

Stimmi, vi. 115, 116.

Sting-ray. _See_ “Pastinaca.”

“Stipendium,” meaning of the word, vi. 89.

Stobolon, iii. 132.

Stobrum, iii. 135, 136.

Stœbe, iv. 401.

Stœchades, i. 212.

Stœchas, v. 169, 266.

“Stolo,” origin of the name, iii. 440.

Stolo, Licinius, iv. 8.

Stomach, an account of the, iii. 64 —remedies for pains and affections of, v. 164, 165, 344, 437, 438.

Stomatice, iv. 499, 509, 510, 511; v. 38.

Stomoma, vi. 194, 195.

Stone, reproduction of, vi. 358.

Stone of Armenia, vi. 327.

Stone of Assos, vi. 357, 358.

Stone of Naxos, vi. 327.

Stone of Scyros, vi. 357.

Stone of Siphnos, vi. 368.

Stone of Tibur, vi. 324.

Stone-crop, iv. 411; v. 144.

Stone-moss, v. 254.

Stone-quarries, when first opened, ii. 223.

Stones of fruit, iii. 326, 327.

Stones, showers of, i. 66.

Stonework, various kinds of, vi. 372, 373.

Storax, iii. 136, 151, 152; v. 11.

Storks, ii. 501, 502, 503, 508.

“Strabo,” meaning of the name, ii. 147; iii. 53.

Strabo, his acute vision, ii. 162.

Strabo, the geographer, his birth-place, ii. 6 —his work quoted, i. 117, 134, 141, 171, 188, 223, 225, 231, 236, 281, 292, 293, 297, 300, 301, 311, 313, 315, 316, 317, 323, 328, 329, 332, 334, 344, 376, 422, 424, 447, 449, 452, 454, 458, 459, 464, 466, 468, 473, 478, 485, 486, 487, 488, 491; ii. 3, 4, 5, 8, 11, 12, 32, 34, 70, 71, 73, 90, 96.

Strabo of Lampsacus, ii. 242.

Strainers for wine, iv. 475.

Strategies, ii. 19.

Stratiotes, v. 68.

Stratonice, vi. 278, 279.

Stratonicus, vi. 139, 184, 185, 187.

Strawberry, iii. 320.

Strength, instances of extraordinary, ii. 160, 161.

Strepsiceros, ii. 347; iii. 44.

Strictura, vi. 207.

Strigil, v. 145.

Strix, iii. 82.

Strix scops, ii. 530, 531.

Strombi, vi. 49.

Stromboli, i. 222.

Strongyle, i. 222.

Strongylion, vi. 183, 184.

Strophiolum, iv. 304, 305.

Strumus, v. 148, 149, 150, 241.

Struthea, iii. 293.

Struthiocamelus, ii. 478, 479.

Struthion, v. 39, 40.

Struthopodes, ii. 131.

Strychnon, iv. 384, 385; v. 241, 266.

Strymon, i. 302, 303.

Stubbing, iv. 66.

Stucco, vi. 374.

Studiosus, the gladiator, iii. 86.

Studious men, hellebore for, v. 97, 98.

Stuppa, iv. 136.

Sturgeon, ii. 383, 384, 398, 399; vi. 66.

Stymmata, iii. 161.

Stymphalis, i. 133; iii. 43.

Stymphalus, i. 286.

Styptics, v. 48.

Styx, i. 136; v. 470.

Suani, ii. 11, 22.

Suari, ii. 46.

Subdialis, vi. 377.

Subiaco, i. 234, 235.

Subis, ii. 493.

Subjugus, v. 469.

Sublaqueum, i. 234.

Sublician Bridge, vi. 345.

Subsolanus, i. 73; iv. 116.

Subtegulana, vi. 377.

Subulo, iii. 44.

Suckers of trees, iii. 463.

Suculæ, i. 67; iv. 87.

Sudines, vi. 385.

Sudis, vi. 66.

Sudras, ii. 44.

Suessa Pometia, i. 204 —its destruction, ii. 154.

Suessiones, i. 354.

Suet, v. 326, 327.

Suetonius Paulinus, i. 382, 497.

Suevi, i. 347.

Suez, i. 423.

Suffocations, hysterical, iii. 75.

Sugar, iii. 114.

Suilli, iv. 430.

Sulmo, i. 231; iii. 529; vi. 208.

Sulphate of lime, vi. 376.

Sulphur, vi. 291, 292, 293.

Sulphur-wort, v. 126.

Sulpicius Gallus, i. 36.

Sulpicius, Servius, v. 367.

Sumach, iii. 179, 180 —used for preparing leather, 180 —remedies derived from, v. 38.

Summanus, i. 82; v. 391.

Summer flowers, iv. 437, 438, 439.

Summer honey, iii. 13.

Sun, an account of the, i. 34, 38, 39, 50, 51 —several seen at once, 62, 63 —prognostics derived from the, iv. 417, 418, 419.

Sun-dial, the first at Rome, ii. 238 —in the Campus Martius, vi. 334, 335.

Sunfish, vi. 24.

Sunflower, iv. 413, 414, 415.

Sunium, i. 289.

Supercilia, iii. 55.

Superficies, how calculated by Pliny, ii. 109.

Superfœtation, ii. 144, 349, 543.

Supernatia, iii. 294.

Superstition, i. 23, 24.

Superstitions. _See_ “Absurdities,” and “Magic.”

Superstitious beliefs, relative to animals, v. 366, 367 —of various kinds, 283-286, 298, 299.

Supplication, attitudes of, iii. 88.

Sura, Mamilius, ii. 355, 554.

Sura, the proconsul, ii. 147.

Surnames, derived from trees, iii. 440 —from agriculture, iv. 5.

Surrentum, i. 197 —wines of, iii. 241; iv. 470.

Sus babiroussa, ii. 345.

Susa, ii. 62, 79.

Susinum, iii. 163, 165.

Sutlej, ii. 41, 47.

Swallows, i. 307; ii. 505, 506, 521 —avoid the city of Thebes, 505 —used for carrying messages, 505 —an account of, 513, 514 —at the mouth of the Nile, 514 —incapable of being taught, 526.

Swallow-wort, v. 56, 114.

Swammerdam quoted, ii. 428.

Swans, ii. 502, 503 —their singing, 503.

Sweat, the, iii. 78.

Sweet apples, iv. 497.

Sweet wines, iii. 248, 249, 250.

Sweet-scented calamus, iii. 144 —sweet-scented rush, iii. 144; iv. 364.

Sweet-wort, iii. 274.

Swiftness, in runners, ii. 161 —in animals, iii. 67.

Swine, living, gnawed by mice, iii. 76 —of Illyricum, have solid hoofs, 89 —eat serpents, 97 —their mode of feeding, 349, 350 —the grease of, v. 324, 325, 326.

Swordfish, ii. 359, 390; vi. 8.

Syagri, iii. 175.

Sybaris, i. 224 —the destruction of, ii. 163 —the cavalry of, 318.

Sybaris, the river, v. 476.

Syce, v. 261.

Sycitis, vi. 461.

Syene, i. 107, 414, 415—ii. 97.

Sygaros, ii. 88.

Sylla, the Dictator, i. 85, 206, 316; v. 206; vi. 323, 389 —his success and dreadful death, ii. 190, 191 —his memoirs, iv. 394 —his triumph, vi. 76.

Symboli, Port of the, i. 334.

Syme, i. 484.

Sympathy, iv. 206; v. 1; vi. 12, 13, 407.

Symphyton petræon, v. 231, 232.

Symplegades, i. 338.

Symplegma, vi. 314.

Synnephitis, vi. 449.

Synochitis, vi. 461.

Synodontitis, vi. 457, 459.

Synodus, vi. 457.

Syphax, i. 385.

Syracuse, i. 217.

Syrbotæ, ii. 101, 134.

Syreon, v. 71, 72.

Syria described, i. 423 —Antiochia described, i. 436 —the trees of, iii. 178.

Syricum, vi. 240.

Syrie, i. 469.

Syringia, iii. 405.

Syringitis, vi. 457.

Syrites, iii. 74.

Syron, v. 165, 166.

Syrtes, i. 391.

Syrtitis, vi. 457.

T.

Tabanus, iii. 35.

Table-napkins, i. 1, 170 —of asbestus, iv. 136, 137.

Tables, large, iii. 195, 196, 197.

Tablets, writing, iii. 186.

Tacapa, iii. 388 —its fertility, iv. 67.

Tachos, i. 471.

Tacitus, Cornelius, ii. 158.

Tacitus, the historian, quoted, i. 136, 330, 347, 450.

Tacompsos, ii. 98.

Tadmor, i. 445.

Tadpoles, ii. 462, 463; vi. 50.

Tænarum, i. 282, 283.

Tagasta, i. 395.

Tagliamento, i. 249.

Tagus, i. 264.

Tails, men with, ii. 134 —of insects, iii. 35 —of animals, 92, 93.

Talc, vi. 368, 369, 446.

Talgæ, i. 399.

Tallies, iii. 372.

Tallow, v. 326, 327.

Talpona, iii. 229.

Tamarica, v. 29, 30.

Tamaricus, river, v. 480.

Tamarindus Indica, iii. 110, 111.

Tamarisk, iii. 374; v. 29, 30.

Tamarix, v. 29, 30.

Taminia, iv. 446, 465, 468.

Tanagra, i. 292.

Tanaïs, i. 327, 335; ii. 14.

Tanaquil, ii. 336; vi. 384.

Tanarus, i. 244.

Tangier, i. 374.

Tannin, iv. 461, 484, 487, 500, 508, 519; v. 6.

Tanning, iv. 499.

Tanos, vi. 413.

Taos, vi. 459.

Tapeworm, remedies for, v. 348, 349.

Taphiusan stone, vi. 365.

Taphræ, i. 334.

Taposiris, vi. 41.

Taprobane, ii. 134, 430; vi. 59 —described, ii. 51.

Tar, iii. 361 —water, v. 18.

Tarandrus, ii. 304.

Tarantula, v. 401.

Tarbelli, v. 472.

Tarda, ii. 500.

Tarentine red, ii. 447.

Tarquinii, i. 190 —Lake of, i. 123.

Tarquinius Priscus, vi. 72, 229, 347, 384.

Tarquinius Superbus, i. 204; iii. 193; iv. 150, 196, 197.

Tarquitius, i. 146.

Tarraco, i. 166; iv. 133 —wines of, iii. 244.

Tarragona, i. 166.

Tarshish, i. 156, 369.

Tarsus, i. 447.

Tartessos, i. 156, 399.

Tarum, iii. 142.

Tarutius, iv. 126.

Tarvisium, i. 248.

Tasitia, v. 478.

Tattooing, practice of, ii. 8; iv. 389 —a probable allusion to, ii. 145.

Taurica, i. 333.

Taurini, i. 247.

Tauriscus, vi. 139, 318.

Tauromenian wine, iii. 242.

Tauron, ii. 241.

Taurus (bird), ii. 522.

Taurus (range of), i. 453.

Taxilla, ii. 41.

Taygetus, i. 283.

Teal, ii. 528.

Teats, iii. 75.

Teazel, v. 148.

Tecolithos, vi. 362, 443, 457.

Tectæ, ii. 332.

Tectosages, i. 492.

Teeth, the human, ii. 153, 154, 155 —superstition as to, 155 —serrated, 549; iii. 56, 61 —an account of, 56, 57 —canine, 56, 58, 60 —hollow, 57 —of fish, 57 —of serpents, 57, 58 —of other animals, 58 —marvels connected with, 59, 60 —cut in old age, 59 —double row of, 60 —never changed, 60 —age of animals estimated from, 60, 61 —human, venom in, 61 —remedies for diseases of, v. 145, 146 —remedies derived from the human, 291.

Tegea, i. 286.

Telchius, ii. 12.

Telephanes, v. 177.

Telephion, v. 267, 268.

Telephus, v. 94; vi. 211.

Telestis, vi. 268.

Telinum, iii. 164.

Telis, v. 74.

Telmessus, i. 457.

Telmissus, i. 462.

Tembrogius, ii. 3.

Temetum, iii. 252.

Temesvar, i. 306.

Tempe, i. 296

Tempests, i. 80 —prognostics derived from, iv. 122.

Temples, ornaments of, made of brass, vi. 153 —marvels connected with, 344.

Temsa, i. 209.

Temulentia, iii. 253.

Tenedos, i. 488.

Teneriffe, ii. 108.

Tenesmus, remedies for, v. 348, 349.

Tenites, vi. 436.

Tenos, i. 318.

Tents (surgical), v. 520.

Tentyra, i. 407.

Tentyris, i. 417.

Tentyritæ, ii. 289.

Tephrias, vi. 328.

Tephritis, vi. 457.

Terebinth, iii. 179; v. 12, 13, 16.

Terebinthine, iii. 179, 357; v. 16.

Teredo, iii. 2, 22, 367, 425.

Terence quoted, i. 318.

Tereus, i. 307.

Tergeste, i. 250.

Tergilla, iii. 275.

Terpander, ii. 231.

Terrace-pavements, vi. 377.

Terracina, i. 194.

Terrestrial animals, generation of, ii. 540-544.

Tesseræ or watchwords, ii. 229.

Testes, iii. 92 —injuries of the, 92 —remedies for diseases of, v. 187.

Testudo, ii. 288.

Tethalassomenon, iii. 248.

Tethea, vi. 39.

Tetrao, ii. 500.

Tetrarchies, i. 432, 433.

Tettigometra, iii. 32.

Tettigonia, iii. 31.

Teucer, the artist, vi. 140.

Teucer, the hero, i. 481.

Teuchites, iv. 364.

Teucria, v. 52, 53.

Teuthalis, v. 259, 260.

Teuthrion, iv. 326.

Teutoni, i. 346.

Text of Pliny, its defective state, vi. 1.

Thalami, ii. 330.

Thalassægle, v. 65.

Thalassites, iii. 248.

Thalassomeli, v. 498.

Thales, i. 37; iv. 127; vi. 338.

Thalictrum, v. 268.

Thamyris, ii. 231.

Thapsia, iii. 205, 206.

Thapsus, i. 391.

Thasos, i. 324 —wines of, iii. 245 —grapes of, 262.

Theamedes, iv. 207; vi. 356, 357.

Theangalis, v. 66.

Theatre, of Pompeius, vi. 350 —of Scaurus, 163, 349, 350.

Theatres, awnings for, iv. 138 —saffron-water used in, 321.

Thebaic stone, vi. 331, 367.

Thebaïs, i. 407.

Thebasa, i. 493.

Thebes, in Bœotia, i. 290 —the taking of, vi. 174.

Thebes, the Corsian, i. 277.

Thebes, in Egypt, i. 416; vi. 343.

Thebes, in Thessaly, i. 294.

Thelycardios, vi. 457.

Thelygonon, v. 191, 213, 214, 239.

Thelyphonon, v. 128, 218-221.

Thelypteris, v. 245, 246.

Thelyrrhizos, vi. 457.

Themiscyra described, ii. 8.

Themison, iii. 100; v. 372.

Theobrotion, v. 64, 65, 66.

Theochrestus, vi. 467.

Theodorus, ii. 226; vi. 184, 283, 342.

Theodosia, i. 334.

Theomenes, vi. 467.

Theomnestus, vi. 145, 188, 267.

Theon, vi. 280.

Theon Ochema, i. 380; ii. 104.

Theophrastus, i. 9, 10, 270 —quoted, 193, 194; iii. 197, 441, 478, 525; iv. 208; vi. 366, 461.

Theopompus, i. 150.

Theramne, i. 283.

Theriaca, grapes of the, iv. 463.

Theriace, v. 384, 396 —composition of, iv. 299, 300.

Therimachus, vi. 169, 256.

Therionarca, v. 65, 124.

Thermæ, Gulf of, i. 300, 324.

Thermopylæ, i. 294.

Theseus, i. 289; iv. 426.

Thesion, iv. 359, 417.

Thesmophoria, v. 26.

Thespiades, vi. 321.

Thespiæ, i. 290; v. 475.

Thesproti, i. 271.

Thessalonica, i. 300.

Thessalus, v. 373.

Thessaly described, i. 294 —its witchcraft, v. 423.

Thibii, ii. 127.

Thieldones, ii. 322.

Thirst, successfully resisted, ii. 159 —how prevented in Gætulia, 550 —how allayed, iii. 99.

Thistles, various kinds of, iv. 190, 191, 299, 351, 353, 354, 401, 425, 426; v. 45, 239.

Thlaspi, v. 268, 269.

Thomna, iii. 128.

Thorn, iv. 421; v. 43-46.

Thorn, Egyptian, iii. 183.

Thorn, Indian, iii. 109.

Thorn, royal, iii. 207, 208.

Thorn, thirsty, iii. 211.

Thorybethron, v. 173.

Thos, ii. 304.

Thoth, the Egyptian month, v. 256.

Thrace described, i. 302.

Thracia (stone), vi. 457.

Thranis, vi. 65.

Thrasimenus, i. 116.

Thrason, vi. 188.

Thrasyllus, i. 149.

Thread, gold, vi. 98.

Threshing-floor, iv. 70, 102.

Thrissa, vi. 65.

Throat, iii. 63, 64 —remedies for affections of, v. 433.

Thrushes, ii. 506, 509 —fattened, ii. 501.

Thryallis, v. 127, 128.

Thryselinum, v. 135.

Thucydides, i. 119, 270, 474; ii. 175.

Thule, i. 109, 145, 352; ii. 113.

Thunder, i. 69, 70, 80-83, 86 —ascribed to Jupiter, 51, 52 —prognostics from, iv. 121 —truffles produced by, 144.

Thurii, wines of, iii. 243.

Thyatira, i. 468.

Thymbræum, iv. 293.

Thyme, iv. 292, 293, 331, 332, 375, 376.

Thymelæa, iii. 201.

Thynias, ii. 22.

Thynni, ii. 385.

Thynnis, vi. 65.

Thyon, iii. 197.

Thyrea, i. 283.

Thyrsus, iii. 187.

Thysdris, ii. 138.

Tiber, i. 191, 192.

Tiberias, i. 429.

Tiberius, the Emperor, i. 264; ii. 197, 198; iii. 241, 272; iv. 156, 174, 188, 189; v. 283, 390, 426; vi. 81, 234, 381 —could see in the dark, iii. 51.

Tibur, stone of, vi. 324.

Tiburnus, iii. 431.

Ticks, various kinds of, iii. 40, 41.

Tides, an account of the, i. 124-128.

Tifernum, i. 240,

Tifernus, i. 231.

Tiga, i. 395.

Tigers, when first seen at Rome, ii. 275 —their nature, 275, 276.

Tigranes, ii. 82.

Tigranocerta, ii. 19.

Tigress, instinct of the, ii. 248.

Tigrinæ, iii. 196.

Tigris, ii. 62, 75.

Tiles, the invention of, ii. 222 —an account of, vi. 368.

Tiliaventum, i. 249.

Timæus, i. 30, 148, 372; vi. 145, 222.

Timagenes, i. 270.

Timanthes, vi. 251, 254, 255.

Timarchides, vi. 188.

Timarchus, vi. 170.

Timarete, vi. 249, 281.

Timaris, vi. 455.

Timaristus, iv. 368.

Timavus, i. 266.

Timber, felling of iii. 415, 416, 417.

Time, Roman reckoning of, ii. 125.

Time-pieces, the first, ii. 237.

Timictonia, vi. 459.

Timocles, vi. 170.

Timomachus, vi. 277.

Timon the misanthrope, ii. 160.

Timosthenes, i. 371.

Timotheus, the musician, ii. 231.

Timotheus, the sculptor, vi. 188, 316, 317.

Tin, i. 351 —first use of, ii. 225 —an account of, vi. 212.

Tinea, iii. 425.

Tingi, i. 374.

Tinning, vi. 214.

Tinnunculus, ii. 519, 532.

Tinting of flowers, iv. 317.

Tinus, iii. 333.

Tipasa, i. 386.

Tiphe, iv. 31, 35.

Tiresias, vi. 456.

Tiridates, v. 428.

Tiro, Sabinus, iv. 204.

Tiro, Tullius, i. 147.

Tiryns, i. 284.

Tisicrates, vi. 176, 187 —colouring of, 282, 283.

Tithymalis, v. 179.

Tithymalon, iv. 279, 280.

Tithymalos, v. 177-180.

Titidius Labeo, vi. 230.

Titles of Greek works, i. 7.

Titus, the Emperor, i. 2, 147; vi. 320.

Tlepolemus, iv. 302.

Tmolus, i. 465; ii. 203 —wines of, iii. 245, 246.

Toad, vi. 22. _See also_ “Bramble-frog,” and “Rubeta.”

Tobit, cure of his father’s blindness, vi. 30.

Toes, eight on each foot, ii. 130.

Toga, statues clad in the, vi. 155.

Toga Phryxia, ii. 337.

Toga picta, ii. 443.

Toga prætexta, ii. 337, 338, 411, 447, 448; vi. 72.

Toga pura, ii. 336.

Toga undulata, ii. 336.

Toledo, i. 171.

Toletum, i. 171.

Tolosa, i. 180.

Tomentum, ii. 335; iv. 184.

Tomi, i. 306; vi. 65.

Tonberos, ii. 58.

Tone, vi. 235, 236.

Tongres, v. 476.

Tongue, of various animals, iii. 61 —asperities of, in some, 61.

Tonsillary glands, iii. 62 —remedies for diseases of, v. 342.

Tooth of wolf used as an amulet, iii. 59.

Tooth-ache, remedies for, v. 338, 339, 430, 431; vi. 34.

Toothpicks, v. 19.

Tooth-wort, v. 245, 257.

Toparchies of Judæa, i. 427.

Topaz, vi. 427, 434, 435.

Topazos, vi. 426, 427.

Tophus, iii. 447, 448; vi. 371.

Toranius, his trick upon Antony, ii. 148.

Torch-tree, iii. 358; v. 19.

Torcs of gold, vi. 86.

Tordylon, v. 71, 72.

Toreutic art, vi. 171, 247, 256.

Tornadoes, i. 80.

Torone, i. 300.

Torpedo, ii. 396, 411, 451, 456; vi. 4.

Torquatus, his defeat of the Gaul, vi. 75.

Torquatus, Novellius, the drunkard, iii. 272, 273.

Torques, ii. 171; vi. 86.

Tortivum, iii. 268.

Tortoise, vi. 15-18.

Tortoise shell, ii. 379; iii. 429; vi. 16.

Tortona, i. 186.

Touchstones, vi. 125, 327, 328.

Toulouse, i. 180.

Tourmaline, vi. 356, 398, 404, 405, 424, 425, 448, 453.

Towers, by whom first erected, ii. 223.

Toxica, iii. 360; iv. 397; v. 10, 333.

Toxicum, v. 171.

Trabea, ii. 337, 447.

Trachin, i. 294.

Trachinia, v. 269.

Trachonitis, i. 433.

Trafalgar, Cape, i. 156.

Tragacanthe, iii. 202.

Tragelaphus, ii. 302.

Tragemata, iii. 177.

Tragi, ii. 455.

Tragion, iii. 201, 202.

Tragonis, v. 269, 270.

Tragopan, ii. 530.

Tragopogon, iv. 349; v. 270.

Tragoriganum, iv. 268.

Tragos, iii. 202; v. 270.

Tragum, iv. 29.

Tragus, ii. 455; vi. 65.

Trajan, the Emperor, his death, i. 448.

Tralles, i. 464.

Transpadana, i. 246.

Transplanting, iii. 468-471, 487-491.

Trapezus, ii. 9.

Travertine, vi. 371.

“Treacle,” origin of the word, iv. 300; v. 380.

Treasury, the Roman, vi. 95.

Trebellian wine, iii. 243.

Trebizond, ii. 9.

Trebula, wine of, iii. 244.

Trees, their place in the system of Nature, =iii.= 101 —early history of, 102 —consecrated to peculiar divinities, 102 —uses of, 103 —exotic, 103 —of huge size, 105 —of India, 107, 108 —of Asia, 115, 116 —of Persia, 117 —that grow in the sea, 117 —that never lose their leaves, 118 —products of, 119 —exhibited in triumphal processions, 147 —of Syria, 178 —of Phœnicia, 178 —of Egypt, 180 —in which fruits germinate one beneath the other, 182 —of Æthiopia, 193, 194 —of Mount Atlas, 194, 195 —of Cyrenaica, 200 —of Asia and Greece, 201 —of the Mediterranean, 209, 210 —gigantic, in the Indian Seas, 212 —of the Troglodytic Sea, 212 —methods of grafting, 302 —countries that have none, 339 —wonders connected with those of the North, 340, 341 —various products of, 350, 351 —the bark of, 354, 255 —those of which the wood is valued, 365 —localities of various, 370, 371 —species of, 373 —evergreen, 373, 374 —leaves of, 374-379 —blossoms of, 380, 383 —fecundation of, 381 —which bear the whole year, 385 —which bear no fruit, 385 —looked upon as ill-omened, 386, 387 —which soonest lose their fruit or flowers, 386 —unproductive in some localities, 387 —their mode of bearing, 387 —in which the fruit appears first, 387 —with two crops in a year, 388 —which become old most rapidly or most slowly, 389, 390 —with various products, 390 —differences in their trunks and branches, 391, 392 —roots of, 391 —trunks of, 391, 392 —branches of, 391, 392 —bark of, 393 —which grow spontaneously, 394, 395, 396 —changes in their nature, 397 —juices of, 412 —veins and pores of, 413, 414 —the felling of, 415 —size of, 417 —largest in size, 419 —some proof against decay, 422, 423 —age of, 429, 430, 431 —shortlived, 432 —famous, 433 —enormous prices of, 438, 439 —surnames derived from, 440 —influence of weather upon, 441, 442 —their mode of bearing, 460 —which never degenerate, 461, 462 —interval left between, 472, 473 —shadow thrown by, 473, 474 —growth of, 475 —which grow from cuttings, 486 —diseases of, 517-524, 527, 530 —which are injurious to one another, 525, 526 —prodigies connected with, 526, 527 —incisions in, 529, 530 —mode of manuring, 531, 532 —medicaments for, 532, 533, 534.

Trefoil, iv. 330, 331, 374, 375.

Trent, i. 252.

Treviso, i. 248.

Triarius, ii. 8.

Triballi, i. 297.

Tribes of Rome, iv. 6.

Tribulum, iv. 103.

Tribulus, iv. 351, 355, 400, 401.

Tribuni ærarii, vi. 83.

Tributanus, the gladiator, ii. 160.

Tributes paid in silver, vi. 93.

Trichecum dugong, ii. 361.

Trichecum manatum, ii. 361, 370.

Trichecus rosmarinus, ii. 364.

Trichias, ii. 389.

Trichomanes, iv. 415, 416, 417; v. 268.

Trichrus, vi. 457.

Tricoccum, iv. 413, 414, 415.

Tricongius, iii. 272.

Tridentum, i. 252.

Triens, the story of the Servilian, vi. 205.

Trieste, i. 250.

Trifoline wines, iii. 244.

Trigarium, vi. 464.

Trigarius, vi. 109.

Trigemenian Gate, iv. 7.

Triglitis, vi. 459.

Triophthalmos, vi. 458.

Triorchis, ii. 487; iii. 92; v. 105.

Tripatinium, vi. 287.

Tripolium, v. 167.

Tripudia solistima, ii. 497.

Triton, the river, i. 394, 412.

Tritons, ii. 362, 363.

Trispithami, ii. 132.

Triumphs, usages at, v. 290, 291; vi. 73.

Triumpilini, i. 254.

Trixago, v. 52, 53.

Troas described, i. 476.

Trochi, ii. 467.

Trochilus, ii. 288, 551.

Trœzen, i. 284; v. 475 —wine of, iii. 262.

Troglodytæ, i. 134, 329, 398, 404; ii. 95, 96, 130, 134, 379; iii. 45, 124, 142, 143; v. 478; vi. 426, 427.

Troglodytic Sea, iii. 212, 213.

Troglodytica, i. 103, 107, 108; vi. 451 —described, ii. 93.

Trogus Pompeius, ii. 240.

Trophonius, v. 477; vi. 176.

Trophy erected on the Alps, i. 256.

Trossuli, vi. 85, 86.

Trowsers, i. 173.

Troxallis, v. 439, 460.

Truffles, iv. 142, 143, 144.

Trumpet-fish, ii. 391, 396.

Trunks of trees, iii. 391, 392.

Trychnum, iv. 384, 385. _See also_ “Strychnon.”

Trygon, ii. 460.

Tuber (fruit) iii. 297, 467.

Tuber (truffle), iv. 142, 143, 144.

Tuber terræ, v. 125, 126.

Tubero, C. Ælius, ii. 210.

Tubero, Q., i. 147.

Tuccia, v. 279.

Tuditanus, C. Sempronius, i. 251; iii. 156.

Tufa, iii. 447, 448; vi. 357, 371.

Tullius, the dwarf, ii. 157.

Tumours, remedies for, v. 201, 202 —inflamed, remedies for, 188, 189.

Tungri, waters of, v. 476.

Tunica recta, ii. 336.

Tunny, ii. 382, 385-388.

Turbith, v. 224.

Turbot, ii. 389, 396, 452.

Turcæ, ii. 15.

Turcomania, ii. 75.

Turduli, ii. 155.

Turf, iii. 340.

Turin, i. 247.

Turnips, iv. 48, 49, 161, 162, 214, 215 —wine from, iv. 478.

Turnsole, iv. 413, 414, 415.

Turpentine, iii. 179, 357; v. 16.

Turpentine-tree, iii. 179; v. 12, 13, 16.

Turpilius, vi. 230.

Turquoise, vi. 427, 428.

Tursio, ii. 377; vi. 66.

Turtles, described, ii. 369; vi. 15 —various kinds of, ii. 377, 378, 379 —how taken, 378, 379 —propagation of, 378, 379 —without tongue or teeth, iii. 64.

Tuscan architecture, vi. 285.

Tuscany, modern, the wines of, iii. 229.

“Tusci,” origin of the name, i. 187.

Tusculum, i. 202.

Tuscus, Fabricius, i. 269.

Tussilago, v. 164.

Twelve Tables, Laws of the, iii. 55; iv. 6, 306, 307; v. 281, 426.

Twins, ii. 138.

Tyana, ii. 6.

Tylos, the island of, ii. 85; iii. 117, 118.

Tympania, ii. 432.

Tympanum, iv. 115.

Tymphæi, i. 275.

Tyndaris, i. 219.

Typhon (wind), i. 57, 79.

Tyra, river, i. 330.

“Tyrant,” meaning of the word, ii. 227.

Tyrian purple, ii. 447, 449.

Tyrrheni, i. 187.

Tyrus, i. 434.

U.

Ubii, i. 355.

Ulcers, remedies for, v. 206-209, 359, 458, 459, 460; vi. 52.

Ulex, vi. 103.

Uliarus, i. 360.

Ulophonon, iv. 407, 408, 409.

Ultramarine, vi. 432.

Ulula, ii. 492.

Ulysses, vi. 265, 267.

Umber, vi. 239.

Umbilicus, iv. 113.

Umbri, i. 187, 191.

Umbri, sheep so called, ii. 339.

Umbria described, i. 237.

Umbricius Melior, ii. 554.

Unedo, iii. 321; iv. 516.

Unguents, iii. 159 —when first used, 159, 160 —various kinds of, 160-165 —regal, 166 —mode of testing, 166 —boxes for, 166 —excesses of luxury in, 167, 168 —when first used by the Romans, 169, 170.

Ungulus, vi. 73.

Unicorn, ii. 279, 281.

Union of Greece and Italy by a bridge, contemplation of, i. 226.

Union of high qualities with purity, ii. 169.

Unions, unnatural, ii. 134 —unproductive, ii. 148, 149.

Ura, i. 445.

Urang-utang, ii. 106. _See also_ “Satyrs.”

Uranoscopos, vi. 30.

Urceolaris, iv. 407.

Uredo nivalis, i. 87.

Urine, human, remedies derived from, v. 299, 300, 301 —incontinence of, vi. 46.

Urinum, ii. 537, 538, 539.

Urna, iii. 45.

Urtication, iv. 402, 403.

Urus, ii. 262 —horns of the, iii. 45.

Usta, vi. 239.

Uterus, position of the fœtus in the, ii. 139 —of animals in, 544 —described, iii. 75.

Utica, i. 389 —Temple at, iii. 424.

Uvula, iii. 62.