Timasius, master-general of the army under the emperor Theodosius, is dis- graced and exiled under Arcadius, iv.
Timothy the Cat conspires the murder of Proterius archbishop of Alexandria, and succeeds him, vi. 35. Tipasa miraculous gift of speech bestow- ed on the Catholics, whose tongues had been cut out there, iv. 408. Tiridates king of Armenia, his character, and history, i. 412. Is restored to his kingdom by Diocletian, 413. Is ex- pelled by the Persians, 416. Is restor ed again by treaty between the Ro- mans and Persians, 423. His conver- sion to Christianity, and death, ii. 315.
Titus admitted to share the Imperial dig- nity with his father Vespasian, i. 83. Togrul Beg, sultan of the Turks, his reign and character, vii. 165. He rescues the caliph of Bagdad from his enemies, 167.
Toledo taken by the Arabs under Tarik,
Toleration, universal, its happy effects in the Roman empire, i. 32. What sects the most intolerant, 228. note. Tollius objections to his account of the vision of Antigonus, ii. 404. note. Torismond, son of Theodoric king of the Visigoths, attends his father against Attila king of the Huns, iv. 282. Bat- tle of Chalons, 286. Is acknowledged king on the death of his father in the field, 288. Is killed by his brother The- odoric, 315.
Torture, how admitted in the criminal law of the Romans under the empe- rors, ii. 273.
Totila is elected king of Italy by the Goths, v. 253. His justice and mode- ration, 255. Besieges and takes the city of Rome, 259. Is induced to spare Rome froin destruction, at the instance of Belisarius, 263. Takes Rome again, 268. Plunders Sicily, 269. Battle of Tagina, 274. His death, 275.
Toulunides, the Saracen dynasty of, vi.
Tournaments preferable exhibitions to the Olympic games, vii. 216.
Tours, battle of, between Charles Mar- tel and the Saracens, vi. 424. Toxandria, in Germany, is over-run and occupied by the Franks, ii. 370.
Traditors, in the primitive church, who, ii. 203.
Trajan, emperor, his conquest of Dacia, i. 6. His conquests in the East, 7. Contrast between the characters of him and Hadrian, 8. His pillar de- scribed, 53. Why adopted by the em peror Nerva, 86. His instructions to Pliny the younger for his conduct to. ward the Christians, ii. 164. Descrip- tion of his famous bridge over the Da- nube, v. 90. note.
Trajan, count, his treacherous murder of Pera king of Armenia, iii. 298. Transubstantiation, the doctrine of, when established, vii. 289.
Trebizond, the city of, taken and plun- dered by the Goths, i. 295. The dukes of, become independent on the Greek empire, vii. 356. Is yielded to the Turks, viii. 163.
Tribigild the Ostrogoth, his rebellion in Phrygia against the emperor Arcadius, iv. 175.
Tribune, the office of, explained, i
Tribonian, his genius and character, v. 325. Is employed by Justinian to reform the code of Roman laws, 327.
Trinity, the mysterious doctrine of, iii. 11. Is violently agitated in the schools of Alexandria, 16. Three systems of, 18. Decisions of the council of Nice concerning, 21. Diferent forms of the doxology, 24. Frauds used to support the doctrine of. iv. 406.
Tripoli, the confederacy of, cruelly op- pressed under the government of count Romanus, ii. 286.
Trisagion, religious war concerning, vi.
Troops, Roman, their discipline, i. 11.. When they first received pay, 178. Cause of the difficulty in levying them, ii. 263. See Jovians, Palatines, and Pretorian bands.
Troy, the situation of that city, and of the Grecian camp of besiegers, de- scribed, ii. 225.
Turin, battle of, between Constantine the Great and the lieutenants of Max- entius, ii. 28.
Turisund, king of the Gepide, his honour- able reception of Alboin the Lombard, who had slain his son in battle, v. 383.
- Turks,their origin, v. 204. Their primitive
institutions, 206. Their conquests, 207. Their alliance with the emperor Justinian, 210. Send auxiliaries to Heraclius, 472.
Turks, grow powerful and licentious un- der the Saracens, vi. 454. Terror ex- cited by their menacing Europe, vii. 73. Their military character, 76. They extend themselves over Asia, 157. Reign of Mahmud the Gaznevide, 158. Their manners and emigration, 162. They subdue Persia, 164. Dynas- ty of the Seljukians, 165. They invade the provinces of the Greek empire, 169. Reformation of the Eastern cal- endar, 179. They conquer Asia Minor, 182.
Their capital city, Nice, taken by the crusaders, vii. 228. The seat of government removed to Iconium, 258. Valour and conquests of Zenghi, 269. Character of sultan Noureddin, 270. Conquest of Egypt, 271. Origin and history of the Ottomans, 470. Their first passage into Europe, 474. Their education and discipline, viii. 38. Em- bassy from, to the emperor Sigismond, 62. Take the city of Constantinople,
Turpin, the romance of, by whom, and
when written, vii. 196. note.
Twelve Tables, review of the laws of, v.
305. Their severity, 364. How the criminal code of, sunk into disuse, 366.
Tyrants of Rome, the popular conceit of the thirty investigated, i. 309. Tyre is besieged by Saladin, vii. 281. Tythes assigned to the clergy as well by Zoroaster as by Moses, i. 227. note. Were first granted to the church by Charlemagne, vi. 195.
Vadomair, prince of the Alemanni, is sent prisoner to Spain by the emperor Julian, iii. 89. His son murdered by the Romans, 272.
Valens, general of the Illyrian frontier, receives the title of Cæsar from Lici- nius, ii. 44. Loses his new title and his life, 45.
Valens, the brother of the emperor Va- lentinian, is associated with him in the empire, iii. 243. Obtains from his brother the Eastern portion of the em- pire, 244, His timidity on the revolt
of Procopius, 249. His character, 255. Is baptised by Eudoxus, and patronises the Arians, 260. Is vindicated from the charge of persecution, 262. His edict against the Egyptian monks, 266. His war with the Goths, 302. Receives the suppliant Goths into the Roman territories, 342. His war with them, 351. Is defeated and killed at the battle of Hadrianople, 362. His eulogium by Libanius, 363. Valens, the Arian bishop of Mursa, his crafty pretension to divine revelation, iii. 33.
Valentia, a new province in Britain, set- tled by Theodosius, iii. 285. Valentinian I. his election to the empire, and character, iii. 240. Associates his brother Valens with him, 243. Divides the empire into the East and West, and retains the latter, 244. His cruelty, 254 His civil institutions, 256. His edicts to restrain the avarice of the clergy, 265. Chastises the Alemanni, and fortifies the Rhine, 272. His ex- pedition to Illyricum, and death 307. Is vindicated from the charge of poly- gamy, 509.
Valentinian II. is invested with the Im-
perial ornaments in his mother's arms, on the death of his father, iii. 311. Is refused, by St. Ambrose, the privi lege of a church for him and his mo- ther Justina, on account of their Arian principles, 413. His flight from the in- vasion of Maximus, 420. Is restored by the emperor Theodosius, 437. His character, 438. His death. 440. Valentinian III. is established emperor of the West, by his cousin Theodosius the Younger, iv. 210. Is committed to the guardianship of his mother Pla- cidia, 212. Flies, on the invasion of Italy by Attila, 295. Sends an embas- sy to Attila to purchase his retreat, 296. Murders the patrician Atius, Ravishes the wife of Petronius Maximus, 302. His death, and cha- racter, 304.
Valentinians, their confused ideas of the
divinity of Jesus Christ, vi. 8. note. Valeria, empress, widow of Galerius, the unfortunate fates of her and her mo- ther, ii. 39.
Valerian is elected censor under the em-
peror Decius, i. 278. His elevation to the empire, and his character, 284. Is defeated and taken prisoner by Sapor
king of Persia, 303. His treatment, 307. His inconsistent behaviour to- ward the Christians, ii. 188. Vandals. See Goths.
Their successes in Spain, iv. 214. Their expedition into Africa under Genseric, 216. They raise a naval force and invade Italy, 310. Sack of Rome, ib. Their naval depredations on the coasts of the Mediterranean, 335. Their conversion to the Christian religion, 393. Persecution of the Ca- tholics, 399.
Expedition of Belisarius against Gelimer, v. 121. Conquest of, 134. Their name and distinction lost in Africa, 141. Remains of their nation still found in Germany, 143. Varanes. See Bahram. Varangians of the north, origin and his- tory of, vii. 85.
Varronian, the infant son of the emperor Jovian, his history, iii. 239. Vataces, John, his long and prosperous reign at Nice, vii. 367. 374. His cha- racter, 391.
Vegetius, his remarks on the degeneracy of the Roman discipline at the time of Theodosius the Great, iii. 448. Veli, the siege of that city, the æra of the Roman army first receiving regular pay, i. 178.
Venice, foundation of that republic, iv. 293. Its infant state under the exarchs of Ravenna, v. 403. Its growth and prosperity at the time of the fourth crusade, vii. 315. Alliance with France, 317. Divides the Greek em- pire with the French, 350. Veratius, his mode of obeying the law of the twelve tables respecting personal insults, v. 363.
Verina, empress, the widow of Leo, de- poses Zeno, v. 4. Her turbulent life, ibid.
Verona, siege of, by Constantine the Great, ii. 29. Battle of, between Sti- licho the Roman general, and Alaric the Goth, iv. 47.
Verres, why his punishment was inade- quate to his offences, v. 368. Vespasian, his prudence in sharing the Imperial dignity with his son Titus, i. 83.
Vestals, Roman, their number and pecu- liar office, iii. 450. Vetranio, the Roman general in Illyri- cum, assumes the purple, and enters into an alliance with the Gaulish
usurper Magnentius, ii. 324 Is reduced to abdicate his new dignity, 326. Victoria exercises the government over the legions and province of Gaul, i. 338.
Victory, her statue and altar, in the senate- house at Rome, described, iii. 452. The senate petitions the Christian ein- perors to have it restored, 453. Vigilantius, the presbyter, is abused by Jerom for opposing monkish supersti- tion, iii. 474. note.
Vigilius, interpreter to the embassy from Theodosius the younger to Attila, is privy to a scheme for the assassination of Attila, iv. 253. Is detected by At- tila, 262.
Vigilius purchases the papal chair of Be- lisarius and his wife, v. 171. Insti- gates the emperor Justinian to resume the conquest of Italy, 270.
Vine, its progress, from the time of Ho- mer, i. 59.
Virgil, his fourth eclogue interpreted into a prophecy of the coming of the Mes- siah, ii. 410. Is the most ancient wri- ter who mentions the manufacture of silk, v. 65.
Vitalian, the Gothic chief, is treacher-
ously murdered at Constantinople, v. 41.
Vitalianus, prætorian præfect under the
emperor Maximin, put to death by order of the senate, i. 200. Vitellius, emperor, his character, i. 89. Vitiges, general of the Barbarians under Theodatus king of Italy, is by his troops dec ared king of Italy, v. 159. He besieges Belisarius in Rome, 161. Is forced to raise the siege, 176. is besieged by Belisarius in Ravenna, 181. Is taken prisoner in Ravenna, 184. Conforms to the Athanasian faith, and is honourably settled in Asia, 185. His embassy to Chosroes king of Persia, 221. Vitruvius the architect, his remarks on the buildings of Rome, iv. 106. Vizir, derivation of that appellation, vi. 264. note.
Ukraine, description of that country,
Uldin, king of the Huns, reduces and
kills Gainas the Goth, iv. 183. Is driven back by the vigilance of the Imperial ministers, 195.
Ulphilas, the apostle of the Goths, his pious labours, iv. 392. Propagated Arianism, 398.
Ulpian, the lawyer, placed at the head of the council of state, under the em-, peror Alexander Severus, i. 168. Is murdered by the prætorian guards,
Voconian law, abolished the right of fe-
male inheritance, v. 354. How evad- ed, 358.
Voltaire prefers the labarum of Constan- tine to the angel of Licinius, ii. 404. note. His reflections on the expenses of a siege, iv. 493. note.
Vortigern, king of South Britain, his in- vitation of the Saxons for assistance against his enemies, iv. 468. Vouti, emperor of China, his exploits against the Huns, iii. 330. Upsal, anciently famous for its Gothic temple, i. 271.
Urban II. pope, patronises Peter the Hermit in his project for recovering the Holy Land, vii. 193. Exhorts the people to a crusade, at the council of Clermont, 197.
Urban V. pope, removes the papal court from Avignon to Rome, viii. 239. Urban VI. pope, his disputed election, viii. 241.
Ursacius, master of the offices under the emperor Valentinian, occasions a re- volt of the Alemanni by his parsimony, iii. 269.
Ursicinus, a Roman general, his treache- rous conduct to Sylvanus in Gaul, ii. 352. Is superseded in his command over the Eastern provinces, 367. Is sent back again to conduct the war with Persia under Sabinian, ibid. Is again disgraced, 368.
Ursini, history of the Roman family of, viii. 210.
Ursulus, treasurer of the empire under Constantius, unjustly put to death by the tribunal of Chalcedon, iii. 109. Usury. See Interest of money.
Walachians, the present, descendants
from the Roman settlers in ancient Dacia, i. 331. note.
Wales is settled by British refugees from Saxon tyranny, iv. 474. 477. The bards of, 480.
Wallia is chosen king of the Goths, iv.
154. He reduces the barbarous invad- ers of Spain, 155. Is settled in Aquitain, 156.
War and robbery, their difference, vi. 232.
Evolutions and military exercise of the Greeks, vii. 32. Military character of the Saracens, 34. Of the Franks and Latins, 36.
Warburton, bishop of Gloucester, his lite- rary character iii. 148. note. His labours to establish the miraculous interruption to Julian's building the temple of Je- rusalem, 151, 152 notes. Warna, battle of, between the sultan Amurath II. and Ladislaus king of Hungary and Poland, viii. 106. Werdan, the Greek general, defeated by the Saracens at Aiznadin, vi. 332. Wheat, the average price of, under the successors of Constantine the Great, iii. 178. note.
Whitaker, Mr. remarks on his account of the Irish descent of the Scottish nation, iii. 282. note.
White, Mr. Arabic professor at Oxford, character of his sermons at Bampton's lecture, vi. 423. note.
Wilfrid, the apostle of Sussex, his bene-
nevolent establishment at Se'sey,iv.479. William I. the Bad, king of Sicily, vii.
William II. the Good, king of Sicily, vii. 153.
Windmills, the use of, from whence de- rived, vii. 379.
Wine, the use of, expressly prohibited by Mahomet, vi. 258.
Wisdom of Solomon, when, and by whom that book was written, iii. 9. Wolodomir, great prince of Russia, mar- ries Anne, daughter of the emperor Romanus, vii. 27. His conversion to Christianity, 97.
Women, in hereditary monarchies, allow- ed to exercise sovereignty, though in- capable of subordinate state offices, i. 167. How treated by the Roman civil laws, v. 341. The Voconian law, how evaded, 358. Are not excluded from Paradise by Mahomet, vi. 262.
Xenophon, his description of the desart of Mesopotamia, iii. 189.
Xerxes, the situation of his bridge of boats for passing over to Europe, pointed out
Yermuk, battle of, between the Greeks and the Saracens, vi. 345.
Yezdegerd, king of Persia, his reign the æra of the fall of the Sassanian dynas- ty, and of the religion of Zoroaster, vi. 317.
Yezid, caliph of the Saracens, vi. 302.
Zabergan invades the Eastern empire with an army of Bulgarians, v. 286. Is re- pulsed by Belisarius, 288. Zachary, pope, pronounces the deposition of Childeric king of France, and the appointment of Pepin to succeed him, vi. 177.
Zano, brother of Gelimer the Vandal usurper conquers Sardinia, v. 130. Is recalled to assist his brother, 131. Is killed, 132.
Zara, a city on the Sclavonian coast, re- duced by the crusaders for the republic of Venice, vii. 321.
Zenghi, sultan, his valour and conquests, vii. 269.
Zeno, emperor of the East, receives a sur- render of the Imperial government of the Western empire, from the senate of Rome, iv. 363. The vicissitudes of his life and reign, v. 3. His Henoti con, vi. 35,
Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, her character and history, i. 339.
Zingis, first emperor of the Moguls and Tartars, parellel between him and At- tila, king of the Huns, iv. 235. His proposal for improving his conquest in China, 243. His birth and early milita- ry exploits, vii. 451. His laws, 452. His invasion of China, 455. Carisme, Transoxiana, and Persia, 456. His death, 457.
Zizais, a noble Sarmatian, is made king of that nation by the emperor Constan- tius, ii. 359.
Zobeir, the Saracen, his bravery in the invasion of Africa, vi. 374.
Zoe, first the concubine, becomes the fourth wife of the emperor Leo the philosopher, vi. 114.
Zoe, wife of Romanus III. and Michael IV. emperors, vi. 123. Zoroaster, the Persian prophet, his high antiquity, i. 221. note. Abridgment of his theology, 222. Provides for the encouragement of agriculture, 225. Assigns tythes to the priests, 226.
Zosimus, his representation of the op- pression of the lustral contribution, ii. 284.
Zuinglius the reformer, his conceptions of the Eucharist, vii. 64. Zurich, brief history of that city, viii. 179.
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