INDEX
TO THE PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS MENTIONED IN THE TEXT AND NOTES.
⁂ The Roman numerals refer to the volume, the Arabic to the Page.
- A.
- Abaci,
vi. 14.
- Abaculi,
vi. 382,
383.
- Abantias,
i. 317.
- Abarimon,
ii. 124.
- Abdera,
i. 304.
- Abdomen,
iii. 75.
- Abella,
i. 198.
- Abellina,
iii. 316.
- Abellinates,
i. 229.
- Abies,
iii. 155.
- Abiga,
v. 13,
14.
- Abnoba,
i. 328.
- Abominations mentioned by Pliny,
v. 302.
- Abortion,
ii. 141;
iv. 285.
- Abrotonum,
iv. 334,
377,
378;
v. 106.
232.
- Abruzzo,
i. 231.
- Absarus,
ii. 10.
- Abscesses, remedies for,
v. 201,
202.
- Absinthites,
iii. 259.
- Absinthium,
v. 106,
232-235;
vi. 41.
- And see “Wormwood.”
- Absinthium marinum,
v. 235.
- Abstinence, from food,
iii. 99
- —from drink,
iii. 99.
- Absurdities mentioned by Pliny,
i. 405,
406;
iv. 102,
105,
110,
178,
179,
190,
199,
200,
249,
250,
285,
316,
332,
373,
400,
414,
468,
482,
502;
v. 2,
9,
30,
59,
61,
62,
63,
64,
65,
67,
68,
69,
70,
73,
89,
93,
95,
105,
106,
128,
188,
189,
218,
265,
266,
283,
289,
292,
301,
304,
305,
306,
307,
311,
313,
339,
340,
345,
346,
350,
355,
365,
366,
367,
384,
398,
410,
414,
435,
436,
452,
463,
464,
466,
467,
468,
522;
vi. 4,
18,
21,
32,
39,
48,
205,
361,
434,
438,
441,
446,
447,
450,
456.
- Absyrtides,
i. 258,
266.
- Absyrtus,
i. 256.
266,
306;
ii. 10.
- Abydos,
i. 308,
417,
489.
- Abyla,
i. 152,
384.
- Acacia,
v. 43,
44;
vi. 341
- —Nilotica,
iii. 183,
184.
- Academia of Cicero,
v. 473,
474.
- Academy at Athens,
iii. 104.
- Acanos,
iv. 398.
- Acanthice mastiche,
iv. 354.
- Acanthion,
v. 43.
- Acanthis,
ii. 542;
v. 146,
147.
- Acanthus,
iv. 421.
- Acanthyllis,
ii. 515.
- Acarnania described,
i. 273.
- Acatium,
ii. 423.
- Acerræ,
i. 240.
- Acetum (honey),
iii. 14.
- Achæmenis,
v. 64,
159.
- Achaia described,
i. 280.
- Acharne,
vi. 60.
- Acharus,
ii. 157.
- Achates (stone),
vi. 388,
439,
440,
441.
- Acheron,
i. 209,
273.
- Acherusia,
i. 197,
273;
ii. 3.
- Achetæ,
iii. 31.
- Achillea,
i. 339.
- Achilleon,
i. 477.
- Achilleos,
v. 94,
95.
- Achilles,
i. 294,
321,
331,
477;
v. 94;
vi. 211.
- Isle of,
i. 331.
- Achirite,
vi. 410.
- Achlis,
ii. 263.
- Acidula,
v. 474.
- Acinos,
iv. 382.
- Acinus,
iii. 319,
320,
321.
- Acipenser,
ii. 398,
399.
- Acmodæ,
i. 351.
- Acone,
ii. 3.
- Aconitum,
ii. 293;
v. 218-221.
- Aconiti,
vi. 278.
- Acopa,
iv. 491,
518;
v. 411;
vi. 58,
365.
- Acopon,
v. 226,
227.
- Acopos,
vi. 440.
- Acorion,
v. 143.
- Acorn,
iii. 345-348;
v. 4.
- Acorna,
iv. 453.
- Acoron.
v. 142,
143.
- Acqui,
i. 156.
- Acra lapygia,
i. 226.
- Acragas,
vi. 138,
139.
- Acre,
i. 434.
- Acroceraunia,
i. 262,
271.
- Acrocorinthos,
i. 279.
- Acron,
i. 204.
- Actæa,
v. 232.
- Actæon,
iii. 44.
- Acte (place),
i. 288.
- Acte (plant),
v. 198.
- Actiniæ,
iv. 254.
- Actium,
i. 273.
- Battle of,
vi. 2.
- Acynopos,
iv. 349.
- Ad Gallinas,
iii. 336.
- Adad,
vi. 458.
- Adumantis,
v. 65.
- Adamas,
vi. 405,
407,
408.
- Adarca,
iv. 290;
vi. 58.
- Adda,
i. 253.
- Adder gem,
v. 389.
- Adelphides,
iii. 176.
- Adiabene described,
ii. 27.
- Adiantum,
iv. 356,
415,
416,
417.
- Adimantus,
iii. 214.
- Adipsatheon,
v. 45.
- Adipsos,
iv. 399,
400.
- Adornment of the person,
iv. 389,
390.
- Adonis,
iv. 149.
- Gardens of,
iv. 334.
- Adonis (fish),
ii. 406.
- Adonium,
iv. 334.
- “Adorea,” derivation of the word,
iv. 7.
- Adramytteos,
i. 474.
- Adria,
i. 235,
245.
- Adrian wines,
iii. 242.
- Adriatic Sea,
i. 245,
250,
265.
- Adrumetum,
i. 391.
- Adulitæ,
ii. 95.
- Adulteration,
iii. 357.
- Adynamon,
iii. 256.
- Ædemon,
i. 380.
- Ædui,
i. 356.
- Ægæ,
i. 447.
- Ægean Sea described,
i. 309.
- Ægialus, Vetulenus,
iii. 234.
- Ægilops (disease),
iv. 358.
- Ægilops (plant),
iv. 358.
- Ægimius,
ii. 201.
- Ægina,
i. 312.
- Æginetan brass,
vi. 151,
152.
- Ægipans,
i. 378,
405,
406.
- Ægithus,
ii. 487,
551.
- Ægocephalos,
iii. 78.
- Ægoceras,
v. 74.
- Ægolethron,
iv. 341,
342.
- Ægolios,
ii. 539.
- Ægophthalmos,
vi. 459.
- Ægospotamos,
i. 308.
- Ægyptilla,
vi. 443.
- Ælana,
i. 423.
- Ælian quoted,
i. 141.
- Ælius, C.,
vi. 161.
- Ælius, Pætus Catus,
iii. 275.
- Ænaria,
i. 214;
v. 474.
- Æneas,
i. 194,
214.
- Æolian Islands,
i. 221.
- Æolis described,
i. 472.
- Æolus,
i. 221.
- Aërolite,
i. 63,
88,
89,
177;
vi. 4,
38.
- Aëromancy,
v. 427.
- Æs,
vi. 68,
147-155.
- Æsalon,
ii. 551.
- Æschines, the orator,
ii. 174.
- Æschines, the physician,
v. 369.
- Æschrion,
ii. 357.
- Æschylus, mentioned,
ii. 555.
- —quoted,
v. 81.
- Æschynomene,
v. 67.
- Æsculapian snake,
v. 397.
- Æsculapius,
i. 285,
286;
v. 390,
397,
445.
- Æsculetum,
iii. 355.
- Æsculus,
iii. 495.
- Æserninus, Marcellus,
iii. 106.
- Æsop, the fabulist,
vi. 338.
- Æsopus, the actor, his extravagance,
ii. 440,
441;
vi. 287.
- —his famous dish of birds,
ii. 531,
532.
- Æthiopia,
i. 404;
- described,
ii. 97
- —wonders of,
ii. 129
- —animals of,
ii. 276,
279,
281
- —trees of,
iii. 193,
194
- —sand of,
vi. 326.
- Æthiopian Sea, Islands of,
ii. 105.
- Æthiopis,
v. 65,
159,
221.
- Æthiops,
ii. 101.
- Aëtites,
ii. 484;
v. 464;
vi. 364,
446,
449,
456.
- Aëtion,
vi. 169,
256.
- Ætna,
i. 217.
- Ætolia described,
i. 275.
- Æx,
i. 309.
- Africa, described,
i. 374
- —islands of,
i. 402
- —discoveries in,
ii. 98,
99
- —produces no stags,
ii. 303
- —proprietors of, put to death by Nero,
iv. 14,
15
- —its fruitfulness in wheat,
iv. 35,
36.
- African animals, decree respecting,
ii. 274
- —by whom sent to Rome,
ii. 275.
- Africus,
i. 73;
iv. 116.
- Affection, instances of,
ii. 180,
181
- —shewn by serpents,
ii. 252.
- Aganippe,
i. 291.
- Agaric,
iii. 353,
354;
v. 120.
- Agates,
vi. 360,
388,
412,
418,
439,
440,
441.
- Agatharchides,
ii. 241.
- Agathocles, the historian,
i. 371.
- Agathocles of Chios,
ii. 356.
- Agathyrsi,
i. 335.
- Age, of animals known from the teeth,
iii. 60,
61.
- —of trees,
iii. 429,
430.
- Agelades,
vi. 168.
- Ageraton,
v. 221.
- Agesander,
vi. 320.
- Agger,
i. 204;
vi. 347.
- Agility, instances of,
ii. 161.
- Aglaophotis,
v. 64.
- Aglaosthenes,
i. 373.
- Aglaüs, his happiness,
ii. 199.
- Agnus castus,
v. 26,
27,
28.
- Agoracritus,
vi. 310.
- Agreement of mankind on certain points,
ii. 236,
237.
- Agriculture, surnames derived from,
iv. 5
- —ancient taste for,
6
- —writers upon,
9,
10
- —maxims of the ancients upon,
16,
17,
18.
- Agrifolia,
v. 86.
- Agrigentum,
i. 218.
- Agrion,
iii. 121.
- Agriopas,
ii. 355.
- Agrippa, M.,
i. 163,
164,
268;
ii. 142,
143—
vi. 175,
233,
347,
378,
480.
- Agrippæ,
ii. 142.
- Agrippina,
ii. 149,
155,
510,
523;
vi. 130,
302
- —her memoirs,
ii. 239
- —poisons Claudius,
iv. 428.
- Agrippinas, the two, their characters,
ii. 143.
- Ahenobarbus, C. Domitius,
iii. 438,
439.
- Aigleucos,
iii. 249,
250.
- Air,
i. 65.
- Aïzoum,
iv. 58;
v. 143,
144.
- Ajax,
i. 477
- —death of,
iv. 337.
- Ajmere,
ii. 47.
- Alabanda,
i. 464.
- Alabandic stone,
vi. 330,
331.
- Alabaster,
vi. 329
- —boxes for unguents,
ii. 435;
iii. 166;
iv. 310.
- Alabastrites,
vi. 329,
330.
- Alabastritis,
vi. 440.
- Alabastron,
i. 417.
- Alabeta,
i. 410.
- Alauda,
iii. 43.
- Alba Longa,
i. 198.
- Alban Mount,
i. 205.
- Alban wine,
iii. 240,
241;
iv. 470.
- Albania,
ii. 20,
124.
- Albertus Magnus quoted,
ii. 255;
vi. 361,
431.
- Albinos,
ii. 124.
- Albion,
i. 350.
- Albis,
i. 348.
- Albucus,
iv. 360.
- Albugo,
iv. 222.
- Albula,
i. 191,
236;
v. 475.
- Alburnum,
iii. 412.
- Alcæus,
iv. 456.
- Alcala de Henares,
i. 169.
- Alcamenes,
vi. 168,
178,
310.
- Alcea,
v. 224.
- Alcibiades,
iii. 272;
vi. 159,
186,
316.
- Alcibium,
v. 230.
- Alcima,
v. 202,
203.
- Alcippe,
ii. 137.
- Alcman, death of,
iii. 40.
- Alcmena,
v. 298.
- Alcon,
v. 379;
vi. 206.
- Alcyonidium ficus,
iii. 210,
211.
- Alder,
v. 32.
- Alec,
ii. 403.
- Alectoria,
vi. 440.
- Alectoroslophos,
v. 230,
231.
- Alex,
v. 508,
509.
- Alexander the Great,
i. 104,
225,
298,
419,
434,
447,
448,
465,
469,
470,
476,
477,
485,
489,
490;
ii. 27,
32,
33,
35,
48,
51,
58,
59,
71,
72,
81,
173;
iii. 128,
238,
239,
296;
v. 470;
vi. 174,
175,
176,
258,
259,
264,
389
- —his letters,
ii. 115
- —his edict as to his portraits,
184
- —his Indian expedition,
39,
40,
41,
360,
361;
iii. 138,
211,
212;
vi. 27.
- Alexander, king of Epirus,
i. 224,
225.
- Alexander, Cornelius,
i. 270.
- Alexandria,
i. 419
- —plan of,
ii. 184
- —foundation of,
iii. 186.
- Alexipharmacon,
iv. 373.
- Alexis,
vi. 168.
- Alga,
iii. 209,
210.
- Alga rufa,
v. 232.
- Alica,
iv. 28,
41,
42,
43,
195,
443.
- Alicant,
i. 164.
- Aliments, influence of, upon the disposition,
iv. 435,
436.
- Alinda,
i. 465.
- Alisma,
v. 129,
130.
- Alites,
ii. 495.
- Alkaline ashes,
iv. 459,
460.
- Alkanet,
iii. 162;
iv. 355,
409;
v. 238.
- Alkekengi,
iv. 384.
- Alluvion,
i. 117
- —of the Nile,
iii. 186.
- Almaden, mines of,
vi. 122.
- Almanacks,
iii. 480.
- Almandine,
vi. 420.
- Almonds,
iii. 316,
317;
iv. 512,
513.
- Aloe,
v. 222,
223,
224.
- Alopecuros,
iv. 357.
- Alopecy, remedies for,
iv. 223;
v. 408,
409,
334,
335;
vi. 29.
- Alpheus,
i. 281.
- Alphius, Lake,
v. 475.
- Alps, nations of,
i. 254
- —passes of,
i. 247.
- Alsine,
v. 224,
225.
- Altercangenum,
v. 91.
- Althæa,
iv. 286.
- Altinum,
i. 249.
- Alum,
ii. 435;
vi. 295,
296.
- Alum (plants),
iv. 176;
v. 231.
- Alumen,
vi. 294-298.
- Alunite,
vi. 357.
- Alunogen,
vi. 444.
- Aluntium,
iii. 248.
- Alypon,
v. 224.
- Alysson,
v. 39.
- Amadue,
vi. 360.
- Amalchian Sea,
i. 341,
342.
- Amalthæa,
v. 320.
- Amanus,
i. 438,
447.
- Amaracinum,
iii. 161.
- Amaracus,
iv. 334,
335,
378,
379,
383.
- Amaranth,
iv. 327.
- Amardi,
ii. 34.
- Amasia,
ii. 6.
- Amasis, King,
i. 416;
iv. 134;
vi. 295.
- Amastris,
ii. 4.
- Amazons,
i. 468,
470;
ii. 15,
23,
24.
- Amber,
i. 266,
344,
351,
352;
vi. 397-404.
- Ambracia,
vi. 252.
- Ambracian Gulf,
i. 273.
- Ambrosia,
v. 106,
107,
226,
236.
- Ambrysus,
i. 277.
- Ambula,
iv. 234.
- Ameria,
i. 238,
241
- —brooms of,
v. 29
- —willow of,
v. 26.
- Amethyst,
vi. 433.
- Amethystine tint,
ii. 449.
- Amethystos,
vi. 432,
433,
434.
- Amia,
ii. 386.
- Amianthus,
vi. 360,
444.
- Aminean grape,
iii. 322,
323.
- Amisius,
i. 348.
- Amisus,
ii. 5.
- Ammi,
iv. 263,
264.
- Ammianus Marcellinus quoted,
i. 422;
ii. 73.
- Ammoniac gum,
iii. 144,
145;
v. 11.
- Ammonites,
vi. 451.
- Amometus,
ii. 115.
- Amomis,
iii. 123.
- Amomum,
iii. 122.
- Amorgos,
i. 322.
- Ampelitis,
vi. 299.
- Ampeloleuce,
iv. 466,
467.
- Ampelome,
ii. 89.
- Ampeloprason,
v. 55.
- Ampelos agria,
v. 232.
- Ampelos Chironia,
v. 91.
- Ampelusia,
i. 374.
- Amphidanes,
vi. 442.
- Amphilochus of Athens,
ii. 356.
- Amphimalla,
ii. 335.
- Amphion,
ii. 231;
vi. 318,
319.
- Amphipolis,
i. 301,
302;
ii. 488.
- Amphisbæna,
ii. 285;
v. 463.
- Amphissa,
i. 277.
- Amphistratus,
vi. 320.
- Amphitheatre, of Curio,
vi. 350,
351,
352
- —of Nero,
iii. 419.
- Amphitheatre, awnings for,
iv. 139.
- Amphitus,
ii. 12.
- Amphora,
vi. 396.
- Ampsaga,
i. 387.
- Amulets. See “Magic.”
- Amurca of olives,
iii. 280,
281,
286;
iv. 486,
487.
- Amyclæ,
i. 194,
283.
- Amygdalinum,
iii. 288,
289.
- Amygdalites,
v. 180.
- Amylum,
iv. 29,
30,
446.
- Amyris,
iii. 129,
138.
- Anabasis,
v. 166,
203,
204.
- Anacampseros,
v. 67.
- Anacreon, his death,
ii. 142
- —mentioned,
ii. 242
- —quoted,
ii. 200.
- Anactoria,
i. 273.
- Anagallis,
v. 136,
137,
138.
- Anagyros,
v. 226,
227.
- Anaitis,
vi. 106.
- Ananchites,
vi. 408.
- Anancitis,
vi. 461.
- Anaphe,
i. 323.
- Anarrhinon,
v. 131.
- Anataria,
ii. 482.
- Anatomy, ignorance of,
v. 277.
- Anaxagoras,
i. 88, 89.
- Anaxapolis,
ii. 356.
- Anaxarchus, his fortitude,
ii. 164.
- Anaxilaüs,
iv. 205;
vi. 202.
- Anaxilaüs of Larissa,
iv. 387.
- Anaximander,
i. 26,
112,
149,
372.
- Anaximenes,
i. 109;
iii. 157.
- Anazarbus,
i. 149.
- Ancæus,
vi. 261,
262,
278.
- Anchiale,
i. 447.
- Anchialum,
i. 306.
- Anchors, invention of,
ii. 235.
- Anchusa,
iv. 355,
409;
v. 238
- Ancona,
i. 236,
237.
- Ancus Martius,
v. 487,
506.
- Ancyra,
i. 491,
492.
- Andaræ,
ii. 45.
- Andrachle,
iii. 204;
v. 144,
145.
- Andrachne,
iii. 204.
- Andreas,
iv. 302.
- Androbius,
vi. 278.
- Androclus and the Lion,
ii. 271.
- Androcydes, his letter to Alexander,
iii. 288.
- Androdamas,
vi. 363,
440.
- Androgyni,
ii. 126,
136.
- Andromeda,
i. 426,
479;
ii. 99,
364
- —the dwarf,
ii. 157.
- Andropogon,
iii. 144.
- Andros,
i. 318.
- Androsaces,
v. 225.
- Androsæmon,
v. 225,
226.
- Androtion,
ii. 357.
- Anemone,
iv. 336,
379.
- Angel-fish,
ii. 380.
- Anger,
iii. 80.
- Angerona,
i. 202.
- Angora,
i. 492.
- Animals, the largest, in India,
ii. 129
- —wild, their instinct,
248
- —their supposed dread of man,
249
- —medical remedies first indicated by,
291-294
- —prognostics of danger derived from,
294,
295
- —nations exterminated by,
295
- —in a half-wild state,
346
- —that are partly tamed only,
350
- —places where certain, are not found,
352,
353
- —which injure strangers only,
353,
354
- —which injure the natives only,
354
- —the largest found in the sea,
358
- —oviparous,
532
- —terrestrial, that are oviparous,
540
- —terrestrial, the generation of,
540-544
- —position of, in the uterus,
544
- —the origin of which is unknown,
544
- —born of beings that are not born themselves,
546
- —born themselves but not reproductive,
546
- —that are of neither sex,
546
- —the senses of,
546,
547
- —the feeding of,
548
- —that live on poisons,
548
- —the drinking of,
550
- —the antipathies of,
550,
551
- —the friendships of,
551,
552
- —the sleep of,
552,
553
- —certain, subject to dreams,
553
- —that are found in fire,
iii. 42
- —that live for a day only,
42
- —characteristics of, limb by limb,
43
- —horns of,
44,
45,
46
- —that have no eyelids,
54,
55
- —that have not teeth on each side of the mouth,
56
- —that have hollow teeth,
56
- —their age estimated from their teeth,
60
- —in which the neck is rigid,
63
- —which have the largest heart,
65
- —that have two hearts,
65
- —which have the largest lungs,
67
- —which have the smallest lungs,
67
- —that are destitute of gall,
68
- —that have no belly,
71
- —the only ones that vomit,
71
- —that have no kidneys,
73
- —that have no bladder,
74
- —that have suet,
76
- —that have marrow,
76
- —that have no bones,
77
- —that have no nerves,
77,
78
- —that have no arteries or veins,
78
- —the blood of which coagulates,
78
- —the blood of which does not coagulate,
79
- —of which the blood is thickest,
79
- —of which the blood is thinnest,
79
- —that are destitute of blood at certain times,
79,
80
- —the feet of,
91
- —the tails of,
92
- —the voices of,
92,
93
- —that feed upon poison,
98
- —their modes of defence,
iv. 2
- —none that are odoriferous,
323
- —superstitious usages relative to,
v. 366,
367
- —diseases of,
vi. 57,
58.
- Anio,
i. 234.
- Anise,
iv. 271,
272,
273.
- Anna Perenna,
vi. 262.
- Anonis,
iv. 355.
- Anonymos,
v. 227.
- Antæus, the giant,
i. 375.
- Antæus, the physician,
iii. 157.
- Antandros,
i. 475
- —fall of the baths at,
iii. 426.
- Antaphrodisiacs,
v. 189,
467,
468—
vi. 57.
- Antelope,
iii. 44.
- Antelope oryx,
ii. 346.
- Antemnæ,
i. 205.
- Antenor,
i. 252.
- Anteros,
vi. 434.
- Anthalium,
iv. 348,
349,
383.
- Anthedon,
i. 425.
- Anthemis,
iv. 338,
411,
412;
v. 186.
- Anthelmintics,
v. 246.
- Anthericos,
iv. 360.
- Anthias, the fish, how taken,
iv. 273,
274.
- Anthophoros,
v. 35.
- Anthracites,
vi. 364.
- Anthracitis,
vi. 423,
460.
- Anthriscum,
iv. 423.
- Anthropophagi,
i. 335;
ii. 36, 104,
124.
- Anthus,
ii. 522,
551.
- Anthyllis,
v. 184.
- Anthyllium,
iv. 383;
v. 184.
- Antias,
i. 148.
- Antibes,
i. 178.
- Anticlides,
i. 373.
- Anticyra,
i. 277—
v. 98.
- Anticyricon,
iv. 444,
445.
- Antidote, universal,
iv. 299,
300.
- Antidotus,
vi. 275.
- Antigenes,
i. 499.
- Antigonus,
vi. 145.
- Antigonus of Cymæ,
ii. 356.
- Antilibanus,
i. 435.
- Antimony,
vi. 115,
116.
- Antiochia,
i. 437,
444.
- Antiochus,
ii. 146;
iv. 300;
v. 372;
- —the marvellous cure of,
ii. 182.
- Antipater, Cælius,
i. 147.
- Antipater of Sidon,
ii. 209.
- Antipater of Tarsus,
ii. 355.
- Antipathes (the stone),
vi. 442.
- Antipathies, and sympathies between aquatic animals,
ii. 475,
476
- —of animals,
ii. 550,
551.
- Antipathy,
iv. 206,
217,
237,
375;
v. 1,
2;
vi. 12,
13,
50,
51,
407,
442.
- Antiphilus,
vi. 269,
278.
- Antipodes,
i. 94 to
97.
- Antipolis,
i. 178.
- Antiquity of the art of Painting,
vi. 228,
229,
230.
- Antirrhinum,
v. 131.
- Antirrhium,
i. 275.
- Antium,
i. 193.
- Antispodium,
vi. 203,
204.
- Antonia, who never expectorated,
ii. 160.
- Antonines, the,
i. 179.
- Antony, Marc,
i. 242,
439,
440;
iv. 309,
310;
vi. 2,
92,
178,
180,
416
- —harnesses lions,
ii. 270
- —his inebriety,
iii. 273.
- Ants, venomous,
ii. 295
- —description of,
iii. 37,
38
- —their reproduction,
37
- —their habits,
38
- —winged,
38
- —gigantic size of those of India,
38
- —excavate gold,
39;
vi. 99,
442,
443.
- Anubis,
i. 418;
vi. 128.
- Anularian white,
vi. 244.
- Aornos,
i. 271.
- Aorsi,
ii. 32.
- Aosta,
i. 247.
- Apamea,
i. 479;
ii. 78
- —wine of,
iii. 246.
- Apamia,
i. 444.
- Aparine,
v. 227,
228.
- Ἀπαθεῖς,
ii. 160.
- Apatite,
vi. 327.
- Apes,
ii. 95,
100,
132
- —white,
281
- —described,
347
- —their shrewdness,
347
- —how taken,
347
- —affection for their young,
347
- —their teeth,
iii. 58
- —their resemblance to man,
86,
87.
- Apeliotes,
i. 73;
iv. 116.
- Apellas,
vi. 185.
- Apelles, artist,
ii. 184;
vi. 245,
256 to
263,
303.
- Apelles, physician,
v. 369.
- Apennines,
i. 186.
- Aphaca,
v. 230.
- Aphace,
iv. 349,
350.
- Apharce,
iii. 204.
- Aphides,
iii. 179.
- Aphrodisiaca,
vi. 443.
- Aphrodisiacs,
iv. 252;
v. 189,
365,
366,
467,
468;
vi. 57.
- Aphrodisius, the river,
v. 475.
- Aphrodite,
i. 481;
ii. 14.
- Aphronitram,
v. 515.
- Aphua,
v. 508.
- Apiana,
iii. 224.
- Apiastrum,
iv. 247.
- Apiatæ,
iii. 196.
- Apicius, M., the epicure,
ii. 344,
403;
iv. 185.
- Apidanus,
i. 295.
- Apiolæ,
i. 207.
- Apion,
i. 8;
v. 470.
- Apios ischias,
v. 180,
181.
- Apis (the city),
i. 402
- —the Egyptian deity,
ii. 330,
331.
- Apocynum,
v. 40.
- Apodes,
ii. 521;
iii. 90.
- Apographon,
vi. 273.
- Apolecti,
ii. 386.
- Apollinaris,
v. 91.
- Apollo,
i. 462,
473,
475.
- Apollobeches,
v. 424.
- Apollodorus,
i. 371;
ii. 182;
iii. 100,
247;
iv. 301;
vi. 145,
185.
- Apollodorus of Lemnos,
ii. 356.
- Apollonia,
i. 226,
338,
396.
- Apollonides,
ii. 241.
- Apollonius of Pergamus,
ii. 356.
- Apollonius Mus,
v. 368.
- Apollonius of Pitanæ,
v. 420.
- Apollonius Tyanæus,
ii. 6,
7.
- Apothecæ,
iii. 254,
263.
- Appendix,
v. 46.
- Appî Forum,
i. 201.
- Appiades,
vi. 318.
- Appianum,
vi. 243,
244.
- Appius Claudius,
vi. 227.
- Apple of the earth,
v. 116,
117.
- Apples,
iii. 298,
299,
302,
303;
iv. 496,
497
- —smell of,
ii. 132.
- Apronia,
iv. 468.
- Aproxis,
v. 63.
- Aps,
i. 254.
- Apsides,
i. 42.
- Apsinthe,
iii. 259.
- Apsyctos,
vi. 443.
- Apua,
v. 508.
- Apuleius quoted,
i. 122;
v. 158;
vi. 175.
- Apulia,
i. 225,
227.
- Apuscidanus, Lake,
v. 479.
- Apyrenum,
iii. 200.
- Aqua Marcia,
vi. 353.
- Aqua Tepula,
vi. 353.
- Aquamarine,
vi. 414.
- Aquatic animals, distribution of, into species,
ii. 379,
380
- —their parturitions,
380,
381
- —their antipathies and sympathies,
475,
476
- —prognostics derived from,
iv. 123,
124.
- Aqueducts,
v. 487,
488
- —at Rome,
vi. 352,
353,
354.
- Aquifolia,
v. 45,
47,
239.
- Aquila,
i. 148.
- Aquileia,
i. 209.
- Aquilius,
vi. 92.
- Aquilo,
i. 74,
77;
iv. 115.
- Aquitanica described,
i. 357.
- Arabia, described,
i. 422—
ii. 82
- —its spices,
iii. 123
- —Roman expedition against,
125
- —why called “Happy,”
136,
137
- —its perfumes,
138
- —its rivers,
vi. 5.
- Arabian Gulf,
ii. 66.
- Arabian stone,
vi. 365,
366.
- Arabian thorn,
v. 43.
- Arabica,
vi. 442.
- Arabis,
ii. 134,
360.
- Arabs,
ii. 90,
91.
- Arachidna,
iv. 349.
- Arachne,
i. 472—
ii. 224.
- Arachosia,
ii. 50,
57.
- Aracos,
iv. 349.
- Aracynthus,
i. 276.
- Arados,
i. 479.
- Aral, Sea of,
ii. 32.
- Araneus,
vi. 61.
- Arar,
i. 175.
- Aratus,
iv. 128.
- Arausio,
i. 178.
- Araxes,
ii. 18.
- Araxus,
i. 311.
- Arbalo, victory at,
iii. 19.
- Arbela,
i. 104;
ii. 27,
71.
- Arbute-tree,
iii. 320,
321.
- Arbutus,
iii. 320;
iv. 516.
- Arcadia, described,
i. 285
- —asses of,
ii. 323
- —wines of,
iii. 262
- —its simples,
v. 116.
- Arcesilas,
vi. 281.
- Arcesilaüs,
vi. 285,
322.
- Archagathus,
v. 375.
- Archebion,
iv. 410,
411.
- Archelaüs, king,
ii. 357.
- Archelaüs, the poet,
v. 368.
- Archezostis,
iv. 466,
467.
- Archibius,
iv. 128.
- Archidemus,
iii. 158.
- Archilochus,
ii. 174.
- Archimachus,
ii. 243.
- Archimedes,
i. 149;
ii. 183.
- Architecture, the orders of,
vi. 374,
375.
- Archytas,
ii. 356.
- Arcion,
v. 124,
164.
- Arconnesus,
i. 484.
- Arction,
v. 228.
- Arcturum,
v. 228.
- Arcturus,
iv. 107.
- Ardea,
i. 193
- —paintings at,
vi. 270.
- Areca catechu,
v. 66.
- Areiopagus,
ii. 227.
- Arelate,
i. 178.
- Arellius,
vi. 271.
- Arellius Fuscus,
vi. 137.
- Arescon,
ii. 138.
- Arescusa,
ii. 138.
- Arethusa,
i. 131,
217,
291,
317;
v. 493.
- Arezzo,
i. 189.
- Argæus,
ii. 7.
- Arganthonius,
ii. 200,
201.
- Argema,
iv. 222.
- Argemo,
v. 188.
- Argemone,
iv. 379.
- Argemonia,
v. 119,
120.
- Argentaria,
iii. 454;
vi. 301.
- Argentarii,
iv. 307;
vi. 232.
- Argentarium,
vi. 214.
- Argilla,
iii. 453.
- Arginussæ,
i. 488.
- Argippæi,
ii. 15.
- Argo, the ship,
iii. 203.
- Argolis described,
i. 284.
- Argonauts,
i. 250;
ii. 10.
- Argos, Amphilochian,
i. 174
- —Hippian,
i. 228,
284
- —Inachian or Dipsian,
i. 284,
285.
- Argyrodamas,
vi. 441.
- Argyrippa,
i. 228.
- Argyritis,
vi. 117.
- Aria,
ii. 23.
- Ariadne,
vi. 316.
- Ariana described,
ii. 56,
58
- —trees of,
iii. 115.
- Arianis,
v. 65.
- Aricia,
i. 142,
198.
- Ariena,
iii. 110.
- Arii,
ii. 50.
- Arimaspi,
ii. 34,
123,
124,
336.
- Ariminum,
i. 241.
- Arimphæi,
ii. 15,
24.
- Arinca,
iv. 31,
35,
441.
- Arion, the story of,
ii. 374.
- Arisaros,
v. 60.
- Arisbe,
i. 487.
- Aristæus, the story of,
iii. 23;
iv. 344.
- Aristagoras,
vi. 385.
- Aristander,
ii. 357.
- Aristarchus of Sicyon,
i. 499.
- Aristarete,
vi. 281.
- Aristeas,
ii. 211,
241.
- Aristides, (artist),
vi. 168,
178,
255,
263,
264,
272.
- Aristides of Miletus,
i. 372.
- Aristis,
v. 250.
- Aristocreon,
i. 499.
- Aristocritus,
i. 378.
- Aristodemus,
vi. 185.
- Aristogenes,
v. 420.
- Aristogiton,
vi. 155,
177,
179.
- Aristogiton, the author,
iv. 272.
- Aristolaüs,
vi. 277.
- Aristolochia,
v. 116,
117,
118.
- Aristomachus,
iii. 214.
- Aristomachus of Soli,
iii. 100.
- Aristomenes, his heart covered with hair,
iii. 66
- —his remarkable escape,
66.
- Aristophanes, the comic writer, quoted,
iv. 319
- —his joke upon Euripides,
423.
- Aristophanes of Miletus,
ii. 356.
- Ariston,
vi. 139,
185,
268.
- Aristonidas,
vi. 206,
281.
- Aristophon,
vi. 278.
- Aristotle, his birth-place,
i. 301
- —his enquiries into Natural History, by order of Alexander,
ii. 265
- —quoted,
i. 29,
57,
70,
73,
81,
90,
91,
112,
113,
128,
129,
135,
318,
319,
485;
ii. 146,
174;
iii. 92,
96;
v. 470;
vi. 287.
- Aristratus,
vi. 268.
- Arles,
i. 178.
- Armenia described,
ii. 17.
- Armenian bole,
vi. 243.
- Armenium,
vi. 243.
- Armenochalybes,
ii. 9,
21.
- Armentarius,
ii. 148.
- Armillæ,
ii. 171.
- Arms, various, when first used,
ii. 227,
228.
- Arms (of the body) described,
iii. 86
- —peculiarities in,
86.
- Aromatic wines,
iii. 258,
259.
- Aromatites,
iii. 253,
258,
259.
- Aromatitis,
vi. 442.
- Arcs,
ii. 299,
300.
- Arosapes,
ii. 58.
- Aroteres,
i. 306.
- Arpinum,
i. 199.
- Arraceni,
ii. 88.
- Arrenogonon,
v. 191.
- Arretium,
i. 189.
- Arrhenicum,
vi. 220,
221.
- Arrian, his autograph,
vi. 336.
- Arrows,
iii. 404
- —how poisoned,
iii. 97,
98.
- Arrugiæ,
vi. 101.
- Arruntius,
i. 269.
- Arsenic,
vi. 220,
221.
- Arsenogonon,
v. 213,
214.
- Arsinoë,
vi. 427
- —city of,
i. 396;
ii. 93
- —temple of,
vi. 209.
- Arsinoïtes,
i. 409.
- Artabrum,
i. 363.
- Artacoana,
ii. 58.
- Artaphernes,
vi. 248.
- Artaxata,
ii. 19.
- Artemidorus,
i. 150.
- Artemis,
i. 463,
468,
473.
- Artemisia (plant),
v. 106,
226,
236.
- Artemisia (queen),
v. 106;
vi. 316,
317.
- Artemisium,
i. 317.
- Artemita,
i. 274;
ii. 71.
- Artemon (the artist),
vi. 278.
- Artemon (the writer),
v. 368.
- Artemon, his resemblance to Antiochus,
ii. 146.
- Arteriace,
iv. 279,
509,
510,
511.
- Arterial pulsation,
iii. 78.
- Arteries,
iii. 78.
- Artery, tracheal,
iii. 62.
- Articulation,
ii. 155;
iii. 62.
- Artichoke,
iv. 190,
299,
353.
- Artificial wines,
iii. 256-260;
iv. 477,
478.
- Artists in silver,
vi. 138,
139,
140.
- Artolaganus,
iv. 39.
- Arts, persons who have excelled in the,
ii. 182,
183.
- Arum,
iv. 169;
v. 57,
58,
59.
- Aruspices,
iii 69,
336.
- Arval priesthood,
iv. 3.
- As,
vi. 149.
- Asafœtida,
iv. 144,
146,
432.
- Asana,
i. 381.
- Asarotos Œcos,
vi. 376,
377.
- Asarubas,
vi. 467.
- Asarum,
iii. 121,
122;
iv. 319,
369.
- Asbestus,
iv. 136,
137;
vi. 360,
442.
- Ascalabotes,
v. 403.
- Ascalon,
i. 425.
- Ascitæ,
ii. 97.
- Asclepias,
v. 229.
- Asclepiades,
ii. 183,
242
- —his medical practice,
v. 156,
157,
158.
- Asclepiades of Thrace,
ii. 242.
- Asclepiodorus,
vi. 267,
303.
- Asconius Pedianus,
ii. 240.
- Asculum,
i. 236.
- Ascyroïdes,
v. 229,
230.
- Ascyron,
v. 225,
226,
229,
230.
- Aselli,
iv. 121.
- Asellus,
ii. 396,
399.
- Ash (tree),
iii. 365,
366;
v. 21.
- Ashdod,
i. 425.
- Ashes,
vi. 283,
284
- —used in agriculture,
iii. 455,
456.
- Asia, islands of,
i. 479
- —trees of,
iii. 201.
- Asio,
ii. 504.
- Asisium,
i. 238.
- Asmagi,
ii. 47.
- Asp,
ii. 285,
286,
552;
v. 394.
- Aspalathos,
iii. 146,
147;
v. 45.
- Asparagus,
iv. 188,
189,
190,
245,
350,
405.
- Aspendum,
i. 452.
- Asperugo,
v. 193.
- Asphalt,
vi. 293.
- Asphaltites, Lake,
i. 132,
429;
ii. 152.
- Asphodel,
i. 276;
iv. 359,
360,
417,
418.
- Aspisatis,
vi. 442.
- Asplenon,
v. 228,
229.
- Asprenas,
vi. 288.
- Asprenates,
v. 443.
- Ass,
v. 116
- —wild,
ii. 263,
297
- —its generation,
322,
323
- —best varieties of,
323
- —its habits,
324
- —its value,
324
- —eaten as food,
324
- —Indian,
iii. 46
- —its bones used for flutes,
77
- —its milk,
v. 340
- —baths of its milk,
iii. 84.
- Assabinus, the god,
iii. 128,
139.
- Assyria,
i. 424.
- Assisi,
i. 238.
- Astaceni,
i. 139.
- Astaci,
ii. 424.
- Astaphis,
iv. 463,
464
- —agria,
iv. 464,
465.
- Astapus,
i. 411.
- Astarte,
v. 485;
vi. 9.
- Aster,
v. 229.
- Astercum,
iv. 407.
- Asteria,
vi. 437.
- Asthma, remedies for,
v. 344.
- Astobores,
i. 411.
- Astomi,
ii. 131.
- Astorga,
i. 172.
- Astosapes,
i. 411.
- Astragalizontes,
vi. 172.
- Astragals,
vi. 375.
- Astragalus,
v. 170,
171.
- Astragus,
ii. 184.
- Astrapæa,
vi. 460.
- Astrion,
vi. 437.
- Astriotes,
vi. 437.
- Astrobolos,
vi. 438.
- Astrology,
i. 25
- —invention of,
ii. 230.
- Astromancy,
v. 427.
- Astura,
i. 193.
- Asturcones,
ii. 322.
- Asturia,
i. 214.
- Astynomus,
i. 373.
- Astypalæa,
i. 323.
- Asyla,
v. 137.
- Atabulus, the wind,
iii. 523.
- Ateius, L.,
i. 269.
- Ateius Prætextatus,
i. 370.
- Atergatis,
i. 426,
439.
- Aternus,
i. 231.
- Ateste,
i. 252.
- Athamanes,
i. 275.
- Athamantium,
iv. 295,
296.
- Athanatus,
ii. 161.
- Athenæus quoted,
i. 447.
- Athenion,
vi. 276.
- Athenis,
vi. 308.
- Athenodorus,
vi. 320.
- Athens,
i. 289.
- Athletes,
iv. 504.
- Athletic exercises,
iii. 271.
- Athos,
i. 300,
324
- —inhabitants of,
ii. 132.
- Atina,
i. 232.
- Atinas, C. Pompeius,
iv. 394.
- Atinum,
i. 230.
- Atizoë,
vi. 442.
- Atlantes,
i. 405.
- Atlantic Ocean,
i. 210
- —islands of,
i. 367.
- Atlantis,
i. 120;
ii. 106.
- Atlas, Mount, described,
i. 377,
378,
381,
382,
383
- —trees of,
iii. 194.
- Atomic theory of Plato,
iv. 436.
- Atractylis,
iv. 350,
353.
- Atramentum,
v. 2,
3;
vi. 240,
241,
242.
- Atramentum sutorium,
vi. 200,
201,
202.
- Atramitæ,
ii. 87;
iii. 124.
- Atrebates,
i. 354.
- Atria,
i. 245.
- Atriplex,
iv. 282,
283.
- Atropatene,
ii. 27.
- Attacori,
i. 337;
ii. 37.
- Attagen,
ii. 528,
529.
- Attagenæ,
ii. 353.
- Attalic vestments,
ii. 337.
- Attalus, king,
ii. 356;
vi. 136,
145,
264.
- Attelebi,
v. 403.
- Attica described,
i. 288.
- Atticus, Julius,
iii. 275.
- Atticus, Pomponius,
i. 273;
ii. 240;
vi. 226.
- Attilus,
ii. 383.
- Attius, L.,
iv. 126.
- Attus, Navius,
iii. 310,
311;
vi. 157.
- Auchetæ,
i. 335.
- Aufidius, M.,
vi. 228.
- Augetis,
vi. 402.
- Augury,
ii. 294,
487,
493,
494,
495
- —from fish,
ii. 391
- —from eggs,
ii. 535.
- Augustus, the Emperor,
i. 58,
61,
184,
198,
256,
274;
ii. 82,
237;
iii. 68,
69,
342;
iv. 51,
181,
182,
395;
v. 108;
vi. 106,
233,
262,
387,
389
- —an author,
i. 268
- —his union with Livia unprolific,
ii. 149
- —his misfortunes,
ii. 195
- —the colour of his eyes,
iii. 51
- —his temple,
iii. 140
- —his taste in wines,
iii. 244,
245.
- Augustite,
vi. 327.
- Augylæ,
i. 392,
393,
405.
- Aulocrenæ,
i. 461.
- Aulon,
i. 281.
- Aulus Gellius quoted,
i. 110.
- Aurata,
ii. 397.
- Aurelian, the Emperor,
i. 445.
- Aurelius, Marcus,
iv. 515.
- Aurichalcum,
vi. 148,
435.
- Auripigmentum,
vi. 104,
105.
- Aurora Borealis,
i. 60,
63.
- Ausones,
i. 222.
- Auster,
i. 73.
- Autololes,
i. 379,
384.
- Autolycus,
vi. 182.
- Autumn,
iv. 107,
108.
- Aventurine,
vi. 423,
459.
- Avernus, Lake,
i. 196;
v. 479.
- Avianius Evander,
vi. 317.
- Aviaries, the inventor of,
ii. 531.
- Awnings for theatres,
iv. 138,
139.
- Axenus,
i. 326;
ii. 1.
- Axinomancy,
v. 427;
vi. 362.
- Axis, the wild beast,
ii. 280,
281.
- Axungia,
v. 324.
- Azanian Sea,
ii. 67,
95.
- Azotus,
i. 425.
- B.
- Babba,
i. 376.
- Babel, tower of,
i. 444.
- Baboon,
ii. 135,
348.
- Babylon,
ii. 72;
vi. 294.
- Babylonia, fertility of,
iv. 59,
61.
- Babylonian vestments,
ii. 337,
338.
- Babylonians, their astronomical observations,
ii. 221.
- Babytace,
ii. 79.
- Bacca,
iii. 319,
320.
- Bacchar,
iii. 121;
iv. 318,
319,
368,
369.
- Bacchiadæ,
vi. 283.
- Bacchius of Miletus,
ii. 357.
- Bacchus,
ii. 399
- —his birth,
ii. 50
- —origin of the name,
ii. 219.
- Bacchus (fish),
vi. 33.
- Bactra,
ii. 32,
30.
- Bactriana,
v. 500,
501;
- trees of,
iii. 116.
- Bactrus,
ii. 32.
- Badger,
ii. 310.
- Bætica,
i. 154.
- Bætis,
i. 157.
- Bæton,
i. 498.
- Bætyli,
vi. 438.
- Bagoüs, an eunuch,
iii. 174.
- Bagrada,
i. 389;
ii. 261.
- Bahr-el-Abied,
i. 411.
- Baiæ,
i. 196;
v. 472.
- Bakers, when first introduced at Rome,
iv. 40,
41.
- Balæna,
ii. 359,
361,
365,
368,
369.
- Balaklava,
i. 334.
- Balani,
iii. 177.
- Balanites,
vi. 443.
- Balanus,
iii. 182;
vi. 61
- —oil of,
iii. 162.
- Balas ruby,
vi. 421.
- Balaustium,
iv. 500,
501.
- Balbus, Cornelius,
i. 399,
400;
ii. 190;
vi. 329.
- Balbusard,
ii. 482.
- Baldness, natural,
iii. 47.
- Balearic Islands, described,
i. 211
- —infested with hares,
ii. 349
- —wines of,
iii. 244.
- Balista, first used,
ii. 228.
- Balkh,
ii. 30.
- Ball, game of,
ii. 232.
- Ballis,
v. 82.
- Ballotes,
v. 236.
- Balm, of Gilead,
iii. 147,
396
- —of Mecca,
iii. 147;
iv. 492.
- Balsamodes,
iii. 141.
- Balsamum,
iii. 147;
151,
396.
- Baltia,
i. 342.
- Baltic, islands of the,
i. 341.
- Bamberg MS. of the text of Pliny,
vi. 1,
190,
465,
466.
- Bambos arundinacea,
ii. 129.
- Bambotus,
i. 380.
- Bambyx,
i. 439.
- Banasa,
i. 377.
- Bandoline,
v. 20.
- Bankers,
iv. 307.
- Banquets in trees,
iii. 105.
- Banquetting-couches,
ii. 448.
- Bantams,
ii. 536.
- Banyan tree,
ii. 129;
iii. 109,
110.
- Baobab tree,
iii. 429.
- Baptes,
vi. 443.
- Barbers, early employment of,
ii. 236.
- Barberry,
v. 46.
- Barcelona,
i. 167.
- Barcino,
i. 167.
- Bargyla,
i. 463.
- Barippe,
vi. 443.
- Bark of trees,
ii. 117, 354,
355,
393.
- Barley,
iv. 27,
28,
30,
31,
445,
446.
- Baroptenus,
vi. 443.
- Barrenness,
ii. 149.
- Barter,
vi. 71.
- Basanite,
vi. 125,
328.
- Basil,
iv. 249,
250.
- Basilia,
i. 342;
vi. 408.
- Basilica,
vi. 227,
346.
- Basilis,
ii. 116.
- Basilisk,
ii. 282,
394.
- Bassus, Calpurnius,
iii. 437.
- Bassus, Julius,
iv. 304.
- Bassus, Q. Lecanius,
v. 154.
- Bastard, asarum,
v. 35
- —dittany,
v. 172
- —saffron,
iv. 350.
- Basternæ,
i. 330,
348.
- Bat,
ii. 540;
v. 400
- —used as a countercharm,
v. 400.
- Batavi,
i. 355.
- Bath-room, sprinkled with unguents,
iii. 168.
- Baths at Rome,
vi. 353,
354.
- Batia,
vi. 33.
- Batis,
iv. 347,
382.
- Baton,
vi. 187.
- Batrachion,
v. 148,
149,
150,
258.
- Batrachitis,
vi. 443.
- Batrachus,
vi. 61,
322.
- Battering-ram,
ii. 229.
- Battles, the first,
ii. 227.
- Bauli,
i. 196.
- Bdellium,
iii. 116.
- Beaks of ships,
ii. 235.
- Beans,
iv. 44,
45,
57,
447,
448.
- Bears, and their cubs,
ii. 305,
306,
307
- —in the Circus,
ii. 307
- —have the hardest skulls,
iii. 47
- —their genitals,
iii. 92.
- Bears’-grease,
iv. 366;
v. 334
- —used for the hair,
ii. 306.
- Beaver,
ii. 297,
298—
vi. 13,
14,
416.
- Bebriacum,
ii. 529.
- Bebryces,
i. 478.
- Bechion,
v. 164.
- Beckmann’s “History of Inventions” quoted,
iii. 354;
iv. 33,
37;
v. 38,
39,
109,
193,
264,
323,
342,
486,
487,
502,
504,
506,
512,
513,
514,
515,
516,
519;
vi. 4,
5,
32,
97,
98,
99,
108,
109,
111,
114,
124,
141,
142,
143,
147,
189,
191,
195,
198,
200,
207,
208,
212,
213,
214,
218,
238,
240,
241,
242,
243,
244,
295,
301,
330,
357,
369,
370,
375,
379,
380,
381,
382,
398,
409,
410,
420,
422,
424,
425,
430,
432,
463.
- Bedeguar,
iv. 366;
v. 48,
84.
- Bedouins,
ii. 86.
- Bedrooms, quinces hung up in,
iii. 293
- —plants in,
iv. 259.
- Bee-bread,
iv. 434.
- Beech,
iii. 346,
355;
v. 7.
- Bee-eater,
ii. 516.
- Bee-glue,
iii. 6.
- Beehives,
iv. 344.
- Beer,
iii. 256,
274;
iv. 26,
456.
- Bees,
iii. 5
- —their works,
5-6
- —honey,
10,
11,
12,
13
- —their wax,
6,
7
- —their fondness for the olive,
7
- —not injurious to trees,
7
- —persons who have made them their study,
8
- —their mode of working,
8-14
- —their habits,
15,
16
- —reproduction of,
16,
17;
iv. 344
- —swarming of,
iii. 17,
18,
19
- —their government,
18
- —omens afforded by,
19
- —various kinds of,
20
- —the king-bee,
10,
16-21
- —their sting,
20;
iv. 343
- —their aversions,
iii. 21
- —what creatures are hostile to them,
21
- —their diseases,
21,
22;
iv. 340
- —things that are noxious to them,
iii. 22
- —olive oil fatal to them,
22
- —how to keep them to the hive,
23
- —how to renew the swarm,
23,
24
- —plants for,
iv. 339,
340
- —their food,
340,
341
- —their hives,
344
- —influence of hunger upon them,
345.
- Beet,
iv. 183,
184,
232,
233.
- Beetles,
iii. 33;
v. 418,
419,
436.
- Behen nut, or ben,
iii. 142,
143,
182,
327,
495.
- Belemnites,
vi. 398,
452.
- Beli oculus,
vi. 443.
- Belladonna,
v. 137.
- Bellerophon,
ii. 229;
iii. 193.
- Bellio,
iv. 328.
- Bellis,
v. 162.
- Bells,
i. 198.
- Belly,
iii. 71,
72
- —animals with none,
iii. 71
- —diseases of the,
v. 169,
170.
- Belluno,
i. 252.
- Belone,
ii. 466;
vi. 61.
- Belunum,
i. 252.
- Belus (the divinity),
ii. 72.
- Belus (the river),
vi. 379.
- Belus (the stone),
vi. 443.
- Beneventum,
i. 229.
- Berecynthus,
i. 164.
- Berenice (city),
i. 396;
ii. 94.
- Berenice (queen),
vi. 427.
- Berenice’s Hair,
i. 103.
- Bergamo,
i. 248.
- Bergamum,
i. 248.
- Berkeley, Bishop, his “Siris,”
v. 18.
- Berœa,
i. 440.
- Berosus,
ii. 182,
242.
- Berry fruits,
iii. 319-322.
- Beryls,
vi. 414,
415.
- Berytus,
i. 435.
- Bestia, Calpurnius, how he slew his wives,
v. 218.
- Betel,
iii. 153.
- Beterræ, wines of,
iii. 242.
- Bethleptephene,
i. 428.
- Beth-shan,
i. 432.
- Betony,
v. 111,
112.
- Bevagna,
i. 239.
- Beyrout,
i. 435.
- Bezoar stones,
v. 349.
- Bibraga,
ii. 51.
- Biestings,
iii. 83;
v. 320.
- Bilbilis,
vi. 208.
- Bildulgerid,
i. 399.
- Bion of Soli,
ii. 115;
v. 369.
- Bion (wine),
iii. 247;
iv. 478.
- Birch, bitumen from,
iii. 371.
- Birdlime,
iii. 435.
- Birds, of Æthiopia and India,
ii. 479,
480
- —classified according to their feet,
490
- —of ill omen,
491,
492
- —extinct,
492,
493
- —born with the tail first,
493
- —with hooked talons,
495
- —ominous,
495,
509
- —migration of,
503-506
- —flight of,
504-506
- —places where certain are never found,
507,
508
- —which change their colour and voice,
509
- —incubation of,
512
- —aquatic,
513
- —construction of their nests,
513,
514
- —flight of,
520
- —food of,
521,
522
- —instinct of,
522
- —which speak,
522-525
- —their mode of drinking,
527
- —their food,
527
- —foreign kinds,
528
- —fabulous,
530
- —language of,
530—
v. 397
- —the generation of,
ii. 532-538
- —when they lay, and how many eggs,
537
- —why they peck at the eyes,
iii. 53
- —feet of,
90
- —singing of,
94
- —prognostics from,
iv. 124
- —remedies derived from,
v. 400.
- See also “Singing of birds.”
- Births, marvellous,
ii. 134-138
- —monstrous,
142,
144.
- Birthwort,
v. 117.
- Bison,
ii. 262.
- Bithus,
v. 368.
- Bithynia described,
i. 493.
- Bitonto,
i. 230.
- Bitumen,
ii. 152;
iii. 364;
vi. 293,
294
- —of Judæa,
v. 222,
305.
- Bituriges,
i. 359.
- Biuri,
v. 469.
- Bizya,
i. 307.
- Bladder,
iii. 74
- —animals destitute of,
74
- —diseases of the,
v. 182,
183,
443,
444;
vi. 41,
42.
- Blachnon,
v. 245,
246.
- Blackberries,
iii. 411;
v. 47,
49.
- Blackbird,
ii. 509
- —white,
512.
- Black Forest,
i. 328.
- Black marble,
vi. 325.
- Black stones,
vi. 358.
- Black vine,
iv. 468.
- Blasting winds,
i. 80.
- Blattaria,
v. 122.
- Blechnon,
iv. 261.
- Blemmyæ,
i. 405.
- Blendius,
vi. 43.
- Blinding of birds,
v. 414.
- Blindness,
iii. 53.
- Blindworm,
ii. 466.
- Blite,
iv. 295.
- Blood,
iii. 65,
78;
v. 328
- —of insects,
ii. 3
- —human,
v. 292
- —remedies from,
276
- —discharges of, periodically,
iii. 79
- —which is the thickest,
79
- —which is the thinnest,
79
- —other properties of it,
79
- —whether it is the principle of life,
80
- —baths of,
155
- —spitting of, remedies for,
v. 438,
439.
- Bloodless fish,
ii. 416.
- Blood-letting,
v. 319;
vi. 50.
- Blood-red shrub,
v. 31.
- Bloodstone,
vi. 448,
450.
- Blossoming of flowers,
iv. 336,
337
- —of trees,
iii. 380-384.
- Blossoms of plants,
iv. 170,
171.
- Blue, staining the body,
iv. 390.
- Blue-bell, iv.
328.
- Blushing,
iii. 80.
- Boa (serpent),
ii. 262.
- Boa (disease),
v. 24,
199.
- Boarfish,
iii. 94.
- Boats, various kinds of, the invention of,
ii. 234.
- Boca,
vi. 61.
- Bocchus, Cornelius,
iii. 437.
- Bodies that have the nature of animal and vegetable combined,
ii. 453.
- Bodincus,
i. 246.
- Body, gigantic, discovered,
ii. 156
- —remarkable properties of the,
158,
159
- —parts to which certain religious ideas are attached,
iii. 88
- —maladies which attack the whole of the,
v. 194
- —evils which affect the whole of the,
448,
449.
- Bœbeïs,
i. 295.
- Bœdas,
vi. 176,
179.
- Bœotia, described,
i. 290.
- Boëthus,
vi. 139,
184.
- Bœus,
ii. 555.
- Boii,
i. 243,
356.
- Boils, remedies for,
v. 200,
357,
457.
- Bokhara,
ii. 31.
- Boleti,
iv. 429.
- Bolites,
iv. 381.
- Bologna,
i. 241.
- Bologna stone,
vi. 447.
- Bolos,
vi. 444.
- Bolters,
iv. 41.
- Βομβύκια,
v. 273.
- Bombylis,
iii. 25.
- Bombyx of Assyria,
iii. 25.
- Bona Dea, rites of,
ii. 536.
- Bonasus,
ii. 264.
- Bones,
iii. 77
- —gigantic,
ii. 156
- —solid,
159,
160
- —of the head,
iii. 47
- —broken, remedies for,
v. 354,
460,
461.
- Bonomi’s “Nineveh,” referred to,
v. 47.
- Bononia,
i. 241.
- Bonus Eventus,
vi. 181.
- Books, of Numa, discovered,
iii. 192
- —burnt,
192
- —seasoning of,
v. 8.
- Boomerang,
ii. 253
- —possible allusion to,
v. 47.
- Bootskopf,
ii. 364,
365.
- Borage,
v. 109
- —still used in certain beverages,
v. 109.
- Boreas,
i. 74.
- Borion,
i. 394.
- Borysthenes,
i. 331.
- Bosporus,
i. 306,
326,
495;
ii. 2.
- Bostock, Dr.
i. vi (in the Preface);
vi. 68,
147.
- Bostrychitis,
vi. 444,
461.
- Botany, introduction of,
ii. 224.
- Botryitis,
vi. 444.
- Botrys,
iii. 214;
v. 106,
107,
226,
236.
- Bong,
i. 332.
- Boulogne,
i. 350.
- Bovillæ,
i. 199.
- Bowels, remedies for pains in the,
v. 181
- —remedies for maladies in the,
v. 346,
347,
348,
442,
443;
vi. 39.
- Bowstrings, made of the genitals of the camel,
iii. 92.
- Box-tree,
iii. 368,
369,
390,
391.
- Box-wood,
ii. 4.
- Brabyla,
v. 236.
- Brace (malting wheat),
iv. 24.
- Brachmanæ,
ii. 42.
- Braga,
i. 165.
- Brahma, temple of,
vi. 406.
- Brahmins,
ii. 42,
44.
- Brain, of man,
iii. 47
- —and other animals,
iii. 48
- —palpitation of the,
48.
- Bramble,
iii. 411;
v. 47-50
- —of Ida,
iii. 412.
- Bramble-frog,
ii. 298;
iii. 98;
iv. 102;
v. 128,
303;
vi. 22.
- Bran,
iv. 440.
- Branch, propagation from the,
iii. 485,
486.
- Branches of trees,
iii. 391,
392.
- Branchidæ, oracle of,
i. 466.
- Brand’s “Popular Antiquities” quoted,
ii. 127;
v. 282,
283,
389.
- Brand-marks, how treated,
v. 150.
- Brass, a description of,
vi. 147-168.
- Brathy,
v. 41.
- Bratus,
iii. 135.
- Brawn,
ii. 345.
- Bread,
iv. 26,
28,
29,
33,
447
- —methods of making,
39,
40
- —various kinds of,
39,
40.
- Bream,
ii. 389.
- Breast,
iii. 74
- —modes of preserving the,
v. 464,
465.
- Breath,
iii. 97
- —tainted,
97
- —bad, remedies for,
97;
v. 150
- —of animals, different effects of,
iii. 97.
- Breeches,
i. 173,
174.
- Bregma,
iii. 112.
- Brenta,
i. 246.
- Brick, used in making bread,
iv. 37.
- Bricks,
vi. 290,
291.
- Brilessus,
i. 289.
- Brindisi,
i. 226.
- Brine,
v. 503,
504.
- Britain,
i. 109;
v. 85,
86;
vi. 94,
215,
399
- —described,
i. 150
- —pearls of,
ii. 437
- —oysters of,
468;
vi. 27
- —its geese,
ii. 500
- —the people of, stain the body,
iv. 390
- —its possible communication with the East,
v. 426.
- Britannica,
v. 85
- —why so called,
85,
86.
- Brixilum,
i. 242.
- Brocchi, the family of the,
iii. 56.
- Brochon,
iii. 116.
- Bromos,
iv. 455.
- Brontea,
vi. 444.
- Bronze,
vi. 68.
- Bronzite,
vi. 412.
- Brood-hens, defects in, and their remedies,
ii. 535.
- Broom,
iv. 135;
v. 28,
29.
- Brundusium,
i. 226.
- Bruscum,
iii. 368.
- Brussels sprouts,
iv. 185,
239.
- Bruttium described,
i. 208.
- Brutus, Callæcus,
vi. 315.
- Brutus, L.,
iii. 335.
- Brutus, M.,
vi. 87.
- Brya,
iii. 202;
v. 30,
31.
- Bryaxis,
vi. 165,
179,
313,
316,
317.
- Bryazus,
v. 480.
- Bryon,
iii. 154,
155,
162,
310;
v. 12
- —maritimum,
236,
237.
- Bryony,
iv. 466,
467.
- Bubalus,
ii. 263.
- Bubastis,
i. 408.
- Bubasus,
i. 459.
- Bubo,
ii. 492.
- Bubon,
i. 457.
- Bubonion,
v. 229.
- Bucardia,
vi. 444.
- Buccinum,
ii. 444.
- Bucephala,
ii. 49.
- Bucephalus,
i. 285;
ii. 317.
- Buckthorn,
v. 50,
51.
- Budding,
iii. 477.
- Buffon, an opinion of,
iv. 54.
- Bufonite,
vi. 444.
- Buglossos,
v. 109.
- Bugs, remedies derived from,
v. 392,
393,
394.
- Building, woods used in,
iii. 426
- —stones used for,
vi. 372
- —methods of,
v. 372
- —defects in,
vi. 374.
- Buildings, marvellous, at Rome,
vi. 345-355.
- Bulapathum,
iv. 288.
- Bularchus,
vi. 247.
- Bulb emetic,
iv. 244.
- Bulbine,
iv. 244.
- Bulbs,
iv. 168,
169,
243,
244.
- Bulgaria,
i. 264.
- Bulimia,
iii. 99.
- Bulls, wild,
ii. 280
- —the appearance of,
329
- —fights by,
329
- —used as victims,
329
- —how ridden,
329.
- Bulls’ blood, the effects of swallowing,
iii. 79;
iv. 216;
v. 518.
- Bulls’ gall,
iii. 69.
- Bulrushes of stone,
iii. 212.
- Bumastus,
iii. 220.
- Bunias,
iv. 215.
- Bunion,
iv. 214.
- Bupalus,
vi. 308.
- Bupleuron,
iv. 421,
422;
v. 237.
- Buprestis,
iv. 422,
469;
v. 503.
- Buphthalmos,
v. 110,
114.
- Bura,
i. 280.
- Burbuleius, the actor,
ii. 147.
- Burcana,
i. 344.
- Burgundiones,
i. 345.
- Burial,
ii. 217.
- Burning, places that are always,
i. 139,
140,
141.
- Burning the dead,
ii. 217.
- Burning-glasses,
vi. 382,
396,
450.
- Burning shields,
i. 63.
- Burns, remedies for,
v. 202,
357,
457;
vi. 49.
- Burying alive,
v. 279,
280.
- Busiris,
i. 421.
- Butades,
vi. 283.
- Butcher’s broom,
iv. 382.
- Buteo,
ii. 487,
530;
iii. 92.
- Buteones, family of the,
ii. 487.
- Buthrotum,
i. 273.
- Butoridas,
vi. 385.
- Butter,
iii. 84;
v. 323,
324.
- Buttermilk,
iii. 84.
- Buzzard,
ii. 487.
- Byblis,
vi. 264.
- Byblos,
i. 435.
- Byssus,
iv. 137;
v. 274.
- Bythiæ,
ii. 127.
- Byzacium,
i. 390.
- Byzantium,
i. 307,
495.
- C.
- Cabbages, most esteemed when yellow,
iv. 47
- —described,
iv. 153,
185-188
- —admired by Cato the Censor,
iv. 185
- —their remedial virtues,
iv. 235-241.
- Cabinet-work, woods for,
iii. 367,
368,
413,
414,
417,
421.
- Cabiri,
i. 324,
341.
- Cacalia,
v. 133.
- Cachelot whale,
ii. 364.
- Cachexy,
vi. 49.
- Cachla,
v. 110.
- Cacholong,
vi. 413.
- Cachrys,
iii. 351,
352;
v. 40,
41.
- Cackerel,
vi. 35.
- Cacoëthes,
v. 359,
360.
- Cactos,
iv. 354,
358.
- Cadistus,
i. 314.
- Cadiz,
i. 368.
- Cadmia,
vi. 148,
149,
191-194.
- Cadmitis,
vi. 444.
- Cadmus,
i. 435,
467.
- Caduceus,
v. 390.
- Cadusii,
ii. 32.
- Cadytas,
iii. 433.
- Cæcilius,
v. 369.
- Cæcina,
i. 148—
ii. 505.
- Cæcuban wine,
iii. 239,
240;
iv. 471.
- Cæcubum,
i. 195.
- Cælia (a kind of beer),
iv. 456.
- Cæpio,
iv. 387.
- Cære,
i. 188.
- Cæruleum,
vi. 141-144.
- Cæsapon,
iv. 228,
229.
- Cæsarean operation,
ii. 143.
- “Cæsars,” why so called,
ii. 143.
- Cæsena, wines of,
iii. 242.
- Cæsennius,
iv. 205.
- Cæsi,
iii. 51.
- Cæsones,
ii. 143.
- Cæsonia,
ii. 140.
- Caïcus,
i. 473.
- Caieta,
i. 194.
- Calabria,
i. 225.
- Calabrix,
iii. 467.
- Calagurris,
i. 166.
- Calahorra,
i. 166.
- Calamine,
vi. 191,
194.
- Calamis,
vi. 139,
167,
320.
- Calamites,
vi. 31,
32,
50.
- Calamochnus,
vi. 58.
- Calamus, sweet-scented,
iii. 144,
187.
- Calatajud,
i. 171.
- Calathi,
iv. 315.
- Calchas,
i. 228.
- Calcifraga,
v. 244.
- Calculi, urinary, remedies for,
iii. 74,
92;
v. 182,
183,
443,
444.
- Caledonian Forest,
i. 350.
- Calendar, Roman,
vi. 76,
77.
- Calenian wine,
iii. 241.
- Calentum,
i. 162.
- Calenus, Olenus,
v. 280,
281.
- Caliga,
ii. 189,
405;
iv. 429;
vi. 207.
- Caligula, the Emperor,
i. 279;
ii. 143;
iii. 51;
vi. 2,
104,
230,
349.
- Calingæ,
ii. 42,
134.
- Calingi,
ii. 47.
- Calippus,
iv. 127.
- Callaica,
vi. 445.
- Callaina,
vi. 427,
428.
- Callais,
vi. 444.
- Callarias,
ii. 399.
- Calliblephara,
iv. 495;
vi. 299.
- Callicia,
v. 62.
- Callicles,
vi. 186,
269.
- Callicrates,
i. 270;
ii. 162,
163;
vi. 323.
- Callidemus,
i. 372.
- Callimachus,
i. 371
- —quoted,
267,
310,
318.
- Callimachus (the artist),
vi. 188.
- Callimachus (the physician),
iv. 388.
- Callimus,
vi. 365.
- Callionymus,
vi. 30.
- Calliphanes,
i. 270.
- Callipolis,
i. 225,
308.
- Callistratus,
vi. 467.
- Callisthenes,
iii. 156,
157.
- Callistratus,
vi. 170.
- Callistus,
vi. 329.
- Callitriche,
ii. 348.
- Callitrichos,
iv. 415,
416,
417;
v. 132,
133.
- Callon,
vi. 168.
- Calpas,
ii. 2.
- Calpe,
i. 152.
- Caltha,
iv. 318.
- Caltrop,
iv. 355.
- Calves, man only has them,
iii. 89.
- Calves (animals),
ii. 329.
- Calvinus, Domitius,
iii. 99.
- Calvus, the orator,
vi. 216.
- And see “Macer.”
- Calycadnus,
i. 449.
- Calydne,
i. 484.
- Calydon,
i. 275.
- Calymna,
i. 323.
- Calypso, Islands of,
i. 213.
- Calyx,
v. 238.
- Camarina,
i. 218.
- Cambalidus,
ii. 79.
- Cambyses,
ii. 92;
vi. 332.
- Camel,
ii. 276;
iii. 58;
v. 308,
309
- —its feet,
iii. 89
- —its genitals,
iii. 92.
- Cameleopard,
ii. 277
- —when first seen at Rome,
277.
- Camelodunum,
i. 109.
- Camerinum,
i. 328.
- Camillus,
i. 248;
vi. 119,
158.
- Cammaron,
v. 218-222.
- Cammarus,
v. 220;
vi. 62.
- Cammock,
iv. 355.
- Camomile,
v. 186.
- Camp, luxury of the Roman in perfumes,
iii. 168.
- Campania,
i. 195
- —its roses,
iii. 169
- —its wheat,
iv. 41
- Campaspe,
vi. 259.
- Campi Lapidei,
i. 176.
- Campion rose,
vi. 425.
- Campter,
vi. 314.
- Campus Martius,
vi. 333,
334.
- Canachus,
vi. 169,
180,
322.
- Canal from the Nile to the Red Sea,
ii. 92.
- Canaries (islands),
ii. 107.
- Canary grass,
v. 264.
- Cancamum,
iii. 142.
- Cancer (the disease), remedies for,
v. 359,
360.
- Cancer, sign of, transforms crabs into serpents,
ii. 427.
- Candace, Queen,
ii. 101.
- Candahar,
ii. 57.
- Candaules,
vi. 247.
- Candelæ,
vi. 123.
- Candia,
i. 313.
- Candle rushes,
iii. 411.
- Cane (place),
ii. 64.
- Canephori,
vi. 314.
- Canine madness,
ii. 136.
- See “Hydrophobia.”
- Canine teeth,
iii. 56,
58.
- Cannabis,
iv. 198,
297,
298.
- Cannæ,
i. 230.
- Cannibalism,
ii. 122.
- See “Anthropophagi.”
- Canobus,
i. 420.
- Canoes,
ii. 65.
- Canon,
vi. 171.
- Canopus,
i. 420,
479.
- Cantabri,
i. 361.
- Cantabrica,
v. 112.
- Cantharias,
vi. 459.
- Cantharis,
iv. 55.
- Cantharus (artist),
vi. 185.
- Cantharus (fish),
vi. 61.
- Cantharus,
ii. 330.
- Cantharides,
iii. 41;
v. 303,
403,
404,
405.
- Cantharite wine,
iii. 246.
- Canusium,
i. 228.
- Capena,
i. 189.
- Caper,
iii. 206,
207;
iv. 194,
264,
265.
- Caper-plant,
v. 252.
- Caphareus,
i. 316.
- Caphrena,
ii. 72.
- Capillati,
i. 255;
iii. 46.
- Capisa,
ii. 57.
- Capito, C. Ateius,
i. 269.
- Capito, Oppius,
ii. 151.
- Capitolinus, Manlius, his singular valour,
ii. 171.
- Capnos,
v. 42.
- Cappadocia (the country), described,
ii. 6,
16.
- Cappadocia (a stone),
vi. 445.
- Cappadox,
ii. 7.
- Capparis,
iii. 206,
207;
iv. 264,
265.
- Capræa,
ii. 346,
347.
- Capraria,
i. 213.
- Caprification,
iii. 312,
313,
530,
531.
- Caprificus,
iii. 311,
312,
313.
- Caprimulgus,
ii. 521.
- Capsa,
i. 395.
- Captatio,
iv. 262.
- Capua,
i. 198;
vi. 143.
- Carabi,
ii. 424.
- Carambis,
ii. 4,
501.
- Carambucis,
ii. 24.
- Caraway,
iv. 194.
- Carbasus,
iv. 133;
v. 273.
- Carbo, Cn. Papirius,
ii. 153
- —his death prognosticated by mice,
ii. 353.
- “Carbo,” meaning of the word,
vi. 423.
- Carbuncle, remedies for,
v. 154,
198,
467;
vi. 52,
53.
- Carbunculus (the stone),
vi. 420-423,
425.
- Carcasum,
i. 179.
- Carcasonne,
i. 179.
- Carchedonia,
vi. 425.
- Carcine,
i. 332.
- Carcinethron,
v. 259,
260.
- Carcinias,
vi. 459.
- Carcinomata,
v. 359,
360;
vi. 52.
- Cardamomum,
iii. 123.
- Cardiac disease,
iii. 67;
iv. 477.
- Carduelis,
ii. 522.
- Carduus,
iv. 353.
- Carfiathum,
iii. 127.
- Caria, described,
i. 458
- —its name,
ii. 230.
- Caricatures,
vi. 270.
- Caricæ,
iii. 178.
- Carinthia,
i. 263.
- Carmania described,
ii. 66.
- Carmelus,
i. 434.
- Carnac,
i. 416.
- Carneades,
ii. 175;
v. 98.
- Carnelian,
vi. 418,
420,
425,
426,
431.
- Carob,
iii. 181,
319;
iv. 516.
- Caryophyllon,
iii. 113.
- Caros,
v. 185.
- Carpathian Sea,
i. 323.
- Carpathum,
vi. 25.
- Carpathus,
i. 483.
- Carpenters’ woods,
iii. 427.
- See “Cabinet-work.”
- Carpentoracte,
i. 179.
- Carpentras,
i. 179.
- Carphos,
v. 74.
- Carpinus,
iii. 368.
- Carrara marble,
vi. 309.
- Carrhæ,
i. 443,
444.
- Carrot,
iv. 166,
219,
220;
v. 124.
- Carrucæ,
vi. 132.
- Carseoli,
iii. 516.
- Cartana,
ii. 57.
- Carteia,
i. 156.
- Cartenna,
i. 385.
- Carthage, Great,
i. 390
- —hated by Cato the Censor,
iii. 309,
310.
- Cartilage,
iii. 77.
- Carvilius, Spurius,
vi. 165,
166.
- Carving,
ii. 184.
- Caryanda,
i. 485.
- Caryatides,
vi. 313.
- Caryites,
v. 178.
- Carynian wine,
iii. 262.
- Caryotæ,
iii. 175.
- Carystus,
i. 309, 317.
- Casignetes,
v. 66.
- Casilinum, siege of,
ii. 351.
- Casius,
i. 424,
438.
- Casks,
iii. 268.
- Caspian Gates,
ii. 28;
v. 501.
- Caspian Passes,
ii. 21.
- Caspian Sea,
i. 453;
ii. 20,
24.
- Cassander,
i. 300;
v. 492.
- Cassia,
iii. 140,
141,
396.
- Cassiterides,
i. 367.
- Cassiteris,
ii. 225.
- Cassiteros,
vi. 212,
213.
- Cassius Parmensis,
v. 522.
- Cassius, Spurius,
vi. 154.
- Castabala,
ii. 6.
- Castalia,
i. 277.
- Castes of India,
ii. 44.
- Casthanea,
i. 296.
- Castor, Antonius,
iv. 304;
v. 80,
81.
- Castor and Pollux (stars),
i. 64,
65.
- Castor oil,
iii. 287;
iv. 489,
490.
- Castoreum,
ii. 297;
vi. 13,
14,
15.
- Castra Cornelia,
i. 389.
- Castration,
iii. 92.
- Castritius,
iv. 205.
- Castulo,
i. 164.
- Catabathmos,
i. 397.
- Catacecaumene, wine of,
iii. 246.
- Catadupi,
i. 412;
ii. 97.
- Catagusa,
vi. 177.
- Catanance,
v. 237.
- Catapulta,
ii. 228.
- Cataract, cure of,
iii. 53.
- Cataractæ,
ii. 526.
- Cataracts,
i. 412,
415.
- Catchweed,
v. 227.
- Catechu,
iii. 113;
v. 51.
- Caterpillars,
ii. 552;
iii. 522;
iv. 200.
- Cathæan mountains,
ii. 16.
- Catharcludi,
ii. 131.
- Catiline,
i. 82.
- Catkin,
v. 41.
- Catmint,
iv. 261,
262.
- Cato the Censor,
i. 202,
267;
ii. 150,
175,
176
- —his high character,
169
- —his treatment of wines,
iii. 267
- —his hatred to Carthage,
309,
310
- —his admiration of the cabbage,
iv. 185,
235
- —his bad opinion of the Greeks,
v. 375,
376
- —quotations from his work,
i. 10,
188,
232,
241,
248;
iii. 248,
281,
285,
308,
313,
315,
332,
379,
409,
410,
416,
417,
450,
458,
459,
465,
469,
470,
471,
472,
474,
476,
481,
482,
486,
487,
502,
509,
510,
511,
520,
532,
535;
iv. 5,
11,
12,
13,
14,
18,
59,
63,
71,
81,
86,
91,
153,
185,
189,
236,
237,
240;
v. 188,
365;
vi. 373.
- Cato of Utica,
i. 4,
389;
ii. 150,
176;
v. 405;
vi. 188.
- Catoblepas,
ii. 281.
- Catochitis,
vi. 445.
- Catullus quoted,
i. 1,
103;
vi. 324,
366,
416
- —his birth-place,
i. 253.
- Catulus, Q.,
iii. 438.
- Catus,
ii. 178.
- Cat worship,
ii. 98.
- Cats,
ii. 494,
541,
543,
550;
iii. 53,
61;
iv. 58;
v. 334,
360,
363.
- Cats’-eye chalcedony,
vi. 438,
443,
449,
452,
458.
- Caucalis,
iv. 349,
424.
- Caucasus, Passes of,
ii. 1.
- Cauline wine,
iii. 244.
- Caunos,
i. 459.
- Cautery,
vi. 396.
- Cave-snails,
ii. 311.
- Cavea,
ii. 275;
vi. 350.
- Caverns, windy,
i. 71.
- Caves, for weaving,
iv. 132.
- Cavnea,
iii. 313.
- Caÿster,
i. 468.
- Cea,
i. 315.
- Cebrenia,
i. 476.
- Cebriones,
vi. 323.
- Cecrops,
i. 289,
290;
ii. 222.
- Cedar,
iii. 178;
v. 8,
9.
- Cedræi,
i. 422.
- Cedrelates,
iii. 179.
- Cedria,
v. 8.
- Cedrides,
v. 9,
10.
- Cedrium,
iii. 361.
- Celadussæ,
i. 266.
- Celænæ,
i. 461,
491.
- Celandine,
v. 114.
- Celeres,
vi. 85.
- Celestial prodigies,
i. 59,
60
- —Coronæ,
i. 61.
- Celetes,
vi. 156.
- Celsus, Cornelius,
ii. 240;
v. 370
- —on gestation,
ii. 140.
- Celtiberi,
i. 162.
- Cements,
vi. 288,
289.
- Cemos,
v. 237.
- Cenchramis,
vi. 186.
- Cenchreæ,
i. 278,
285.
- Cenchris,
ii. 532.
- Cenchritis,
vi. 459.
- Cendebia,
vi. 379.
- Cenomanni,
i. 252,
356.
- Censorial laws,
vi. 306.
- Centauri,
ii. 229.
- Centaurion,
v. 103,
104,
105.
- Centauris triorchis,
v. 104,
105.
- Centaury,
v. 103,
104.
- Centifolia,
iv. 312.
- Centipedes,
iii. 91;
v. 417.
- Centrones,
i. 255.
- Centum capita,
iv. 397.
- Centunculus,
v. 56.
- Centurion, his mark of authority;
iii. 221,
222
- —instance of one honoured with a crown,
iv. 394.
- Centuripa,
i. 219.
- Cepæa,
v. 184.
- Cephallenia,
i. 310.
- Cephenes,
iii. 17.
- Cepheus,
ii. 99.
- Cephisia,
i. 289.
- Cephisodotus,
vi. 169,
170,
179,
180,
185,
186,
314.
- Cephisus,
i. 291,
292.
- Cepitis,
vi. 445.
- Ceponides,
vi. 447.
- Ceræ,
vi. 244,
245.
- Ceramicus,
vi. 285.
- Ceramitis,
vi. 445.
- Cerastes,
ii. 285;
iii. 45;
iv. 264.
- Cerasus,
ii. 9.
- Cerate,
iv. 368.
- Ceratia,
v. 173.
- Ceratitis,
iv. 278.
- Ceraunia,
vi. 437,
438.
- Ceraunian Mountains,
i. 454;
ii. 16,
20.
- Ceraunus,
ii. 7.
- Cerberion,
ii. 14.
- Cercina,
i. 402.
- Ceres, festivals of,
v. 508.
- Cerigo,
i. 312.
- Cerintha,
iv. 340.
- Cerinthos,
iii. 7.
- Ceritis,
vi. 445.
- Cerne,
ii. 105,
488.
- Ceroma,
v. 295.
- Cerrus,
iii. 346;
v. 67.
- Ceruse,
vi. 210,
220,
238,
239.
- Cervesia,
iv. 456.
- And see “Beer”
- Cesi,
ii. 47.
- Cestros,
v. 111,
112.
- Cestrota,
iii. 45.
- Cetariæ,
ii. 387.
- Ceterach,
v. 95,
96.
- Cethegus, Cornelius,
iv. 192.
- Ceto,
i. 426.
- Ceuta,
i. 384.
- Cevennes,
i. 174.
- Ceylon,
ii. 51;
vi. 59.
- Chabura,
v. 485;
vi. 8.
- Chæreas of Athens,
ii. 357.
- Chæristus,
ii. 276.
- Chæremon,
vi. 341.
- Chæronea,
i. 291.
- Chaff,
iv. 440,
441
- —used by goldsmiths,
37
- —used for hay,
104.
- Chakal,
ii. 304.
- Chalasis in the egg,
ii. 533.
- Chalastra,
i. 299;
v. 513.
- Chalazian stone,
vi. 367.
- Chalazias,
vi. 460.
- Chalcanthum,
vi. 197,
200,
201.
- Chalcedon,
i. 495
- —why called the City of the Blind,
ii. 388.
- Chalcedony,
vi. 329,
388,
412,
413,
418,
419.
- Chalceos,
iv. 353.
- Chalcetum,
v. 168.
- Chalcis,
i. 316,
317.
- Chalcis (fish),
ii. 459.
- Chalcitis,
vi. 148,
198,
201,
202.
- Chalcophonos,
vi. 446.
- Chalcopyrite,
vi. 359.
- Chalcosthenes,
vi. 285.
- Chaldæi,
vi. 424.
- Chalk, used in making bread,
iv. 33,
42
- —described,
vi. 300,
301.
- Chalonitis,
ii. 78.
- Chalybes,
ii. 351.
- Chama,
ii. 278.
- Chamæacte,
v. 28,
24.
- Chamæcerasus,
iii. 323.
- Chamæcissos,
v. 35,
54,
126.
- Chamæcyparissos,
v. 65.
- Chamædaphne,
iii. 333;
iv. 382;
v. 53.
- Chamædrys,
v. 52,
53.
- Chamæleon (animal),
ii. 302,
303;
v. 315-318
- —has nothing but lungs in the body,
ii. 67
- —peculiarity of its eyes,
iii. 54.
- Chamæleon (plant),
iv. 353,
407,
408,
409,
453;
v. 234.
- Chamæleuce,
v. 54,
55,
164.
- Chamæmelum,
iv. 411,
412.
- Chamæmyrsine,
iv. 521.
- Chamæpence,
v. 55.
- Chamæpitys,
v. 13,
14,
185.
- Chamæplatanus,
iii. 106.
- Chamæreps,
iii. 174.
- Chamærops,
v. 169.
- Chamæsyce,
v. 54.
- Chamæzelon,
v. 122,
123,
249.
- Chamelæa,
iii. 201,
287;
iv. 53,
54,
108,
109.
- Chamois,
iii. 44.
- Chamses,
v. 314.
- Channe,
ii. 391,
467,
468;
vi. 65.
- Chaones,
i. 271.
- Chaplets,
iv. 304-309,
329,
330,
333,
334.
- Characias,
v. 177,
178.
- Character expressed by the eyes,
iii. 51,
52.
- Charax,
i. 333;
ii. 80,
81.
- Charcoal,
iii. 348,
349;
vi. 383.
- Charcoal-blight,
iii. 520;
iv. 95,
97.
- Chares (artist),
vi. 165,
166.
- Chares of Mitylene,
iii. 157.
- Chargers of silver,
vi. 134.
- Chariot-horses,
ii. 319,
320.
- Charioteers,
ii. 217,
319,
320.
- Chariots, invention of,
ii. 226,
229.
- Charis,
vi. 256.
- Charitoblepharon,
iii. 212,
213.
- Charmis,
v. 374,
379.
- Charms. See “Magic.”
- Charybdis,
i. 216.
- Chastity, instances of,
ii. 180.
- Chatterer,
ii. 528.
- Chatti,
i. 347.
- Chauci,
i. 346;
iii. 339,
340.
- Cheek-teeth,
iii. 59.
- Cheeks,
iii. 55
- —forbidden to tear the,
55.
- Cheese,
iii. 84;
v. 322
- —various kinds of,
iii. 85
- —made of sheep’s milk,
85
- —of goats’ milk,
85
- —becomes salt when old,
85
- —Zoroaster lived on it,
85.
- Cheeses, modern, referred to,
iii. 85.
- Chelidonia (plant),
ii. 292;
v. 114.
- Chelidonia (stone),
vi. 446.
- Chelidoniæ,
i. 482.
- Chelidonium,
i. 453,
455.
- Chelonia,
vi. 446.
- Chelonitis,
vi. 446.
- Chelonophagi,
ii. 67,
379.
- Chelyon,
ii. 379.
- Chemæ,
vi. 62.
- Chenalopex,
ii. 500.
- Cheneros,
ii. 500.
- Chenomyche,
iv. 335.
- Cheops,
vi. 337.
- Chernites,
vi. 357.
- Chernitis,
vi. 461.
- Cherry,
ii. 9;
iii. 322,
323;
iv. 511.
- Chersinæ,
ii. 379,
- Chersiphron, the architect,
ii. 183,
184;
vi. 343.
- Chersonesus,
i. 305,
327,
333.
- Cherusci,
i. 348.
- Chervil,
iv. 423.
- Chesnut,
i. 296,
318,
319,
485,
494;
iv. 516.
- Chess-board,
vi. 391.
- Chest, remedies for diseases of the,
v. 164,
165;
vi. 38.
- Chian earth,
vi. 299.
- Chian wine,
iii. 245.
- Chiaroscuro,
vi. 247,
251,
275.
- Chicheling vetch,
iv. 450,
451.
- Chickens,
ii. 534,
535.
- Chickpea,
iv. 46,
450,
451.
- Chicory,
iv. 233,
234.
- Childhood, critical periods of,
ii. 140.
- Children, when they begin to speak,
iii. 94
- —when to walk,
95.
- Chiliodynamus,
v. 102,
103.
- Chilney, island of,
ii. 51.
- Chilon, his precepts,
ii. 178.
- Chimæra,
i. 140,
272,
455.
- Chimpanze,
ii. 279.
- Chin,
iii. 56.
- China,
ii. 36.
- Chinese, possible reference to,
ii. 131.
- Chios described,
i. 486.
- Chiron,
ii. 224;
v. 90,
91,
94,
108.
- Chironia,
iv. 468.
- Chironian pyxacanthus,
iii. 114.
- Chironion,
v. 103,
104.
- Chlampys,
i. 419.
- Chloreus,
ii. 551.
- Chlorion,
ii. 512.
- Chlorite,
vi. 446.
- Chloritis,
vi. 446.
- Choara,
ii. 29.
- Choaspes,
ii. 77.
- Choaspitis,
vi. 446.
- Cholera,
iv. 449.
- Chondris,
v. 115,
116,
172.
- Chondrylla,
iv. 349,
358,
359,
427.
- Choraules,
vi. 388.
- Choromandæ,
ii. 131.
- Chresimus, C. Furius,
iv. 17.
- Christianity, a possible reference to,
v. 425.
- Chromis,
ii. 392.
- Chrysalis,
iii. 39,
41.
- Chrysanthemum,
iv. 380,
381;
v. 186.
- Chryse,
ii. 37.
- Chryselectrum,
vi. 404,
435.
- Chrysendeta,
vi. 70,
92.
- Chrysermus,
iv. 456.
- Chryses,
i. 495.
- Chrysippus,
iv. 301;
v. 371,
372.
- Chrysites,
vi. 367.
- Chrysitis,
vi. 117.
- Chrysitis (plant),
iv. 329.
- Chrysobora,
ii. 46.
- Chrysocarpos,
v. 33.
- Chrysoceras,
i. 307.
- Chrysocolla,
vi. 69,
107,
110,
243.
- Chrysocolla (stone),
vi. 442.
- Chrysocome,
iv. 329,
373.
- Chrysolachanum,
v. 241.
- Chrysolampis,
vi. 447.
- Chrysolite,
vi. 426,
427.
- Chrysolithos,
vi. 434,
435.
- Chrysomelum,
iii. 293.
- Chrysophrys,
vi. 65.
- Chrysopis,
vi. 447.
- Chrysopolis,
i. 495.
- Chrysoprase,
vi. 413,
414,
415,
427,
429.
- Chrysopteron,
vi. 427.
- Chydæi,
iii. 176.
- Cicada,
iii. 31,
32,
33.
- Cicatrization, applications for promoting,
v. 461.
- Cicer,
iv. 450,
451.
- Cicero, the Orator,
i. 199,
202;
vi. 323,
324,
371
- —eulogium on him,
ii. 177
- —quotations from his works,
i. 3,
4,
7,
17,
18,
21,
22,
23,
24,
28,
68,
82,
112,
127,
129,
142,
462;
iii. 456;
iv. 81;
v. 476,
491;
vi. 139,
171,
173,
174,
177,
224,
254.
- Cicero, the Younger, his singular drunkenness,
iii. 273.
- Cichorium,
iv. 182,
233,
234.
- Cicus,
iii. 287,
489.
- Cicuta,
v. 140,
141.
- Cilicia described,
i. 446.
- Cilium,
iii. 55.
- Cimbri,
i. 346,
347;
v. 159;
vi. 305
- —victory over the,
ii. 163.
- Cimmerian Bosporus,
i. 335;
ii. 13.
- Cimmerium,
i. 334;
ii. 14.
- Cimolian earth,
vi. 300.
- Cimolus,
i. 322.
- Cimon (artist),
vi. 248.
- Cinaris,
ii. 200.
- Cinædia,
i. 445.
- Cinædopolis,
i. 485.
- Cincinnatus,
iv. 9.
- Cincius,
vi. 385.
- Cineas, his extraordinary memory,
ii. 164
- —his witticism,
iii. 219.
- Cinnabar,
iii. 162
- —mistake made as to its identity,
v. 380.
- Cinnabaris,
vi. 120,
121.
- Cinnamolgus,
ii. 515.
- Cinnamominum,
iii. 164.
- Cinnamomum,
iii. 137-140
- —chaplets of,
iii. 140.
- Cinnamon,
iii. 155,
156.
- Cinquefoil,
v. 122,
123.
- Cippus, story of,
iii. 44.
- Circæa,
v. 238.
- Circæon,
v. 138,
139,
140.
- Circe,
i. 193;
ii. 126;
iii. 197;
v. 81.
- Circeii,
i. 192,
193.
- Circles suddenly formed in the air,
i. 62.
- Circos,
vi. 445.
- Circuit of Rome,
i. 203.
- Circus Maximus,
vi. 346
- —games of the,
ii. 320.
- Cirsion,
v. 239.
- Cirta,
i. 388.
- Cissanthemos,
v. 125.
- Cissitis,
vi. 459,
460.
- Cissos,
v. 34,
35.
- Cistern water,
v. 484.
- Cisterns,
vi. 373.
- Cisthos,
v. 34.
- Cithæron,
i. 290.
- Cities swallowed up by the sea,
i. 120.
- Citium,
i. 481.
- Citron,
iii. 106,
107,
198;
iv. 498
- —eaten with vinegar,
iv. 498.
- Citrus,
iii. 159,
192,
194-197
- —great value of the wood,
iii. 194.
- Civet, possible allusion to,
ii. 274.
- Civic crown,
iii. 341,
342,
344.
- Clarian Apollo,
i. 469.
- Clarigation,
iv. 391.
- Claudia,
ii. 180.
- Claudius, the Emperor,
i. 245,
259,
497;
iv. 428;
v. 379;
vi. 262,
354,
417
- —the colour of his eyes,
iii. 51
- —poisoned,
68.
- Clazomenæ,
i. 470
- —wine of,
iii. 245.
- Cleanthes (artist),
vi. 229.
- Clefts in the earth,
i. 112,
113.
- Clelia,
vi. 160.
- Clema,
v. 259.
260.
- Clematis,
iv. 339;
v. 35,
56,
57.
- Clematitis,
v. 116,
117.
- Cleobulus,
i. 373.
- Cleombrotus,
ii. 182.
- Cleomenes,
vi. 318.
- Cleon,
vi. 186.
- Cleonæ,
i. 287.
- Cleopatra,
iv. 309,
310
- —swallows a pearl of great value,
ii. 439.
- Cleophantus,
iv. 302.
- Clepsydra,
ii. 239.
- Cliduchus,
vi. 171.
- Climacteric,
ii. 205.
- Climate,
i. 110,
111
- —inequality of,
i. 102,
103,
104.
- Climax Megale,
ii. 69.
- Clinical practice,
v. 371.
- Clinkstone,
v. 446.
- Clinopodium,
v. 55,
56.
- Clipping of shrubs,
iii. 106.
- Clitarchus,
ii. 115.
- Clitus,
vi. 261.
- Clitorium,
i. 287.
- Clitorius, Lake,
v. 477.
- Clivia,
ii. 493.
- Clodius, Publius,
vi. 157,
206,
346.
- Clodius, Servius,
v. 87.
- Cloth, fine,
i. 316
- —different kinds of,
ii. 336.
- Clothing derived from trees,
iii. 118.
- Clot-burr,
v. 120.
- Clouds,
i. 69
- —stones falling from the,
i. 88,
89
- —prognostics derived from,
iv. 121,
122.
- Clover,
iv. 53,
54.
- Cluacina, Venus,
iii. 329,
330.
- Clupea,
ii. 383
- —sprattus,
389.
- Clusium,
i. 189.
- Clymenus,
v. 105.
- Clypea,
i. 390.
- Clypei,
vi. 227,
228.
- Cnecos,
iv. 350.
- Cneorum,
iii. 201.
- Cnestron,
iii. 201.
- Cnidian Venus,
vi. 312.
- Cnidinum,
iii. 290.
- Cnidos,
i. 460.
- Cnossus,
i. 314.
- Coagulum terræ,
v. 241.
- Coän Venus,
vi. 312.
- Coän vestments,
ii. 37;
iii. 26.
- Coatings for colours,
vi. 244,
245.
- Cobalt,
vi. 107,
109.
- Cobios,
v. 180.
- Cobweb blight,
iii. 522.
- Cobwebs,
v. 410.
- Coccus,
iii. 353.
- Coccus Cnidius,
v. 242.
- Coccus ilicis,
ii. 450.
- Coccygia,
iii. 204.
- Cochineal,
iii. 353.
- Cochleæ,
vi. 62.
- Cochlides,
vi. 461,
462.
- Cock, the dunghill,
ii. 496,
497
- —how castrated,
498
- —one that spoke,
498.
- Cockfighting,
ii. 497,
498.
- Cock’scomb,
v. 230.
- Cockles,
vi. 41,
62.
- Cocles, Horatius,
vi. 157,
345.
- Cocolobis,
iii. 226.
- Cocoons,
iii. 26.
- Codanian Gulf,
i. 343.
- Codierite,
vi. 407.
- Cœlesyria,
i. 423,
438,
439.
- Cœliac flux,
iv. 217.
- “Cœlum,” origin of the word,
i. 17.
- Cœranus,
i. 149.
- Coffins, made of earthenware,
vi. 286.
- Coimbra,
i. 363.
- Coins, Roman, an account of,
vi. 89,
90,
91.
- Colapis,
i. 264.
- Cold drinks,
iv. 152.
- Coliacum,
ii. 54.
- Colias,
vi. 61.
- Colic,
iii. 71;
v. 155,
156
- —dogs greatly troubled with,
iii. 71.
- Colica described,
ii. 11.
- Collatia,
i. 205,
230.
- Collegia, the Roman,
vi. 286.
- Collyrium,
vi. 298.
- Colocasia,
iv. 347,
348,
382.
- Colocynthis,
iv. 212,
213.
- Cologne,
i. 355.
- Colon,
iii. 71
- —affections of the,
v. 348,
349.
- Colonies,
i. 154,
161.
- Colonna, Cape,
i. 289.
- Colopene,
ii. 6.
- Colophon,
i. 469.
- Colossæ,
iv. 329.
- Colossal, paintings,
vi. 246
- —statues,
vi. 164,
165,
166.
- Colossus of Rhodes,
vi. 165.
- Colostra,
iii. 83;
v. 320.
- Colotes,
vi. 186,
247,
403,
419.
- Colouring of tissues,
vi. 282,
283.
- Colours, of the stars
i. 49,
50
- —of the sky,
60,
61
- —of wines,
iii. 237,
248;
iv. 475
- —of juices,
iii. 325,
326
- —primary,
iv. 326
- —of flowers,
326,
327
- —plants delineated in,
v. 80
- —artificial,
vi. 325
- —for painting,
245,
246.
- Colt’sfoot,
v. 54,
55.
- Coluber haje,
ii. 285.
- Colubraria,
i. 211.
- Columella, L. J. M., mentioned,
ii. 354
- —quoted,
i. 142;
iii. 457,
490,
491,
499;
iv. 11,
27,
63,
105,
131.
- Columnæ,
ii. 105.
- Columns of Hercules,
i. 152.
- Columns,
vi. 374,
375
- —of marble,
306,
307.
- Coluthia,
vi. 36.
- Colymbades,
iii. 283;
iv. 486.
- Comacum,
iii. 155,
156.
- Comana,
ii. 6.
- Comata, Gallia, why so called,
iii. 46.
- Combretum,
iv. 319,
369.
- Come,
v. 270.
- Comets,
i. 55-58.
- Comfrey,
v. 231,
232.
- Comitium,
iii. 310.
- Commagene (country),
i. 443.
- Commagene (plant),
v. 390,
391.
- Commagenum,
ii. 500;
v. 390,
391;
vi. 466.
- Commiades,
iii. 338.
- Commosis,
iii. 6.
- Como,
i. 248.
- Compartitions,
vi. 141.
- Compitalia,
vi. 384.
- Complutum,
i. 169.
- Compluvium,
iii. 500.
- Comum,
i. 248.
- Conception,
ii. 144,
152.
- Conch,
vi. 39.
- Conchylia,
ii. 443.
- Conchyliated fabrics,
ii. 448.
- Conchylium,
vi. 29.
- Conditorium,
ii. 157.
- Condochates,
ii. 43.
- Condrion,
iv. 427.
- Condurdum,
v. 162,
163.
- Confarreation,
iv. 5.
- Conferva,
v. 242.
- Conflagration of the universe,
ii. 156.
- Conger,
ii. 395,
408.
- Congress, sexual,
ii. 141.
- Conimbrica,
i. 363.
- Conjuring up of thunder,
i. 84.
- Conopas, the dwarf,
ii. 157.
- Consentia,
i. 209.
- Considia,
v. 20.
- Consiligo,
v. 112,
113.
- Consingis,
ii. 313.
- Constantinople,
i. 307.
- Constellations,
iii. 489.
- Constructions without iron,
vi. 345.
- Contents, table of, as given by the author,
i. 11,
12.
- “Conterraneus,” meaning of the term,
i. 1.
- Contests by painters,
vi. 248,
249.
- Contracts,
vi. 82.
- Contributions, voluntary, at Rome,
vi. 131.
- Contusions, cured by thapsia,
iii. 206
- —remedies for,
v. 358.
- Conventus juridicus,
i. 159.
- Convolvulus,
iv. 315.
- Convulsions, remedies for,
v. 205.
- Conyza,
iv. 266,
267,
332,
333.
- Cookery,
iv. 203,
431.
- Cooks,
iv. 41.
- Cophes,
ii. 50,
59.
- Coponius, Q.,
vi. 287,
322.
- Copper, working of,
ii. 224,
225
- —weapons made of,
v. 94
- —various kinds of, described,
vi. 147-155,
189,
190,
191,
193,
194.
- Coptos,
i. 407,
416.
- Cora,
i. 200.
- Coracesta,
v. 62.
- Coracias,
ii. 492.
- Coracinus,
i. 410;
ii. 394,
404;
vi. 24.
- Coracles,
i. 351,
415;
ii. 233;
vi. 212.
- Coral,
vi. 10,
11,
12
- —used for infants,
v. 290;
vi. 12.
- Corallis,
vi. 445.
- Corallitic stone,
vi. 330.
- Coralloachates,
vi. 440,
445.
- Corani,
vi. 358,
359.
- Corbulo, Domitius,
i. 104,
497;
ii. 17,
20,
26,
140.
- Corchoron,
v. 136,
137,
138.
- Corchorus,
iv. 349,
386.
- Corculus,
ii. 178.
- Corcyra,
i. 267,
310.
- Cordage,
iii. 187.
- Cordi,
ii. 331.
- Cordia sebestana,
iii. 182.
- Cordial,
iv. 424.
- Cordova,
i. 163.
- Corduba,
i. 162.
- Cordueni,
ii. 29.
- Cordus, Cremutius,
ii. 239.
- Corfidius,
ii. 212.
- Corfinium,
i. 231.
- Corfu,
i. 310.
- Coriander,
iv. 282.
- Corinth,
i. 279
- —capture of,
vi. 150,
152,
153.
- Corinthia,
v. 63.
- Corinthian brass,
vi. 147,
149,
150,
167.
- Corinthian Gulf,
i. 178.
- Coriolanus, C. M.,
i. 206.
- Corioli,
i. 206.
- Corison,
v. 185.
- Cork, uses of,
iii. 354.
- Cork-tree,
iii. 354,
524;
v. 7.
- Cormorant,
ii. 529.
- Corn, first use of,
ii. 220
- —low prices of,
iv. 7,
8
- —grinding of,
36,
37,
38
- —prodigies connected with,
60
- —modes of storing,
104-107.
- Corn marygold,
v. 186.
- Corn poppy,
iv. 278.
- Cornel,
iii. 323;
iv. 516;
v. 31.
- Cornelia,
ii. 151,
154,
181.
- Cornelian. See “Carnelian.”
- Cornuta,
ii. 411,
415;
vi. 60.
- Corocotta,
ii. 296,
297.
- Corollæ,
iv. 306.
- Corona graminea,
iv. 392.
- Coronæ, celestial,
i. 61.
- Corone,
i. 282.
- Coronea,
i. 291.
- Coronopus,
iv. 409.
- Corpulence, how caused,
iii. 98
- —how reduced,
98.
- Corruda,
iv. 188,
190,
245,
246.
- Corsica described,
i. 213.
- Corsoeides,
vi. 445.
- Cortex,
ii. 380.
- Corundum,
vi. 407,
420,
433,
434,
435,
437.
- Corus,
i. 74,
77;
iv. 116.
- Corvinus, Valerius Messala,
vi. 144.
- Corvus corax,
ii. 491.
- Corybantes,
i. 313.
- Corycos,
i. 449.
- Corycus,
i. 314;
v. 482.
- Corymbi,
iii. 400.
- Corymbites,
v. 180.
- Coryphas,
i. 474.
- Coryphia,
vi. 36.
- Cos,
i. 484
- —silk of,
iii. 26
- —wines of,
247,
248.
- Cosenza,
i. 209.
- Cosmetics,
iv. 210,
211,
512;
v. 340,
383;
vi. 220.
- Cossi,
iii. 40.
- Cossiæi,
ii. 79.
- Cossicius, L.,
ii. 138.
- Cossis,
iii. 519;
v. 459.
- Costus,
iii. 119.
- Cosyra,
i. 403.
- Cotinus,
iii. 371.
- Cotonea,
v. 169.
- Cottana,
iii. 178.
- Cottiani,
i. 255,
257.
- Cottius,
i. 255.
- Cotton,
ii. 36;
iii. 223,
377;
iv. 134,
135;
v. 273,
274
- —or silk alluded to,
ii. 131
- —possible origin of the word,
iii. 118.
- Cotton-tree,
iii. 108,
117,
118,
193,
194.
- Cottonara,
ii. 65.
- Cotyledon,
v. 143.
- Couches, when first adorned with silver,
vi. 134,
135
- —made of brass,
vi. 153.
- Couch-grass,
v. 72,
73.
- Cough,
v. 163
- —remedies for,
v. 343,
344;
vi. 38.
- Countercharms,
v. 290.
- Counter poisons,
v. 407,
408;
vi. 19.
- Courage, extreme,
ii. 170.
- Coverings of the skin,
iii. 81.
- Crabs,
ii. 424,
425,
426;
vi. 23,
48
- —cooked,
iii. 21.
- Cracca,
iv. 52.
- Cragus,
i. 457.
- Cramming poultry,
ii. 531.
- Cranes,
i. 306;
ii. 501,
509
- —their instinct,
ii. 501
- —and the Pygmies,
ii. 132.
- Crannon,
i. 295,
297;
v. 479.
- Crapula,
iii. 265,
266;
iv. 237.
- Crassus, L.,
iii. 438,
439,
440;
vi. 232,
307.
- Crassus, M., the elder, never laughed,
ii. 159.
- Crassus, M.,
i. 443;
ii. 31;
iii. 313,
331;
vi. 129.
- Cratægis,
v. 191.
- Cratægonos,
v. 238.
- Cratægos,
v. 239.
- Cratægum,
iii. 390.
- Crater,
vi. 285.
- Crateritis,
vi. 445.
- Craterus,
vi. 320.
- Crates,
i. 371.
- Crateus,
iv. 302.
- Crathis,
v. 476.
- Cratinus,
vi. 279.
- Crawfish,
vi. 23.
- Crayfish,
ii. 423,
424
- —of monstrous size,
ii. 360.
- Cremmyon,
i. 288.
- Cremona,
i. 252.
- Crepis,
iv. 356.
- Cresses,
iv. 191,
251,
252.
- Cretaceous earths,
vi. 299,
300,
301.
- Cretan Labyrinth,
vi. 340,
341.
- Crete, described,
i. 313
- —figs of,
iii. 181.
- Crethmos,
v. 141,
183,
184.
- Cretica,
v. 116,
117.
- Crickets,
iii. 34;
v. 418,
439.
- Crimea,
i. 333.
- Crimson tint,
ii. 450.
- Crinas,
v. 373,
374.
- Crissa,
i. 276,
277.
- Crista,
v. 230,
231.
- Critias,
vi. 168.
- Critobulus,
ii. 182.
- Critodemus,
i. 149.
- Criton,
iv. 127.
- Criumetopon,
i. 313,
334;
ii. 501.
- Croaking of frogs,
iii. 61.
- Crocallis,
vi. 446.
- Crocias,
v. 460.
- Crocinum,
iii. 160.
- Crocis,
v. 67.
- Crocodeilopolites,
i. 409.
- Crocodile,
ii. 287,
288,
289;
v. 314,
315
- —when first exhibited at Rome,
ii. 290,
291
- —when it does not attack,
331
- —has a moveable jawbone,
iii. 56.
- Crocodilea,
v. 314.
- Crocodileon,
v. 240.
- Crocomagma,
iv. 370.
- Crocotta,
ii. 279.
- Crocus,
iv. 319,
320,
321,
370.
- Crœsus,
i. 451,
466,
474;
vi. 131
- —his son speaks in his infancy,
iii. 94.
- Cromill,
iv. 411.
- Cromna,
ii. 4.
- Cronian Sea,
i. 343,
351.
- Crop of birds,
iii. 71.
- Crops, their influences on land,
iii. 459
- —adapted to certain soils,
iv. 59,
60.
- Crotalia,
ii. 435.
- Croton,
iii. 287.
- Crotona,
i. 209,
223.
- Crowns, various kinds of,
ii. 171;
iii. 342,
343,
344
- —made of plants,
iv. 392,
395
- —of gold,
vi. 86.
- Crows,
ii. 490,
491
- —ill-omened,
491
- —speaking,
525
- —shrewdness of,
525,
526.
- Crucibles,
vi. 101.
- Crudity, remedies for,
iii. 98.
- Crustaceous sea-animals,
ii. 423.
- Crustumerium,
i. 191.
- Crustumium,
i. 241.
- Crystal,
v. 306,
394-397.
- Crystallion,
v. 135,
- Ctesias,
i. 150.
- Ctesibius,
ii. 184.
- Ctesicles,
vi. 279.
- Ctesilaüs,
vi. 179.
- Ctesiphon,
ii. 73.
- Cuckoo,
ii. 488,
489
- —thought to be a hawk,
488.
- Cucubalus,
v. 241.
- Cucumber, cultivated,
iv. 156-160,
210,
211
- —wild,
207,
208,
209
- —anguine or erratic,
209,
210.
- Cucumber-fish,
ii. 359.
- Cucus,
iii. 183.
- Cuenca,
i. 170.
- Culeus,
iv. 109.
- Cultivation, modes of, by various nations,
iv. 60,
61,
62.
- Cumæ,
i. 106.
- Cumania,
ii. 21.
- Cummin,
iv. 103,
262,
263.
- Cuniculus,
ii. 349.
- Cunila,
ii. 548;
iv. 195,
266,
267.
- Cunila bubula,
ii. 292;
iv. 265,
266.
- Cunila gallinacea,
iv. 266.
- Cunilago,
iv. 266.
- Cupidity for gold,
vi. 91.
- Cupping-glasses,
vi. 51.
- Cures,
i. 233.
- Curetes,
ii. 231.
- Curetis,
i. 273.
- Curia,
vi. 233.
- Curiatii,
ii. 135.
- Curio, the Elder,
i. 269;
ii. 147.
- Curio, C., the amphitheatre of,
vi. 350,
351,
352.
- Curio’s, the family of the,
ii. 188.
- Curius, Manius,
iv. 8,
165.
- Currant-tree,
iii. 226.
- Cursor, Papirius,
iii. 469.
- Curtius, his devotedness,
iii. 311.
- Curtius, Q., quoted,
i. 134.
- Cusenta,
iv. 56.
- Cutiliæ,
i. 235;
v. 475,
495.
- Cutleek,
iv. 223,
224,
225.
- Cuttings,
iii. 436
- —propagation by,
iii. 464.
- Cuvier quoted,
ii. 134,
136,
137,
139,
156,
244,
258,
262,
263,
266,
276,
278,
279,
280,
282,
283,
285,
288,
289,
290,
291,
302,
303,
304,
305,
307,
308,
311,
321,
350,
352,
359,
360,
361,
362,
364,
365,
367,
369,
377,
378,
379,
380,
382,
383,
384,
385,
386,
388,
389,
390,
391,
392,
393,
394,
395,
396,
397,
398,
399,
400,
401,
404,
405,
406,
407,
408,
409,
410,
411,
412,
413,
415,
416,
417,
418,
419,
420,
422,
423,
424,
425,
426,
427,
428,
429,
431,
432,
434,
436,
437,
441,
443,
444,
415,
450,
451,
462,
453,
454,
455,
458,
459,
460,
461,
462,
463,
464,
466,
467,
471,
472,
474,
475,
476,
478,
479,
481,
482,
483,
484,
487,
488,
489,
490,
492,
500,
506,
507,
511,
512,
513,
514,
515,
516,
519,
522,
523,
526,
527,
528,
529,
530,
533,
534;
iii. 1,
2,
3,
4,
10,
11,
16,
23,
25,
27,
29,
30,
31,
32,
33,
34,
35,
36,
37,
39,
42,
43,
45,
48,
50,
57,
58;
iv. 188.
- Cyamias,
vi. 459.
- Cyamos,
iv. 347,
348.
- Cyanæan Islands,
i. 338.
- Cyanos (plant),
iv. 328.
- Cyanos (stone),
vi. 432.
- Cybele,
i. 492.
- Cybindis,
ii. 488.
- Cybium,
ii. 386;
vi. 21.
- Cychranius,
ii. 504.
- Cyclades,
i. 317.
- Cyclaminos,
v. 125,
126.
- Cyclopes,
i. 217;
ii. 122,
223.
- Cyclopean walls,
i. 199
- —architecture,
i. 284.
- Cydius,
vi. 275.
- Cydnus,
i. 448;
v. 475.
- Cydonea,
i. 488.
- Cydonia,
iii. 292,
293.
- Cyllene,
i. 280,
287.
- Cymæ,
iv. 185,
239;
v. 48.
- Cyme,
i. 472.
- Cyna,
iii. 118.
- Cynægirus,
vi. 248.
- Cynamolgi,
ii. 104,
295.
- Cynapanxis,
v. 49.
- Cynips,
iii. 351.
- Cynips psenes,
iii. 41.
- Cynocephali,
ii. 100,
130,
135,
348;
vi. 434.
- Cynocephalia,
v. 429.
- Cynoglossos,
v. 110.
- Cynoïdes,
v. 135.
- Cynomorion,
iv. 455.
- Cynopolis,
i. 417,
418.
- Cynopos,
vi. 62.
- Cynops,
iv. 357.
- Cynorrhodos,
ii. 317
- —a cure for hydrophobia,
v. 84.
- Cynosbaton,
iii. 207.
- Cynosbatos,
iii. 412;
v. 49.
- Cynosdexia,
vi. 62.
- Cynosorchis,
v. 240.
- Cynossema,
i. 308.
- Cynosura,
ii. 539.
- Cynozolon,
iv. 407,
408,
409.
- Cynthus,
i. 319.
- Cyparissa,
i. 282.
- Cyparissias,
v. 180.
- Cyperos,
iv. 362,
363,
364.
- Cypira,
iv. 363.
- Cypiros,
iv. 359,
362.
- Cypræa, or cowry,
ii. 413.
- Cypress,
iii. 397,
398,
399;
v. 7,
8.
- Cyprinum,
iii. 161,
163,
164,
165,
289.
- Cyprinus,
ii. 464.
- Cypros,
iii. 146.
- Cyprus described,
i. 480.
- Cyprus, (the tree),
iii. 146.
- Cypseli,
ii. 521.
- Cyrenaica,
i. 395;
iii. 399;
iv. 145,
146
- —the mice of,
350
- —the trees of,
iii. 200.
- Cyrene,
i. 396,
397;
iv. 431
- —destitute of grass,
ii. 32,
33.
- Cyrni,
ii. 132.
- Cyrus,
i. 451,
472;
ii. 33,
70
- —his great memory;
ii. 164.
- Cyrus (the river),
ii. 18.
- Cythera,
i. 312.
- Cytheris,
ii. 270.
- Cythnius,
ii. 477.
- Cythnos,
i. 318.
- Cytinus,
iv. 500.
- Cytis,
ii. 94.
- Cytisus,
iii. 208,
209.
- Cytitis,
vi. 446.
- Cytorus,
ii. 4.
- Cyzicus,
i. 489;
vi. 233.
- D.
- Daci,
i. 329,
330;
ii. 145.
- Dacia described,
i. 329.
- Dactyli (fish),
ii. 475.
- Dactyli, Idæan,
ii. 225.
- Dactyliothecæ,
vi. 390.
- Dactylos,
v. 73.
- Dactylus (grape),
iii. 320.
- Dædalus,
i. 458;
iv. 131
- —his inventions,
ii. 226.
- Daffodil,
iv. 367.
- Dahæ,
ii. 34.
- Daisy,
iv. 328;
v. 162.
- Dalion,
ii. 115.
- Dalmatia described,
i. 259.
- Dama,
ii. 347.
- Damaratus,
i. 190;
vi. 229,
283.
- Damascena,
iii. 178,
295.
- Damascus,
i. 431,
432
- —the Seven Sleepers of,
ii. 211.
- Damasonion,
v. 129,
130.
- Damastes,
i. 371.
- Damion,
iv. 302.
- Damon,
ii. 241.
- Damophilus,
vi. 284.
- Damsons,
iii. 178,
295.
- Danaüs,
ii. 233.
- Dandaguda,
ii. 47.
- Dandelion,
iv. 349.
- Danger, prognostics of, from animals,
ii. 294,
295.
- Danube,
i. 250,
262,
328;
v. 481.
- Danuvius,
v. 481.
- Daphnea,
vi. 447.
- Daphnoïdes,
iii. 141;
v. 57.
- Dardæ,
ii. 45.
- Dardanelles,
i. 305,
307.
- Dardani,
i. 272,
297.
- Dardanum,
i. 478.
- Dardanus,
i. 200.
- Darius,
ii. 27,
92
- —his chest of perfumes,
iii. 159.
- Dark, persons who could see in the,
iii. 51.
- Darnel,
iv. 55,
442,
454.
- Dascusa,
ii. 19.
- Dassaretæ,
i. 272.
- Dasypus,
ii. 349,
543;
iii. 81.
- Dates,
iii. 169,
172,
174-177
- —consecrated to the gods,
176
- —green, ill effects of, on Alexander’s soldiers,
177.
- Date-bread,
iii. 169.
- Date-palm,
iii. 143.
- Date-wine,
iii. 169,
175.
- Dathiathum,
iii. 127.
- Datis,
vi. 248.
- Daucus,
v. 123.
- Daulis,
i. 277.
- Daylight, how regulated,
i. 105,
106.
- Days, irregularity of,
i. 50,
51
- —longest and shortest,
108,
109
- —how computed,
110
- —in the year,
vi. 162.
- Davy, Sir H., quoted,
vi. 240,
245.
- Dead, closing the eyes of,
iii. 53
- —remedies derived from,
v. 292,
293.
- Dead-nettle,
iv. 404,
405.
- Death, signs of,
ii. 208
- —the greatest of blessings,
ii. 219.
- Deaths, sudden,
ii. 213-217
- —happy,
ii. 216
- —unhappy,
217.
- Decapolis described,
i. 431.
- Decay, certain trees proof against,
iii. 422.
- Decii,
v. 279.
- Decius, P.,
iii. 343.
- Deculo,
ii. 554.
- Decuman path,
iii. 501.
- Decuries of judges,
vi. 82,
83.
- Defrutum,
iii. 246,
249,
269,
270.
- Delian brass,
vi. 151.
- Deliratio,
iv. 65.
- Delos,
i. 318,
319,
337,
338
- —the perfumes of,
iii. 160.
- Delphi,
i. 277
- —laurel of,
iii. 332.
- Delta,
i. 407.
- Demetrius (artist),
vi. 180.
- Demetrius (geographer),
vi. 385.
- Demetrius (physician),
ii. 355.
- Demetrius Phalereus,
vi. 159.
- Demetrius Poliorcetes,
i. 279;
vi. 165,
266.
- Democlides,
iii. 158.
- Democracy,
ii. 227.
- Democrates, Servilius,
v. 420.
- Democritus (artist),
vi. 186.
- Democritus, the philosopher,
i. 149;
ii. 219;
v. 424
- —his foresight,
iv. 95,
117
- —visits the East,
v. 82
- —on plants,
64-68.
- Demodamas,
ii. 33,
115.
- Demodes,
iii. 157.
- Demonnesos,
i. 496.
- Demosthenes,
ii. 174.
- Demostratus,
vi. 467.
- Demoteles,
vi. 385.
- Denarii, weight of,
ii. 53.
- Dendritis,
vi. 461.
- Dendroïdes,
v. 180.
- Denia,
i. 170,
211.
- Dentatus, M. Curius,
ii. 153.
- Dentatus, L. Siccius,
ii. 170;
iv. 393.
- Dentifrices,
v. 517;
vi. 365.
- Depilatories,
iii. 265;
v. 215,
465;
vi. 55,
56.
- Depth of the sea,
i. 130.
- Derbices,
ii. 32.
- Derceto,
i. 439.
- Dertona,
i. 186.
- Dessert,
iii. 102.
- Destinies at the birth of man,
ii. 203.
- Deuteria,
iii. 251.
- Dgiggetai,
ii. 326.
- Dia,
i. 315.
- Diachyton,
iii. 250.
- Diacodion,
iv. 279.
- Diadochos,
vi. 447.
- Diadumenos,
vi. 171.
- Diaglaucia,
v. 247,
248.
- Diagoras,
iii. 158.
- Dial in the Campus Martius,
vi. 334,
335.
- Diallage,
vi. 412.
- Dials,
i. 106,
109.
- Diamond,
vi. 405,
406
- —dust of,
vi. 464.
- Diana,
i. 408
- —Temple of, at Ephesus,
i. 117;
iii. 218,
423;
vi. 343,
344,
375.
- Dianium,
i. 211.
- Diapasma,
iii. 166;
iv. 366.
- Diapason,
i. 53.
- Diaphragm,
iii. 70.
- Diatichon,
vi. 372.
- Diaxylon,
v. 45.
- Dibapha,
ii. 448;
iv. 326.
- Dicæarchus,
i. 95,
149.
- Dichroïte,
vi. 407.
- Dictamnos,
iv. 260;
v. 115,
116.
- Dies fasti,
vi. 76.
- Diet on figs,
iv. 504.
- Dieuches,
iv. 302.
- Digestion,
v. 296.
- Diglito,
ii. 75.
- Dill,
iv. 274.
- Dimensions of the earth,
i. 143-146.
- Dindymus,
i. 489.
- Dinochares, the architect,
i. 419;
ii. 184;
vi. 209.
- Dinomenes,
vi. 169,
181.
- Diocæsarea,
ii. 6.
- Diocles,
iv. 301.
- Diodorus of Priene,
ii. 357;
iii. 338.
- Diodorus the physician,
v. 420.
- Diodorus Siculus,
i. 270
- —quoted,
ii. 79.
- Diodotus, Petronius,
iv. 302.
- Diogenes the Cynic,
ii. 160.
- Diognetus,
ii. 115.
- Diomedes,
i. 227,
228,
265,
304
- —birds of,
ii. 526
- —tomb of,
526.
- Diomedia,
i. 265.
- Dion of Colophon,
ii. 357.
- Dion Cassius quoted,
i. 141,
264.
- Dionysias,
vi. 447.
- Dionysius (artist),
vi. 319.
- Dionysius, physician,
iii. 158.
- Dionysius, Cassius,
ii. 357,
555.
- Dionysius Periegetes,
i. 372.
- Dionysodorus,
vi. 388.
- Dionysonymphas,
v. 66.
- Diophanes,
ii. 357.
- Dioptase,
vi. 410.
- Dioscoron,
i. 224.
- Dioscurias,
ii. 11.
- Diospolis,
i. 416.
- Diospyron,
v. 253,
254.
- Diotimus,
v. 369.
- Diphryx,
vi. 204,
205.
- Diphyes,
vi. 447.
- Dipœnus,
vi. 308,
309.
- Dipsacos,
v. 242,
243.
- Dipsas,
iv. 516.
- Dirce,
i. 291;
vi. 318,
319.
- Diribitorium,
iii. 419;
vi. 346.
- Discobolus,
vi. 173.
- Discovery, voyages of,
i. 98,
99.
- Disease, new forms of,
ii. 119;
v. 152
- —various instances of,
ii. 206.
- Diseases, which affect certain classes,
ii. 208
- —infinite in number,
209
- —of bees,
iii. 22
- —of trees,
517-526,
527,
530
- —the most painful,
v. 86,
87
- —of females,
210-214,
361-364,
462,
463
- —of infants,
364.
- Disposition, influence of aliments upon,
iv. 435,
436.
- Distances, of the stars,
i. 52
- —comparative, of places,
ii. 108.
- Dittander,
iv. 195,
270.
- Dittany,
iv. 260,
261;
v. 115.
- Dium,
i. 314,
- Diver (bird),
ii. 513.
- Divers,
ii. 527.
- “Dives,” the surname,
vi. 129.
- Divination, art of,
ii. 179,
229,
230,
487.
- Divisions of the globe,
i. 151,
152.
- Diyllus,
ii. 242.
- Dnieper,
i. 331.
- Dniester,
i. 330.
- Dodder,
v. 174.
- Dodecatheos,
v. 88.
- Dodona,
i. 133,
272,
276;
vi. 342.
- Dogs, exposed,
ii. 88
- —ruling as kings,
103
- —their fidelity,
312,
313
- —their memory,
314
- —their scent,
315
- —cross breeds of,
314,
315;
- —and crocodiles of Egypt,
315
- —generation of,
316
- —of Laconia,
542
- —troubled with colic,
iii. 71
- —their spitefulness,
v. 114,
115
- —crucified,
391
- —remedies derived from,
391,
392.
- Dog-burr,
v. 71.
- Dog-fish,
ii. 377,
433,
456,
457,
458.
- Dog-nettle,
iv. 351,
352.
- Dog-plant,
v. 114,
115.
- Dog-rose,
v. 84.
- Dog-star,
i. 67.
- Dog-wolf,
ii. 279.
- Dolichos,
iii. 433.
- Dolium,
iii. 221,
269.
- Dolopes,
i. 275.
- Dolphin,
ii. 461;
vi. 35,
36
- —attacks the crocodile,
ii. 288,
289
- —described,
368-371
- —its love for human beings,
372,
373,
374
- —its love for music,
374
- —helps men to fish,
374,
375,
376
- —other marvels relative to,
376,
377
- —of the Ganges,
384.
- Domitianus, the Emperor,
i. 3;
vi. 144,
370.
- Don,
ii. 14.
- Donax,
v. 36;
vi. 58.
- Dongola,
ii. 99.
- Donusa,
i. 321.
- Dorade,
ii. 397;
vi. 19.
- Dorcas,
ii. 352.
- Doripetron,
v. 173.
- Doris (country),
i. 293.
- Doris (plant),
iv. 410.
- Doriscus,
i. 305.
- Dormice,
ii. 351,
352.
- Dorotheus,
iii. 157.
- Dorsal spine,
iii. 63.
- Dory,
ii. 404.
- Dorycnium,
v. 303.
- Dorylæum,
i. 471.
- Doryphoros,
vi. 171.
- Dosiades,
i. 372.
- Dositheus,
iv. 127.
- Dossennus,
i. 275.
- Douching,
v. 108.
- Douma Thebaica,
iii. 143.
- Draave,
i. 263.
- Draconitis,
vi. 447.
- Dracontium,
v. 57,
58,
60.
- Dracunculus,
v. 37,
57,
58,
60;
vi. 62.
- Dragon, or serpent,
v. 395
- —its enmity to the elephant,
ii. 258
- —its size,
261
- —where found,
261
- —its crest,
261;
iii. 43
- —man saved by a,
ii. 273.
- Dragon’s-blood,
vi. 121,
245.
- Draining,
iii. 448.
- Draus,
i. 263.
- Dreams,
ii. 165
- —signification of,
ii. 553
- —what animals are subject to,
ii. 553
- —at will,
v. 317.
- Drepana,
i. 218.
- Drepanis,
iii. 90.
- Drepanum,
i. 217.
- Drilo,
i. 260.
- Drink, abstinence from,
iii. 99
- —perfumes in,
iii. 168.
- Drinking, of animals,
ii. 550
- —for wagers,
iii. 366.
- Drinking-horns,
iii. 45.
- Drones,
iii. 10,
11.
- Droppings from leaves,
iii. 474,
475.
- Dropsy,
ii. 159;
v. 198,
199,
356,
456;
vi. 49.
- Drosolithos,
vi. 452,
460.
- Druggists, their fraudulence,
vi. 195
- —their ignorance,
223.
- Drugs, varying prices of,
vi. 143,
144.
- Druids,
iii. 435,
436;
v. 42,
390,
426.
- Drunkard, described,
iii. 272.
- Drunkenness, described,
iii. 270-274
- —antidotes to,
526;
iv. 237,
513.
- Druppa,
iii. 154,
279.
- Drusillanus Rotundus,
vi. 134.
- Drusus,
ii. 162;
iii. 19;
iv. 185;
v. 98,
328.
- Dryitis,
vi. 459.
- Dryophonon,
v. 243.
- Dryopteris,
v. 243.
- Drypetis,
iii. 279.
- Dubius Avitus,
vi. 167.
- Ducks of Pontus,
v. 79.
- Ductility of gold,
vi. 96.
- Dugong,
iii. 57.
- Dugs of animals,
iii. 82,
83.
- Duillius, Caius,
vi. 157.
- Dulce,
iii. 250.
- Dulichium,
i. 311.
- Dung-beetle,
iii. 34.
- Dunghill, plant growing upon,
v. 69.
- Dupondius,
vi. 89.
- Durability of wood,
iii. 423,
424.
- Duracinus grape,
iii. 220,
232.
- Duracinus peach,
iii. 294.
- Duration of life, prognostics of,
iii. 96.
- Duris,
ii. 241.
- Dust productive of worms,
iii. 41.
- Dwarfish and deformed tribes,
ii. 131.
- Dwarfs,
ii. 157;
iii. 91.
- Dyeing,
ii. 224;
iii. 392;
iv. 138,
390,
391,
409;
v. 193;
vi. 28,
362
- —walnuts used for,
iii. 316.
- Dyers’ weed,
vi. 108.
- Dyme,
i. 280.
- Dyris,
i. 381.
- Dyrrhachium,
i. 227,
261.
- Dysentery, remedies for,
v. 441,
442.
- E.
- Eagles described,
ii. 481,
508;
v. 513
- —different kinds of,
ii. 481-484
- —their characteristics,
484
- —the figure of, used as the Roman standard,
485,
486
- —fight with dragons,
486
- —affection shown by,
486
- —incubation of,
539.
- Eagle-fish,
ii. 411.
- Eale,
ii. 279.
- Eared plants,
iv. 357.
- Earrings, costly,
iii. 48.
- Ears, people without,
ii. 103
- —large,
134
- —particulars relative to,
iii. 48,
49
- —tingling of the,
v. 284
- —diseases of,
337,
338,
416,
417,
418;
vi. 33,
34.
- Earth, nature of the,
i. 91-94
- —form of,
94
- —if surrounded by the Ocean,
98,
99,
100
- —what part inhabited,
100-103
- —middle of the world,
102
- —prodigies connected with,
115,
116
- —dimensions of,
143,
144
- —smell of,
iii. 167
- —new and spontaneous productions of,
399
- —flavour of,
451.
- Earthenware,
vi. 286,
287.
- Earthquakes,
i. 111-116,
471,
472,
473.
- Earths, various kinds of,
iii. 452,
453,
454
- —how washed,
vi. 298,
299
- —of Egypt,
237
- —of Eretria,
239,
298
- —of Ebusus,
303
- —of Galata,
303.
- Eastern Ocean,
ii. 33.
- Ebony,
iii. 108,
109;
v. 37.
- Ebro,
i. 361.
- Ebulum,
v. 127,
198.
- Ebusus,
i. 211,
212,
404;
vi. 303.
- Ecbatana,
ii. 88.
- Ecbolas,
iii. 263.
- Ecdippa,
i. 434.
- Echecrates, his mare,
ii. 543.
- Echeneïs,
ii. 412,
413,
414;
vi. 2,
3
- —used in enchantments,
ii. 413,
414.
- Echeon,
v. 412.
- Echinades,
i. 274,
310.
- Echinopodes,
iii. 7.
- Echinus,
i. 322.
- Echios,
v. 120.
- Echis,
iv. 410.
- Echites,
v. 56.
- Echitis,
vi. 459.
- Echo, sevenfold,
vi. 345.
- Eclipses,
i. 31,
34,
36-39,
62
- —where visible,
104,
105
- —of the sun,
vi. 450.
- Ecnephias,
i. 79.
- Ἐκτραπέλοι,
ii. 158.
- Ectypa,
vi. 284,
454.
- Edessa,
i. 443.
- Edonus,
i. 309.
- Eels,
ii. 408,
409.
- Eelskins used for flogging,
ii. 411.
- Egagropile,
iii. 72.
- Egelasta,
v. 502.
- Eggs, purification with,
ii. 487
- —various kinds of,
532-538
- —augury derived from,
535,
536
- —hatched by artificial heat,
536
- —how best kept,
539
- —sucked by serpents,
548,
549
- —remedies derived from,
v. 585-588.
- Eggshells, superstition as to breaking,
v. 282.
- Eglantine,
iii. 412;
iv. 310,
311,
313;
v. 48,
49,
84.
- Egnatia,
i. 227.
- Egypt, described,
i. 406,
416
- —routes through, to the Red Sea,
ii. 63,
64,
65
- —its trees,
iii. 180
- —its grapes,
246
- —its beer,
274
- —its modes of cultivation,
iv. 61
- —the cruelty of its kings,
v. 155
- —marvellous works in,
vi. 334-341.
- Egyptian thorn,
iii. 183;
v. 43
- —plum-tree,
iii. 184
- —earth,
vi. 237
- —jasper,
vi. 429.
- Elæomeli,
iii. 290;
iv. 494.
- Elam,
ii. 68.
- Elaphites,
i. 267.
- Elaphoboscon,
iv. 422,
423;
v. 115.
- Elaphonnesus,
i. 496.
- Elate,
iii. 155;
iv. 495,
496.
- Elatea,
i. 292.
- Elaterium,
iv. 207-210.
- Elatine,
v. 243,
244.
- Elatus,
v. 475.
- Elba,
i. 214,
348.
- Elder,
iii. 411,
412;
v. 23,
24.
- Elecampane,
iv. 167,
168,
222.
- Electricity,
i. 84.
- Electrides,
i. 266,
352,
397,
398.
- Electrum. See “Amber.”
- Electrum (metal),
vi. 105.
- Electuary,
v. 52.
- Elelisphacus,
iv. 449,
450.
- Elements,
i. 18,
19
- —three, destitute of taste and smell,
iii. 324.
- Elenchi,
ii. 435.
- Elephants, mentioned,
i. 9;
v. 308
- —an account of,
ii. 244-259
- —their notions of religion,
244,
245
- —when first harnessed,
245
- —bastard kind of,
245
- —trained to dance,
245
- —on the tight rope,
246
- —their docility,
247
- —wonderful feats by,
247
- —their instinct,
248
- —used in war,
249
- —their modesty,
250
- —their love for women,
250
- —their regard for justice,
251
- —when first seen in Italy,
251
- —fights by, in the Circus,
252,
253,
254
- —combats of,
252,
253
- —their appeals to human sympathy,
254
- —their merciful disposition,
255
- —how caught and trained,
255,
256
- —how hunted,
256
- —African and Indian,
257
- —their gestation,
258
- —their teeth and tusks,
259
- —where found,
259
- —their enmity to the dragon,
259
- —their sagacity,
260
- —their teeth,
iii. 58,
59
- —their hide,
80
- —their voice,
94.
- Elephantiasis,
v. 152,
154,
155,
311.
- Elephantis,
v. 369.
- Eleusis,
i. 289.
- Eleutheræ,
i. 291,
314.
- Elicius, Jupiter,
i. 84.
- Elis,
i. 281.
- Elk,
ii. 263.
- Elleborine,
v. 244.
- Elm,
iii. 370;
v. 22,
23
- —the wood, its uses,
iii. 422
- —propagation of,
467,
468.
- Elops,
ii. 399.
- Elpenor, tomb of,
iii. 329.
- Elpis and the lion,
ii. 271.
- Elymais,
ii. 68.
- Emathii,
i. 297.
- Embalming the dead,
iii. 66,
161;
v. 8.
- Embassy from Rome to Alexander the Great,
i. 194.
- Emblems,
vi. 322.
- Emboliaria,
ii. 203.
- Embroidery,
ii. 337.
- Emeralds,
vi. 409-413.
- Emerita,
i. 365.
- Emery,
vi. 464.
- Emesa,
i. 439.
- Emmaus,
i. 428.
- Emodian Mountains,
ii. 38,
42.
- Empedocles,
iii. 100.
- Emperors, Roman, deified,
i. 181.
- Empetros,
v. 244.
- Empirics, sect of,
v. 372.
- Emporetica,
iii. 189.
- Emydes,
vi. 15.
- Encardia,
vi. 448.
- Encaustic,
vi. 234,
272,
273,
282.
- Enchanters,
ii. 126,
127
- —their influence on the moon,
i. 31.
- Enchantments, remedies for,
v. 331,
332.
- See also “Magic,” &c.
- Enchrysa,
iv. 410,
411.
- Endive,
iv. 182,
183,
233,
234,
235.
- Endymion,
i. 31.
- Engadda,
i. 431.
- Engedi,
i. 431.
- Engraving,
ii. 184.
- Enhæmon,
iii. 134,
135;
iv. 485.
- Enhydris,
v. 430;
vi. 23,
35.
- Enhygros,
vi. 460.
- Eningia,
i. 344.
- Enipeus,
i. 295.
- Enna,
i. 219.
- Enneacrunos,
i. 289;
v. 491.
- Enneaphyllon,
v. 245.
- Ennemoser’s “History of Magic,” quoted,
ii. 127.
- Ennius,
ii. 176.
- Enorchis,
vi. 448.
- Entertainments, wine used at,
iii. 254,
255.
- Entrails, inspection of,
iii. 66-70
- —head of the,
68.
- Eon,
iii. 203,
204.
- Epaminondas,
i. 286.
- Ephedra,
v. 166.
- Ephemera,
iii. 42.
- Ephemeron,
v. 147,
148.
- Ephesus,
i. 468
- —Temple of Diana at,
117;
iii. 218,
423;
vi. 343,
344,
375
- —wine of,
iii. 246.
- Ephialtes,
ii. 316.
- Ephippus,
iii. 157.
- Ephorus,
i. 371.
- Ephyre,
i. 279.
- Ephyri,
i. 275.
- Epicharmus,
iv. 302.
- Epicurus, his garden,
iv. 150
- —portraits of him worn,
vi. 224,
225.
- Epidamnum,
i. 261.
- Epidaurus,
i. 260,
284,
285.
- Epidius, C.,
iii. 535.
- Epigenes,
i. 149.
- Epiglossis,
iii. 62.
- Epilepsy,
v. 196,
197,
353,
354,
451,
452,
453;
vi. 47
- —in quails,
ii. 505.
- Epileus,
ii. 488.
- Epimedion,
v. 244,
245.
- Epimelas,
vi. 449.
- Epimenides,
ii. 211.
- Epipactis,
v. 244.
- Epipetron,
iv. 349,
350.
- Epiphanæa,
i. 440.
- Epiphania,
i. 444.
- Epirus described,
i. 271
- —oxen of,
ii. 327.
- Epithymon,
v. 174,
175.
- Epodes,
vi. 65.
- Equestrian order, particulars connected with,
vi. 83-86.
- Equestrian statues,
vi. 156,
160.
- Equisætis,
iv. 91;
v. 203,
204.
- Equisætum,
v. 203,
204.
- Equites, inspection of the,
iii. 384
- —particulars connected with,
83-86.
- Equus hemionus,
ii. 326.
- Equus October,
v. 327,
328.
- Erannoboas,
ii. 43.
- Erasistratus,
ii. 182;
iii. 100;
v. 372.
- Eratosthenes,
i. 150.
- Erebinthus,
i. 496.
- Eretria,
i. 317.
- Eretrian earth,
v. 239,
293.
- Ergastula,
iv. 9.
- Erica,
iii. 201;
v. 28.
- Ericæum,
iii. 14.
- Eridanus,
i. 243.
- Erigeron,
v. 146,
147.
- Erigonus,
vi. 280.
- Erineon,
iv. 507.
- Erinna,
vi. 173.
- Eriophorus,
iv. 142.
- Eriphia,
v. 67,
68.
- Erithace,
iii. 7.
- Erithacus,
ii. 511.
- Ermine,
ii. 308.
- Eros, Staberius,
vi. 302.
- Erotylos,
vi. 448.
- Eructation, absence of,
ii. 160.
- Ervilia,
iv. 23,
52.
- Ervum,
iv. 451,
452.
- Erymanthus,
i. 287.
- Eryngium,
iv. 396,
397.
- Erysimum,
iv. 36,
453,
454.
- Erysipelas,
iv. 213;
v. 199,
200,
357,
456;
vi. 49.
- Erysisceptrum,
iii. 146,
147;
v. 45.
- Erysithales,
v. 205.
- Erythallis,
vi. 448.
- Erythia,
i. 369.
- Erythinus,
ii. 391,
467,
468;
vi. 57.
- Erythræ,
i. 469.
- Erythræa,
i. 369.
- Erythraïcon,
v. 191.
- Erythras,
ii. 66,
87.
- Erythrodanus,
v. 38,
39.
- Eryx,
i. 218,
219.
- Esseda,
vi. 215.
- Essedones,
i. 335;
ii. 34,
123.
- Essenes,
i. 430,
431.
- Este,
i. 252.
- Eternity of matter,
iii. 450.
- Etesiaca,
iii. 229.
- Etesiæ,
i. 76,
77.
- Etesian stone,
vi. 367.
- Etruria described,
i. 186.
- Etrurian observations on thunder and lighting,
i. 81-85.
- Euagon of Thasos,
ii. 357.
- Euanthes,
ii. 355.
- Eubœa described,
i. 316.
- Eubulides,
vi. 186.
- Euchir,
ii. 232;
vi. 187,
283.
- Euclase,
vi. 413.
- Euclea,
v. 131.
- Euclid,
i. 149.
- Eucnemos,
vi. 183.
- Euctemon,
iv. 128.
- Eudemus,
v. 378.
- Eudicus,
v. 523.
- Eudoxus of Cnidoe,
i. 78,
149.
- Eudoxus of Cyzicus,
ii. 114.
- Euganei,
i. 254,
255.
- Eugenia,
iii. 224.
- Euhemerus,
vi. 385.
- Eulæus,
ii. 62,
79,
80.
- Eumachus,
i. 371.
- Eumeces,
vi. 448.
- Eumenes, King,
i. 308
- —invents parchment,
iii. 186.
- Eumithres,
vi. 448.
- Eunicus,
vi. 185.
- Eunuchs,
iii. 47,
81,
92;
v. 31;
vi. 139.
- Euonymos,
iii. 203.
- Eupatoria,
ii. 5.
- Eupatoria (plant),
v. 103.
- Eupetalos,
vi. 448.
- Euphorbia,
i. 383;
iv. 228,
264,
278,
281;
v. 14,
15,
54,
68,
107,
108,
177-190,
261.
- Euphorbus,
v. 108.
- Euphranor,
vi. 169,
181,
274,
275,
303.
- Euphrates,
i. 441,
446;
ii. 72.
- Euphron,
iii. 158.
- Euphronius,
ii. 357.
- Euphrosynum,
v. 109.
- Eupompus,
vi. 174,
255.
- Eureos,
vi. 448.
- Euripi,
ii. 253;
vi. 270.
- Euripice,
iv. 364.
- Euripides,
iv. 423;
vi. 467.
- Euripus,
i. 292,
316,
323.
- Europa and Jupiter,
iii. 105.
- Europe, the boundaries of
i. 153
- —the gulfs of,
153
- —islands of,
210
- —north of, described,
339
- —measurement of,
369.
- Europus,
ii. 28.
- Eurotas,
i. 283.
- Eurotias,
vi. 448,
449.
- Eurus,
i. 73;
iv. 116.
- Eurymedon,
i. 459.
- Eusebes,
vi. 449.
- Euthycrates,
vi. 170,
176.
- Euthymus, deified in his life-time,
ii. 199.
- Eutychides,
vi. 170,
319.
- Eutychis of Tralles,
ii. 137.
- Euxine,
i. 326,
338
- —described,
ii. 1
- —islands of,
ii. 22.
- Euxinidas,
vi. 255.
- Evacuations, an Animal that has no passage for the,
iii. 40,
41.
- Evander,
i. 286;
vi. 162.
- Evenus,
i. 275.
- Evergreens,
iii. 373,
374.
- Evil eye,
ii. 127.
- Evonymitæ,
ii. 100.
- Exacum,
v. 104.
- Excæcaria agallochum,
iii. 115.
- Excellence, man of the greatest,
ii. 179.
- Excretions, human, remedies derived from,
v. 294,
295.
- Exebenus,
vi. 44.
- Exedum,
v. 71.
- Exercise,
v. 296.
- Exocœtus,
ii. 406.
- Exonychon,
v. 253,
254.
- Expiations for lightning,
iii. 302.
- Extraction of substances from the flesh,
v. 461,
462;
vi. 51.
- Eye, a beast that kills with the,
ii. 281.
- Eyes, particulars relative to the,
iii. 49
- —colour of,
50,
51
- —seeing in the dark,
50,
51,
53
- —expressive of the character,
51,
52
- —pupils of,
52,
53
- —diseases of,
53
- —of certain animals will grow again when removed,
54
- —remedies for diseases of,
v. 136,
335,
336,
411-416;
vi. 29,
30.
- Eye-brows,
iii. 49.
- Eye-lashes,
iii. 54
- —fall of, with some persons,
54.
- Eye-lids,
iii. 54,
55
- —affections and diseases of the,
v. 410,
411;
vi. 29,
30,
31.
- F.
- Fabaria,
i. 344.
- Fabariæ,
iv. 45.
- Faber (fish),
ii. 404.
- Fabianus,
i. 148.
- Fabii, family of the,
ii. 188;
vi. 230.
- Fabius Maximus,
iv. 393
- —saves Rome,
iv. 393.
- Fabricius,
vi. 137,
138,
161.
- Fabrics that rival flowers in colour,
iv. 326,
327.
- Fabulous birds,
ii. 530.
- Face,
iii. 49
- —diseases of,
v. 340,
341,
342
- —remedy for spots on,
v. 432,
443;
vi. 35.
- Factio,
ii. 217,
505.
- Factus,
iii. 286.
- Facundus Novus,
vi. 334,
335.
- Fæcatum,
iii. 251.
- Fagutal,
iii. 355.
- Falconry, in an early state,
ii. 488.
- Falernian wine,
iii. 240,
254;
iv. 270,
271.
- Falernum,
i. 195.
- Falisci,
i. 188.
- Fallow deer,
iii. 44.
- False incense,
iii. 356,
357.
- Famine at Casilinum,
ii. 351.
- Famous trees,
iii. 432,
433.
- Fangs of serpents,
iii. 57,
58.
- Fannius Palæmon,
iii. 188.
- Far,
iv. 19,
24,
31,
32,
33.
- Farfarum,
v. 54,
55.
- Farfugium,
v. 54,
55.
- Farina,
iv. 33.
- Farm-house,
iv. 13,
14,
15.
- Farm-steward,
iv. 15.
- Farnese Bull,
vi. 319.
- Farrago,
iv. 20,
52.
- Farreum,
iv. 5.
- Fascinations,
ii. 127.
- Fascinus,
v. 290.
- Fasti,
vi. 76.
- Fat,
iii. 76
- —drawn off,
iii. 76
- —various kinds of,
v. 324,
325,
326.
- Fatui,
v. 256.
- Fauces,
iii. 64.
- Fauces Caudinæ,
i. 229.
- Fauni,
ii. 316.
- Fausta, her fecundity,
ii. 135.
- Faustian wine,
iii. 240.
- Faventia,
i. 242.
- Favenza,
i. 242.
- Favonius,
i. 74;
iv. 116.
- Fear,
iii. 80.
- Feathers of the eagle consume those of other birds,
ii. 485.
- Fecundation of trees,
iii. 381.
- Fecundity,
ii. 135,
136,
137.
- Federate towns,
i. 155.
- Fée, M., his labours on Pliny,
iii. 105;
v. 272.
- Feeding of animals, diversities in the,
ii. 548.
- Feet,
iii. 89
- —of birds,
ii. 490;
iii. 90
- —of animals, from two to a hundred,
91
- —diseases of the,
v. 192,
352,
353,
447,
446.
- Fel terræ,
v. 104.
- Felt,
ii. 335.
- Feltre,
i. 252.
- Female sex, remedies derived from,
v. 301,
302.
- Females, once pregnant only,
ii. 130
- —in what cases more courageous than males,
iii. 92
- —diseases of,
v. 210,
211,
212,
360-364,
462,
463;
vi. 53,
54,
55.
- Fenestella,
ii. 354.
- Feniculum,
ii. 293.
- Fennel,
iv. 296,
297.
- Fennel-giant,
iii. 204,
205;
iv. 198,
199,
298,
299.
- Fenugreek,
v. 74,
75.
- Ferentum,
i. 230.
- Fern,
v. 245,
246.
- Feronia,
i. 188.
- Ferret,
ii. 349;
v. 392.
- Ferula,
iii. 204,
205.
- Ferulaceous plants,
iv. 198.
- Fescennia,
i. 189.
- Fescennine songs,
iii. 315.
- Fetialis,
iii. 436.
- Fevers, remedies for,
v. 197,
198,
354,
355,
453-456;
vi. 47.
- Fezzan,
i. 398.
- Fibulæ,
vi. 74,
87.
- Ficarii,
iii. 41.
- Ficedula,
ii. 511.
- Ficus religiosa,
ii. 129.
- Ficus sycamorus,
iii. 180.
- Fidenæ,
i. 206.
- Fidentia,
i. 242.
- Fidustius, M.,
ii. 189.
- Field mice,
i. 68;
ii. 351.
- Field nard,
iv. 318,
319.
- Figs,
iii. 173,
307-311,
313,
531;
iv. 502-507
- —the cause of a war,
iii. 309,
310.
- —Indian,
109,
110
- —of Alexandria,
180
- —of Cyprus,
181
- —wine made from,
257.
- Figures, natural, in stone,
vi. 309.
- Filberts,
i. 198,
199;
iii. 316.
- Filicula,
v. 175.
- Filix,
v. 245,
246.
- Filters for wine,
iii. 270.
- Fine flour,
iv. 442,
443.
- Fingers,
iii. 86
- —peculiarities in the,
86
- —maladies of the,
v. 458.
- Fins of fish,
ii. 408.
- Fir,
iii. 357,
359
- —gigantic,
iii. 419.
- Fire, the marvels of,
i. 141,
142,
143;
vi. 383
- —how first preserved,
ii. 226;
iii. 206
- —animal found in,
iii. 42
- —obtained from wood,
iii. 421
- —prognostics derived from,
iv. 122.
- Firmus,
iv. 205.
- Fiscus,
ii. 171.
- Fish, tame,
i. 317
- —diet on,
ii. 134
- —their faculties,
367,
368,
369
- —species of, how many,
381
- —the largest,
381,
382
- —not found in the Euxine,
387,
388
- —why they leap above the surface,
390
- —auguries derived from,
391
- —that have no males,
391,
392
- —that have a stone in the head,
392,
393
- —that conceal themselves during the winter,
393,
394
- —that are taken at stated times only,
395
- —that conceal themselves in summer,
396
- —pickled alive,
403
- —enormous prices of,
403
- —not everywhere equally esteemed,
404
- —their gills and scales,
405,
406
- —that have a voice,
406
- —that come on land,
406,
407
- —time for catching them,
407
- —classification of,
407
- —their fins and modes of swimming,
408
- —flat,
411
- —that fly,
415
- —that shine at night,
415
- —destitute of blood,
416
- —soft,
416
- —maladies of,
460,
461
- —generation of,
460,
461-465
- —that are both oviparous and viviparous,
465,
466
- —peculiarities in their spawning,
466
- —that impregnate themselves,
466
- —aged,
467
- —that come on land,
471,
472
- —that have the best hearing,
547
- —tame,
547
- —that have the finest sense of smell,
547
- —teeth of,
iii. 57
- —bones of,
77
- —how poisoned,
v. 118
- —consulted,
480
- —poisonous,
480,
481,
482
- —instincts of,
vi. 7
- —marvelous properties of,
8
- —that eat from the hand,
8
- —oracular responses by,
8,
9
- —that are bitter, salt, or sweet,
9,
10
- —glue made from,
31,
32.
- Fishermen, hardiness of,
v. 511.
- Fish-preserves,
ii. 467,
469,
547.
- Fistula, remedies for,
v. 200.
- Fitches,
iv. 40,
51,
451,
452.
- “Flaccus,” the surname,
iii. 48.
- Flamen,
iv. 44
- —Dialis,
v. 327,
328.
- Flamens, apex of the,
iv. 430.
- Flamingo,
ii. 528,
529,
530.
- Flammeum,
iv. 327.
- Flanatic Gulf,
i. 251.
- Flavius, Cneius,
iii. 156;
vi. 76,
77.
- Flavus, Alfius,
ii. 476.
- Fleawort,
v. 135.
- Flexible glass,
vi. 381.
- Flight of birds,
ii. 504,
506,
520.
- Flies, produce maggots,
ii. 546
- —when drowned, come to life,
iii. 43
- —rub their eyes,
91.
- Flint,
vi. 360,
371,
372,
448.
- Floating islands,
i. 122,
123.
- Floating of dead bodies,
ii. 158.
- Flock,
iv. 134.
- Floralia,
iv. 99.
- Florence,
i. 189.
- Flour,
iv. 33,
34.
- Flower of Jove,
iv. 333,
337.
- Flower of salt,
v. 506,
507.
- Flower of wine,
iii. 269.
- Flowers, the colours of,
iv. 304,
317,
326,
327
- —their odours,
321-323
- —the blossoming of,
336,
337,
338
- —duration of,
339.
- Fluor spar,
vi. 392,
394,
433.
- Flute reeds,
iii. 405,
408.
- Flutes, treble and bass,
iii. 408.
- Fly-catcher,
ii. 511.
- Flying-fish,
ii. 415;
iii. 81.
- Foal-foot,
iii. 121,
122.
- Fœtus, how formed,
iii. 64.
- Foliatum,
iii. 165.
- Food, abstinence from,
iii. 99
- —prognostics derived from,
iv. 125.
- Forcing-beds,
iv. 156.
- Forehead,
iii. 49.
- Foreknowledge of the future in sleep,
ii. 553.
- Formacean walls,
vi. 289.
- Formation of insects,
ii. 45.
- Formentera,
i. 211.
- Formiæ,
i. 194.
- Formulæ,
v. 279-283,
286.
- Fornacalia,
iv. 4.
- Fortunate Islands,
i. 367,
368; ii.
107.
- Fortune, worshipped as the great divinity,
i. 23
- —statue of,
ii. 338
- —temple of,
vi. 171.
- Forum of Augustus,
ii. 215.
- Forum Boarium,
vi. 151.
- Forum Julii,
i. 178.
- Fossils,
i. 322;
vi. 358,
360.
- Fountains and rivers, wonders of,
i. 131-138.
- Fowls, the best kinds of,
ii. 536
- —diseases of,
536.
- Foxes, their craftiness,
ii. 295.
- Fox-glove,
iii. 121.
- Fraces,
iii. 286.
- Frankincense,
iii. 124-129
- —carriage and high price of,
128,
129.
- Frantic laurel,
iii. 431,
432.
- Frescoes,
vi. 291.
- Free towns,
i. 155.
- Freedmen, who have become famous,
vi. 301,
302.
- Free-stone,
vi. 368.
- Frejus,
i. 178.
- Fresh water in the sea,
i. 479.
- Friendships of animals,
ii. 551,
552.
- Frisii,
i. 349.
- Friuli,
i. 253.
- Frogs,
vi. 21,
22,
32,
34,
35,
38,
39
- —the generation of,
ii. 462,
463
- —dumb,
353
- —the tongue of,
iii. 61,
62.
- Frog-fish,
ii. 452.
- Fruiting of trees,
iii. 384,
385.
- Fruits, wines made from,
iii. 256,
257
- —foreign,
297-300
- —modes of keeping,
303-307
- —juices of,
323-326
- —various natures of,
326,
327,
328.
- Fucinus,
i. 232.
- Fucus,
iii. 209
- —ericoides,
210
- —vesiculosus,
210
- —avarice,
210.
- Fuel, wood for,
iii. 348,
349.
- Fugitive stone,
vi. 344,
345.
- Fuller quoted,
vi. 387.
- Fulling,
ii. 224;
vi. 300,
301.
- Fulvius, L.,
ii. 190.
- Fumitory,
v. 142.
- Fundament, remedies for diseases of,
v. 187,
350,
351,
445;
vi. 44.
- Fundanian wine,
iii. 241.
- Funerals, perfumes burnt at,
iii. 137.
- Funereal games,
ii. 232.
- Fungi,
iii. 351,
352;
iv. 429,
430,
431.
- Furunculi,
v. 200.
- Fuseli quoted,
vi. 235.
- Fustic,
iii. 371.
- G.
- Gabalium,
iii. 142.
- Gabbaras, the giant,
ii. 157.
- Gabienus, his death,
ii. 213.
- Gabii,
i. 201.
- Gabinius,
i. 376.
- Gadara,
i. 432.
- Gades, Straits of,
i. 151,
152,
210,
368.
- Gadfly,
iii. 35
- —becomes blind,
iii. 42,
43.
- Gadis,
i. 368.
- Gæanis,
vi. 456.
- Gaëta,
i. 194.
- Gagæ,
i. 455.
- Gagates,
vi. 361,
362.
- Gait,
iii. 89.
- Galactite,
vi. 449.
- Galatia described,
i. 491.
- Galaxias,
i. 449.
- Galba, Sulpicius,
vi. 385.
- Galbanum,
iii. 152;
v. 10.
- Galen quoted,
i. 111
- —an opinion of, alluded to,
ii. 152,
153.
- Galena,
vi. 112,
118,
212,
218.
- Galeobdolon,
v. 246.
- Galeopsis,
v. 246.
- Galeos,
vi. 12,
63.
- Galerita,
iii. 43.
- Galgulus,
ii. 506,
515,
548;
v. 452.
- Galion,
v. 246.
- Gall,
iii. 68,
69;
v. 327,
328
- —animals destitute of,
iii. 68
- —of extraordinary size,
68
- —persons without it,
69
- —double,
69
- —of the bull,
69.
- Gallæcia,
i. 363.
- Gallaica,
vi. 449.
- Galli castrate themselves,
iii. 92.
- Gallia, Narbonensis,
i. 174
- —Togata,
237
- —Belgica,
353.
- Gallic nard,
iv. 369,
370.
- Gallic Ocean, islands of,
i. 349.
- Gallidraga,
v. 249.
- Gallio, Annæus,
v. 496.
- Gallipoli,
i. 225,
305,
307,
308.
- Gallnut,
iii. 350;
v. 5.
- Gallus, Ælius,
ii. 90.
- Gallus, river,
i. 493;
v. 474.
- Gallus, Sulpicius,
i. 36,
147.
- Gamala,
i. 427.
- Gamecocks,
ii. 498.
- Games, sacred,
iii. 343.
- Gamphasantes,
i. 405.
- Gander,
ii. 499.
- Gangaridæ,
ii. 44.
- Ganges,
ii. 43,
131.
- Gangites,
ii. 484.
- Gantæ,
ii. 499.
- Garama,
i. 399.
- Garamantes,
i. 392,
401,
404,
405.
- Garden, pleasures of the,
iv. 149-154.
- Garden-grounds, laying out of,
iv. 154.
- Gardens, statues in,
iv. 150.
- Gargara,
i. 474,
475.
- Garlands,
iv. 304-309,
329,
330,
333,
334.
- Garlic,
iv. 174,
175,
176,
225-228.
- Garnet,
vi. 420,
421.
- Garum,
ii. 403;
iv. 227;
v. 507,
508.
- Gassinade,
vi. 449.
- Gates of Rome,
i. 203.
- Gaugamela,
ii. 71.
- Gauls, invasion of Asia by,
i. 492
- —their invasion of Italy,
iii. 103
- —besiege Rome,
vi. 75,
76.
- Gausapa,
ii. 333,
335.
- Gaza,
i. 423.
- Gazæ,
ii. 28.
- Gazelle,
ii. 347,
352.
- Gebanitæ,
iii. 128,
129,
130.
- Gecko,
ii. 299;
iii. 31.
- Gedrosi,
ii. 360.
- Gedrosia,
ii. 50
- —trees of,
iii. 115.
- Gedrusi,
ii. 59.
- Geese, hatching of,
ii. 538.
- Gegania,
vi. 152.
- Gela,
i. 219.
- Gelduba,
iv. 166.
- Gellianus,
i. 269.
- Gellius, Cneius,
ii. 239.
- Geloni,
i. 335.
- Gelotophyllis,
v. 66.
- Gemitorian Steps,
ii. 314.
- Gemursa,
v. 155.
- Generals, exhibitions by, of their victories,
vi. 233,
234.
- Generation,
ii. 144,
149,
150,
152,
153,
540-544.
- Genesara, Lake of,
i. 429.
- Geneva, Lake of,
i. 175.
- Genita Mana,
v. 391.
- Genitals, remedies for diseases of,
iii. 350,
351;
v. 445,
446;
vi. 45.
- Genius, men of,
ii. 173.
- Gennesareth, Sea of,
i. 429.
- Genoa,
i. 185.
- Genre-painters,
vi. 268.
- Gentian,
v. 105,
106.
- Genua,
i. 184
- —wines of,
iii. 242.
- Genuini,
iii. 59.
- Geodes,
vi. 360,
364,
365,
444,
446,
449,
456
- —enhydros,
460.
- Geometry,
ii. 183.
- Ger,
i. 382.
- Geræstus,
i. 316.
- Geranion,
v. 195.
- Geranitis,
v. 459.
- Gergitha,
i. 474.
- Germ,
iii. 496.
- Germanicus,
i. 469;
ii. 319,
330;
v. 85
- —his death,
iii. 67.
- Germany described,
i. 345.
- Germination of fruit,
iii. 382
- —of trees,
iii. 381,
382.
- Gerra,
ii. 84.
- Gerres,
vi. 62.
- Gerrhæ,
v. 501.
- Gerricula,
vi. 62.
- Geryon,
i. 369.
- Geskleithron,
ii. 123.
- Gesoriacum,
i. 350,
353.
- Gestatio,
v. 296.
- Gestation, period of,
ii. 139,
140.
- Getæ,
i. 329.
- Geum,
v. 166.
- Ghauts,
ii. 46.
- Gibbon’s History, quoted,
i. 346,
348.
- Gibraltar,
i. 152.
- Gigantic trees,
iii. 419,
420.
- Gilding,
vi. 98,
99,
124,
295
- —frauds committed in,
vi. 114.
- Gills of fish,
ii. 367,
405,
406.
- Gilthead,
ii. 395;
vi. 19.
- Ginger,
iii. 112.
- Gingidion,
iv. 219,
220.
- Ginnus,
ii. 326.
- Ginseng,
iv. 285.
- Giraffe,
ii. 277.
- Girasol opal,
vi. 437,
456.
- Gith,
iv. 195,
270,
271.
- Gladiators, their combats painted,
vi. 246
- —their mode of cure,
vi. 384.
- Gladiolus,
iv. 359;
v. 134.
- Glæsaria,
i. 344;
vi. 401.
- Glæsariæ,
i. 351.
- Glæsum,
vi. 401.
- Glanis,
ii. 452.
- Glans,
iii. 341,
345.
- Glass,
i. 434
- —broken, how to mend,
v. 388
- —the discovery and manufacture of,
vi. 379-382.
- Glastum,
iv. 389,
390.
- Glauce,
ii. 498.
- Glaucias,
iv. 303.
- Glaucides,
vi. 187.
- Glaucion, the artist,
vi. 276.
- Glaucion (plant),
iv. 278;
v. 247,
248.
- Glauciscus,
vi. 53.
- Glaucus,
ii. 396.
- Glaux,
v. 247.
- Gleucinum,
iii. 289;
iv. 492.
- Globe, divisions of the,
i. 151,
152.
- Glossopetra,
vi. 449.
- Glottis,
ii. 504.
- Glow-worm,
iii. 34.
- Glue,
iii. 427;
v. 358.
- Gluttony,
v. 169,
297.
- Glycera,
iv. 305;
vi. 273,
- Glycyrrhiza,
iv. 351,
399,
400;
v. 217.
- Glycyside,
v. 88,
89,
248,
249.
- Gnaphalium,
v. 249.
- Gnats,
iii. 2,
42;
v. 469.
- Gnesios,
ii. 483.
- Gnu,
ii. 282.
- Goats,
ii. 339
- —their propagation,
339,
340
- —their intelligence,
340
- —shearing of,
341
- —not sacrificed to Minerva,
342
- —destructive to trees,
342
- —suckled by birds,
521
- —collect laudanum on their beard,
iii. 133;
v. 171.
- Goat-lettuce,
iv. 228.
- Goatsucker,
ii. 521.
- Goblets, wooden,
iii. 420.
- God, opinions upon the existence of,
i. 20-25.
- Gods, plurality of,
i. 20,
21
- —their respective trees,
iii. 102.
- Goitre,
vi. 402.
- Gold, a place where it is buried in the earth,
ii. 79
- —excavated by ants,
iii. 39;
vi. 99,
442,
443
- —an account of,
69,
70
- —its first recommendation,
71
- —rings made of,
71-75,
76-82
- —quantity of, possessed by the ancients,
75,
76
- —crowns made of,
86
- —uses made of by females,
87,
88
- —cupidity for,
91,
92,
93
- —coronets made of,
94,
95
- —high value set upon,
96,
97,
98
- —cloth of,
98
- —how found,
99-104
- —statues made of,
105,
106
- —remedies derived from,
106,
107.
- Golden Fleece,
vi. 94.
- Golden Horn,
i. 307;
ii. 388.
- Golden Palace of Nero,
vi. 95,
185,
271,
349,
370.
- Gold-mines,
ii. 22,
123,
225;
vi. 99,
104.
- Goldsmiths,
iv. 37.
- Golgi,
i. 481.
- Gonger,
vi. 62.
- Goniæa,
vi. 450.
- Good fortune in the same family, instances of,
ii. 187,
191,
199.
- Goose, its liver artificially increased,
ii. 344
- —its asserted bashfulness,
496
- —its vigilance,
498
- —saves the Capitol,
498;
v. 391
- —sacred,
ii. 498
- —falls in love,
498
- —its wisdom,
499
- —its feathers,
499,
500.
- Gooseberry,
v. 49.
- Goosefoot,
v. 236.
- Goosegrass,
v. 71,
227,
390,
391.
- Gordian Knot,
i. 490.
- Gordiucome,
i. 490.
- Gordium,
i. 492.
- Gorgades,
ii. 106.
- Gorgasus,
vi. 284.
- Gorgias,
vi. 106.
- Gorgonia,
vi. 450.
- Gorgoniæ,
iii. 212.
- Gortyna,
i. 286,
314.
- Gossypium,
iv. 134,
135;
v. 274.
- See “Cotton.”
- Goths,
i. 346.
- Gourds,
iv. 158-161,
212,
213.
- Gout,
v. 192
- —remedies for,
v. 352,
353,
447;
vi. 46,
47.
- Government of bees,
iii. 18.
- Gracchanus, Junius,
vi. 144.
- Gracchi,
ii. 149,
154.
- Gracchus, C.,
ii. 237.
- Gracilis, Turannius,
i. 267.
- Græcanic pavements,
vi. 378.
- “Græcia,” the name,
i. 288,
293.
- Græcinus, Julius,
iii. 275.
- Græcostasis,
ii. 237.
- Græcula,
iii. 224.
- Græcus,
i. 293.
- Grafting,
iii. 295,
298,
302,
467,
477-485
- —marvels of,
484.
- Grain, different kinds of,
iv. 19-24
- —grown in the East,
31,
32
- —diseases of,
54,
55,
56
- —remedies for them,
57,
58,
59.
- Grain of Cnidos,
iii. 201;
v. 242.
- Grain of wood,
iii. 414.
- Gramen,
v. 72,
73.
- Grampus,
ii. 359.
- Granæum,
iv. 43.
- Granatum,
iii. 200.
- Granicus,
i. 476,
489.
- Granius,
v. 368.
- Grapes, the nature of,
iii. 218-222
- —smoked,
221
- —of Egypt,
246
- —solstitial,
256
- —modes of keeping,
304-307
- —how protected from insects,
517
- —remedies from fresh;
iv. 461
- —from preserved,
461,
462.
- Grape-fish,
ii. 359;
vi. 57,
65.
- Grape-husks,
iv. 463.
- Grape-stones,
iv. 462.
- Graphia,
vi. 229,
255.
- Graphis,
vi. 255.
- Grasshoppers,
iii. 31,
32,
33
- —eaten,
32
- —have no mouth,
32
- —countries without,
32,
33
- —some without a voice,
33.
- Gratidianus, Marius,
vi. 159.
- Graviscæ,
i. 188
- —wines of,
iii. 242.
- Great year, revolution of the,
ii. 480,
481.
- Greece, trees of,
iii. 201.
- Greek-nuts,
iv. 513,
514.
- Greek weights and measures,
iv. 386,
387.
- Greeks, hated by Cato the Censor,
ii. 176
- —their credulity,
283,
284
- —the opinion of Cato upon them,
v. 375.
- Greffe-Diane,
iii. 484.
- Gremil,
v. 253.
- Grey partridge,
ii. 529.
- Griffins,
ii. 123,
530.
- Grinding of corn,
iv. 33,
37,
38.
- Gromphæna,
v. 167,
469.
- Grotto del Cane,
i. 121,
122.
- Ground strawberry,
iii. 320.
- Groundsel,
v. 146.
- Grouse,
ii. 528.
- Groves, consecrated,
iii. 535.
- Growth of plants,
iv. 177,
178.
- Grunting,
iii. 94.
- Gryllus,
v. 439.
- Grynia,
i. 473.
- Gubbio,
i. 239.
- Guests, inferior wine given to,
iii. 253.
- Guinea-fowls,
ii. 528.
- Gulfs of Europe,
i. 153.
- Gullet,
iii. 62,
64.
- Gum,
v. 42,
43
- —nine kinds of,
iii. 184,
185
- —acacia,
v. 43,
44
- —ammoniac,
iii. 144,
145;
v. 11
- —Arabic,
iii. 134
- —de Lecce,
134
- —tragacanth,
202.
- Gutones,
i. 346.
- Guttalus,
i. 348.
- Guzerat,
ii. 48.
- Gyara,
i. 321
- —the mice of,
ii. 350.
- Gyges,
ii. 199.
- Gymnasia,
v. 294,
295.
- Gymnastic games,
ii. 232.
- Gymnetæ,
i. 404;
ii. 133.
- Gymnosophists,
ii. 129;
iii. 110.
- Gynæcanthe,
iv. 468.
- Gypsies,
ii. 13,
15.
- Gypsum,
vi. 376
- —wine treated with,
iii. 266
- —used in making alica,
iv. 43
- —taken internally,
269.
- Gyrini,
ii. 462.
- H.
- Habron,
vi. 261,
281.
- Hadramaut,
ii. 87,
90.
- Hadrobolon,
iii. 116.
- Hæbudes,
i. 351.
- Hæmatites,
vi. 356,
362,
363.
- Hæmatitis,
vi. 451.
- Hæmatopus,
ii. 527.
- Hæmorrhage,
v. 203,
358,
359
- —methods of arresting,
v. 458;
vi. 50.
- Hæmorrhoïs (serpent),
iv. 226.
- Hæmus, Mount,
i. 272,
302,
303,
306;
v. 492.
- Hagnon,
vi. 92.
- Hail,
i. 90,
91.
- Hair,
iii. 81,
82
- —facts relative to,
46,
47;
v. 291
- —cutting of,
iii. 417
- —applications for,
v. 214.
- Hair of Isis (plant),
iii. 212.
- Hair-pencil,
vi. 250.
- Halcyon,
ii. 512,
513;
vi. 36.
- Halcyon days,
i. 76;
ii. 512,
513;
iv. 82.
- Halcyoneum,
vi. 35,
37.
- Halcyonium,
ii. 513.
- Haliacmon,
i. 298;
v. 476.
- Haliætus,
ii. 483,
484.
- Halicacabum,
iv. 385.
- Halicarnassus,
i. 462.
- Halieuticon of Ovid quoted,
vi. 65,
66,
67.
- Halimon,
iv. 419,
420.
- Halipleumon,
vi. 68.
- Halonnesos,
i. 325.
- Halus,
v. 169.
- Halys,
ii. 5,
6.
- Hamaxobii,
i. 330.
- Hammitis,
vi. 450.
- Hammochrysos,
vi. 459.
- Hammon, Jupiter,
i. 395.
- Hammoniacum (resin),
iii. 144,
145;
v. 11.
- Hammoniacum (salt),
v. 502.
- Hammonis cornu,
vi. 451.
- Hammonitrum,
vi. 381.
- Hams,
iii. 87,
88.
- Hands,
iii. 80.
- Handwriting,
iii. 91.
- Hanging, baths,
ii. 468
- —city,
vi. 343
- —gardens,
iv. 150;
vi. 343.
- Hannibal,
i. 164,
227,
230,
493,
494;
ii. 19;
vi. 78,
112,
161,
290,
305
- —at the gates of Rome,
iii. 310.
- Hanno,
i. 99,
378,
499;
ii. 106.
- Happiness, supreme, instances of,
ii. 186.
- Happy, men pronounced most,
ii. 199
- —why Arabia was so called,
iii. 136,
137.
- Hares, different species of,
ii. 348,
349
- —sleep with the eyes open,
iii. 52
- —with a double liver,
iii. 68.
- Haricot bean,
iv. 47.
- Harmodius,
vi. 155,
177,
179.
- Harmoge,
vi. 235.
- Harmony of the spheres,
i. 17
- —of the stars,
52,
53.
- Harpalus,
iv. 128.
- Harpasa,
i. 465.
- Harpocrates,
vi. 88.
- Harrowing,
iv. 66,
67.
- Hartwort,
iv. 221,
288,
289;
v. 71.
- Harvesting,
iv. 103,
104.
- Hasheesh,
v. 65.
- Hasta pura,
ii. 170.
- Hatching,
ii. 534-537.
- Hawks,
ii. 487,
488,
519;
iv. 229
- —pursue the chase with men,
ii. 488.
- Hawkweed,
iv. 229,
230.
- Hay-grass,
v. 257.
- Haymaking,
iv. 89,
92.
- Hazel nuts,
iii. 316;
iv. 515.
- Head, induration of the bones of,
ii. 118
- —in animals,
iii. 46
- —bones of the,
47
- —hardest in the parrot,
47
- —wounds in the,
v. 409,
410
- —how strengthened,
298
- —diseases of,
334.
- Head-ache, remedies for,
v. 409,
410.
- Health indicated by the urine,
v. 301.
- Hearing, acuteness of,
ii. 163.
- Heart,
iii. 64,
65,
66
- —inspected for divination,
66
- —found wanting in the victims,
66
- —in what cases it will not burn,
67.
- Hearth, prodigies connected with,
vi. 384.
- Hebrus,
i. 303,
305.
- Hecale,
iv. 426;
v. 184.
- Hecatæus,
vi. 139,
185.
- Hecatæus of Abdera,
ii. 114.
- Hecatæus of Miletus,
i. 370.
- Hecatompylos,
ii. 29.
- Hecuba,
i. 308.
- Hederine,
v. 33.
- Hedge-hogs,
ii. 308,
309
- —their quills used for carding,
309.
- Ἡδύοσμον,
iv. 193.
- Hedysmata,
iii. 161.
- Hedystratides,
vi. 139.
- Hegesias (artist),
vi. 182.
- Hegesias (historian),
ii. 242.
- Hegias,
vi. 181,
182.
- He-goat, the wonderful effects of its blood,
iv. 207;
vi. 407.
- Height, measurement of,
ii. 158;
vi. 338
- —of man,
iii. 377.
- Helena,
iv. 377;
v. 81.
- Helenium,
iv. 333,
376,
377
- —wine made from it,
iii. 259.
- Helianthes,
v. 66.
- Helice,
i. 280.
- Helices,
v. 62.
- Helichrysos,
iv. 380,
381.
- Helicon,
i. 278,
290.
- Heliocallis,
v. 66.
- Heliodorus,
vi. 187,
319.
- Heliodorus Periegetes,
vi. 146.
- Helion,
v. 23,
24.
- Heliopolis,
i. 418;
vi. 331.
- Helioscopios,
v. 179.
- Helioscopium,
iv. 413,
414,
415.
- Helioselinon,
iv. 179,
248.
- Heliotropium (plant),
iv. 356,
413,
414,
415.
- Heliotropium (stone),
vi. 450.
- Helix,
iii. 401.
- Helix neritoïdea,
ii. 311.
- Helix pomatia,
ii. 311.
- Hellanicus,
i. 371.
- Hellas,
i. 278,
288.
- Hellebore,
i. 277;
v. 96-101.
- Hellen,
i. 293.
- Hellespont,
i. 326
- —described,
i. 488.
- Helops,
vi. 66.
- Helos,
i. 282.
- Helots,
ii. 227.
- Helvennaca,
iii. 227,
250;
iv. 476.
- Helvetii,
i. 355.
- Helxine,
iv. 353,
406;
v. 115.
- Hemerobion,
iii. 42.
- Hemerocalles,
iv. 333,
376.
- Hemina, Cassius,
iii. 156.
- Hemionion,
v. 95,
96,
228,
229.
- Hemlock,
v. 140,
141;
- —wine, an antidote to the effects of,
iii. 238.
- Hemp,
iv. 198,
297,
298.
- Henbane,
v. 91,
92.
- Heneti,
ii. 4.
- Heniochi,
ii. 10,
11,
12,
22.
- Henna,
iii. 146;
iv. 492.
- Henry II. of France,
ii. 153.
- Henry V. of England, his saying,
iii. 404.
- Hepatites,
vi. 363,
364.
- Hepatitis,
vi. 458.
- Hephæstiades,
i. 221.
- Hephæstitis,
vi. 450.
- Hepsema,
iii. 248.
- Heptaphonon,
v. 345.
- Heraclæa,
i. 298.
- Heracleon,
v. 107.
- Heracleopolites,
i. 408.
- Heracleos,
v. 253,
254.
- Heracleotici,
ii. 425.
- Heraclia,
i. 224,
273.
- Heraclides of Heraclæa,
i. 373;
iii. 158.
- Heraclides of Tarentum,
iii. 158.
- Heraclides (artist),
vi. 276.
- Heraclides (physician),
vi. 145.
- Heraclion,
vi. 355.
- Heraclium,
iv. 268,
269,
270,
278,
279.
- Herat,
ii. 58.
- Herb mastich,
iii. 147.
- Herba pratensis,
iv. 14.
- Herbalists, their malpractices,
iv. 372.
- Herbs, wines made from,
iii. 259,
260
- —juices and flavours of,
iv. 202,
203.
- Herculanea (ants),
v. 432.
- Herculaneum,
i. 197.
- Hercules,
i. 157,
177,
304,
318,
369,
375;
ii. 33,
48,
55;
v. 103,
298
- —and Iphicles,
ii. 144
- —temple of, at Rome,
508
- —Fictilis,
vi. 286
- —Carthaginian statue of,
321.
- Hercules, Pillars of,
i. 152.
- Hercynian Forest,
i. 329,
348;
ii. 528;
iii. 341.
- Herdonea,
i. 230.
- Hermaphrodite,
ii. 136;
iii. 92.
- Hermaphroditism in fish,
ii. 391.
- Hermaphroditus,
ii. 136.
- Hermesias,
v. 66.
- Hermias, tomb of,
vi. 410.
- Herminei,
vi. 411.
- Hermippus,
v. 470.
- Hermit-crab,
ii. 426,
451.
- Hermopolis,
i. 412.
- Hermotimus of Clazomenæ,
ii. 211.
- Hermuaidoion,
vi. 450,
451.
- Hermunduri,
i. 347.
- Hermupoa,
v. 92,
93,
94.
- Hernia, remedies for,
vi. 44.
- Herodotus, when he wrote his History,
iii. 108
- —quoted,
i. 331,
333,
335,
337,
405,
414,
425,
452,
466,
487,
491;
ii. 24,
34,
89,
512,
iii. 137;
vi. 336,
337,
338,
414.
- Heroic exploits, instances of,
ii. 167.
- Herons,
ii. 538,
539.
- Heroöpolis,
ii. 92.
- Herophilus,
iii. 100;
v. 82,
372.
- Heroüm,
iv. 417.
- Herpes,
v. 460.
- Hesiod, his father’s birth-place,
i. 472
- —mentioned,
ii. 242
- —quoted,
i. 272;
ii. 200;
iii. 216,
352;
iv. 425,
474;
v. 301.
- Hesperian Promontory,
i. 380.
- Hesperides,
i. 375;
vi. 400
- —Gardens of the,
iv. 149
- —Islands of the,
ii. 106.
- Hesperu Ceras,
ii. 105.
- Hestiatoris,
v. 66.
- Hesus,
v. 426.
- Hesychius quoted,
i. 285.
- Hexapolis, Æolian,
i. 487.
- Hexecontalithos,
vi. 451.
- Hibernia,
i. 351.
- Hibiscum,
iv. 218.
- Hicesius,
iii. 338.
- Hickory-nut,
iii. 317.
- Hiddekel,
ii. 75.
- Hides of animals,
iii. 80,
81.
- Hierabotane,
v. 121,
122.
- Hieracitis,
vi. 451.
- Hieracium,
vi. 197.
- Hierapolis,
i. 122,
160;
vi. 9.
- Hieratica, a kind of paper,
iii. 188.
- Hieres, islands of,
i. 213.
- Hiericus,
i. 427,
428;
iii. 175.
- Hiero, King,
ii. 356.
- Hieromnemon,
vi. 448.
- Hierosolyma,
i. 428,
431.
- High farming,
iv. 15.
- Hilarus, C. Crispinus,
ii. 150.
- Hillæ,
iii. 71.
- Himalaya,
ii. 38.
- Himantopodes,
i. 406.
- Himera,
i. 218.
- Himilce,
i. 164.
- Himilco,
i. 99,
499.
- Hindoo mythology,
vi. 400.
- Hindú Kúsh,
i. 454;
ii. 33.
- Hinnulus,
ii. 325.
- Hippace,
v. 111.
- Hipparchus,
i. 37,
148
- —his doctrine on the stars,
59.
- Hippo Diarrhytus,
i. 389;
ii. 373.
- Hippo Regius,
i. 388.
- Hippocampus,
vi. 25,
29.
- Hippocentaur,
ii. 137.
- Hippocrates,
ii. 182,
241;
v. 371
- —his precepts,
156.
- Hippocrene,
i. 291.
- Hippodamantian wine,
iii. 246.
- Hippoi,
ii. 425.
- Hippolapathon,
iv. 287.
- Hippomanes,
ii. 321;
v. 339,
340,
365.
- Hippomarathron,
iv. 296,
297.
- Hipponax,
vi. 308.
- Hippophaes,
iv. 401,
402.
- Hippophæston,
iii. 434;
v. 250,
251.
- Hippopheos,
v. 174,
175.
- Hippophlomos,
v. 138,
139,
140.
- Hippophobas,
v. 64.
- Hippopodes,
i. 143.
- Hippopotamus,
iii. 318,
319
- —described,
ii. 290,
291
- —when first exhibited at Rome,
290
- —bleeds itself,
ii. 291
- —its hide,
iii. 80.
- Hippos,
vi. 63.
- See “Hippoi.”
- Hipposelinon,
iv. 180,
248.
- Hippuris,
v. 203,
204.
- Hippurus,
ii. 394.
- Hirpi, insensible to fire,
ii. 128.
- Hirpirni,
i. 225,
229.
- Hirtius, Quintus,
iv. 204.
- Hissing,
iii. 94.
- Histropolis,
i. 305.
- Hive-moths,
iii. 22.
- Hoeing,
iv. 66.
- Hogs,
ii. 342
- —their propagation,
342
- —diseases of,
343
- —their brutishness,
343
- —their intelligence,
343,
344
- —choice parts of,
344.
- Holcus,
v. 250.
- Holland’s Translation of Pliny, quoted,
i. 419;
ii. 39,
56;
iv. 501;
v. 31,
236,
237,
254,
278,
282,
323,
378,
399,
406,
417,
440;
vi. 9,
60,
63,
75,
103,
106,
111,
122,
133,
137,
205.
- Holm-oaks,
iii. 353;
v. 455
- —aged,
iii. 430,
431.
- Holochrysos,
iv. 328,
373.
- Holoschœnus,
iv. 361,
364.
- Holosteon,
v. 250.
- Holothuria,
ii. 458.
- Holothuria pentactes,
ii. 359.
- Homer, his tomb,
i. 321
- —his poems honoured by Alexander,
ii. 173
- —his works quoted,
i. 73,
117,
194,
209,
214,
274,
279,
287,
292,
293,
296,
310,
311,
325,
404,
412,
476,
484,
489,
490;
ii. 4,
132,
156,
236,
334;
iii. 186,
193,
197,
343,
386,
451,
456;
iv. 14,
35,
139,
150,
321,
360,
377,
412,
473;
v. 28,
81,
87,
88,
108,
282,
381,
423;
vi. 60,
71,
74,
75,
105,
213,
263,
265,
276,
323
- —misquoted,
v. 494.
- Homona,
i. 450.
- Hones,
vi. 370,
440.
- Honey,
iii. 6,
8,
9,
10
- —the qualities of,
11,
12
- —peculiar kinds of,
12,
13
- —how tested,
14
- —wild,
14,
15
- —when gathered,
14,
15
- —of Attica,
iv. 332
- —from the olive,
340
- —poisonous,
341,
342
- —maddening,
342,
343
- —untouched by flies,
343
- —remedies derived from,
434,
435.
- Honey-comb,
iii. 11.
- Honey-dew,
v. 22.
- Honeysuckle,
v. 105.
- Honied wine,
ii. 215;
iii. 245;
iv. 437,
438.
- Honours, examples of,
ii. 189.
- Hoofs of animals,
ii. 549;
iii. 89,
90
- —how renewed when worn,
45.
- Hoopoe,
ii. 511;
iii. 43.
- Hops,
iv. 347.
- Horace, his birth-place,
i. 228
- —his works quoted,
4,
22,
86,
129,
139,
192,
193,
227;
ii. 529,
533;
iii. 523;
iv. 131,
174,
509;
vi. 175,
317,
324.
- Horaion,
iii. 13.
- Horatii,
ii. 135.
- Horehound,
iv. 289,
290,
291,
292.
- Horminum,
iv. 36,
454.
- Hormiscion,
vi. 451.
- Horn, how bent,
iii. 45
- —pictures upon,
45.
- Hornbeam,
iii. 368.
- Horned fish,
ii. 411.
- Horned owl,
ii. 492;
v. 400
- —funereal,
ii. 492.
- Horned pheasant,
ii. 530.
- Horned poppy,
iv. 278.
- Hornets,
iii. 24,
25.
- Horns, of a gigantic ant,
iii. 39
- —various kinds of,
44,
45,
46
- —moveable,
44
- —on the human head,
44.
- Hornstone,
vi. 455.
- Horse, the first use of,
ii. 229
- —wild,
363
—the nature of,
317
- —of Alexander,
317
- —of Cæsar,
317,
318
- —tombs of,
318
- —Semiramis enamoured of one,
318
- —weeping,
318
- —its sense of propriety,
318
- —dance by,
318
- —grief of,
318,
319
- —its intelligence,
319
- —duration of its life,
320
- —its generation,
320,
321,
322
- —its paces,
322
- —its gall not in the liver,
iii. 69
- —hermaphrodite,
92
- —blood of, used by the Sarmatians,
iv. 38.
- Horse-radish, wild,
iv. 48.
- Hortensius,
i. 196;
ii. 496;
vi. 167
- —wines left by,
iii. 255.
- Horus,
v. 420,
468;
vi. 88.
- Hostilia, the bees of,
iv. 341.
- Hostilius, Hostus,
iii. 343.
- Hostilius, Tullus,
i. 84;
v. 280,
281,
282.
- Hot drinks,
v. 296.
- Hot springs,
i. 133,
195,
266;
v. 472.
- Houseleek,
iv. 58,
349;
v. 143,
144.
- Houses first built,
ii. 222.
- Human beings beloved by dolphins,
ii. 372,
373,
374.
- Human sacrifices,
i. 334;
ii. 122; v.
426.
- Hundred-plant drink,
v. 112.
- Hunger, how allayed,
iii. 99.
- Hunting-nets,
iv. 133,
134.
- Hurricane,
i. 79.
- Hyacinth,
iv. 337,
381.
- Hyacinthos (stone),
vi. 434.
- Hyades,
i. 67;
iv. 87.
- Hyæna,
ii. 296;
iii. 54;
v. 309-314;
vi. 451.
- Hyæna (fish),
vi. 66.
- Hyænia,
vi. 451.
- Hyalin quartz,
vi. 438,
439.
- Hyampolis,
i. 292.
- Hybla,
i. 220
- —honey of,
iii. 12.
- Hybrid goats,
ii. 346
- —swine,
346.
- Hydaspes,
ii. 41,
47.
- Hydrargyros,
vi. 99,
124.
- Hydri,
v. 397.
- Hydrocele, remedies for,
v. 446.
- Hydrolapathum,
iv. 287.
- Hydromancy,
v. 427;
vi. 461.
- Hydromel,
iv. 435,
436,
437.
- Hydromeli,
iii. 261;
v. 498.
- Hydrometer,
v. 485,
486.
- Hydrophobia,
ii. 316,
317;
iv. 248;
v. 84,
331,
405,
436,
407;
vi. 23,
210.
- Hydruntum,
i. 226.
- Hydrussa,
i. 315.
- Hyginus,
i. 268.
- Hygremplastrum,
vi. 212.
- Hylas,
ii. 555.
- Hymen, imperforate,
ii. 154.
- Hymettus,
i. 289
- —honey of,
iii. 12.
- Hyophthalmos,
vi. 459.
- Hyoscyamos,
v. 91,
92.
- Hyoseris,
v. 250.
- Hypæpæ,
i. 472.
- Hypanis,
i. 332,
335;
v. 493
- —the short-lived insect of the,
iii. 42.
- Hypasis,
i. 107;
ii. 41,
47.
- Hypatodorus,
vi. 169.
- Hypecoön,
v. 251.
- Hypenemia,
ii. 538,
539.
- Hyperborei,
i. 336,
337;
ii. 23,
24.
- Hypericon,
v. 185.
- Hyphear,
iii. 434.
- Hypochœris,
iv. 349.
- Hypocisthis,
v. 172.
- Hypoglossa,
v. 251.
- Hyrcania, tree of,
iii. 115.
- Hyrcanian Sea,
i. 453;
ii. 24,
30.
- Hyrcanus, the dog,
ii. 313.
- Hyriæ,
i. 292.
- Hysge,
ii. 450.
- Hysginian tint,
ii. 450.
- Hysginum,
iv. 381.
- Hyssop,
v. 133,
134.
- Hysteria,
v. 355.
- I
- Iacchus, Fescennius,
vi. 67.
- Iadera,
i. 259.
- Iaia,
vi. 281.
- Ialysos,
i. 483.
- Ian, M., his collations of Pliny,
vi. 1,
465.
- Ianthinum,
iv. 326.
- Iapydes,
i. 262.
- Iasione,
iv. 358,
423,
424.
- Iaspis,
vi. 414,
430,
431.
- Iasponyx,
vi. 431.
- Iatraliptics,
v. 371
- Iatronices,
v. 373.
- Iazyges,
i. 329.
- Iberia,
ii. 20.
- Iberis,
v. 112,
113.
- Iberus,
i. 361.
- Ibex,
ii. 346,
347.
- Ibis,
ii. 291,
507,
529
- —black,
512.
- Icaros,
i. 320.
- Icasium,
i. 386.
- Icetidas,
v. 369.
- Ichneumon,
ii. 286-289.
- Ichnusa,
i. 216.
- Ichthyocolla,
vi. 31,
32.
- Ichthyophagi,
ii. 59;
iii. 98,
289.
- Iconicæ,
vi. 155.
- Iconium,
i. 452.
- Icterias,
vi. 452.
- Ictinus,
vi. 63.
- Ictis,
v. 392.
- Ida,
i. 314,
474.
- Idæa herba,
v. 251.
- Idæan bramble,
v. 50.
- Idæi dactyli,
vi. 452.
- Idalium,
i. 481.
- Idocrase,
vi. 404.
- Idumæa,
i. 425.
- Igilgili,
i. 386.
- Iguvium,
i. 239
- —oil of,
iv. 494.
- Ilerda,
i. 166.
- Iliac passion, remedies for,
v. 442.
- Iliad, contained in a nut-shell,
ii. 162.
- Ilium,
i. 477.
- Ill omen, birds of,
ii. 461
- —trees of,
iii. 385.
- Illecebra,
v. 144,
145.
- Illiberis,
i. 175.
- Illyricum described,
i. 257,
265.
- Ilus, tomb of,
iii. 431.
- Ilva,
i. 214.
- Imagination, effects of the,
ii. 146.
- Imagines,
iv. 346.
- Imaüs,
i. 454;
ii. 42,
124.
- Imbros,
i. 324.
- Immortelle,
iv. 308,
328.
- Immusulus,
ii. 487.
- Impetigo, Greek charm for,
v. 254.
- Impia,
v. 70.
- Impotence,
iv. 298.
- Inarime,
i. 214.
- Incendiary bird,
ii. 492,
493.
- Incisions in trees,
iii. 529,
530.
- Incisors,
iii. 58,
59.
- Incubation of birds,
ii. 512,
534-537.
- India, the conquests of,
i. 302
- —the nations of,
ii. 38
- —expeditions to, of Alexander,
39,
40,
41,
360,
361;
iii. 138,
211,
212;
vi. 27
- —of Seleucus,
ii. 41
- —voyages to,
60-63
- —wonders of,
129
- —terrestrial animals of,
280.
- Indian ass,
iii. 89,
90
- —fig,
109,
110
- —ink,
ii. 417;
vi. 241
- —olive,
iii. 111
- —thorn,
109.
- Indian Ocean, plants of,
iii. 211
- —monsters of,
ii. 359.
- Indica (stone),
vi. 452.
- Indicum,
vi. 143,
241,
242,
243.
- Indiges, Jupiter,
i. 193.
- Indigestion,
iii. 98.
- Indigo,
vi. 143,
242,
243,
452.
- Indurations, remedies for,
v. 357.
- Indus,
ii. 46.
- Inequality of climates,
i. 102,
103,
104.
- Infants, swathing of,
ii. 118,
- —born with teeth,
153
- —dreams of,
553
- —never cry in the womb,
iii. 94
- —diseases of,
v. 364,
465,
466,
467;
vi. 56,
57.
- Influences of the seasons,
i. 67,
68,
69.
- Ingævones,
i. 343.
- Inguinalis,
v. 188,
229.
- Ink,
v. 2,
3
- —Indian,
ii. 417;
vi. 241
- —of the sæpia,
58.
- Inoculation of trees,
iii. 477.
- Insanity, Lake of,
v. 478.
- Insects, the minuteness of,
iii. 1,
2
- —why so called,
1
- —whether they respire,
ii. 3
- —voice of,
3
- —whether they have blood,
3
- —their bodies,
4,
5
- —wings of,
33
- —parasitical,
iii. 40
- —feet of,
95
- —that breed in leguminous plants,
iv. 415.
- Instinct of animals,
ii. 248.
- Interamna,
i. 233.
- Interbreeding of fish,
ii. 464.
- Intercalation,
iv. 76.
- Interlunium,
iv. 112.
- Intoxication, remedies for,
v. 468.
- Introduction to the work,
i. 1-11.
- Inundations,
i. 116.
- Invalids, peaches recommended for,
iii. 294.
- Inventions,
v. 77.
- Inventors of various things,
ii. 219.
- Iol,
i. 386.
- Iolcos,
i. 296.
- Iolite,
vi. 407.
- Iollas,
iii. 158.
- Ion,
vi. 169.
- Ionia described,
i. 466.
- Ionian Sea,
i. 265.
- Ios,
i. 321.
- Irinum,
iii. 160.
- Irio,
iv. 36,
453,
454.
- Iris (plant),
iv. 324,
325,
371,
372.
- Iris (stone),
vi. 438,
439.
- Iritis,
vi. 439.
- Iron, discovery of,
ii. 225
- —the art of working,
225
- —rings of,
vi. 78
- —an account of,
205-209,
210,
211.
- Irrigation,
iii. 528,
529;
iv. 68.
- Irving, Washington, indebted to the story of Epimenides,
ii. 211.
- Isatis,
iv. 229.
- Isauria described,
i. 450.
- Ischæmon,
v. 111.
- Ischia,
i. 214.
- Isidorus, C. Cæcilius Claudius,
vi. 130.
- Isidorus of Charax,
i. 150.
- Isigonus,
ii. 241.
- Isinglass,
vi. 31,
32.
- Isis, hair of,
iii. 212.
- Iskenderun,
i. 447.
- Islands, suddenly formed,
i. 117,
118,
119
- —united to the main land,
119
- —of Europe,
210.
- Ismaron,
i. 304.
- Ismenias (musician),
vi. 388.
- Ismenias (writer),
vi. 468.
- Isoscinnamomum,
iii. 141.
- Isocrates,
ii. 174.
- Isodomon,
vi. 372.
- Isopyron,
v. 251,
252.
- Isox,
ii. 382.
- Issa,
i. 259,
260.
- Issos,
i. 447.
- Istævones,
i. 347.
- Ister,
i. 250,
262,
328.
- See also “Danuvius.”
- Isthmian games,
i. 285.
- Isthmus of Corinth,
i. 278,
279.
- Istria,
i. 251.
- Istropolis,
i. 328.
- Italy, described,
i. 180
- —its praises enlarged upon,
181,
182;
vi. 464,
465
- —its shape,
i. 183
- —forbidden to be dug for minerals,
257
- —the country of the vine,
iii. 215,
218
- —when generous wines were first made in,
251
- —its climate,
v. 158
- —practice of magic in,
425,
426
- —its high rank among nations,
vi. 464,
465.
- Itch, remedies for,
v. 360.
- Ithaca,
i. 311.
- Iton,
iv. 144.
- Iulis,
vi. 39,
63.
- Iviza,
i. 211.
- Ivory,
ii. 247;
iii. 103
- —fossil,
ii. 247.
- Ivy,
iii. 376,
399-403;
v. 32-35.
- Ixias,
iv. 407,
408,
409;
v. 234.
- Iÿnx,
iii. 90.
- J.
- Jackal,
ii. 97,
304.
- Jackdaw,
ii. 493,
503
- —guilty of stealing,
508.
- Jaculus,
ii. 285.
- Jaffa,
i. 426;
ii. 364.
- Janiculum.
i. 204.
- Jannes,
v. 425.
- Janus,
vi. 90,
315.
- Jason, the Argonaut,
i. 207;
ii. 9,
26,
233.
- Jason, of Pheræ,
ii. 206.
- Jasper,
vi. 425,
429,
430,
431,
445.
- Jaundice, remedies for,
iv. 438;
v. 200,
354,
452.
- Jawbone,
iii. 56.
- Jaxartes,
ii. 25.
- Jay,
ii. 522.
- Jealousy in females,
v. 397.
- Jerboa,
ii. 308.
- Jericho,
i. 427,
428;
iii. 175.
- Jerome, Saint, quoted,
vi. 267.
- Jerusalem,
i. 428,
431.
- Jet,
vi. 361,
362.
- Jewels,
vi. 386,
387,
388
- —displayed at Rome by Pompeius Magnus,
vi. 390,
391.
- Jews, vent their rage upon the, balsamum of Judæa,
iii. 148
- —their rites,
v. 508,
509.
- Jew-stone,
vi. 443,
456,
457,
460.
- Jhelum,
ii. 41,
47.
- John, Saint,
i. 321.
- John the Baptist,
i. 430,
431.
- Joints, diseases of,
v. 202,
203.
- Jomanes, river,
ii. 41,
42.
- Jonquil,
iv. 244.
- Joppa,
i. 426;
ii. 364.
- Jordanes, river,
i. 427,
428,
429.
- Josephus quoted,
i. 427,
428,
431,
432,
467;
ii. 75.
- Joshua,
i. 395.
- Jovis gemma,
vi. 452.
- Juba, King,
i. 383,
498;
ii. 82;
iii. 125.
- Judæa, described,
i. 427
- —its balsamum,
iii. 148
- —its palm-trees,
169.
- Judices,
v. 378;
vi. 82,
83.
- Jugerum,
iv. 4,
5
- —grain required for sowing a,
71,
72.
- Jugglers,
iii. 58.
- “Juglans,” origin of the word,
iii. 317.
- Juices of fruits,
iii. 323-326
- —of trees,
412.
- Jujube,
iii. 297.
- Julia,
ii. 198,
199,
535,
536
- —her depravity,
143.
- Julius Cæsar,
i. 58,
62,
168,
241,
256,
279,
390;
ii. 166;
iv. 188;
v. 283;
vi. 155,
232,
233,
324,
346
- —his epistles quoted,
iii. 241,
242
- —wine given by him at his banquets,
255
- —Pliny borrows from his account of the yew,
360
- —his reformation of the calendar,
iv. 76.
- Jumna,
ii. 41,
42.
- Juncinum,
iii. 289.
- Juniper,
iii. 178,
380,
381;
v. 24,
25
- —wine from the,
iv. 478.
- Juno,
v. 485
- —Temple of, at Rome,
vi. 322.
- Jupiter, feasts of,
v. 121
- —Temple of, at Rome,
vi. 322.
- Jupiter’s beard (shrub),
iii. 372.
- Jura,
i. 174.
- Jurisdictio,
i. 159.
- Jus Latii,
i. 155.
- Justin quoted,
i. 177,
225.
- Juvenal quoted,
i. 21,
301,
321;
ii. 541;
iv. 144;
vi. 70,
80,
305.
- K
- Kæmpfer quoted,
vi. 4.
- Kaffa,
i. 334.
- Kastri,
i. 277.
- Keeping of fruits,
iii. 303-307.
- Κήποι,
ii. 278.
- Kermes-berry,
ii. 450;
iii. 353;
iv. 390;
v. 4,
5.
- Kertsch,
i. 327,
334.
- Kestril,
ii. 519.
- Khimara,
i. 272.
- Kidneys,
iii. 73,
74
- —stags with four,
73.
- Kidney-bean,
iv. 47.
- Killing of animals, the first,
ii. 235.
- Kingfisher,
ii. 512,
513;
vi. 36.
- Kipes for fishing,
v. 361.
- Kirmanshah,
ii. 79.
- Kissing, as a salutation,
v. 153.
- Kite,
ii. 490.
- Knees,
iii. 87,
88.
- Knot-grass,
v. 259.
- Kohl,
iii. 54;
vi. 115.
- Kokend,
ii. 33.
- Κόσμος,
i. 17.
- Kraken or korven,
ii. 362.
- Kurds,
ii. 29.
- L
- Labeo, Antistius,
ii. 554.
- Labeo, C. Atinius,
ii. 193.
- Labeo, Titidius,
vi. 230.
- “Labeo,” origin of the name,
iii. 56.
- Laberius,
ii. 476.
- Laborium,
i. 195.
- Labourers, their wines,
iii. 234,
251
- —fed on figs,
113.
- Labranda,
vi. 8.
- Labrum Venereum,
v. 148,
242,
243.
- Labrusca,
iii. 255;
iv. 464,
465.
- Labyrinth,
i. 418;
vi. 339-342
- —of Crete,
vi. 184.
- Laccadives,
ii. 51.
- Lacedæmon,
i. 283.
- Lacinium,
i. 223.
- Laconia described,
i. 283.
- Lactes,
iii. 71.
- Lactoris,
v. 68.
- “Lactuca,” whence derived,
iv. 181.
- Lacus,
iv. 109.
- Lacydes and his goose,
ii. 499.
- Ladanum,
iii. 132,
133,
134;
v. 171,
172.
- Læstrygones,
i. 194.
- Lagara, wine of,
iii. 243.
- Lagenæ,
iii. 242.
- Lagine,
v. 56.
- Lagopos,
ii. 529;
v. 173,
174.
- Laina,
iii. 132.
- Laippus,
vi. 170,
176.
- Laïs,
v. 368.
- Laletanum, wine of,
iii. 244.
- Lalisiones,
ii. 326.
- Lambs,
ii. 331.
- Lamia, L.,
ii. 210.
- Lamia (fish),
ii. 411.
- Lamium,
iv. 404,
405;
v. 254.
- Lamp-black,
iii. 259,
263; vi.
241.
- Lamp-stands,
vi. 152.
- Lampedusa,
i. 403.
- Lampido,
ii. 188.
- Lamprey,
ii. 394.
- Lampsacus,
i. 308,
389.
- Lanata,
iii. 297.
- Land, fishes that live upon,
ii. 471,
472
- —buying of,
iv. 11,
12,
13
- —manuring of,
iv. 68,
69
- —laying out of,
iv. 114-117.
- Lands, separated by the sea,
i. 119
- —changed into sea
i. 119,
120
- —swallowed up by the sea,
i. 120.
- Landslips,
i. 115,
116;
iii. 527.
- Language,
iii. 95.
- Lantern-fish,
ii. 415.
- Laocoön, the Belvedere,
vi. 320.
- Laodice,
ii. 146.
- Laodicea,
i. 437,
441,
460.
- Lapathum,
iv. 287,
288.
- Lapdogs,
i. 267
- —nursing of,
v. 437.
- Lapidaries,
vi. 389.
- Lapis lazuli,
vi. 432.
- Lapithæ,
i. 295.
- Lappa,
iv. 358.
- Lappa boaria,
v. 194.
- Lappa canaria,
v. 71.
- Lappago,
v. 192,
193.
- Lapsana,
iv. 188,
241.
- Lapwing,
ii. 512.
- Lar,
v. 285.
- Larch,
iii. 357,
359,
414,
416;
v. 13.
- Lard,
v. 324,
325,
326.
- Lares,
iii. 331
- —Compitales,
i. 203.
- Larinus,
vi. 63.
- Larisa,
i. 294.
- Lartius Licinius,
v. 480.
- Larvæ,
iii. 519.
- Laser,
i. 396,
398;
iii. 399;
iv. 145,
147,
432,
433,
434.
- Laserpitium,
iv. 144-147,
148.
- Latace,
v. 159.
- Latera, Lake,
ii. 374.
- Lathyris,
v. 252.
- Laticlave tunic,
ii. 331,
335,
447
- —purple,
442.
- Latium described,
i. 191.
- Latin confederacy,
i. 205.
- Latin Festival,
v. 233.
- Latiniensian wines,
iii. 242.
- Latinitas,
i. 155.
- Latmus,
i. 467.
- Latona,
i. 319.
- Latro, Porcius,
iv. 263.
- Laughing-plant,
v. 66.
- Laughter, absence of,
ii. 159
- —description of,
iii. 70,
71
- —persons die with, when pierced,
71
- —connected with the spleen,
73.
- Laurea, Tullius,
v. 473.
- Laurel, oil of,
iii. 288
- —varieties of,
332,
333,
334
- —anecdotes connected with, it,
334-337
- —never struck by lightning,
335
- —crackles in the fire,
335
- —remedies derived from,
iv. 516-519.
- Lauriotis,
vi. 203.
- Lauron, wine of,
iii. 244.
- Laurus cassia,
iii. 153.
- Lavender,
iii. 120;
iv. 338;
v. 169.
- Laver,
v. 172.
- Laws, first introduction of,
ii. 220.
- See also “Twelve Tables.”
- Layers, trees propagated from,
iii. 475,
476,
477.
- Leæna, her fortitude,
ii. 164;
vi. 179.
- Lead,
vi. 112,
212-218.
- Lead-wort,
v. 141,
142.
- Leaf-gold,
vi. 96,
97.
- Leather, tanning of,
iii. 201
- —preparation of,
v. 38
- —dyeing of,
71.
- Leaven,
iv. 38,
39.
- Leaves, trees that never lose their,
iii. 118
- —of trees described,
374-379
- —of plants,
iv. 356.
- Lebanon,
i. 435.
- Lebedos,
i. 469.
- Lecanomancy,
v. 427.
- Lecheæ,
i. 278.
- Lectisternia,
vi. 10.
- Leda (plant),
iii. 133.
- Leeches,
vi. 29,
51.
- Leeks,
iv. 173,
174,
223,
224,
225
- —juice of, poisonous,
174.
- Lees, of sapa,
iv. 484
- —of wine,
482,
483
- —of vinegar,
483.
- Legacy-hunting,
iii. 217.
- Legion, the fifth,
iii. 43.
- Leguminous grain,
iv. 106,
107.
- Leguminous plants,
iv. 43,
44,
81
- —insects that breed in,
iv. 455.
- Leleges,
i. 292,
478.
- Lemanus, Lake,
i. 175.
- Lemnisci,
iv. 306.
- Lemnos described,
i. 324
- —earth of,
vi. 236,
237
- —Labyrinth of,
vi. 341.
- Lemonium,
v. 122.
- Lenæus, Pompeius,
v. 78,
79.
- Lentils,
iv. 46,
448,
449.
- Lentisk,
iii. 132,
323;
v. 17,
19,
20.
- Lentulus,
ii. 147.
- Leochares,
vi. 169,
182,
316,
317.
- Leonatus,
ii. 60.
- Leonidas, tutor of Alexander,
iii. 128.
- Leontice,
v. 133.
- Leontios,
vi. 460.
- Leontiscus,
vi. 174.
- Leontopetalon,
v. 252.
- Leontophonus,
ii. 310.
- Leontopodion,
v. 173.
- Leopard, how produced,
ii. 264,
265.
- Lepanto,
i. 175.
- Lepas,
vi. 63.
- Lepidi, family of the,
ii. 145.
- Lepidotis,
vi. 452.
- Lepidus, M.,
ii. 181;
vi. 272,
324,
348.
- Lepis,
vi. 194,
195.
- Lepontii,
i. 254,
255.
- Leprosy,
v. 153.
- Leptis,
i. 391,
393.
- Leptophyllos,
v. 180.
- Leptorragæ,
iii. 220.
- Lerida,
i. 166.
- Lernæa, a parasitical class of insects,
ii. 390.
- Leros,
i. 322.
- Lesbias,
vi. 452.
- Lesbos, described,
i. 487
- —wines of,
iii. 245.
- Lethargus,
iv. 461.
- Lethargy,
v. 198,
355;
vi. 49.
- Lethe,
v. 477.
- Letters, origin of,
i. 424;
ii. 220,
221
- —ancient,
236.
- Lettuce,
iv. 180,
181,
182,
228-232.
- Leucacantha,
iv. 405;
v. 263.
- Leucacanthos,
iv. 353.
- Leucadia,
i. 274.
- Leucanthemum,
iv. 378;
v. 263.
- Leucanthemus,
iv. 411,
412.
- Leucanthes,
iv. 383.
- Leucatas,
i. 494.
- Leucate,
i. 274.
- Leuce,
i. 315,
471.
- Leuce (plant),
v. 254,
255.
- Leuceoron,
v. 173.
- Leucimna,
i. 310.
- Leucochrysos,
vi. 435,
453.
- Leucocoüm,
iii. 247,
248.
- Leucogæa,
vi. 449,
476.
- Leucographis,
v. 255.
- Leucographitis,
vi. 449.
- Leucopetra,
i. 210.
- Leucophoron,
vi. 98,
99,
237,
238.
- Leucophthalmos,
vi. 452.
- Leucopœcilos,
vi. 453.
- Leucosyri,
ii. 7.
- Leucrocotta,
ii. 279.
- Leuctra,
i. 283.
- Libadion,
v. 104.
- Libanian wine,
iii. 262.
- Libanochrus,
vi. 453.
- Libanotis,
iv. 203,
267.
- Libanus,
i. 435.
- Libations,
iii. 262.
- Libella,
vi. 89.
- Liber (the divinity),
i. 290;
ii. 167;
vi. 316.
- Libera,
vi. 316.
- Liberal arts,
iii. 217;
iv. 391.
- Libethra,
i. 296.
- Libo, Scribonius,
vi. 346.
- Library, first public,
ii. 177.
- Libs,
iv. 116.
- Liburnia described,
i. 257.
- Liburnica,
ii. 365.
- Libya,
i. 374
- —Mareotis, described,
i. 401.
- Lilybæum,
i. 218.
- Libycum,
iv. 245,
246.
- Libyphœnices,
i. 390.
- Libyssa,
i. 494.
- Lice, remedies for,
iii. 40;
v. 409.
- Lichen, remedies for the disease,
iv. 208;
v. 152,
153,
154,
160,
161;
vi. 35.
- Lichens,
iii. 145,
146
- —on plumtrees,
iv. 508.
- Liciniani,
ii. 150.
- Life, the duration of,
ii. 132,
133,
200-205
- —the frailty of,
141,
142
- —the uncertain tenure of,
206
- —persons who have returned to,
210
- —whether the blood is the principle of,
iii. 80.
- Light, emitted from the eyes of dead fish,
iii. 54
- —from rotten wood,
54.
- Lightning, particulars connected with,
i. 69,
70,
84,
85,
86;
v. 471
- —its effects,
i. 81,
82
- —objects struck by,
86
- —not struck by,
86,
87
- —of a remarkable nature,
ii. 200
- —expiation for,
iii. 302,
310.
- Liguria described,
i. 184.
- Ligurians,
i. 185.
- Ligusticum,
iv. 265.
- Ligustrum,
iii. 146;
v. 32.
- Lily,
iv. 314,
315,
316,
366,
367.
- Limbs, of animals,
iii. 43
- —superfluous,
95.
- Lime (tree),
iii. 366,
367;
v. 23.
- Lime (for building),
vi. 373,
375.
- Limestone,
iii. 455.
- Limeum,
v. 254.
- Limonia,
iv. 425,
426.
- Limoniatis,
vi. 453.
- Limonion,
iv. 233.
- Limonite,
vi. 363.
- Limyra,
i. 455.
- Linden-tree,
iii. 366,
367;
v. 23.
- Lindos,
i. 483.
- Linen,
iv. 132,
133;
v. 273
- —when first dyed,
iv. 138
- —bleaching of,
iv. 279.
- Lingua (plant),
v. 69.
- Lingulaca,
v. 132,
133.
- Linnet,
ii. 522.
- Linozostis,
v. 92,
93,
94.
- Linseed,
iv. 135,
294,
295.
- Linus (river),
v. 475.
- Lion, how produced,
ii. 264,
265,
266
- —different species of,
266
- —its food,
266,
267
- —attacks men,
267
- —its alleged clemency,
267,
271
- —its anger and courage,
268
- —terrified by the crowing of a cock,
269
- —when first exhibited at Rome,
269
- —how caught,
270
- —wonderful feats by,
270
- —harnessed,
270
- —its gratitude,
271,
272
- —killed by the leontophonus,
310
- —killed by a dog,
315
- —its breath fœtid,
iii. 97
- —remedies derived from,
v. 308.
- Lion-crab,
ii. 425.
- Lipara,
i. 221.
- Liparæ,
vi. 219.
- Liparæan islands,
i. 221.
- Liparea,
vi. 453.
- Liparis, river,
i. 450;
v. 478.
- Lips,
iii. 56.
- Liqueurs,
iii. 247.
- Liquorice,
iv. 351,
399,
400;
v. 110,
163,
217.
- Lirinon,
iv. 314.
- Lisbon,
i. 364.
- Liternum,
ii. 311;
iii. 234.
- Litharge,
vi. 117,
118.
- Lithontriptics,
v. 444;
vi. 28.
- Lithospermum,
v. 253,
254.
- Live iron,
vi. 209.
- Liver, of the goose used for food,
ii. 499
- —described,
iii. 67,
68
- —wanting in victims,
68
- —sometimes double,
68
- —increase of, with the moon,
70
- —its powers of preservation,
70
- —remedies for complaints of,
v. 344
- —remedies for pains in,
438,
439;
vi. 39.
- Livia Augusta, her longevity,
iii. 239
- —omen of the laurel,
336.
- Livy,
ii. 114
- —his birthplace,
i. 252
- —his works quoted,
5,
87,
88,
105,
143,
187,
224,
229,
297,
478;
ii. 136.
- Livy, the Younger,
i. 497.
- Lixos,
i. 375,
376.
- Lizards,
ii. 299,
312;
v. 397,
402,
403,
414,
415,
417
- —gigantic,
ii. 312
- —spotted,
iii. 31.
- Loadstone,
vi. 209,
355.
356.
- Localities of trees,
iii. 370,
371,
372.
- Lochia polyrrhizos,
v. 116,
117,
118.
- Lochius, Publilius,
vi. 301,
302.
- Loci,
iii. 75.
- Lockets,
v. 435.
- Locri,
i. 222.
- Locrians, Epicnemidian,
i. 192.
- Locris described,
i. 276.
- “Locuples,” derivation of the word,
iv. 5.
- Locusta (the botanic term),
iv. 455.
- Locusts,
ii. 133;
iii. 55,
56,
57
- —plagues of,
36,
37
- —eaten,
37
- —remedies derived from,
v. 403.
- Loins, remedies for pains in the,
v. 344,
345,
440,
441.
- Loligo,
ii. 389,
416,
417.
- Lollia Paulina, her pearls,
ii. 437,
438.
- Lollius, M.
ii. 438.
- Lomentum,
vi. 108,
109,
142.
- Lonchitis,
v. 134.
- Long life, indications of,
iii. 96.
- Longompori,
ii. 103.
- Longula,
i. 206.
- Longulanus, C. Severus,
ii. 148;
vi. 303.
- Lopadusa,
i. 403.
- Lophius piscatorius,
ii. 412.
- Lora,
iii. 234,
251,
- Loretum,
iii. 337.
- Lorum,
vi. 72.
- Lotapea,
v. 425.
- Lotometra,
iv. 412,
413.
- Lotophagi,
i. 393.
- Lotus,
iii. 439;
iv. 358,
412;
v. 3,
4
- —of Africa,
iii. 198
- —of Egypt and the Euphrates,
199,
200
- —aged,
430.
- Louis XIV. of France,
ii. 153.
- Louse-plant,
iv. 464.
- Lovage,
iv. 194,
195,
265.
- Luca,
i. 187.
- Lucan, his “Pharsalia” quoted,
i. 57,
86,
107,
117,
177,
185,
241,
261,
375,
413,
431;
ii. 37,
283;
iv 124,
226,
280,
321,
481,
516;
v. 73,
129.
- Lucania described,
i. 207.
- Lucanian oxen,
ii. 251.
- Lucanus, C. Terentius,
vi. 246.
- Lucanus (a beetle),
v. 454.
- Lucca,
i. 187.
- Lucentum,
i. 164.
- Lucerne (plant),
iv. 53,
54.
- Lucian, his birth-place,
i. 443.
- Lucifer,
i. 29.
- Lucilius, C., mentioned,
ii. 355
- —quoted,
vi. 377.
- Lucretius, T., mentioned,
ii. 554
- —quoted,
i. 133,
205;
ii. 137,
553;
iv. 138,
321.
- Lucrinus, Lake,
i. 196;
ii. 372
- —emissary of,
vi. 354.
- Lucullan marble,
vi. 325.
- Lucullus, L.,
i. 306;
ii. 8,
9;
v. 87,
159;
vi. 285,
302
- —his largesses in wine,
iii. 255
- —introduces the cherry into Italy,
322
- —his want of moderation,
v. 297.
- Lucullus. M.,
i. 338.
- Ludius,
vi. 270.
- Lugdunensis (Gallia) described,
i. 355.
- Lugdunum,
i. 357.
- Luna,
i. 187
- —wines of,
iii. 242
- —marble of,
vi. 325.
- Lungs,
iii. 67.
- Luperci,
vi. 155.
- Lupines,
iv. 49,
50,
452,
453.
- Lupus (fish),
ii. 392,
399.
- Lurco, M., Aufidius,
ii. 496
- Lusitania described,
i. 363
- —its fertility,
ii. 322.
- Lustra,
vi. 228.
- Lustration,
ii. 522.
- Lutarius,
ii. 402.
- Luxor,
i. 416.
- Luxury, appliances of, found in the sea,
ii. 429
- —excesses of,
iii. 167,
168
- —in woods,
429.
- Lycanthropy,
ii. 283.
- Lycaon, the animal,
ii. 304.
- Lycaonia described,
i. 451.
- Lycapsos,
v. 252,
253.
- Lyceas,
vi. 385.
- Lychnis (plant),
iv. 313,
337,
381
- —agria,
v. 131.
- Lychnis (stone),
vi. 424,
425.
- Lychnitis,
v. 127,
128.
- Lychnomancy,
v. 427.
- Lycia described,
i. 455.
- Lycium,
iv. 499,
501;
v. 50,
51,
103.
- Lycius,
vi. 169,
182.
- Lycophthalmos,
vi. 459.
- Lycus, the physician,
iii. 157.
- Lycus, river,
ii. 3,
8.
- Lydda,
i. 428.
- Lydia described,
i. 465.
- Lygdinus,
vi. 330.
- Lygos,
v. 26.
- Lyncestis,
i. 299.
- Lyncarium
ii. 310;
vi. 404,
405.
- Lynx,
ii. 278.
284,
310;
v. 319;
vi. 398.
- Lyons,
i. 357.
- Lyron,
v. 129,
130.
- Lysander,
i. 308.
- Lysias,
vi. 319.
- Lysimachia,
v. 106.
- Lysimachos (stone)
vi. 453.
- Lysimachus the historian,
ii. 357.
- Lysimachus strangles a lion,
ii. 270.
- Lysippus,
ii. 184;
vi. 169,
174,
175,
176.
- Lysistratus,
vi. 169.
- Lyson,
vi. 187.
- Lystra,
i. 492.
- Lytarmis,
ii. 24.
- 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.
- V.
- Vaccinium,
iii. 373.
- Vacuna,
i. 234.
- Vagienni,
i. 243.
- Valens, Vettius,
v. 373,
378.
- Valens, Vinnius,
ii. 161.
- Valeria,
ii. 153;
vi. 160.
- Valeria (an eagle),
ii. 481.
- Valerian,
iii. 121;
iv. 370;
v. 102.
- Valerianus,
i. 269;
ii. 354.
- Valerius Flaccus quoted,
i. 49.
- Valerius Maximus,
ii. 240
- —quoted,
i. 143.
- Valgius, C.,
iv. 300;
v. 78.
- Vallum,
iii. 342.
- Valtelline,
i. 255.
- Vandili,
i. 345.
- Vanishing men,
ii. 135.
- Vannius,
i. 330.
- Vappa,
iii. 241,
266.
- Var,
i. 174.
- Variæ,
ii. 508.
- Varicose veins, remedies for,
iii. 88;
v. 353.
- Varro, M., his statue erected in his lifetime,
ii. 176
- —how buried,
vi. 286,
287
- —his works quoted,
i. 147,
235,
260;
ii. 35;
iii. 304,
374,
525;
iv. 44,
53,
63,
81,
103,
106,
438,
448;
v. 157,
394,
408;
vi. 285,
342,
384.
- Varro, P. Atacinus,
i. 268.
- Varus, the slaughter of,
ii. 198.
- “Varus,” the origin of the name,
iii. 89.
- Vectis,
i. 351.
- Veientana,
vi. 457.
- Veii,
i. 190.
- Veins,
iii. 78
- —varicose,
88;
v. 353.
- Vejovis,
iii. 424.
- Vela,
iv. 453.
- Velia, Lake,
v. 474.
- Velinus,
i. 234.
- Veliturnum,
iii. 105
- —wine of,
241.
- Venafrum,
i. 198
- —oil of,
iii. 279.
- Venedi,
i. 344.
- Veneering,
iii. 195,
196,
427,
428,
429.
- Veneris crines,
vi. 457.
- Venom in the human teeth,
iii. 61.
- Venomous, sea-animals,
ii. 459,
460
- —animals that are, will not die of hunger,
549.
- Ventidius, P.,
ii. 189.
- Vents in the earth,
i. 121.
- Venus, worship of,
i. 481.
- Venus Anadyomene,
vi. 259,
260,
261.
- Venus’ comb,
v. 70,
71.
- Venus de Medici,
vi. 312,
318.
- Venus’ hair,
vi. 457.
- Venusia,
i. 228.
- Veratrum,
v. 96,
97,
98.
- Verbascum,
v. 127.
- Verbena,
iv. 391.
- Verbenaca,
v. 121,
122.
- Verbenarius,
iv. 391.
- Verdigris, its medicinal efficacy,
v. 94
- —an account of,
vi. 195-198.
- Vergiliæ,
i. 68;
iv. 79,
88,
89.
- Vermifuge,
iv. 452.
- Vermilion, derivation of the word,
v. 5
- —an account of,
vi. 119,
120.
- Verona,
i. 252.
- Verres,
vi. 167.
- Verrius Flaccus,
i. 269.
- Versipellis, the story of,
ii. 283.
- Vervain,
v. 121,
122,
130.
- Vervain mallow,
v. 224.
- Vespasiani, family of the,
i. 203.
- Vespasianus, the Emperor,
iii. 140;
vi. 184,
271.
- Vesper,
i. 29.
- Vessels of burden, of gigantic size,
vi. 333.
- Vestal Virgins,
v. 290.
- Vestalis, Fabius,
ii. 240.
- Vestilia,
ii. 140.
- Vestinus,
iv. 387.
- Vestorius,
vi. 142.
- Vesuvius,
i. 197.
- Vetches,
iv. 46,
51,
450,
451.
- Veternum,
v. 355.
- Vettonica,
v. 111,
112.
- Vetus, Antistius,
v. 473.
- Vianiomina,
i. 262.
- Viator,
iv. 9.
- Vibius,
ii. 147.
- Vicissitudes, instances of remarkable,
ii. 189.
- Victims for sacrifice,
ii. 329;
iii. 79.
- Victoriatus,
v. 8,
14;
vi. 90.
- Vienna,
i. 262.
- Vigintiviri,
ii. 212.
- Vinalia,
iv. 99.
- Vincapervinca,
iv. 338,
339,
382;
v. 57.
- Vindex, Julius,
iv. 263.
- Vine, first cultivation of,
ii. 226
- —the nature of,
iii. 215,
218
- —cultivation of,
218-221
- —ninety-one varieties of it,
222-233
- —remarkable facts connected with it,
233-236
- —profits derived from its culture,
234,
235,
236
- —shoots of, pickled,
263
- —training of it,
409
- —the proper situation for it,
444,
445
- —grafting of,
482
- —culture of,
495-517
- —various kinds of,
499,
500
- —its uses,
iv. 457,
458
- —leaves and shoots of,
458,
459
- —cuttings of,
462.
- Vine, wild,
iii. 255;
iv. 464,
465;
v. 232.
- Vinedressers’ reed,
iii. 408,
409.
- Vinefretter,
iii. 534.
- Vinegar,
iii. 257,
266,
268;
iv. 478,
479,
480
- —lees of,
483.
- Vintage,
iv. 109,
110,
111.
- Violet,
iv. 317,
318,
368.
- Violet-purple,
ii. 447.
- Vipers,
ii. 311;
v. 395,
396,
412
- —flesh of, eaten,
ii. 133
- —torpor of,
311.
- Vipio,
ii. 530.
- Virgil, the poet, where he died,
i. 226
- —his birth-place,
252
- —his works forbidden to be burnt,
ii. 176
- —his works quoted,
i. 58,
64,
78,
95,
100,
110,
121,
131,
132,
187,
208,
233,
305,
321,
335,
403;
ii. 127,
328,
329;
iii. 20,
21,
24,
124,
152,
217,
223,
228,
231,
232,
242,
246,
278,
297,
302,
372,
393,
398,
442,
444,
447,
448,
459,
461,
464,
470,
473,
475,
477,
479;
iv. 15,
16,
17,
38,
45,
57,
59,
62,
64,
65,
67,
72,
73,
75,
85,
102,
104,
110,
111,
117,
119,
122,
123,
124,
131,
154,
182,
311,
315,
316,
340,
344,
454;
v. 25,
41,
365,
381;
vi. 71,
139,
179,
240,
320,
383
- —mistranslated by Pliny,
iii. 352.
- Virgin Waters,
v. 488.
- Viscera, the,
iii. 70
- —remedies for pains in,
v. 437.
- Viscum,
iii. 391,
434,
435;
v. 6.
- Vistula,
i. 344,
348.
- Visula,
iii. 225.
- Visurgis,
i. 348.
- Vital spirit,
iii. 65.
- Vitality, signs of in man,
iii. 96.
- Vitellius, the Emperor,
vi. 164,
287,
288.
- Vitellius, P.,
iii. 67.
- Vitex,
v. 26,
27,
28.
- Vitiparra,
ii. 515.
- Vitriol,
vi. 200,
295.
- Vitruvius Pollio, mentioned,
iii. 437
- —quoted,
i. 450;
vi. 242,
377.
- Vivaria,
ii. 345.
- Viviparous animals without hair,
ii. 381.
- Voice, of insects,
ii. 3
- —of animals,
iii. 92,
93
- —of man, in a measure forms his physiognomy,
95
- —its varieties,
95
- —how deadened,
95
- —how heightened,
95.
- Volcanius,
vi. 285.
- Volcanoes,
i. 139,
140
- —submarine,
v. 473.
- Volcatius,
ii. 313.
- Vologesus,
ii. 73.
- Volsinii,
i. 190;
vi. 162.
- Volsinium,
i. 83.
- Volterra,
i. 190.
- Volturnus,
i. 73;
iv. 116.
- Vomit, the only animals that,
iii. 71.
- Vomits, the use of,
iv. 403.
- Vopisci,
ii. 144.
- Voyages, of discovery,
i. 98,
99
- —to India,
ii. 60-63
- —speedy, instances of,
iv. 130
- —for the recovery of health,
v. 13.
- Vulcan,
i. 324.
- Vulture, great European,
ii. 486.
- Vultures, an account of,
ii. 486
- —how put to flight,
iii. 97
- —how attracted,
97
- —remedies derived from,
v. 398,
399.
- Vulva,
iii. 75.
- W.
- Wagtail,
ii. 551;
vi. 446.
- Walking-sticks,
iii. 205.
- Wall-nightingale,
ii. 511.
- Wall-paintings,
vi. 270.
- Wall-wort,
v. 127.
- Walls, when first built,
ii. 223
- —formation of,
vi. 289,
290,
291
- —of houses,
324.
- Walnuts,
iii. 315;
iv. 514,
515.
- Wanley, Nathaniel, quoted,
ii. 136.
- Warm springs,
i. 133,
195,
266;
v. 472.
- Warts, remedies for,
v. 209,
210;
vi. 53.
- Wasps,
iii. 24,
25,
98.
- Water, an account of,
i. 96,
97,
98
- —peculiar properties of,
135,
136,
137
- —how made potable,
v. 2
- —remarkable facts connected with,
471
- —properties of,
472
- —remedies derived from,
473
- —impurities of,
484,
485
- —modes of testing,
485,
486,
487
- —boiled,
486,
487
- —mode of searching for,
488,
499
- —differences in,
489,
490,
491
- —qualities of,
491,
492
- —modes of conveying,
494
- —fresh at sea,
499.
- Water-chesnut,
iv. 355.
- Watering of gardens,
iv. 201,
202,
203.
- Water-organ,
ii. 372.
- Water-parsley,
iv. 424.
- Water-pipes,
v. 494.
- Water-plants,
iii. 403.
- Water-spouts,
i. 80.
- Water-warblers,
ii. 510,
511.
- Waters, productive of insanity,
v. 474
- —remedial for calculi,
474
- —curative of wounds,
475
- —preventive of abortion,
475
- —which remove morphew,
475
- —which colour the hair,
476
- —which colour the body,
476,
477
- —which aid or impede the memory,
477
- —which affect the senses,
477
- —which improve the voice,
477
- —which cause a distaste for wine,
477,
478
- —which produce inebriety,
477,
478
- —which serve as a substitute for oil,
478
- —salt and bitter,
478
- —which throw up stones,
478,
479
- —which cause laughter,
479
- —which are a cure for love,
479
- —which preserve their warmth,
479
- —in which all things sink,
479
- —in which nothing will sink,
479,
480
- —of a deadly nature,
480,
481,
482
- —which petrify,
482
- —their wholesomeness considered,
482,
483,
484
- —which have suddenly appeared or ceased,
492,
493.
- Wax (bees’),
iii. 6,
7,
17;
iv. 345,
346
- —writing-tablets of,
iii. 186
- —remedies derived from,
iv. 438.
- Wax-colours,
vi. 244,
245,
272.
- Wax of the human ear,
remedies derived from,
v. 291.
- Wealth, immense, instances of,
vi. 93,
94,
129,
130,
131.
- Weasel, odour of, fatal to the basilisk,
ii. 282
- —remedies derived from,
v. 392.
- Weather, states of the,
i. 69
- —peculiarities of,
91
- —its influence upon trees,
iii. 441,
442.
- Weaving, invention of,
ii. 223.
- Webs of spiders,
iii. 27,
28.
- Wedge drawn by a bird from a tree,
v. 82.
- Weevil,
iv. 105,
441.
- Weight of the body,
ii. 158.
- Weights, invention of,
ii. 226
- —Greek and Roman,
iv. 386,
387—and Introduction to Vol. III.
- Wells, invention of,
ii. 223
- —an account of,
v. 491.
- Weser,
i. 348.
- Wheat, an account of,
iv. 25,
26,
27
- —Africa productive of,
35,
36
- —remedies derived from,
440.
- Wheat-meal,
iv. 440.
- Whetstones,
iv. 91;
vi. 370.
- Whey,
iii. 84.
- Whirlwinds,
i. 57,
79,
80.
- Whispering-gallery,
iii. 95.
- White lead,
vi. 219,
220.
- White squall,
iv. 122.
- White thorn, eaten,
iv. 338
- —remedies derived from,
v. 43.
- White vine,
iv. 466,
467.
- Whitening,
iii. 454;
vi. 301.
- Wicks of lamps,
iv. 362,
489.
- Wiesbaden,
v. 479.
- Wild animals, parks for.
ii. 345.
- Wild boar,
ii. 344,
345
- —the flesh of, a delicacy,
345
- —eats the salamander,
iii. 98.
- Wild fig,
iii. 311,
312,
313
- —remedies derived from,
iv. 505,
506,
507.
- Wild honey,
iii. 14.
- Wild myrtle,
iv. 521.
- Wild olive, leaves of,
iv. 487,
488.
- Wild plants,
v. 77,
78,
79.
- Wild plums,
iv. 508.
- Wild pomegranate,
iv. 501.
- Wild thyme,
iv. 197,
198,
292,
293.
- Wild vine,
iii. 255;
iv. 464,
465;
v. 232.
- Will, remedies depending on the,
v. 295,
296.
- Willow,
iii. 409,
410;
v. 25,
26.
- Willow-beds,
iii. 492,
493.
- Willow-herb,
v. 196.
- Wind-egg,
ii. 537,
538,
539.
- Windows,
iii. 303;
vi. 142,
143.
- Winds, an account of the,
i. 70-79;
iii. 445
- —predicted,
i. 222
- —invention of the theory of,
ii. 230
- —the theory of explained,
iv. 113,
114
- —the points of,
114-117.
- Wine, honied,
ii. 215;
iii. 246;
iv. 437,
438.
- Wine-cellars,
iii. 268,
269.
- Wine-cure,
ii. 183.
- Wine-lees,
iii. 268;
iv. 482,
483.
- Wine-lofts,
iii. 254,
263.
- Wine-press,
iv. 109,
110.
- Wine-vessels,
iii. 268,
269,
279.
- Wines, the most ancient,
iii. 236,
237,
238
- —colours of,
237,
248;
iv. 475
- —pitched,
iii. 238;
iv. 476;
vi. 371
- —nature of,
iii. 238,
239
- —fifty kinds of,
239-245
- —drugged,
243
- —healthfulness of,
243
- —peculiar tastes in,
244,
245
- —foreign,
245,
246,
267
- —recommended by Apollodorus,
247
- —salted,
247,
248
- —disguising of,
248
- —sweet,
248,
249,
250
- —made from raisins,
250
- —second rate,
251
- —generous, when first made in Italy,
251
- —inspection of,
252
- —women not allowed to drink,
252
- —laws upon,
252
- —drunk by the ancient Romans,
253
- —when several kinds were first served at table,
254
- —artificial,
256-260;
iv. 477,
478
- —made from fruit,
iii. 256,
257
- —from plants,
257,
258
- —aromatic,
258,
259
- —from herbs,
259,
260
- —from shrubs,
260
- —of a miraculous nature,
262
- —that change their nature,
263
- —certain, not used in sacred rites,
263
- —seasoned with pitch and resin,
265,
266,
267
- —made from corn,
274
- —medicinal properties of,
iv. 469-473,
477.
- Winged animal, the only one that is viviparous,
ii. 540.
- Wings,
iii. 33,
34.
- Winking,
iii. 54.
- Winter-clothes,
iv. 80.
- Winter-sowing,
iv. 79,
80.
- Winter-wheat,
iv. 29,
32,
33,
35.
- Wisdom, remarkable, instances of,
ii. 174.
- Wisdom-teeth,
iii. 59.
- Withes,
iii. 409,
410.
- Witnesses, summoning of,
iii. 88.
- Witwall,
v. 452,
508,
512,
515.
- Wolf, Romulus suckled by,
ii. 273
- —an account of the,
282
- —influence of its eyes,
283
- —men changed into,
283,
284
- —its bladder,
iii. 74.
- Womb,
iii. 75
- —of the sow,
iii. 75.
- Women not allowed to drink wine,
iii. 252.
- Wonderful forms of various nations,
ii. 122.
- Wonders, of various countries,
i. 123,
124
- —of fountains and rivers,
131-138
- —of fire,
141,
142,
143.
- Wood, animals that breed in,
iii. 40
- —for furniture,
195,
196,
197
- —for fuel,
348,
349,
358
- —the nature of,
417,
418,
420,
421
- —fire obtained from,
421
- —the lightest,
422
- —the durability of,
423,
424,
425
- —used in building,
426
- —for carpenters’ work,
427
- —united with glue,
427.
- Woodcock,
ii. 528,
529.
- Woodbine,
v. 105.
- Woodlice,
v. 417,
436,
440,
441,
450.
- Woodpecker,
ii. 494,
508,
515;
iii. 519;
v. 89,
248,
403
- —its magical power,
ii. 494.
- Woodworms,
iii. 40.
- Wool, various kinds of,
ii. 333
- —its various colours,
333,
334,
335,
338
- —dyed purple,
445
- —remedies derived from,
v. 381,
382,
383.
- Wool-fruit,
iii. 297.
- Wool-grease,
iii. 133;
v. 383,
384,
385.
- Wool-plant,
v. 68.
- Woolly sage,
v. 221.
- Words, the healing efficacy of,
v. 278,
279,
280.
- World, if more than one,
i. 13-16
- —form of,
16
- —nature of,
16,
17
- —name of,
17,
18
- —dimensions of,
53,
54,
55
- —earth, the middle of,
102.
- Worming of dogs,
v. 406.
- Worms eaten,
iii. 519.
- Worms, fish so called,
ii. 384.
- Wormwood,
v. 106
- —animals that feed on, have no gall,
iii. 69
- —wine made from,
259
- —remedies derived from,
v. 232-235.
- Wounds, remedies for,
v. 206,
207,
208,
458,
459,
460.
- Wreaths of corn,
iv. 3.
- Wren,
ii. 551.
- Wright, Mr. T., on the lead-mines of Britain,
vi. 215.
- Wryneck,
iii. 90.
- X.
- Xanthos (stone),
vi. 452.
- Xanthus, the historian,
v. 151.
- Xanthus, the river,
i. 456,
476.
- Xenagoras,
i. 373.
- Xenocrates, artist,
vi. 145,
184.
- Xenocrates of Aphrodisias,
iv. 303.
- Xenocrates of Ephesus,
iii. 158.
- Xenophilus,
ii. 207.
- Xenophon,
i. 373
- —quoted,
452;
iv. 79,
341;
vi. 182.
- Xenophon of Lampsacus,
i. 270.
- Xerxes,
i. 300,
305,
315,
317,
473;
iii. 526;
v. 424.
- Xiphias,
vi. 8.
- Xiphion,
v. 134,
135.
- Xuthon,
vi. 436.
- Xylobalsamum,
iii. 149.
- Xylocinnamomum,
iii. 139.
- Xyris,
iv. 372.
- Y.
- Yarrow,
v. 61.
- Yates, Dr., his “Textrinum Antiquorum” quoted,
v. 273,
274;
vi. 98.
- Yeast,
iv. 26,
456.
- Yew,
iii. 360;
v. 47.
- Z.
- Zachalias,
vi. 468.
- Zacynthus,
i. 310.
- Zama,
i. 395;
v. 477.
- Zancle,
i. 221.
- Zara,
i. 259.
- Zarephthali,
i. 435.
- Zariaspa,
ii. 30.
- Zathene,
vi. 457.
- Zea,
iv. 31.
- Zebu,
ii. 328.
- Zeno,
iv. 128.
- Zenobia,
i. 445.
- Zenodotus,
vi. 166,
167.
- Zenothemis,
vi. 467.
- Zephyria,
ii. 539.
- Zephyrium,
i. 210.
- Zephyrus,
i. 74;
iv. 116.
- Zethus,
vi. 318,
319.
- Zeugitana,
i. 388.
- Zeugma,
i. 424,
444;
vi. 210.
- Zeus (fish),
ii. 404.
- Zeuxis,
vi. 170,
250,
251,
252.
- Zigæ,
ii. 15.
- Zimpiberi,
iii. 112.
- Zingiberi,
iii. 112.
- Zirconite,
vi. 404.
- Zizyphus,
iii. 297.
- Zmilampis,
vi. 457.
- Zmyrus,
ii. 410.
- Zodiac, signs of the,
i. 17,
18,
26,
27,
44;
- an account of,
iv. 78-108.
- Zoëla,
i. 172;
iv. 133.
- Zoilus,
iii. 158.
- Zones, the,
i. 100
- —obliquity of,
102.
- Zoöphytes,
ii. 453,
465;
iii. 211,
213.
- Zopissa,
iii. 363;
v. 19.
- Zopyron,
v. 55,
56.
- Zopyrus,
vi. 139.
- Zoraniscæa,
vi. 457.
- Zoroaster,
ii. 155;
iv. 128;
v. 422,
424;
vi. 11,
437,
448
- —lived entirely upon cheese,
iii. 85.
- Zoster,
iii. 210;
v. 199.
- Zythum,
iv. 456.