cession to the crown, vi. 209,
237
Spires, the diet of, v. 257
Stafford, Viscount, executed, vi.
158
Star-Chamber, arbitrary jurisdic-
tion of the, vi. 118-120
Stephen III., the pope, letter of,
iv. 110
Stilicho, minister and general, de-
fends the Roman empire against
the Goths, iv. 23; success, 26;
he is beheaded, 27
Stoic philosophy established by
Zeno, ii. 186, iii. 167
Stonehenge, Druidical temple, iv.
61
Strafford, earl of, minister of
Charles I., vi. 122; beheaded,
124
colonies, ii. 17; besieged by
Marcellus, iii. 45; destroyed,
Sylla, actions and government of
the dictator, iii. 76; military
fame, 77; impeached, 79;
marches against Mithridates,
79; his cruel proscriptions in
Rome, 81; dictator, 81; he re-
signs, 82; death, 83
Syracuse, i. 152; attacked by the
Athenians, 277; foundation and
48
Syria, kingdom of, ii. 39
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Tables, public, at Sparta, i. 171
the Twelve, laws of the
Romans, ii. 286, iii. 171
Tacitus, writings of, iii. 133, 153;
on the religion of the Germans,
iv. 59; of the Gauls, 64
Tamerlane, conquests of, v. 333
Tarentines, war of the, iii. 6
Tarquinius Priscus, reign of, ii.
219
Superbus, ii. 230; the
king's expulsion from Rome,
232, 248; his sons slain in ac-
tion, 252
Tasso, the Gierusalemme Liberata
of, vi. 291
Tatius, king of the Sabines, ii.
211
Suevi, the, iv. 28
Sully, duke of, vi. 76-79
Sulpitius, Roman tribune, iii. 77
Sun-dials, iii. 171
Sweden, extent of the conquests
of Odin and Sigga, iv. 50; pro-
testant reformed religion estab-
lished, v. 270; alliance with
England, vi. 155; Christina,
abdication of queen, 221; reign
of Charles XII., vi. 260-271
Switzerland, confederation of the
states, v. 29-33
Syagrius, Roman governor in Thebes, or Theba, republic, i. 150,
Gaul, iv. 103
298-309; its power declines
on the death of Epaminondas,
310; opposes Philip, 322; the
city is destroyed by Alexander,
ii. 3
Tell, William, v. 30
Templars, persecution of the
knights, v. 28
Terence, comedies of, iii. 146
Terentius, or Terentillus, ii. 278
Testament, the New, iv. 6, v. 261
Tetzel's absolutions, v. 245
Thales, prediction of an eclipse
by, i. 79, 154; moral doctrines
of, ii. 155
of Egypt, temples, i. 214
Themistocles, proposal of, i. 200;
character of, 241; banishment,
256,257
Theodoric, the Goth, defeats Odoa-
cer, iv. 35, 39; he succeeds him
as king of Italy, 40; death, 4];
his government, 69, 70; his
tolerant character, 73
Theodosius, the emperor, over-
turns the Pagan temples and
hierarchy, iv. 13-19
II., code of, iv. 31;
Totila, the Gothic chief, retakes
Rome from Belisarius, iv. 44,
75
Toulouse, count of, v. 20
Trajan, reign of the emperor, iii.
270; column of, ii. 93
Tribunes, Roman, of the people,
ii. 257, 263; the military, 299
reign, 33
Trissino, epic poem of, vi. 288
Theramenes, trial at Athens of, i. Triumvirates of Rome-the first,
284
iii. 92, 215; the second, 123
Tromp, Van, admiral, vi. 141
Troubadours, romance, v. 161
Troy, siege of, i. 101; era of the
war, 125, 131, 142; the entire
history of it doubted, ii. 117
Tuisto, German legislator, i. 50
Tullus Hostilius, king of Rome,
ii. 217
Thermopylæ, meeting of the Am-
phictyonic Council at, i. 105;
the Persians slay Leonidas at,
245
Theseus, reign of, i. 129
-, temple of, ii. 89
Thou, De, the historian, vi. 302
Thracians, the, ii. 2
Thrasybulus, enterprise of, i. 285
Thucydides, his character, i. 265;
banished, 267; history by, 269,
273; life of, ii. 141
Tierstiern, counts of, v. 22
Tiglath-pilezer, conquests of, i.
210
Tilley, general, defeated at Leip-
sic, vi. 212
Umphraville, Gilbert de, earl of
Angus, v. 51
Urban II., the pope, preaches the
crusade, iv. 285
Useful arts, the, ii. 85
Utrecht, peace of, vi. 243
Valentinian III. succeeds Hono-
rius at Rome, iv. 31, 33, 36
Valerius, Marcus, Roman dictator,
ii. 255, 266
Roman author, iii. 150
Vasa, Eric, v. 254
Gustavus, v. 254; king of
Sweden, 255
Veientes, the, ii. 211
Veii besieged by the Romans, ii.
308; taken, 312
Vendôme, duke of, vi. 219; battle
of Cassano, 240; Villa Viciosa,
243
Messala, iii. 171
Wallace, William, v. 52
Publius, consul, ii. 280, Western Empire of Rome, i. 16
298, 301
West India Islands, the Caribbees
Vandals, conquests of the, iv. 28; and Jamaica discovered, v. 273
empire in Africa, 43
West Indies, the French Islands`
Vane, Sir Harry, vi. 123
or Antilles, v. 294
Varro defeated by Hannibal, iii. Westphalia, peace of, vi. 213,
42, 43
Visigoths, or Western Goths, iv.
77; their laws, 78-85
Vitellius overthrows Otho and
succeeds to the empire, iii. 261,
262
Villars, the duke de, an excellent
general and engineer, vi. 238
Virgil, imitations by, ii. 118; cha-
racter of his poetry, 156
Virginia, daughter of Virginius
the Roman, ii. 295-298
Volero, law proposed by this tri-
bune, ii. 274
Volscians, the, ii. 254, 301
Voltaire's historical works, iv. 66
his tragedies, vi. 301
215
Wickliffe, v. 36, 75
William the Conqueror, severity
of his government, i. 19
III. and Queen Mary II.,
vi. 164; prince of Orange, 229;
he is defeated at Steenkirk and
Nerwinde, 234
I., prince of Orange, vi.
48; assassinated, 51; William
II. and III., vi. 55
surnamed the Lion, king
of Scotland, v. 49
Wit, John de, grand pensionary
of Holland, vi. 228
Cornelius de, vi. 228
Wittenagemot, the Saxon, i. 18
Wolsey, Cardinal, v. 221, 263
Writing, invention of, i. 45, 90
Xenophon, the retreat of the ten
thousand Greeks, i. 290; his
life and writings, ii. 143, 167
Xerxes invades Greece, i. 242; is
assassinated in Persia, 252
Ximenes, Cardinal, v. 174
Zeno, founder of the Stoics, ii.
Zachary, pope, iv. 108
Zama, defeat of Hannibal at, iii.
50, 54
186
Zeuxis, Grecian painter, ii. 105
Zendavesta doctrines, i. 225- Zoroaster, or Zerdusht, i. 224;
231
Zeno, the
emperor, iv. 37, 39
-, Zenophanes, and Parme-
nides, ii. 164
iv. 8, 99
the Second, i. 226
Zuinglius, v. 252
Zürich, town of, v. 32
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