INDEX.

The Numerals before the Arabic Figures refer to the different
Volumes.

ABASSIDE, dynasty of the, iv.
100, 283

Abbas, Shah, of Persia, v. 322
Abo-Abdeli, king of Granada,
v. 105

Aboacen,king of Granada, v. 105
Abdallah the Moor, iv. 179
Abdalrahman, several caliphs
in Spain, of eminent talent,
iv. 180, 181
Abraham the patriarch, i. 38, 64
Abubeker collects the books of
the Koran, iv. 98; he takes
Jerusalem, 99
Academy, the ancient, of Greek
and Roman philosophy, ii.
173, 177; the new and the
Italian, iii. 163, iv. 2
Achæan league, ii. 54, 64, iii. 61
Achæans, the, i. 159, iii. 161
Achilles, hero, ii. 115
Acteus, prince of Attica, i. 99
Adherbal, death of, iii. 71
Adrastus, league of, i. 139
Adrian, or Hadrian, the Roman
emperor, iii. 273
Ediles, the Roman, ii. 322
Ælius, Roman general victori-
ous over Attila, iv. 35; death
of, 36

Ælla, Northumbrian prince, iv.
58

Æmilius defeats king Perseus,
ii. 63

Æneas, era of, i. 136; descent
of C. J. Cæsar, iii. 117
Eolians found Smyrna, i. 151
Æqui, the, ii. 282, 301, iii. 5
Æschines, orations of, i. 314,
318, 325

Eschylus, tragedies of, i. 251,
ii. 129, iii. 142
Agamemnon, leader of the Greek

armament, i. 143, ii. 115
Agathocles, of Syracuse, iii. 24
Ages, earliest, i. 27
Agesilaus defends Sparta, i. 307
expedition into Asia,

i. 295
Agincourt, victory of, v. 77
Agis IV., virtue and death of,
ii. 57

Agrarian law, Roman question
of an, ii. 271, 277
Agricola, iii. 133

Agriculture, invention of, i. 59;
Grecian, ii. 85
Agrigentum, siege of, iii. 3
Agrippa, Marcus, iii. 127
| Alani, the, iv. 28

Alaric, leader of the Goths, iv.
24; king of the Visigoths, 26;
takes Rome, 28; his conquests
and character, 74

Alaric II. is slain by Clovis,|
iv. 85

Alba, kings of, i. 136
Alba, or Albano, canal of the

lake of, ii. 311
Albigenses persecuted by Pope
Innocent III. v. 19
Alcibiades, character of, i. 179,
276, 279, death of, 284
Alemæonidæ, party in Athens,
i. 204

Alcuinus and Dungallus, iv. 142
Alemanni, the, attack the em-
pire, iii. 310, iv. 83

burnt by Julius Cæsar's army,
ii. 40, 111; second Alexan-
drian library burnt by the ca-
liph Omar, 41, iv. 17, 99
Alexis Michaelowitz, code of
Russian laws, vi. 254
Alfred, king, defeats the Danes,
and locates them in North-
umberland, iv. 200, et seq.
Ali and Fatima succeed Maho-
met, iv. 98, 99; the Fatimite
caliphs, 283

Almanza, battle of, vi. 240
Almanzor the Great, iv. 100

Alençon, death of the duke of, Alphabet, invented by the Pho-

v. 78

Alexander the Great, birth, i.
316; accession ii. 1; cultiva-
tion of mind, 1; destroys

nicians, i. 90, 106; the Etrus-
can, ii. 196

Alphonso the Chaste, king of
Asturias, iv. 181

103

Thebes, 3; Athens submits, Alphonso, king of Portugal, v.
4; he invades Asia, 5; his
victories, 6, 10, 19; conquest
of Tyre, 16; wounded at Gaza,
15; visits Jerusalem, 15; sa-
crifices at Memphis, 17;
founds various cities named
Alexandria, 18; crosses the
Tigris and Euphrates, 19; at
Babylon and Persepolis, 22;
subdues king Porus, 23; builds
Nicæa in India, 24; his death,
29; character and views, 30;
anecdote of, 107

Amalasonta, daughter of Theo-
doric, iv. 41, 74, 76
Amali, or Ostrogoths, the, iv. 77
Amasis, king of Egypt, i. 70, 212
Ambrose, disputation against

306

-, tyrant of Pheræ, i.

Symmachus, iv. 15

America, continent of, discover-
ed by Columbus, v. 271; the
Bahama Islands, 272; visits
Hispaniola, 272; the native
Americans described, 273;
their customs, 274-278; pro-
ductions, 279; conquest of
Mexico, 280-285; Pizarro
conquers Peru, 285-287;
mines of Potosi, 288; Spa-
nish policy with regard to
America, 288; effect of its
discovery and conquest upon
society in Europe, 291; in
North America; Florida and
Canada colonised, 293; the
states of Maryland, Virginia,

Pennsylvania, &c., settled by | Appius Claudius, decemvir, ii.

the English, 295
Amerigo Vespuzio, v. 273
Amphictyon, i. 104
Amphictyonic council, i. 104,
120, 246; elects Philip, 319
Amphitryon, i. 148
Amurath, sultan, v. 83

II., his excellent
character and successes, v.
86, 321
Anabaptists, the, v. 257, 259
Anastasius, the emperor, iv. 104
Anatomy, by the ancients, i. 62
Anaxagoras, doctrines of, ii. 157
Anaximander, philosophy and
science of, ii. 157

Ancus Martius, reign of, ii. 218
Angles, the, from Jutland, iv. 34
Anjou, duke of, becomes Philip

V. of Spain, vi. 237
Anne of Austria, queen of Louis
XIII., vi. 203; regent of
France, 217
Antalcidas, peace of, i. 296
Anthropophagi, i. 111
Antigonus I. rules in Asia, ii.
37, 51

Gonatas, ii. 55
Doson, ii. 60
Antioch built by Seleucus, ii. 39
Antiochus of Syria, ii. 43; de-
feated at Thermopylæ, iii. 51
Antipater rules in Macedon, ii.
34; death of, 37
Antoninus Pius, reign of, iii.
277; Titus Aurelius Antoni-
nus, 276; age of the Anto-
nines, 277, et seq.
Antony, Mark,avenges the death
of Cæsar, iii. 120-126; his
defeat by Octavius, 128
Apelles, Grecian painter, ii.
105, 107

252, 285, 293, 297
Aquitaine, kingdom of, iv. 159,
167

Arabia described, iv. 89; the
Caaba of Mecca, 90; the Arab
tribes, 91; birth of Mahomet,
91; extension of the Sara-
cenic empire, 99; literature
and science cultivated at
Bagdad, 100; manners of the
Arabians, 101; caliphs in
Spain, 166-181; caliphs in
Morocco, 178, 182; Persia
conquered by the Arabs and
Saracens, iv. 98

Aratus, general of the Achæans,
ii. 56

Arbela, Alexander's victory at,
ii. 19

Arcadius succeeds to the Roman

Eastern Empire in Constan-
tinople, iv. 22, et seq.
Archelaus, son of Herod, gover-
nor of Judæa, iii. 265
Archilochus, Greek poet, ii. 120
Archimedes, mechanician of
Syracuse, iii. 46
Architecture, Egyptian, i. 72,
78; Grecian, ii. 88; Gothic,
94; iv. 140; Italian, v. 311
Archytas, the Pythagorean, ii.
162

Areopagus, tribunal of the, i.
102; re-established by Solon,
188
Argonautic voyage, the, i. 132
Argos, war against, i. 139
Aridæus succeeds Alexander,
ii. 33; death of, 50
Ariosto, poetry of, vi. 289
Ariovistus subdued by Cæsar,
iii. 99

Aristarchus, critic, ii. 114

Arundelian Marbles, the, i. 240 Atlantis, tradition of a continent

Asia, theory of the origin of the Attica, its kings, i. 98, 129;