THIRD VOLUME
ABRADATES, account of, 58.
Addison, his .credulity in composing his ,
Treatise. of the Christian Religion, 560 —Mistaken in asserting : that there never was.a martyr among the primitive heretics, 561.
ZEmilia, 341.
Equi, 332, '
Africa, inquiry into the supposed circumnavigation of, by the ancients, 482—Its four supposed circumnavigations .unfounded, 487—The Portuguese the first who explored their way round its southern promontory, 489—The circumnavigation by the Phenicians examined, 490—Notes by Dr. Vincent on the supposed circumnavigation, 508.
Agnes, daug ter of Albert the First, in-
, Stance of her cruelty and sanctity, 117— Made umpire between her brother and the Swiss, 149.
Alba Fucentia, 330.
Alba Longa, 286.
Albert the First, puts his brother Adolphus to death, 102—His conduct towards the Swiss, 107—Assassinated by his nephew, 116—Cruel executions in revenge of his death, 117. |
. Albert, son of the preceding, declares
. against Zurich, 144—Defeated, 145—~
' Loses Zug by his haughtiness, 148 Breaks his treaty with the Swiss, 149— Excites the emperor Charles the Fourth
against them, 150—Yields the reins of |
government to his sons, 152.
‘Alexander, his wealth, 423.
Algidum, 332.
. VOL. IIL
Alps described, 246.
Alsium, place of residence of Virginius Rufus, 262.
Ambrones, question of their country,
Ameria, 341. |
Ammon, inquiry as to the age in which he lived, 69.
Amphora, Roman measure, 447,
Ameancti, Lacus, exhalations of, dangerous, 321. |
Anabaptists, horrors committed by, in
. Germany, 125, note.
Ancona, account of, 338.
Anio, river, 268. |
Antium, 292. -
Appennine Mountain, described, 243.
Apherasiab, account of, 42, '
Aponum, famous for its mineral waters, and as the birth-place of Livy, 346.
Appian Road, 300. |
Apulia, account of, 320, 322.
Aquileta, 347. |
Aquinum, 292. |
Arabs, subjugate Persia, 13.
Araspes, account of, 58.
Arbaces, account of, 6, 11. .
Arbuthnot, Mr., his table of the weights, money and measures of the ancients, 407.
Ardea, 289. —
Arguin, island of, settled and fortified by prince Henry of Portugal, 497.
Aricia, 287—Its land said to be so hot,
that a coal thrown on it would instantly take fire, 299.
Ariminum, 340. .
Aristomenes, account of, 38. . :
Arpi, 322.
Arpinum, 292.
Arrian, ancient geographer, 487.
Arteus, sixth King of the Medes, 23.
As, Roman weight and coin, fiuctuations in the value of, 420, 431, 432.
Aspadas, his reign, 33.
Assassination of tyrants, different opinions respecting, 223.
Assyria, extent of its empire, 5—Effeminacy of its kings, 6—Period of its overthrow, 10—Its religion, 15—Question, if known to Homer, investigated, 20— Herodotus’s account of, 34.
Astibaras, his reign, 32.
Astrolabe, who invented by, 500.
Astura, 292.
Astyages, 42, 54.
Atlantic, or Fortunate Islands, historical account of, 483.
Auckland, lord, letter to, 674.
Aventicum, inquiry respecting, 525.
Avernus Lacus, 310.
Augustas, meaning of the title, 70.
Aureus, ancient coin, weight of, 409— Fluctuations of, 459.
Ausones, 203.
Austria, duchy of, 100. |
Azenaghis, African people, account of, 497Their terror at the ships and guns of the Portuguese, 502. : = -
Azo, fanciful etymology of the name, 171 —Pedigree of, as connected with the house of Guelph, 183.
Babylon, becomes an independent king»
dom,-30—Flourishing state of the arts and sciences there, sid,
Bacon, lord, considered Perkin Warbeck as an impostor, 164.
Baie, 208, 290, 310.
Barre, Mr. de la, character of his work on the ancient measures, 407.
Basil, emperor, immense revenue of, 460.
Bayle, mistake by, respecting the number of children of Charles the Second of Naples, 519.
Belesus, concerned in the revolt of Arbaces, 6—-Rewarded with the place of Satrap of Babylon, 11.
Betus, temple of, its immense golden treasures, 422,
Beneventum, account of, 336.
Berchtold the Fifth, duke of Zeringen, 105, ‘6
Berne, state of, in the fourteenth century, 130—Its contest with the emperor of Germany and house of Austria, 131— Its alliance with the Swiss confederation, 133——Manner in which it relieved itself from debts, 467—Its sumptuous reception of Sigismond, 1bid—Etymology of the word, 515.
Billing, race of, 160.
Blacksmith, Persian, heads an insurrection, and frees his country from the yoke of the Arabs, 19.
Blackstone’s Commentaries, remarks on,
Bleterie, abbé de, his memoirs.on the succession of the Roman Emperors, and Prenomen of Augustus, 74.
Bochart, mistake by, on the subject of Conrad the Second, 513—Further mistake, on the nations who had made the Romans pass under the yoke, ibid.
Bononia, 344.
Bougainville, his researches into Assyrian history, 2.
Boumgarten, Swiss peasant, beheads a young nobleman with an axe, for attempting to seduce his wife, 111.
Brazil, its gold and diamond mines, 540.
Bribe, Persian, immense value of one, 26.
Brixia, 348.
Brun, Rodolphus, his beroic conduct in the revolution of Zurich, 136—Made burgomaster of ‘that town, 137—His self-possession on discovering the conspiracy of the exiles, 141—His contrary conduct when surprised by the Austrians, 145.
Brundisium, 326.
Brunswick, genealogical tree of the house of, 17 upposed descent of, from one of the companions of Romulus, 171— Further supposed descent of, from the race of the Trojan kings, 175—Five Saxon kings belonging to the old house of, 181—Connections between the old and new house of, t:d.—Prospect of obtaining the throne of Germany, how lost to the house of, 197—Lineal descent of the dukes of, 216—-Account of the descent of, from Henry the Black to the British monarch, 218.
Brattium, 315.
Brutus, digression on the character of, 221—Venetation of his memory by terity considered, ibid.—His assassinetion of Cæsar productive of no benefit to the commonwealth, 2232—Accused of avarice, 224—Of revealing the de-
signs of Ponipey, 227—Of vieusness to Cesar, 228--Of engaging his . fidelity to Cmsar by a voluntary oath, 230-—Farther statement of his charaeter and conduct, 540.
Buffon, his account of complete vessels found in the heart of mountains, not support by good authority, 567— Mistakes the geography of ‘Angora, famous for the silky hair of animals, 568 - —{ontradicts himself respecting the brain, 569-—His history of the elephant might have been better written, if he had been a better classical scholar, 570 . “His surprise at the rein-deer of Scandinavia being found by Ceesar in Germany, the result of his ignorance as an antiquarian, 572—Letter bys 617.. . Burgundy, Charles, duke of, particulars of his marriage with the sister of Ed- __ ward the Fourth, 95.
Busbequius’s Travels, account of, 544, Buxentum, 314.
Cadamoste, Venetian, his veyages, 498.
Care, or Agylla, account ef, 261. .
Cesar, Julius, remarks on his asssssination,. 221—-On his character and writ- Ings, 359—-On his sacerdotal dignities, 403—His detention in Egypt ascribed
-- to the Etesian winds, 555.
Calabria, 324,
Cambridge, schools at, in the twelfth cen-
tury, 535. |
Campania, account of, 204—Its vines,
Camus, his translation of Aristotle's History of Animals, 563.
Canaries, the Fortunate Islands ef Plutarch, 483--Conqnest ef, by William de Bethancourt, 484.
Canusium, 333.
Capet, Hugo, state of the feudal government under, 93.
Capreæ, licentious seat of Tiberius, 311,
‘Capua, 296. ”
Casinum, 298.
Castrum-Minerve, 326.
Castrum Novum, ancient town of Italy, doubts respecting, 264.
Cæcubum and Setia, famous for theirwines,
Celtic colonies, account of, 239.
Centenary of gold, true meaning of, 557.
Centumcellæ, 260. ,
Charles the Bald, state of the feudal government under, 91.
Charles the Fourth besieges Zurich, 151— Result of this proceeding, édid.
Charles the Simple, 92.
Charlemagne, character of, 90.
Chelsum, Dr., correspondence of, with Mr.
Gibbon, 619, 620.
Chéseaux, Mr. de, remarks by, où the
. dominion of the beasts in Daniel, 477—
. On Daniel’s vision, 478.
China, policy of, in not working its silver mines, 420.
Chronology, new, of Sir Isaac Newton, compared, as to the Greek and Egyptian history, with the common chronology, 61-—Critical remarks on this new chronology, 63.
Cicero, his country houses, 288, 292— Mistaken in meking Ecbatana the royal seat of Mithridates, 555.
Cid, of Corneille, account of, 514.
Circeii, 202.
Civil wars in. France and England, difference of, 545.
Clitumnus, river, described, 367.
Clusiam, 265.
Comala of Ossian, 587.
Conrad, St., character of, 195.
Consentia, 318.
Constantinople, wealth of, in the twelfth century, 46}. |
Consularts Aquerum, when this office ceased to exist in Rome, 554. :
Coeke, Dr., letters ae? 678, 676. of th
Copper, origin e only money of the Romans, f29—Its abundance with the Romans compared with silver and gold,
tbid.—Instances of the reductien, in weight and value, of this money, 431.
Corfinium, 333.
: Cornelius Nepes, remarks on the character
of, 564. .
Cortes of Spain, when and of what persons
comp 460.
Cortona, 265.
and writings
Cosa, ancient town, 260.
Couci, Enguerrand de, his wars with the dukes of Austria for the recovery is maternal estates, 527.
Covigliam, his voyages, 500,
Creniona, 348, 350. .
Cromwell, his claim to the title of great,
” examined, 512.
Croton, ancient town of Italy, account of, 317. 7 .
Ctesias, his character as a writer, 3~-Instance of his inaccuracy, 10.
Cume, 307. |
Curators, question of their functions and power, 518. |
Cyaxares, account of, 30.
Cyrus, Xenophon’s account of, 43—Real character of, 49—Examinéd in his con- ‘duct towards his enemies, 50—Towards Cyaxares and the Medes, 52—Towards ‘his subjects, 56-—-Nature of his death, 57—Further particulars of his character, '58—Immense treasures which he brought from Asia, 423. oi
Dacier, Mr., mistaken in supposing the Metellus of Lucilius was the Metellus Numidicus, 553.
Damaidenus, Theodore, account of his MS.entitled, Augusta Decora Romano-
* Brunswicensia, 171.
D’ Anville, engages to construct four maps for Mr. Gibbon’s History, but fails in his engagement, 617.
Darius, name of Merchant given him by the Persians, 451—Table of the provinces of his empire, and tribute paid by them, ibid,
Death, number of deaths of religious persons in France, annually, 539.
Deffaud, Madame de, letter by, 617.
Dejoces, king of the Medes, account of, 34.
Demetrius Soter, 535.
Denier, copper coin, weight of, 409—-Sil- |
- ver denier, 447.
Dertona, 253.
‘Diodorus Siculus, abbé Terrason’s translation of, 583.
Dictionary of human Economy, desirable,
Dionysius of Athens, and Dionysius of Paris, confusion respecting, 529.
‘Domitian, road made by him, 300—The supposition of his having enacted laws against the christians, a mistake, 561.
Drachm, or Drachma, Attic, value of, ‘411, 417; 444, 446, 447—Decimal tables of, 449.
Dress, particoloured, of the Greeks and Romans, account of, 524.
Egypt, principal epochs of its history, 61.
-Eisenschidt, Mr.; character of his book bn ancient weights and measures, 406.
Electoral} college, first. rudiments of, 104. ‘ Eporedia; Roman colony,. geographical and chronological mistake respecting,
Eratosthenes, first who measured the earth,
' geographicalerrors of, 488—Why styled
eta, 1bid, note.
Ethico, resentful conduct of, towards his son, for abdicating the Guelphic name, 187. |
Etruria, its extent, 254, 257—Its inhabitants, id1d. 254,
Etruscan Colonies, account of, 240.
Evander, account of, 70.
Endoxus, ancient circumnavigator, account of, 486. ; Ezo, obtained the daughter of the empe-
ror.Otho by a game at dice, 182.
Falerii, account of its inhabitants, 263.
Falernus, 296.
Fealty and homage, nature of, in the feudal system, 84.
Ferdoussi, Persian poet, account of, 13.
Ferentinum, curious inscription m which this word occurs, 269— Town of, griev-
-* ously oppressed, 290.
-Feronia, temple and grove of, 264.
Feudal government. See Government.
Florence, ancient state of, 263.
Fontenelle, mistaken in supposing Porphyry to have produced oracles favour-
- able to. the Christians, 563. Mistaken in supposing the Romans to have prohibited the Carthaginians from offering human sacrifices, 1h24. Mistaken in
-’ calling Homer and Hesiod the first Grecian philosophers, 561.
Formiæ, 293.
Fortunate Islands. See Atlantic.
Fox, Mr., his debts, 593. Witticism by, id.
Forum Gallorum, battle of, between Marc
- Antony and Pansa, 342. —-is.
France, state of, under.the feudal govera-
, ment, 83—Statistic account of, in the
fifteenth century, 463—Abridged table of the money of, from Charlemagne to Lewis the Fourteenth, 465.
Frederic, duke of Austria, contends for the imperial crown, 118—-Renounces his. claim, 126. .
Freedom of thought, hints respecting, 548. ;
Fregellæ, 292: |
French, have had the smalest:share in the
fame and benefits of great naval discoveries, 503—Their Senegal and Guinea company, a fiction, zbid,
French noblesse, origin of, 85.
Frentani, 334. |
Freret, his character as a writer, 1—His essay on the ancient measures, 407—His Dissertation on the passage in Pliny respecting the circuit of Rome, 557.
Fresnoy, mistaken in supposing Maximilian the First to have possessed Groningen, Overyssel, and Frize, 523.
‘Gama, Vasco de, his voyages, 466.
Garganus Mons, 323.
Garrick, David, letters by, to Mr. Gibbon,
Generation, number of years that constitute one, 217. |
Genlis, countess de, letters by, 621, 628.
Genua, 153.
George of Cappadocia, particulars of, 529.
Germans, ancient, manners of, 64.
Germany, statistic account of, particu- Jarly its money, 466.
Gianoni’s History of Naples, errors in,
Giants, authorities for and against the existence of, 516. :
Glaris, account of, 146—Allies itself to the Swiss confederation, 147.
Gnatiz, or Egnatia, wood placed upon a certain stone there is sai to kindle of itself, 324.
Gold and silver. Effect of gold and silver as the medium of commerce, 413—Value of gold and silver to a state, 420— Gold and silver mines of the old and new world compared, 421— Ancient gold of coins superior to modern, ancient silver ‘inferior, 425—Difficulty of ascertaining the value of gold and silver money, 426—Impressions made on money by different nations, to determine its value,
' 433—Price of silver in England and France, 443-——Proportionate price of silver to gold in England and France, ibid, —First silver money of the Romans,
Gospel, tradition of the Spaniards respecting, refuted, 530.
Government, feudal, particularly in France, essay on, 83—Fealty and homage required by it, 84—Its military service, 86—Its hierarchy, 89—Slavery of the
people under it, 93—Its termination, g5—Maxim of La Bruyere. respecting governments, 548.
Graviscæ, ancient town of Italy, 261.
“Greaves, character of his work on the foot and denier of the Romane, 406.
Grecia Magna, 319. .
Greece, elucidations of its history, 20— Principal epochs of its history, 61.
Greeks, simplicity of their method of reckoning, 435—Their weighteand measures derived from the Phenicians, 445, Guelph, family of, difficulties as to its origin, 178—Continuation of the Guelphic ime after six generations, 179—Guelph the First, ,184—Guelphic possessions, 187— Guelph the Third, 190— The Fourth, zbud/.—The Fifth, ssid. —The Sixth, 191—The Seventh, 192—The Eighth, 195, 202—The Ninth and last, 206-——Rights of, the Guelphs surrendered to a Ghibelline heir, 207.
Guelphs and Ghibellines, some account of the, 178—Names of, how first occasioned, 202. .
Guthrie, in his Cicero’s Letters, erroneously translates Getæ by Goths, 556.
Habits. See Dress.
Habsburg, Rodolph, count of, character
, Of his reign, 99—Killed in the battle of Grynau, 140. . .
Habsburg, son of the preceding, heads a conspiracy against Zurich, 141—Taken prisoner, 142-—Sct at liberty, 149. .
Haller, speech by, doubting the authes ticity of the story of Tell, 154, note.
Unintelligible note by the translator of his poems respecting the family of Muhleren and Bubenberg, 573.
. Hann, account of his voyage, 491—Jour-
nal of it in Greek still extant, 492— Pliny’s opinion of his voyage, 493. | Harwood’s Classics, notes written on a
‘ blank leaf of, 578.
Henry, an apostate monk, 535.
Henry the. Black, by bis influence fixed
. the right of inberitance in the German * aristocracy, 194—His superstitious end,
Henry the Fourth of France, character of, 49—Five thousand gentlemen in his army, 546.
Henry the Fowler, account of, 180.
Henry of the Golden Chariot, renounces the Guelphic name, 167. |
Henry the Lion, his pedigree as allied to the house of Brunswick, 179—Illustrious exploits of, 401—His pilgrimage to the Holy Land, 213—His marriages,
Henry the Proud, account of, 136.
Henry, prince of Portugal, voyages patronized by him, 497—Improvement in the art of navigation effected by him, 501.
Henry the Seventh, of Germany, said to have been poisoned, 118.
Henry, son of Rodotph the Second, account of, 190.
Heraclea, 313.
Hercules, his matrimonial prowess, 541— Mahomet compared with him in this respect, 542.
Herculis Liburni Portus, ancient name ef Leghorn, 257.
Herculaneum, 206.
Herodotus, his account of the circumnavigation of the Phenicians, 489—Translation of his history by Larcher, 582.
Hesiod, age in which he lived, 580.
Heyne, professor, letter by, 644. :
Hints, miscellaneous, 545.
Hints, of some subjects for history, 351.
Hernici, 290.
Herpini, 321. | | os
Historian, is apt to mfuse the character of his own mind into his work, 43—Wih choose such facts as agree best with his
ciples and views, Are historians iends.to virtue? 545. |
History of England, four persons holding the highest offices of magistracy contributors to it, 164.
Holland, lord, statement of his property,
Holommanus, mistake by, respecting the murder of Q. Lollius, corrected, 526.
Holroyd, Mr., letters to, 593, 617—See farther, Sheffield.
Holroyd, Mrs., letters to, 623.
Homer, chronology of his birth, 70— Various editions of, and works relating to him, 573.
“Hooper, bishop, his inquiry into the state
jf the ancient measures, 444.
Horse and Camel, supposed antipathy between, considered, 571.
Horatii Villa, 329, 336.
Hume, mistaken in his estimate of the number of inhabitants in all Gaul, 554.
Hurd, mistaken in supposing himself the first discoverer of the allegory in the
‘third Georgic, 553.
Iberian colonies, aceount of, 238.
Illyrian colonies, 288.
liva, or Æthalia, island of Italy, 262.
Imperator, meaning of the title, 79.
Index Exp rius, 553— List of persons
mentioned in it, 575.
Indians, ancient, 382.
Indies, and the East, statistic account of, particularly its money, 472.
Interamna, 341.
Irish language, inquiry respecting, 526.
Italy, ancient names of, 237—People of, ibidRegions, atmosphere, and soil of, 241—-Îts itineraries and tables, 350— Its military roads, 351—Statistic account of, particularly its weights and measures, 471. ;
James, apostle of Spain, particulars re specting, 531. - |
Jerusalem, city and temple of, 533.
Judith, empress, account of, 185.
Junonis Laciniæ Templum, 318.
Juturma, river, 268.
Lacus Fucinus, 331.
Lacus Sabatinus, 263.
Lagaria, 515.
Larius, lake, 249.
Latins, chronology of their history, 71.
Latium, towns of, 284. oo
‘Lavinium, 286. —
Lauppany, battle of, 132.
Laurens, beautiful villa of Pliny, 305.
Laus Pompeii, town of, 251.
Leopold, brother of Frederic of Austria, his character, 118—Defeated by the Swiss, 122. |
Lewis the Debonnaïre, state of the feudal
system under, 92. |
Lewis, duke of Bavaria, contends for the empire, 118—Favourable conduct of, to
the Swiss, 124—Chosen emperor against the anathema of the pope, 126.
Life, that of the ancients longer than that of the moderns, 67—Life of princes shorter than that of literary men, 68.
Ligures, ancient people of Italy, account of, 252. .
Liturnum, house of Seneca at, described,
95. | Livy, remarks on his character and writ- ' ings, 366. | | ‘
vu mil
Locri Epizephyrii, account of, 317.
Lothaire the second, 182.
Loughborough, lord, letter by, 626.
Love, politieal events, and destiny of great men in the east, seldom influenced
Low Countries, statistic account of, particularly its monies, 463. .
Lucania, connection of the inhabitants of, and the Bruttians, 312—Towns of, ibid.
Lucerne, joins the confederation of the Swiss, 128—Conspiracy of its discontented inhabitants, 129.
Lucrimus Lacus, 310.
Lucullus and Scævola, villas of, 300— Marble bearing the name of Lucullus,
Ludolph, character of himself and his ancestors, 181.
Lucus Feroniæ, 256.
Luna, town of, famous fer its wines, 254.
Luna, bay of, famous for its marble, 237.
Macpherson, sir John, letter by, 655.
Madyes, account of, 42.
Mage, Persian, supposed circumnavigation
Mallet, Mr. his description of Egypt ex-
amined, 558.
Mannes, Roger de, happy manceuvre of, in the war between Zurich and Austria,
Marius, his villa, 300.
Marmontel, mistakes a e in Lucan respecting the Gallic Druids, 572.
Marrusini, sin effect of an earthquake in the country of, 333.
Mars, inguiry respecting the time in which he lived, 69.
Marsi, 820.
Martel, Charles, account of, 88, 89.
Matilda, countess of Tuscany, account of,
Matilda, daughter of Heary the Second, her marriage, 216— All the princes of Brunswick lineally descended from one of her sons, i6sd.
Measures, ancient, taken from parts of the human body, 440—~Particulars respecting, 445. |
Medes, dissertation on the monarchy of, 1 First kings of, but little known, 12— Reign of Arteus, sixth king, 23—State of, under Astibaras, 32— Under Aspadas, 33—Herodotus's account of, 34
— Difficulties respecting, elucidated, 35 —Chronology of, 37.
Mell, city and kingdom, mysterious traders of, 498.
Memnon, fable of, 21.
Merchants, mysterious description of, 498.
Meridional Line, on the position of, 452, 505. !
Metapontum, 313.
Mexico, population, mines, revenues, and religion of, 539.
Military service, nature of, under the feudal. system, 86.
Minciue, river, 249. ch inerva, question respecti e time in.
which she lived, Ge "8 .
Minervæ castrum, 326.
Misenum, 309.
Moneci Portus, 253.
Money, usurious interest charged on, by
the Romans, 489-—-Rate of interest of, and the price of land compared, 440— New system of, established by Constantine, 459-—See farther, Copper and Gold..
More, his history of the reign of Edward the Fifth censured by Horace Walpole,.
157—Vindicated by Mr. Gibben, 158.
Morgarten, battle.of, 122.
Moshdim, erroneously supposes the present Koran different frem the laws given by the prophet in his lifetime, 566-—Mis-.
taken in representing the Norman pirates .as devoid of all religion, sbid.
Mutina, singular prodigy at, of twe burn-.
ing mountains contending with eachother, 343. |
Nabonassar, account of, 29.
Nanybrus, story of, as connected with that of Parsondas, 28. |
Naples, ancient, account of, 308--Question when it became a Roman colony, 522.
Narnie, 341,
Nebuchadonosor, conquers Babylon, 30,
Nechus, king of Egypt, his character and exploits, 48.
Necker, Madame, lettersby, to Mr.Gibbon, 606, 608, 624, 645, 646, et seq. Mr.
Gibbon to, 613. |
Necker, Mr., letters by, 645, 668.
Neptune, inquiry as to the time m which he lived, do.
Newton, sir Isaac, mistaken respecting the dynasty of the Piscadians, 14—Mistaken in a point of ancient history, $8—His
chronology of the Greeks and Egyptians compared with the common chronology, 61—Critical remarks on his new system of chronology, 63.
Nice, Italian city of that neme mistaken ‘by the abbé Mongault and Dr. Middleton for the Bythinian city, 554.
Nicholls, rev. Norton, letter by, 677.
Nineveh, mistakes as to its situation recti- - fied, g—Its rising greatness, 30. - Ninus, doubts as to the period’ in which he - lived, 5. a North, lord, letter by, 637.
Noue, de la, situation and conduct of, at the siege of Rochelle, 543.
Oguz Khan, account of, A1.
Ossian’s poems, remarks on, 587.
Ostia, 305.
Otho the Great, 180.
Ounce, Roman, weight of, 409. Oxford, early state of, 534.
Padus, river, account of, 247.
Pæstum, 313.
Pagi, father, mistake of, respecting ‘the
rab kalifs, 571.
Pandataria, island, 294.
Pandosia, 318.
Panthea, story of, 58.
Parsondas, his character and history, 23— Overturns the throne of Arteus, 28,
Patavium, 349.
Patriots, list of, who have deserved well’ of mankind, 221.
Pelasgian colonies, account of, 239.
Peligni, 333. .
Perkin Warbeck, reasons for believing him to be the duke of York, 161—Reasons for believing him to be an impostor, 163.
Persepolis, critical inquiries respecting, 15.
Persia, elucidations of ‘its history, 12— Virtuous custom of its kings, 19.
Persian cycle, 18—Revenue, 456. .
Persians, fondness of, for new customs and
__ new pleasures, 543.
Peter the Third, Rulhiere’s account of his death by poison, 538.
Petilla, 318.
Petra Pertusa, 340.
Phalaris’s Epistles, new reasons for pro-
‘mouncing them spurious, 564,°565.
* Ratel,
Phraortes, account of, 38. ° -
Picentini, 298. |
Picenutn, 337. .
Pinkerton, Mr. letter by, 670—Letter to,
Pisæ, town of, 256.
Piscadians, dynasty of, 14.
Pithecusæ Insulæ, said to have been formed
* out of the'sea by an earthquake, 299.
Placentia, 344— hscripfjon on a convent at, 345. : ‘
Planisphere, or mapof the world, delineated by a monk, 499.
Plautus, critical remarks on a passage of,
Pliny, the younger, mistakes in‘Whe French translation respecting him, 512.
Polybius, editions and translations of, 583.
Pondo, pound weight, of the Romans, 410, 415, 437, 447. |
Pontia, island, 294.
Populonium, ancient town, 258.
Porsenna, his stupendous mausoleum described, 265.
Portugal, reduced state of its population, 540. ù
Portuguese, African trade of, 406.
Pound, ancient. See Pondo. |
Præneste, 288—Its Mosaic pavements, 301. | °
Prætutiaous, Ager, 339.
Privernum, by the bold answer of a citizen, obtained the privileges of Rome, 304.
Prochyta, ancient island, subject to earth-
quakes, 311. .
Prodigies, remarks on sevetal, relating to Prussia, Frederic king of, appears trough
out his writings the enemy of the
glish, 573—Instance of this in his de-
sctiption of the battle of Blenheim, ided.
Ptolemy, character of, asa geographer, 486.
Puteoli, 300, 309. ;
Rapin, falsely supposes that’ Frederic the Second bequeathed Sicily to his. sen Henry? 523.
ersian weight, 448.
Raudius Campus, 251.
Ravenna, why the chosen residence of the emperors, 343.
Reate, famous for its asses-and the quiek rowth of its herbage, 329.
Religious wars, effects of, 547.
Rennell, major, letter by, 639.
Rhegium, account of, 316.
Rheni Insule, described, 342.
Richard the First, fit subject for an histo- |
rian, 55). :
Richard the Third, Mr. Walpole’s justifi-
cation of, 157.
Rodolph. See Habsburgh.
Rodolph of Reding, exploit of, against the Austriane, 122, ’
‘ Rollo, 92.
Roman Empire, proof of its being neither
: patrimonial nor hereditary, 74—Slowest
‘In its rise and longest in its duration, why; 90. |
Romans, chronology of their history, 71— Their money, weights, and measures, 409—Their method of computation, 436, 451—Usury practised, by, 439—Their first silver money, 451—Their hollow measures not derived from the Athenians, 453. |
Romans in Great Britain, projected work on the military history of, 595.
Rome, ancient city of, its boundaries, walls, and gates, 272—Its wonders, 274—Its four ages, 280—Its goddess, 283,
Rose, Samuel, letter by, 679.
Rotzberg, fortress of, manceuvre by which it was surprised and taken, 115.
Rubicon, prohibitory statue erected on the banks of, 340—Supposed by Montesquieu authentic, 556.
Ruling passion, 547.
Russia, account of, 586.
Russians, causes to which their abject state of slavery is to be ascribed, 541.
Rutuli, 280.
Sabini, account of, 327.
Salapia, 322.
Salassi, ancient people of Italy, account of,
Sallust, remarks on his character and writings, 353—Thyon’s translation of, 358— Blamed both as a chronologist und geographer, 556. |
Samnites, account of, 334.
Samnium, 327. -
Sardanapalus, inherits the effeminacy of his predecessors, 6—his courageous defence of his empire, 7—Burns himself in his palace with his eunuchs, concubines, and treasure, 8—Supposed fate of his children, 10, note.
Sarnen, fortress of, manceuvre by which it was surprized and taken, 115. |
Sataspes, story of, 493.
