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Saturnalia, observations respecting the fes-
- tivals of that name, 516.
Saussure, Mr. de, letter by, 642.
Scholiast, mistakes pointed out, of one who ‘ wrote commentaries on Cicero, 522.
Scott, Mr. George, letter to, inviting him to contribute to a periodical publication,
Scyllaceum, situated in the narrowest part of Italy, 317.
Scythians, their courage, 40.
Selden, his work de Diis Syriis commended,
Septchénes, Mr. Leclerc de, letter by, to Mr. Gibbon, 615.
Sestertium, nature and value of, 436— Decimal tables of, 452.
Severy, Madame de, letters to, 630, 631, 634, 635, 638. me
Sexes, respective value of, 176.
Shaftsbury, mistaken as to the state of the arts in Rome, after despotism was established, 565.
Sheffield, lord, letter to, on Mr. Gibbon’s Treatise on the Meridional Line, &c.
505—Letters to, on the publication of
.Mr, Gibbon’s miscellaneous works, 675, et seq.
Shekel of the Hebrews, value of, 414.
Shoes, nailing them to the feet: of horses not known to the ancients, 544.
Silarus, river, had the property of changing wood into stone, 314.
Sinner, l’Avoyer de, letter to, 640—Letter of, in reply, 641.
Sinuessa, 294—Its exhalations fatal to animals, and sometimes to men, 299.
Sipus, territory of, the worst of ancient taly, 322. | Smart, Christopher, mistaken in supposing the first lines of Horace’s Art of Poetry
levelled at Ovid, 567.
Social contract, ties of, never dissolved b revolutions, 35—Happy instance of this contract in the Swiss confederation, 123.
Soracte, ancient mountain, 264.
‘Spain, account of a tour through, 665—
Statistic account of, particularly its weights and money, 467—Its population and manufactures, 540.
Spina, admirable correction of Pliny by Cluvier respecting, 346.
Spoletium, 341.
Strahan, William, esq., letter to, 595.
Suard, Mr., letter by, to Mr. Gibbon, 613.
Superstition, sources of, inexhaustible, 7.
Susa, state of, before it became the capital of an empire, 22.
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Swiss and Switzerland. General history of the Swiss Republic, 98 Geographical description of Switzerland, tbid.—Account of Switzerland while a province of
Germany, Qy—aArbitrary conduct of |
Albert the First towards the Swiss, 107 —Despotism of the governors which he placed over them, 109—Particulars of a conspiracy, the result of that despotism, 111—Number of Swiss nobility sacrificed to avenge the death of Albert, who was assassinated by his nephew,
117—Conduct of the Swiss to his suc-:
cessor, 118—Their courageous opposition to, and defeat of, Leapold, 121— Confederation of the Swiss states, 123— Disquieted in their liberty by the house of Austria, 126—Their confederation Augmented by the alliance of Lucerne, 128-—By that of Berne, 133—By that of Zurich, 143—By that of Glaris, 147 —By that of Zug, 147—Enter into a treaty with Rodolphus and Leopold, sons of Albert, 152—Farther particulars of the alliance of Berne to the confederation, 153—Statistic account of Switzerland, particularly its money, 466.
‘ Sybaris, critical remarks on the number of its inhabitants, 80—Account of ancient Sybaris, 313.
Talent, Roman, weight and value of, 410 —Attic talent, 411—Tyrian, 412—Babylonian, 413—Jewish, 414—Alexandrian, 415—One in use in the heroic ages, 435.
Tamerlane, his policy in conquests commended, 55. L
Tarentum, account of, 324.
Tarquinii, nursery there for all sorts of plants and animals, 263.
Tatwyl, battle of, 145.
Taurasium, 321.
Taurisci, ancient people of Italy, 250.
Tell, William, Swiss revolution unjustly ascribed to him, 114—Aythenticity of the story of, examined, 154.
Temple, sir William, mistaken as to the law of succession in the empire of the Mamluks, 557—Mistakes Amanzor, an imaginary hero, for one of the Western caliphs, 558. .
Tempsa, singular Pagan custom observed at, 315. -
Tetradrachma, value of, 411.
Theatre, Greek, by Brumoy, 581. :
Thrasymenus Lacus, 265.
Thurlow, lord, letter to; 626—Letter by,
Tiber, river, described, 265. :
Tibur, town of, 288—Nature of its stone, 301—Singular house of Adrian there,
Timavus, account of its streams and fountains, 347. |
Toggenbourg, his generous conduct to the Swiss, 120—Taken prisoner, and cut afterwards into a thousand pieces, 140.
Transpadana, province of, 250.
Tree, genealogical, from Adalbert to George the Third, 169.
Tosci, ville of Pliny, described, 265.
Tusculum, 288—Proceediags of the inhabitants of, to Camillus, 302.
Tyrtæus, fragments of, 581.
Vadimonium, lake, 264.
Vassal, duties of, under the feudal system, ' 88
Velia, ancient Greek town, account of,
Velleius Paterculus, mistake in Vossius’s Life of, respecting a defeat of the Romans, 519.
Veneti, their origin, 345,
Venetia, 346.
Venusia, 323.
Verona, 349, 350.
Vertot, historical errors committed by him pointed out, 520.
Vestini, 333.
Vesuvius Mons, 296.
Vetulonii, 259.
Vibo Valentia, 316.
Vincent, Dr., letfer by, to lord Sheffield,
on the circumnavigation of Africa by the . ancients, 505—Letters by, to Mr. Gibbon, 669, 670.
Virgil, chronology of his Æneid, 71—Remarks on several passages of his Georgics, 382, 385.
Volaterra, 258.
Volsci, 291.
Voltaire, his defence of the marriage of Mademoiselle, from the examples of Roman emperors, refated, 559— His Dialogue between Marcus Aurelius, and a Recolet friar, 562—Erroneous in ree
jecting the famous inscription respecting the date of Christianity in China, sds
—Commends Racine and Corneille for not showing contempt for the Jewish nation, 559—Falsely ascribes immoral views to the author of the Provincial Letters, ded.
Umbria, province of, 339.
Umbria cis Apenninum, 340.
Umbria trans Apenninum, 340.
Walpole, Horace, his Historical Doubts respecting Richard the Third examined, 156—Hume’s reply to his doubts, 162 —Inaccurate in his account of the tournament between earl Rivers and the reat Bastard of Burgundy,569.—Letters y, to Mr. Gibbon, 602, 604.
~ War, has its rights as well as peace, 50.
Warton, Dr., errors of, pointed out, as to the time in which Pericles and Apelles lived, 565—Letter by, to Mr. Gibbon, Way, Gregory Lewis, letter by, 678.
Werner, young Swiss, his heroic conduct in a conspiracy to obtain freedom for his country, 112.
Weingarten, monk of, his chronicle of the lords of Altdorf, 178.
Weights, measures, and money of the ancients, dissertation on, 406, 442.
Whitaker, letters by, to Mr, Gibbon, 557, 595, 596, 597, 598,
Wines, ancient, of Italy, 299. ,
Witikind, alliance of the Este Guelphs with, 183.
Wolfenscheissen, his attempt on the chastity of the wife of a Swiss peasant, 110.
Worship, Pagan and Catholic, conformity between, 547.
Xenophon, account of, 43—His Cyropædia, considered, 44— Translation of his Cyropædia by Spelman, 582.
Yezdegerd, era of his reign, 17.
. Zarina, queen of the Saques, account of,
Zug, joins the Swiss confederation, 148.
Zurich, its origin, 133—Revolutions in its government, 136—Conspiracy of its exiles, 140—Joins the Swiss confederation, 143—Wars with Austria, 144.
