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The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus
by Ammianus Marcellinus
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Teuchira, a town in Cyrene, 312

Teutomeres, chief of the Protectores, 51

Teutones, incursions of the, 591

Thalassius (i.), prefect of the East, 4, 23; (ii.) an officer in one of the law courts at Rome, 298

Thasos, now Thaso, 286

Thebes, a city in Egypt, 129, 312

Themiscyra forest, inhabited by Amazons, 289

Themistocles, 571

Theodorus, 505, 506, 511

Theodosius (i.), 453; assists the Britons, 483; his success, 485, 526, 527, 538; (ii.) the younger, 541

Theodotus, 305

Theognis, a poet, 508

Theolaiphus, count, 271

Theophanes, a river of the Sauromatae, 291

Theophilus, governor of Syria, 22, 82

Theopompus, 296

Thermodon, a river of Pontus, 289

Thilsaphata, a town in Mesopotamia, 397

Thilutha, a fort on the Euphrates, 349

Thiodamas, 302

Thmuis, a town in Egypt, 313

Thrace, 442; description of the country and the people, 287, 443, 444

Thucydides, 191, 343

Thule, 171

Thuringians, 583; revolt, 588; defeat an army under Lupicinus, 590

Thynia, a district of Bithynia, 288

Tibareni, a people of Pontus, 290

Tiber, 542

Tibris, 289

Ticinum (now Pavia), 72

Tigaviae, a town of Mauritania, 530

Tigris, 333

Timagenes, a Greek writer, 73

Tingetanum, a fort in Mauritania, 531

Tios, a town of the Euxine, 289

Tipata, a town in Mauritania, 532

Tiphys, the pilot of the Argonauts, 290

Tiposa, a town in Mauritania, 529

Tisias, an ancient Greek orator, 554

Tochari, a Bactrian tribe, 340

Tolosa (Toulouse), 79

Tomi, a city of Thrace, 293

Tomyris, a queen of Scythia, 331

Totordanes, a river of the Sauromatae, 291

Toxandria, a town built by the Franks, 141

Tragonice, a town of Persia, 338

Trajan (i.), the Emperor, 29, 102, 395, 440; (ii.) count of Armenia, 503, 547; his battle with the Goths, 595, 608, 615

Transcellensis, a mountain in Mauritania, 529

Trapezus, a Sinopean colony in Pontus, 289

Trebatius, a lawyer, 556

Treves (Treviri), 79

Tribocci, a tribe on the Upper Rhine, 120

Tricapae (Troyes), 79

Tricesimae (Kellen), 161

Tricorii, a people of the Alps, 77

Tripoli, 496, 551

Troglodytae, a tribe near the Red Sea, 293

Tubusuptum, a town in Mauritania, 527

Tungri (Tongres), 78, 141

Turgana, an Arabian island, 338

Tyana, a town in Cappadocia, 333, 402

Tyndenses, a people of Mauritania, 527

Tyras (the Dniester), 293

Tyre, 28

Tyros, a town on the Euxine, 293

U.

Ultra, the son of Aspacuras, 466

Ur, a fort in Persia, 396

Urbicius, duke of Mesopotamia, 549

Urius, king of the Allemanni, 107, 164

Ursatius, 413, 415

Ursicinus, king of the Allemanni, 107, 164

—— master of the horse in the East, 30, 36; recalled, 37; danger of, 47; goes to Cologne, 61, 86, 180, 189, 190; charges against, 213

Ursinus, contest with Damasus for the bishopric of Rome, 441

Ursulus, 96, 280

Usafer, a Sarmatian noble, 149

Uscudama, a town in Thrace, 39, 444

V.

Vadomarius, king of the Allemanni, 32, 247, 248, 425, 503

Vagabanta, a town of Mesopotamia, 504

Valens of Thessalonica, 274

Valens chosen emperor of the East by his brother Valentinian, 413; his alarm at the successes of Procopius, 424; sends Vadomarius to besiege Nicaea, and proceeds himself to Nicomedia, 425; his cruelty, 433; marches against the Goths, 445; attacks the Gruthungi, 446; returns to Constantinople, 447; his suspicious character, 507; reply to Sapor, 549; omens of his death, 576; receives an embassy from the Goths, 585; sends Victor into Persia, 594; leaves Antioch for Constantinople, 606; marches to Hadrianople, 609; his death, 614; his vices, 616

Valentia (Valence), 32, 79

—— a province of Britain, 485

Valentine, a Pannonian, 484, 568

Valentinian, chosen emperor, 406; his conduct, 407; saluted as Augustus, 409; his speech, 409; creates his brother Valens tribune and master of the horse, 412; arrives at Constantinople, 412; takes as his colleague in the imperial dignity his brother Valens, 413; his cruelty, 433; invests his son Gratian with the imperial dignity, 448; sends Theodosius to Britain, 453; marches against the Allemanni and gains a victory, 458; defeats the Goths at Solicinium, and returns to Treves, 461; fortifies the banks of the Rhine, 480; makes overtures of peace to the Burgundians, 495; his cruelties, 521; makes peace with Macrianus, 552; marches against the Quadi, 562; his dream, 563; his death, 564; review of his reign, 567; his character, 569-573

Valentinian II. chosen emperor, 575

Valentinus, a tribune, 166

Valeria, a province of Pannonia, so named after the daughter of Diocletian, 204, 468

Valerian, officer of the domestics, 461

Valerianus, master of the horse, 615

Valerius Publicola, 17

Vangiones (Worms), 78

Vardanes, the founder of Ctesiphon, 334

Varronianus, the father of Jovian, 388

—— the son of Jovian, 403

Vasatae (Bazas), 79

Vatrachites, a river of Persia, 337

Vecturiones, a nation of the Picts, 453

Velia, a town in Lucania, 74

Ventidius, lieutenant of Antony, 328

Venustus, 317, 473

Verissimus, count, 92

Verrinianus, 60, 181

Vertae, allies of the Persians at the siege of Amida, 187, 193

Vestralpus, a king of the Allemanni, 107, 164

Veteranio, 46

Vetranio, captain of the Zianni, 377

Victa, a town in Mesopotamia, 228

Victohali, a Gothic tribe, 150

Victor Aurelius, the historian, 259

Victor, a Sarmatian, 347, 356, 366, 445, 609

—— a tribune given as a hostage to the Persians, 394

Victorinus, 473

Viderichus, son of Vithimiris, 583

Viduarius, king of the Quadi, 151

Vienna (Vienne), 79

Vincentius, tribune of the Scutarii, 300

Virgantia (Briancon), 76

Virgil, 72, 202, 586

Vitalianus, count, 403

Vithicabius, king of the Allemanni, 458

Vithimiris, king of the Eastern Goths, 583

Vitrodorus, son of Viduarius, 151

Vocontii, a people of Gaul, 67

Z.

Zabdiceni, a people of Mesopotamia, 225, 393

Zagrus, montes, 335

Zamma, son of a Mauritanian chief, 525

Zariaspes, a river in Bactria, 340

Zeno, a celebrated Stoic, 31

Zeugma, a town on the Euphrates, 179

Zianni, an Armenian tribe, 377

Ziata, a fortress in Mesopotamia, 193

Zinafer, a Sarmatian chief, 148

Zizais, son of a king of the Sarmatians, 148

Zombis, a town in Media, 337

Zopyrus, 169

Zoroaster, 336

THE END.

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