Octavius, 325; Senate divests him of his office, ib.; battle of
Actium, 326 death of, 328

Apicius, 382.

Apollonius, governor of Syria, 187.

Apostles appointed by Christ to rule his kingdom, 408.

Appius Claudius renders the office of decemvir perpetual, 238.
Arabia Felix, unsuccessfully invaded by Gallus, 335.

Arabia Petræa reduced to a Roman province by Trajan, 536.
Archelaus, son of Herod, appointed king of Judea, 362; repairs to
Rome, 363; character of, ib.; made ethnarch, 366; banished
to Vienne, 367.

Aristobulus, grandson of Agrippa, made king of Armenia, 465.
Aristotle, tutor of Alexander, anecdote of, 98.

Armenia, subdued by Marc Antony, 324; conquest of, by the Ro-
mans, 470; made a Roman province, 536.

Arsinoe, sister of Cleopatra, 299; exhibited in Cesar's triumph at
Rome, 304.

Artaxerxes Longimanus, character of, 40-59.

Artaxerxes Mnemon, reign of, 78; attempt to murder, by Cyrus,
79; revolt against, 81; death of, 89.

Artaxerxes Ochus, reign of, 90; overcomes Egypt, kills their god
Apis, and carries the spoils to Babylon, 93; poisoned by Bagoas,
and his body given to be eaten by cats, 94.

Assideans, 194.

Assineus and Anileus governors of Babylonia, 441.

Asmonean family, the last of, 231.

Assyria conquered by Trajan, 537.

Astrologers and magicians banished out of Italy, 420.

Athaliah, wicked government of, 32.

Athrongas and his brother take the title of King of Judea, 363.
Augustus, children and grandchildren of, 411, 12; death of, 413.
August, how so named, 337.

B

Baachus adored by the Romans, 382.

Baasha gains possession of the throne of Israel, 29.

Babylon, siege and capture of, 55; deserted, 136; conquered by
Trajan, 537.

Babylus the Astrologer, 487.

Bagoas or Bagoses, the Persian governor, lays a mulct upon the
sacrifices of the Jews, 79; poisons Artaxerxes, and gives his
body to be eaten by cats, 94; death of, 95.

Bernice, sister of Agrippa, dismissed fc: Rome, 527.

Boadicea, queen of Britain, 4.

Boiscalus, noble speech of, 469.

Brahmin, anecdote of, 336.

Britannicus, son of Claudius, cruel treatment of, 461; death of, 467;
memory of, honoured by Titus, 526.

Britons fight against the Romans, 460, 496; subdued by Agricola,

526; converted by Augustin, 555.

Brutus murders Cesar, 308; death of, 317.

Burnt-offerings, use of, 397; unnecessary after Christ, 398.

Burrhus, chief of the Roman army under Nero, 464; death of, 479.

C

Caiaphas, the high-priest deposed by Vitellius, 431.
Cainites, character of, 10.

Calendar, Roman, corrected by Julius Cesar, 306; afterwards by
Octavius, 337.

Caligula Caius, origin of the name, 432; character of, 427; reign
of, favourable to the gospel, 432, 438; madness of, 435, 442, 44;
death of, 445.

Cambyses, character of, 58; contempt of idols, 64.
Camillus dictator, 240.

Canaan, land of, given to Abraham and his seed for a possession,
12; unappropriated when first taken possession of by Abraham,
12, 18; comparative small extent of, 13, 18.

Canaan, seven nations of, expelled for their iniquity, 396.
Canaanites, character of, 13; position of, suited for the publicity of
the true religion, 14.

Candace, queen of Ethiopia, invades Egypt, 335.

Captives in Babylon, state of the, 39; liberated by Cyrus, ib.
Captivity of the Jews, secret effects of, on the surrounding nations,
63.

Caractacus fights against the Romans, 460.

Carthage and Carthaginians, 241; first punic war, 242; soldiers re-
volt, 246; second punic war, 248; New Carthage, 249-254;
third punic war, 258; Romans resolve to destroy Carthage,
260; vigorous defence of the Carthaginians, 261; overcome by
Scipio Paullus, and Carthage declared a Roman province, 262;
Carthage rebuilt by order of Cesar, 303.

Cassius, 316, 317.

Cassander takes the title of king of Greece and Macedon, 125.
Cataline, conspiracy of, 284.

Cato advises war with Carthage, 259; sayings of, 286, 287,
death of, 303.

Centuries, Roman, 238.

Cerinthus, the false teacher, 544.

289;

Cesar, Julius, settles the affairs of Judea, 227; contrasted with
Pompey, 272, character of, 278-282; governor of Spain, 285;
of Cisalpine and Transalpine Gaul, 286; jealous of Pompey,
288; engages in civil war, 290; robs the treasury, 293; subdues
Marseilles, 295; appointed dictator, ib. nearly drowned in an
open boat, 296; battle of Pharsalia, 297; great rejoicings at
Rome, in honour of, 303; receives four triumphal processions,
304; offered the crown, and refuses it, 306; receives a fifth
triumph, 307; honours paid to him, 308; death of, ib.
Cesar, Augustus, see Octavius.

Cesario, or Cesarea, built by Herod, 347, 361; scene of blood in
time of Felix, 458; murder of the Jews at, 500.

Cestius, governor of Syria, invades Judea, 505; retires suddenly
from Jerusalem, 507.

Charlemagne, 560.

Chederlaomer, first conqueror after Nimrod, 19.

Chief ruler in Israel, vicegerent of God, 199.

Christ, birth of, 358, 383; maketh himself known as the Messiah

at Nazareth, 387; divine nature of, 388; legitimate son of

David, 389; the Son of God, 391; impossibility of carrying on a
scheme of deception, 400; supernatural education of, 404; un-
justly condemned by Pilate, 405; evidence of resurrection, 406.
Christian societies increase under the apostles, 410; first persecution
of, by the Jews, 431; flee from Jerusalem, and spread the gos-
pel everywhere, ib.; early Christians not required to submit to
circumcision, 438; viewed as a sect of the Jews, and admitted
into the synagogues, 449; voluntary contributions of the first
Christians, 453; increase at Rome under Claudius and Nero,
471; free from persecution until the time of Nero, 472; blamed
for setting fire to Rome, and persecuted, 482, 483; flee from
Jerusalem before its destruction, 508; spread of Christianity by
the influence of the Roman dominion, 541; early corrupted
by false teachers, ib.; persecution of, 542; first heresy in the
Church, 544; converts numerous in the first century, 546; per-
secution at Antioch, 549; state of, according to Clemens
Romanus, 551, 56, 58; how spread, 553, 54.

Christianity introduced into Britain, 555; recommends itself in the
first ages to the poor, to the middle classes, and to nobility
and kings, 551; becomes the state religion under Constantine,

558.

Cinna, 273, 274.

Claudius Appius, general, 273.

Claudius, son of Germanicus, marries a daughter of Sejanus, 422;
called to the throne by the soldiery, 455; character and habits
of, 447, 448; works of, 460; death of, 462, 63.

Clemens Romanus, extract from the writings of, 552.
Clemens, imposture of, and death, 420.

Cleopatra, wife of Demetrius, puts her son Seleucus to death, and
is afterwards slain by her son Grypus, 217.

Cleopatra receives the throne of Egypt from Cesar, 299; entertained
by Herod, 343; extravagance of with Antony, 320--24; death
of, 328.

Columba, the Irish Monk, 554.

Comitio, Roman, 236, 239.

Constantine pretends to be a Christian, 557

Consuls, Roman, 237.

Corinth restored by order of Cesar, 303.

Crassus robs Jerusalem, 227; wealth of, 281; made governor of
Syria, 286, 287; defeated and killed by the Parthians.

Cushites or Ethiopians invade Judah, 31.

Cyrenius, governor of Syria, 367.

Cyrus liberates the Jews, 39; subject of prophecy, 54; his contempt

of idols, ib.; conquests of, 55.

Cyrus II. son of Darius Nothus, 76, 79; death of, 82.

D

Daniel's vision of the He-goat, 101; vision of the Fourth Beast,
132.

Daniel, Book of, explanation of vii. 6, viii. 5-8, 20-22, 125, 126;
vii. 7, 163; ix. fulfilled, 406; xi. 5, 6, 133; ver. 7-9, 141; ver.
10-12, 154; ver. 13, 17, 150 ver. 17-19, 160; ver. 20, 21,
164; objections against the book, confuted, 191.

Danube, bridge built across by Trajan, 536.

Darius Hystaspes, 58.

Darius Nothus, 69; unsettled reign of, 75; death of, 76.

Darius Codomanus, character of, 95; proceeds with great pomp to
meet Alexander, 103; defeated at Issus, in Cilicia, 104; again

at Arbela, 111; slain, 113.

Dark ages dispelled by the Reformation, 560.

Decree of the Roman Senate against rhetoricians, 152; favour of
the Jews, 350, 431, 449.

Decemvirs, Roman, 237.

Dedius Q. appointed governor of Syria, 449.

Demetrius, son of Seleucus Philopator, ascends the throne of Syria,
201; character of, 202; Alexander Bala set up against him,
204; death of, 205.

Demetrius, his son, sets up to gain the throne, 205; grants privi-
leges to the Jews, 206; imprisoned in Parthia, 211; regains
his throne after the death of Antiochus Sidetus, 215; character
of, 216; death of, 217.

Demosthenes, death of, 119.

Dictators, 237.

Disjunction of Israel under Jeroboam, a sign of the future decline
of the kingdom, 28.

Divine honours paid to Augustus and Tiberius, 435; to Agrippa

450.

Docetae, or Gnostics, 544.

Doctrines taught to the Jews by Christ, 403.

Domitian elected a Cesar, in absence of his father, 526-528; suc-
ceeds to the throne, 528; character of, 528, 529; vanity and ex-
travagance of, 530; cruelty of, 531; persecutes the Christians,
531, 32, 33; assassination of, 534.

Drusus, character and history of, 411; intrusted with the manage-
ment of the capital, 422; death of, 424.

E

Earthquake at Rhodes, 149; in Asia, destroys twelve cities, 420.
Ebion, the false teacher, 544.

Edicts in favour of the Jews, 350, 431, 449.

Edomites cast off the yoke of Judah, 32; return from the Babylon-
ish captivity, 72.

Effects of the Jews associating with the Greeks in the Persian
Wars, 77.

Egypt and Egyptians: the first great civilized nation, 14; state of,
previous to the days of Joseph, 19; wonderful monuments of,
belong to a later age than that of Moses, ib.; owe much of
their civilization and religious rites to the Jews, ib.; customs
of, forbidden to be practised by the Jews, ib. ; invade Judea, 75;
ruled by strangers, in fulfilment of prophecy, 94, 109; make
war against Julius Cesar, 299; becomes a Roman province, 329.
Eleazar, Jewish chief of banditti, 456.

Eleazar, governor of the temple, 503; appointed governor of
Idumea, 508.

Elijah, the prophet spoken of by Malachi, 383.

Epicharis, a courtezan, conspires against Nero, 487.

Epicureans, 382.

Era of the Seleucides, 123; of Ptolemy, 125.

Essenes, erroneously supposed to be the first Christians, 194.
Esther, supposed to be the wife of Artaxerxes Longimanus, 40, 60.
Esther, book of, when finished, 128.

Evagoras, king of Salamis, 85, 86.

Ezra, puts away strange wives from the Jews, 41; collates the Sa-
cred Writings, 50.

F

Fabulous nature of ancient profane history, 60.

Fadus, governor over Judea, 452.

False religion, a corruption of the true revealed religion, 11.

Famine foretold by Agabus, 452, 53.

Felix, governor of Judea, 458-9, 470.

Festus, procurator of Judea, 470.

Fidelity of the Jewish soldiers, 71, 91.
Flaccus Caius, 267.

Flaccus Valerius, 275.

Florus, governor of Judea, cruelty of, 499.

G

Gabinus attacks Jerusalem, 225-27.

Galba declared emperor, 493, 517; unpopular measures of, 518;
death of, 519.

Galatians, origin of, 138.

Galilee and the Galileans, fitted for the propagation of the Gospel,

371; attacked by the Samaritans in going to Jerusalem, 456.
Gaul, eruption of, by barbarians, 270; by the Helvetii, 286.
Gaza, prophecy regarding, fulfilled, 108.

Gedaliah made governor of Judah, 37; slain by Ishmael, 38.
Gemara, 53.

Genealogy of the Jews, only, can be traced to Adam, 9.

Genealogical table of the Jews carefully kept, 389; difference of, by
Matthew and Luke, accounted for, 390.

Germanicus, magnanimous conduct of, 414; death of, 415.

Germans, revolt under Domitian, 532.

Glabrio fights with a lion in the circus, 532.

Gnostics, or Docets, 544.

Gorgias, general of the Idumeans, 196.

Gospel, taught first to the Jews, 437; afterwards to all nations,
438.

Greece, philosophers of, 65; state of, on the accession of Alexander,
96; language universally adopted, 118; states attempt to re-
cover their independence on the decease of Alexander, 118; de-
clared free, 123; division of, after the death of Alexander, 125;
state of, after the decease of Alexander, 148; the splendour of,
renovated under Aretas, 150; declared free by the Romans,
160; language and literature encouraged by Augustus, 334,
339.

Grypus, king of Syria, puts his mother to death, 217.