Index I (scriptorum) et Index II rerum in Arnobium

FIRST INDEX

OF THE WRITERS WHO ARE CITED BY ARNOBIUS.

THE LARGER NUMBER INDICATES THE BOOK, THE SMALLER THE CHAPTER.

Aelius III, 29.

Aethlius VI, 11.

Antias (Valerius) V, 1.

Antiochus VI, 6.

Apollodorus IV, 25.

Aristotle III, 31.

Arrian II, 78.

Butas V, 18.

Caesellius I, 59.

Caesius III, 40.

Cicero (M. Tullius) III, 6, 17; IV, 38.

Cincius III, 38.

Clearchus VI, 6.

Clodius (Sextus) V, 18.

Cornificius III, 39.

Crates III, 37.

Crotonius II, 11.

Ctesias I, 52.

Diagoras of Melos IV, 29.

Ennius IV, 29.

Ephorus III, 37.

Epicadius I, 59.

Epictetus II, 78.

Euhemerus of Agrigentum IV, 29.

Euripides VII, 33.

Fabius (Pictor) VI, 7.

Flaccus V, 18.

Granius III, 31, 39; VI, 7.

Heraclitus V, 29.

Hermippus I, 52.

Hesiod III, 37.

Hippo of Melos IV, 29.

Indigitamenta of Pompilius II, 73.

Leander or Leandrius VI, 6.

Acherontic Books II, 62.

Books of Fate VII, 47.

Leo of Pella IV, 29.

Lucilius V, 18.

Lucretius III, 10.

Manilius III, 38, 39.

Memorial writings VI, 11.

Mnaseas III, 37.

Myrtilus III, 37; IV, 24.

Nicagoras or Nicanor of Cyprus IV, 29.

Nigidius III, 32, 40, 41.

Nisus I, 59.

Numenius II, 11.

Orpheus V, 19, 26.

Panyasis IV, 25.

Patrocles of Thurii IV, 25.

Philostephanus VI, 22.

Pindar of Boeotia IV, 24.

Plato I, 5, 8; II, 11, 13, 14, 24, 34, 36, 52, 64, IV, 16.

Plautus VII, 33.

Plutarch of Chaeronea IV, 25.

Polemo IV, 25.

Ptolemy son of Agesarchus VI, 6.

Sammonicus VI, 7.

Scaurus I, 59.

Sophocles of Attica IV, 25; VII, 33.

Sosibius IV, 25.

Theodorus of Cyrene IV, 29.

Timotheus the theologian V, 5.

Trebatius VII, 31.

Valerianus VI, 7.

Valerius the Pontiff V, 7.

Varro (M. Terentius) III, 38, 40, IV, 3, V, 8; VI, 3, 6, 11, 23.

Verrius I, 59.

Zeno of Myndus VI, 6.

INDEX II

OF MATTERS.

A

Disagreement of the Academics II, 11.

Acantho IV, 14.

Fabulous origin of Acdestis V, 5.

Acdestis, despiser of gods and men, ibid. and V, 11; strikes terror into the gods V, 5.

Loves Atys V, 6; strips himself of his manhood V, 7; his death ibid.

Acheron, a river II, 14.

Approaches of Acherusia V, 28.

The Scythians worship a scimitar as a god VI, 11.

Acrisius was committed to the earth in the citadel of Larissa VI, 6.

Actaeon, the horn-bearing hunter III, 34.

Adonis VII, 33.

Adoration of princes III, 3.

Why the coming of Christ at the end of the ages? II, 75.

Adulteries capital offences IV, 23.

Aeacus VI, 3.

The Egyptians IV, 13; superstitious III, 15; forbade by law that anyone should make public in what place Apis lay hidden VI, 6. Corrupted air the cause of diseases I, 8.

Aeneas II, 61.

Nativity of Aesculapius I, 36. A holy god VII, 41; crept along the ground as a serpent ibid. Discoverer of herbs I, 36. Son of Coronis VII, 41; physician I, 41, VII, 22; guardian and protector of health I, 41, 49, VII, 41; struck by lightning ibid. and IV, 24.

Vintage of Aesculapius VII, 32.

Aesculapius with a staff VI, 25. Brought from Epidaurus to Rome VII, 41.

Three Aesculapii IV, 15.

Aethusa IV, 26.

Mount Agdus V, 5, 9.

Aius Locutius I, 28.

The Alban state VII, 26.

The Alban Mount II, 68.

Alcides VII, 33.

Alcmena II, 70. IV, 22. V, 22.

The Alemanni I, 16.

Mysteries of Alimus V, 28.

Allegories concerning the gods IV, 33. V, 32 et seq.

Alexander the Great subjugated the kingdoms and peoples of the East I, 5.

Alope IV, 26.

High altars, what they are VII, 15

The channels of the Numicus I, 36.

Shameless lovers of images VI, 22.

Amphitheatres, places of blood and baseness II, 41.

Amphitrite IV, 26.

Amphitryo VII, 33.

Amymone IV, 26.

Names of angels employed in magical incantations I, 43.

The soul, what it is I, 38; a precious thing I, 53; of an intermediate quality II, 14, 35; incorporeal II, 25; immortal II, 28, 30.

Origin of souls uncertain and obscure II, 35, 36; all flow from one fountain II, 15; from living mixing-bowls II, 25; created by the lesser gods according to Plato II, 52; they are not daughters of the supreme King II, 36; shut up in earthly bodies II, 28; their wretched condition in them II, 45, et seqq.; they are prone to slip into vices ibid.; evil ones are punished and undergo torments in the underworld II, 14; they pass into beasts II, 16.

Intermediate nature of souls II, 30, seqq.

Breath of the winds I, 2.

The soul corporeal and mortal according to the tenets of Plato II, 26.

The mind a god to the heathens II, 7; sick in the sick, dull in infants, worn out in old age ibid.

Living creatures have very many things in common with men II, 16, VII, 9 et seq.; their cleverness II, 17, et seq.

Laws fixing the age for offices II, 67.

The year a fixed boundary of time III, 29.

The Capitoline geese VI, 20; drive away thieves from the Capitol by their cackling ibid.

Crafty sacrilege of Antiochus of Cyzicus VI, 21.

Antiquity, a mother most full of errors I, 57.

Ancient rites often changed II, 67 seqq.

The ancients used the skin of wild beasts for clothing II, 66.

Antithei [counter-gods] IV, 12.

Anubis, a dog-headed god VI, 25.

Apis I, 36.

Apollo I, 26; enriched, he deceived men by the ambiguity of his response IV, 24; is despoiled by pirates VI, 23.

Apollo of Claros I, 26. Delian ibid. and III, 6. Serves Admetus IV, 25. Didymaean I, 26. Latonian IV, 25. Philesian I, 26. Pythian I, 26, III, 23, 33, IV, 17. Sminthian III, 33; divine VI, 23; musician VII, 22; not always worshipped at Rome II, 73.

Apollo, Liber, and the Sun one deity III, 33.

Teams of four bearing the name of Apollo IV, 15.

Apollonius the magician I, 52.

Water the origin of all things according to Thales II, 10.

Aquilius I, 40.

Altars, what they are VII, 15.

The Arabs worship a stone as God VI, 11.

Freedom of the will II, 64.

What the secret of God is, is not to be inquired into II, 61.

Arcesilaus and Carneades the Academics say that man knows nothing II, 9.

Archytas II, 9.

Argiphontes VI, 25.

Age of Arnobius I, 13; his discourse to the nations I, 29 seqq., VI, 14 et seq.; apostrophe to God I, 31; ignorance II, 46; adored stones while still established in paganism I, 39.

The bow-bearing Delian IV, 22.

Bow-bearing Diana and Apollo I, 36.

Arsinoe IV, 26.

The arts, inventions of most impoverished necessity II, 18; not born with us ibid. et seqq.

Symphonic and pipe-playing arts II, 42.

Craftsmen play and wanton in fashioning the gods VI, 13.

The Assyrians I, 5.

The stars and elements are not gods III, 35.

The Phrygians call he-goats atagi V, 6.

The charge of atheism turned back upon the heathens I, 2.

Athens VI, 6; flourishing in the arts and studies of humanity V, 24.

The Athenians sprung from Erichtheus V, 26.

Athenian citizens called Minervian V, 26.

Atlas, the prop and pillar of heaven II, 69.

The Atlantean offspring (Mercury) III, 21.

The Atlantic island of Neptune I, 5.

King Attalus sent a stone from Phrygia to Rome, which was received as the Great Mother VII, 46.

The Attic race V, 24 seq.

Atys, how he is the sun V, 42; fable concerning him V, 7; his nativity ibid. et seqq.

Handsome Atys IV, 29, V, 6, 13; the sun ibid. et seq.; castrated I, 41; loved by the Mother of the Gods V, 6; cuts off his own virile parts V, 7 seq., 39.

The smallest of the fingers of Atys moves after his death V, 7, 14; his hair grows V, 6, 14.

Who is a good author II, 53.

How hearing takes place III, 18,

The Aventine Mount V, 1.

Birds befoul the images of the gods VI, 16.

The gods are not appeased by gold VI, 3.

Golden apples taken from the Hesperides V, 20.

Taking auspices from spear-points II, 67.

A good helper never demands to be entreated VII, 47.

B.

The monstrous Bacchanalian rites V, 19.

Bacchus and Apollo the same as the sun III, 33.

Bacis the seer I, 62.

The Bactrians I, 5.

Baebulus the magician I, 52.

Barbarian nations also received Christ II, 12.

Baubo V, 25. Receives Ceres with hospitality and cheers her by baring her privy parts ibid.

Ancient wars I, 5.

Bellona I, 28. Goddess of wars III, 26.

A benefit is not to be thrust upon one who is unwilling II, 64.

Divine benefits are gratuitous III, 28.

Berecynthia V, 10.

To be laid away in the secret recesses of libraries I, 64.

Bona Dea, who is also Fauna Fatua I, 36.

Brimo V, 20.

Bromius the same as Liber IV, 22,

Brunda II, 12.

Brute animals consecrated among the gods I, 28; not devoid of reason II, 17, 18; have a speech of their own VII, 9; their docility II, 25.

Bucores the Moor I, 36.

C.

Calamities have been wanting to no ages I, 3 seqq.

The camel lowers itself when it takes on burdens II, 25.

The Canary Islands VI, 5.

Weary dogs thrust out their tongue from their wide-open mouth VI, 9.

The Capitoline dogs VI, 20.

The battle of Cannae V, 38.

A he-goat is sacrificed to Liber VII, 21.

The Capitol named from the head of Olus VI, 7.

Citizens rated by the head alone II, 29.

Conflagration of the Capitol VI, 23, VII, 37.

The Carians sacrifice dogs to Mars IV, 25.

To compose an evil song to the infamy of anyone is forbidden by the Roman laws IV, 34.

The Castors, gods I, 36, II, 70; three kinds of them IV, 15.

The Epicureans used to ascribe all things to fortuitous chances I, 31.

The fast from bread of Ceres V, 16.

Catamitus [Ganymede] IV, 26; is carried off ibid.

Cato III, 17.

The Cecropians V, 25.

Cecrops buried at Athens in the temple of Minerva VI, 6.

Cerberus V, 28

Ceres born within the borders of Trinacria I, 36; discoverer of grain I, 38, II, 65; large-breasted III, 10, VI, 25. Desperately loves Jasion IV, 27; her sacred rites II, 73; couch-spreading VII, 32.

The Chaldaeans IV, 13; their arcane disciplines I, 5.

Christians are worshippers of the supreme God I, 27; do not repay evil with evil I, 6; worship Christ I, 39, II, 34; accused of a new religion I, 25, II, 66, 67, 71; banished from their ancestral homes, burned, exposed to wild beasts and the tearings of monsters I, 26, III, 36; called dull, stupid, and foolish by the pagans I, 28, II, 5, 13, 34, III, 15; ill-omened and atheists I, 29, 37, III, 28; subject to very many miseries II, 77; prefer the friendship of Christ to all things II, 5; mocked on account of their credulity II, 8; mocked because they believed in the resurrection and certain unquenchable fires II, 13; why they chose Christ above all to follow II, 11; what wonders they accomplished in the world I, 50; neglected elegance of speech I, 59.

To the Christians were imputed all the evils that mangled wretched mortality I, 2, 3, 4, 5; the worship of a crucified man cast in their teeth I, 36, 40; imputed to them as a reproach that they had neither temples nor images VI, 1; nothing has been promised for this life II, 76; prison and persecution are play II, 77.

Nothing new has happened in the world on account of the religion of the Christians I, 2, 3, et seq.; their credulity is harmful to no one II, 36; their meeting-places IV, 36; their writings beset with barbarisms and solecisms I, 59; burned by the pagans IV, 36.

Unless one is a Christian, he cannot have hope of salvation II, 65.

Christ is true God I, 42, 53; why He put on flesh I, 60; why He was sent forth so late II, 74; gentle and peaceful I, 63 seq.; guilty of no crime I, 64; accounted the injuries of men against Himself as childish follies ibid. Destroyer of death I, 45; is not the author of impiety II, 3, 4; sole high priest of souls II, 65; calls all men II, 64; led mortals from errors and byways into the straight way I, 38; showed what God is I, 48; what benefits He bestowed upon men ibid.; wrought all the miracles that He wrought by the power of His name ibid.; works nothing harmful ibid.; sent to earth as a Saviour I, 53; healed the sick by a word I, 46; knew the thoughts of men ibid.; presented Himself to be seen by men ibid.; overcame the decrees of the fates ibid.; came to the aid of all I, 49; chose fishermen and unlearned men to preach, to whom He granted to work the same miracles that He Himself wrought I, 50; called a magician ibid.; nothing magical lurked in Him I, 53; giver of eternal life II, 64; suffered willingly I, 62; impassible according to His divinity ibid.; why He underwent death ibid. The knowledge of Christ is the leaven of life II, 32; His power I, 42, II, 11; His name puts demons to flight and imposes silence on seers I, 46.

At the birth of Christ wars and the causes of discords were taken away I, 6. At the passion of Christ the elements of the world were thrown into confusion I, 53.

Chrysippus IV, 26.

Chrysis, priestess of Juno VI, 23.

Cicero, most eloquent of the Romans III, 6; thought and spoke basely concerning the gods ibid.

The Cincian law on gifts II, 67.

The goddess Cinxia III, 25, 30, VI, 11.

Cinyras, king of Cyprus IV, 24. Instituted the mysteries of Venus V, 19.

Circe, daughter of the Sun IV, 14.

The Circensian games instituted in honour of Jupiter VII, 36.

Religious observance of the Circensian games ibid. et seq. President of the Circensian games ibid.

The seven laps of the Circus VII, 38.

The river Cocytus II, 14.

Places struck by lightning are expiated by an onion V, 1.

A dove let go flies back to its master's abode II, 25.

The Consentian and associate gods III, 40.

The copulating gods and their baseness V, 18.

Custom is turned into nature II, 21.

The god Consus suggests counsels III, 23.

By zeal for contention the contemplation of the matter is obscured I, 1.

The chaste meeting-places of the Christians IV, 36; demolished ibid.

The maid of Corniculum V, 18.

Crowns in sacred rites VII, 32.

Crowns given to mimes IV, 36.

Bodies of the dead anointed V, 14.

The raven utters human words II, 25.

The Corybantian rites V, 19.

Coryphasian Minerva IV, 16.

The Platonic mixing-bowl II, 52.

One ought rather to believe that which brings some hope than that which brings none II, 4.

Empty credulity VI, 16.

Punishment of the cross infamous I, 36.

The cross a slavish penalty VII, 36.

Worship of the true God is in the heart IV, 30.

When serious matters are at stake, one must look to what is said, not with what charm it is said I, 59.

Teams of three Cupids IV, 15.

The Curetes III, 43. Save Jupiter from destruction IV, 24.

The Curiones Maximi IV, 35.

Cyceon [the sacred draught] V, 26.

Cyllenius [Mercury] III, 31.

Cymbals in sacred rites VII, 33.

Cytherean Venus IV, 24; her images VI, 13.

D.

Demons I, 23; of intermediate quality II, 35; are put to flight by the name of Christ I, 46; are falsifiers of the truth I, 56.

Daira VI, 6.

Damigero the magician I, 52.

Danae V, 32, VII, 33.

Daphne IV, 26.

Dardanus the magician I, 52.

Dardanus, founder of the Phrygian Mother II, 73.

Gentle goddesses VI, 22; pregnant and big with child III, 10; travail and give birth III, 20.

Teeth of a threefold kind III, 13.

Deucalion and Pyrrha V, 5.

God, Prince and Lord of all things I, 25, 33, II, 2, 36, III, 2; lacks bodily lineaments III, 12; is not male, though His name is masculine III, 8; before all ages I, 28, 31, II, 72; to Him we owe it that we breathe and live I, 29; His epithets I, 31, II, 72; He is incorporeal I, 31; devoid of quantity and quality I, 31; without position, motion, and habit ibid.; supreme II, 47, 72; ineffable, unseen, unbegotten I, 31; one II, 35; just ibid.; can do all things ibid.; the salvation of things II, 46; Creator of all things I, 31, II, 43, III, 2; made all things perfectly II, 45; establisher of all causes ibid.; whether He created souls ibid.; did not create tiny beasts II, 47; He alone is to be adored III, 2; by His goodness what is rightly bound is preserved II, 56; He is indifferently kind to all III, 2; is the cause of miseries to no one II, 74; is not the author of evil II, 54, 55; to no one His kind-

ness does He deny I, 49; why He does not take away evils II, 54; by His will all things in the world come to pass that do come to pass II, 54; whether anything can come to pass without His will ibid.; He is not expressed by mortal speech III, 19; our salvation is not necessary to Him II, 54.

Ignorance of the true God is the cause of all evils VII, 35. The affairs of God are carried out by fixed reasons II, 74.

All men naturally know God II, 2; VII, 34; many deny Him II, 56. No one doubts that God exists I, 33. To know God is the highest blessedness II, 61.

Ridiculous forms of the gods VI, 25.

Right and left hand of the world IV, 5.

The Samothracian Dactyls III, 41, 43.

Gods made of corruptible matter according to Plato II, 36; mortal and dissoluble VI, 2; particular ones have particular powers II, 65; true gods do not desire sacrifices VII, 1; tutelary III, 24; presidents over the arts III, 23; native I, 30, II, 69 seq.; innumerable III, 5; those who were made from men III, 39; of both sexes III, 6, VII, 49; have birthdays VII, 35; their wretched condition V, 16; are seized by diseases III, 21; are made of the vilest matter VI, 15; of stones VI, 13; dwell in images VI, 18; shut up in temples ibid.; true gods free from passions VI, 2, VII, 4; accuse the cruel fates IV, 33; do not know impending things III, 21; do no good unless they receive frankincense and salted meal III, 24; VII, 50. True gods are not angry I, 23; IV, 37; VII, 8. They are angry and hostile towards Christians I, 25, 26, 28; dine and drink in the palaces of heaven IV, 33; go to the Ethiopians to dine VI, 4; are treated to sumptuous banquets VII, 25; feel thirst VII, 29; suffer from aversions of the stomach VII, 25; crowns and garlands given to them VII, 32; delight in mimes VII, 33; fall asleep VII, 32; wage war among themselves IV, 33; hold their favour for sale VII, 12; sell their injuries VII, 8; make accusations and clear away charges III, 21; cannot defend themselves I, 20; have betrothed brides and wives IV, 20; indulge in base things VII, 33; their shameful couplings with men and women IV, 33; are lovers of boys IV, 27; their diverse offices III, 21; engage in husbandry ibid.; serve men in slavery IV, 25; wash away filth with water VII, 32.

Unknown gods II, 73; propitious [or left-hand] IV, 5; VII, 23. Great gods I, 17. Lesser gods II, 3. Consentian and associate gods, counsellors of Jupiter III, 40; gods of gain IV, 9; copulating gods V, 18; Syrian gods I, 36.

Diana, Ceres, Luna, heads of one deity III, 34. Diana with half-covered thighs VI, 25; dweller in the woods IV, 22; huntress V, 34; her shrine VI, 6. Three Dianas IV, 15.

Diespiter II, 70; V, 3. Debauches his mother Ceres V, 20.

The flood I, 4; cleansing of the earth I, 8; distant by two thousand years from the consulship of Hirtius and Pansa V, 9.

The plains of Diomedes IV, 4.

Dione III, 19.

Five Dionysuses IV, 15.

Dionysius the Younger, mocker of images VI, 21. Strips Aesculapius of a very ample golden beard ibid.

The Dioscuri IV, 22.

Christian discipline I, 6.

The goddesses of Discord III, 26.

Sacrifice formerly made with human heads to Father Dis II, 68.

Dodonaean Jupiter VI, 23.

Dysaules, keeper of she-goats V, 25.

E.

The nymph Egeria V, 1.

Four elements of things I, 8.

The fifth element of Aristotle II, 10.

The enclosure of Eleusinian Ceres VI, 6.

The Eleusinian borders V, 25.

Endymion loved by the Moon IV, 27.

Epicurus asserts that the gods care for nothing II, 9.

Epidaurus VII, 41.

The Epidaurian helper III, 21.

Banquets of the gods VII, 32.

The Erichthidae V, 26.

Error of those who place their salvation in themselves II, 33.

Eating of animals from unhappy necessity VII, 4.

Etruria II, 62; mother of superstitions VII, 26.

Eubuleus V, 25.

Euhius the same as Liber V, 28.

Eumolpus the shepherd V, 25.

Race of the Eumolpidae V, 25.

Eunuchs of wanton lust V, 11.

Europa VII, 33; debauched by Jupiter V, 22.

Taking auspices from spear-points II, 67.

Morning awakenings in honour of the gods VII, 32.

F.

Fables do not always admit of allegory V, 42.

Fables of Jupiter and Numa V, 1, 2.

Fabius, the darling boy of Jupiter IV, 26.

One easily proceeds to faults where pardon is for sale VII, 8.

Shrines of the gods often shattered by earthquakes VI, 23.

Vain fanatics I, 24.

The fates immutable VII, 11.

All things come to pass by fate VII, 11.

Fate more powerful than the gods VII, 11.

The goddess Fatua I, 28. Wife of Faunus called Bona Dea I, 36; V, 18; beaten with rods on account of drinking unmixed wine ibid.

The god Faunus I, 28; V, 1.

The goddess Februtis III, 30.

Faith precedes all things II, 8.

The Flamen Dialis I, 51; IV, 35; VII, 40.

Flora the harlot takes care that the fields blossom III, 23.

The shameful Floralian games VII, 33.

Fluonia III, 30.

The condition of frailty exempts women from public business VII, 39.

Usury forbidden II, 40.

The god Fontus III, 29.

The fountain of life lies open to all II, 64.

Fortuna Virginalis II, 67; with horn, apples, figs, and autumn fruits VI, 25.

Variety of alternating fortune III, 23.

When grain was discovered, acorns were spurned II, 66.

The Caudine Forks IV, 4.

The Furies, goddesses III, 26.

No certain proof of future things can exist II, 4.

G.

Gabinius, Roman consul II, 73.

Gallus V, 24.

The Galli, priests of the Mother of the Gods I, 41; V, 16 seq.; emasculated and effeminate ibid.; beat their breast after the manner of mourners ibid.

Ganymede VII, 33; carried off V, 44.

The swarthy Garamantes VI, 5.

Astrological calculation of nativities II, 69.

The Jovial Genius III, 43.

Genii of cities I, 28. Genius of the place ibid. Genii of husbands invoked in marriages II, 67.

The nations fiercely defend their inveterate and ancestral religion I, 1.

Calumnies of the Gentiles against the Christians I, 1, 25, 34.

Germanus V, 24.

Incursions of the Germans I, 4

The Gaetulians I, 16.

The ancients used to eat acorns I, 21

The use of acorns spurned when grain was discovered II, 66.

Cnidian Venus VI, 13, 22.

Cratina the harlot modelled as Venus by Praxiteles VI, 13.

The Grundules Lares I, 28.

H.

The god Hammon is fashioned with ram's horns VI, 12.

Hannibal afflicts the Romans II, 73.

Soothsayers, brothers of the magicians IV, 12.

Hecate II, 71.

Helen carried off at the instigation of the gods I, 5.

Helenus the seer I, 62.

Heraclitus established fire as the beginning of all things II, 10.

Hercules I, 36; IV, 22; begotten by an intercourse of nine nights IV, 26. Oetaean IV, 25; three times two IV, 15. Theban I, 36; IV, 22. Tyrian buried in Spain ibid.; holy IV, 26; great I, 41; tamer of water-snakes and thieves I, 38; serves on account of a base love IV, 25; deflowered the fifty daughters of Thestius in a single night IV, 26; burned alive I, 41; burned up on the summits of Oeta IV, 25.

Heroes I, 23.

Hermae of the Athenians fashioned after the likeness of the body of Alcibiades VI, 13.

Golden apples of the Hesperides V, 21.

The children of Hippocoon wound Hercules IV, 25.

Hippothoe IV, 26.

Hirtius the consul V, 8.

History is the written account of things done V, 38.

History concerning the appeasing of the gods VII, 37.

Man, what he is II, 7, 14; a rational animal II, 16, 17; VI, 16; quite similar to the rest of the animals II, 16; a brute race I, 24; II, 19; VII, 9; a wretched animal II, 39; an unhappy thing VII, 11; a lesser world II, 25; the world was not created for his sake II, 37; has many things in common with brutes II, 16; his longest span of life II, 71.

Men prone to faults and sins I, 26; live badly II, 17; shake all things by an excessive zeal for contradiction II, 56; sprung from the stones which Deucalion and Pyrrha threw V, 5, 10; those of old were of wondrous size II, 75; half-wild VII, 4; enrolled among the gods on account of benefits I, 36.

Labour of men II, 39, 40, 41; malice and wickedness II, 42; their wickedness fashioned iron into the sword ibid.; many superfluous kinds of them VII, 33.

Honour and Virtue as gods IV, 1.

Different victims of different gods VII, 18; white for the gods above, dark-tawny for the gods below VII, 18, 19.

Hyacinthus IV, 26.

Hylas IV, 26.

Hyperion IV, 14, 22.

Hyperocha VI, 6.

Hypsipyle IV, 26.

I.

Iacchus III, 10.

Ialysus IV, 14.

Father Janus called the sun, the world, the year III, 29. Begotten by Coelus and Hecate ibid.; with a two-faced brow VI, 25. Founder of the town of Janiculum I, 36;

III, 29; reigned first in Italy ibid.; his toothed key VI, 25.

The Icarians venerate an unhewn log as Diana VI, 12.

The Idaean Dactyls III, 41.

Fire the beginning of all things according to the testimony of Heraclitus II, 9.

The perpetual fire of Vesta II, 67.

Many things can be unknown without blame II, 51.

The Trojan war V, 38.

In heaven there is singing and playing on the harp III, 21.

Immortality is from God alone I, 28.

Tomb of Immarus VI, 6.

The Indians IV, 13.

The Indigetes gods I, 36, 64.

Divine indignation VI, 1.

To brand anyone with infamy forbidden by law IV, 34.

Credulous infants V, 14.

What has been done can by no means be undone V, 39.

Honoured with sacrificial wine IV, 16; VII, 31.

Initia the same as mysteries V, 39. Of Venus V, 19.

Established formulas of actions for injuries V, 15.

It is unjust to blame in another what you do yourself I, 58.

No innocent man put to death is infamous I, 40.

The name of innocence has almost perished on earth VI, 24.

Insensible images VI, 15.

The Canary Islands VI, 5.

Salvation is not given to one who is unwilling II, 64, 65.

Inuus, guardian of herds III, 23.

Io or Ia turned into a violet V, 7, 16.

Iphigenia V, 34.

To be angry is nothing else than to be mad I, 17.

Rewards are instituted for mockers of the deities IV, 36.

Swarthy Isis mourns her lost son I, 36; her worship II, 73; VI, 29.

Ithyphalli V, 39; their foul erection in honour of Liber V, 28 seq.

Jewish fables III, 12.

Julianus the magician I, 52.

Juno II, 70; the air III, 30; most beautiful IV, 22; queen of the deities ibid.; wounded by Hercules IV, 25. Juno Lucina is invoked by women in childbirth III, 9, 21, 23.

Jupiter Optimus Maximus I, 34; had a father and a mother ibid.; born and buried in the island of Crete IV, 14; first of the gods VII, 38. Delights in the Circensian games ibid.; father of gods and men IV, 21; V, 20. The sun and ether III, 30; with his brow makes all heaven tremble and shake IV, 21; drove his father from the kingdom IV, 24. Olympian VI, 16. Dodonaean I, 26. Capitoline I, 51; VI, 16; supreme II, 70. Stygian II, 70; III, 31; wether-like V, 22; wearing a mantle and bearded VI, 25; holds in his right hand a piece of wood hewn in the manner of a thunderbolt ibid.; hurler of the thunderbolt IV, 22; terrifies pale nations with its crash V, 33; overwhelms the Titans with the thunderbolt III, 71. Lunches on the offspring of Lycaon in place of swine's entrails IV, 24; avenged upon the city games not duly cared for by the burning of a pestilence VII, 39, 40; sink of all filthiness V, 22; becomes a swan, bull, dragon, little ant IV, 23, 26; V, 20; plays the part of adulterers IV, 35; inflicts debauchery upon his own mother V, 9; violates his sister IV, 22; lies with his own daughter V, 31. Debauches the daughter of Clitor IV, 26; keeps awake through nine nights while he is with Alcmena IV, 26; castrates a ram V, 21; caught, he confesses his faults IV, 34; is deceived by Numa V, 1, 2; asked that Atys might come back to life, he cannot do it on account of fate V, 7; is neither God nor prince of the gods I, 34. Banquet of Jupiter VII, 29, 32; metamorphosis IV, 26; V, 44. Three Jupiters IV, 14.

Juturna, wife of Janus III, 29.

L.

Laodamia V, 22.

Laodice VI, 6.

A stone drove Hannibal out of Italy VII, 47.

A black stone brought from Phrygia to Rome and worshipped as the Great Mother VII, 46.

A lubricated stone held as a god I, 39.

The Lares, gods of streets and roads III, 41.

The citadel of Larissa VI, 6.

Larvae [spectres] III, 41.

Lateranus, god of hearths IV, 6.

Latinus II, 71.

Latona II, 70; IV, 22; V, 22.

The Latonian seer (Apollo) III, 21.

The washing of the Mother of the Gods VII, 32.

Laverna, goddess of thieves III, 26.

Laurae, streets among the Greeks III, 41.

Couch-spreading of Ceres VII, 32.

Leda II, 70; IV, 22; V, 22; VII, 33.

Lions among the gods VI, 10.

Leucophryne VI, 6.

The Annarian, Cincian, and Censorian laws II, 67.

The goddess Libentina IV, 9.

Liber, Apollo, the Sun one deity III, 33. Father Liber I, 36; fashioned with soft limbs VI, 12; discovered the use of wine I, 24; II, 65; bore a drinking tankard in his right hand VI, 25; made a phallus out of a fig-tree V, 28; subduer of the ferocity of Acdestis V, 6, 11; desires to know the underworld V, 28; was torn limb from limb by the Titans I, 41.

Liber Eleutherius VI, 23; story of him and Prosymnus V, 28 seq.

The god Liburnus IV, 9.

The goddess Lima IV, 9.

The Limi gods, overseers of obliquities IV, 9.

Limentinus, god of thresholds I, 28; IV, 9, 11.

Locusts gnaw the crops I, 4, 16.

The god Locutius I, 28.

Most sacred groves VII, 9.

Gods of gain IV, 9.

Mockery of the goddesses IV, 16.

The Megalensian games VII, 33.

The Moon a goddess I, 29; fell in love with Endymion IV, 27; is female to the pagans VI, 9; renews herself I, 2; VI, 9.

The goddess Luperca IV, 3.

The wolf lies in wait for sheepfolds I, 11.

The Lycaonian offspring IV, 24.

Lydia V, 6.

Lynceus IV, 25.

M.

Macarus, father of the Muses IV, 24.

Macedonia I, 5.

What mactus vino inferio [honoured with sacrificial wine] is VII, 31.

Magistrates formerly wont to be created by the people II, 67.

The Great Mother summoned from Phrygia VII, 46; later than the flood and Deucalion V, 8; born from the stones which Deucalion and Pyrrha threw ibid.; when she began to be worshipped at Rome II, 73; is fashioned with a turreted head V, 7, 16; is danced with fillets IV, 35.

Magnesia VI, 6.

Magicians, brothers of the soothsayers IV, 12. Use many ceremonies in incantations I, 43; ministers of lusts ibid.; their power in uttering oracles ibid.; can do nothing by their own power ibid.; mutter in incantations I, 52; their commendatory prayers II, 62.

Famous magicians I, 52.

Magical incantations I, 43.

Tricks of magical arts I, 43.

Charge of magic cast against Christ I, 43.

Maia II, 70; mother of Mercury I, 36.

Those who speak ill of kings are judged guilty of treason IV, 34.

Evils, whence they are I, 8; II, 55.

Evils from the four elements II, 55.

Evils in the world diminished after the coming of Christ I, 6.

The disordered mind of the insane V, 20.

Bad and good men have existed at every time II, 12.

The goddess Mania, mother of the Lares III, 41.

King of the Manes V, 24.

Hands the ministers of works III, 13.

The Marpesian rock I, 24.

Marpessa IV, 26.

Mars begotten within the borders of Thrace IV, 25; has the power of war III, 26; sticks fast entangled in snares IV, 24. Spartan ibid.; dogs and asses are sacrificed to him ibid.

The Marsi II, 32.

The Marsyas of Pomponius II, 6.

The seer Martius I, 42.

Martius Picus V, 1.

The Great Mother VII, 33; her origin V, 5; is painted with a timbrel VI, 25; turreted V, 16.

Sought-out terms of marriage IV, 20; rites among the Romans II, 67; consists in cohabitation, spelt-cake, and mutual purchase V, 20. Marriages in common I, 64.

Morning songs of the ancients in honour of the gods VII, 32.

Mavors VI, 12.

The greatest inhabitants of heaven I, 26.

The Medes II, 12.

To avert harmful things by remedies I, 48.

The Muses, little handmaids of Megalcon III, 24.

The Megalensian games VII, 33.

The river Mela IV, 25.

The goddess Mellona or Mellonia IV, 7, 8, 11.

Memorial writings VI, 11.

Memory, wife of Jupiter III, 37.

Menalippe IV, 26.

A table profane without a salt-cellar II, 67.

Minerva, daughter of Mind III, 31, 37.

Mercury called Cyllenian III, 32; son of Maia VI, 12; eloquent of speech IV, 22; beardless VI, 12; wearing a broad-brimmed hat ibid.; bearer of snakes IV, 22; as it were a sort of go-between [medicurrius] III, 32; is not a god ibid.; is a thief IV, 24;changer of market wares and commerce III, 32; presides over boxing and wrestling matches III, 23.

Five Mercuries IV, 14.

Merops, inventor of temples VI, 3.

Unmixed wine the companion of frankincense VII, 29.

Buffoonery of mimes IV, 35.

Minerva born from the brain of Jupiter II, 70; III, 31; IV, 16; discoverer of the olive I, 38; as it were a sort of Meminerva III, 31; memory ibid. The Moon ibid. Coryphasian slew her father IV, 14; practised weaving III, 21. Called Pallas IV, 16; armed ibid.; the same as the Moon III, 31; minister of light IV, 23; a virgin heifer is slaughtered to her VII, 22.

Five Minervas IV, 16; contest among them concerning the dignity of the name ibid.

The temple of Minerva VI, 6.

Minervian citizens sprung from Erichtheus VI, 26.

Midas, king of Pessinus V, 7, 13.

Midas destines his daughter in marriage to Attis V, 7; founder of the Mother of the Gods II, 73.

Images of the gods smeared with vermilion VI, 10.

Salted meal VII, 12.

Montinus, god of mountains IV, 9.

True death II, 14; what it is ibid.; one is of dissolution, another of damnation ibid.; ends all things I, 18; that of an innocent man is not infamous I, 40; to supplicate for the dead IV, 36.

The blind nature of mortals II, 60.

The remedy for the death of the soul is from God alone II, 53.

The axis of the world V, 23; mass I, 2; whirling rotation I, 2.

The world one wise animal III, 35; a dwelling in which every wickedness is daily perpetrated II, 43; made of atoms according to Epicurus I, 31; corruptible II, 36; whether it was born II, 56; whether immortal ibid.; will perish by fire II, 9; has neither right nor left parts IV, 5; is not a god III, 35; diverse opinions of philosophers concerning the world II, 9, 36, 56.

Damages caused by mice and locusts I, 3.

Murtia, goddess of the slothful IV, 9.

The Muses, nine pretty sisters III, 21; daughters of Earth and Heaven III, 37; virgins according to some, mothers according to others ibid.; little handmaids of Megalcon IV, 24; fashioned with harps and flutes VI, 25.

Three kinds of Muses IV, 15; their number variously stated III, 37.

Music used to be employed in sacred rites VII, 32.

The god Mutunus IV, 11.

Myrmidon, whence born IV, 26.

Foul mysteries of the pagans V, 20.

N.

The goddess Naenia IV, 7.

Nana, daughter of King Sangarius V, 6; becomes pregnant from a pomegranate V, 12.

Functions of the nostrils III, 13.

Our nature is of no strength II, 30.

One eager for sailing complains that there are no winds I, 9.

The Nebridae V, 39.

A great wickedness among mortals for one to be punished in place of another VII, 40.

Neith IV, 16.

Nemestrinus, god of groves IV, 7.

Neptune, brother of Stygian Jupiter III, 31; lord of sea-monsters and sprats ibid.; armed with a trident ibid.; his mistresses IV, 26.

The Nereids love Aeacus IV, 27.

Nothing promised to us for this life II, 76.

Ninus I, 5.

Snow II, 59.

The god Nodutis IV, 7, 11.

Names subsequent to things I, 3.

Nouns of doubtful gender I, 59; names of gods of the singular number only IV, 3.

The Novensiles gods III, 39.

Numa Pompilius II, 12; an artificer in devising religions II, 67. Deceived Jupiter V, 1, 2.

Numbers the cause of things according to Pythagoras II, 10.

Holy and fervent deities vomit forth force, of Lucilius V, 18; ridiculous deities of the Gentiles VI, 11.

The river Numicus I, 26.

Nysian Liber V, 28.

O.

Ocrisia V, 18.

Oil refuses immersion IV, 7.

Story of Olus of Vulci VI, 7; his tomb ibid.

Mortals eagerly seek wealth II, 1.

Opinion makes religion VII, 51.

Ops, mother of Jupiter

One who prays ought to know to whom he supplicates III, 43.

By elegance of speech the unlearned are easily led into error I, 58, 59. In divine matters we ought not to require it ibid.; it befits the forum ibid.

To pray for the dead IV, 36.

The goddess Orbona IV, 7.

Debauchery of the mouth II, 42.

Ornythus IV, 25.

Orpheus the Thracian seer V, 19.

Verses of Orpheus V, 26.

The goddess Ossilago IV, 7.

Ossipagina III, 30.

P.

Bargains and formulas of adorations IV, 28.

Pagans, defenders, guardians, worshippers of base gods V, 20; defile their gods with foul opinions III, 6, 10; V, 29, 30, 31; venerate the gods through images VI, 8, 9; invoke gods and goddesses in their prayers III, 8; are disparagers of divine works I, 25, 26; their hatreds against Christ I, 44, 45; it would have been better for them to have been dumb than that they fabricated base things concerning the gods V, 40. Insulted Christians II, 77; teach wickedness V, 30; expose their children to death II, 75; think it better not to be vanquished than to believe the acknowledged truth VI, 11; use elegant and well-arranged speech II, 6.

The god Pales III, 40; presides over flocks of sheep III, 23.

The Palladium framed out of the remains of Pelops IV, 25.

Minerva called Pallas IV, 16.

Pamphilus the magician I, 52.

The goddess Panda or Pantica IV, 3.

Pansa the consul V, 8.

Handsome Pantarces, the darling boy of Phidias VI, 13.

Corruption follows passion I, 18; II, 14, 27.

The goddess Patella IV, 7.

The goddess Patellana IV, 7.

The Pausii gods I, 28.

He who suffers sinners to sin supplies strength to audacity IV, 32.

Beasts in many things are more innocent than men themselves VII, 9.

The goddess Pecunia IV, 9.

Jovial allurement V, 29.

The goddess Pellonia IV, 4.

The Penates gods III, 40.

Pious souls of the dead, before Christ came into the world, set free through Christ II, 43.

The goddess Persica IV, 7, 11.

The Persians I, 16; II, 12; IV, 13.

The Persians worship rivers VI, 11.

Persecution does not bring penalty upon Christians II, 77.

The goddess Pertunda IV, 7, 11.

Pessinuntian Dindymene IV, 35.

The people of Pessinus worship a flint-stone as the Mother of the Gods VI, 11.

Pestilence, whence it is I, 10. Cruelly rages at Rome on account of a slain slave VII, 39.

The goddess Peta IV, 7.

A rock gave birth to Agdestis V, 5.

Phaethon V, 42.

Phidias, the foremost maker of statues VI, 13. Sculpted the image of Olympian Jupiter and inscribed upon the finger of the god the name of the boy loved by him ibid.

Philopator VI, 6.

Philosophers are not good except by comparison with bad men II, 50; their doctrines have nothing certain II, 10, 11; proud II, 50; cast away wealth ibid.; dispute concerning the quality of souls II, 57; are ignorant of the causes of things II, 52.

By philosophy minds are purged of errors I, 38.

Phoroneus the Egyptian VI, 3.

Foul Phrygian rites V, 42.

Phryne, the Thespian harlot VI, 13.

Expiatory faults in the ceremonies of the Gentiles, when committed IV, 31.

Picus, made drunk by the craft of Numa, is bound fast V, 1.

The pine-tree sacred to the Mother of the Gods V, 16, 39; a most lifeless piece of wood is worshipped as a god V, 17. Whence it is that pine-trees are crowned ibid.

Why Christ chose fishermen and unlearned men I, 50.

Piso the consul II, 73.

Plato II, 7; summit of philosophers I, 8; divides the soul II, 10, 31; thought many things worthily concerning God II, 36; places cause in numbers II, 18; establishes reminiscence II, 19, 20, 21, 22. The Platonic offspring II, 21.

Pluto is wounded by Hercules IV, 25.

How rain is formed II, 59.

Shameful fictions of the poets concerning the gods IV, 30. Poets not altogether untruthful in their fables concerning the Gentile gods IV, 43.

Shrine of Polias VI, 6.

The Polyandria [public cemeteries] of Varro VI, 6.

Pomona III, 30.

Revered Pompilius III, 16.

The Pontifices Maximi I, 51; IV, 35; VII, 40.

Populonia III, 30.

The Roman people distributed into five classes II, 67.

Portumnus presides over those who sail III, 23.

Posterganeus IV, 5.

The goddess Potua III, 23.

The goddess Praestana IV, 3.

Praxiteles the statuary fashioned the Cnidian Venus after the form of the harlot Cratina VI, 13.

Prayers for the dead IV, 36.

Hellespontian Priapus III, 10; inferior to his own genitals VI, 25.

Prodigy of the Capitol struck by lightning and its expiation VII, 37.

Proserpina the same as Libera I, 36; III, 33; IV, 14; V, 37. Daughter of Jupiter V, 21; her fabulous nativity ibid.; strong, blooming, and fuller of sap ibid. Burns with desire for Adonis IV, 27; while gathering flowers, is carried off by the king of the Manes V, 24.

An elegant personification VII, 9.

Prosymnus, shameful lover of Liber V, 28, 29.

Prothoe IV, 26.

The parrot repeats words articulately II, 25.

The Psylli II, 32.

Whether boys who are reared in solitude or without the company and speech of men become mute II, 20 seq.

The pomegranate V, 12.

The goddess Puta IV, 7.

Pygmalion, king of Cyprus, fell in love with an image of Venus as though it were a woman VI, 22.

Periphlegethon II, 14.

Death of Pythagoras of Samos I, 40.

Transmigration of souls of the Pythagoreans.

Q.

The laurel-crowned Quindecimviri IV, 35.

Quirinus IV, 3.

R.

Reason: something must be believed without reason when the salvation of souls is at stake II, 78.

Regulus I, 40; VII, 43.

The Christian religion, what it is I, 44, 45; called new II, 71; in a short time filled the whole world I, 55; is most ancient II, 72; spurning ancient and ancestral rites, orators, grammarians, and rhetoricians embrace it II, 5; increased while it is cut down ibid.; does not require very many defenders III, 1; does not take authority from men ibid.; harassed with dire reproaches I, 1; is not to be valued by antiquity of time II, 72, 73.

Religion of the pagans impure V, 29; thrown into confusion IV, 14 seq.

Opinion makes religion VII, 51.

Reminiscence of Plato II, 19, 20, 21, 22 seq.

The city of Rome, of what age in the time of Arnobius II, 71; greatest state VI, 7; mistress of the world II, 12; of all

deities the worshipper VI, 7.

The Romans, lords of the world IV, 1; their power I, 5; often changed their ancient rites II, 67, 68; spread the marriage couches with the toga in weddings II, 67; in time of war displayed a standard from the citadel ibid.; worshipped a spear as Mars VI, 11; their notable disasters II, 73, IV, 4.

Roman women did not drink wine II, 67; worked in the halls of their houses ibid.; gave a kiss to their kinsmen ibid.

Romulus IV, 3. Torn to pieces by the hands of the senators I, 41. Called Martial Quirinus and a god ibid.

S.

Priesthoods of the Gentiles IV, 35.

Sacred rites of the Mother of the Gods V, 16. Of Bona Dea V, 18. Of Cyprian Venus V, 19. Of the Phrygians V, 20. Of Ceres V, 25. Corybantian V, 19.

Varro shows that sacrifices are useless VII, 1; they do not bring pleasure to the gods ibid.; there is no reason for them VII, 22; the gods are not nourished by them VII, 1.

Sacrifice is made to the gods above to the end that they may lay aside their anger and be appeased VII, 5.

Sacrileges of Antiochus and Dionysius VI, 21.

The Sadducees attribute bodily form to God III, 12.

Egyptian Sais, who is also Minerva IV, 14.

The Samians worship a board as Juno VI, 11.

The Samothracian Dactyls III, 41, 43.

King Sangarius V, 6.

The wisdom of man is foolishness with God II, 6.

Varieties of flavours invented to drive away loathing VII, 25.

Saturn called Cronos III, 29; is painted with a hooked sickle VI, 12, 25; sickle-bearing III, 29; vine-planter ibid.; guardian of the country VI, 12; a lustful god IV, 26; president over sowing IV, 9; pruner of luxuriant branches VI, 12; puts on the form of a wild beast IV, 28; is proved not to be a god III, 29. Hides within the borders of the Italians IV, 24; founder of the city of Saturnia I, 36; bound IV, 24; his bloody sacrifices II, 68.

Knowledge is from instruction, not from Platonic recollection II, 19.

Ordinances of the Decemvirs IV, 34.

Temples erected by the Romans to prostitute harlots I, 28.

The Scythians I, 4; worship a scimitar as a god VI, 11.

The Sabazian rites V, 21.

Semele II, 70; IV, 22.

Semeleian Liber V, 28; giver of dreg-filled merriment III, 33.

Demigods II, 73.

Serapis, god of the Egyptians I, 36; II, 73; IV, 29; lies with Isis dissolved into ashes VI, 23.

The Seres II, 12; VI, 5.

Pomp of speech is employed in the law-courts I, 59; the Gentiles cast solecism of speech against the Christians I, 58, 59, 60; no speech is faultless by nature ibid.

Noxious serpents I, 4, 11.

Servius, Roman king V, 18.

The prophetic Sibyl, full of the power of Apollo, brings forth oracles I, 62.

The Sicilian land contains the remains of Saturn IV, 25.

The Sicilian V, 24.

The signal for war displayed from the citadel II, 67.

A flint-stone drank in the foulness of Jupiter's incontinence V, 10.

Death of Simon Magus II, 12.

Lifeless images I, 38; infamous VI, 14; of the vilest clay III, 3; brought forth from furnaces, worshipped as gods I, 39; instituted by the ancients to restrain sins VI, 25; features of infamous harlots VI, 13.

Whether you are a god or a goddess, a solemn formula in prayers III, 8.

Socrates condemned by the judgement of his own city I, 40.

The Sun, prince of the stars I, 2; larger than the earth, although it appears a foot wide II, 61; whether it is round VI, 10; the pagans attributed to it the form of a man ibid.; all things are clothed with its light I, 2, 29; worshipped as God by the heathens I, 29; effects diverse things by its contact II, 58; golden, born of Hyperion IV, 22.

Solifugae or solipugae, venomous creatures II, 25; VII, 16.

Truth is not obscured by solecisms I, 59.

What sleep is, is uncertain II, 7.

Roman brides used to smear the door-posts of their husbands with fatty ointment III, 25.

Honour of a statue I, 64.

Sterope IV, 26.

To contradict fools is a mark of greater madness I, 31.

Buffoons (on the stage) VII, 33; their shaved heads ibid.

The Styx V, 29; infernal II, 14.

Summanus III, 44, V, 37, VI, 3.

Suspicion and opinion an uncertain thing II, 51.

The Sullan proscription V, 38.

Symbols of sacred rites V, 26.

T.

Tages the Etruscan II, 69.

Knuckle-bones, symbols of the mysteries V, 20.

Tanaquil V, 18.

The Tarpeian rock IV, 3.

The bull begot a dragon and the dragon a bull V, 21.

Birthday of the Earth VII, 32.

A pregnant sow is sacrificed to the Earth VII, 22.

The town of Telmessus VI, 6.

Telmessus the seer ibid.

Why temples were given to the gods VI, 3, 24; built for the gods by the nations to the end that they might address their gods from close at hand VI, 4; are uselessly made for the gods VI, 3; formerly built for cats, beetles, and heifers I, 28.

Temple of Mars, of Juno, of Venus VI, 3. That of Juno burned down VI, 23.

What time is III, 29.

Ribbons on ancient trees I, 39.

The god Terensis IV, 7, 11.

Earth the Great Mother III, 31. Ceres ibid.

The Earth-born V, 25.

Thales established water as the origin of all things II, 10.

Theatres, places of baseness IV, 36.

Themis V, 5.

The Thesmophoria V, 24.

The Thespians worship a branch as Cinxia VI, 11.

Thetis loves Achilles IV, 27.

Theutis the Egyptian II, 69.

Tithonus loved by Aurora IV, 27.

Lake Trasimenus IV, 4.

The Thracian seer (Orpheus) V, 26.

Farthest Thule VI, 5.

Frankincense, whence and what it is VII, 27; its offering in sacred rites a new thing VII, 26; the heathens pour libations of frankincense and wine to the gods VI, 3; without frankincense the service of religion halts VII, 26.

The Tiber island VII, 41.

The Tingitanians I, 16.

The Titans, Moors I, 36.

Titus Tatius IV, 3.

The Trebian gods III, 44.

Death of Trebonius I, 40

Heavenly dining-couches VI, 9.

Triptolemus V, 26; inventor of the plough I, 38.

The Tritonian virgin III, 21, VII, 22.

Trophonius IV, 14.

Tullius (M. Cicero), most eloquent of the Romans III, 6.

Tutunus IV, 7, 11.

The Tyndaridae, the Castors I, 36, II, 70.

Tyrants despoil the temples of the gods I, 41; strip cities bare by proscriptions ibid.; are called gods ibid.

U

The goddess Unxia III, 25.

V.

Eulogium of Varro, eminent in multiform disciplines V, 8.

The Thracian seer Orpheus V, 19.

Whether willing is in our power II, 64, 65.

Belus the magician I, 52.

Four Venuses IV, 15.

Venus VII, 33. Cyprian V, 19. Cytherean risen from the foam of the sea IV, 24; little harlot IV, 23; Dionean offspring I, 36; foul goddess III, 27; so called because she comes to all III, 33; is thought to supply the flames of love to men III, 27; small coins are offered to her V, 19; is fashioned after the form of the harlot Phryne VI, 13; is painted nude VI, 12. Military Venus IV, 7. Progenitrix of the Martial race IV, 35; wounded IV, 25; is danced in love IV, 35; her lying with Anchises V, 27.

Hellebore a poison to men I, 11.

Truth does not pursue disguise I, 58; inner V, 35; its great power III, 1.

Vesta, who is also Earth III, 32; her perpetual fire II, 67, IV, 35.

Garments of the ancients made of skin II, 66.

To yield the way to more august persons VII, 13.

The goddess Vibilia IV, 7.

The goddess Victa III, 23.

Selection of victims VII, 16 et seqq.

The gods cultivate vineyards VII, 22.

Disadvantages of wine VII, 30.

Wine wrongly employed in sacred rites VII, 30, 31; is given to the gods on a condition ibid.; Roman women abstained from it II, 67.

How sight takes place III, 18.

Life has been given to us for use, not in ownership II, 27.

What pleasure is II, 30; that of the ears is not to be sought in serious matters I, 59.

The voice of Christ understood by diverse peoples I, 46; by His voice alone Christ heals the sick ibid.

Four Vulcans IV, 15.

Vulcan, fire III, 33; the lame god IV, 24; smith VII, 22; practised smith's work in the island of Lemnos IV, 24; is painted with a hammer and cap VI, 12; flame-potent maker of the sword III, 21.

Vulturnus III, 29.

X.

Xerxes let the sea into the lands I, 5.

Z.

Zeuxippe IV, 26.

Zoroaster I, 5, 52.