30; person and dress, ib.; his character, scandals on, 32-34;
his extortions, 35; as an orator, ib.; as a writer, 36, 37; as a
general, 38-43; as an advocate and friend, 43-44; his good qualities,
45; his abuse of power, 46, 47; conspiracy against him, 48-50; his
assassination, 51; his will, 52; funeral, 53; apotheosis, 55.
Juvenal, account of, and works, 499, 500; life of, 536.

Laberius Hiera, a grammarian, 516.
"Latus Clavus," what, 31.
Laurel grove of the Caesars, 400 and note.
Lenaeus, a school master, 507.
Lepidus, master of the horse to Julius Caesar, 52; one of the triumviri,
75; the confederacy renewed, 77; banished, 80; his death, 95.
Libraries, public, one projected by J. Caesar, 80; the Palatine, formed
by Augustus, 92; of Alexandria, 496; of the portico of Octavia, 520.
Lictors, attend the consuls, 13 and note.
Liveries, colours of the imperial, 490, note.
Livia Drusilla, wife of Augustus, 117, 295; mother of Tiberius, 202; his
treatment of her, 222, 223; her death, 224; divine honours decreed
to, 303.
------ Ocellina, mother of Galba, 402.
Livius Andronicus, account of, 506.
------ Titus, remarks on his History, 161-165.
Lollius, governor of Agrippa, 201, 202.
Lucan, remarks on, 396, 397; life of, 544.
Lucius Aevius, a grammarian, 508.
------ Crassitius, schoolmaster and philosopher, 519.
------ Vettius, an informer, 11, 14.
Lucretius, remarks on his works, 69.
Lupercalia, feast of, 48, and note; and 96.

Marcellus, M. Pomponius, a critic, 523.
Marius, C., his trophies restored, 8.
Martial, account and works of, 503-505.
Marmillo, a kind of gladiator, 288, 487.
Mausoleum of Augustus, 259.
Mecaenas, Augustus complains of, 120; his house and gardens on the
Esquiline, 125, 203; his character, 153; patronizes Horace, 173,
541.
Melissus, Caius, librarian and friend of Mecaenas, 520.
Messalina, wife of Claudius, 319; put to death, ib.; her
character, 335.
Misenum, a naval station, 110; Tiberius sails there, 236.
Mithridates revolts, 4.
Mitylene taken by storm, 3.
Money-lenders, lampoon on Augustus for his father's being one, 123;
note on ib.; and 340.
Mount Aetna, 286.
----- Vesuvius, eruption of, 471, 548.
Muraena, conspiracy of, 83, 114, 120.

Naevius, his Punic war, 509.
Naples, a Greek colony, 303, note.
Narbonne, a Roman