330;
preserver of civil liberties, 333;
resister of Byzantine despotism, 333;
its development from St. Leo I. to St. Gregory I., 342;
confirmed and illustrated by civil disasters, 346;
as Rome, the secular city, diminishes, the Primacy advances, 357

_Rechared_, king of the Spanish Visigoths, converted, 318;
his letter to St. Gregory informing him of his conversion, 321

_Reumont_, "Geschichte der Stadt Rom.," quoted, over-lordship of
Byzantium, 19;
Odoacer, Patricius at Rome, 35;
picture of Theodorick, 36;
of his government, 38;
sparing of St. Peter's and St. Paul's, 213;
Totila's deeds, 215;
Narses made Patricius of Rome, 245;
the Pragmatic Sanction, 246

_Riffel_, "Kirche und Staat," quoted, 190, 251, 253, 254, 255, 256, 267

_Roehrbacher_, the German edition of the history, quoted, 128, 142, 162,
192, 198, 199, 200, 202, 205, 245, 303, 305

_Rome_, its fall as a city coeval with the universal recognition
of the Papal Primacy, 6-10;
this fall and this recognition traced from Constantine to St.
Gregory, 356-8;
imperial, its death agony of twenty-one years, 23;
its sufferings in the Gothic war, 210-23;
the new city, from Narses, lives only by the Primacy, 294;
its extreme misery in the days of St. Gregory, 281, 284

_Romulus Augustulus_, Roman emperor, 21

_Saxons_, rudest of Teuton tribes, humanised by St. Gregory, 348

_Sidonius Apollinaris_, picture of the Roman senate, 17;
description of Rome in 467, 18;
makes Rome acknowledge the over-lordship of the East, 19;
describes the Roman baths, 19

_Silverius, St._, Pope, elected in 536, 205;
deposed by Belisarius, at the instigation of Theodora, 208;
martyred in the island of Palmaria, 209

_Simplicius_, Pope, his outlook from Rome, 45;
his letter to the emperor Zeno, 66

_Symmachus_, elected Pope in 498, 128;
his letter to the eastern emperor, 129;
compares the imperial and the papal power, 131;
they are the two heads of human society, 133;
Catholic princes acknowledge Popes on their accession, 134;
inferences to be deduced from this letter, 136;
the Synodus Palmaris refuses to judge the Pope, 136;
addressed by eastern bishops in their misery as a father by his
children, 149;
dies in 514, 149

_Theodora_, empress, her promises to Vigilius, 208;
her vio