appointed, 37;
their tyranny, 37;
the Twelve Tables, 38;
Decemviri continue in office, 38;
they assassinate Licinius Dentatus, 38;
Virginia slain by her father to save her from the Decemvir Appius
Claudius, 39;
resignation of the Decemvirs, 39;
and election of 10 Tribunes, 40.

Decius Mus, P., self-sacrifice, 55;
and of his son, 59.

Decuriones, 123.

Deiotarus, tetrarch of Galatia, 213.

Delatores, 297, 303.

Demetrius of Pharos, 79.

Dictator, 28 (note), 51.

Dictatorship, 118;
revived by Sulla, 194

Didius Julianus, Emperor, 319.

Diocletian, Emperor, 327;
selects Maximian for his colleague, 328;
defeats the Persians, 329.

Dolabella, Cn., accused of extortion, 215;
puts an end to his life, 258.

Domitian, reign of, 305.

Drama, Roman, 272.

Drusus. M. Livius, 158, 159.

Drusus, 291;
sent to Germany, 295;
receives the tribunitian power, 297;
poisoned by his wife, 208.

Drusus, M. Livius, son of the opponent of C. Gracchus, elected a
Tribune, endeavours to obtain the Roman franchise for the
Allies, 176;
assassinated, 176.

E.

Eburones, revolt of the, 232.

Egypt, condition of, 107;
under Augustus, 288.

Elagabalus, Emperor, 322.

Enna (Servile War), 146-7

Ennius, Q., 273.

Equestrian Order, 158.

Etruria, 2.

Etruscans, their name, language, origin, and portions of Italy occupied
by them, 5, 6;
wars with the, 43;
defeated, 58;
in league with the Umbrians, 59;
defeated at Lake Vadimo, 60.

Eumenes, king of Pergamus, obtains Mysia, Lydia, and part of Curia, 112.

Eunus (Servile War), 146, 147.

Eutropius, 343.

F.

Fabia Gens and the Veientines, 33.

Fabius, lieutenant, defeated by Mithridates, 208.

Fabius Maximus, Q., appointed Dictator, and to the command-in-chief
against Hannibal, 87;
styled the _Cunctator_, or "Lingerer," 87;
obtains Tarentum, 96.

Fabius Pictor, Q., 282.

Fabius Sanga, Q., 220.

Falerii surrenders to the Romans, 44.

Faustina, wife of Antoninus Pius, 315.

Fescennine songs, 276.

_Fetiales_, 15.

Fidenae taken and destroyed, 43.

Fimbria defeated, slays himself, 183.

Flaccus, Aldus Persius, 315.

Flamens, 13.

Flamininus, L., act of cruelty of, 127.

Flamininus, T. Quinctius, appointed to the command against Philip V.,
whose army is defeated in the battle of Cynoscephalae, 103;
proclaims the independence of Greece, 109;
withdraws the Ro