14;
defeated by Jovinus, 438, 567;
make incursions into the Roman territory, 602;
are defeated, 604

Allobroges, a nation of Gaul, 81

Alpheus, a river rising in Arcadia, 53

Alps, the Cottian, 75;
the Julian, 259;
the Grecian, 76;
the Penine, 76;
Hannibal's passage of the, 77

Alypius of Antioch, 317, 514

---- a Roman noble, 471

Amantius, a soothsayer, 472

Amanus, a mountain range in Cilicia, 27

Amardus, a river in Media, 337

Amastris, a city in Paphlagonia, 289

Amazons, one of the Caspian tribes, 291;
defeated by the Athenians, 289

Amida, a city of Mesopotamia, 174;
besieged by Sapor, 185;
betrayed by a deserter, 192;
courage of the garrison, 195;
a sortie of the Gallic troops, from, 195, 236

Amiens (Ambians), a city in Belgium, 79, 453

Aminias, a Persian general, 369

Amisus, a city in Pontus, 289

Ammianus, his noble birth, 199;
placed under Ursicinus, governor of Nisibis, by the Emperor
Constantius, 30;
returns to Italy, 37;
his industry, 45;
sent into Gaul, 60;
sent back to the East, 103;
visits Thebes, 130;
recalled, 171;
escapes from Nisibis, 173;
sent to Jovinianus, satrap of Corduena, 175;
narrow escape of, 181;
arrives at Antioch, 200;
accompanies Julian in his expedition against the Persians, 326;
returns with Jovian, 402;
his advice to future historians, 623

Ampelius, prefect of Otricoli, 472

Amphiaraus, an ancient seer, 4

Amphilochius, a Paphlagonian, 252

Amphisbaena, a serpent, 311

Amphitheatre at Rome, 102, 411

Amphitus, a Spartan, the charioteer of Castor and Pollux, 290

Amudis, a fort in Mesopotamia, 173

Amycus, king of the Bebrycii, 288

Anaphe, an island in the AEgean Sea, 139

Anatha, a fortress in Mesopotamia, 347

Anatolius, prefect of Illyricum, 204;
master of the offices, 234;
his death, 253;
an officer of the palace, 504

Anaxagoras the philosopher, 287;
predicted the fall of stones and earthquakes, 315

Anaximander, a Milesian philosopher, 139

Anazarbus, a city of Cilicia, 27

Anchialos, a city of Thrace, 293, 444

Ancorarius, a mountain of Mauritania, 531

Ancyra, a city of Galatia, 296, 403, 426

Andernach (Antumacum), 161

Andocides, a Grecian orator, 554

Andriscus of Adramyttium, 44, 421

Andronicus, a poet, 209

Anepsia, wife of Victorinus, 475, 478

Anicenses, a Sarmatian tribe, 154

Anicii, the, a noble family at Rome, 98

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