rt-on-the-Maine), 425
Helepolis, a military engine used in sieges, 324
Helice, a town in Achaia, destroyed by an earthquake, 140
Heliodorus, a seer, 504;
his atrocities, 515;
death of, 517
Heliogabalus, 421
Heliopolis, a town of Syria, 131
Helpidius, prefect of the East, 253
Hendinos, a title given to the Burgundian kings, 495
Heniochi, a tribe near the Euxine, 290
Heraclea, a city of Thrace, called also Perinthus, 278
Heraclitus, the philosopher of Ephesus, 274
Herculanus, officer of the guard, 33
Hercules, 73
Hermapion, 132
Hermes Trismegistus, 270
Hermogenes, master of the horse, 33,
(ii.) of Pontus, prefect of the praetorium, 208, 253;
(iii.) a Roman general in Germany, 481
Hermonassa, an island in the Palus Maeotis, 291
Hermopolis, a city in the Thebais, 312
Herod, 29
Herodianus, 314
Herodotus, 311
Hesiod, 16
Hesperus, proconsul of Africa, 502
Hesychia, a Roman matron, 477
Hiaspis, a district on the Tigris, 169
Hiberia, a country in Asia, near Colchis, 463;
is divided between the Persians and Romans, 466, 549
Hibita, a station in Mesopotamia, 399
Hiera, an island on the coast of Sicily, one of the AEgates, 139
Hierapolis, a city in Commagena, 28, 267, 319;
(ii.) a city in Phrygia, 333
Hierocles, son of Alypius, governor of Britain, 514
Hieroglyphics of the Egyptians, 130
Hilarinus, a charioteer, 411
Hilarius, 505
Hileia, a town in Mesopotamia, 170
Hipparchus, the philosopher, 407
Hippias of Elis, 90
Hippocephalus, a suburb of Antioch, 270
Hippopotamus of Egypt, 310
Histros, a city of Thrace, 293
Homer, 20, 71, 170, 191, 270, 341, 442, 453, 479, 617
Honoratus, Count of the East, 3, 21
Hormisdas, a Persian prince, 102;
(ii.) a general of the emperor Julian, 347;
(iii.) son of the preceding, 427
Horre, a town in Mesopotamia, 183
Hortarius, king of the Allemanni, 107, 144, 161;
(ii.) a German noble, 525
Hucumbra, 374
Huns, 577-582
Hydriacus, a river in Carmania, 339
Hydrus, the, 310
Hymetius, proconsul of Africa, 471;
banished to Boae, a town in Dalmatia, 472
Hypanis (the Bog), a river of Sarmatia, 291
Hypatius, a consul, brother of Eusebius, 160, 253, 516
Hyperechius, 426
Hyperides, a Grecian orator, 554
Hyrcania, a northern province of Persia, 339
Hystaspes, father of Darius, 336
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Ibis, the sacred bird of the Egyptians, 311
Ichneumon, an Egyptian repti
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