229;
elected emperor by the army, 234;
crosses the Rhine, and attacks the Attuarii, 235;
death of his wife Helena, 244;
pretended adherence to Christianity, 246;
defeats the Allemanni, 249;
speech to his soldiers, 250;
enters Sirmium, 257;
his letter to the senate, 259;
besieges Aquileia, 261;
his march through France, 267;
hears of the death of Constantius, and enters Constantinople, 278;
his severities, 279;
reforms the imperial palace, 281;
openly professes paganism, 283;
sets out for Antioch, 295;
visits the ancient temple of Cybele at Pessinus, and offers
sacrifices, 296;
winters at Antioch, 298;
forbids the masters of rhetoric to instruct Christians, 299;
prepares for an expedition against the Persians, 302;
orders the church at Antioch to be closed, 304;
writes his 'Misopogon,' 305;
marches into Mesopotamia, and arrives at Carrhae, 320;
addresses his army, 328;
invades Assyria, 347;
captures and burns Pirisabora, 353;
addresses the army, 354;
his continence, 368;
his sacrifice to Mars, 369;
storms Maogamalcha, 357-362;
burns all his ships except twelve, 370;
his self-denial, 377;
alarmed by prodigies, 377;
wounded in fighting with the Persians, 379;
his dying speech, 381;
death, 383;
his character, 383-386;
his personal appearance, 387

Julian, uncle of the emperor, 317

Juliers (Juliacum Francorum), 127

Julius, a count commanding the army in Thrace, 422, 623

Justina, wife of Valentinian, 575;
sister of Cerealis, 482

Juvenal, 488

Juventius Siscianus, the quaestor, 413;
made prefect of the city, 441

K.

Kellen (Triaesinae), a town in Germany, 161

L.

Lacotene, a town in Armenia, 236

Lagarimanus, a general of the Goths, 584

Laipso, a tribune, 121

Lamforctense, a town in Mauritania, 528

Lampadius, prefect of the praetorian guard, 55;
made prefect of the city, 440

Lampsacus, a city of Mysia, 287

Laniogaisus, a Frank and tribune, 59

Laodicea, a town of Syria, 28

Laranda, a town in Isauria, 8

Latinus, count of the domestics, 34

Laudias, a fort in Mesopotamia, 179

Laumellum, a town in Italy, 72

Lauricius, sent as governor to Isauria, 211

Lawyers, Roman, described, 555

Lazica, a province of Scythia, 465

Leap-year explained, 407

Leman (the Lake Leman), 79

Lemnos, an island off the coast of Thrace, 286

Lentia (Lintz), 52, 602

Lentienses, incursions of