of the Scutarii, 144

Neuri, a tribe of the Massagetae, 580

Nevitta, master of the horse, 256, 258, 259, 265, 284, 347, 359

Nicaea in Bithynia, 295

---- in Gaul (Nice), 79

Nice, a town in Thrace, 606

Nicer (the Neckar), 480

Nicomedia, 137, 287, 295, 304

Nicopolis, 444, 591

Nigrinus, 260;
burnt alive, 264

Nile, 307;
its islands, 309

Nileus, son of Codrus, 288, 468

Nineveh, 176 (Ninus), 28, 334

Ninus, or Nineveh, 28

Niphates, 332

Nisaea, 339

Nisibis, a town in Mesopotamia, 30, 172, 178, 393;
its importance, 397

Nobles, Roman, vices of the, 487-491

Nohodares, a Persian noble, 10, 174;
killed, 380

Novesium (Nuys), 161

Novidunum (Nivors), 446

Nubel, a Mauritanian chief, 525

Numerius, prefect of Gaul, 160

Nymphaeum, a temple in Rome sacred to the nymphs, 66

Nymphaeus, a river in Mesopotamia, 183

O.

Obelisk, Egyptian, inscription upon an, 132

Obroatis, a town in Persia, 338

Ochus, a river in Bactria, 340

Ocricoli (Ocriculum), 100, 472

Octavianus, proconsul of Africa, 317

Odissos, 293, 444

Odrysaeans, a people of Thrace, 443

OEa, a Roman colony in the province of Tripoli, 498

OEchardes, a people of Scythia, 341

Olybrius, prefect of the city, 469

Olympias, daughter of Abladius, 236

Ona, a river in Persia, 333

Ophiusa, a name of the Island of Rhodes, 139

Opitergium, a town in Pannonia, 538

Opurocarra, a mountain in Serica, 341

Orchomanes, a river in Bactria, 340

Orfitus, prefect of Rome, 14, 100, 439, 451

Oroates, a river in Persia, 335

Orontes, a river in Syria, 28

---- a mountain in Media, 335

Oropus, a town in Euboea, 554

Ortogordomaris, a river rising in Bactria, 342

Ortopana, a city of the Paropanisatae, 342

Osdroene, or Osdruena, a province of Mesopotamia, 10, 28, 319, 347

Ostracine, a town in Egypt, 312

Oxian Marsh in Sogdiana, 340

Oxus, a river in Hyrcania, 339

Oxyrynchus, a town in Egypt, 313

Ozogardana, a city in Assyria, 350

P.

Pacorus, king of Persia, 334

Palea, town in Pamphylia, 8

Palestine, 29

Palladius, master of the offices, 279;
(ii.) a tribune and secretary, 498-502

Palm-tree, 356

Pannonia, 103, 146

Pantheon of Rome, 102

Panticapaeum, 291

Paphius, a senator, 474

Paphos, its temple of Venus, 29

Papirius Cursor, 569

Para, son of Arsaces, king of Armenia, 465, 543-549

Paraetonium, a town in Libya, 313

Paraxmalcha, a town on the