REN'EKAL INDEX.
455
Delators, are encouraged liy the emperor Comniodns, (o gratify his hatred,of the senate, i, 141. Are suppressed by I’crtinax, 162.
Delphi , the sacred ornaments <>l the temple of, removed to Constantinople by Constantine the Great, iii, 22, note .
Democracy , a form of government unfavourable to freedom in a largostate, i, 64.
Demons , supposed to be the authors and objects of pagan idolatry, by theprimitive Christians , ii, 283.
Demosthenes, governor of Ctesarca, his gallant defence against, and heroicescape from. Sapor king of Persia , i, 439.
Deosrratias, bishop of Carthage , humanely succours the captives broughtfrom Home by Gcnscric king of the Vandals, vi, 153.
Derar, the Saracen , his character, ix, 390.
Desidcrios, the last king of the Lombards, conquered by Charlemagne ,ix, 150,
Despot, nature of that title in the Greek empire, x, 121.
Despotism originates in superstition, i, 302, note.
Diadem assumed by Diocletian , what, ii, 165.
Diamonds, the art of cutting them, unknown to the ancients, i, 262, note.
Didius Julianas purchases the imperial dignity at a public auction, i, 172.
Dioeesses of the Homan empire, their number and government, iii, 49.
Diocletian , the manner of his military election to the empire, ii, 109. ITisbirth and character, 112. Takes Maximian for his colleague, 115.Associates as Caisars> Galerius and Constantins Cldorus, 118. Histriumph in conjunction with jVIaximian, 156. Fixes his court at thecity of Nicomedia, 159. Abdicates the empire, 170. Parallel betweenhim and the emperor Charles V. 171. Passes his life in retirement atSa-lona, 174. His impartial behaviour towards the Christians , 455. Causesthat produced the persecution of the Christians under his reign, 456.
Dion Cassius, the historian , screened from the fury of the soldiers, by theemperor Alexander Sevcrus, i, 250.
Dioscorus, patriarch of Alexandria, his outrageous behaviour at the secondcouncil of Ephesus , viii, 301. Is deposed by the council of C'halec-don, 306.
Disabul, great khan of the Turks, his reception of the ambassadors of Jus-tinian , vii, 295.
Divorce, the liberty and abuse of, by the Roman laws, viii, 60. Limita-tions of, 63.
Docetes, their peculiar tenets, iii, 316; viii, 265. Derivation of theirname, iii, 317, note.
Dominic, St. Loricatus, his fortitude in flagellation, xi, 17.
Dominus, when this epithet was applied to the Roman emperors, ii, 163.
Domitian , emperor, his treatment of his kinsmen Flavius Sabinus andFlavius Clemens, ii, 407.
Domitian, the oriental prefect , is sent by the emperor Constantins to reformthe state of the East, then oppressed by Callus, iii, 176. Is put to deaththere, 177.
Donatos, his contest with Cxcilian for the see of Carthage , iii, 107. His-tory of the schism of the Donatists, 309. Persecution of the Donatists by the emperor Honorius , vi, 16.
Doryleeam, battle of, between Sultan Soliman and the first crusaders,xi, 60.
Doxology, how introduced in the church service, and how perverted,iii, 386.