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GENERAL INDEX.

Pepin, king of France, assists tlic pope of Home against the Lombards , ix .1-18. Receives the title of king by papal sanction, 152. Grants the ex-archate to the pope, 15G

Pepin, John, count of Mmorbino,reduces the tribune Kicnzi, and restore*aristocracy and church-govcrument at Rome , xii, 348.

Pepper, its high estimation and price at Rome , v, 293, note.

J'erenuis, minister of the emperor Commodus , his great exaltation anddownfal, i, 143.

Perisabor, a city ofAssyria, reduced and burned by the emperor Julian , iv,170 .

Pcro:es, king of Persia , his fatal expedition against the Nepthaliles.vii, 13(5.

Perseeutiutis, ten of the primitive Christians, a review of, ii, 434.

Pertens, amount of the treasures taken from that prince, i, 256.

Persia, the monarchy of, restored by Artaxerxes , i, 318 The religion ofthe Magi reformed, ibid Abridgement of the Persian theology, 320.Simplicity of their worship, 322. Ceremonies and moral precepts, 323.Kvery other mode of worship prohibited but that of Zoroaster , 328. Kx-tent and population of that country, 330. Its military power, 342. Ac-count of the audience given by the emperor Cams to the ambassadorsof Varanes, ii,94. The throne of, disputed by the brothers Narses andHorinouz 143. Galerius defeated by the Persians , 144. Narses over-thrown in his turn by Galerius , 148. Articles of peace agreed onbetween the Persians and the Romans, 153.

-war between Sapor king of, and the emperor Constantins, iii 139.

Rattle of Siugara, 140. Sapor invades Mesapotamia, 203. The Persian territories invaded by the emperor Julian , iv, 161. Passage of the 'Tigris,180. Julian harrassed in his retreat, 194. Treaty of peace betweenSapor and the emperor Jovian, 209. Reduction of Armenia , and deathof Sapor, 310,312.

-the silk trade, how carried on from China through Persia , for the

supply of the Roman empire, vii,94. Dealh of Perozes, in an expeditionagainst the white Huns , 136, Review of the reigns of Cabadcs, ami hisson Chosrocs, 298 Anarchy of, after the death of Chosroes II , viii, 254.Ecclesiastical history of, 339.

——invasion of, by the caliph Abubeker, ix, 364. Tattle of Cadesia,36 j. Sack of Ctesiphon , 369. Conquest of, by the Saiacens, 373. TheMagian religion supplanted by Mahometism, 493. The power of theArabs crushed by the dynasty of the Eowides, x, 83. Persia subdued bythe Turks, 341.

Persia, conquest of, by the Moguls, xi. 407. By Tamerlane xii, 7.

Perlinax, his character and exaltation to the imperial throne, i, 157. Hisfuneral and apotheothis, 187.

Pcscennius Niger, governor ofSyria, assumes the imperial dignity on thedeath of Peitinax, i, 178.

Petavius, character of his Dogmata Theologica, viii, 260, note.

Peter, brother of the eastern emperor Maurice , his injurious treatment ofthe citizens of Azimuntium, and flight from thence, viii, 201.

1‘eter 1, czar of Russia , his conduct towards his son, contrasted with that ofConstantine the Great , iii, 112.

Peter of Arragon assumes the kingdom of Sicily , xi, 336.

Peter, Barthulemy his miraculous discovery of the holy lance, xi, 73, Ilisstrange death, 76.

Peter of Courtenay, emperor of Constantinople , xi, 262.

Peter the Hermit , his character and scheme to recover the Holy Land fromthe infidels, xi, I. Leads the first crusaders, 24. Failure of his zeal, 72.

Petra, the city of, taken by the Persians , vii, 330. Is besieged by the Ro-mans, 331. Is demolished, 333.