490
GENERAL INDEX
Promotes, master-general of the infantry under Theodosius , is ruined bythe enmity of Rnfinus, v, 140.
Property, personal, the origin of, viii, 70. How ascertained by tbe Romanlaws, 71. Testamentary dispositions of, how introduced, 77.
Prophets, their oflice among the primitive Christians , ii, 323.
Proterius , patriarch of Alexandria, his martial episcopacy, and violentdeath, viii, 310.
Protestants , their resistance of oppression not consistent with the practiceof the primitive Christians , iii, 248. Proportion of their number to thatof the catholics, in France , at the beginning of the last century, 232, note.Estimate of their reformation of popery, x, 186.
Protosebastos. import of that title in the Greek empire, x, 120.
Proverbs, the book of, why not likely to be the production of King Solomon ,vii, 193, note.
Provinces of the Roman empire described, i, 30. Distinction betweenLatin and Greek provinces, 60. Account of the tributes received from257. Their number and government after the seat of empire was re-moved to Constantinople , iii, 50.
Prusa, conquest of, by the Ottomans , xi, 424.
Prussia, emigration of the Goths to, i, 392.
Pulcheria, sister of the emperor Theodosius the Younger , her characterand administration, v, 411. Her lessons to her brother, 414. Her con-tests with the empress Eudocia , 420. Is proclaimed empress of theEast, on the death of Theodosius , vi, 84. Her death and canoniza-tion, 188.
Purple, the royal colour of, among the ancients, far surpassed by the mo-dern discovery of cochineal, vii, 90, note.
Q.
Quadi, the inroads of, punished by the emperor Constantius, iii, 196. Re-venge the treacherous murder of their king Gabinius , iv, 327.
Question, criminal, how exercised under tbe Roman emperors, iii, 79.
Questor, historical review of this oflice, iii, 71.
Quintilian brothers, Maximus and Condianus, their history, i, 142.
Quintilius, brother of the emperor Claudius , his ineffectual effort to succeedhim, ii, 15.
Quintus Curtius, an attempt to decide the age in which he wrote, i, 306,note.
Quirites, the effect of that word when opposed to soldiers, i, 252, note,
R.
Radagaisits, king of the Goths, his formidable invasion of Italy , v, 213.His savage character, 217. Is reduced by Stilicho , and put to death'220 . ’
Radiger, king of the Yarni, compelled to fulfil his matrimonial obligations,by a British heroine, vi, 393. ’
Ramadan, the month of, how observed by the'Turks, ix, 276.
Rondo, a chieftain of the Alemanni , his unprovoked attack of Moguntia-cum, iv, 280.
Ravenna, the ancient city of, described, v, 207. The emperor Honorius fixes his residence there, 210. Invasion of, by a Greek fleet, ix, 140.Is taken by the Lombards , and recovered by the Venetians, 146. Finalconquest of, by the Lombards , 147. The exarchate of, bestowed byPepin on the pope, 150.