Two Principles, the, in Persian theology, i. 231, 232, note G., 232, 233,
note G.

Tyrants of Rome, the popular conceit of the thirty, investigated, i. 821,
note M.

Tyre is besieged by Saladin, vi. 29

U.

Ukraine, description of that country, i. 289.

Uldin, king of the Huns, reduces and kills Gainas, the Goth, iii. 339 L
driven back by the vigilance of the Imperial ministers, 350, 351.
Ulphilas, the apostle of the Goths, his pious labors, iii. 541. His Maso
Gothic alphabet, 541, note M. Propagated Arianism, 546.

Ulpian, the lawyer, placed at the head of the council of state, under the
emperor Alexander Severus, i. 177. Is murdered by the prætorian
guards, 181, vide note W.

Upsal, anciently famous for its Gothic temple, i. 283.

Urban II., pope, patronizes Peter the Hermit, in his project for recovering
the Holy Land, v. 538. Exhorts the people to a crusade, at the council
of Clermont, 543. His secret motives for it, 568, note M.

V. is visited by John Palæologus, vi. 297.

court from Avignon to Rome, 495.

VI., pope, his disputed election, vi. 497.

Removes the papa!

Ursacius, master of the offices under the emperor Valentinian, occasions
a revolt of the Alemanni by his parsimony, ii. 553.

Ursicinus, a Roman general, his treacherous conduct to Sylvanus in Gaul,
ii. 216. Is superseded in his command over the Eastern provinces, 230.
Is sent back again to conduct the war with Persia under Sabinian, 230.
Is again disgraced, 230.

Ursini, history of the Roman family of, vi. 461-465, note, 477-512.
Ursulus, treasurer of the empire under Constantius, unjustly put to death
by the tribunal of Chalcedon, ii. 399.

Usury. See Interest of Money.

V.

Vadomair, prince of the Alemanni, is sent prisoner to Spain, by the em
peror Julian, ii. 381. His son murdered by the Romans, 555.
Valens, general of the Illyrian frontier, receives the title of Cæsar from
Licinius, i. 491. Loses his new title and his life, 492.

the brother of the emperor Valentinian, is associated with him in
the empire, ii. 528. Obtains from his brother the Eastern portion of the
empire, 529. His timidity on the revolt of Procopius, 534. His charac-
ter, 539. Is baptized by Eudoxus, and patronizes the Arians, 545. Is
vindicated from the charge of persecution, 547. His edict against the
Egyptian monks, 548. His war with the Goths, iii. 26. Receives the
suppliant Goths into the Roman territories, 32. His war with them, 40.
Is defeated and killed at the battle of Hadrianople, 49, 50. His eulogi-
um by Libanius, 51.

the Arian bishop of Mursa, his crafty pretensions to divine revela-
tion, ii. 329. noh be
Valentia, a new province in Britain, settled by Theodosius, ii. 569.
Valentinian I., his election to the empire, and character, ii. 525, 526. As-
sociates his brother Valens with him, 528. Divides the empire into the
East and West, and retains the latter, 529. His cruelty, 539. His civil
institutions, 541. His edicts to restrain the avarice of the clergy, 5-19.
Chastises the Alemanni, and fortifies the Rhine, 556. His expedition
to Illyricum, and death, 589, 590. Is vindicated from the charge of
polyga ny, 591.

II. is invested with the Imperial ornaments in his mother's

arms, on the death of his father, ii. 592. Is refused by St. Ambrose the
privilege of a church for him and his mother Justina, on account of their
Arian principles, iii. 97. His flight from the invasion of Maximus, 103
Is restored by the emperor Theodosius, 119. His character, 119, 120.
His death, 121.

Valentinian III. established emperor of the West, by his cousin Theo-
dosius the Younger, iii. 366. Is committed to the guardianship of his
mother Placidia, 367. Flies, on the invasion of Italy by Attila, 449.
Sends an embassy to Attila to purchase his retreat, 450. Murders the
patrician tius, 454. Ravishes the wife of Petronius Maximus, 456.
His death and character, 457.

Valentinians, their confused ideas of the divinity of Jesus Christ, iv. 495,

note.

Valeria, empress, widow of Galerius, the unfortunate fate of her and her
mother, i. 487, 488.

Valerian is elected censor under the emperor Decius, i. 292. His eleva
tion to the empire, and his character, 297, 298. Is defeated and taken
prisoner by Sapor, king of Persia, 316. His treatment, 319, note M.
His inconsistent behavior towards the Christians, ii. 52.
Vandals and Goths originally one people, i. 285. This opinion contro
verted, 285, 286, note G. Total extirpation of the Vandals, 296, note M.
See Goths. Their successes in Spain, iii. 369, 370. Their expedition
into Africa under Genseric, 371. They raise a naval force, and invade
Italy, 459. Sack of Rome by, 463. Their naval depredations on the
coast of the Mediterranean, 486. Their conversion to the Christian
religion, 543. Persecution of the Catholics, 549, 550. Expedition of Beli-
sarius against Gelimer, iv. 121. Conquest of, 133. Their name and
distinction lost in Africa, 140, 249. Remains of their nation still found
in Germany, 140.

Varanes. See Bahram.

Varangians of the north, origin and history of, v. 423.

Varchonites, the, subdued by the Turks, iv. 204, note M.

Varronian, the infant son of the emperor Jovian, history of, ii. 524.

Vaag, general of Arsaces Tiranus, flayed by King Sapor, ii. 577, note M.
Vataces, John, his long and prosperous reign at Nice, vi. 117-124. His
character, 141-158.

Vegetius, his remarks on the degeneracy of the Roman discipline at the
time of Theodosius the Great, ii. 129.

Veil, the siege of that city, the era of the Roman army first receiving
regular pay, i. 185. Site and ruins of, 186, note M.

Venice, foundation of that republic, iii. 446, 447, note G. Its infant stat
under the exarchs of Ravenna, iv. 408. Its growth and prosperity at
the time of the fourth crusade, vi. 62-64, note M. Alliance with France,
65. Divides the Greek empire with the French, 97.

Veratius, his mode of obeying the law of the twelve tables respecting per-
sonal insults, iv. 370.

Verina, empress, the widow of Leo, deposes Zeno, iv. 4. Her turbulent
life, 5.

Verona, siege of, by Constantine the Great, i. 478. Battle of, between
Stilicho, the Roman general, and Alaric the Goth, iii. 218.

Verres, why his punishment was inadequate to his offences, iv. 575.
Vespasian, his prudence in sharing the Imperial dignity with his son
Titus, i. 90.

Vestals, Roman, their number and peculiar office, iii. 132.

Vetranio, the Roman general in Illyricum, assumes the purple, and enters
into an alliance with the Gaulish usurper Magnentius, ii. 189, 190. Is
reduced to abdicate his new dignity, 192.

Victoria exercises the government over the legions and province of Gaul,
i. 348.

Victory, her statue and altar, in the senate house at Rome, describer

fii. 133, 134. The senate petitions the Christian emperors to have it
restored, 134.

Vigilantius, the presbyter, is abused by St. Jerom for opposing monkish
superstition, iii. 157, note.

Vigilius, interpreter to the embassy from Theodosius the Younger to At-
tila, is privy to a scheme for the assassination of Attila, iii. 416. Is de
tected by Attila, 416.

purchases the papal chair of Belisarius and his wife, iv. 169. In-
stigates Justinian to resume the conquest of Italy, 265.

Vine, its progress, from the time of Homer, i. 65, 66, notes M. aud W.
Virgil, his fourth eclogue interpreted into a prophecy of the coming of the
Messiah, 269, 270. Is the most ancient writer who mentions the man.
ufacture of silk, iv. 66.

Vitalian, the Gothic chief, is treacherously murdered at Constantinople,
iv. 43.

Vitalianus, prætorian præfect under the emperor Maximin, put to death
by order of the senate, i. 207.

Vitellius, emperor, his character, i. 96, note.

Victorinus, successor of Posthumus, i. 348. His death and character, 348.
Viterbo, battle of, vi. 448.

Vitiges, general of the barbarians under Theodatus, king of Italy, is by
his troops declared king of Italy, iv. 157. He besieges Belisarius in
Rome, 159. Is forced to raise the siege, 172, 173. He is besieged by
Belisarius in Ravenna, 178. Is taken prisoner in Ravenna, 181. Con
forms to the Athanasian faith, and is honorably settled in Asia, 181, 182.
His embassy to Chosroes, king of Persia, 219.

Vitruvius, the architect, his remarks on the buildings of Rome, iii. 2€5.
Vizier, derivation of that appellation, v. 121, note.

Voconian law abolished the right of female inheritance, iv. 361. How
evaded, 364.

Voltaire prefers the labarum of Constantine to the angel of Licinius, ii.
263, note. His reflections on the expenses of a siege, iii. 640, note.
Vortigern, king of South Britain, his invitation of the Saxons for assist.
ance against his enemies, iii. 616, note.

Vouti, emperor of China, his exploits against the Huns, iii. 19.

W.

Walachians, the present, descendants from the Roman settlers in ancient
Dacia, i. 342, note.

Wales settled by British refugees from Saxon tyranny, iii. 621, 625. The
bards of, 628.

Wallia is chosen king of the Goths, iii. 311. He reduces the barbarous
invaders of Spain, 312. Is settled in Aquitain, 312.

Walter the Penniless, a leader in the first crusade, marches through Hun-
gary, v. 553, 554.

War and robbery, their difference, v. 88. Evolutions and military exercise
of the Greeks, 367. Military character of the Saracens, 370. Of the
Franks and Latins, 371.

Warburton, bishop of Gloucester, his literary character, ii. 436, note. His
labors to establish the miraculous interruption to Julian's building the
temple of Jerusalem, 439, 440, notes, vide notes G. and M.

Warna, battle of, between the sultan-Amurath II. and Ladislaus, king of
Hungary and Poland, vi. 355.

Werdan, the Greek general, defeated by the Saracens at Aiznadin, v. 194,
note M.

Wenck, Mr., German edition of Gibbon's Decline and Fa.l of the Roman
Empire by, incomplete, vide Editor's Preface, vol. i. p. xxi His valu-
able notes added to the present edition, and marked W.

Wheat, the average price of, under the successors of Constantine the
Great, ii. 466, note.

Whitaker, Mr., remarks on his account of the Irish descent of the Scottish
nation, ii. 565, note.

White, Mr., Arabic professor at Oxford, character of his sermons at
Bampton's lecture, v. 288, note.

Wilfrid, the apostle of Sussex, his benevolent establishment at Selsey, iii.
£27.

William I., the Bad, king of Sicily, v. 493.

William II., the Good, king of Sicily, v. 494.

Windmills, the use of, from whence derived, vi. 129.

Wine, the use of, expressly prohibited by Mahomet, v. 116.

Wisdom of Solomon, when and by whom that book was written, ii. 304.
Wolodomir, great prince of Russia, v. 436. Marries Anne, daughter of the
emperor Romanus, 362. His conversion to Christianity, 436.

Women, in hereditary monarchies, allowed to exercise sovereignty, though
incapable of subordinate state offices, i. 175. Upinion of, by Metellus
Numidicus, 176, note. How treated by the Roman civil laws, iv. 345,
346.
The Voconian law, how evaded, 364. Are not excluded from
Paradise, by Mahomet, v. 119.

X.

Xenophon, his description of the desert of Mesopotamia, ii. 477, 478.
Xerxes, the situation of his bridge of boats for passing over to Europe,
pointed out, ii. 91, 92, note M.

Y.

felin-Thsou-tsai, the mandarin, patriotism and virtues of, iii. 397, notes,
vi. 221, note M.

Yemen, or Arabia Felix, v. 77, note M. Conquered by Nushirvan, who
places a Homerite prince on the throne, iv. 427, note M.

Yermuk, battle of, between the Greeks and the Saracens, v. 207, 208, vide
note M.

Yezdegerd, king of Persia, iv. 483, 484. His reign the æra of the fall of
the Sassanian dynasty, and of the religion of Zoroaster, v. 177, 178,
vide note M. His flight to Farsistan, 182.

Yezid, caliph of the Saracens, v. 162.

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Labergan invades the Eastern empire with an army of Bulgarians, iv. 282
note M. Is repulsed by Belisarius, 283.

Zachary, pope, pronounces the deposition of Childeric, king of France
and the appointment of Pepin to succeed him, v. 28.

Zano, brother of Gelimer, the Vandal usurper, conquers Sardinia, iv. 130
His letters intercepted, 130, note M. Is recalled to assist his brother,
130. Is killed, 132.

Zara, a city on the Sclavonian coast, reduced by the crusaders for the
republic of Venice, vi. 68, 69.

Zendavesta, the, or book of the Ghebers, i. 229, vide note M., 232, note G.,
232, note G., 233, note M., v. 264, note M.

Zenghi, sultan, his valor and conquests, vi. 16.

Zeno, emperor of the East, receives a surrender of the Imperial govern-
ment of the Western empire from the senate of Rome, iii. 512. The
vicissitudes of his life and reign, iv. 3, 4. His character, 4, 5, note M
His "Henoticon," 522.

Zenobia, queen of Palmyra, her character and history, i. 350, 356, 360.
Zingis, first emperor of the Moguls and Tartars, parallel between him and
Attila king of the Huns, iii. 389. His inhuman proposal for improving

his conquests in China, 397.
204, note M. His laws, 205.

His birth and early military exploits, vi.
Establishes a system of religion, 206, note
M. His invasion of China, 209. Of Carisme, Transoxiana, and Persia
210. His death, 212, note M.

Zizais, a noble Sarmatian, is made king of that nation, by the emperor
Constantius, ii. 222.

Zobier, the Saracen, his bravery in the invasion of Africa, v. 238.

Zoe, the concubine, and afterwards fourth wife of the emperor Leo the
Philosopher, iv. 602.

wife of the emperors Romanus III. and Michael IV., iv. 611.
Zoroaster, the Persian prophet, his high antiquity, i. 229, 230, note, and
note M. Abridgment of his theology, 231, 232, notes G. and M., 233, 234,
note M. Provides for the encouragement of agriculture, 234, 235, note, G.
Assigns tithes to the priests, 236, 237, note, vide note M.

Zosimus, his representation of the oppression of the lustral contribution
ii. 150.

Zuinglius, the Reformer, his conceptions of the Eucharist, v. 400.
Zurich, brief history of that city, vi. 431.