ABELE tree, see Poplar. Acanthus, iii. 45. iv. 20. Acrostics of the Sibyls, iv. 4. Actæus considered, ii. 24. Adonis, x. 18. Ægle, vi. 21.
Equor considered, ix. 57. Africans, why called Sitientes, i. 65. Aganippe, x. 12.
Age for bearing offices at Rome, iv. 8. Ages of the world, iv. 5. Agrippa marched with an army into Gaul, x. 44.
Alcanna, the Cypros of Egypt, ii. 18. Alcides, a name of Hercules, vii. 61. Alcimedon, a carver, iii. 37. Alcon, a Cretan archer, v. 11. Alexander, a slave of Pollio, thought to be Alexis, ii. 1, 35. thought to be Mopsus, v. 1. Alexis supposed to be Augustus, Gallus, or a servant of Pollio, Cæsar, or Mæcenas, v. 86. Ec- logue so called, when written, v. 86.
Alfenus Varus, vi. 6. Alga, vii. 42.
Aliungia, v. 17.
Alpheus and Arethusa, x. 4. Alps, x. 47.
Altaria thought to be different from aræ, v. 65.
Alternate singing liked by the Muses, iii. 59. Amaryllis thought to be put allegori- cally for Rome, i. 5, 31. ix. 22. pretended to be the secret name for Rome, i. 31. said to be a girl given to Virgil by Mæcenas, ii. 14. her true name said to be Leria, ibid.
Ambarvalia, what victims were offered in that sacrifice, iii. 77. Amoebean poetry, iii. 1. the laws of it, iii. 63.
Amomum considered, iii. 89. Amphion the builder of Thebes, ii. 24.
Amyntas supposed to be Cebes, ii. 35, 39. v. 8. Cornificius, ii. 39. Anaximander, iii. 40, 104. Anima used for air, vi. 32. Animus used for memory, ix. 51. Anser, a poet contemporary with Virgil, ix. 36.
Anthony Lucius, the brother of Mark, iv. 13. Mark, his behaviour when Cæsar was murdered, iv. 13. imitated Bacchus, iv. 10. v. 29. his infamous amour with Cytheris, x. 22. not the soldier with whom Lycoris ran away, ibid.
Apiastrum poisonous in Sardinia, iv. 24.
Apollo the god of verse, iv. 57. not the next deity to Jupiter, iii. 63. fond of the river Eurotas, vi. 83.
Apples, golden, iii. 70. Apricocks, ii. 51.
Aracynthus, ii. 24. why called Ac- tean, ibid.
Aræ thought to be different from altaria, v. 65.
Arar a river of France, i. 63. Aratus, iii. 40.
Arbusta explained, i. 40. Arbute, or strawberry-tree, viii. 46. coveted by goats, iii. 82. Arcadians, their character, vii. 4.
x. 32. Archimedes, iii. 40.
Ardeo used actively, to express an Bay, crowns of it worn by con-
extreme passion, ii. 1. Arethusa, x. 1, 4.
Argo, the first long ship with sails, built by the Greeks, iv. 34. Argonauts, ibid.
Argus the son of Danaus, ibid. Arion, viii. 56.
Arista used for years, i. 70. Ariusian wine, v. 71.
Arrius the centurion assaulted Vir- gil, iii. 94. ix. 1. -
Arum maximum, &c. the Colocasia, iv. 20.
Ashes, how used in the ancient sacrifices, viii. 101. Assyria, the greatest extent of that empire, iv. 25. Astræa, iv. 6. Atalanta, vi. 61.
Atlas invented the sphere, iii. 104. Atropos one of the Parcæ, iv. 47. August, when the month had that name, iv. 12.
St. Augustine quotes the Sibylline oracles, iv. 4.
Augustus Cæsar called a god by Vir- gil, i. 6. why called Apollo, iv. 10. called a boy by his enemies, i. 43. built a temple to the Actian Apollo, iv. 10. his behaviour at the time of the murder of Julius Cæsar, iv. 13.
Augustus Cæsar fancied to be [olas, ii. 57. Alexis, ii. 73. supposed to be the patron of the eighth Ec- logue, viii. 6, 10, 11. Avena, a shepherd's pipe, i. 2. Avens not the Baccar, iv. 19.
querors in their triumphs, viii. 13. how used in magical rites, viii. 82. Bean of Egypt, iv. 20.
Beech, the uses of its bark, v. 13. Beechen cups anciently esteemed, iii. 36. Beestings, ii. 22.
Beginning and ending with any person, used only as a compli- ment by the ancients, viii. 11. Bianor, surnamed Ocnus, the forti- fier of Mantua, ix. 59.
Bindweed thought to be the Ligus- trum, ii. 18.
Birth-day celebrated by the ancients, iii. 76.
Boars, wild, v. 76. x. 56.
Body, or matter, one of Epicurus's principles, vi. 31.
Bows made of horn, x. 59. Boy, Augustus so called by his enemies, i. 43.
Britain divided from the rest of the world, i. 67.
Brutus Decimus besieged in Mutina, iv. 13. Marcus, governor of Ma- cedonia, iv. 13.
Buds, Gemmæ, or Oculi, vii. 48. Buskin of the tragedians, viii. 10. Butcher's-broom, vii. 42.
Cælius of Mantua, iii. 104. Cælus had a statue of three cubits, ibid. Calathus considered, ii. 46. v. 71. Calliopea, iv. 57.
Caltha considered, ii. 50.
Camenæ, whence derived, iii. 79. Cantharus, a vessel sacred to Bac- chus, vi. 17.
Baccar, Baccaris, or Baccharis, iv. Carving a liberal art, iii. 37.
Bacchanalia, v. 29.
Bacchus, his festival, ibid.. Barebind, ii. 18.
Barks of trees written upon by the ancients, v. 13.
Baum poisonous in Sardinia, iv. 24. Bavius, iii. 90.
Cassius governor of Syria, iv. 13. Caucasus, vi. 42.
Causari explained, ix. 56.
Cebes, a boy given to Virgil by Mæcenas, ii. 14. said to be meant under the feigned name of Me- nalcas, ii. 14. under the name of Amyntas, ii. 35. v. 8.
Civil wars of the Romans, a brief account of them, iv. 15. Clary not the Baccar, iv. 19. Clotho one of the Parcæ, iv. 47. Codrus king of Athens, v. 11. a good poet, and friend of Virgil, vii. 22. a sorry poet, contemporary with Juvenal and Martial, vii. 22. Colocasia, iv. 20. Colostrum, ii. 22. Condere soles explained, ix. 52. Conjux does not always strictly sig- nify husband or wife, viii. 18. Conon, iii. 40.
Constantine the emperor quotes the Sibylline oracles, iv. 4. Convolvulus major thought to be the Ligustrum, ii. 18. Cornificius, an enemy of Virgil, supposed to be meant under the name of Amyntas, ii. 39. Corsica, the honey of that island infamous, ix. 30.
Corydon not Virgil in the second Eclogue, ii. 1. supposed to be one of Virgil's friends, iii. 1. Virgil himself, vii. 1. Cothurnus, vii. 32. viii. 10. Crater, a sort of cup, v. 68.
Cretans, famous archers, x. 59. Cremona given to the soldiers, i. 1. Crow seen on the left, ix. 15. Crow-foot the poisonous herb of Sardinia, vii. 41.
Cud of ruminating animals, vi. 54. Cui, when it began to be written for quoi, iv. 62. Culcas, iv. 20.
Cumæ, the Sibyl who prophesied
there the most famous, iv. 4. Cynthius, a name of Apollo, vi. 3. Cypros of Egypt the Elhanne or Alcanna, ii. 18. not the Ligus- trum, ibid.
Cypselus saved his life by smiling on his murderer, iv. 60. Cytheris the actress, her character, and amour with Mark Anthony, x. 22.
Dama used in the masculine gender by Virgil, viii. 28. Damnare votis, v. 80. Damotas supposed to be Lucre- tius, ii. 37.
Danaus the brother of Ægyptus, iii. 34.
Dancing in religious solemnities, v.
Daphne changed to a bay tree, iii.
Daphnis, thought to be the Sicilian shepherd of that name, v. 19. Julius Cæsar, v. 19, 24, 29, 43, 51, 52, 56, 64. Quintilius Varus, v. 19. Flaccus, the brother of Virgil, v. 19, 27, 29, 43, 80. Sa- lonius, v. 19. Quintilius Cremo- nensis, ibid. Jesus Christ, ibid. one of Cæsar's learned friends, vii. 1. Virgil himself, ibid. a fic- titious name of a shepherd, ix. 46. when the Eclogue so called was written, v. 52, 54, 86. ix. 19. that Eclogue thought to have re- commended Virgil to the favour of Augustus, v. 52. ix. 10.
Evening described, i. 83. ii. 66, 67. vi. 85.
De in composition signifies aug- Eustathius quotes Homer erro- menting, ii. 72. Delicia considered, ii. 2. Demi-gods not accustomed to give answers without force, vi. 19. visible only when they think fit,
Dione, the mother of Venus, ix. 47. Dionysia, or Liberalia, different
from the Bacchanalia, v. 29. Dirce, a spring near Thebes, ii. 24. Discludere explained, vi. 35. Divus and Deus considered, i. 42. Doris used for the sea, x. 5. Drusus, not the hero of the fourth Eclogue, iv. 8. Dryads, v. 59.
Duco considered, i. 13. Dulichium, vi. 76. Dwarf-elder, x. 27.
Evil eye, iii. 103. tongue, vii. 28. Eye, fascinating, iii. 103.
Facilis considered, iii. 9. Facio signifies to sacrifice, iii. 77. Fagus, a beech tree, i. 1. errone- ously taken for an oak, ibid. Fascination, iii. 103. Fauns, rural deities, vi. 27. Ferula, x. 25.
Figo considered, ii. 29. Flaccianus, a proconsul, shewed some verses of the Sibyls to St. Augustin, iv. 4.
Flaccus, the brother of Virgil, thought to be Daphnis, v. 19. Foeta considered, i. 50. Fætura defined, ibid.
Fontinalia, a Roman festival, v. 40. Fox-glove, thought to be the baccar, iv. 19.
Fragilis, signifies crackling, viii. 82. Frankincense, male, viii. 65. French spikenard, v. 17. Frigus, used for winter, ii. 22. Frondator considered, i. 57. Frondes explained, iii. 57.
Fruges and Segetes distinguished,
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