← The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 6 (of 6)
Index to the Principal Subjects Mentioned in the Text and Notes. ⁂ The Roman numerals refer to the volume, the Arabic to the Page (part 2)
- —the destruction of, ii. 163
- —the cavalry of, 318.
- Sybaris, the river, v. 476.
- Syce, v. 261.
- Sycitis, vi. 461.
- Syene, i. 107, 414, 415— ii. 97.
- Sygaros, ii. 88.
- Sylla, the Dictator, i. 85, 206, 316; v. 206; vi. 323, 389
- —his success and dreadful death, ii. 190, 191
- —his memoirs, iv. 394
- —his triumph, vi. 76.
- Symboli, Port of the, i. 334.
- Syme, i. 484.
- Sympathy, iv. 206; v. 1; vi. 12, 13, 407.
- Symphyton petræon, v. 231, 232.
- Symplegades, i. 338.
- Symplegma, vi. 314.
- Synnephitis, vi. 449.
- Synochitis, vi. 461.
- Synodontitis, vi. 457, 459.
- Synodus, vi. 457.
- Syphax, i. 385.
- Syracuse, i. 217.
- Syrbotæ, ii. 101, 134.
- Syreon, v. 71, 72.
- Syria described, i. 423
- —Antiochia described, i. 436
- —the trees of, iii. 178.
- Syricum, vi. 240.
- Syrie, i. 469.
- Syringia, iii. 405.
- Syringitis, vi. 457.
- Syrites, iii. 74.
- Syron, v. 165, 166.
- Syrtes, i. 391.
- Syrtitis, vi. 457.
- T.
- Tabanus, iii. 35.
- Table-napkins, i. 1, 170
- —of asbestus, iv. 136, 137.
- Tables, large, iii. 195, 196, 197.
- Tablets, writing, iii. 186.
- Tacapa, iii. 388
- —its fertility, iv. 67.
- Tachos, i. 471.
- Tacitus, Cornelius, ii. 158.
- Tacitus, the historian, quoted, i. 136, 330, 347, 450.
- Tacompsos, ii. 98.
- Tadmor, i. 445.
- Tadpoles, ii. 462, 463; vi. 50.
- Tænarum, i. 282, 283.
- Tagasta, i. 395.
- Tagliamento, i. 249.
- Tagus, i. 264.
- Tails, men with, ii. 134
- —of insects, iii. 35
- —of animals, 92, 93.
- Talc, vi. 368, 369, 446.
- Talgæ, i. 399.
- Tallies, iii. 372.
- Tallow, v. 326, 327.
- Talpona, iii. 229.
- Tamarica, v. 29, 30.
- Tamaricus, river, v. 480.
- Tamarindus Indica, iii. 110, 111.
- Tamarisk, iii. 374; v. 29, 30.
- Tamarix, v. 29, 30.
- Taminia, iv. 446, 465, 468.
- Tanagra, i. 292.
- Tanaïs, i. 327, 335; ii. 14.
- Tanaquil, ii. 336; vi. 384.
- Tanarus, i. 244.
- Tangier, i. 374.
- Tannin, iv. 461, 484, 487, 500, 508, 519; v. 6.
- Tanning, iv. 499.
- Tanos, vi. 413.
- Taos, vi. 459.
- Tapeworm, remedies for, v. 348, 349.
- Taphiusan stone, vi. 365.
- Taphræ, i. 334.
- Taposiris, vi. 41.
- Taprobane, ii. 134, 430; vi. 59
- —described, ii. 51.
- Tar, iii. 361
- —water, v. 18.
- Tarandrus, ii. 304.
- Tarantula, v. 401.
- Tarbelli, v. 472.
- Tarda, ii. 500.
- Tarentine red, ii. 447.
- Tarquinii, i. 190
- —Lake of, i. 123.
- Tarquinius Priscus, vi. 72, 229, 347, 384.
- Tarquinius Superbus, i. 204; iii. 193; iv. 150, 196, 197.
- Tarquitius, i. 146.
- Tarraco, i. 166; iv. 133
- —wines of, iii. 244.
- Tarragona, i. 166.
- Tarshish, i. 156, 369.
- Tarsus, i. 447.
- Tartessos, i. 156, 399.
- Tarum, iii. 142.
- Tarutius, iv. 126.
- Tarvisium, i. 248.
- Tasitia, v. 478.
- Tattooing, practice of, ii. 8; iv. 389
- —a probable allusion to, ii. 145.
- Taurica, i. 333.
- Taurini, i. 247.
- Tauriscus, vi. 139, 318.
- Tauromenian wine, iii. 242.
- Tauron, ii. 241.
- Taurus (bird), ii. 522.
- Taurus (range of), i. 453.
- Taxilla, ii. 41.
- Taygetus, i. 283.
- Teal, ii. 528.
- Teats, iii. 75.
- Teazel, v. 148.
- Tecolithos, vi. 362, 443, 457.
- Tectæ, ii. 332.
- Tectosages, i. 492.
- Teeth, the human, ii. 153, 154, 155
- —superstition as to, 155
- —serrated, 549; iii. 56, 61
- —an account of, 56, 57
- —canine, 56, 58, 60
- —hollow, 57
- —of fish, 57
- —of serpents, 57, 58
- —of other animals, 58
- —marvels connected with, 59, 60
- —cut in old age, 59
- —double row of, 60
- —never changed, 60
- —age of animals estimated from, 60, 61
- —human, venom in, 61
- —remedies for diseases of, v. 145, 146
- —remedies derived from the human, 291.
- Tegea, i. 286.
- Telchius, ii. 12.
- Telephanes, v. 177.
- Telephion, v. 267, 268.
- Telephus, v. 94; vi. 211.
- Telestis, vi. 268.
- Telinum, iii. 164.
- Telis, v. 74.
- Telmessus, i. 457.
- Telmissus, i. 462.
- Tembrogius, ii. 3.
- Temetum, iii. 252.
- Temesvar, i. 306.
- Tempe, i. 296
- Tempests, i. 80
- —prognostics derived from, iv. 122.
- Temples, ornaments of, made of brass, vi. 153
- —marvels connected with, 344.
- Temsa, i. 209.
- Temulentia, iii. 253.
- Tenedos, i. 488.
- Teneriffe, ii. 108.
- Tenesmus, remedies for, v. 348, 349.
- Tenites, vi. 436.
- Tenos, i. 318.
- Tents (surgical), v. 520.
- Tentyra, i. 407.
- Tentyris, i. 417.
- Tentyritæ, ii. 289.
- Tephrias, vi. 328.
- Tephritis, vi. 457.
- Terebinth, iii. 179; v. 12, 13, 16.
- Terebinthine, iii. 179, 357; v. 16.
- Teredo, iii. 2, 22, 367, 425.
- Terence quoted, i. 318.
- Tereus, i. 307.
- Tergeste, i. 250.
- Tergilla, iii. 275.
- Terpander, ii. 231.
- Terrace-pavements, vi. 377.
- Terracina, i. 194.
- Terrestrial animals, generation of, ii. 540-544.
- Tesseræ or watchwords, ii. 229.
- Testes, iii. 92
- —injuries of the, 92
- —remedies for diseases of, v. 187.
- Testudo, ii. 288.
- Tethalassomenon, iii. 248.
- Tethea, vi. 39.
- Tetrao, ii. 500.
- Tetrarchies, i. 432, 433.
- Tettigometra, iii. 32.
- Tettigonia, iii. 31.
- Teucer, the artist, vi. 140.
- Teucer, the hero, i. 481.
- Teuchites, iv. 364.
- Teucria, v. 52, 53.
- Teuthalis, v. 259, 260.
- Teuthrion, iv. 326.
- Teutoni, i. 346.
- Text of Pliny, its defective state, vi. 1.
- Thalami, ii. 330.
- Thalassægle, v. 65.
- Thalassites, iii. 248.
- Thalassomeli, v. 498.
- Thales, i. 37; iv. 127; vi. 338.
- Thalictrum, v. 268.
- Thamyris, ii. 231.
- Thapsia, iii. 205, 206.
- Thapsus, i. 391.
- Thasos, i. 324
- —wines of, iii. 245
- —grapes of, 262.
- Theamedes, iv. 207; vi. 356, 357.
- Theangalis, v. 66.
- Theatre, of Pompeius, vi. 350
- —of Scaurus, 163, 349, 350.
- Theatres, awnings for, iv. 138
- —saffron-water used in, 321.
- Thebaic stone, vi. 331, 367.
- Thebaïs, i. 407.
- Thebasa, i. 493.
- Thebes, in Bœotia, i. 290
- —the taking of, vi. 174.
- Thebes, the Corsian, i. 277.
- Thebes, in Egypt, i. 416; vi. 343.
- Thebes, in Thessaly, i. 294.
- Thelycardios, vi. 457.
- Thelygonon, v. 191, 213, 214, 239.
- Thelyphonon, v. 128, 218-221.
- Thelypteris, v. 245, 246.
- Thelyrrhizos, vi. 457.
- Themiscyra described, ii. 8.
- Themison, iii. 100; v. 372.
- Theobrotion, v. 64, 65, 66.
- Theochrestus, vi. 467.
- Theodorus, ii. 226; vi. 184, 283, 342.
- Theodosia, i. 334.
- Theomenes, vi. 467.
- Theomnestus, vi. 145, 188, 267.
- Theon, vi. 280.
- Theon Ochema, i. 380; ii. 104.
- Theophrastus, i. 9, 10, 270
- —quoted, 193, 194; iii. 197, 441, 478, 525; iv. 208; vi. 366, 461.
- Theopompus, i. 150.
- Theramne, i. 283.
- Theriaca, grapes of the, iv. 463.
- Theriace, v. 384, 396
- —composition of, iv. 299, 300.
- Therimachus, vi. 169, 256.
- Therionarca, v. 65, 124.
- Thermæ, Gulf of, i. 300, 324.
- Thermopylæ, i. 294.
- Theseus, i. 289; iv. 426.
- Thesion, iv. 359, 417.
- Thesmophoria, v. 26.
- Thespiades, vi. 321.
- Thespiæ, i. 290; v. 475.
- Thesproti, i. 271.
- Thessalonica, i. 300.
- Thessalus, v. 373.
- Thessaly described, i. 294
- —its witchcraft, v. 423.
- Thibii, ii. 127.
- Thieldones, ii. 322.
- Thirst, successfully resisted, ii. 159
- —how prevented in Gætulia, 550
- —how allayed, iii. 99.
- Thistles, various kinds of, iv. 190, 191, 299, 351, 353, 354, 401, 425, 426; v. 45, 239.
- Thlaspi, v. 268, 269.
- Thomna, iii. 128.
- Thorn, iv. 421; v. 43-46.
- Thorn, Egyptian, iii. 183.
- Thorn, Indian, iii. 109.
- Thorn, royal, iii. 207, 208.
- Thorn, thirsty, iii. 211.
- Thorybethron, v. 173.
- Thos, ii. 304.
- Thoth, the Egyptian month, v. 256.
- Thrace described, i. 302.
- Thracia (stone), vi. 457.
- Thranis, vi. 65.
- Thrasimenus, i. 116.
- Thrason, vi. 188.
- Thrasyllus, i. 149.
- Thread, gold, vi. 98.
- Threshing-floor, iv. 70, 102.
- Thrissa, vi. 65.
- Throat, iii. 63, 64
- —remedies for affections of, v. 433.
- Thrushes, ii. 506, 509
- —fattened, ii. 501.
- Thryallis, v. 127, 128.
- Thryselinum, v. 135.
- Thucydides, i. 119, 270, 474; ii. 175.
- Thule, i. 109, 145, 352; ii. 113.
- Thunder, i. 69, 70, 80-83, 86
- —ascribed to Jupiter, 51, 52
- —prognostics from, iv. 121
- —truffles produced by, 144.
- Thurii, wines of, iii. 243.
- Thyatira, i. 468.
- Thymbræum, iv. 293.
- Thyme, iv. 292, 293, 331, 332, 375, 376.
- Thymelæa, iii. 201.
- Thynias, ii. 22.
- Thynni, ii. 385.
- Thynnis, vi. 65.
- Thyon, iii. 197.
- Thyrea, i. 283.
- Thyrsus, iii. 187.
- Thysdris, ii. 138.
- Tiber, i. 191, 192.
- Tiberias, i. 429.
- Tiberius, the Emperor, i. 264; ii. 197, 198; iii. 241, 272; iv. 156, 174, 188, 189; v. 283, 390, 426; vi. 81, 234, 381
- —could see in the dark, iii. 51.
- Tibur, stone of, vi. 324.
- Tiburnus, iii. 431.
- Ticks, various kinds of, iii. 40, 41.
- Tides, an account of the, i. 124-128.
- Tifernum, i. 240,
- Tifernus, i. 231.
- Tiga, i. 395.
- Tigers, when first seen at Rome, ii. 275
- —their nature, 275, 276.
- Tigranes, ii. 82.
- Tigranocerta, ii. 19.
- Tigress, instinct of the, ii. 248.
- Tigrinæ, iii. 196.
- Tigris, ii. 62, 75.
- Tiles, the invention of, ii. 222
- —an account of, vi. 368.
- Tiliaventum, i. 249.
- Timæus, i. 30, 148, 372; vi. 145, 222.
- Timagenes, i. 270.
- Timanthes, vi. 251, 254, 255.
- Timarchides, vi. 188.
- Timarchus, vi. 170.
- Timarete, vi. 249, 281.
- Timaris, vi. 455.
- Timaristus, iv. 368.
- Timavus, i. 266.
- Timber, felling of iii. 415, 416, 417.
- Time, Roman reckoning of, ii. 125.
- Time-pieces, the first, ii. 237.
- Timictonia, vi. 459.
- Timocles, vi. 170.
- Timomachus, vi. 277.
- Timon the misanthrope, ii. 160.
- Timosthenes, i. 371.
- Timotheus, the musician, ii. 231.
- Timotheus, the sculptor, vi. 188, 316, 317.
- Tin, i. 351
- —first use of, ii. 225
- —an account of, vi. 212.
- Tinea, iii. 425.
- Tingi, i. 374.
- Tinning, vi. 214.
- Tinnunculus, ii. 519, 532.
- Tinting of flowers, iv. 317.
- Tinus, iii. 333.
- Tipasa, i. 386.
- Tiphe, iv. 31, 35.
- Tiresias, vi. 456.
- Tiridates, v. 428.
- Tiro, Sabinus, iv. 204.
- Tiro, Tullius, i. 147.
- Tiryns, i. 284.
- Tisicrates, vi. 176, 187
- —colouring of, 282, 283.
- Tithymalis, v. 179.
- Tithymalon, iv. 279, 280.
- Tithymalos, v. 177-180.
- Titidius Labeo, vi. 230.
- Titles of Greek works, i. 7.
- Titus, the Emperor, i. 2, 147; vi. 320.
- Tlepolemus, iv. 302.
- Tmolus, i. 465; ii. 203
- —wines of, iii. 245, 246.
- Toad, vi. 22.
- See also “Bramble-frog,” and “Rubeta.”
- Tobit, cure of his father’s blindness, vi. 30.
- Toes, eight on each foot, ii. 130.
- Toga, statues clad in the, vi. 155.
- Toga Phryxia, ii. 337.
- Toga picta, ii. 443.
- Toga prætexta, ii. 337, 338, 411, 447, 448; vi. 72.
- Toga pura, ii. 336.
- Toga undulata, ii. 336.
- Toledo, i. 171.
- Toletum, i. 171.
- Tolosa, i. 180.
- Tomentum, ii. 335; iv. 184.
- Tomi, i. 306; vi. 65.
- Tonberos, ii. 58.
- Tone, vi. 235, 236.
- Tongres, v. 476.
- Tongue, of various animals, iii. 61
- —asperities of, in some, 61.
- Tonsillary glands, iii. 62
- —remedies for diseases of, v. 342.
- Tooth of wolf used as an amulet, iii. 59.
- Tooth-ache, remedies for, v. 338, 339, 430, 431; vi. 34.
- Toothpicks, v. 19.
- Tooth-wort, v. 245, 257.
- Toparchies of Judæa, i. 427.
- Topaz, vi. 427, 434, 435.
- Topazos, vi. 426, 427.
- Tophus, iii. 447, 448; vi. 371.
- Toranius, his trick upon Antony, ii. 148.
- Torch-tree, iii. 358; v. 19.
- Torcs of gold, vi. 86.
- Tordylon, v. 71, 72.
- Toreutic art, vi. 171, 247, 256.
- Tornadoes, i. 80.
- Torone, i. 300.
- Torpedo, ii. 396, 411, 451, 456; vi. 4.
- Torquatus, his defeat of the Gaul, vi. 75.
- Torquatus, Novellius, the drunkard, iii. 272, 273.
- Torques, ii. 171; vi. 86.
- Tortivum, iii. 268.
- Tortoise, vi. 15-18.
- Tortoise shell, ii. 379; iii. 429; vi. 16.
- Tortona, i. 186.
- Touchstones, vi. 125, 327, 328.
- Toulouse, i. 180.
- Tourmaline, vi. 356, 398, 404, 405, 424, 425, 448, 453.
- Towers, by whom first erected, ii. 223.
- Toxica, iii. 360; iv. 397; v. 10, 333.
- Toxicum, v. 171.
- Trabea, ii. 337, 447.
- Trachin, i. 294.
- Trachinia, v. 269.
- Trachonitis, i. 433.
- Trafalgar, Cape, i. 156.
- Tragacanthe, iii. 202.
- Tragelaphus, ii. 302.
- Tragemata, iii. 177.
- Tragi, ii. 455.
- Tragion, iii. 201, 202.
- Tragonis, v. 269, 270.
- Tragopan, ii. 530.
- Tragopogon, iv. 349; v. 270.
- Tragoriganum, iv. 268.
- Tragos, iii. 202; v. 270.
- Tragum, iv. 29.
- Tragus, ii. 455; vi. 65.
- Trajan, the Emperor, his death, i. 448.
- Tralles, i. 464.
- Transpadana, i. 246.
- Transplanting, iii. 468-471, 487-491.
- Trapezus, ii. 9.
- Travertine, vi. 371.
- “Treacle,” origin of the word, iv. 300; v. 380.
- Treasury, the Roman, vi. 95.
- Trebellian wine, iii. 243.
- Trebizond, ii. 9.
- Trebula, wine of, iii. 244.
- Trees, their place in the system of Nature, iii. 101
- —early history of, 102
- —consecrated to peculiar divinities, 102
- —uses of, 103
- —exotic, 103
- —of huge size, 105
- —of India, 107, 108
- —of Asia, 115, 116
- —of Persia, 117
- —that grow in the sea, 117
- —that never lose their leaves, 118
- —products of, 119
- —exhibited in triumphal processions, 147
- —of Syria, 178
- —of Phœnicia, 178
- —of Egypt, 180
- —in which fruits germinate one beneath the other, 182
- —of Æthiopia, 193, 194
- —of Mount Atlas, 194, 195
- —of Cyrenaica, 200
- —of Asia and Greece, 201
- —of the Mediterranean, 209, 210
- —gigantic, in the Indian Seas, 212
- —of the Troglodytic Sea, 212
- —methods of grafting, 302
- —countries that have none, 339
- —wonders connected with those of the North, 340, 341
- —various products of, 350, 351
- —the bark of, 354, 255
- —those of which the wood is valued, 365
- —localities of various, 370, 371
- —species of, 373
- —evergreen, 373, 374
- —leaves of, 374-379
- —blossoms of, 380, 383
- —fecundation of, 381
- —which bear the whole year, 385
- —which bear no fruit, 385
- —looked upon as ill-omened, 386, 387
- —which soonest lose their fruit or flowers, 386
- —unproductive in some localities, 387
- —their mode of bearing, 387
- —in which the fruit appears first, 387
- —with two crops in a year, 388
- —which become old most rapidly or most slowly, 389, 390
- —with various products, 390
- —differences in their trunks and branches, 391, 392
- —roots of, 391
- —trunks of, 391, 392
- —branches of, 391, 392
- —bark of, 393
- —which grow spontaneously, 394, 395, 396
- —changes in their nature, 397
- —juices of, 412
- —veins and pores of, 413, 414
- —the felling of, 415
- —size of, 417
- —largest in size, 419
- —some proof against decay, 422, 423
- —age of, 429, 430, 431
- —shortlived, 432
- —famous, 433
- —enormous prices of, 438, 439
- —surnames derived from, 440
- —influence of weather upon, 441, 442
- —their mode of bearing, 460
- —which never degenerate, 461, 462
- —interval left between, 472, 473
- —shadow thrown by, 473, 474
- —growth of, 475
- —which grow from cuttings, 486
- —diseases of, 517-524, 527, 530
- —which are injurious to one another, 525, 526
- —prodigies connected with, 526, 527
- —incisions in, 529, 530
- —mode of manuring, 531, 532
- —medicaments for, 532, 533, 534.
- Trefoil, iv. 330, 331, 374, 375.
- Trent, i. 252.
- Treviso, i. 248.
- Triarius, ii. 8.
- Triballi, i. 297.
- Tribes of Rome, iv. 6.
- Tribulum, iv. 103.
- Tribulus, iv. 351, 355, 400, 401.
- Tribuni ærarii, vi. 83.
- Tributanus, the gladiator, ii. 160.
- Tributes paid in silver, vi. 93.
- Trichecum dugong, ii. 361.
- Trichecum manatum, ii. 361, 370.
- Trichecus rosmarinus, ii. 364.
- Trichias, ii. 389.
- Trichomanes, iv. 415, 416, 417; v. 268.
- Trichrus, vi. 457.
- Tricoccum, iv. 413, 414, 415.
- Tricongius, iii. 272.
- Tridentum, i. 252.
- Triens, the story of the Servilian, vi. 205.
- Trieste, i. 250.
- Trifoline wines, iii. 244.
- Trigarium, vi. 464.
- Trigarius, vi. 109.
- Trigemenian Gate, iv. 7.
- Triglitis, vi. 459.
- Triophthalmos, vi. 458.
- Triorchis, ii. 487; iii. 92; v. 105.
- Tripatinium, vi. 287.
- Tripolium, v. 167.
- Tripudia solistima, ii. 497.
- Triton, the river, i. 394, 412.
- Tritons, ii. 362, 363.
- Trispithami, ii. 132.
- Triumphs, usages at, v. 290, 291; vi. 73.
- Triumpilini, i. 254.
- Trixago, v. 52, 53.
- Troas described, i. 476.
- Trochi, ii. 467.
- Trochilus, ii. 288, 551.
- Trœzen, i. 284; v. 475
- —wine of, iii. 262.
- Troglodytæ, i. 134, 329, 398, 404; ii. 95, 96, 130, 134, 379; iii. 45, 124, 142, 143; v. 478; vi. 426, 427.
- Troglodytic Sea, iii. 212, 213.
- Troglodytica, i. 103, 107, 108; vi. 451
- —described, ii. 93.
- Trogus Pompeius, ii. 240.
- Trophonius, v. 477; vi. 176.
- Trophy erected on the Alps, i. 256.
- Trossuli, vi. 85, 86.
- Trowsers, i. 173.
- Troxallis, v. 439, 460.
- Truffles, iv. 142, 143, 144.
- Trumpet-fish, ii. 391, 396.
- Trunks of trees, iii. 391, 392.
- Trychnum, iv. 384, 385.
- See also “Strychnon.”
- Trygon, ii. 460.
- Tuber (fruit) iii. 297, 467.
- Tuber (truffle), iv. 142, 143, 144.
- Tuber terræ, v. 125, 126.
- Tubero, C. Ælius, ii. 210.
- Tubero, Q., i. 147.
- Tuccia, v. 279.
- Tuditanus, C. Sempronius, i. 251; iii. 156.
- Tufa, iii. 447, 448; vi. 357, 371.
- Tullius, the dwarf, ii. 157.
- Tumours, remedies for, v. 201, 202
- —inflamed, remedies for, 188, 189.
- Tungri, waters of, v. 476.
- Tunica recta, ii. 336.
- Tunny, ii. 382, 385-388.
- Turbith, v. 224.
- Turbot, ii. 389, 396, 452.
- Turcæ, ii. 15.
- Turcomania, ii. 75.
- Turduli, ii. 155.
- Turf, iii. 340.
- Turin, i. 247.
- Turnips, iv. 48, 49, 161, 162, 214, 215
- —wine from, iv. 478.
- Turnsole, iv. 413, 414, 415.
- Turpentine, iii. 179, 357; v. 16.
- Turpentine-tree, iii. 179; v. 12, 13, 16.
- Turpilius, vi. 230.
- Turquoise, vi. 427, 428.
- Tursio, ii. 377; vi. 66.
- Turtles, described, ii. 369; vi. 15
- —various kinds of, ii. 377, 378, 379
- —how taken, 378, 379
- —propagation of, 378, 379
- —without tongue or teeth, iii. 64.
- Tuscan architecture, vi. 285.
- Tuscany, modern, the wines of, iii. 229.
- “Tusci,” origin of the name, i. 187.
- Tusculum, i. 202.
- Tuscus, Fabricius, i. 269.
- Tussilago, v. 164.
- Twelve Tables, Laws of the, iii. 55; iv. 6, 306, 307; v. 281, 426.
- Twins, ii. 138.
- Tyana, ii. 6.
- Tylos, the island of, ii. 85; iii. 117, 118.
- Tympania, ii. 432.
- Tympanum, iv. 115.
- Tymphæi, i. 275.
- Tyndaris, i. 219.
- Typhon (wind), i. 57, 79.
- Tyra, river, i. 330.
- “Tyrant,” meaning of the word, ii. 227.
- Tyrian purple, ii. 447, 449.
- Tyrrheni, i. 187.
- Tyrus, i. 434.
- U.
- Ubii, i. 355.
- Ulcers, remedies for, v. 206-209, 359, 458, 459, 460; vi. 52.
- Ulex, vi. 103.
- Uliarus, i. 360.
- Ulophonon, iv. 407, 408, 409.
- Ultramarine, vi. 432.
- Ulula, ii. 492.
- Ulysses, vi. 265, 267.
- Umber, vi. 239.
- Umbilicus, iv. 113.
- Umbri, i. 187, 191.
- Umbri, sheep so called, ii. 339.
- Umbria described, i. 237.
- Umbricius Melior, ii. 554.
- Unedo, iii. 321; iv. 516.
- Unguents, iii. 159
- —when first used, 159, 160
- —various kinds of, 160-165
- —regal, 166
- —mode of testing, 166
- —boxes for, 166
- —excesses of luxury in, 167, 168
- —when first used by the Romans, 169, 170.
- Ungulus, vi. 73.
- Unicorn, ii. 279, 281.
- Union of Greece and Italy by a bridge, contemplation of, i. 226.
- Union of high qualities with purity, ii. 169.
- Unions, unnatural, ii. 134
- —unproductive, ii. 148, 149.
- Ura, i. 445.
- Urang-utang, ii. 106.
- See also “Satyrs.”
- Uranoscopos, vi. 30.
- Urceolaris, iv. 407.
- Uredo nivalis, i. 87.
- Urine, human, remedies derived from, v. 299, 300, 301
- —incontinence of, vi. 46.
- Urinum, ii. 537, 538, 539.
- Urna, iii. 45.
- Urtication, iv. 402, 403.
- Urus, ii. 262
- —horns of the, iii. 45.
- Usta, vi. 239.
- Uterus, position of the fœtus in the, ii. 139
- —of animals in, 544
- —described, iii. 75.
- Utica, i. 389
- —Temple at, iii. 424.
- Uvula, iii. 62.
- V.
- Vaccinium, iii. 373.
- Vacuna, i. 234.
- Vagienni, i. 243.
- Valens, Vettius, v. 373, 378.
- Valens, Vinnius, ii. 161.
- Valeria, ii. 153; vi. 160.
- Valeria (an eagle), ii. 481.
- Valerian, iii. 121; iv. 370; v. 102.
- Valerianus, i. 269; ii. 354.
- Valerius Flaccus quoted, i. 49.
- Valerius Maximus, ii. 240
- —quoted, i. 143.
- Valgius, C., iv. 300; v. 78.
- Vallum, iii. 342.
- Valtelline, i. 255.
- Vandili, i. 345.
- Vanishing men, ii. 135.
- Vannius, i. 330.
- Vappa, iii. 241, 266.
- Var, i. 174.
- Variæ, ii. 508.
- Varicose veins, remedies for, iii. 88; v. 353.
- Varro, M., his statue erected in his lifetime, ii. 176
- —how buried, vi. 286, 287
- —his works quoted, i. 147, 235, 260; ii. 35; iii. 304, 374, 525; iv. 44, 53, 63, 81, 103, 106, 438, 448; v. 157, 394, 408; vi. 285, 342, 384.
- Varro, P. Atacinus, i. 268.
- Varus, the slaughter of, ii. 198.
- “Varus,” the origin of the name, iii. 89.
- Vectis, i. 351.
- Veientana, vi. 457.
- Veii, i. 190.
- Veins, iii. 78
- —varicose, 88; v. 353.
- Vejovis, iii. 424.
- Vela, iv. 453.
- Velia, Lake, v. 474.
- Velinus, i. 234.
- Veliturnum, iii. 105
- —wine of, 241.
- Venafrum, i. 198
- —oil of, iii. 279.
- Venedi, i. 344.
- Veneering, iii. 195, 196, 427, 428, 429.
- Veneris crines, vi. 457.
- Venom in the human teeth, iii. 61.
- Venomous, sea-animals, ii. 459, 460
- —animals that are, will not die of hunger, 549.
- Ventidius, P., ii. 189.
- Vents in the earth, i. 121.
- Venus, worship of, i. 481.
- Venus Anadyomene, vi. 259, 260, 261.
- Venus’ comb, v. 70, 71.
- Venus de Medici, vi. 312, 318.
- Venus’ hair, vi. 457.
- Venusia, i. 228.
- Veratrum, v. 96, 97, 98.
- Verbascum, v. 127.
- Verbena, iv. 391.
- Verbenaca, v. 121, 122.
- Verbenarius, iv. 391.
- Verdigris, its medicinal efficacy, v. 94
- —an account of, vi. 195-198.
- Vergiliæ, i. 68; iv. 79, 88, 89.
- Vermifuge, iv. 452.
- Vermilion, derivation of the word, v. 5
- —an account of, vi. 119, 120.
- Verona, i. 252.
- Verres, vi. 167.
- Verrius Flaccus, i. 269.
- Versipellis, the story of, ii. 283.
- Vervain, v. 121, 122, 130.
- Vervain mallow, v. 224.
- Vespasiani, family of the, i. 203.
- Vespasianus, the Emperor, iii. 140; vi. 184, 271.
- Vesper, i. 29.
- Vessels of burden, of gigantic size, vi. 333.
- Vestal Virgins, v. 290.
- Vestalis, Fabius, ii. 240.
- Vestilia, ii. 140.
- Vestinus, iv. 387.
- Vestorius, vi. 142.
- Vesuvius, i. 197.
- Vetches, iv. 46, 51, 450, 451.
- Veternum, v. 355.
- Vettonica, v. 111, 112.
- Vetus, Antistius, v. 473.
- Vianiomina, i. 262.
- Viator, iv. 9.
- Vibius, ii. 147.
- Vicissitudes, instances of remarkable, ii. 189.
- Victims for sacrifice, ii. 329; iii. 79.
- Victoriatus, v. 8, 14; vi. 90.
- Vienna, i. 262.
- Vigintiviri, ii. 212.
- Vinalia, iv. 99.
- Vincapervinca, iv. 338, 339, 382; v. 57.
- Vindex, Julius, iv. 263.
- Vine, first cultivation of, ii. 226
- —the nature of, iii. 215, 218
- —cultivation of, 218-221
- —ninety-one varieties of it, 222-233
- —remarkable facts connected with it, 233-236
- —profits derived from its culture, 234, 235, 236
- —shoots of, pickled, 263
- —training of it, 409
- —the proper situation for it, 444, 445
- —grafting of, 482
- —culture of, 495-517
- —various kinds of, 499, 500
- —its uses, iv. 457, 458
- —leaves and shoots of, 458, 459
- —cuttings of, 462.
- Vine, wild, iii. 255; iv. 464, 465; v. 232.
- Vinedressers’ reed, iii. 408, 409.
- Vinefretter, iii. 534.
- Vinegar, iii. 257, 266, 268; iv. 478, 479, 480
- —lees of, 483.
- Vintage, iv. 109, 110, 111.
- Violet, iv. 317, 318, 368.
- Violet-purple, ii. 447.
- Vipers, ii. 311; v. 395, 396, 412
- —flesh of, eaten, ii. 133
- —torpor of, 311.
- Vipio, ii. 530.
- Virgil, the poet, where he died, i. 226
- —his birth-place, 252
- —his works forbidden to be burnt, ii. 176
- —his works quoted, i. 58, 64, 78, 95, 100, 110, 121, 131, 132, 187, 208, 233, 305, 321, 335, 403; ii. 127, 328, 329; iii. 20, 21, 24, 124, 152, 217, 223, 228, 231, 232, 242, 246, 278, 297, 302, 372, 393, 398, 442, 444, 447, 448, 459, 461, 464, 470, 473, 475, 477, 479; iv. 15, 16, 17, 38, 45, 57, 59, 62, 64, 65, 67, 72, 73, 75, 85, 102, 104, 110, 111, 117, 119, 122, 123, 124, 131, 154, 182, 311, 315, 316, 340, 344, 454; v. 25, 41, 365, 381; vi. 71, 139, 179, 240, 320, 383
- —mistranslated by Pliny, iii. 352.
- Virgin Waters, v. 488.
- Viscera, the, iii. 70
- —remedies for pains in, v. 437.
- Viscum, iii. 391, 434, 435; v. 6.
- Vistula, i. 344, 348.
- Visula, iii. 225.
- Visurgis, i. 348.
- Vital spirit, iii. 65.
- Vitality, signs of in man, iii. 96.
- Vitellius, the Emperor, vi. 164, 287, 288.
- Vitellius, P., iii. 67.
- Vitex, v. 26, 27, 28.
- Vitiparra, ii. 515.
- Vitriol, vi. 200, 295.
- Vitruvius Pollio, mentioned, iii. 437
- —quoted, i. 450; vi. 242, 377.
- Vivaria, ii. 345.
- Viviparous animals without hair, ii. 381.
- Voice, of insects, ii. 3
- —of animals, iii. 92, 93
- —of man, in a measure forms his physiognomy, 95
- —its varieties, 95
- —how deadened, 95
- —how heightened, 95.
- Volcanius, vi. 285.
- Volcanoes, i. 139, 140
- —submarine, v. 473.
- Volcatius, ii. 313.
- Vologesus, ii. 73.
- Volsinii, i. 190; vi. 162.
- Volsinium, i. 83.
- Volterra, i. 190.
- Volturnus, i. 73; iv. 116.
- Vomit, the only animals that, iii. 71.
- Vomits, the use of, iv. 403.
- Vopisci, ii. 144.
- Voyages, of discovery, i. 98, 99
- —to India, ii. 60-63
- —speedy, instances of, iv. 130
- —for the recovery of health, v. 13.
- Vulcan, i. 324.
- Vulture, great European, ii. 486.
- Vultures, an account of, ii. 486
- —how put to flight, iii. 97
- —how attracted, 97
- —remedies derived from, v. 398, 399.
- Vulva, iii. 75.
- W.
- Wagtail, ii. 551; vi. 446.
- Walking-sticks, iii. 205.
- Wall-nightingale, ii. 511.
- Wall-paintings, vi. 270.
- Wall-wort, v. 127.
- Walls, when first built, ii. 223
- —formation of, vi. 289, 290, 291
- —of houses, 324.
- Walnuts, iii. 315; iv. 514, 515.
- Wanley, Nathaniel, quoted, ii. 136.
- Warm springs, i. 133, 195, 266; v. 472.
- Warts, remedies for, v. 209, 210; vi. 53.
- Wasps, iii. 24, 25, 98.
- Water, an account of, i. 96, 97, 98
- —peculiar properties of, 135, 136, 137
- —how made potable, v. 2
- —remarkable facts connected with, 471
- —properties of, 472
- —remedies derived from, 473
- —impurities of, 484, 485
- —modes of testing, 485, 486, 487
- —boiled, 486, 487
- —mode of searching for, 488, 499
- —differences in, 489, 490, 491
- —qualities of, 491, 492
- —modes of conveying, 494
- —fresh at sea, 499.
- Water-chesnut, iv. 355.
- Watering of gardens, iv. 201, 202, 203.
- Water-organ, ii. 372.
- Water-parsley, iv. 424.
- Water-pipes, v. 494.
- Water-plants, iii. 403.
- Water-spouts, i. 80.
- Water-warblers, ii. 510, 511.
- Waters, productive of insanity, v. 474
- —remedial for calculi, 474
- —curative of wounds, 475
- —preventive of abortion, 475
- —which remove morphew, 475
- —which colour the hair, 476
- —which colour the body, 476, 477
- —which aid or impede the memory, 477
- —which affect the senses, 477
- —which improve the voice, 477
- —which cause a distaste for wine, 477, 478
- —which produce inebriety, 477, 478
- —which serve as a substitute for oil, 478
- —salt and bitter, 478
- —which throw up stones, 478, 479
- —which cause laughter, 479
- —which are a cure for love, 479
- —which preserve their warmth, 479
- —in which all things sink, 479
- —in which nothing will sink, 479, 480
- —of a deadly nature, 480, 481, 482
- —which petrify, 482
- —their wholesomeness considered, 482, 483, 484
- —which have suddenly appeared or ceased, 492, 493.
- Wax (bees’), iii. 6, 7, 17; iv. 345, 346
- —writing-tablets of, iii. 186
- —remedies derived from, iv. 438.
- Wax-colours, vi. 244, 245, 272.
- Wax of the human ear, remedies derived from, v. 291.
- Wealth, immense, instances of, vi. 93, 94, 129, 130, 131.
- Weasel, odour of, fatal to the basilisk, ii. 282
- —remedies derived from, v. 392.
- Weather, states of the, i. 69
- —peculiarities of, 91
- —its influence upon trees, iii. 441, 442.
- Weaving, invention of, ii. 223.
- Webs of spiders, iii. 27, 28.
- Wedge drawn by a bird from a tree, v. 82.
- Weevil, iv. 105, 441.
- Weight of the body, ii. 158.
- Weights, invention of, ii. 226
- —Greek and Roman, iv. 386, 387—and Introduction to Vol. III.
- Wells, invention of, ii. 223
- —an account of, v. 491.
- Weser, i. 348.
- Wheat, an account of, iv. 25, 26, 27
- —Africa productive of, 35, 36
- —remedies derived from, 440.
- Wheat-meal, iv. 440.
- Whetstones, iv. 91; vi. 370.
- Whey, iii. 84.
- Whirlwinds, i. 57, 79, 80.
- Whispering-gallery, iii. 95.
- White lead, vi. 219, 220.
- White squall, iv. 122.
- White thorn, eaten, iv. 338
- —remedies derived from, v. 43.
- White vine, iv. 466, 467.
- Whitening, iii. 454; vi. 301.
- Wicks of lamps, iv. 362, 489.
- Wiesbaden, v. 479.
- Wild animals, parks for. ii. 345.
- Wild boar, ii. 344, 345
- —the flesh of, a delicacy, 345
- —eats the salamander, iii. 98.
- Wild fig, iii. 311, 312, 313
- —remedies derived from, iv. 505, 506, 507.
- Wild honey, iii. 14.
- Wild myrtle, iv. 521.
- Wild olive, leaves of, iv. 487, 488.
- Wild plants, v. 77, 78, 79.
- Wild plums, iv. 508.
- Wild pomegranate, iv. 501.
- Wild thyme, iv. 197, 198, 292, 293.
- Wild vine, iii. 255; iv. 464, 465; v. 232.
- Will, remedies depending on the, v. 295, 296.
- Willow, iii. 409, 410; v. 25, 26.
- Willow-beds, iii. 492, 493.
- Willow-herb, v. 196.
- Wind-egg, ii. 537, 538, 539.
- Windows, iii. 303; vi. 142, 143.
- Winds, an account of the, i. 70-79; iii. 445
- —predicted, i. 222
- —invention of the theory of, ii. 230
- —the theory of explained, iv. 113, 114
- —the points of, 114-117.
- Wine, honied, ii. 215; iii. 246; iv. 437, 438.
- Wine-cellars, iii. 268, 269.
- Wine-cure, ii. 183.
- Wine-lees, iii. 268; iv. 482, 483.
- Wine-lofts, iii. 254, 263.
- Wine-press, iv. 109, 110.
- Wine-vessels, iii. 268, 269, 279.
- Wines, the most ancient, iii. 236, 237, 238
- —colours of, 237, 248; iv. 475
- —pitched, iii. 238; iv. 476; vi. 371
- —nature of, iii. 238, 239
- —fifty kinds of, 239-245
- —drugged, 243
- —healthfulness of, 243
- —peculiar tastes in, 244, 245
- —foreign, 245, 246, 267
- —recommended by Apollodorus, 247
- —salted, 247, 248
- —disguising of, 248
- —sweet, 248, 249, 250
- —made from raisins, 250
- —second rate, 251
- —generous, when first made in Italy, 251
- —inspection of, 252
- —women not allowed to drink, 252
- —laws upon, 252
- —drunk by the ancient Romans, 253
- —when several kinds were first served at table, 254
- —artificial, 256-260; iv. 477, 478
- —made from fruit, iii. 256, 257
- —from plants, 257, 258
- —aromatic, 258, 259
- —from herbs, 259, 260
- —from shrubs, 260
- —of a miraculous nature, 262
- —that change their nature, 263
- —certain, not used in sacred rites, 263
- —seasoned with pitch and resin, 265, 266, 267
- —made from corn, 274
- —medicinal properties of, iv. 469-473, 477.
- Winged animal, the only one that is viviparous, ii. 540.
- Wings, iii. 33, 34.
- Winking, iii. 54.
- Winter-clothes, iv. 80.
- Winter-sowing, iv. 79, 80.
- Winter-wheat, iv. 29, 32, 33, 35.
- Wisdom, remarkable, instances of, ii. 174.
- Wisdom-teeth, iii. 59.
- Withes, iii. 409, 410.
- Witnesses, summoning of, iii. 88.
- Witwall, v. 452, 508, 512, 515.
- Wolf, Romulus suckled by, ii. 273
- —an account of the, 282
- —influence of its eyes, 283
- —men changed into, 283, 284
- —its bladder, iii. 74.
- Womb, iii. 75
- —of the sow, iii. 75.
- Women not allowed to drink wine, iii. 252.
- Wonderful forms of various nations, ii. 122.
- Wonders, of various countries, i. 123, 124
- —of fountains and rivers, 131-138
- —of fire, 141, 142, 143.
- Wood, animals that breed in, iii. 40
- —for furniture, 195, 196, 197
- —for fuel, 348, 349, 358
- —the nature of, 417, 418, 420, 421
- —fire obtained from, 421
- —the lightest, 422
- —the durability of, 423, 424, 425
- —used in building, 426
- —for carpenters’ work, 427
- —united with glue, 427.
- Woodcock, ii. 528, 529.
- Woodbine, v. 105.
- Woodlice, v. 417, 436, 440, 441, 450.
- Woodpecker, ii. 494, 508, 515; iii. 519; v. 89, 248, 403
- —its magical power, ii. 494.
- Woodworms, iii. 40.
- Wool, various kinds of, ii. 333
- —its various colours, 333, 334, 335, 338
- —dyed purple, 445
- —remedies derived from, v. 381, 382, 383.
- Wool-fruit, iii. 297.
- Wool-grease, iii. 133; v. 383, 384, 385.
- Wool-plant, v. 68.
- Woolly sage, v. 221.
- Words, the healing efficacy of, v. 278, 279, 280.
- World, if more than one, i. 13-16
- —form of, 16
- —nature of, 16, 17
- —name of, 17, 18
- —dimensions of, 53, 54, 55
- —earth, the middle of, 102.
- Worming of dogs, v. 406.
- Worms eaten, iii. 519.
- Worms, fish so called, ii. 384.
- Wormwood, v. 106
- —animals that feed on, have no gall, iii. 69
- —wine made from, 259
- —remedies derived from, v. 232-235.
- Wounds, remedies for, v. 206, 207, 208, 458, 459, 460.
- Wreaths of corn, iv. 3.
- Wren, ii. 551.
- Wright, Mr. T., on the lead-mines of Britain, vi. 215.
- Wryneck, iii. 90.
- X.
- Xanthos (stone), vi. 452.
- Xanthus, the historian, v. 151.
- Xanthus, the river, i. 456, 476.
- Xenagoras, i. 373.
- Xenocrates, artist, vi. 145, 184.
- Xenocrates of Aphrodisias, iv. 303.
- Xenocrates of Ephesus, iii. 158.
- Xenophilus, ii. 207.
- Xenophon, i. 373
- —quoted, 452; iv. 79, 341; vi. 182.
- Xenophon of Lampsacus, i. 270.
- Xerxes, i. 300, 305, 315, 317, 473; iii. 526; v. 424.
- Xiphias, vi. 8.
- Xiphion, v. 134, 135.
- Xuthon, vi. 436.
- Xylobalsamum, iii. 149.
- Xylocinnamomum, iii. 139.
- Xyris, iv. 372.
- Y.
- Yarrow, v. 61.
- Yates, Dr., his “Textrinum Antiquorum” quoted, v. 273, 274; vi. 98.
- Yeast, iv. 26, 456.
- Yew, iii. 360; v. 47.
- Z.
- Zachalias, vi. 468.
- Zacynthus, i. 310.
- Zama, i. 395; v. 477.
- Zancle, i. 221.
- Zara, i. 259.
- Zarephthali, i. 435.
- Zariaspa, ii. 30.
- Zathene, vi. 457.
- Zea, iv. 31.
- Zebu, ii. 328.
- Zeno, iv. 128.
- Zenobia, i. 445.
- Zenodotus, vi. 166, 167.
- Zenothemis, vi. 467.
- Zephyria, ii. 539.
- Zephyrium, i. 210.
- Zephyrus, i. 74; iv. 116.
- Zethus, vi. 318, 319.
- Zeugitana, i. 388.
- Zeugma, i. 424, 444; vi. 210.
- Zeus (fish), ii. 404.
- Zeuxis, vi. 170, 250, 251, 252.
- Zigæ, ii. 15.
- Zimpiberi, iii. 112.
- Zingiberi, iii. 112.
- Zirconite, vi. 404.
- Zizyphus, iii. 297.
- Zmilampis, vi. 457.
- Zmyrus, ii. 410.
- Zodiac, signs of the, i. 17, 18, 26, 27, 44;
- an account of, iv. 78-108.
- Zoëla, i. 172; iv. 133.
- Zoilus, iii. 158.
- Zones, the, i. 100
- —obliquity of, 102.
- Zoöphytes, ii. 453, 465; iii. 211, 213.
- Zopissa, iii. 363; v. 19.
- Zopyron, v. 55, 56.
- Zopyrus, vi. 139.
- Zoraniscæa, vi. 457.
- Zoroaster, ii. 155; iv. 128; v. 422, 424; vi. 11, 437, 448
- —lived entirely upon cheese, iii. 85.
- Zoster, iii. 210; v. 199.
- Zythum, iv. 456.