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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.

B.

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.

C.

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.

19.

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.

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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.

D.

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.

73.

Dane-wort, x. 27.

Daphne changed to a bay tree, iii.

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63.

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.

Uu

neously, iv. 36.

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,

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iv. 43.
Dill, ii. 48.

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.

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Evil eye, iii. 103. tongue, vii. 28.
Eye, fascinating, iii. 103.

F.

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,

ix. 48.

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