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Pliny (The Younger):
    founds school, 226
    hunting, 225
    on Christians, 124
    on ghosts, 91
    Vesuvius, 111

Pluto, 187

Poisoning, 114

Polydamas, 155

Pompey, 18, 43

Portents: see Omens and Auspicia

Proscenium, 73

Proserpina, 68, 185, 187

Prusias, 114

Pyramus, 211

Pyrrhus:
    at Beneventum, 102
    introduces elephants into Italy, 102
    plan to poison, 114


Quarries at Syracuse, 99


Races, 78, 80

Rahab, 200

Red Beards of Domitii, 190

Red Sea, 58

Regillus, 190

Regulus:
    commander in Africa, 105
    kills monster serpent, 105
    messenger from Carthage, 126

Rhone; crossed by Hannibal, 103

Rome:
    buildings, 143
    burned by Gauls, 143
    burned in Nero’s time, 144

Rubicon, 180


Sacrifice of Fabian family, 150

Samson, 37

Sejanus, 155

Sentinum, 169

Septentriones, 60

Serpents, 103, 104

Sham naval battles, 120

Sibyl, 188, 192

Simonides:
    dream, 228
    epitaph of Spartans, 173

Solomon, 220

Spartans; epitaph on, 173

sub iugum, 105

Syracuse:
    quarries, 99
    taken by Romans, 70


Thapsus, 102

Theater, 71

Theseus, 26

Thisbe, 211

Tiberius; in grotto, 155

Ticinus, 207

Titus; siege of Jerusalem, 137

Tombs along roads, 132

Tossing in blanket, 81

Trajan; on Christians, 125

Trasimenus, 177

Trebia, 207


Veii, 148

Venusia, 84

Vespasian:
    at Carmel, 140
    Cremona rebuilt, 207
    in the East, 137
    Nero’s tours, 76

Vesuvius, 108

Vitellius:
    appetite, 134
    death, 133
    omen of fire, 158
    on Otho’s tomb, 133
    welcomed at Cremona, 197


Zama, 28, 114