AUGUSTUS, age of, 101-106; his turpitude, 102 BAAL, 10, 11 BACON, Friar, 193 BABYLON, influence of Semiramis on, 3; influence of Nineveh on, 3, 4; contribution of Armenia to, 3; the daughters of, 4; the inspirer of Solomon, 13 BACCHUS, Antony's tutelary god, 91 BEATRICE and Dante, 98; Dante's love for, 177-180 BEAUTY, the religion of Greece, 28, 29; its worship by the Greeks, 58-59; its stimulating force, 70-71; the secret of life, 87; the secret of death, 87; at the beginning of the Reformation, 201; as advanced by Ficino and expounded by Bembo, 204, 205; may be degraded but never vulgarized, 211 BEMBO, 204 BÉRANGER, on Society, 249 BERTHEFLEDE, story of, 125 BLUEBEARD, 191-197; an example of hæmatomania, 194-196 BOCCACCIO, 177, 178; the Decameron of, 188-190; his work the signal for the Renaissance, 189-190 BOEOTIA, the scene of Lesbian rites, 46 BORGIAS, the, 200 BOSSUET, 135; and Quietism, 238 BRAHMANISM, its evil influence on the poetry of the Vedas, 9 BROCELIANDE, 152 BRANTÔME, 215, 216, 217, 219 BUDDHA, his teachings the same as Christ's, 113 BYZANCE, in the Middle Ages, 139; the teacher of English civilization, 141 CÆSAR, JULIUS, his treatment of women, 85; his temperament, 89; Cato's opinion of, 89; his treatment of Cleopatra, 89 CÆSARS, the palace of, abandoned to orgies, 106 CALIGULA, his vileness, 102 CALLICRATES, 57 CALPURNIA, 85 CALYPSO, 38, 39; added coquetry to love, 53 CARTHAGE, worship of Venus in, 6, 7 CASANOVA, Jacques, 248 CATHERINE of Siena, 132 CATILINE, his evil influence on Rome, 84-85 CATO, his expression on woman's position in Rome, 79; his opinion of Cæsar, 89 CATULLUS, his passing away with the republic, 97-98; his songs, 97-98 CELIBACY, penalized by the Greeks, 116; taxed by the Romans, 116; inculcated by the Church, 116; how viewed variously, 116-117; the ideal of the early Christians, 120 CELLINI, BENVENUTO, 202 CERVANTES, 231 CHALDÆA, the ideas of, with regard to Nature, 3; originated picture of Pandora, 40 CHAMPAGNE, Countess of, 160 CHARAXUS, story of his love for Rhodopis, 45-46 CHARLES II of England, his influence on England, 221-224; his court, 223; his mistresses, 224 CHASTITY, the pride of Spartan women, 44 CHATEAUROUX, Mme. de, 247 CHIVALRY, origin of, 138; Muslim, 141; adopted by the Church, 142; Age of, how it regarded love, 145-146; ridiculed out of existence, 149; killed by the invention of gunpowder, 149; code of love in, 153-155; its merits, 158; Courts of Love, 155; subtle case in, 156; other cases, 158-160; wrongly derived from Germany, 167; rightly originated in the Moors, 167-168