But the history of the Roman nation is not yet run out, although the Romans have ceased to be a state. Even literature survives, not only in Rome, but also at Ravenna. We have still a number of small detached poems, epitaphs, inscriptions on churches, many of which are ingenious and fine: one can see that the times were not yet barbarous. Boëthius was worthy of the best ages of literature. To the seventh and the eighth centuries belong several of the schoolmen who are left to us; for instance, Acron and Porphyrio. The Roman law continued to be much more decidedly in force than is generally believed. A description of the lingering influence of the Roman mind would be highly interesting and much to be desired. INDEX. _Abdera_, subject to Macedon, ii, 203. _Abdera_, Phœnician settlement in Spain, ii, 59. _Abgarus of Osroëne_, iii, 258. _Ablavius, præfectus prætorio_, iii, 304. Ἀβλεψία, iii, 181. ABORIGINES, the same people as the Siculians, i, 101; the nominative singular must have been _aboriginus_, 101; emigrate from Achaia to Latium, 101; Varro’s opinion of them, 103; their villages were scattered on hills, 110. _Abyssinian Annals_, from the thirteenth century, contain a piece of contemporary narrative, i, 125. _Acarnanians_ apply to Rome for help against the Ætolians, ii, 49; call upon Philip for help against the Athenians, 149; part of them Ætolian, 150; united with Macedon, 151; a separate state, 163; become Roman, 175. ACCENSI, i, 441; are armed in the battle of Veseris, 442. _Accius._ See Attius. _Acerræ_ reduced by the Romans, ii, 56; the story of the extermination of the senate unauthenticated, ii, 65; taken by Hannibal, 107; conquered by the Romans, as periœcians of Capua, 114. _Achæans_ sink into utter insignificance owing to the treason of Aratus, ii, 145; undertake a war against the Ætolians, in conjunction with Philip, 145; dependent on their allies, 145; the extent of their rule, 151; unwarlike, 151; bitterness against Rome, 172; three factions among them, 206; outrages of the Roman party after the victory over Perseus, 217; more than a thousand Achæans sent to Rome, 217; the state of its affairs at the time of the third Punic war, 248; they defeat the Lacedæmonians, 250; extent of their power, 250; oppose the unjust demands of the Romans, 252; scattered near Scarphea, 254; their country changed into a Roman province, 256; their constitution, 256; conf. _Ætolians_. _Achæan towns_, twelve of them, i, 111. _Achaia_, belonging to the Achæan league, ii, 151; plundered by the Goths, iii, 280. _Achillas_, guardian of Ptolemy, iii, 63. _Achradina_, a quarter of Syracuse, ii, 117. _C. Acilius_, a Roman senator, writes Roman annals, down to the war with Antiochus, i, 23; his work translated into Latin by a certain Claudius, 23, and ii, 121, 199.