_Acrocorinth_ occupied by the Romans, ii, 162; evacuated, 172. ACTA DIURNA, a sort of town gazette, which also contained the acts of the senate, i, 9. ACTA MARTYRUM, spurious, felt quite a particular pleasure in devising and relating the most horrible tortures, ii, 26. ACTIONES REPETUNDARUM, for which formerly special _quæsitores_ were appointed, are from the seventh century to be judged according to the common course of law, ii, 297. _Actium_, battle of, iii, 111. _Actius._ See Attius. _Addiction_, i, 229, 523. _Aderbidjan_ given up by Persia to Armenia, iii, 296; wrested from the latter by Sapor, 313. _Adherbal_, general of the Carthaginians, ii, 32. _Adherbal_, son of Micipsa, ii, 310; taken by the Romans under their protection, 311; beset by Jugurtha in Cirta, 311; murdered, 312. _Adiabene_, the country east of the Tigris, iii, 253; subject to the supremacy of the Romans, 254. _Adige_ had fords in it, ii, 331. _Adis_ (Adin), ii, 21. _Administrative offices_, no other kind of knowledge was requisite in Rome for holding them, but the _artes liberales_. _Adolphus_, Alaric’s brother-in-law, commander of the Visigoths, iii, 334; reigns on both sides of the Pyrenees, 334; married to Placidia, 334. _Adoption_ by will, first known example of it, iii, 84. _Aduatici_, Cimbrian tribe on the Lower Rhine, ii, 333. _Æacidas_, father of Pyrrhus, i, 352; attached to Olympias, 352; driven out of his kingdom by Alexander, 352; expelled from Epirus by Cassander, 553. _Ædiles_, a plebeian magistracy, i, 241; a general Latin magistracy, 241 and 405; are charged with all the police matters in Rome, iii, 123. ÆDILES CEREALES limited to the plebs, iii, 75. ÆDILES CURULES elected in the place of the old _quæstores parricidii_, i, 405; their office is held by plebeians also, 405; it becomes a _liturgy_ in the Greek acceptation of the word, 405; their attributes, 405; they are chosen by the _comitia tributa_, 406; they take upon themselves the burden of the public festivals, ii, 43; the holding of the ædileship in turns by the two orders done away with, 269. _Ædui_ get the hegemony in Gaul, iii, 42; brothers and friends of the Roman people, 42; rising against Tiberius under Julius Sacrovir, 202. _Ægation islands_, victory of the Romans over the Carthaginian fleet, ii, 38. _Ægidius_, _magister militum_ in Gaul and Spain, iii, 344. _Ægina_ taken by the Romans, ii, 146; sold by the Ætolians to Attalus, 146; given up to Eumenes, 163. _Ælia Capitolina_, iii, 230; the name has been kept up to this day 230. _Ælianus_, (Lælianus), emperor, conquered by Postumus in Mentz, iii, 282. _Æmilianus_, governor of Illyricum, proclaimed emperor, defeats Gallus Trebonianus on the borders of Umbria, iii, 279; murdered, 279. _Æmilianus._ See Scipio. _Æmilius._ See Lepidus.