_Ætolians_ and Achæans united against Demetrius, ii, 48; divide Acarnania with Alexander of Epirus, 49; treat the embassy of the Romans with scorn, 49; war of Philip and the Achæans against them, 145; they are humbled by it, 145; free, 145; alliance with the Romans, 146; deserve praise after the Lamian war, 146; they sink afterwards into a state of barbarism, 146; attacked by Philip, they conclude a very disadvantageous peace, 147; hostile to Macedon, 150; extent of their possessions, 150; they have isopolity with many places in Elis and Messene, 151; misunderstanding with Rome, 152; dissensions between them and the Romans after the battle of Cynoscephalæ, 160; their vanity, 160; side with Antiochus, 167; defend Ambracia, 174; peace, 175; outrages of the Roman party after the defeat of Perseus, 216. _Ætolian_ cavalry is bad, i, 440. _Afranius_, Pompey’s general in Spain a commonplace man, iii, 54; defeated near Lerida, 56; in Africa, 67. _Africa_, numerous and zealous church there, iii, 273. _African school_, iii, 234; has no peculiar dialect, 234; its origin unknown, 234. _Agathias_, his history is most authentic, iii, 263. _Agathocles_ employed by the Tarentines, i, 461; his character, 575; shows the weakness of the Carthaginians in Africa, ii, 17. _Agathyrsians_, i, 369. AGER LIMITATUS, its law on the _tabula Heracleensis_, seems to have been similar to that which was in force at Rome, i, 269. _Ager publicus_, i, 243; ii, 270; one instance only of any thing like it in Greece, i, 253; occupation of it, 253; _agrum locare_ and _agrum vendere_ are synonymous, 254. _Agis_, PROXENUS of the Romans at Tarentum, i, 551. _Agon Capitolinus_ instituted by Domitian, iii, 210. _Agrarian law_, i, 250; peculiar to the Romans, 253. _Agricola Julius_, from Forum Julii, may have sprung from Gallic ancestors, iii, 193; completes the conquest of Britain, 211. _Agrigentum_ laid waste by the Carthaginians, i, 576; independent, 576; destroyed by the Carthaginians, ii, 4; condition at the outbreak of the Punic wars, 10; sacked, 12; taken by the Romans, 119; its several devastations, 119; afterwards restored, 119. _C. Agrippa_, iii, 147; adopted by Augustus, 147; sent to Armenia, 147; Velleius’ character of him, 147; murdered there, 148. _L. Agrippa_ adopted by Augustus, iii, 147; sent to Gaul and Spain, 147; his death, 148. _M. Agrippa_ Octavian’s adviser, iii, 85; conducts the war against Sextus Pompey, 109; victory near Mylæ, 109; marries Julia, 143, 146; his influence on Augustus, 144; his buildings, 144; Augustus gives him his ring, 146; differences between him and Marcellus, 146; Velleius’ saying of him, 146; withdraws to Mitylene, 146; his death, 146. _Agrippa Postumus_ adopted by Augustus, iii, 148.