_Agrippina_, Agrippa’s daughter, wife of Germanicus, iii, 146; her virtue, 146, 160; banished by Sejanus, 176. _Agrippina_, wife of the Emperor Claudius, her character, iii, 183; daughter of Germanicus, 188; mother of Nero, 189; murdered, 189. _Agron_, king of the Illyrians, ii, 47. _Agylla_ receives the worship of Greek heroes, i, 147; is called Cære by the Etruscans, 147; Conf. Cære. _Ahenobarbus._ See Domitius. _Aisne_, battle, iii, 44. _Alans_, iii, 288; cross the Rhine, 331; withdraw from Gaul, 332; conquered by Adolphus, 334; treachery towards Aëtius, 341. _Alaric_, king of the Visigoths, iii, 329; defeated by Stilicho, 329; appointed _magister militum_, 329; appears in the West, 330; defeated near Pollentia, 330; withdraws from Italy, 330; blockades Rome twice, 333; dies in Cosenza, 334. _Alaric_, the younger, his classical knowledge, iii, 343. _Alatrum_, town of the Hernicans, i, 247. _Alba_, on the Alban lake, capital of the ruling conquerors, i, 107; its historical existence, 108; shares with the thirty towns the flesh of the sacrifices on the Alban Mount, 108; religious reference of Roman _gentes_ to Alba, 113; its destruction is historical, 125; not the least connexion between it and Rome, 126; its destruction by the Latins is most probable, 128. _Alba_ on the Lake Fucinus, from thence the Sacranians issued, i, 107; Roman colony, 505; Syphax dies there as an exile, ii, 137; Perseus and his sons live there in captivity, 245; and likewise Bituitus, king of the Allobroges, 308. _Albans_ had the dominion over Latium, i, 108; their reception into Rome is probably historical, 125 _Albanian_, the modern Albanian language is like the ancient Illyrian, ii, 57. _Alban kings_, their chronology is a forgery of L. Cornelius Alexander, i, 107. _Alban lake_ drained, i, 356–359. _Albenses_ (_Populi_), in Pliny, i, 107. _Albinovanus_ makes his peace with Sylla, ii, 282. _Albinovanus_ Pedo, iii, 140. _A. Albinus_, surrounded in Africa, ii, 315. _Albinus Clodius_, the title of Cæsar offered to him by Commodus, iii, 250; proclaimed emperor by the British and Gallic legions, 250; his descent, 253; overreached by Septimius Severus, 253; defeated near Lyons, his death, 253. _Sp. Albinus_, consul, ii, 315. _Album_, explanation of the term, i, 6. _Alcæus of Messene_, epigrams of his, ii, 160. _Alcibiades_, the bravest Athenian, i, 296. _Alemanni_, iii, 277; break into the Roman empire, 279; must have undertaken an expedition as far as Spain, 282; pass the Po, 287; war of Probus against them, 288; on both banks of the Rhine, 310; force the passage across the Rhine, 331. _Aleppo_, famine there, i, 338. _Alesia_, between Autun and Langres, iii, 47. _Alexander VI._, Pope, lays down a division of countries in the new world between Spain and Portugal, i, 413.