_Alexander_, L. Cornelius, a freedman of Sylla, i, 107. _Alexander_, king of Epirus, the treaty with him is the first connexion between Greece and Rome, i, 458; family connexions, 463; unites the Greek towns of Lower Italy in a confederacy, 464; quarrels with the Tarentines, after which he carries on the war as an adventurer, 464; is slain near Pandosia, 465; treaty with the Romans, 465; usurps the kingdom of Æacidas, 552. _Alexander the Great_, the embassy of the Romans to him seems not to be a fiction, i, 469; embassy of the Samnites and Lucanians, 469; of the Iberians, 469; whether the Romans knew of him, 469; has done little in comparison with Hannibal, ii, 67. _Alexander_, son of Pyrrhus, ii, 49 and 50. _Alexander Severus_, formerly called Alexianus, adopted by Elagabalus, iii, 261; his character, 261; the authors seem to have written a sort of Cyropædia on him, 262; weak to Mamæa, 262; Ulpianus his minister, 262; displays great firmness on many occasions, 262; his war against the Persians, 265; contradictions concerning it, 265; goes to the Rhine, 266; mutiny of the troops, 266; murdered, 267. _Alexandria_, its population, iii, 64; massacre under Caracalla, 257; seat of wit, 257; many Christians there, 273; reduced by Diocletian, 296. _Alexandrines_, drive Ptolemy Auletes away, iii, 28. _Alexandrine literature_ must be deemed to end with the death of Eratosthenes, iii, 228. _Alexianus._ See Alexander Severus. _Alexo_, an Achæan, discovers a plot in the Carthaginian camp before Lilybæum, ii, 30. _Alfatarians_, i, 419. _Algidus_, a cold rugged height, its situation, i, 277. _Aliens_ were better treated in the Germanic states, than in the ancient world and in France, i, 167. _Alia_, battle on the, was fought July 16th, i, 373; an historical event, 376; site of the river uncertain, 376; description of the battle, 377. _Aliphera_ during the war of Hannibal well affected to Macedon, ii, 145. _Aliso_ on the Lippe, very likely in the neighbourhood of Hamm, iii, 157. _Allobroges_, are pure Celts, i, 370; their country at the time of Hannibal, ii, 79; their abodes, 308; acknowledge the _majestas populi Romani_, 79; Roman citizens, iii, 23; their envoys at the conspiracy of Catiline, 23; call for Cæsar’s protection against the Helvetians, 41. _Alps_, their extent in Polybius, ii, 77. _Alpine tribes_, their treachery to Hannibal, ii, 78. _Alumentus_, Latin form for Laomedon, ii, 194. _Alva_, Duke of —’s cruelty in the Netherlands, iii, 297. _Amazirgh_, ii, 5. _Ambiorix_, leader of the Eburones, iii, 46. _Ambitio Campi_, iii, 118. _Ambitus_, laws against it, ii, 227, 318; iii, 13, 38. _Ambracia_ yielded to Pyrrhus by the son of Cassander, i, 554; residence of Pyrrhus, 555; siege, ii, 174; given up to the Romans, 175.