_Appian_ has borrowed from Fabius, i, 20; closely follows the track of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 20; his sources, 252; a jurist from Alexandria, lives in Rome during the reigns of Hadrian and Antoninus Pius, greatly befriended by Fronto, 60; iii, 237; his history arranged after the _Origines_ of Cato, i, 60; he knew well how to choose his sources, 60; his ignorance particularly of geography, 61; editions, 61; on the _ager publicus_, 252; the groundwork of his history of the second Punic war, is taken from Fabius, ii, 62; is the only source for the third Punic war, 240; has copied from Polybius, 240; otherwise below criticism, 240. _Appian_ road built, i, 517, 518. _Apuleius._ See Saturninus. _Apuleius_, to be placed among the first geniuses of his age, iii, 234; shows talent wherever he has a subject, 235. _Apulia_, description of the country, i, 477; clothed in winter with fine and excellent grass, 478; joins Pyrrhus, 557; a mild, sunny district, ii, 95; a breeze rises there every afternoon from the east, (the sea), 102; part of it falls away from the Romans after the battle of Cannæ, 107; under arms in the Social war, but without having any share in the Italian state, 352. _Apulians_ of the same stock as the Opicans, i, 99. _Aqua Appia._ See Appia. _Aqua Claudia_, the finest Roman aqueduct, iii, 189. _Aqua Marcia_, ii, 339. _Aqua Marrana_, i, 188. _Aquæ Sextiæ_, first Roman colony beyond the Alps, ii, 308; gets the Roman franchise in virtue of the _lex Julia_, 354. _Aqueducts_ of the emperors are of brick, with a cast of mortar in the middle, i, 138; of the Romans, 518; of Appius, 518. _Aquila_, town in Latium, founded in the middle ages, i, 77. _Aquileia_, besieged by Maximin, ii, 269; battles, 321; destroyed, 341. _Aquitanians_ are pure Hispanians, i, 367; of the Iberian race, in Guienne, iii, 42; conquered by Crassus, 46. _Arabia_, vassal kingdom of Persia, iii, 253; Arabia Petræa, made a Roman province by Trajan, 220. _Aræ Flaviæ_, on the military road from the Main to Augsburg, iii, 216 _Aratus_ sacrifices Corinth and the liberty of Greece, not to let Cleomenes have the authority which was due to him, ii, 145. _Aratus_, the poet, ii, 199; the paraphrase of the phænomena is by Domitian, 209. _Arbiter_, one only was needed in criminal causes, ii, 297. _Arbogastes_, a Frank general, commander of the army of Valentinian II., rises against him, iii, 321. _Arcadians_, an essentially Pelasgian people, i, 96. _Arcadia_, its position completely changed, i, 390; Achæan, ii, 151. _Arcadius_, iii, 328. _Archelaus_, commander of the army of Mithridates in Greece, ii, 369; defends himself in the Piræeus, 375. _Archidamus_ of Sparta employed by the Tarentines, i, 461; killed on the day of the battle of Chæronea, 463.