[58] The change of the name to its Greek and commonly received form is 100 years later than Elagabalus, in fact it occurs first in Lampridius, and was seemingly born of the necessity, which had been suggested to Constantine, of connecting the old worship of the only God with that of Mithra the Persian Sun deity. [59] The number of years in the _Liber generationis_ is, however, debatable, since Rubensohn gives three years in his edition. [60] S.H.A. = Scriptores Historiae Augustae. INDEX Aegae in Cilicia, Macrinus retires to, 73 Aemilian Bridge, Antonine’s body thrown from, 169, 189 Aeneas, 129 Aesculapius, 258 African inscriptions erase _Severi Nepos_, 199 Agrippina, 121 Alexander of Macedon, his connection with Alexander Severus, 144 Alexander Severus, or Alexianus, 8, 14, 18, 22, 38, 40, 54, 123; description and career to Antonine’s death, 136-72; not priest of Elagabal, 174; liberality at his adoption, 189; date of accession, 193; date of tribunicial renewal, 196; substitutes his name for that of Antonine, 199; stupidity, 205; abolishes mixed bathing, 245; on public feasts, 259 Alexandria, Bassianus’ legates badly received at, 57, 73 Ammianus Marcellinus, on the birthplace of Bassianus, 35 Annia Faustina, marriage with Antonine, 134; divorce mooted, 150; divorced, 178; compared with Bathsheba, 221; her genealogy, 222; age and position, 223; reasons against the divorce, 224 Antinous and Hadrian, 231 Antioch, Origen goes to, 20; Macrinus at, 25, 41, 48; news of rising reaches, 56; distance between Antioch to Emesa, 60; coin of Diadumenianus, Emperor, 65; Macrinus retires to, 68; Macrinus leaves for Rome, 72; Antonine arrives at, 77 Antiochianus, 154 Antoninus Pius, 5; first Roman coins of Emesa, 26 Antony, 26 Apamea, 26, 34, 63; Macrinus goes to, and declares Diadumenianus Caesar at, 67; Antonine at, 139 Aphrodite-Adonis, compared with Elagabal-Urania, 175 Apicius, 253 Apollo and his loves, 234 Apollonius of Tyana, 31 Appia, Lex, 121 Aquilia Severa, matrimony with Emperor discussed, 130; duration of marriage, 132; return to Emperor, 183; position discussed, 189, 208, 211; appearance, 214; date of marriage, 216; date of divorce, 218; returns as Empress, 224 Arca, Alexander’s birthplace, 144 Archelais, death-place of Macrinus, 74 Archimedes, 270 Aristomachus, the standard-bearer, 154 Aristotle, quoted, 85 Arnobius, on Phallic worship, 230 Arria Fadilla, grandmother of Annia Faustina, 222 Arrianus, Herodian, 9 Artabanus, 22, 43; Diadumenianus sent to, 72 Arvalium, Collegio Fratrum, meet to elect Elagabalus, 68; temporizing policy, 81 “Assyrian, the,” Xiphilinus’ name for Antonine, 95 Attila, 244 Augustan Legion, absorbs 3rd Gallic Legion on account of this latter’s revolt, 89