Attire, Rigourist teaching on, 153-4 Aubé, on the Acts of S. Felicitas, 300; on Domitian’s persecution, 42 _n._ 2; on Trajan’s Rescript, 49 Augustus Cæsar, 91, 280; attitude of, to Imperial cultus, 42; favour shown by, to the Jews, 3; and the source of Rome’s greatness, 88, 89 Ausonius, poems of, 64 Autolycus, letters or books to, from Theophilus of Antioch, 108-9, 189 Auvergne, 66 Aventine Hill, church on, 262; house, &c., of Pudens on, 12, 15 Avitus, made Emperor, 65 Baba-Bathra treatise, in the Talmud, 343 _n._ 1 Babylon, mystic name for Rome, 8, 10, 14 Babylonia (_see also_ Exile), Jews in, 346 Rabbinic Schools of, 326, 362-3, 368, 373 Chief, 358 _n._ 1 Mode of teaching in, 357, 358-60 Work of, 344, 345, 346, 372 Babylonian Gemara, the, 356 _& n._ 4 Talmud, the, 345, Haggadic notices in, 358 _n._ 1 Baiæ, death at, of Hadrian, 83 Balaam and his ass, Haggadah on, 377, 378 Balbina, tomb of, 247 Baptisteries (_see also_ Wells) in Catacombs of Pontianus, and S. Priscilla, 236 Baptistery of S. Peter, site of, identified by Marucchi, 12, 257, 267, 271-3 Barberini (Pope Urban VIII), epigram on, 280 Bar-cochab, false Messiah, cause of last war of the Jews, 336-7; his Rabbinical supporters, 78, 336-7, 354, 355 Barnabas, Epistle of, _see_ Epistles Barnes, --, _cited_ on Neronic burning of Christians, 285-6; on S. Peter’s tomb, 281 _& n. et seq._ Baronius, Cardinal, 263; present at finding of S. Cecilia’s body, 294 _& n._ 1, 297; on S. Petronilla, 277 Basil of Cappadocian Cæsarea, 138 Basilicas:-- of S. Lawrence “ad Corpus,” Popes buried in, 250 Domitilla, 278 Prætextatus, 247 SS. Hermes and Basilissa, 274-5 in Cœmeterium Majus, subterranean, 258 in Rome, third century number and appointments of, 112 Ruined, crypts beneath, 228 of S. Agnes, 256-7 of S. Cecilia, 292, 293 _et seq._ of S. Felicitas, 302 of S. Hippolytus, 251, 254 of S. Laurence, 250, 254 of S. Sylvester, burials in, 266 _& n._ 1, 272 When and why erected, 272 Benson, Archbishop, on S. Cyprian, 122 & _n._ 1, 127 _n._ 1 Bernini, Baldacchino by, in S. Peter’s, discoveries on erection of, 233 _n._ 1, 280 _et seq._ Bethel, the old prophet of, 321 Bethia, Zealot headquarters, 336 “Billicum confessionis,” nature of, that of S. Peter, 237, 282 Bishops and Popes of Rome (_see under_ Names), claim to be successors of S. Peter, undisputed, 16 Catalogues of, on date of Linus’s accession, 14; to Eleutherius, 15 Early, buried around S. Peter, _see_ Papal Crypt