_Saxons_, rudest of Teuton tribes, humanised by St. Gregory, 348 _Sidonius Apollinaris_, picture of the Roman senate, 17; description of Rome in 467, 18; makes Rome acknowledge the over-lordship of the East, 19; describes the Roman baths, 19 _Silverius, St._, Pope, elected in 536, 205; deposed by Belisarius, at the instigation of Theodora, 208; martyred in the island of Palmaria, 209 _Simplicius_, Pope, his outlook from Rome, 45; his letter to the emperor Zeno, 66 _Symmachus_, elected Pope in 498, 128; his letter to the eastern emperor, 129; compares the imperial and the papal power, 131; they are the two heads of human society, 133; Catholic princes acknowledge Popes on their accession, 134; inferences to be deduced from this letter, 136; the Synodus Palmaris refuses to judge the Pope, 136; addressed by eastern bishops in their misery as a father by his children, 149; dies in 514, 149 _Theodora_, empress, her promises to Vigilius, 208; her violent deposition of Pope Silverius, 209 _Theodorick_, the Ostrogoth, how nurtured, 36; marches on Italy, 37; which he conquers, and slays Odoacer, 38; character of his reign, 39; slays Pope John I., and his own ministers, Boethius and Symmachus, 41, 329; judgment of him by St. Gregory, 41; contrast with Clovis, 42; his kingdom came to nothing, 43; asks the title of king from the emperor Anastasius, 128; determines the election of Pope Symmachus against Laurentius, 129; induced to send a bishop as visitor of the Roman Church, 137; said by the emperor to have the charge of governing the Romans committed to him, 159; his ability and family connections, 177; final failure of his state, his family, and people, 328-9; his attempt to maintain Arianism in the West foiled, 347 _Thierry_, "Derniers temps de l'Empire d'Occident," 20 _Tillemont_, quoted, 64 _Totila_, elected Gothic king, 214; is warned by St. Benedict, 215; takes Rome, 216; takes Rome, its fourth capture, 218; killed at Taginas, 219 _Valens_, emperor, poisons the western empire with Arianism, 50, 92 _Valentinian III._, his edict in 447 terms the Pope, Leo I., _principem episcopalis coronae_, 56; murdered by Maximus, 13 _Vere, A. de_, quoted, "Legends and Records," 1, 12; "Chains of St. Peter," 272 _Vigilius_, made Pope by Belisarius, 209; summoned to Constantinople by Justinian, 226; his persecution there, 232-243; his dignity as Pope left unimpaired, 293 _Vitiges_, besieges Rome, and ruins the aqueducts and Campagna, 210-13; carried a captive to Constantinople, 214 _Wandering of the nations_, 26-35 _Zeno_, eastern emperor, 63; second of the theologising emperors, 47; his conduct and character, 63; matched with the emperor Valens, 92; his death, 91, 99 _SELECTION_ FROM BURNS & OATES'