INDEX 367 



Tiberius Caesar, 41. 



Tigris, 142, 235. 



Time, wasting influence of, 238, 253 ; fleetingness of, 268. 



Trade to Atlantic ports, 175. 



Transmutation of the elements, 120, 121. 



Troglodytes, 173. Cave-dwellers, specially applied to tribes 



on W. of Red Sea. 

 Tuscans ; see Etruscans. 

 Tyre and Tyrian, 27, 224, 225. 



Unity or continuity, defined, 53. 



Universe, denned, 54; impetuous whirl of, 273; ceaseless 

 revolution of, 281, 294, 299 ; a harmony of discords, 301. 



Vacuum, non-existent in nature, 128. 



Vadimonian (Lake), 139. In Etruria, not far from the Tiber, 



the Lago di Bassano, now dried up. 

 a Vagellius, 227. Name unknown, probably corrupt. 



Valerius Asiaticus, 74. Consul, for the second time, in 46. 

 a Varro, 209 (2). Famous grammarian, antiquarian, etc., 116- 



28 B.C. 



Venus, the planet, 284. 

 Vice, conquest of, leads to highest happiness, 5 ; continued 



progress of, 46, 187, 306, 307. 



a Virgil, 28, 35, 114, 142, 165, 209, 241, 253, 258. 

 Virginius, 221. Consul 63. 

 Vitellius, 1 60. Name doubtful; may refer to father of 



Emperor Vitellius, who flourished under Caligula and 



Claudius, being consul in 34. 

 Volcanic eruptions, 73, 74, 77, 252. 

 Vopiscus, 303. Consul 60. 

 Vultur, 209. Mountain on borders of Apulia. 

 Vulturnus (Wind), 209. 



Wars, denunciation of, 213, 214. 



Water, forms of, 114, 115, 233; transformed into air, 120; 

 formed from earth, 120; as one of the four elements, 

 124; Thales opinions on, 124, 231 ; underground sources 

 of, 126, 233, 234, 235 ; various tastes of, 133 ; petrifying 

 powers of, 133; varying temperatures of, 136; artificial 

 heating of, 136 ; baneful kinds of, 137 ; dyeing properties 

 of some kinds of, 137; varying densities of, 138; 

 supposed physiological effects of some, 140; in mines, 

 154; produces animal and plant life, 197; as the cause 

 of earthquakes, 231, 233, 234. 



