his remarkable wound, VI. ii. 16-18;
treatment of his wound, VI. ii. 25-29;
of the household of Belisarius, VI. ii. 25

Asclepiodotus, of Naples, a trained speaker;
with Pastor opposes the plan to surrender the city, V. viii. 22 ff.;
they address the Neapolitans, V. viii. 29-40;
bring forward the Jews, V. viii. 41;
his effrontery after the capture of the city, V. x. 39, 43-45;
bitterly accused by Stephanus, V. x. 40-42;
killed by a mob, V. x. 46

Asia, the continent adjoining Libya, V. xii. 1

Asinarian Gate, in Rome, V. xiv. 14

Asinarius,
Gothic commander in Dalmatia, V. vii. 1, xvi. 8;
gathers an army among the Suevi, V. xvi. 12, 14;
joins Uligisalus and proceeds to Salones, V. xvi. 15, 16

Assyrians, V. xxiv. 36

Atalaric, grandson of Theoderic;
succeeds him as king of the Goths, V. ii. 1;
reared by his mother Amalasuntha, _ibid._;
who attempts to educate him, V. ii. 6 ff.;
corrupted by the Goths, V. ii. 19 ff.;
receives the envoy Alexander, V. vi. 26;
divides Gaul with his cousin Amalaric, V. xiii. 4, 5;
returns the treasures of Carcasiana to him, V. xiii. 6;
attacked by a wasting disease, V. iii. 10, iv. 5;
his death, V. iv. 4, 19;
his quaestor Fidelius, V. xiv. 5;
his death foreshadowed by the crumbling of a mosaic in Naples,
V. xxiv. 24

Athanasius,
brother of Alexander, V. vi. 26;
envoy of Justinian, V. vi. 25, vii. 24

Athena,
her statue stolen from Troy, V. xv. 9;
given to Aeneas, V. xv. 10;
different views as to the existence of the statue in the time of
Procopius, V. xv. 11-14;
a copy of it in the temple of Fortune in Rome, V. xv. 11;
Greek statues of, V. xv. 13

Athenodorus, an Isaurian, bodyguard of Belisarius, V. xxix. 20, 21

Attila, leader of the Huns, V. i. 3

Augustulus,
name given to Augustus, Emperor of the West, V. i. 2;
dethroned by Odoacer, V. i. 7, VI. vi. 16

Augustus, first emperor of the Romans;
allowed the Thuringians to settle in Gaul, V. xii. 10;
builder of a great bridge over the Narnus, V. xvii. 11

Augustus, see Augustulus

Aulon, city on the Ionian Gulf, V. iv. 21

Aurelian Gate, in Rome,
called also the Gate of Peter, V. xix. 4, xxviii. 15;
near the Tomb of Hadrian, V. xxii. 12

Auximus, city in Picenum;
its strong position, VI. x. 3;
strongly garrisoned by the Goths, VI. xi. 2;
metropolis of Picenum, _ibid._;
distance from its port Ancon, VI. xiii. 7

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