Abandanes,
secretary of Chosroes, sent to Belisarius, II. xxi. 1 ff.;
his report, II. xxi. 13, 14

Abasgi, their location, II. xxix. 15;
friends of the Romans, _ib._

Abochorabus, ruler of the Saracens of Arabia, presents the Palm Groves
to Justinian, I. xix. 10 ff.

Aborrhas River, protects one side of Circesium, II. v. 2;
near Theodosiopolis, II. xix. 29

Abramus, becomes king of the Homeritae, I. xx. 3;
his servile origin, I. xx. 4;
defeats two Aethiopian armies, I. xx. 5-7;
pays tribute to the Aethiopians, I. xx. 8;
his idle promises to Justinian to invade Persia, I. xx. 13

Abydus, city opposite Sestus on the Hellespont, II. iv. 9

Acacius, father of Adolius, II. xxi. 2;
denounces Amazaspes to the emperor, II. iii. 4;
slays him treacherously, II. iii. 5;
his shameless career as governor of Armenia, II. iii. 6, 7;
slain by the Armenians, II. iii. 7

Adarbiganon, Chosroes halts there with his army, II. xxiv. 1;
the fire-sanctuary located there, II. xxiv. 2;
abandoned by Chosroes, II. xxiv. 12

Adergoudounbades, made "chanaranges" by Chosroes, I. vi. 15, 18;
saves Cabades from the hand of Chosroes, I. xxiii. 7 ff.;
betrayed by his son, I. xxiii. 13;
his death, I. xxiii. 21

Adolius, son of Acacius, an Armenian, urges severe treatment of Armenians,
II. iii. 10;
commander of Roman cavalry, II. xxi. 2, 18, 20;
commands a detachment in an army to invade Persia, II. xxiv. 13;
killed by a stone, II. xxv. 35

Adonachus, commander in Chalcis, II. xii. 2

Adrastadaran Salanes, an office in Persia of high authority
(_lit._ "Leader of the Warriors"), I. vi 18, xi. 25;
held only by Seoses, I. xi. 38

Adulis, in Aethiopia, the city and harbour, distance from Auxomis,
I. xix. 22;
home of a certain
Roman trader, I. xx. 4

Aegypt, its topography, I. xix. 3;
John the Cappadocian an exile there, I. xxv. 43;
the pestilence there, II. xxii. 6

Aeimachus, a butcher of Antioch, his encounter with a Persian horseman,
II. xi. 8 ff.

Aelas, on the "Red Sea," I. xix. 3, 19, 24

Aethiopians, location of their country, I. xix. 17;
the ships used there, I. xix. 23;
iron not produced there nor imported from elsewhere, I. xix. 24. 25;
sought as allies by Justinian, I. xix. 1, xx. 9 ff., II. iii. 40;
unable to buy silk from the Indians, I. xx. 12

Agamemnon, father of Iphigenia, I. xvii. II

Agesta, _i.e._, "agger," employed by the Persians in besieging Edessa,