embassy of Fabricius, 63;
proposal to poison Pyrrhus, 64;
releases Roman prisoners without ransom, 64;
crosses over into Sicily, 64;
is repulsed at Lilybaeum, 64;
returns to Italy, 64;
seizes the treasures of the temple of Proserpine at Locri, 65;
his remorse, 65;
is defeated at Beneventum, 65;
returns to Greece, and is slain, 65.

Q.

_Quaestio Perpetua_, 197.

Quaestor; and Quaestorship, 4, 117.

Quintilianus, M. Fabius, 348.

Quintius, P., speech of Cicero for, 216.

_Quirites_, 11 (note).

R.

Rabirius, C., 219.

Ramnes, 12.

Rasena, 5.

Regillus, Lake, battle of, 28.

Regulus, M. Atilius, defeats the Carthaginians, 72;
is defeated by Xanthippus, 73.

Regulus, M. Atilius, sent, as prisoner, with an embassy, to
Rome, 73, 74;
advises the Senate to reject the terms, 74;
returns, and is put to death, 74.

Remus and Romulus, 9;
Remus slain, 10.

_Repetundae_, 128 (note).

Republic established at Rome, 25;
end of, 270.

Rhea Silvia, legend of, 8.

Rhodes, 107;
school of rhetoric at, 215.

_Rogatio_ and _Lex_, 49 (note).

Roma Quadrata, 9.

Roman Literature, sketch of, 272-285;
_Poetry_: Saturnian Metre and the Drama, 272;
M. Livius Andronicus, 272, 273;
Cn. Naevius, 273;
Q. Ennius, 273;
T. Maccius Plautus, 273;
P. Terentius Afer, 274;
Q. Caecilius, L. Afranius, 274;
M. Pacuvius, 275;
L. Accius, 275;
_Atellanae Fabulae_, _Mimes_, 275;
Dec. Laberius, P. Syrus, 275;
Fescennine Songs, 276;
Satires, 276;
C. Lucilius, 276;
T. Lucretius Carus, 276;
Valerius Catullus, 276;
P. Virgilius Maro, 277;
Q. Horatius Flaccus, 278;
Albius Tibullus, 280;
Sextus Aurelius Propertius, 280;
P. Ovidius Naso, 281.
_Prose Writers_--Q. Fabius Pictor, 282;
L. Cincius Alimentus, 282;
M. Porcius Cato, 282;
M. Tullius Cicero, 282;
M. Terentius Varro, 283;
C. Julius Caesar, 283;
C. Sallustius Crispus, 284;
Cornelius Nepos, 284;
Titus Livius, 284.

Rome, situation and first inhabitants, 7;
legends and early history, 8;
first four kings, 9-15;
last three kings, 16-28;
foundation of, 9;
destroyed by the Goths (Senones) under Brennus, 47;
rebuilt, 48;
pestilence at, 62;
sacked by Alaric, 341.

Romulus, birth of, 9;
slays Remus, 10;
rape of Sabine virgins, 10;
war with Sabines, 10;
reigns conjointly with Titus Tatius, 11;
succeeds T. Tatius as ruler of the Sabines, and