Rome, 84
  Political events, the, of Rome, 33
  Political personnel, the, of Rome, 217
  Polybius, the period of, 183
  Pompadour, the Marquise de, mentioned, 43
  Pompeii, the ruins of, 92;
    the city of, 218
  Pompey, the conquests of, 19;
    the theatre of, 55
  Pontifex maximus, the title of, 232
  Pontus, salted fish from the, 8
  Poppaea Sabina, the skill of, 116;
    death of, 137
  Populus, the representatives of the, 246
  Pozzuoli, the city of, 218
  Praetor, the office of the, 157
  Precious metals, the distribution of, 218
  Praetorian guards, the, 117
  Praetorians, the influence of the, 104
  Princeps, the authority of the, 188
  Proconsuls, the, of Rome, 182
  Procurator, the origin of the office of, 212
  Proprietors, the government of the, 211
  Prosperity, the growing, 148
  Protestant, the present position of the, 236
  Provinces, the peace in the, 176
  Ptolemies, the, at Alexandria, 19
  Ptolemies, the kingdom of the, 46
  Public finance, the lack of, 144
  Punic War, the Second, 3, 214

  Q

  Quaestor, the office of the, 211
  Quintilius Varus, the governor of Syria, 166
  Quintus Metullus Celerus, the consul, 74

  R

Reinach, Joseph, the historian, 63 Republic, the last century of the, 14, 198 Respublica, the glory of the, 264 Revue de Paris, the, 63 Rheims, the vicinity of the city of, 206 Rhetian wine, the preference for, 199 Rhine, the river, 72 Roads, the construction of, 213 Rodi, Tiberius to go to, 162 Roman Catholic, the position of the, 236 Roman Empire, the dissolution of the, 140, 210 Roman history in modern education, 239 Roman nobility, the, 54 Roman protectorate, the, 46 Roman society, the dissolution of, 5 Romanism, the defence of, 111 Rome, in the beginning, 5 Romulus as a lawmaker, 183 Royal palaces, the closing of, 215 Ruteni, the, a tribe of Gaul, 86

  S

  Saint Mark, the wonder of, 140
  Saintonge, the district of, 90
  Savants, the, of the East, 55
  Scipio Africanus, the work of, 153
  Scipios, the policy of the, 226
  Second Punic War, the, 3,214
  Seine, the banks of the, 206
  Sempronius Gracchus, a famous tribune, 56
  Senate,
    the Roman, 103;
    sessions of the, 105
  Seneca, the political work of, 104
  Sesterces, the value of the Roman, 223
  Sicily, the peasants of, 187
  Sidon,
    the artisans of, 88;
    the city of, 219
  Silk, the importation of, 220
  Silver-plating, the art of, 228
  Slaves, the abundance of, in Rome, 15
  Slaves, the position of, 212
  Social development, the, of the Roman Empire, 207 ff
  Social laws, the, 148, 153
  Socialists, the invectives of the, 250
  Soldi, the hunt for, 173
  Spain, the pro-consulship of, 184