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 Minos, the historic, 63 Mirabeau, the love letters of, 40 Mithridates, defeat of, 19;
 * the conquests of, 197

Mohammedan, the position of the, 236 Mommsen, the apologies of, 243 Morales, the two, at Rome, 155 Morini, the, a tribe in Gaul, 86 Mosca olearia, a new species of, 190 Municipia, the splendour of the, 110 Museum, the, at Alexandria, 55 Mythology, the imagination of, 197

Naiads, the maidens of Cleopatra dressed as, 40 Naples, the ruins of, 92;
 * the city of, 218

Naples, the Gulf of, 119 Napoleon I., mentioned, 63, 210 Natural History, the, by Pliny, 183 Nero, Emperor, 96,
 * elected, 103;
 * frivolity of, 105;
 * debauches of, 114;
 * the cowardice of, 121;
 * careless government of, 125;
 * St. Paul contrasted with, 133;
 * the suicide of, 135

Newspapers, the fortunate lack of, in Rome, 173 Nile, the Roman protectorate in the valley of the, 46 Nimes, the inhabitants of, 175 Nones, the days of the, 9 Notre Dame, the cathedral of, 140 Nuptial banquets, the cost of, 9

Octavia, divorce of, 40;
 * the wife of Nero, 124, 127

Oil, the exportation of, 218 Oligarchy, the, at Rome, 81 Olive groves, the wealth of the, 189 Olympus, the delights of, 59 Opimius, the consulate of, 198 Orient, the metropolises of the, 15 Oriental Empire, the, of Rome, 57 Oriental state, the conquest of an, 15 Orientalism, the invasion of, 225 Ostia, Tiberius starts for, 163 Ovid, the representatives of, 149;
 * the work of, 150

Paintings, of Pompeii, the, 229 Palatine, a journey to the, 7;
 * polygamy in, 118

Palestine, the annexation of, 49;
 * uprising in, 166

Pandataria, Julia, exiled to, 172, 177