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 Ptolemies, the, at Alexandria, 19 Ptolemies, the kingdom of the, 46 Public finance, the lack of, 144 Punic War, the Second, 3, 214

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

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

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