II.—INDEX OF PRINCIPAL SUBJECTS.
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Augustine, of Hippo, Saint and Dods, Marcus
assigns the reason why Athens was so called, ii. 226;
the opinion of, about the name of Areopagus, 227, 228;
what he relates of the strange transformations of men, 235, etc.;
on the number of philosophical sects, 293-299, etc;
in reference to a celestial portent, 429;
his story of the Vestal virgin falsely accused, 503;
his work on The Origin of the Roman People, quoted in relation to the Palingenesy, 533.
Vaticanus, i. 149.
Venilia, i. 285.
Venus, a peculiar candelabrum in a temple of, ii. 423, 424.
Venus, the planet, a strange prodigy that occurred to, ii. 429.
Vesta, i. 147, 148, 279.
Vestal virgin, a, to prove her innocence, carries water in a sieve from the Tiber, ii. 503.
Vestal virgins, the punishment of those caught in adultery, i. 95.
Vice, not nature, contrary to God, and hurtful, i. 484.
Vicissitudes of life, the, on what dependent, i. 79, etc.
Victoria, the goddess, i. 152, 153;
ought she to be worshipped as well as Jove? 154.
Virgil, quoted, i. 2, 4, 5, 6, 29, 78, 89, 92, 101, 103, 106, 107, 199, 200, 270, 272, 294, 332, 333, 384, 412, 421, 428, ii. 5, 234, 397, 425, 439, 470.
Virgin Mary, the, ii. 204.
Virgins, the violation of, by force, does not contaminate, i. 25.
Virtue and Faith, honoured by the Romans with temples, i. 156, 157;
the Romans ought to have been content with, and Felicity, 157;
the war waged by, ii. 203.
Virtues, as disgraceful to make them serve human glory as to serve bodily pleasure, i. 217;
true, necessary to true religion, ii. 340, 341.
Virtumnus and Sentinus, i. 260, 261.
Virtus, the goddess, i. 263, 264.
Vision, the beatific, ii. 534-540.
Vulcan, i. 279.
Warfare, the Christian, ii. 442.
War, against the Albans, i. 105;
with Pyrrhus, 116;
the Punic, 117, etc.; 119, etc.;
the civil, of the Gracchi, 126;
the civil, between Marius and Sylla, 128, etc.;
the Gothic and Gallic, 130;
severe and frequent, before the advent of Christ, 131;
the duration of various, 220;
with Radagaisus, 221;