Volume II Part 8 (1/2)

Agnes, St., legend of, ii. 319

Agricultural pursuits, history of the decline of, in Italy, i. 266.

Efforts to relieve the agriculturists, 267

Albigenses, their slow suicides, ii. 49

Alexander the Great: effect of his career on Greek cosmopolitanism, i. 229

Alexandria, foundation of, i. 230.

Effect of the increasing importance of, on Roman thought, 319.

The Decian persecution at, 451.

Excesses of the Christian sects of, ii. 196, 197, _note_

Alexis, St., his legend, ii. 322

Alimentus, Cincius, his work written in Greek, i. 230

Almsgiving, effects of indiscriminate, ii. 90, 91

Amafanius, wrote the first Latin work on philosophy, i. 175, _note_.

Ambrose, St., his miraculous dream, i. 379.

His dissection of the pagan theory of the decline of the Roman empire, 409.

His ransom of Italians from the Goths, ii. 72.

His commendation of disobedience to parents, 132

American Indians, suicide of the, ii. 54

Ammon, St., his refusal to wash himself, ii. 110.

Deserts his wife, 322

Amour, William de St., his denunciation of the mendicant orders, ii. 96

Amphitheatres, history and remains of Roman, i. 273

Anaxagoras, on the death of his son, i. 191.

On his true country, 201

Anchorites. _See_ Ascetics; Monasticism

Angelo, Michael, in what he failed, ii. 363

Anglo-Saxon nations, their virtues and vices, i. 153

Animals, lower, Egyptian wors.h.i.+p of, i. 166, _note_.

Humanity to animals probably first advocated by Plutarch, 244.

Animals employed in the arena at Rome, 280.

Instances of kindness to, 288, 307.

Legends of the connection of the saints and the animal world, ii. 161.

Pagan legends of the intelligence of animals, 161, 162.

Legislative protection of them, 162.