Volume II Part 22 (1/2)

Their prohibition of animal food, 167

Manilius, his conception of the Deity, i. 163

Manufactures, influence upon morals, i. 139

Marcellinus, Tullius, his self-destruction, i. 222

Marcia, mistress of Commodus, her influence in behalf of toleration to the Christians, i. 443

Marcian, St., legend of the visit of St. Avitus to him, ii. 159

Marcus, St., story of, and his mother, ii. 128

Marriage, how regarded by the Jews, Greeks, Romans, and Catholics, i. 103, 104.

Statius' picture of the first night of marriage, 107, _note_.

Reason why the ancient Jews attached a certain stigma to virginity, 109.

Conflict of views of the Catholic priest and the political economist on the subject of early marriages, 114.

Results in some countries of the difficulties with which legislators surround marriage, 144.

Early marriages the most conspicuous proofs of Irish improvidence, 144.

Influence of asceticism on, ii. 320.

Notions of its impurity, 324.

Second marriages, 324

Ma.r.s.eilles, law of, respecting suicide, i. 218, _note_.

Epidemic of suicide among the women of, ii. 55

Martial, sycophancy of his epigrams, i. 194

Martin of Tours, St., establishes monachism in Gaul, ii. 106

Martyrdom, glories of, i. 390.

Festivals of the Martyrs, 390, _note_.

Pa.s.sion for, 391.

Dissipation of the people at the festivals, ii. 150

Mary, St., of Egypt, ii. 110

Mary, the Virgin, veneration of, ii. 367, 368, 390

Ma.s.silians, wine forbidden to women by the, i. 96, _note_

Maternal affection, strength of, ii. 25, _note_

Maurice, on the social penalties of conscience, i. 60, _note_

Mauricus, Junius, his refusal to allow gladiatorial shows at Vienna, i.

286

Maxentius, instance of his tyranny, ii. 46

Maximilia.n.u.s, his martyrdom, ii. 248

Maximinus, Emperor, his persecution of the Christians, i. 446