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 worship 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.

Views as to the souls of animals, 162.

Moral duty of kindness to animals taught by pagans, 166.

Legends in the lives of the saints in connection with animals, 168.

Progress in modern times of humanity to animals, 172

Antigonus of Socho, his doctrine of virtue, i. 183, _note_

Antioch, charities of, ii. 80.

Its extreme vice and asceticism, 153

Antisthenes, his scepticism, i. 162

Antoninus, the philosopher, his prediction, i. 427

Antoninus the Pious, his death, i. 207.

His leniency towards the Christians, 438, 439.

Forged letter of, 439, _note_.

His charity, ii. 77

Antony, St., his flight into the desert, ii. 103.

His mode of life, 110.

His dislike to knowledge, 115.

Legend of his visit to Paul the hermit, 157, 158

Aphrodite, the celestial and earthly, i. 106

Apollonius of Tyana, his conversation with an Egyptian priest respecting the Greek and Egyptian modes of worshipping the deity, i. 166, _note_.

Miracles attributed to him, 372.

His humanity to animals, ii. 165

Apollonius, the merchant, his dispensary for monks, ii. 81

Apuleius, his condemnation of suicide, i. 213.

His disquisition on the doctrine of daemons, 323.

Practical form of his philosophy, 329.

Miracles attributed to him, 372.

His defence of tooth-powder, ii. 148

Archytas of Tarentum, his speech on the evils of sensuality, i. 200, _note_

Argos, story of the sons of the priestess of Juno at, i. 206

Arians, their charges against the Catholics, i. 418, _note_

Aristides, his gentleness, i. 228

Aristotle, his admission of the practice of abortion, i. 92.