Romans, subjects of the Roman empire, both in the
East and in the West;
mentioned constantly throughout;
celebrate a festival commemorating the
overthrow of Maximus,
III. iv. 16;
accustomed to enter subject cities in
disorder, III. xxi. 9;
require especial oaths of loyalty from
body-guards of officers,
IV. xviii. 6;
subjugate the peoples of Libya, IV. x.
28;
lose Libya to Gizeric and the Vandals,
III. iii. 31-35;
send an unsuccessful expedition under
Basiliscus against the Vandals,
III. vi. 1-24;
make peace with the Persians, III. ix.
26;
send a second expedition under Belisarius,
III. xi. 1 ff.;
defeat the Vandals at Decimum, III. xviii.
5-19, xix. 31-33;
at Tricamarum, IV. ii. 4 ff.;
defeat the Moors at the battle of Mammes,
IV. xi. 47-54;
on Mt. Bourgaon, IV. xii. 19 ff.;
and on Mt. Aurasium, IV. xix. 5-xx.
22;
further conflicts with the Moors, IV.
xi.-xxviii.;
poverty of the Roman soldiers, IV. iv.
3;
their marriages with the Vandal women,
IV. xiv. 8;
and their desire for the Vandals estates,
IV. xiv. 10;
they make a mutiny, IV. xiv. 7 ff.
Rome, abandoned by Honorius, III. ii. 8, 9;
completely sacked by the Visigoths, III.
ii. 13;
captured by Alaric, III. ii. 14-23;
sacked by Alaric, III. ii. 24;
according to one account, was delivered
over to Alaric by Proba,
III. ii. 27;
the suffering of the city during the siege
of Alaric, III. ii. 27;
despoiled by Gizeric, III. v. 1 ff., IV.
ix. 5
Rome, name of a cock of the Emperor Honorius, III. ii. 26
Rufinus, of Thrace;
of the house of Belisarius and his standard-bearer,
IV. x. 3, 4;
commander of cavalry, III. xi. 7;
makes a successful attack upon the Moors
in Byzacium, IV. x. 5;
his force in turn annihilated by the Moors,
IV. x. 6 ff;
captured and killed, IV. x. 10, 11, xi.
22
Rufinus, son of Zaunas and brother of Leontius;
sent as commander to Libya, IV. xix. 1;
fights valorously at the capture of Toumar,
IV. xx. 19
Salarian Gate, at Rome, III. ii. 17, 22
Sallust, Roman historian, the house of, burned by Alaric, III. ii. 24
Sarapis, commander of Roman infantry, III. xi. 7,
IV. xv. 50;
his death, IV. xv. 59
Sardinia, its size compared with that of Sicily, IV.
xiii. 42;
half way between Rome and Carthage, ibid.;
recovered by the Romans from the Vandals,
III. vi. 8, 11;
occupied by the tyrant Godas, III. x.
26, 27;
Gelimer sends an expedition to recover
it, III. xi. 22, 23;
subdued by Tzazon, III, xxiv. 1, 3, IV.
ii. 25;
avoided by Cyril, III. xxiv. 19;
Tzazon and his men summoned thence by
Gelimer, III. xxv. 10, 17, 24, 25;
recovered for the Roman empire by Cyril,
IV. v. 2, 4;
Solomon sends an expedition against the
Moors who had overrun the island,
IV. xiii. 41-45