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Thebes in Boeotia; Alexander offered to rebuild, VII, 2, 3. Themistocles: visited Persian court, I, 29; statue at Cadiz, V, 4.

Theophania: festival at Delphi when statues of Apollo and other gods were exhibited, IV, 31.

Thera island in Ægæan sea, IV, 34. Thermodon: river of Scythia, now Termeh, VII, 26.

Thermopyla: I, 25; IV, 23.

Theseus brought back from Hades by Hercules, IV, 46; cursed Hippolytus, VII, 42.

Thespesio: eldest Gymnosophist

and

their spokesman, VI, 10-22; VII, 14. Thessalians: Achilles indignant, IV, 16; sends Apollonius to them, IV, 12, 23; they obey, VIII, 15; costume, III, 25; credulous of the power of witches, VIII, 7.

Thirty tyrants: at Athens, VII, 4.
Thon, in Egypt, VII, 22.

Thracians: VII, 3; IV, 14.

Thrasybulus of Naucratis, disciple of Euphrates, VI, 7, 8, 9, 13.

Thurians wore long hair, III, 15; IV, 10. Tiber VII, 16; VIII, 2.

Tiberius: emperor; cruel, I, 15; V, 32; sly, VII, 14; his statues revered, I, 15. Tigellinus: Nero's prætorian prefect, hostile to Apollonius and subdued by him, IV, 42-44; V, 35; VII, 4. Tigers: care for young, II, 14; worship rising Sun, II, 28; Indians eat hindquarters (id.); many seen in India, III, 50; swifter than griffins III, 48. Tigris river, I, 20, 21. Timasion: Egyptian guide, VI, 3–9, 22–26. Timomachus: painter, II, 22. Tingi: African tribe, V, 1. Tiresias: of Sophocles, VII, 4. Titus: takes Jerusalem, correspondence with Apollonius, VI, 29; VII, 8; interviews, VI, 30-34; his death foretold, VI, 32; emperor, VI, 30; referred to in conference with Vespasian, V, 35, 36; and in defense before Domitian, VIII, 7.

Tmolus mountain in Lydia, gold-bearing, II, 8; VI, 23, 37.

Tragedy improvements at Athens, VI,

11.

Troy visited, IV, 11; Memnon did not go there, VI, 4; nor Helen, IV, 16;

VII, 22; Trojan horse, V, 26; heroism there exaggerated, III, 19; giants in those days, II, 21; Trojans still offering sacrifices to Achilles, IV, 16; he is implacable (id.), his tomb there, IV, 11. Trophonius: his oracle at Lebadea, IV, 24; described, VIII, 17-19; approved Pythagorean doctrines, VIII, 19.

Tyana: in Cappadocia, I, 4, 13, 33; VIII, 29, 31.

Typhon chained under Etna, V, 13, 14, 16.

Tyrant: a strange beast, IV, 38; disposition, VII, 14; resisted by philosophers, VII, 2, 3; not difficult to resist, VII, 42; how dealt with, VII, 29. Tyrrhenian sea, V, 11; gulf, VII, 13; Musonius a Tyrrhenian, V, 19.

Ulysses: relations with Achilles, IV, 11; receives wind-bag from Æolus, VII, 14; lives with Calypso, VII, 10; encounters Cyclops, IV, 36; VII, 28; Homer neglects Palamedes on his account, III, 22; IV, 16; aided by Leucothea, VII, 22; death by sea-urchin, VI, 32; waylays Palamedes, III, 22. Umbrella-footed men (Sciapodes): in Ethiopia, VI, 25; not found in India, III, 45, 47.

Unguent used at Indian weddings, III, 1; another kind, III, 17.

Ursa Major: constellation not visible in Erythræan Sea, III, 53.

Vardanes king of Babylon, reinstated, I, 21; dealings with Apollonius, I, 29– 41; II, 1, 17, 40; III, 58; letter to Satrap of Indus, II, 17.'

Venus: (Aphrodite), Hippolytus rejected her, VI, 3, 4, 5; piebald women in India dedicated to her, III, 3; goddess of marriage, III, 1; statue at Paphos, III, 58; at Cnidos, VI, 19, 40. Vespasian: emperor; comes to Egypt to consult Apollonius, V, 27; VII, 18; VIII, 7; dealings with him there, V, 28-38; letters between them, V, 41; VIII, 7; his sons, V, 35; took freedom from Greece, V, 41; war with Jews, V, 33; praised, VI, 30, 31, 32; V, 41; sets out his policy, V, 29.

Vesta: her temple at Rome, VII, 6. Vindex: revolts against Nero in west, V, 10, 11, 33, 35; VII, 4.

Vines: in India, Lydia and Mæonia, III, 5; Domitian forbids their cultivation, VI, 42; planted by Bacchus at Nysa, II, 9.

Vipers, care for young, II, 14.

Vitellius emperor, V, 11, 13, 29, 30, 32,
33, 34; VIII, 7.

Volcanoes: their causes, V, 17.

Vulcan makes Achilles' shield, II, 22;
said to have forge under Ætna, V, 16;
skilful, VI, 11, 17; ensnares Mars,
VII, 26.

Vultures in India: II, 40.

Water drinkers of water have advan-
tage over wine-drinkers, II, 35-37;
measured into clepsydra for court ad-
vocates, VIII, 2, 4, 6.

Whales: protect their young, II, 14.

Wine of Babylon, I, 21; made from
dates, II, 6, 7; over-indulgence cured,
III, 40.

Wise men conduct, I, 35; oppose ty-

rants, VII, 1-3; foresee, VIII, 7.

Wolves: care for cubs, II, 14; feed on
carrion, II, 40.

Women in labor, how relieved, III, 39;
avoided by Apollonius, I, 13.

Wool: produced by plant in India, III,
15.

World: elements and origin, III, 34, 35;
VIII, 7.

Wrynecks: (iynges), I, 25; VI, 11, 14;
VIII, 7.

Xerxes burns Athens, III, 31; V, 7;
flees from Salamis, III, 31; Eretrians
erect altar to him, I, 24; invasion of
Greece, IV, 21; conquest, V, 41; bridges
Hellespont, V, 7; his victories, I, 25.
Zeno: of Elis, frees Mysia from tyrant,
VII, 2, 3.

Zeugma frontier city at bridge over
Euphrates, I, 20, 37.

Zeus temple of Capitoline Jove burned
by Vitellius, V, 30; VIII, 7; praise of
Zeus, IV, 30; Olympian Zeus, I, 15;
11, 43; IV, 7, 28; VI, 19; VIII, 15, 17;
avenger of perjury (Orkios), I, 6;
preserver (Soter), II, 7; good, IV, 28
contrives capture of Saturn, VII, 26;
born in Crete, IV, 34; Alexander
erected altar in India to Jupiter Am-
mon as his father, II, 43.
Zeuxis: the painter, II, 20.

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