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.