Proteus, a sea god, who could transform himself Stalta, a goddess of grown persons.

into any shape.

Psyche, a goddess of pleasure.
Pyllades, the constant friend of Orestes.
Pyramus, and This be, two lovers of Babylon,
who killed themselves with the same sword,
and occasioned the turning the berries of the
mulberry-tree, under which they died, from
white to red.

Prya'tis, one of the four horses of the sun.
Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, remarkable for his
cruelty at the siege of Troy.
Python, a huge serpent, produced from the mud
of the deluge, which Apollo killed, and in
memory thereof, instituted the Pythiau games.
Pythonis'sa, the priestess of Apollo.

Q

Quadrifrons, a title of Janus.
Quiles, a goddess of grown persons.

Quietallis, and Quietus, names of Pluto.
Quinqua'tria, feasts of Pallas.

R

Rectus, a title of Bacchus.

Re'dur, and Regia, titles of Fortune.
Regina, a title of Juno.

Rhadamanthus, one of the three
judges.

Rhea, a title of Cybele.

Rhea syria, the mother of Romulus.
Robi'gus, a god of corn.

Romulus, the first king of Rome.

Rumina, a goddess of new born infants.
Runcina, the goddess of weeding.
Rusina, a rural deity.

S

Sabazia, feasts of Proserpine.

Salii, the 12 frantic priests of Mars.

Sten'tor, a Grecian, whose voice is reported to
have been as strong and as loud as the voices
of 50 men together.
Sthe'no, one of the three Gorgons.
Styr, a river of hell.
Sua'da, a nuptial goddess.
Summa'nus, a name of Pluto.
Sylva'nus, a god of woods and forests.
Syrens, sea monsters

T

Ta'cita, a goddess of silence.
Tantalus, a king of Paphlagonia, who, serv
ing up to table the limbs of his son, Pelops,
to try the divinity of the gods, was plunged
to the chin in a lake of hell, and doomed to
everlasting thirst and hunger, as a punish-
ment for his barbarity and impiety.
Tarta'rus, the place of the wicked in hell.
Taurus, the bull, under whose form Jupiter
carried away Europa.

Telchines, priests of Cybele.

Telema'chus, the only son of Ulysses.

Tem'pe, a most beautiful valley in Thessaly, the
resort of the gods.

Terminus, the god of boundaries.
Terpsichore, the muse of music, &c.
Terror, the god of dread and fear.

infernal Thalia, the muse of comedy.

Salmonelus, a king of Elis, struck by a thunder bolt to hell for imitating Jupiter's thunder.

Salus, the goddess of health

Sanc'us, a god of the Sabines
Sator, and Sorri'tor, rural gods.
Saturnalia, feasts of Saturn.

Saturnus, or Saturn, the son of Cœlus and
Terra.

Sallyrs, the attendants of Bacchus, horned mon

sters, half men, half goats.

Scyron, a famous robber of Attica.

Selia, and Segeltia, goddesses of corn.
Sel'li, priests of Jupiter.

Sen'ta, a goddess of married women.
Sera'pis. See Apis.

Silenus, the foster-father and companion of Bac-
chus, who lived in Arcadia, rode on an ass,
and was drunk every day.

Simis, a famous robber, killed by Hercules.
Sisyphus, the son of olus, killed by Theseus,
and doomed incessantly to roll a huge stone
up a mountain in hell for his perfidy and
numerous robberies.

Sol, a name of Apollo.
Som'nus, the god of sleep.
Sphinx, a monster, born of Syphon, and Echidna,
who destroyed herself because Edipus
solved the enigma she proposed.

The mis, the daughter of Cœlum and Terra, the goddess of laws, oracles, &c.

Thes'pis, the first tragic poet.

Thetis, daughter of Nereus and Doris, and goddess of the sea.

Thyr'sus, the rod of Bacchus.

Tiphys, the pilot of the ship Argo.
Tisiph'one, one of the three Furies.

Titan, son of Calum and Terra, and the elder
brother of Saturnus, or Saturn.
Tma'rius, a title of Jupiter.
Triton, Neptune's trumpeter.
Tritonia, a name of Minerva.
Troilus, a son of Priam and Hecuba.
Troy, a city of Phrygia, famous for holding out
a siege of ten years against the Greeks, but
they at last captured and destroyed it.
Tuteli'na, a goddess of corn.
Ty'ro, one of the Nereids.

BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX.

N. B. This list of remarkable persons, from the earliest period to the present time, is not o
course intended to include every name mentioned in history, but merely the most important in
their several departments. The names of Sovereigns are referred to occasionally only, as full lists
are given in their proper place.

This list may be useful in two ways, viz:

First, as an Index to the names mentioned in the Chronological Tables in this volume; and
Secondly, to indicate, by reference to those tables, the chief political events and contemporary
public characters during the life of each person in the list.

Thus: SOCRATES, the Greek philosopher, was born 470, and died 400 B. J. The tables on
page 20 to 24, show who lived, and what happened, during the seventy years of Socrates' life.

MILTON was born A. D. 1608, one year after the first settlement at Jamestown, Virginia; six
years after the East India Company was founded; five years after James I. ascended the throne;
the same year that the Protestant Union was formed in Germany; one year before Gustavus
Adolphus became king of Sweden; two years before Louis XIII. became king of France. He
was 12 years old when the Puritans first landed at Plymouth; he was 17 when Charles I. suc-
ceeded James, and he was 41 years old when Charles was beheaded. Among his contemporaries
were Lord Bacon, Inigo Jones, Jeremy Taylor, Algernon Sydney, Sir C. Wren, Butler, Waller,
Dryden, Henry More, Baxter, and Boyle, in England: Peter Stuyvesant, Winthrop, Cotton, and
Eliot, in America: Richelieu, Mazarine, Colbert, Rubens, Kepler, Des Cartes, Moliere, Corneille,
Racine, Pascal, on the Continent. He died A. D. 1674, nine years after the great plague in London,
14 years after Charles II. was restored, and 7 years after New-York was ceded to the English.
And thus of any person mentioned in the Index-a great variety of particulars may be found
at a glance, on referring to the tables.

No living persons are mentioned, except some of the most noted in Europe.
ABBREVIATIONS.-See List in the Introduction. Bar. (Barbarian), includes several different
nations, some not entirely civilized. f. is used for flourished. The dates before Christ
are indicated by B. c.—all others are A. D.-In some cases the dates are necessarily left blank.

Ger.

Accun., Fred, operative chemist (in Eng.)

Pruss. Ackerman, Rudolph, introduced gas lighting and lithog. in London

Gr.

Achilles, one of the leaders in the Trojan war

f. 1184

Amer.

Ainer.

Eng.

Rom.

Ire.

Gr.

Adrain, Robert, mathematician (at New-York, &c.)
Elian, the historian and rhetorician

NATION.
NAME AND PROFESSION.
Eng. Adam, Robert, an architectural author
Amer. Adams, John Quincy, diplomatist, poet, Pres. U. S.

Samuel, one of the patriotic founders of the republic
John, patriot and statesman-2d Pres. U. Ş.
Addison, Joseph, one of the ornaments of English literature
Adrian, the 15th Emp. (born in Spain)

Gr.

Gr.

Agis IV., the greatest of the Spartan kings

Eng.

Rom.

Aglionby, one of the translators of the Bible
Agricola, Cneius Julius, military commander

Ger.

Agesilaus II., king of Sparta: (defeats the Per., Egypt., and Greeks)

Agricola, John, a divine;-founder of the Antinomians

Rom. Agrippa, military commander, governor of Judea

Fr.
Eng.

Eng.

Cornelius, philosopher, &c.

Aikin, John, M. D., an elegant writer; editor of
Ainsworth, grammarian and lexicographer

Tartar. Akbar, Mohammed, a great Mogul sovereign,

Akenside, Mark, a popular poet

poets, &c.

411

Span.

Alberoni, Julius (cardinal), statesman

Ital.

Alberti, an eminent writer, paint., sculp., &c.

Albertus Magnus, philosophic writer; tutor of Aquinas
Alboin, the Lombard conqueror

Ital.

Alciati, of Milan, an eminent civilian and author.

Nevskoi, a saint and hero;-def of the Tartars, &c.
I., emperor (coalition against Napoleon)
Alexius Commenus, emperor of the East
Alfieri, Victor, an eminent tragic poet

Eng. Alfred, justly called the Great, king
Algarotti, a general scholar and critic

Ital.

Bar

Bar.

Ali Bey, gov, of Egypt,--revolted against the Turks
-Tepelini, pacha of Jannina

Scot. Alison, Archibald Rev., Essays on Taste'

Scot.

Alison, Archibald, History of Europe,' 'Essays'
Amer. Allen, Ethan, an intrepid officer in the Revolution
Amer. Allston, Washington, painter and poet

Sar.

Sar.
Span.
Port.

Span.
Jew.
Ital.

L., Henriquez, founder of the Portuguese monarchy

Ital.

Amer.

Americns Vespucius (of Florence)-explored the S. Amer. coast
Ames, Fisher, a statesman and orator

Eng.

Amherst, Jeffrey, lord, mil. com. in America, &c.

Rom.

Ammianus, Marcellinus, historian

300

Andronicus of Rhodes, a peripatetic philosopher, flourished

B. C. 63

Ital.

Gr.

Eng.

Car.

Gr.

Rom.

Pers.

Anverì, a celebrated poet

Gr.

Gr.

Pergamensis, a geometrician, flourished

Fr.

Anna Commena, daughter of the Emperor Alexis I., historian
Annet, Peter, a deistical writer

Annibal, or Hannibal, a celebrated Carthaginian general
Anquetil du Perron, a classic scholar, and author
Anselm, archbishop of Canterbury-a learned divine
Anson, George, lord, celebrated naval commander
Egypt. Anthony, St., the founder of monastic institutions
Ital.
of Padua, a divine

Eng.

Mace.

Antigonus, one of the generals of Alexander the Great
Antiochus V.

Mace. Antipater, one of the generals of Alexander the Great
Antisthenes, a philos.-founder of the sect of Cynics, before Christ
Antoninus, Pius, emperor

Rom.

Marcus Aurelius, emperor-surnamed the philosopher
Rom. Antony, Mark, mil. commander and statesman

Egypt. Apion, a grammarian, and bitter enemy of the Jews, flourished
Apollonius, surnamed Rodius, a poet

Anielo, Thomas (commonly called Masiniello), a fisherman of Naples
who rose to great power

Aquinas, St. Thomas, a celebrated theologian

Aram, Eugene, a learned schoolmaster, executed for murder

Archytas, a mathematician

Aretino, Guido, inventor of the gamut of music

-, Leonard, an historian

Peter, satirist

Pruss. Argelander, F. W. A., astronomer

Span. Argensola, Lupercio, historian and poet

Ariosto, Lewis, a celebrated poet

Aristarchus, of Samos, mathematician and philosopher

grammarian and critic

Aristides, an Athenian statesman

Ælius, an orator and sophist

one of the fathers of the church, flourished

Aristippus, of Cyrene, philosopher-founder of the Cyreniacs
Aristomenes, a warrior and patriot, flourished

Aristophanes, an Athenian comic poet

Aristotle, philosopher-founder of the Peripatetics

Arius, of Alexandria, the founder of the Arian sect

Montanus, Benedict.-orientalist

Arkwright, Sir Richard, inventor of spinning jennies
Arlincourt, Victor, vicompte de, novelist
Arminius, the deliverer of Germany

B. C.

408 B. C.

360

Dutch.

James, a celebrated divine-founder of a sect

Eng.

Armstrong, John, M. D., poet

1709

1779

Amer.

John, general, statesman, military com., and historian

Ital.

Arnaud, Daniel, troubadour

1220

Fr.

Francis Baculard d', dramatist and poet