191, 258n215, 293n101; on refounda-
tion of Rome, 101 – 2, 256n196,
257n204, 258n205; on Romulus, 87,
248n108; Social War in, 190; teleologi-
cal tendencies of, 65; universal history
of, 65, 240n123; use of a.u.c., 141;
use of Ennius, 256n194; use of Julian
calendar, 257n197; Virgil’s use of,
257n199
Lloyd, Geoffrey, 244n35; on knowledge
and rhetoric, 76 – 77
Lovejoy, A. O., 113
Lucan: on consulate, 290n62; parody of
Aeneid, 165, 293n109; on Pompey,
238n103; on the Republic, 170; rewrit-
ing of Virgil, 293n109
Lucanians, war with Tarentines, 47
Lucilius, 229n112; Gellius on, 34, 37
Lucretius, 260n7; antipathy to sailing,
263n43; evocation of spring, 298n166;
on human progress, 114, 116; Trojan
War in, 83 – 84
Lucullus, 238n98
Ludi Saeculares, 133; Augustus on,
277n66; date of, 271n141; discontinu-
ing of, 147; on Fasti Capitolini, 181 –
82; fourth, 274n21; Virgilian anticipa-
tion of, 271n142
Ludi Victoriae Sullanae, 292n93
Lupercalia festival, 162, 189, 278n85; in
Fasti Antiates, 184
Luraghi, N., 3
Lustra, five-year, 176
Lustrations: by censors, 176 – 77; under
Servius Tullius, 289n55
Lyre (constellation), date of rising, 196,
295n113
Macedonian era, 140
Macey, S. L., 1, 217n1
Magistrates, Greek, 288n29. See also
Archonships, Athenian
Magistrates, Roman: eponymous, 167,
177, 180; in Fasti Capitolini, 176 – 77,
180, 191; non-eponymous, 286n8
Magna Graecia: colonies of, 97; Hanni-
bal’s threat to Roman alliances with,
98; Roman control over, 93
Magnesia, battle of, 60
Mandan Indians, 165
Mann, C. C., 260n10
Marathon, battle of, 49
Marcellus, M. Claudius, consul 155 B.C.E.,
15
Marcellus, M. Claudius, consul 222
B.C.E.; at Syracuse, 52, 234n50
Marincola, J., 78
Maritime trade, Roman, 121, 265nn70,72 –
73; versuslanded wealth, 266n73
Marmor Parium, 58, 224n61; chronologi-
cal range of, 80; Trojan War on, 82
Mars, in Ovid ’s Fasti, 205
Mars Ultor, in Principate, 176, 289n52,
291n66
Matronalia festival, 149
May, as Claudius, 292n88
Mazzarino, S., 221n27
Medea, in Catullus 64, 124
Mediterranean, synchronism with Asia,
59–65
Megara Hyblaea, foundation of, 254n168
Menander, Plautus’s use of, 263n44
Messala, birthday of, 278n79
Michels, A. K., 291n70
Mikalson, J. D., 243n30
Millenarianism: in celebrations of Troy,
142, 143, 144, 275n39; Christian, 145;
in founding of Rome, 142 – 45
Minos: in Catullus 64, 125, 126; as first
thalassocrat, 268n97; Herodotus on,
73, 74; and Polycrates, 73
Mithridates, Pompey’s defeat of, 238n101
Mlabri people (Thailand), 110
Moles, J., 242n21, 278n84
Möller, A., 3, 85, 224n55
Momigliano, A., 53, 249n116General Index. 349