INDEX 319235; of consumption, 225; rural,
219–22, 235
Cumont, F., 200–2
curatores rei publicae, 37, 47, 51–2
Cyprus, 57, 61, 63, 120, 243 n. 15
Cyrene, 57, 61, 243 n. 15
Dacia, 17, 21, 203, 213, 238 n. 39
Dalmatia, 30, 44, 57–8, 60, 63
Daniel, book of, 61
Danube, Danubian region, 17, 21, 24,
29–32, 116–17, 120, 220, 223–4,
239 n. 13, 247 n. 21, 255 n. 20;
Danubian troops, 5–6, 120, 238 n.
41; see also Dacia, Moesia,
Noricum, Pannonia
daughters, see children
Dead Sea scrolls, 60
debt, 47, 81, 135, 163, 174, 179;
debt-bondage, 93, 135
Decius, 52, 197–8, 314
decurions, 24–5, 41–7, 51, 54, 65,
77, 137, 140–1, 143, 145, 148,
177, 214, 221, 229, 232, 236,
249 n. 24; census of, 137;
contributions and services of, 43,
46–7, 50–1, 117, 124–5, 134, 138,
143, 182–3, 216, 230–1;
recruitment of, 51, 73, 134,
137–8, 143, 146, 233, 242 n. 44;
wealth of, 91–2, 96, 134–5, 146;
see also elites; euergetism;
government, local; orders and
rank; status
demography, 17, 20, 42, 44, 90, 123,
126, 145–6, 148, 152, 154, 161,
170, 204, 238 n. 40
desert, 25–6, 56–7, 62–3, 220, 225
dictator, 3, 11, 237 n. 11
diet, 26, 30, 32–3, 106, 110, 115,
121–2, 127; see also fi sh; grain;
legumes; meat; olives; wine
dining, 201, 222–3; dining room, 225
Dio Chrysostom (of Prusa), 24, 50, 55
Diocletian, 7, 15–6, 22, 29, 75, 117,
119, 198, 314
Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 25
disease, 17, 33, 90, 121, 161, 187;
see also malaria
divination, 62, 187, 192, 203
divorce, 155, 157, 159, 162, 233
Domitian, 6, 10, 13–16, 57, 66, 85–6,
191, 195, 208–9, 213, 313
Domitianus, C., usurper, 7
dowry, 97, 154, 158–9, 169, 233
Druids, 61–2, 64, 192
Drusus, the elder, 5, 189
Drusus, the younger, 5, 218
dynasty, 4, 9, 22; Flavian, 6, 15, 195;
Julio-Claudian, 5, 15; Severan,
6–7, 23–4, 214, 234Eck, W., 18, 53, 127, 183
ecology, 32, 100, 103, 108; see also
environment
economics, xi, 36, 100; institutional,
89
economy, command, 112, 127;
estimates of production, 72, 78,
86–7, 89, 99, 103–07; free market,
127; growth of, 73, 78–80, 89–90,
107–8, 127; underdevelopment,
20, 71, 78–9, 230–1
Edessa, 65, 74
education, 24–5, 28–31, 90, 141, 143,
157, 162, 171, 210, 214–18, 221,
235
Egypt, Egyptians, 17, 28, 37, 44, 53,
55, 57–8, 61–2, 65, 74–5, 77, 84,
90, 93, 104, 108, 110–11, 113,
115, 117, 119–20, 122–4, 126–7,
132, 135, 141, 148, 170, 191,
193–6, 203, 217, 218, 222–3,
225–7, 234–5, 247 n. 26, 250 n. 1
Elagabalus, 29, 314
elites, 32, 45, 76, 83, 97, 134, 145,
148, 157, 177, 200, 202–3, 214,
216, 221–3, 225, 227, 229, 231–3,
236
emperors, administrative policy of, 13,
15, 17, 24, 35–40, 42–4, 47–53,
137, 178–80, 218, 229, 236;
council of, see consilium principis;
cult of, 23, 60, 188–91, 199,
201–2, 218, 223, 225, 234;
economic and social policy of, 23,
25–7, 35–6, 75, 77–8, 86, 88,
111–3, 119, 125–6, 131, 134,