Chapter 58

burning of Jewish synagogue at, iv. 43; theatre of Pompey restored by Symmachus, iv. 51; to receive supplies of corn from Spain, v. 35; brazen elephants in Via Sacra, x. 30; police of, vii. 7; statues of, vii. 13, 15; dissensions between citizens of, and Gothic troops (535), x. 14; a Gothic garrison for, x. 18; owns the shrines of the Apostles, xi. 2; scarcity in, relieved by corn-distributions, xi. 5; Roman citizens, and they only, to receive _obsonia_, xii. 11; high character given to the Roman populace, xii. 11.

Romulus, assured that Theodoric's gift to him through the Patrician Liberius shall not be revoked, iii. 35; probably this is the ex-Emperor Romulus Augustulus, 216; subsequent disposal of his palace, the Lucullanum, 374.

Romulus accused of murder of his father, ii. 14.

Rufinus, Praetorian Praefect under Arcadius, his usurpation caused some of Praetorian Praefect's powers to be transferred to the Magister, 99.

Rusticiana, farm of, in Bruttii, gold discovered at, ix. 3.

Rusticus, a priest and a friend of Theodahad, sent on return embassy with Peter to Justinian, 431 _n_; x. 20, 24.

S.

Sabinus, ex-Charioteer, his pension increased, ii. 9.

Sacrilege, the folly of, xii. 13.

St. Cyprian's fair (in Lucania) described, viii. 33.

Sajo, Saio, or Sajus (henchman), description of his office, 177 _n_; to go straight to object of his mission, and not to make pleasure tours at the public expense, iv. 47; Nandius, sent to summon Goths to war, i. 24; to support Ecdicius in levying Siliquaticum, ii. 4; Fruinarith to enquire into conduct of Venantius, ii. 13; Grimoda ordered to redress the oppression of Faustus, iii. 20; Leodifrid ordered to superintend building of houses near fort Verruca, iii. 48; Amabilis (?) ordered to superintend grain traffic from Italy to Gaul, iv. 5; Gesila ordered to make Gothic defaulters in Picenum and Tuscia pay their taxes, iv. 14; Tezutzat assigned as Defensor to Petrus, iv. 27; Amara has wounded Petrus, whose Defensor he nominally was,