Toleration,Edict of(311),44
Totila,King of the Goths:plea to Roman Senate,228,239;military victories,235,238-9;character and background,237;besieges and takes Rome,239,241-3,248-9;war with Belisarius,240;regains Rome,250;defeated by Narscs,251-2;death,252,258Trajan,Roman general,108
Trebizond,293
Tribonian,Quaestor of the Sacred Palace,196-8Tricamarum,Battle of(533),210
True Cross:Helena recovers,41,65,68-70,204;Persians seize,235,290;Heraclius takes to Constantinople,300-1;returned to Jerusalem,305Turks:treaty with(568-9),270n;attack in Crimea,271Tyana,339
Tyre,Synod of(335),73
Tzazo the Vandal,210
Uldin,Hunnish King,127,140,152
Uraias,nephew of Vitiges,222-3
Urfa(formerly Edessa),280,305
Ursulus,91
Ursus(Orso),Doge of Venice,356n
Valens,joint Roman Emperor,104-8,146Valentinian Ⅰ,Roman Emperor,104-6,143Valentinian Ⅱ,co-Emperor,106,110-11,113,114Valentinian Ⅲ,Roman Emperor,143-6,148,151,157,160-1,163Valeria,wife of Galerius,46
Valerian,Roman Emperor,63-4
Valla,Lorenzo,379
Vandals,161-3,165-6,168,206-12
Varangian Guard,272
Varronianus,son of Jovian,103
Velas,Goth general,236
Venice:Republic established,356n
Verina,Dowager Empress,165,169,175-7Vespasian,Roman Emperor,62
Vidal,Gore,99
Vigilantia,sister of Justinian,262
Vigilius,Pope:arrested,241,248,332;controversy with Justinian,248,256-9;and recovery of Rome,255;at Ecumenical Council,257-8;death,259;Encyclica,256;Judicatum,249,255Visigoths,107,172,176,253-4;see also GothsVitalian,Pope,321
Vitalian the Goth,187,189,199,218
Vitalius,General,236
Vitiges,King of the Ostrogoths,216-18,222,224-6Walid Ⅰ,Caliph,339
William of Malmesbury,63
Yarmuk River,Battle of(636),306-7
Yarpus(formerly Arabissus),278
Yazid,Caliph,355
Yeats,W.B.,31
Zab River,Greater,363
Zacharias,Exarch of Ravenna,332
Zacharias,Patriarch of Jerusalem,285,305Zechariah,Prophet,232
Zeno,Emperor:marries Ariadne and changes name,165;attempted assassination of,167;succeeds to throne,168,171;and Nepos,171-2,174;Odoacer recognizes,173;and Western Empire,174;reign,175;and Illus,176-8;and Theodoric,178-9,289n;death,181-3;and religious controversy,181-2,191Zeno,son of Emperor Zeno,182


