INDEX TO JOANNES SCYLITZES
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A Abulchar, Duke of Italy, 722. Abydus, 703. Acephali heresy, 687. Achrida locus, 739. Achrida, Praetor of, 716. Adana, 703. Adrianople, 727. Augusta Ecaterina persuades the Emperor to become a monk, 642. A nun, 650. Aemilianus, Metropolitan of Iconium, 733. Agarenes harass the Christians, 664. They raid the East, 709. Alamanni, 718. Alexander Cabasilas, Duke of Scopius, 726. Alexandrona, city of Cilicia, 677. Alexius Comnenus, Prefect, 713, 730. Alusianus the Bulgarian, 678. Alyates captured and blinded, 703. Amasia, 713. Amertices, a defector, 661. Commander of the Turks, 672. Amorium, sacked, 677. Andronicus, son of the Caesar, 659. His flight, 698. He is blinded, 704. Anium, 653, 651. Anna, daughter of Constantine Ducas, 659. Anthium locus, 682. Antioch in Syria, sacked by the Turks, 662. Sacked, 677. Apocape Beste, 673. Apsilianus, cunning and warlike, 671. Archangel, feast of the, 649. Ardoinus, 720. Argaum, 670. Artach, occupied by the Saracens, 677. Artze, fortress, 691. Asa, Sultan, 699. Athyra, fortress, 730. Ibid. Ausonide territories, 676. Aza, town, 676.
B Baaepracania, 653. Baltolibades, 684. Varangian soldiers, 614, 668, 737. Barilacius, 693. Basilius, protovestiarius, Maleses, 701. Berdena, wife of the Emperor Botaniates, dies, 738. Bestarches, dignity, 663. Blachernae, palace, 647. Bodinus, 715, 717. Declared King of the Bulgarians, 715. His depredations, 717. He is captured, 718. Boitachus dies, 718. Borilus, associate of Botaniates, 734. Boryses, 716. Botaniates, Duke of the Romans, sent against the Turks, 662. Bryennius disturbs the affairs of the West, 735. Loses his eyes, 737.
C Caesarea, sacked by the Turks, 661, 680. Calabria subject to the Romans, 721, 722. Callipolis, 722. Catacalo Combutus created curopalates, 642. Catma, field, 676. Celzene, region, 682. Chalepitae join with the Turks, 662. Chalep, region, 662. Chalep, prince of, 674, 676. Chataturius, Duke of Antioch, 684. Chleat locus, 681. Chorobachi locus, 655. Chonae, public affairs invaded by the Turks, 686. Chorosalarius, Duke of the Turks, 643. Chrysopolis, city, 735, 740, 742, 710, 726. Cilicia, ravaged by the Turks, 661. Claudiopolis, 684. Coele-Syria laid waste, 670. Color, green, 730. Column, great, of Constantine II, 742. Combustus, curopalates, 642. Commopolis Herculis, 683. Comnenus, Emperor, 641. Comnenus, monk, 648. Constantine Bodenus. Created King of the Bulgarians, called Peter, 715. Constantine Ducas, Emperor, 651. His piety, 652. Arrogance in judgments, ibid. Death, 659. His children, ibid. Constantine, son of Constantine Ducas, Emperor, 742. Constantine Lichudes, protovestiarius, becomes Patriarch, 644. His death, 658. Constantine Theodorocanus captured, 728. Cosma, monk, chosen Patriarch, 731. Cotyaeum, 704. Crispinus invaded, 678. Sends an embassy to the Emperor, 679. Crya, spring, 691. Cullumus, Duke of the Turks, 732. Cyzicus, city struck by an earthquake, 657.
D Damianus Dalassenus, 716. Diabatenus, 748. Diaboleos, patrician, 716. Diogenes, Duke, becomes patrician and bestarches, 663. Created magister, 665. Declared Emperor with Eudocia, 666. He is blinded, 704. His death, ibid. Dobromiris, 741. Docaea, town, 702. Doceanus, 720. Doleanus, King of the Serbs, 715. Dorylaeum locus, 679. Dyrrachium, 722.
E Elenopolis, called by the natives Eleinopolis, 689. Eriorum, palaces, 688. Eudocia holds the empire with her children, 660. Eustathius, magister, is killed, 701.
F Fabii, family, famous in Rome, 726. Famine, great and most cruel, 714, 725. Frankish nation, 679. Frankish legion, 708.
G Gaita, Frankish wife of Robert, 720. George the Martyr, festival day, 651. Georgius Boitachus, born of the Conchanis, 717. Georgius Maniaces, 720. Gymnus, prefect, 739. Gytarius locus, 677.
H Hapsinalius, warlike and cunning, 671. Halys river, 690. Hebdomon monastery, 714. Hierapolis, fortress, 673, 675. It is besieged, 685.
I Iconium, public affairs prosperous in men, 683. Isaac Comnenus, Emperor, 641. Struck by lightning, 647. Becomes a monk and dies, 649. Isaac Comnenus, Duke of the army, defeated by the Turks, 708. Duke of Antioch, 718.
J Joannes, Caesar, uncle of Parapinaces, captured by Roussel, ibid. Declared Emperor, 710. Joannes, Archbishop of Bulgaria, created, 658. His death, 731. Joannes, Metropolitan of Side, 703. Joseph, magister, Trachaniota, 692.
L Lazarus, miracle of, 734. Libellisius, Prince of Antioch, 673. Lobitzum, 646. Longobardia occupied by Robert the Frank, 720. Longobardopulus marries the daughter of Michael, 718.
M Machmutius, ameras, 673. Mangana, 645, 651. Manicatae, who they are, 720. Manuel Comnenus, curopalates, Duke and prince of the army, 685, 688, 691. Maria, of the Alans, wife of the Emperor Botaniates, 738. Matziciert, Roman city, 692. Maurocastrum, town in Armenia, 679. Melissopetrium, 702. Melitene, 653, 671. Metabole, town, 711. Michael declared Archbishop of Ephesus, 738. Michael Parapinaces, Emperor, 705. Molibolum monastery, 659. Myriophitus, city destroyed by an earthquake, 657.
N Neapolis, locus, 647.
Nemizzus, an illustrious man, 679. Neocaesarea, destroyed by the Turks, 670. Neocomus, royal city, 689. Nicaea, shaken by an earthquake, 657. Nicephoritzes, of Bucellarian origin, 705. His insolence, ibid. Declared Duke of Antioch, ibid. His power and malice, 707. Nicephorus Botaniates, suspected by the Emperor, is banished, 690. Created Curopalates, 726. Becomes Emperor, 734. Nicephorus Bryennius, defeated by the Sultan, 693. Named Emperor, 727. Nicephorus Carantenus, Duke of Scopion, 715. Nicephorus Maurus, Patriarch of Antioch, 742. Nicephorus Palaeologus, 688. Nisus, city, 717. P Pancratius, Duke of Armenia, 653. Panium, city of Thrace, destroyed, 657. Parapinacius, whence he is so called, 714. Patzinacs, press upon the West, 721, 730, 741. Pemolissa, fortress, 642. Perenus, Duke of Italy, 722. Petrilius, chief among Constantine's men, 716. Petrus, King of the Bulgarians, 715. Pharesmanes the Iberian, prefect, 675. Philarethus Brach-manius, 681. Pirerudum, monastery, 702. Popandi, the pass, 703. Praenetum, 734. Prisdiana, 716. Prota, island, 705. Psellus, prince of philosophers, 688, 702, 706. R Rhaedestus, tormented by an earthquake, 657, 584. Rheas, locality, 732. Robert the Frank, 720. Duke of Calabria, 724. Roma, 726. Romanus Diogenes, Emperor, 666. Leads an unorganized army against the Sultan, 668. His speech, 693. Captured by the Sultan and released, 699. Ruselius the Latin, commander of the army, captured by the Turks, 708, 711, 713, 730. His demise, 743. S Salernum, greatest city of Calabria, 721. Samuch the Turk, 653. Samuel Alusianus the Bulgarian, *bestarches*, 678. Sangarium, 690. Sardices, place to which Diogenes is sent into exile, 663. Saronites, 717. Scopion, city taken by storm, 717. Scribona, people, 721. Sebastia, 670, 671. Selte, 646. Sergius, monastery, 718. Sopho, mountain, 710. Straboromanus, governor, 735, 743. Stratopedarches, 648. T Tame, leader of the Uzi, 695. Tarchola, locality, 676. Tarsi, plains, 684. Tatus, 719. Taurus, mountain called Munzarus, 682. Tecla, festival of the protomartyr, 646. Templum, 647. Teluch, region, 671. Theodorus Doceianus, nephew of the Emperor Isamius through his sister, 647. Theodorocanus Constantine, captured, 728. Theodosius, Bishop of Diabola, 739. Theodosiopolis, city, 691, 701. Theodulus, Archbishop of Bulgaria, 658. Theodulus Synadenus, 743. Theognostus, proconsul, 716. Thrymbus, commander of the army in Calabria, 721. Tornicius Cotetzes, 695. Thrachaniotes, 695. Traditza, city, 645. Trajanopolis, city, 728. Trajan, Caesar, 728. Turks, excursions under Constantine Ducas, 652. Insolence, 686. Victory over the Romans, 660, 698, 721. Tyropaeum, fortified town, 703. Tzamandus, town, 678. Tzurolum, 656. U Hungarians, violate the peace, 645. Uzi, nation, 654. Slaughter, ibid. X Xiphilinus of Trebizond, chosen Patriarch, 658. Z Zompi, bridge, 709.
INDEX TO MICHAEL PSELLUS AND TO THE APPENDIX.
The reader is referred to the columns of our edition.A Acatus the Eutychian, 1199, 1202. Action before judges, what it is, and about the names of various actions, 1010, 1011. Adamant, solid stone; its virtues, 887. Adoption, what it is, 942. Adultery, what it is, 941. Hematite, precious stone; its virtues, 887. Eschates, splendid and multicolored stone; its virtues, 890. Summer, when and how it comes to be for us, 747. Amethyst, hyacinth-colored stone; its virtues, 890. Amphidromia, festival day, 1022. Anemodulium, 1215. Angels, fewer in number than humans, and why, 699, 702. Is there any evil in angels, 731? Angelic bodies, how much they differ from demonic ones in distinction, 838. Soul, mistress of life, 1118; uses the body as an instrument, 706. Whether the soul is a substance or not, 707; it provides for all seeds, and descends from God from above, 707; it is immortal and why, 1142; it obtained its essence from God, 1143; made in the image of God, it cannot become an angel, 710. The origin, progress, and faculties of the soul, 710, 714, 1030 *et seqq*. How it is raised toward God, 1130, 1131. Three passions of the soul, 706; these three things are in it: faculty, passion, habit, 723. The motions of the soul are similar to celestial motions, 1075, 1076. How the soul is a median between things capable of suffering and things impassable, 711, 718; when and how it is united to the body, 714, 715. How the operations of the soul and body are distinguished, 714. Whether the body is dissolved by the soul, or the soul by the body, 718. The reasoning of souls separated from the body and those still joined to the body is not one and the same, 715. The species of souls are as many as there are souls, 1147. The irrational soul consists of four things, according to Greek philosophers, 715. Various opinions of philosophers concerning the soul, 706, 707, 1030 *et seqq*. The nature of the generation of souls according to Plato, 711; his doctrine concerning their procreation, 1079, 1082 *et seqq*.; he teaches that the soul is generated and immortal, 710, 711. Anni (year), how the four seasons come to be, 803. Annona (grain supply/ration), what it is, 942. Evil must necessarily precede the advent of the Antichrist, 834. Apaturia, name of a festival, whence it derives its origin, 1018. The tears of boars are sweet, and why, 779. Rain waters nourish seeds and trees better than river waters, especially if they fall with thunder and lightning, 770. Flints and lead sheets make water cold, 779. Aquilian law and action, 942, 943. Arbiters, those who judge accusations against one another, 1014. Rainbow (arca) formed around the sun and moon, what it is, 795. Areopagus, tribunal of the Athenians, 1019. Aristotle counts four general virtues, 719. Arius, died and buried in the city, 1210.
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Armenian conjurer driving a demon from a woman in childbirth, 858. Artopolia, what it is, 1214. Ascra, homeland of Hesiod, 1159. Asmodeus the demon, 1322, 1323. Asopus, a river, 1159. Asparis, a cistern, 1263. Astral substance, what its nature is, 746, 799; form and motion, 802. Athens, a city, 1158, 1159. August, the month, why it is so named, 1202.
B Basil the Great and his eloquence, 906. Beelzebub, prince of the demons, 1319. Belisarius, his victories and misfortune, 1199, 1314. Beryl, a precious stone; its virtues, 890. Bethel signifies the house of God, which is the Church, 583. Boni, a cistern, 1263. Bosporius, the harbor, whence it is so named, 1234. Brilessus, a mountain, 1158. Buccinus, a place, whence it is so named, 1258. Bucoleon, the palace, 1202. Bulimos (ravenous hunger), whence it arises and how it is assuaged, 782. Byzantium, the city, is described; its founder, site, and form, 1189 et seqq.
C Canis, a monstrous dog, 1314, 1315. Canticle of Canticles, under the guise of marriage, it conveys the perfection of the human soul, 539; explained, ibid. et seqq. Caprea signifies "the seer," 583. Caprirus, a precious stone; its virtues, 895. Carabitzin, the church, whence it is so named, 1238. Carbuncle, a splendid stone; its virtues, 890. Carnes (flesh) hung from a fig tree become more tender, and why, 783. Causes of things are four: efficient, material, formal, and final, 726, 727. Cedar, interpreted as obscure and dark, 546, 547. Centenarium, a tower, 1274. Cephisus, a river, 1158. Deer's tears, why they are salty, 779. Chalazias, a precious stone; its virtues, 899. Chaldean dogmas, interpretation of, 1150 et seqq. Chephissus, a river, 1159. Chore, a monastery, 1271. Christ's divinity and humanity, Christ is God and man, 814, 815; He is truth and righteousness, 543; "the apple," 544. Christ suffered in the flesh, but the nature of the Word did not suffer, 698. Christ's shadow, the Christian republic, 571. Chryselectrum, chrysolite, chrysoprase, precious stones; their various virtues, 899. Chrysobalantum, the temple, why it is so named, 1247. Chrysostom, John, and his eloquence, 906, 907. Citheron, a city of the Phocians, 1159. Codex is a body consisting of twelve books, which they call Constitutions, 925. Heaven consists of four elements, according to the philosophers, and is distinguished by various circles, 742, 799; the form of heaven, 795. Cognation, what it is, and of its various kinds, 730, 731. Cognitions do not change the nature of things, 918. Color is a visible quality on the surface of bodies, 727. Comet, whence it is generated, and various forms of comets, 750. Constantine, the statue of, which was brought into the Hippodrome annually on the city's birthday, 1192. Constantinople, the city; at what time it was founded, and its description, 1192 et seqq. Its walls collapsed by an earthquake, 1198. Consubstantial, what it is, 690. Contaria, a place, whence it is named, 1258. Contract is an agreement and conspiracy of several, or at least of two wills concurring for the same purpose, 929. Convention is of three kinds, 959. Heart, the principal seat of the mind, 542. Body is that which has breadth and depth; every body is either heavy or light, 730. Body bears the shadow and image of beings, 718. Corpuscles, what they are called, 730. Corruption, what it is, 730. Corydalus, a mountain, 1158. Creditor and debtor, who they are, 955, 956. Creusa, the body of the Thespians, 1159. Cucorobii, a monastery, 1266. Cynogius, a place, 1227. Cynosarges, name of a place, 1018.
D Demons are not incorporeal, but rather corporeal, and they move around bodies, 835, 838. Demons, light-avoiding, aquatic, subterranean, 839; they fill the whole universe, 842; tormentors of souls, 1139; by nature liars, 1147; there are six types of them, 843, 846. How they tempt and seduce men, 847. Why they leap upon brute animals no less than upon men, 850. Whether some are male and others female, 859, 862, 863; whether they speak all languages, 859, 866, 867. Whether they can be struck, 859, 867, 870; and in what way, 871, 874. They are dedicated to the affections that cling to demons, 1139. Opinions of the Greeks concerning demons, 875 et seqq. David, vigorous of hand and keen of sight, 614. Delium, consecrated to Apollo, 1159. God, who He is, and how He foreknows things subject to change, 698. God is the first principle of things and placed above all, 726. All things proceed from God, and all things ought to be converted to God, 734, 1146. Whence men received the notion of God, 699. God is above all virtue and goodness and superior to every perfection, 718. In God there is a twofold act, according to Plato, 722. God is one and triune, 811, 814; He is light and a fire consuming the wicked, 1143; He cannot be comprehended, ibid.; He is more excellent than any predication, elocution, and comprehension of the intellect, 1150. We are assimilated to God in a diverse and manifold way, 719. God is to be adhered to with the mind alone, 1131. God is the end of all things, 915. Deuterius, an Arian bishop of Byzantium, 1283. Days of the month, how the Athenians count them, 1018. Personal difference, what it is, 691. Digest or Pandects, what it is, 925. Dirce, a fountain, 1159. Donation is twofold, 944. Doukas, Caesar, various letters to him, 1170 et seqq.
[E] Church, bride of Christ, formed from Jews and Gentiles, 546. Ecclesiastes of Solomon reveals the vanity of the present life, 539. Ecnephias, a type of wind differing little from a typhoon, 755. Election and attention, intermediate faculties of the mind, what they are in man, 718. Electrum, a precious stone; its virtues, 891. Eleusis, a city, 1158. Emphyteusis, what it is, 936. Ephippas, a demon, 1323. Erythraean Sea, 790. Essence and nature in the Trinity, what they are, 687. Euchites or Enthusiasts, 819 et seqq. Their three principles, 823 et seqq. How blind and mentally captured they are, 826; their most filthy ceremonies, 827 et seqq.; execrable sacrifices, 831. Exactors and quaestors, who they are, 1015.
[F] Falcidian law, what it is, 952. Fate, fortune, and chance, what they are according to the philosophers, 735, 1146. Fig tree renders meat more tender, 782. A very ferocious bull tied to a fig tree becomes gentler, 783. Profession of faith, 687. Figure of things, in what it consists, 727. Rivers and lakes, the chief ones, and whence they arise, 771. Forum of Taurus, 1215. Wheat is best sown in clayey soil, barley in dry soil, and why, 778. Lightning, what it is, and why it is not accustomed to burn, 758. Theft is the deceitful handling of things, 936.
[G] Galactites, a precious stone; its virtues, 891. Galaxy or Milky Way, in the whole circle of the sky, what it is, 742. Generation, what it is, 730. Hail, whence and how it is born, 750. "Flocks" is the term used for the natures of things, 551. Gregory of Nyssa and his eloquence, 906. Gregory the Theologian is compared to Demosthenes; his eloquence, 902, 903.
[H] Habits, what they are; virtues are habits, 723. Halor, what it is and whence it arises, 751. Hebdomum, the temple, 1275. Hecate, to the Chaldeans, is a goddess, 1134, 1135. Hecatinus, the circle, what it is, 1134. Helicon, a river, 1159. Hiatus (chasms) appearing in the sky, how they are made, 743.
Winter, how and when it happens to us, 747. When it is great, 766. Hippodrome, why so called, 1203. The various statues that were seen there, 1251-1254. The church of the Hodegoi, why so called, 1226. Man is said to be threefold, intelligible, rational, and sensible, 706. Man is an artifice and a bold nature, 1135; he cannot be perfected by virtue unless he sets himself to turn toward God, 722. Hyacinth, a precious stone; its virtues, 898. Mount Hymettus, 1158. Hypostasis and the "enhypostaton," what they are, 687, 690.
Idaean dactyl, a precious stone; its virtues, 894. The theory of the communication of idioms, 695. Idols or images according to the philosophers, and what their end is, 1123, 1126. The river Ilissus, 1158. The impassibility of the divine nature, 698. Nothing can proceed from the imperfect to the perfect, 1147. Whether incorporeal things are in a place, 731. What "institutions" (legally) are, 927. Intellect and the intelligible, what they are; in what they differ, 702. Intellect is [defined as] achieving a sort of path, by crossing over from propositions to a conclusion, whence it also derived its name, 1031. The use of interdicts is many-powered, 947, 948. Anger, a disturbance of the soul that does not obey reason in the least, 554. The Iris, which is commonly called the rainbow, whence it arises, and what its various colors are, 750, 751, 795. The river Ismenus, 1159. Ixion deceived by Juno, 1167, 1175.
Jasper, a precious stone; its virtues, 891. Old men endure fasting most easily, 739. Law, what it is and with what it is concerned, 928, 929, 932. Emperor Justinian takes care that the church of Holy Sophia be built, 1290 et seqq. Justice is the most constant will distributing to everyone according to merit and dignity, 928, 932. The harvest of justice is gathered from the three parts of the soul through diligence, 554.
Laligo (sea-snail), floating on the sea, portends a storm, 778. The Lausiac house, 1207. Leo, a sign of the Zodiac, 1134. Law is the common promise of the entire republic, the restraint of offenses, 927, 928. A synopsis or compendium of laws, 925 et seqq. The Latin names of the laws are set forth, 1023. Whence it happens that children are born similar or dissimilar to their parents, 738. Libis monastery, 1267. "Limma," what it is, 1110. Place is the limit which surrounds bodies, 759. The moon's substance, light, and form, what they are, 806. The moon's magnitude and its eclipse, 743, 746, 803, 806, 807, 810. Mount Lycabettus, 1158. Lychnites, a stone [glowing at] night; its virtues, 894.
Magnaura, the throne-room of Constantine the Great, why so called, 1203. Magnet, a large and precious stone; its virtues, 894, 895. The Manichaeans and their two principles, 823. Marathon, an Athenian township, 1158. The waters of the sea, whence and for what cause they are salty, 766, 790. Whence also and why they are found to be sweet, 767. Sea waters do not nourish trees, and why, ibid. They become tranquil and clear when oil is poured out, ibid. They coagulate if they are struck by lightning, 770. Martinacius monastery, 1274. Martyrs who, in a time of affliction, left the body with torture, rendered their souls pure, 1112. Matter, what it is, 726; whether it is good, 731. The city of Megaris, 1158. The mind cannot be participated in by any soul; it understands itself; it has substance, power, and operation eternally, 702. The mind is a substance having no parts, 703; it is full of divine ideas, 706; it is an image of God, 1123. A pure mind labors more frequently in perceiving the divine splendor, 731. The mind is like the most perfect habit of the soul, 1031. Three significations of the mind according to Aristotle, 1062. The Ethiopian city of Meroe, 787.
Minoia promontory, 1158. The difference between mixture and commixture, 727. Mocisia cistern, 1263. "Modium," what it is, 1218. In natural death the body is severed from the soul; in intelligible death, the soul is severed from the body, 718. The determination of death by God does not harm human free will; and how, 915 et seqq. No one ought to bring death upon himself before God has sent the necessity of dying, 1127. Motion is a certain reason, and the action of the thing being moved at the time in which it is moved, 734. The world, how it began, and whether there are many worlds, 758; by what element it was first founded by God, 699. The world's essence, what it is, 799. Whether it is animated, 759, 762, 795; whether it is unbegotten and incorruptible, 762, 795. The order of the world, 782, 798; it demonstrates God as creator, 699. Whether it is inclined to the other side, 763, 798; whether its end can be foreseen, 763. Munichia, a hollow place, 1158. The city of Mycalissus, 1159. Myroceratum monastery, 1270.
Narcissus, deceived by his own love, 1175. Nature is a faculty implanted in bodies by God, the principle of motion and rest, 714. Necessity, what it is according to the philosophers, 734, 735. The Nile, whence it arises, and its increase and virtue, 771, 774. Nisma port, 1158. Snow, whence and how it is made, 750, 791; it is preserved when straw and garments are placed upon it, 782. Names given divinely are never to be changed, 1131. Nomocanon, what book this is, 919.
Octagonum Tetradisium, what it is, and why so called, 1207. The power of the eyes, and how man is affected through the emission of rays, 738. The eye is a sign of knowledge, 1138. Onoscelis, a female demon, 1319, 1322. Onyx, a precious stone; its virtues, 898. The operations of the soul and body, how they are distinguished when they are common, 714. Opinion is concerned with those things which are perceived by the senses, 1030, 1031. Various opinions of the philosophers concerning the soul, 1030 et seqq. Magical oracles which proceeded from Zoroaster, 1115. Chaldean oracles, 1123. An orator, who he is; a citizen of the entire world, 1162, 1163. Ornias, a demon, 1318. Oropus port, 1159.
Various kinds of contracts, 960. The difference between a compact and a transaction, 964. Paradise, according to the Chaldeans, what it is, 1130, 1138. Parhelia, which appear in the air around the sun, whence they are born, 751. Mount Parnethus, 1158. Passions, what they are, 723. A person, by what it is constituted, 691. Phalereus township, 1158. Philadelphium, what it is, 1218. Philoxeni cistern, 1266. Phocolisthus, a place, whence it is so named, 1255. Pimander of Hermes Trismegistus, who he is, 1154, 1155. Piraeus, the port of the Athenians, 1158. Pittacius, a place, why so named, 1230. Planets, how many there are and what is their motion, 746, 747, 802; what period is attributed to the individual planets, 750, 802. Plato teaches that the soul is created and immortal, 710, 711. He treats the generation of the soul in the Timaeus, 711; [the soul's] faculties, 714. He established the orders of the four virtues, 719. Rain, whence and how it is born, 750. Polyandri gate, 266. The cuttlefish (polypus), when and how it changes color, 775. The foreknowledge of God is not the cause of man's sinning, 699; nor does it harm human liberty, 918. Prester or the fiery whirlwind, why it burns and inflames, 758. Principle and element, how they differ from each other, 726. Proteus, manifold and changing forms, 1179. The Proverbs of Solomon, why so called, 539. Prytaneum, a public building, determined by receipts and gifts, 1014. Psarelaeum monastery, 1263. Pamata palaces, ibid.
Platonic Psychogonia, explained and altered, 1078 et seqq. Psyttalia island, 1158.
R Reason cannot, by its own leading, comprehend divine matters, 1130. Practical reasoning is an action and operation undertaken with reason following the appetite for a desirable thing, 715. Royal palace of God, the soul's ascent, 606. Kingdoms, the principal and greatest, which they are, 774. Rose, why they bloom more joyfully when fetid plants grow near them, 779.
S Salt, how much and why it is useful for cattle, 774, 775. Salamis city, 1158. Solomon, interpreted as "peacemaker," 547. Solomon's bed, what it is, 603; and what the litter is, 606. Solomon's testament, 1316 et seqq. Health and disease, their various causes, 739. Wisdom is the cause of all things, 547; it includes in itself all virtues, 1130. Sardonyx, a precious stone; its virtues, 895. Satanael, by the Euchites, is called the Son of God and is worshipped, 826, 827. Schoenus, a city of the Thebans and a river, 1159. Knowledge is called understanding (notitia), for to know is to have apprehended knowledge and neither to hold it nor to lose it, 1054. Scironian rocks, 1158. Scirtus river, 1286. Selenites, a precious stone, its virtues, 898. Senses of man, the five, 735, 738. The number seven is potent for procreation and does not use a mother, 1086, 1114. Sera, a city of the Chinese, 787. Emerald (Smaragdus), a leek-green stone; its virtues, 898. Sun's magnitude, 743, 803, 806; its eclipse, 743, 806; whether it is hot, 646; it is not in itself very hot, 791. Sun's chariot, 1210. Dreams, how they occur and their cause, 739. Hagia Sophia, the great church of Constantinople, falls and is mourned, 911 et seqq.; it is rebuilt, 1210, 1211; its description, 1290 et seqq. Sophianus harbor, 1258. Sostenianum monastery, 1278. Space, what it is, according to the philosophers, 759. Whether there is a certain empty space outside the world, 798. Rotation and motion of the stars, 746. What their rotation and order are, 747; whence the stars have light, ibid. and 803. Studium monastery, 1222. Sunium, a most celebrated village, 1158. Syene, a city midway between Ethiopia and Egypt, 787. Synods, the various ones, of which seven are enumerated, 815, 818.
A B C D
Time is not a thing subsisting by itself, nor a body that can be perceived by the senses, nor an incorporeal substance, but something placed solely in thought; it is nothing else than the measurement of motion, 734, 735. The Earth's magnitude, 743, 787, 790. That the Earth is round is proved, 786. How the parts of the Earth are altered, the cause, 766, 791, 794. Testaments, their various kinds, 961; their effects, 969. Testimony, who can bear it, 957. Tetrapylon, what it is, 1222. Thespia city, 1159. Thriasian plain, 1158. Thule island, 787. Here, through the summer, the sun does not set for fifty days; indeed, through the winter, it does not appear for forty days, 790. Thunder, whence it is produced, 791. Topaz, a translucent stone similar to glass; its virtues, 899. Topi, whence so named, 1226. Trinity, what it is and what things are in it, 694. Typhon, a type of wind, so called because it strikes and prostrates whatever offers itself to it, 755. Tzycanisterium, what it is, 1223.
U The number eleven, judicial, decreeing punishments to those who were accused of crimes, 1014. Union, personal and relative, 691, 694. Divine union, 695. Unity, essential, and what difference is, 691. Bear (Ursa), when it is captured, it does not gnaw through the nets, and why, 778.
V Vacuum, what it is according to the philosophers, 759. Wind, what it is; whence various winds arise, 754, 755, 794. Words have not one color, nor one figure, 1173. The seed of truth is not on earth, 1127. Virgæ (halos), which appear in the air around the sun, whence they arise, 751. Virtue is indeed one in genus, but there are many diverse species, 1130. There are three orders of virtues, 718. There are also six degrees of virtues, namely: physical, ethical, political, purgatorial, theoretical, and theurgical, 718, 719. Three virtues perfect man: sanctity, justice, and prudence, 719. Aristotle enumerates four general virtues, ibid. The perfection of virtues proceeds from God, 722. Life is agitated by contrary mutations, 1171. Vine watered with wine withers, and why, 778, 779. Will, what it is in man, 715.
ORDER OF MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
GEORGIUS CEDRENUS. COMPENDIUM OF HISTORIES. (Continuation.) 9 EXCERPTS from the Historical Breviary of John Scylitzes the Curopalates. 367
MICHAEL PSELLUS. Diatribe of Leo Allatius concerning the Pselli and their writings. 478 PART ONE OF THE WORKS. THEOLOGICAL WORKS. 538
EXPOSITION OF THE SONG OF SONGS. 538 ON OMNIFARIOUS DOCTRINE. 687 1. — Profession of faith. 687 2. — On certain terms usually used in Christian dogma. 687 3. — On the Enhypostatic, or those things which are in persons or hypostasis. 690 4. — On the Enhypostatic, or the personally united. 690 5. — On the consubstantial. 690 6. — On those constituting a person together. 691 7. — 8. On essential unity and difference. 691 9. — On relative union and difference. 694 10. — On the most holy Trinity. 694 11. — On the same most holy Trinity. 694 12. — On the communication of idioms. 695 13. — On divine union. 695 14. — On the impassibility of the divine nature. 698 15. — Who is God. 698 16. — How God foreknows things subject to mutations. 698 17. — From what element God began to concede to the world. 699 18. — Whence men received the notion of God. 699 19. — Whether there are more angels or men. 699 20. — On the mind. 702 21. — Again on the mind. 702 22. — Again on the mind. 702 23. — On the same argument. 703 24. — On the same. 703 25. — Still on the mind. 703
ORDER OF SUBJECTS
26. — On the same. 706 27. — On the soul. 706 28. — On the soul. 706 29. — On the soul. 707 30. — Further on the soul. 707 31. — On the soul. 707 32. — Whether the soul is changed into an angel. 707 33. — Whether the soul is without beginning. 710 34. 35. — More accurately on the faculties of the soul, and that it is immortal. 710 36. — What kind of generation of souls is according to Plato. 711 37. — Why the soul is intermediate between the divisible and indivisible. 711 38. — Whose generation of soul Plato discusses in the Timaeus. 711 39. — How many and what are the faculties of the soul. 714 40. — What is nature. 714 41. — How the common operations of the soul and body are distinguished. 714 42. — When the soul is united to the body as it is born. 714 43. — How the soul is united to the body. 715 44. — On the irrational soul. 715 45. — What is will and practical reasoning. 715 46. — On choice and attention. 718 47. — Whether the body is the soul, or the soul is dissolved by the body. 718 48. — On the virtues. 718 49. — On the virtues. 718 50. — On the virtues. 719 51. — Further on virtue. 719 52. — Further on virtue. 719 53. — Further on virtue. 722 54. — Further on the virtues. 722 55. — Further on the virtues. 722 56. — Further on the virtues. 723 57. — Further on the virtues. 723 58. — Further on the virtues. 723 59. — How principle and element differ. 726 60. — On principles, what they are. 726 61. — On matter. 726 62. — On causes. 726 63. — On bodies. 727 64. — On figures. 727 65. — On colors. 727 66. — On mixture and intermixture. 730 67. — On generation and corruption. 730 68. — On the smallest corpuscles. 730 69. — On the various kinds of cognition. 730 70. — How, while God is always acting, we are not always recipients of Him. 731 71. — Whether there is anything evil in the angels. 731 72. — Whether incorporeal beings are in a place. 731 73. — Whether matter is good. 731 74. — On the return of beings to God. 734 75. — On time. 734 76. — On motion. 734 77. — On necessity. 734 78. — On fate. 735 79. — On fortune and chance. 735 80. — On time and age. 735 81. — On the five senses. 735 82. — Whether it is true that some are fascinated by those who see. 738 83. — When a fetus is conceived. 738 84. — Whence it happens that similar or dissimilar parents bring forth free children. 738 85. — On how dreams occur. 739 86. — On health and old age. 739 87. — Why those who have fasted are more thirsty than they are hungry. 739 88. — On the substance of the heavens. 739 89. — Into how many circles the heaven is divided. 742 90. — On the Milky Way in the heavens, or Galaxy. 742 91. — On the visible rays appearing in the heavens. 742 92. — On the bloody colors and gaps appearing in the heavens. 743 93. — On the magnitude of the sun, moon, and earth. 743 94. — On the eclipse of the sun. 743 95. — On the eclipse of the moon. 743 96. — Whether the sun is hot. 744 97. — What the substance of the stars is like. 746 98. — On the rotation and motion of the stars. 746 99. — What the figures of the stars are like. 747 100. — On the order of the stars. 747 101. — Whence the stars have light. 747 102. — On the significance of the stars, and how winter and summer occur. 747 103. — The period of time for each planet. 750 104. — On a comet. 750 105. — On rain, hail, snow, frost, and dew. 750 106. — On the rainbow. 751 107. — On the halo. 751 108. — On rods (parhelia). 751 109. — On parhelia. 751 110. — On the winds. 754 111. — On the typhoon. 755 112. — On the sudden windstorm. 755 113. — On lightnings. 758 114. — On the vortex or fiery whirlwind. 758 115. — How the world began. 758 116. — Whether this universe is one. 758 117. — On the vacuum. 759 118. — On place. 759 119. — On the space which the philosophers call 'chōra'. 759 120. — Whether the world is ensouled. 759 121. — Whether the world is unbegotten and incorruptible. 762 122. — Whether the world is nourished. 762 123. — On the order of the world. 762 124. — What cause there is for this whole world to incline. 763 125. — How one, through Greek demonstration, can have a clear view of the end of the world. 763 126. — Which parts of the world are the right, and which the left. 763 127. — On the change of the parts of the earth. 763 128. — On earthquakes. 766 129. — On the great winter. 766 130. — Why the waters of the sea are salty. 766 131. — What the cause is why, in the sea also, fresh waters are found. 767 132. — Why marine water does not nourish trees. 767 133. — Why, when oil is poured into the sea, its water becomes clear and tranquil. 767 134. — What is the cause if, when struck by lightning, the sea emits salt. 770 135. — On the Euripus or Euboic tide. 770 136. — Why trees and seeds receive growth more happily from rainwater than from flowing water. 770 137. — Why, of rainwater, those things are better irrigated which fall with thunder and lightning. 770 138. — On certain lakes. 771 139. — On rivers. 771 140. — On the increase of the Nile. 771 141. — Why the Nile alone of rivers does not emit mists. 774 142. — On the greatest kingdoms. 774 143. — On flavors. 774 144. — Why shepherds offer salt to their flocks. 774 145. — Why the octopus changes color according to the rock it clings to. 775 146. — Why the bear does not chew the nets when it is captured. 775 147. — Why they desire the evil fruit of the Dorian crop for food. 775 148. — Why the squid seen over the waters is a sign of a storm. 778 149. — Why we sow wheat in muddy soil and barley in dry soil. 778 150. — Why the vine irrigated with wine, especially when it produces, dries up. 778 151. — Why roses bloom more brightly near plants being born. 779 152. — Why the tears of boars are sweet, while those of stags are salty. 779 153. — Why the coldness of lead and its light render water colder. 779 154. — Why snow is kept with straw and cast-off garments. 782 155. — What 'bulimos' (ravenous hunger) is. 782 156. — Why fruits suspended from a service tree become tender. 782 157. — SOLUTIONS TO NATURAL QUESTIONS. 783 Preface. 783 1. — That the earth is round. 786 2. — On the magnitude of the earth. 787 3. — On the elements that are between the earth and the heaven, and the passions that pertain to them. 790
4. — On air, fire, clouds, lightning, and thunder. 790 5. — On earthquakes. 791 6. — On comets. 794 7. — On winds. 794 8. — On the rainbow. 795 9. — On the heavenly form. 795 10. — On the world. 795 11. — Whether the world is animate and governed by Providence. 795 12. — Whether the world is incorruptible. 795 13. — Whether the world is nourished. 798 14. — On the order of the world. 798 15. — On the inclination of the world. 798 16. — An inquiry into whether there is certain empty space outside the world. 798 17. — What is the right and what is the left of the world. 798 18. — What is the essence of the world. 799 19. — On the nature of the stars. 799 20. — On the forms of the stars. 799 21. — On the motion of the stars. 802 22. — Whence the stars are illuminated. 803 23. — How the four seasons of the year are made. 803 24. — On the magnitude of the sun and moon. 803 25. — On the eclipse of the sun. 806 26. — On the substance, light, and form of the moon. 806 27. — On the eclipse of the moon. 809
VERSES ON DOGMA. 811
DIALOGUE ON THE OPERATION OF DEMONS. 818
Preface by Gaulminus. 818 Cap. I. — On the Euchites and Enthusiasts. — That the knowledge of heretical dogmas is no less profitable to the pious than the knowledge of lethal drugs is to physicians. 819 Cap. II. — On the two principles of the Manichaeans and the three principles of the Euchites. 823 Cap. III. — Why Satanael is called the son of God by the Euchites. — The origin of heresies is from Satan. — How blind and captive in mind are the heretics who do not perceive the illusions of the demon. 826 Cap. IV. — On the most filthy ceremonies of the Euchites, who at the beginning of their sacred rites taste foods and drinks smeared with excrement and dung. 827 Cap. V. — An explanation of the mystical, or rather execrable, sacrifice of the Euchites, which consists of the ashes and blood of an infant conceived in incest and killed by them. 831 Cap. VI. — A lament regarding the study of good letters and good morals, and the schemes and seditions of the heretical forerunners of Antichrist which have led to ruin everywhere. 834 Cap. VII. — That bodies are no different for demons than they are for the celestial angels themselves, and that they appear to men in the same way. 835 Cap. VIII. — On the difference and distinction between the angelic body and the demoniacal body, and their splendor compared to the sun. 838 Cap. IX. — That light-fleeing, aqueous, and subterranean demons are subject to passion as if affected by matter, and that they emit seed and are nourished. 839 Cap. X. — That the air, earth, waters, and indeed the entire world are teeming and filled with demons. 842 Cap. XI. — That there are six primary genera of demons, and that they correspond analogically to a scalene triangle, just as the celestial beings correspond to an equilateral triangle, and human beings correspond to an isosceles or equal-sided triangle. 843 Cap. XII. — On the temptations, titillations, and enticements of demons; by which they try to draw men to themselves, especially those who do not at all restrain the tinder of vices within themselves. 846 Cap. XIII. — Why demons leap into brute animals no differently than into human beings, and incidentally concerning the energy and exorcism of the subterranean and light-fleeing demon, which is said to be mute and deaf. 850 Cap. XIV. — Against physicians; that the energies or operations of demons by no means proceed from corrupt humors, as lethargy usually does, etc. 851 Cap. XV. — He proves that those who are energumens, or possessed by a demon, are cured by divine power alone, and he subjoins the history of a certain Euchite prestidigitator, who was abducted as a captive from Elason to Constantinople. 854 Cap. XVI. — On a certain Armenian prestidigitator, who drove a demon with iron out of a Greek woman in labor, who was using a language she did not know, Armenian. 858 Cap. XVII. — A triple question arising from the foregoing energy of the demon: 1. Whether some demons are male and others female; 2. And whether they are passible. 859 Cap. XVIII. — How it happens that a demon appears now in male form, now in female form, and that the colors of the air and clouds are likewise varied. 862 Cap. XIX. — Why the demon by which boys are vexed appears predominantly in female form. 863 Cap. XX. — On the varied speech of demons, according to the variety of the regions in which they linger. 866 Cap. XXI. — Why demons fear iron, and especially [those things that are produced via] the forge, that is, those affected by matter, as being the most fearful of all. 867 Cap. XXII. — On the nations and others truly and seriously addicted to the worship of demons, and concerning the repentance of this Marcus and his return to the orthodox faith. 870 Cap. XXIII. — How demons are struck, and concerning the difference between a demoniac and a solid body. 871 Cap. XXIV. — On the various modes of foreknowledge, [to see] which is appropriate and proper to demons. 874GREEK OPINIONS ON DEMONS. 875
ON THE VIRTUES OF STONES. 887
EPIGRAM on St. Gregory Nazianzen. 899
CHARACTERS of Gregory the Theologian, Basil the Great, St. John Chrysostom, and Gregory of Nyssa. 902
ON THE THREE HOLY HIERARCHS. 907
ENCOMIUM AND OFFICE OF SYMEON METAPHRASTES. 810
ON THE COLLAPSE OF THE TEMPLE OF SAINT SOPHIA. 911
ON THE DETERMINATION OF DEATH. 915
PART TWO OF THE WORKS. — LEGAL AND CANONICAL.
OFFERING OF THE NOMOCANON to the Emperor Michael Ducas. 919 SYNOPSIS OF LAWS. 924 Preface. 924 COMPENDIUM OF LAWS IN IAMBIC VERSES. 925 Note of Franc. Bosquet. 974 Note of Corn. Sieben. 991 Various readings. 1006ON THE NAMES OF ACTIONS. 1007
ON THE NAMES OF LAWS. 1023
PART THREE OF THE WORKS. — PHILOSOPHICAL. 1030
FAMOUS OPINIONS ON THE SOUL. 1030
THAT THE MOTIONS OF THE SOUL ARE SIMILAR TO CELESTIAL MOTIONS. 1075
COMMENTARY ON THE PLATONIC PSYCHOGONIA. 1078
EXPOSITION on the Chaldean Oracles. 1115
BRIEF EXPOSITION of the Chaldean dogmas. 1150
ON THE PIMANDER OF MERCURY TRISMEGISTUS. 1154
PART FOUR OF THE WORKS. — HISTORICAL.
ON ATTIC PLACES AND NAMES. 1155
ON THE BRONZE HORSE IN THE HIPPODROME. 1161
EPISTLES. 1162
I. — To the Metropolitan of Thessalonica, who was made master of the rhetoricians. 1162 II. — To the same. 1166 III. — To the same. 1166 IV. — To Caesar Ducas. 1170 V. — To the same. 1170 VI. — To the same. 1170 VII. — To the same. 1171 VIII. — To the same. 1174 IX. — To the same. 1175 X. — To the same. 1178 XI. — To the same. 1179 XII. — To the Caesar. 1182 FRAGMENTS. 1186APPENDIX TO THE WORKS OF MICHAEL PSELLUS.
ANONYMOUS [work] on the antiquities of Constantinople in 4 books. 1187 Preface. 1187ORDER OF THE CONTENTS IN THIS VOLUME
Book I. Which begins from the Palace of the Chalke and from the Milion and reaches to the Golden Gate. 1189 Book II. Which begins from the Tzykanisterion, the church of the Hodegetria and the Mangana, and reaches to Blachernae. 1223 Book III. Which begins from the other side of Saint Sergius and the Palaces of Sophianus up to the western walls of the Great Gates. 1251 Book IV. Containing the history and description of the temple of Holy Sophia. 1290 Testament of Solomon. 1313 Addenda. 1358 Fabrot's Glossary. 1362 Index to Cedrenus. 1405 Index to Joannes Scylitzes. 1442 Index to Michael Psellus. 1444
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