to prevail and to deliberate with those who have been rightly and well ordained and administered by the most holy and divine high priests and by the all-holy patriarch himself. For since, by a synodal judgment of the blessed patriarch, Lord John Xiphilinus, promulgated in the month of April of the past fourth indiction, and also by the metropolitan bishops and archbishops then present at the queen of cities, my Majesty learned that in that synod it was determined concerning incestuous marriages, in what way those forbidden by the sacred canons and laws ought to be restrained, and in what way those taking place according to the laws, and not synodically forbidden, ought to be affirmed, and as indeed those co-operating A in these matters, well decreed by the most holy and divine high priests and the all-holy patriarch himself, were reminded of this, my Majesty was moved to confirm such a judgment, so that it might not be overturned by anyone by reason of fear, B or evil deceit, or any other non-laudable method; and since the matter is divine and pious, it heard the petition of those requesting it, and royally ratified things pleasing to God, and in accordance with this, also joined in opinion with the holy and sacred synod, so that matters well performed of old might not be newly subverted for the worse, nor things immovable be moved from their place, and become, if I may so say, profane. For my Majesty decrees by this present golden bull that the patriarchical and synodal judgment that has taken place be firm, and that no one dare to call it into question or rescind it even by a mere word. For he who opposes this holy and synodal sentence immediately overturns the rudders of our C faith, and is rendered liable to anathema, and is removed and cast out from the great Church, as one inhuman and wicked, who opposes the canons and rescinds and tears them up. Indeed, my Majesty, sealing what was well adjudged and performed by the synod itself, has promulgated the present Golden Bull for the confirmation and stabilization of those matters, and has subscribed to this bull with red letters, and through them dictating a clearer truth, has appended to it a true seal, as a sort of golden corollary, in the year of the world 6598, in this same third indiction, in the month of January, in which also our pious and divinely established Majesty has subscribed.
AT THE BEGINNING OF THE XII CENTURY. NICETAS SEIDUS. NOTITIA. (Leo Allatius in *Diatriba de Nicetis*, ap. Maium *Bibl. Nov. Patr.* VI, 11, 492.) Nicetas Seidus, under Emperor Alexius Comnenus, seeing it proposed by the Latins that one should adhere to the opinions of the Roman Church as more ancient, and that what is older is more venerable than what is new, wrote against
of the same work, that ancient things are not altogether more venerable than new things, nor is old Rome [better] than the New, nor one see than another. C Many are the things, O Romans, that separate you from us.
Regarding the Pascha
. R. Our Lord Jesus Christ was born in the year 5506 from the creation of the world, as I have also said before. Thus also the admirable lord Nicetas, called Seidus, says in the treatise composed by him on this subject.FROM THE TREATISE OF THE BLESSED LORD NICETAS SEIDUS ON THE PASCHA
Cardinal Angelo Mai, in his notes on the passage of Theodore Meliteniotes where the celebration of the Pascha is discussed, displays an excerpt from the work of Nicetas Seidus, previously lauded by Allatius, prefacing it thus: "Because in this place mention of the Pascha occurs, there came to my mind the notice handed down by Allatius in his diatribe on the Nicetas, no. XI, that Nicetas Seidus, a man of the twelfth century, wrote a treatise on the Pascha. In truth, in the Greek codex Vat. 1059, f. 212, there occurred to me a not-to-be-despised excerpt of the aforementioned treatise, which it is worth the labor to append here, both because it is useful of itself, and also that we may gather the writings of the Nicetases according to our strength. No one will wonder at the title 'Blessed' given to a man who was a schismatic and who even declaimed against the dogmas of the Latins; for the Greek writer of the codex himself was credibly a schismatic, and the term 'blessed' used to be applied by the ancients to any dead person, whether blessed or otherwise; and even now it is used in some regions in the same sense."
A Our Lord Jesus Christ was born in the year 5506 from the creation of the world, as I have also said before; for it cannot be otherwise, even if someone were to labor at investigating it to infinity. But his saving passion occurred in the year 5559, when the lunar cycle was the tenth, and the solar was the twenty-third. Which being conceded, it is discovered truly that the legal Pascha—that is, the fourteenth of the moon—was celebrated at that time on the twenty-third day of the month of March, on the sixth day of the week, when the Lord also suffered. For after the burial of the Savior, the irrational lamb was sacrificed toward evening. But as the Sabbath began to dawn, or the twenty-fourth day of the month of March, the solemnity of Unleavened Bread was celebrated by them, as the law in Leviticus ordained; but on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, the bright-shining resurrection of Christ shone upon the whole world. The Lord was born, then, as we all the orthodox believe, in the year of the world 5506, in the first indiction, and in the forty-second year of the reign of Caesar Augustus, on the twenty-fifth of December, on the B third day of the week.
on the 25th day, in the third week. For the cycle of the sun was then 18, and of the moon 15. Then, in the 15th year of Tiberius Caesar, when Jesus was already thirty years of age, He is baptized by John in the first indiction, on the second day of the week, the sixth of the month of January. Afterward, in the 18th year of the same Tiberius, He came to His voluntary passion in the year of the world 5539, on the 23rd day of the month of March, in the fourth indiction, on the sixth day of the week. But He rose again on the 25th day of the same month, on the first day of the week, with the lunar cycle at ten, and the solar at twenty-three.
INDEX TO NICEPHORUS BRYENNIUS
(The reader is referred to the larger numbers inserted in the text.)
A Abrytani, 26. Military acclamations for Alexius, 61. Roman battle line is defeated by the Turks, 41. Adrianople, 108, 144, 157. Etus, 149. Africa, 26. Agarenes, 163. Alania, Alans, 56, 72, 83. Why the Alans desert Palaeologus, 83. Alexius Comnenus bears the rule of Botaniates with difficulty, 6. He tries in vain to reconcile the two Constantinos Ducases to Botaniates, 7. Why he is suspected and hated by Botaniates and his ministers, 8. Ordered into exile by edict, but the emperor revokes the sentence, 8. He is sent by the emperor into difficult wars so that he might perish, 9. He defeats Bryennius and Basilaces, 9. Ungrateful returns rendered to Alexius for his good deeds, 10. Compelled to seize the empire, 11. Proclaimed emperor at Adrianople, 11. To whom he grants part of the empire, 11. His right to the empire is acknowledged by Botaniates, 12. Alexius, son-in-law of Joannes Comnenus—whence he is called Charon, 19. His wondrous character, 24. Alexius goes into the army of the Emperor Diogenes, 34. But is sent back to his weeping mother, 35. Alexius’s eagerness while campaigning with his brother, 58. His useful sortie from the camp, 60. His danger and his courage in it, and the military acclamations for him, 60. Though he tries to hold them back, the Roman soldiers flee from the camp, 61. Alexius is saved by the counsel of Theodotus, 62. Why he did not abandon his breastplate while walking on foot, 62. The benevolence of the Gabadonienses toward him, 63. Why he refuses the use of a mirror, 63. Why he strives toward Ancyra, 64. He prepares money to ransom his brother, 64. He is besieged with his brother in a farmhouse by the Turks, 66. His speech to those besieged with him, 67. His generosity toward the Turks, 70. Invoked, he saves one in danger, and his praise, 72. Alexius, as a youth, is sent by the emperor against Urselius; his method of warfare with Urselius, 84. What he did upon hearing of Urselius’s departure toward Tutachus, 86. His speech to Tutachus’s delegate, 86. His anxiety regarding the promised money, 87. Why he seeks money from the Amaseni, 88. Alexius’s address to them, 89. He feigns the blinding of Urselius, 90. He refuses to abandon the imperfect war, 91. He recovers the fortresses captured by the Urselians, 92. He is received in hospitality by his kinsman Doceanus, 92. He visits his ancestral home, is received by Maurices, and betakes himself to the temple of the Mother of God, 93. He puts the Turks to flight in passing, 93. Seeking Constantinople by ship, he is saved from shipwreck by the aid of the Mother of God, 93. He treats Urselius humanely, 95. How benevolently he is received by the emperor, 96. Andronicus and his wife wish for him as a son-in-law, 106. He suspends his consent to the marriage according to his mother’s judgment, 107. Zoe, the sister of the Emperor Constantine, is destined for him, 107. Irene is betrothed to him before the death of Andronicus, 107. The emperor disturbs that marriage, but in vain, 108. Who tries to implicate him in the rebellion, 108. He defends the city of Constantinople against Bryennius, 115. His counsel for suppressing the conspiracy is neglected, 122. He commends Constantine to Botaniates, 123. His expedition against Bryennius, 135. His counsels regarding the battle and the manner of fighting, 136. The noble counsel of his men who deserted him, 138. How opportunely the auxiliaries of his men arrive for him, 140. His praises after Bryennius is captured by him, 144. Excluded from Constantinople, he is ordered to go with the troops against Basilaces, 146. His sagacity, 149. Upon learning of Basilaces’s arrival, he goes out from the camp, leaving the lamps lit, 150. Why he is called Balbus, 151. He rushes upon the Basilacians and puts them to flight, 152. His generosity toward enemies and his own men, 153. Basilaces flees while he follows, and the deeds accomplished with splendor, 156. He is honored by the emperor, 157. He refuses the expedition against Melissenus offered to him, 158. The soldiers, unwilling to obey the Eunuch, long for him, 159. The emperor’s ministers try to appease him, 6. His efforts in preserving the empire in the family of the Ducases, 7. Amyrus River, 135. Amasea, a city occupied by the Emperor Diogenes, 46. Amasia, 46, 81, 86. Ancyra, the metropolis city of the Galatians, 62. Isaacius opens the gates of Ancyra to his brother by night, 63. Why Alexius strives toward Ancyra, 64. Andronicus, son of the Caesar, 41. His praises, 41. Andronicus is sent against the Emperor Diogenes and defeats him, 47. Chutaturius, having been captured, is surrendered to him, 53. He undertakes war against the Emperor Diogenes, 51. He appears unexpectedly to Diogenes’s army, 51. With what gem he was gifted by Chutaturius, 53. He bears the blinding of Diogenes with difficulty, 55. His piety and courage, 76. He is captured with his father, 76. How he is liberated, 77. Andronicus suffers from dropsy beyond hope, 100. Andronicus wishes for Alexius as a son-in-law, 105. How many children he had, 106. Anna Dalassena: whose daughter she was, and how many sons and daughters she had, 19. Anna, mother of the Comneni, is accused through calumny, 49. Her constancy in judgment, 49. A doubtful sentence is brought against her, 50. Her defense, 50. She is sent into exile, 50. She is recalled by him, 56. Her piety toward her son Manuel, 34. Antioch, 50, 96. Why a sedition arose in Antioch, 97. By whom it was suppressed, 98. Arabas the Alan’s noble spirit, 70.
INDEX TO NICEPHORUS BRYENNIUS
Arabes, 26, 29. Araxis river, 29. Artarchus with the Turkish army for Michael against John Caesar, 81. Assyrians, 26. Athos, Mount, 155. Atzula, 119. Azala, Mount, 34.
B Babylon, 26, 30. Basilaces in warring against Botaniates, by whom he is defeated, 9. Breaks the pact initiated by Bryennius’s brother, but, having been conquered, is reconciled, 107. Enters the city, 151. Flees when pursued by Alexius, 154. Besieged, he refuses to surrender, 155. He is bound and handed over to Alexius, 155. Blinded at the fountain of Champina, 156. His soldiers, emerging from Alexius’s camp, are routed and captured, 154. Basilacius, what error he committed, 37. Basilius Curtices captures Manuel, the paternal uncle of Basilaces, 154. Beginning of the Romans’ war against the Turks, 30. Berrhoea, 148. Bithynia, 35, 43, 118. Borila blinds the captured Bryennius, 147. Bosporus, 26. Botaniates, ungrateful toward Emperor Michael, 5. His rebellion, 5. His ministers try in vain to win over Alexius, 8. Why Alexius is hated by him and his ministers, 9. He considers putting out Alexius’s eyes, 9. He puts him in charge of difficult wars to destroy him, 9. He acknowledges Alexius’s right to the empire, 12. He rebels, 117. Avoids the ambush of the Turks, 119. By whom is he acclaimed emperor, 120. He bribes the Turks with money, Bryennius incites them against him, 129. How joyful the news of Bryennius’s capture was to him, 146. Boulerum, 148. Bryennius, warring against Botaniates, by whom he is defeated, 9. First learns of the defeat of Basilaces, 37. Surrounded by Turks, he is wounded, 40. Protects the phalanx though wounded, 41. Subdues the Slavs, 102. Malevolent slanders against him, 103. His brother, frustrated in his hope for rewards, murmurs, 104. An assassin sent against him is apprehended, 108. He is sent to capture the capital, 109. Refuses the imperial insignia, 110. The people of Trajanopolis proclaim him emperor, 113. Finally, he takes the purple and goes straight to the temple of the Mother of God, 113. Byzantines, formerly inclined toward Bryennius, are alienated from him, 11. John Curopalates is sent by him toward Constantinople, 114. He routes the Scythians and soon makes peace with them, 117. Moves against Botaniates, 129. While standing in battle line, he hears an embassy, 131. What he answers to the words of the legates, 133. Moves against Alexius, and what the order of his army was, 135. His generosity toward the Turks, 141. He flees when the Turks press in, 142. Is captured by the Turks, 141. His brother and son return safely to Adrianople, 144. His praises, 145. He is blinded by Borila, 147. The emperor consoles him and endows him with goods, 148.
C Cabiri, 29. Caesar crosses into Asia under the pretext of hunting, 57. His anxiety about his son’s illness, 106. Returns from Asia to the imperial court, 73. Caesar and Urselius carefully fortify the camp, 81. Both are captured, 82. How they were liberated, 83. Caesar becomes a monk out of fear, 83. Invited by the conspirators, he persists in his loyalty, 121. Persuades Botaniates to take Michael’s wife, Maria, as his bride, 126. Why one priest refuses to perform this and another complies, 126. Caesar’s anxiety while dying, 106. Caesarea, 58. Calobrya, 133. Cappadocia, 58, 60. Carbonitii, 27. Castamon, 93. Castle of St. Gregory, 160. Caucasus, 26. Cedoctus, 135. Celts, 75. Chaltica, 32. Chalcedon, 51, 158. Charou, who he was, 19. His daughter, 19. Chascares, who he was, 71. Chorobati, they rebel, 100. Chutaturius, by what favor he benefited Diogenes, 47. To whom the captive is handed over, 53. Comneni, recalled from exile with their mother, 56. Comneni brothers save their own with opportune aid, 69. Comneni brothers’ concord, 19. Conspiracy against the emperor in Constantinople, 121. It is confirmed, 121. Consort of Alexius from the Ducas family, 12. Constantinople, by whom besieged, 114. The siege is lifted, 117. Constantine Ducas the elder refuses to take the risk of occupying the empire, 7. Constantine Ducas the minor, offered the empire, is rejected by the people, 10. Constantine Ducas is elected emperor by the Comneni, 22. His constancy in judging lawsuits, 22. His death, 23. Refuses to wage war with Diogenes, 51. Constantine the Protostrator tries to remedy the evils, but in vain, 57. Constantine, another son of Andronicus, dies suddenly, 80. Constantine and Alexius defend Constantinople against Bryennius, 115. Constantine, brother of Michael, refuses the empire, 124. To Constantine Ducas, son of Michael, a part of the empire is communicated, 11. Contostephanus, when in danger, by whom he is saved, 165. Crispin the Frank routs Diogenes’s cavalry, 52. Diogenes tries in vain to corrupt him, 54.
D Damocrania, 133. Dioclea, 100. Dioclenses rebel, 100. Diogenes, emperor, consults on the strategy of the war, 35. He rejects sound advice, 36. He rashly assents to frivolous flatteries, 36. His credulity, 38. Captured by the Turks, 42. And many leaders, 42. Treated honorably by the sultan, and is released free, 44. What he does having been released, 44. Caesar takes care that Michael be acclaimed emperor, 45. Having gathered an army, he occupies Amasea, 46. He is defeated by Andronicus, 47. Michael treats for peace with him, but in vain, 48. Constantine Ducas refuses to wage war with him, 51. His cavalry, by whom it is routed, 52. He expects aid from Persia, 54. Is handed over to Andronicus, is clothed in monastic vestments, 55. By order of Michael, he is blinded and dies, 55. Drungarius Constantine dissuades Michael from taking Bryennius as a partner in the empire, 101. Ducas clan, descended from a paternal cousin of Constantine the Great, 13. Inheritance of the empire devolved by right from the Ducas family to the Comneni, 6. Dyrrhachium, metropolis of Illyricum, 102.
E Eruption from the camp, useful to Alexius, 60. Eudoxia, with her sons, rules the empire after the death of Constantine, 23, 43. By whom she is routed, 46. Becomes a nun, 46. Eunuch John is sent to Melissenus, 158. But the soldiers obey him grudgingly, 159. The Nicaeans deceive him with words, 164. He promises that he will adopt Palaeologus, 161. Most ungrateful, he accuses Palaeologus in letters, 165. Eustathius is sent to inquire about Bryennius, 104. Army under ten leaders against the Turks, by whom sent, 27.
G Gabadonia, 63. Benevolence of the Gabadonians toward Alexius, 63. Galatia, 65, 73, 158. Galicum, 149. Gallic mercenaries go over to Urselius, 75. Gule, 152.
H Heraclea Pontica, 93. Honorati, 19.
I Iberi, Iberia, 56. Illyricum, what is its metropolis, 102. Immortal phalanx, what it is and on what occasion it was formed, 135. Emperor consoles Bryennius, blinded by Borila, and endows him with goods, 148. Emperor and logothete implore the aid of the Turks, 118. The empire, how justly Alexius assumed it, 11. Impe-
- rium recusal, Constantine, brother of Michael, 124. To whom the inheritance of the empire devolved by right, 6. Fire in the suburb of Constantinople, 115. Indians, 27. Irene, daughter of Andronicus, is betrothed to Alexius, 107. Isaac and John, sons of whom, 17. Their military exercises, 18. See John. Isaac and Manuel, sons of John, what they do, 24. How they were educated, 25. Isaac, having been made emperor, whom he created leader in place of his brother, 20. Suffering from sickness, he deliberates about a successor, 22. Isaac Comnenus sent against the Turks, 57. He sets out against the Turks, 59. He is defeated and captured, 60. Liberated by his brother, he betakes himself to Ancyra, 65. He is besieged with his brother by the Turks in a country house, 66. Isaac Comnenus created Duke of Antioch, 96. His cunning in abducting the Patriarch of Antioch, 96. He is captured by the Turks and soon ransomed, 99. He obtains the emperor's favor through gifts, 156. Italy, 102.
J John, successor of Alexius, 13. John and Isaac, sons of whom, 17. Their military exercises, 18. Why they were ordered to reside in the Monastery of Studium, 18. John the Caesar undertakes an expedition against Urselius, 71. The order of his battle line, 74. He is captured while fighting, 76. He seeks the empire for himself at the urging of Urselius, 80. John the Curopalates sent by Bryennius toward Constantinople, 114. The virtues of John Comnenus, 20. He refuses the empire, 22. His wife tries in vain to persuade him to accept it, 22. His death, 105. Joseph Trachaniotes obeys the emperor against his own mother, 37.
L Words of the envoys sent to Bryennius, 131. Leontacius, tutor of Michael, son of Andronicus, 78. His brave constancy, 79. The Logothete alienates Emperor Michael from his uncle, the Caesar [John], 6. Captured by Urselius, he is handed over to Botaniates, goes into exile, and is killed, 127. His machinations against John the Caesar, 73. Lycaonia, 73.
M Macedonians, 20. Manuel Comnenus, peacemaker between Basil and Bardas, 17. His sons, 17. Manuel and Isaac, sons of John, devote themselves to military service, 31. Manuel is captured by the Turks, 32. He persuades Chrysoculus the Turk to defect to the Romans, 33. His death, 33. Manuel Basilacis, by whom he is captured, 154. The sea, by whom it is cleared of pirates, 102. Maroxus, a mountain, 82. The marriage of Alexius, 107. Who disturbs it, 107. Maurus, a mountain, 148. Mazicertum, 36. Media, 26, 56. Melissenus resists the rebelling Botaniates, 117. Metabole, 81. Michael is hailed emperor, 43, 45. He drives away his mother Eudocia, 46. He treats with Diogenes on equal terms, 48. By his command, Diogenes, having been captured, is blinded, 55. By whom he is alienated from his uncle, the Caesar, 56. Michael, son of Andronicus, how he escaped as a hostage, 77. He is carried to Nicomedia, 79. Michael Augustus, whom he sent against Urselius, 103. He defeats the Illyrians in battle, 103. He voluntarily lays down the empire, 123. He assumes the monastic habit and soon becomes Metropolitan of Ephesus, 125. The soldiers of Muchumet, why they defect to the Turks, 28. A eunuch monk, companion given to Alexius by his mother, 150. Muchumet, son of whom, and over whom he rules, 26. Whom he defeats, relying on the help of the Huns, 27. He is defeated by the Turks, 28. By how many leaders and why he had his eyes put out, 28. Why his soldiers defect to the Turks, 28. In which battle he falls, 29. His battle with the Turks, in which he falls, 29.
N Nicephoritzes, through the study of the Caesar, is promoted to his destruction, 56. Nicephorus the Logothete implores the aid of the Turks, 81. Nicephorus Melissenus usurps the empire by the aid of the Turks, 158. The provident counsel of the sons of Nicephorus Bryennius, 114.
O The speech of Alexius to those besieged with him, 67.
P Palaiologos is opposed to the brigandage of Urselius, 83. He is defeated by Urselius, 84. He tries in vain to dissuade the attack on Nicaea, 161. His counsel is foolishly abandoned by the eunuch; he carries water to the thirsty eunuch, 164. He saves Contostephanus, who is in danger, 163. He is accused by letter by that most ungrateful eunuch, 165. The Patriarch of Antioch, by whom he was sent to Constantinople, 96. The letters of the emperor returned to him, 96. The patrician Stephanus, governor of Media, why he was captured and sold by the Turks, 51. The generosity of the young patrician Bryennius, 112. The danger of Alexius and his fortitude in it, 60. The fortitude of Petrus Tornicius, 153. Pissyrius, Prince of Babylon, by whom he was defeated and killed, 30. The nobles of Constantinople are eager for new revolutions, 118. Prodigality harmful to the state, 128.
R The rebellion of Botaniates, 5. The order of the Roman battle line, 40. Romans are cut down by the Turks, 41. Roman soldiers flee from the camp of Alexius, 61. The Romans, fighting bravely, are finally surrounded and slaughtered, 76.
S The empire of the Saracens extends far and wide, 26. The Scythians, having heard of the death of Diogenes, infest the West, 57. Scythians and Slavs raid Roman regions, 100. Who tamed them, 102. Put to flight by Bryennius, 117. Turning the Alexians, they shift their attack to the Bryennians, 139. By whom those raiding the Roman borders are checked, 157. What kind of sentence is passed on Anna, and her defense, 49. Slavs and Scythians raid Roman regions, 100. Who tamed them, 102. See Scythians. Strangolipes becomes King of Persia, [and is] called Sultabus, 29. He defeats and kills the Prince of Babylon, 50. At whose persuasion he sends forces against the Romans, 31. The ruse of Alexius feigning the death of Bryennius, how it profited Alexius, 139. How Sultabus treats the captured Emperor Diogenes, 41.
T Tarachaniotes, having requested help from the emperor in vain, crosses over to the side of Bryennius, 108. Alexius is saved by the counsel of Theodotus, 62. The Turks, whence they originated, 26. The Turks infest the region of the Saracens with raids, 27. Why they migrate into Persia, 28. On what occasion they dared to war with the Romans, 30. The beginning of their war against the Romans, 31. They cut down the Romans, 58. Having heard of the death of Diogenes, they infest the East, 57. They pursue the Romans fleeing from the camp of Alexius, 62. Alexius puts them to flight, 69, 72. They attack the camps of the Caesar and Urselius, 82. Put briefly to flight by Alexius, 94. Their very cautious method of fighting, 41. How opportunely their reinforcements arrive for Alexius, 110. They draw the Bryennians into an ambush, 140. They put the Bryennians to flight, 142. They capture Bryennius, 143. Tutachus the Turk surrendered the bound Urselius to Alexius, 87.
U Urselius withdraws from the army with the Frankish troops, 59. He infests the regions, 75. The Gallic mercenaries cross over to him, 75. Urselius and the Caesar carefully fortify the camps, 81. Urselius, having been freed, infests the cities with raids, 83. Reduced to poverty, 85. He strives to reconcile Tutachus the Turk to himself, 86. He feigns having been blinded, 90. He is shown to his cousin by Alexius with feigned eyes, 92. Although given into strict custody by Alexius, he is treated most humanely, 93. He captures the Logothete and hands him over to Botaniates, 128. By whom he was handed over as a prisoner to Alexius, 87.
Z Zoe, sister of the Emperor Constantine, is destined for Alexius, 107.
1493 ON MANASSEH. INDEX ON MANASSEH. (The reader is referred to the larger numbers inserted in the text.) 1494
A Abel's birth, origin, and studies, 8. Abimelech, king of the Egyptians, 11. Abram's exile, ibid. Abram's migration into Egypt, ibid. Achilles, why exacerbated, 26. Defender of Palamedes, ibid. Unjustly accused by Ulysses, 27. Plunders islands near Troy, 26. Achilles avenges the slaughter of Patroclus, 28. Achilles' companion, 27. In what matter his impetus was blunted, 26. Death, 28. Final speech, 29. Actaeon torn apart by dogs, 103. Adam overcome by sleep, 7. The nakedness of Adam and Eve made conspicuous, 8. How much time flowed from the formation of Adam until the flood, 10. Adulators (on) opinion, 90. Example of adultery, 35. Occasions, 21. Egypt, by whom made habitable, 10. When Egypt began to have the beginning of empire, 20. Variously afflicted, king, ibid. Kings of Egypt called Ptolemies, ibid. Israelites having gone out of Egypt lived forty years in the wilderness, 22. How long the empire of the Egyptians lasted, stations, 11. A peculiar idol of the Egyptians, ibid. Egypt slain, 30. Aeneas' arrival in Italy, 30. Aeneas' voyages, 51. Death, 32. Oracle given, 31. Aelius Hadrianus, emperor, 45. Aelius Hadrianus' affability and munificence, ibid. Death, ibid. Agamemnon, commander, 26. Agamemnon's death, 30. Agarenes invade Africa, 80. They captured the city of Carthage, ibid. Origin of agriculture, 8. Ajax from Salamis, 25. Ajax's piety toward the dead Achilles, 29. Alaric, king of the Goths, 51. Alba founded, 32. Alexander, son of Priam, why he fled to Sparta, 24. Alexander, son of Priam, is born, 23. Who is also Paris, is driven from Egypt by Proteus, 25. Alexander II and Constantine VII, emperors, 110. Alexander Paris' unhappy falls, 25. Alexander the Great's empire, 19. Alexander the Great's successors, 20. Amantius, desirous of ruling, fails in his hope, 63. Amazons, allies of the Trojans, 28. Amulius and Numitor, kings, 32. Amulius' slaughter, 25. Anastasius, emperor, 61. Eutychian, 62. Devoured his own hands and feet in the sepulcher, 63. Emperor Anastasius' dream, 63. Ancyle, what it is to the Greeks, 34. Andronicus, 132. Angel of the Lord strikes Sennacherib's army, 14. Animals, how they produce their likes, 46. Origin of animals, 4. Mind studious of liberty, 70. Desirous of earthly things, 1. Sign of a soft and dejected mind, 25. Antioch captured by the Saracens, 115. Antaeus' pride, 128. Anthemius, 52. Antoninus Caracalla, emperor, 47. How long he reigned, 46. How he collected money to restore the forces of war, 45. Antoninus Pius, why and how he was made emperor, 47. Apis, idol of the Egyptians, 11. Bees eaten by the Trojans, 31. Apollo's ambiguous response concerning the Roman empire, 36. Apsimarus plots against Justinian, 80. Occupies Byzantium, ibid. Apsimarus' various names, ibid. Apsimarus' death, 81. To write letters in water, 92. Segregation of waters, 2. Fruitfulness, 4. Augury of eagles, 38. Arabs, 80. Arabs devastate Asia, 121. They capture Crete, 115. Tree of the knowledge of good and evil forbidden, 7. Signs of a good tree, 110. Fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, 7. Arbaces, leader, kills Sardanapalus, 13. Ark of Noah, 132. Its shape, 9. Arcadius succeeds his brother Honorius in the empire of the West, 51. Ardaburius, 58. Ariadne, wife of Zeno, 61. Artabasdus, emperor designated, 89. Is captured and blinded, ibid. Artabasdus' defection, 85. Artaxerxes Longimanus succeeded Xerxes in the empire, ibid. Artembares, 16. Artemius Anastasius, emperor designated, 84. Artemius is sent into exile, 83. Artemius' flight, 81. Ascanius, king of Alba, 32. Asia tributary to King Sesostris, 12. Aspar, 58. Given to the fury of Arius, ibid. Assyria, whence named, 10. Asshur, son of Shem, ibid. Assyrians recover liberty, 13. Assyrians' law concerning the marriages of mothers and children, 12. How long the empire of the Assyrians lasted, ibid. Assyrian monarchy, ibid. Their region given to the Huns, ibid. Who imposed names on the celestial stars, 8. How a certain astrologer escaped punishment, 43. Prediction of a certain astrologer concerning Emperor Augustus, 38. Another prediction, 61. Astrologers ejected from the city by Augustus, 39. Response of the astrologers to Caesar Vitellius when they were ordered to leave Italy, 42. Astyages, king of the Medes, dream concerning his daughter, 15. Deliberates with the Magi concerning Cyrus, 16. Proposes that his grandson be killed by Harpagus, 17. Captured by his grandson Cyrus, ibid. Athenais, daughter of Leontius, 53. Afterward called Eudocia, is joined to Emperor Theodosius, 54. Athenians, 25. Athenodorus the Alexandrian, tutor of Augustus Caesar, how he restrained Caesar's anger, ibid. Avares, peoples, 77. Avarice, 68. Augury, 132. Augustus Caesar, warned by Maecenas, 38. Prone to lust, ibid. Absolved those once condemned of capital crimes, ibid. How dear he was to his subjects, 39. His humanity toward the wise and learned, ibid. Dream of Augustus' mother, 58. Whence the name, ibid. Dream of Augustus' father, 58. How long Augustus' empire lasted, 40. What portended the empire to Augustus, 38. Little bird imitates the voice of those weeping, 108. Origin of birds, 4. Species, ibid. Native gold, 6. In what places it is found, 5. Accusation of gold, 81. Execration, 72. Power, 85. Greatest power, 60. Divine aid, 77.
B Babel, what it signifies, 10. Babylon, whence it has its name, ibid. Bactrians, 73. Who built the bath of Zeuxippus, 47. Belshazzar, why he fell from empire, 156. Succeeds Merodach in the Chaldean empire, 15. Prophecy written on the wall in three letters for Belshazzar, ibid. Humanity of a certain barbarian, 134. Barbarians can also cultivate virtue, 53. Bardas Phocas, 114. Bardas Caesar, 103. Bardas Duras' sedition, 121. Incest, 104. Death, 105. Empire offered to Bardanius, 93. Prophecy concerning Bardanius, ibid. Basil captured by the Bulgarians, 106. Basil succors the failing empire, 107. Basil the Macedonian, emperor, 105. Basil, a most victorious prince, 114. Basil II, Romanus F.
cum fratre rerum potitur, 120. Basilii imp. natura, A Basilio Macedone Theodoræ præsagium, 105. Basiliscus, 59. Basiliscus auro corrumpitur, 60. Imperium invadit, 61. Basilisci seditio, 60. Begeleses rex Parthorum, 46. Belisarius imperium Justiniano conservat, 65. Belisarii res gestæ, 64. Ejusdem lamentabilis casus, 66. Bellerophontes, 131. Bellum Trojanum quando gestum, et quomodo, 23. Belli inter Cyrum et Astyagem occasio, 17. Bella acrem requirunt animum, 114. Benevolentia plebis erga principem, 123. Bethlehemæ miseriæ, 82. Belus Assyriorum rex, 12. Bibliotheca Alexandrina, 20. Bibliotheca cum duodecim monachis cremata, 87. Bibliotheca libris tricenis et tribus librorum millibus constans, ibid. Bocchoris Ægyptiorum rex, 99. Botoniates Nicæam occupat, 133. Ejusdem socordia, ibid. Brutus antevertit Tarquinios, 36. Brutus atque Collatinus primi consules, ibid. Bruti amentiam simulantis calliditas, 33. Ejusdem donarium, 36. Terram exosculatur, ibid. Bucephalas, 37. Bulgares a Basilio II victi, 121. Byzantium a Chrosroe obsidetur, 75. Byzantii miraculum, 47. Byzantii miser status, 77. Byzantiorum oppidum restauratum, 48. Byzantiis Diceratum impositum, 93.
C Cabades Persarum rex, 60. Cæsar primus apud Romanos monacha, 21. Solus rerum dominus, 36. Dictator, ibid. Quibus casus, 37. Cæsar lingua Punica ut sonet, ibid. Cæsaris pueri somnium, ejusdem equus, ibid. Cum Julia Neronis uxore conjugium, ibid. Nomen unde, ibid. Insigne facinus, ibid. Mortem qua portenderint, ibid. Cæsar Augustus Octavianus imp., 38. Cainus homicida princeps, 8. Auctor munitionum et latrociniorum, ibid. C. Caligula imperator quando factus, 41. Incestum committit, ibid. Ejusdem crudelitas, et fœdi mores, luxus, obitus, ibid. Callinicus patriarcha cæcatur, 81. Calphurniæ somnium de cæde Cæsaris, 37. Cambyses Cyri filius imperat, 18. Cambysis somnium, ibid. Candaulis genus, stultum facinus, uxor, quibus imperarit, sua stultitia perit, 17. Capitolii nomen unde, 34. Cappadocia regio felicissima, 75. Captivorum 12 millia morti addicuntur, 72. Carnis figura, 8. Carnibus volucrum pluit, 22. Carolus Francorum princeps, 91. Romæ imperator designatur, ibid. Casus generis humani, 7. Celtæ a quo subjugati, 44. Chaganus Scytharum rex, 72. Ejusdem immane factum, ibid. Perfidia, 81. Chalanes turris, 10. Chalcedonensium cæcorum civitas ut exstrui cœperit, et perfici desierit, 48. Chaldæorum fames, 11. Eorumdem regni principium, 14. Chananæorum fames, 20. Radicitus evulsi, 22. Chersonitarum calamitas, 82. Cherson populosa, ibid. Choreæ Deo institutæ, 22. Chosroes Persarum rex Asiam deprædatur, 75. Chrysaphius eunuchus infestus Pulcheriæ, 56. Ejus exsilium, et mors, 57. Chrysargiri abolitio, 63. Chrysopolis situs, 111. Christi nativitas, 40. Natura, ibid. Quando in crucem actus, 41. Ejus interfectores accusati, et morte multati, ibid. Christianos (in) Imperatorum sævitia et crudelitas, 47. Chusarsalhemi Syri satrapæ in Israeliticos crudelitas, 89. Claudius imperator quando factus, 41. Quandiu præfuerit imperii gubernationi, ibid. Ejusdem mors, obitus, et natura, ibid. Cleopatra ab Augusto capta, 20. Regnum amisit, ibid. Clytemnestra perempta, 30. Collis Tarpeii nomen, 35. Comnenorum principum successio, 166.
1496 Commodus imperator quandiu regnaverit, 46. Ejusdem exitus, vita, et mores, ibid. Conjugum par dissimile, 97. Concupiscentiæ pœna, 12. Consilia hominum vana sunt, 78. Constans I imp., ibid. Fratricida Imperium in Italiam transferre conatur, ibid. Constantinus Andronici filius Ducas imperium affectat, 111. Constantis hæresis, ibid. Constantinus Duellator, 127. Constantinus imperium recuperat, 114. Imperio dejicitur, 113. Constantinus Magnus imperator, prius relegatus, revocatur, 48. Constantinus II Heraclii filius imperator, sine facto memorabili moritur, 78. Constantinus VII conjugi suæ capillos radit, 90. Constantinus VIII Romani II filius cum fratre imperium administrat, 120. Constantinus X Ducas imperator, 130. Constantinopolis exstructio, 48. Laudes, ibid. Constantinopolis urbs cum globo cœlesti comparata, 67. Consulum administratio quandiu duraverit, 36. Copronymus secundo imperator, 89. Creta, 28. Creusa, 32. Crocodilus trochilum, proverb., 112. Crœsi genus et origo, 18. Cruciatus mirum quoddam genus, 99. Cyrus Harpago trucidandus traditur, 16. Ubi et inter quos educatus, ibid. Ejusdem pueri regnum, ibid. Ava capto regnum ad Persas transfert, 17. A Danielo monitus, 18. Hebræis libertatem restituit, ibid.
D Damalis quid, 31. Damatriani montes, 83. Danielus vates cum tribus pueris in captivitatem ductus, 14. Baltasaro vaticinium explicat, 15. Darius Hystaspis filius ex septemviris unus, 19. David vatum maximus, 14. Post Saulum imperat, 23. Davides cor Trojanis opem negarit, 28. Deastrorum cultus, 33. Deiphobi et Paridis fraudes, 29. Deus quem protegit, nemo lædit, 58. Deus Hebræorum preces exaudit, 21. Dei consilium a nullo mutari potest, aut impediri, 81. Custodia, 128. Patientia, 47. Potentia rebus omnibus addit robur, 77. Diabolus primos nostros parentes ut deceperit, 7. Diaboli fraudes et invidia, ibid. Diceratum quid, 93. Dictatoris potestas, 36. Didius Julianus imp. quomodo ad imperium pervenerit, 46. Ejus exitus, ibid. Diluvium a Deo immissum, 9. Ejus forma et modus, ibid. Diocletianus et Maximianus imperatores vitæ genus mutant, 47. Diogenis Romani seditiones, 131. A suis proditur, 133. Dissidiorum inter conjuges occasio, 55. Domitianus quando factus imperator, 44. Mors illi prædicta, ibid. Ejus natura, et ingenium, ibid. In astrologum quemdam crudelitas, ibid. Somnium, obitus, quandiu imperaverit, 44. Domitiani et Titi fratrum comparatio, 43. Ducæ obitus, 131. Ducis bellici vires, 123.
E Eber, 10. Ecclesiæ Christi persecutio, 88. Edekel fluvius, 5. Edenis venustas, ibid. Edessa, 119. Equus Trojanus, 29. In urbem traducitur, 30. Equi hinnitu de imperio disceptata contentio, 19. Equorum certamen, 47. Eridis pomum, 53. Eva formata, 7. A Satana victa, ibid. Quam sustineat peccati pœnam, 8. Eudocia cum Ducæ filiis imperatrix, 131. Eudocia Theodosii conjux, 53. Ejusdem perjurium, et mors, 55. Eudoxia Arcadii conjux, 31. Stupratur, 32. Eugenius tyrannus, 50. Ejus mors, 51. Euphrates fluvius, 5, 119.
F Fabula de ægroto quodam, 40. Fames sub Nicephoro, 118. Faustuli pastoris conjux Lupa appellata, 35. Felicitate pauci uti norunt, 125. Femina castratæ, 18.
INDEX IN MANASSEM
A Festum donorum, 28. Origin of the four rivers in paradise, 5. Nature of the beaver, 94. What use the beaver's testicles have, ibid. Children depose their parent from the kingdom, 114. What the firmament is, and when it was created, 3. Unexpected vicissitude of fortune, 131. Fratricide, 8. Dissimilarity of brothers, 122.
[G] Galba, emperor, 48. Galerius and Constans, Caesars, 47. Gallus, Caesar, 49. The Ganges river, where it flows, 5. Gelimer, king of the Vandals, most cruel, 64. He is captured, 65. The Gihon river, 5. Germanus, patriarch, 86. The oxen of Geryon, 21. Gesem, a region of Arabia, given to Jacob, 20. Geta, 47. Gizerichus, king of the African Vandals, 58. He enters into a treaty with the captive Marcianus, 60. As king of Libya, he attacks the Roman enemy with gold, 53. He captures Rome, ibid. Glycerius, 53. The Goths invade Rome, 51. They lose it, 55. Gratianus is placed in charge of old Rome, 50. His response, his miserable death, ibid. The Greeks wage war against the Trojans, 23. Why they were delayed, 26. Saved from the plague, 27. Struck with fear, 28. They feigned departure, 29. The oath of the Greeks, 25. The plan to sack Troy, 26. Slaughter, 27. The disaster brought by the Trojans, 28. Gyges, minister of King Candaules, arrives at the kingdom after killing his master, 17. He castrated women, 18.
[H] Harmatius, 61. The punishment of the traitor Harmatius, ibid. Cyrus is handed over so that he may be killed, 16. Harpagus eats of his own son, who was set before him by Astyages, 17. Why the Hebrews were handed over into servitude to other nations, 23. The Hebrews weary God with prayers, 21. They seek the abolition of images, 86. They are afflicted under Pharaoh the king, 21. The infants of the Hebrews are ordered to be killed, ibid. The Hebrew nation is greatly increased in Egypt, ibid. Hector kills Patroclus, 28. The death of Hector, ibid. Whence Hector’s boldness was born, 27. Hecuba, daughter of Cisseus, 23. Her dream, ibid. Helen and Paris come into Egypt, 24. Helen, the wife of Menelaus, restored to him, 30. A son of the Romans, 114. Description of Helen, 24. Her abduction, ibid. Heraclius, dux of Africa, 75. Heraclius, emperor, ibid. He becomes a Monothelite, ibid. The excellent plan of Heraclius, and his successfully accomplished deeds, ibid. Conflict with Chosroes, 76. Heraclonas and his mother Martina rule, 78. Heraclius's son from his first wife, 75. Heraclone’s greed, 78. When herbs were created, and why, 2. Their use, ibid. Hercules abducting the oxen of Geryon, 31. Hercules and Iolaus, a pair of friends, 114. Hercules cuts off the heads of the Hydra, 68. Temple of Hercules in Egypt, 24. The severity of winter, 98. Jerusalem spoiled by Nabuchodonosor, 15. Levelled to the ground by the same, 18. The name of Jerusalem changed, 18. Hinderichus, king of the Vandals, 61. Hippodamea, wife of Achilles, 29. Homer did not keep the law of history in writing the Trojan War, 23. Described in the skin of a dragon, 88. Man created, 6. Why called Adam, ibid. The plans of men are vain, unless God assists, 78. Honesty (the honorable) is innate to all by nature, 83. Honorius, emperor, 51. Clock of Leo the Philosopher, 107. Humaneness must be tempered with severity, 65. Hypatius hailed as king, 66. Who the Hypatius of the Greeks is, 55.
[I] The Iberians, a people, 121. Ida, 23. Origin of idolatry and its punishment, 9. Envy, 11. Idomenus of Crete, 25. Ignatius, patriarch, chastises Bardas, 101. He is cast from the throne, ibid. His martyrdom, ibid. Custom, 108. Ilia, a vestal virgin, 32. Images abolished by Leo, a supporter of the Jews, 86. What a needy emperor is like, 107. The first Christian emperor, 48. How one should depart from an emperor, 15.
1498. Empire is desired by all, 63. That the empire is a thing to be venerated, 106. Violent empires are momentary, 61. Extreme wickedness of men, 9. That the wicked are not to be taxed, 101. When invisible things began to be perceived, 2. An example of incest, 104. Seventy-eight Indians, helpers to the Trojans, 28. The slaughter of the Indians, ibid. Truce between the Greeks and Trojans, ibid. Infants nursed by the she-wolf, 33. Domestic enmity, 133. What reward God is accustomed to give to the authors of injuries, 93. Safe innocence, 6. Nautical insolence, 84. Destruction of all created things, 9. Envy, 66, 115. How great an evil it is, 132. Envy is accustomed to accompany virtue, 54. The cause of envy, 8. Its effect, 26. Execration, 66. Irene, an ambitious woman, 90. She is cast from the empire, 92. The reign of Irene and Constantine VI, 90. Commendation of Irene, 89. Cruelty toward her son, 90. The Empress's profusion, 92. (On) Isaac Comnenus, 129. Isauria, 85, 60. Isdigerdes, king of the Persians, 52. The Ishmaelites, who are also the Saracens, capture Antioch, 115. Isocasius defends himself from injury with a wise response, 59. The number of Israelites departing from Egypt, 22. The Ister river reddens with the blood of the slain, 72. Whence Italy is called, 31. The island of Ithaca, 25.
[J] Jacob migrates into Egypt, 20. He is called Israel, ibid. Father of twelve children, 21. He dies, ibid. His family, 20. King Jechonias, 23. Jesus (Joshua) the son of Nave exterminated the Canaanites, 22. He is placed in charge of the Hebrews after Moses, ibid. Upon his death, judges were in charge of affairs, 23. John Zimisces, 115. He claims the empire for himself, 119. Joseph, prefect of King Pharaoh in Egypt, 20. Son of Rachel, ibid. His death, 21. Jovianus, designated emperor, 50. Judea defeated by Vespasian, 42. Prophecy of the Jews, 86. The Jewish destruction, 45. How long the judges were in charge of the Hebrews, 23. Admonition for judges before sentencing, 39. Julianus Caesar made emperor, 19. Father of Julian the Apostate, 18. His defection, ibid. L. Junius Brutus, 35. The justice of Noah, 9. An unconquered thing, 61. Justice does not sleep for long, 49. Justinian flees from the Chagan, 81. He recovers Byzantium, ibid. Justinian the Great, emperor, 64. Roman emperor, 65. Emperor Justinian lost his nose and his empire through his own madness, 79. Heresy of Justinian, 67. Monstrous attempt, 82. Slaughter, 83. Piety of Justin, 64. Comparison with a distinguished tree, 68. A distinguished saying, 69. Justin, emperor, 63. Justin II, emperor, a good man, 67.
[L] Lacapenus, 111. Laomedon, 23. Author of robberies, 8. What Laurentum is, 31. Leo I, emperor, 53. Leo II, emperor, 60. Leo IV made emperor, 89. He desires the same empire, 94. Whence he originated, 95. Leo VI, the Philosopher, emperor, 109. Leo born with a claw, 87. Pope Leo I, 91. He is restored, 92. Leo Phocas is despoiled of his eyes, 113. Enemy of images and monks, 86. The calamity of Leo is lamented by a little bird, 107. Exile of Pope Leo, 92. Life and morals of Emperor Leo III, 83. Leontius, an Athenian philosopher, 53. Law concerning the marriages of mothers and children, and the confusion of natural laws, 12. Why the tribe of Levi was exempt from the lot, 22. Complaint concerning degenerate children, 46. Sibylline books burned, 34. Libya hostile to the Romans, 55. Confusion of languages, 10. Separation of the liquid from the solid, 2. Lucius, colleague of Emperor Antoninus, defeated a larger army by art, 46. Gain often weighs men down, 59. Lucretia violated, 35.
A Lunæ sidus, 3. Lunæ usus, ibid. Lupa infantes alens, 33. Lux quando condita, 2.
M Magnes ferrum attrahit, 61. Magorum de Cyro error, 17. Major seu Majoranus, 52. Mali loquendi libertate destituuntur, 70. Mali omnibus sunt odio, 63. Malorum diuturnitas, 31. Mancipiorum apud Romanos nomen, ibid. Mandana Astyagis filia Cambysæ jungitur, 13, 16. Mandana Cyrum parit, ibid. Maniaces affectator imperii, 127. Manichæi hæretici, 64. Manna, 22. Manuel Comnenus, 52. Marcianus ab hoste captus, 58. Marcianus imp., 57. Marcius, 35. Marcius Ancus cur cognominatus, 51. Marcius e medio sublatus a Tarquinio, 35. Mare quando creatum, 2. Quid appellatum, ibid. Maris Rubri divisio, 22. Mariæ Magdalenæ Romam instituta profectio, 11. Martis sidus, 3. Martinus papa in exsilium relegatus, 78. Martina et Heraclonas imp., ibid. Martina Heraclii conjux, 75. Martyres septem dormientes, 56. Matris et filii dissidia, 90. Mauricii avaritia, 72. Mauricii pœnitentia, 73. Somnium, ibid. Mors, 74. Maximianus Herculius, 47. Maximus vir consularis, 51. Maximi uxor stuprata, ibid. Mecenas ut Augustum admonuerit, 58. Medi quo pacto monarchiam amiserint, 15. Medorum monarchia quando comperit, ibid. Medimnus frumenti aureo venditus, 118. Mediocritas, 83. Memnon, 28. Menelaus Alexandrum hospitio excipit, 24. Menelaus in Paridem bellum movet, 23. Menelai in patriam reditus, 31. Menelai nova profectio, ibid. Mensæ cum cibis absumptæ, 31. Mente quæ concipiamus, 133. Mercurii sidus, 3. Merodachus post Nabuchodonosorum Chaldæis imperat, 15. Mesrem Hebraica vox quid significet, 10. Mesremus, ibid. Methodius a Theophilo imp. cruciatus, 99. Patriarcha Theophanem castigat, 102. Methodius qua occasione ab exsilio revocatus, 100. Michael I et Balbus imp., 96. Michael III cognomento Temulentus, imperator, 101. Michael II ab adulatoribus corruptus, 103. Michael IV Paphlago imp., 123. Michael V imp. cæcatur, 125. Conviciis proscinditur, ibid. Michael VI militaris imper. imperium amittit, 129. Michael VII in monasterium intruditur, 133. Michael imperator imperium deponit, 94. Michael Rangabes imperator, ibid. Michael qui fibrum sit imitatus, ibid. Michaelis I profusiones, 103. Interitus, 105. Michaelis IV mores, 124. Michaelis V erga Zoen ingratitudo, 123. Michaelis Rangabæ imperatoris laudes, 94. Obitus, 97. Michaelis morbus, 124. Michaelis II Balbi imp. in imagines odium, 96. Michaelis VII studia imperatori non convenientia, 134. Midas ferarum ad Tigridem persecutor, 128. Mnesthus Atheniensis, 23. Monachi duodecim litterarum professores, 87. Monachi trucidantur, 88. Monarchia Romana, 56. Monasteriorum eversio, 88. Mors nulli parcit, 122. Mortis necessitas, 101. Mortalium natura unde aucta, 9. Mortalium a diluvio mores, 11. Mortalium consilia et conatus, 96. Mortalium varia in loca dispersio, 10. Moses ad liberandum populum mittitur, 21. Moses Pharaoni mandatum Dei exponit, ibid. Moses dux populi Israelitici, 22. Moses aquam excussit e saxo, ibid. Mosis mors, ibid. Mulieris probæ præconium, 97. Mundi alterius initium, 10. Munitionum origo, 8. Myzizius Siculus tyrannidem invadit, 79. Ejus mors, ibid. B
N Nabuchodonosor Hierosolymam et templum exussit, 23, Judæam bis evertit, 14. In porcum mutatus, 13. Omnes regii sanguinis captivos Babylonem transfert, 14. Post Senacheribum imperat, ibid. Se deum facit, 15. Narses a Phoca exustus, 74. Natura nemini parcit, 71. Nebrodus ubi habitarit, 10. Neoptolemus, 29. Nepos rex spoliatur, 60. Nepotianus, 52. Nero omnibus invisus, 42. Nero quando factus imperator, 41. Neronis amores fœdi, 42. Crudelitas, 41. Extremæ verba, 42. Neronis imitator Michael, 102. Nerva imp. quando factus, 44. Quandiu præfuerit imperio, ibid. Ejusdem de non castrandis hominibus interdictum, ibid. Ejus ingenium et mores, ibid. Innocentia, ibid. Mors, ibid. Nestor Pylius, 25. Nestoriani, 64. Nicæa capitur, 85. Nicephorus, 92. Nicephorus II Phocas imperator renuntiatur, 116. Insidiis circumventus uxoris occiditur, 136. Præfectos constituit, 136. Nicephorus generalis logothetes imp., 91. Nicephorus Phocas, 114. Nicephori avaritia, 118. Nicephori obitus, 94. Nicephori II animi impetus, 117. Vitia, ibid. Nicephori Phocæ res contra Saracenos gestæ, 115. Nicetas Michaeli filius castratur, 95. Nicolaus patriarcha, 109. Nilus argentifluus, 127. Nili termini, 6. Nineves conditor, 12. Ninyas, ibid. Noah, 9. Noah ex arca egressus, 10. Ejusdem filii, ibid. Nepotes, ibid. Ejus obedientia, ibid. Numas, 34. Numitor, 32. C
O Obsidionis Byzantinæ descriptio, 77. Odii fraterni causa, 8. Olybrius, 52. Oraculum Tarquiniis datum, 36. Oracula Sibyllæ, 34. Orestes, 52. Orestias, 106. Orestis facinus, 30. Organorum musicorum quæ flatu insonant origo et auctor, 98. Otho imperator, 42. Ozias Hebræor. rex, 14. D
P Pactolus auriferus, 127. Palamedes Græcis acceptus et gratus, 27. Palamedes lapidibus obrutus, ibid. Palamedis cædes, 26. Palamedis morituri querela, 27. Palatii oppidi nomen unde, 33. Palæstina per sortem Hebræis distributa, 22. Pantarbes lapis, 128. Pappias, 96. Paradisus a Deo consitus, 5. Ejus amœnitas, ibid. Parentum nostrorum vita qualis fuerit, 7. Parentum nostrorum transgressio, ibid. Parentibus primis præscripta lex, ibid. Paris apud Ægyptios probris afficitur, 24. Paridis adulterii occasio, ibid. Paridis et Helenæ in Ægyptum adventus, ibid. Facinus, 29. Paridi adempta a quo Helena, 23. Parius ager, 21. Parthi regnum Persicum occupant, 42. A quo repressi, ibid. Pastoriciæ origo, 8. Patrocli cædes, 28. Paulinus a Theodosio interfectus, 55. Pelei et Thetidis nuptiæ, ibid. Perithous et Theseus amici, 114. Persarum in regibus constituendis consuetudo, 18. Eorum imperium quot annis durarit, 19. Eorumdem adversus Julianum Apostatam expeditio, 49. Pertinax imp. quando creatus et interemptus, 46. Pestis Græcorum a Palamede præcognita, 27. Petronæ pœna, 99. Phaethon alter, 102. Pharao Dei mandatum contemnit, 21. Hebræorum infantes occidi jubet, ibid. Mari submersus est, 22. Pharaonum nomen Ægyptiorum principibus gloriosum, ibid. Philippicus Bardanes, 82. In imperatorem eligitur, 83. Excæcatur, 84. Phison fluvius, 5. Phocas seditionem inter milites concitat, 73. Imperator declaratur, 71. Contra eum conspiratio, ibid. Ejusdem exitus, 73. Phorad fluvius, 5.
A Photius, patriarch, 104. Cast out from the patriarchal throne, 405. Why he was restored to the patriarchate, 168. His version [in the margin], ibid. Piety does not respect the person, 62. Pinna, the crab, a proverb, 112. Placidia, sister of Honorius, 51. Placilla, wife of Theodosius, ibid. Golden plane tree forged by the Emperor Michael, 107. Punishment of him who has stolen others' goods, 70. They do not escape the punishment of evil, 81. Polyxena, 28. The apple, the source of the greatest misfortunes, 55. The fury of the seditious people, 126. Who are called Porphyrogeniti, 91. Portent, 57. Opinion of the afterlife, 133. Praetor appointed by Justin, 69. Prester, 117. Priam, leader of the Trojan race, 23. Priam’s dissimulation, 29. Prodigy, 56, 58. Prodigy of a human head, 34. A wondrous prodigy, 32. Prodigy which occurred while Constantinople was being founded, 48. Prodigies which followed the calamity of the Emperor Constantine VI, 91. Proteus, king of Egypt, 25. The speech of Proteus to Alexander, son of Priam, ibid. Proverb, 129, 130, 136. Proverb concerning the children of noble and splendid men, 37. On brothers with dissimilar characters, 43. Divine providence is impregnable, 61. Ptolemy, son of Lagus, ravaged Palestine, 20. Ptolemy Philadelphus, prince of the Egyptians, ibid. Pulcheria, wife of Theodosius the Younger, 53. An astute act of hers, 36. Empress, 57. Purple [imperial], 52. Pyrrhus, son of Achilles, 29.
R Ravenna, city, 51. Power abrogated from the Roman kings, 35. Reprehensions, what they appear to be to impious men, 104. Vicissitude of human affairs, 112. Desire for earthly things, 1. Rhodes, island, 25. Rehoboam, son of Solomon, 125. Rome, head of many nations, 35. Rome founded, 33. Reduced to the power of barbarian kings, 52. New Rome, 88. Rome had Romulus as its first and last king, 52. How it was torn away from Constantinople, 92. How long Rome lived under kings, 35. Rome, prince of cities, 65. The last Latin emperors of Rome, 52. Roman labors foretold, 52. How the name of Rome was given, 34. Inhabitants of the Roman state, ibid. Romanus Diogenes is captured by the Saracens, 133. Excluded by his own people, 134. Romanus III Argyropulus, Emperor, 125. Romanus IV Diogenes, Emperor, 151. Romanus loses the empire with his own men, 114. Romanus Lacapenus, Emperor, 113. He creates his sons and grandsons emperors, ibid. The astute counsel of the Romans, 113. Death of Romanus III, 123. Nature and character of Romanus IV, 132. Beginnings of the Roman empire, 30. Romans defeated by the Agarenes, 80. Romans slaughtered by the Africans, 58. Romans defeated in Libya, 60. Romans ruled far and wide, 20. Roman kings after Romulus, 34. Roman emperors called Caesars, 21. First king of the Romans, 34. Romulus and Remus saved by shepherds, 32. Romulus, lives, 52. Who succeeded Romulus in the Roman kingdom, 34. Various narratives concerning Romulus and Remus, 33. Types of roses, 3.
S Origin of sacrificing to God, 8. Sacrifice of swine, 31. Salamis, island, 25. Samuel the prophet, 23. St. George, 112. Santabarenus, 108. Sarah, wife of Abram, 11. Sardanapalus, king of the Assyrians, 13. When he lived, 12. His character and death, 13. Satan’s arts of deception, 7. Saturn despoiled of his kingdom by Jove, 114. Who Saturn was named, 12. Saturn's migration to Africa, ibid. Saturn's star, 3. Saul, son of Kish, 23. Scamander’s rivers purple with gore, 23. Scyros, island, 25. Scythians and Avars besiege Byzantium at the same time as the Persians, 77. Scythian solitude, a proverb, 82. Sedition of the citizens, 65. Sedition of the people, 125. Shem, son of Asshur, 10. Semiramis, 12. Incestuous marriage with her son, ibid. Sennacherib, king of the Chaldaeans, Assyrians, Babylonians, and Medes, 14. Undertakes an expedition against Judaea, ibid. Impious toward God, ibid. His numerous army struck down by an angel, ibid. Senators removed from the midst, 61. Seven men create a king for the Persians, 19. Seraphim, 67. The Word of God, 2. Efficacy of the Word of God, 5. A snake in one's bosom, proverb, 125. Serug, author of idolatry, 11. Servius Tullius, 34. Sesostris, king of the Egyptians, undertakes an expedition into Asia, 12. Example of severity, 69. Severus, African emperor, 46. How long he reigned, 47. His end, ibid. Uncertain end of the Sibyl, 31. Books of the Sibylline oracles burned, 34. Fertile Sicily, 78. Creation of the stars, 3. Images, ibid. Creation of the great stars, ibid. When the opposition to idols flourished, 95. Where emerald is found, 5. Smerdis, son of Cyrus, 18. Smerdis and Spathines, magi, occupy the kingdom after the death of Cambyses, ibid. They are slaughtered, 19. When the sun first shone, 3. Its star, utility, and excellent use, ibid. Detriments of the first sleep, 7. Sophia, wife of Justin, 70. Her munificence, ibid. Hope, 59. Stauracius, designated emperor, is extinguished, 94. Creation of the stars, 3. Martyrdom of Stephen, a holy man, 89. Military stratagem, 76. Who were the proud among the Romans, 34. Synod celebrated for the sake of images, 101. Synod under Constantine IV, 79. Syrians infest the Roman empire, 121. Duke of Syria after the death of Alexander, 20.
T Tantanes, king of the Indians, 28. Tarquinius (L.), 35. When Tarquinius reigned, 34. Whence he was called "the Proud" [Superbus], ibid. Tarquinius' sons sent to the oracle at Delphi, 35. Tarquinius' envy, 25. Tarquinius defeated by Brutus, 56. Oracle given to the Tarquinii, ibid. Tauroscythian peoples, 121. Tauroscythians invade the Romans, 77. Their exile, ibid. Mount Taurus, ibid. The earth devoid of adornment, 2. Temple of the Apostles founded by Theodora, 67. Tenedos, island, 29. Terebinth, 117. The earth spat out the body of the dead Julian, 49. The earth again seen after the flood, 10. What it is called, 2. When the earth was founded, and by whom, ibid. When the water was first separated and seen, ibid. Borders of Havilah, 5. When the ornaments of the earth were added, 2. Description of the earth's adornment, 3. Continuous earthquakes, in the reign of Theodore, 56. Theodore, desirous of ruling, is frustrated in his hope, 63. Theodora, empress, recalls the veneration of images, 101. Empress Theodora, 128. Theodora, wife of Justinian, 67. Praises of Theodora Augusta, 97. Theodore, idolater, ibid. Theodosius, son of Arcadius and Eudoxia, is placed on the throne of the Eastern empire, 51. Theodosius the Younger, 52. Theodosius, emperor, an excellent man, 50. Theodosius III, tax collector, is raised to the empire, 84. He cedes the empire, 85. Theodosius' wife, Athenais, 54. Rashness of Theodosius in his subscriptions, 53. Death of Theodosius, 57. Plots laid for Theodosius the Younger, 52. Theophanes, 97. Theophano reigns with her children, 115. Theophilus, emperor, 97. Enemy of images and idols, ibid. Theophilus, emperor, burns his wife's mercenary ship, 99. Theophilus, emperor, compared to the sea, 98. Theophilus repairs the walls, ibid. Theophilus' zeal for justice, ibid. Theophilus' virtues and character, 97. Thomas aspires to the empire, 96. Thomas falls into the power of the enemy, ibid. Duke of Thrace after the death of Alexander, 20. Nature of the Thynni, a marine fish, 91. Tiberius, emperor, when he came to the empire,
41. What Tiberius was like toward tax collectors, 40. Tiberius, while putting a consular and noble man to death without cause, 41. Tiberius II, emperor, 71. Tiberius's saying concerning publicans, 40. The cruelty of Tiberius, ibid. The death of Tiberius the son of Justinian, 83. The praises of Tiberius II, 71. His death, ibid. The security of Tiberius, 40. Various customs, ibid. What took place while Tiberius was reigning, 41. The Tigris river, 5. Where it flows, 6. How fear should be banished by powerful men, 110. Titus, emperor, designated by his father, 42. How long he reigned, 43. Sole emperor, 42. The death of the emperor Titus, 43. A famous saying, ibid. The rebellion of Tornicius, 128. Trajan, emperor, 44. He hands a drawn sword to the urban prefect, ibid. How long he reigned over the empire, 45. The character and customs of Trajan, 44. His death, 45. The virtues of Trajan, 44. Trajan's successor in the empire, 58. Triptolemus the Rhodian, 25. Troy is captured, 30. Troy, abounding in treasures, 26. What the destruction of Troy would be like was predicted, 29. Why the Greeks invaded Troy, 26. The number of the inhabitants of the Trojan city, ibid. The Trojans ask for help from the Jews, 28. How the Trojans acquitted themselves, 26. What allies the Trojans joined to themselves, ibid. The spirits of the Trojans aroused by the contention of the opposing party, 26. Tullius, king of the Romans, 34. Tullus, ibid. The author of the building of the Tower of Babylon, 10. Tyndareus, the father of Helen, 25. Tyrants reigning at the same time vanquished, 48. U Ulysses of Ithaca, 25. Ulysses' implacable hatred toward Palamedes, 26. Ulysses' plans hindered, ibid. Ulysses' ambushes and crafty counsels, 27. Ulysses' envy, ibid. The beginning of all things, 2. The Huns as allies of Sesostris, king of the Egyptians, 12. The nation of the Huns changes its name, ibid. Uranopolis, 111. V The end of Valens the emperor, 50. His impiety, ibid. Valentinian, the father of Gratian, ibid. Valentinian II, emperor, ibid. Valentinian, Valens, and Gratian, emperors, ibid. The death of Valentinian III, emperor, 51. The virtues of Valentinian, 50. The death of Valentinian II, ibid. The star of Venus, 4. Verina, the wife of Leo, 59. Unhappy truth, 27. Vespasian, while aedile, treated unjustly by Caligula, 41. When and by whom Vespasian was made emperor, 42. How long he reigned, ibid. The vicissitudes of things, 112. The kinds of violets, 5. The laws of the Vestal Virgins, 32. Virtue implanted in all by nature, 53. Virtue venerable to all, 59. Envy is the companion of virtue, 53. The names of the virtues, 120. A nocturnal vision of the sacristan of Saint Diomedes in Constantinople, 106. Human life is exposed to various chances, 54. The life of Emperor Leo is predicted to be longer, 109. The life of mortals is uncertain, 127. The most precious life of things, 61. What the inconstancy of mortal life is wont to effect, 93. Vitellius, emperor, 42. The rise and origin of birds, 4. X Xerxes, king of the Persians, 127. He lost his army in Greece, 19. Z Zeno, emperor, 60. He loses the Roman Empire, ibid. Zeno the patrician, ibid. Zeno's perverse opinion or sentiment in religion, ibid. The deeds of Tzimisces, 119. An example proposed to kings in Tzimisces, 120. Zoe and Theodora sent into exile, 125. Zoe, wife of Romanus II, 123. The marriage of Queen Zoe, 126.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
NICEPHORUS BRYENNIUS. Notice. 9 Dedicatory Epistle. 9 Preface of Petrus Possinus. 15 Testimony of the Ancients. 18 FOUR BOOKS OF HISTORIES. 19 Arguments of the books. 19 Preface of the author. 23 Book I. 39 Book II. 91 Book III. 143 Book IV. 171
CONSTANTINUS MANASSES. Notice. 215 Dedication of the work. 215 Notice to the reader. 218 CHRONICLE COMPENDIUM from the beginning of the world until Lord Nicephorus Botaniates. 219
NICOLAUS PATRIARCH OF CP. Notice. 471 Synodal Epistle. 473 Synodal Decrees. 473 On the payment of canons. (These three things only are mentioned.) 473
LUCAS ABBAS CRYPTOFERRATENSIS VII. Notice by Angelo Mai. 474 LIFE AND CONVERSATION OF ST. BARTHOLOMEW THE YOUNGER. 475 Eulogy of St. Bartholomew. 505
NICON RAITHENSIS MONACHUS. Notice. 511 BOOK ON DIVINE PRECEPTS. 511 Prologue of this work. 514 Interpretations of divine works, which only remain. 515 ON THE FAST OF THE THEOTOKOS. 515
ANASTASIUS ARCHBISHOP OF CAESAREA. Notice. 518 AGAINST THE FALSE RELIGION OF THE ARMENIANS. ON THE FAST OF THE MOST GLORIOUS THEOTOKOS.
NICETAS SERRONIUS. Notice. 531 Editor's Notice. 532 COMMENTARY on the Orations of St. Gregory Nazianzen. 543 and 1177 ff. Responses to Constantine the Bishop. 543
JACOBUS MONACHUS COCCINOBAPHI. ENCOMIASTIC ORATIONS ON THE HOLY VIRGIN THEOTOKOS. 543 ORATION I. — On the Conception. 543 ORATION II. — On the Nativity. 567 ORATION III. — On the Presentation. 599 ORATION IV. — On the Annunciation. 651 ORATION V. — On the Visitation. 659 ORATION VI. — On the Betrothal. 698
PHILIPPUS SOLITARIUS. Editor's Notice. 702 DIOPTRA OR RULE OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE. 703 Preface of Jacobus Pontanus. 703 Preface of Michael Psellus. 707 Preface of Phialites. 708 Dedicatory Epistle of the author. 709 Book I. 709 A CHAPTER I. — It is clearly demonstrated that faith lacking works profits nothing. 709 CHAPTER II. — What divine commands, or good works, should be considered more excellent. 712 CHAPTER III. — All things done by us according to the commandment of God, if without charity, are cold. 714 CHAPTER IV. — The immense charity of the Apostle Paul toward God and neighbor. 716 CHAPTER V. — He who bears encroaching temptations and afflictions with a grateful mind shall receive a reward. He who bears them unwillingly shall receive none. The fourfold scope of temptations. 717 CHAPTER VI. — He who for Christ’s sake bears small and few tribulations gratefully and completely, will be equal to those who have suffered much. 742 CHAPTER VII. — Those who abound in many good works and upright deeds, will not by the divine will and judgment precede others whose deeds are numbered as small and few. 727 CHAPTER VIII. — An exhortation to penance. The accusation of the devil against the wicked before the tribunal of Christ the Judge. 730 CHAPTER IX. — That small negligence and sloth are not the cause of small evils, shown from the history of Levi from the Book of Judges. 732 CHAPTER X. — That those who lead their lives remissly and in sins depart from human affairs harshly and violently. The opposite happens to those who, having turned their mind and thought to heavenly things, change their ways of living for the better. 737 CHAPTER XI. — He who has not confessed his sins here cannot be saved by any other way. Why the keys were handed to Peter before the others. What penance is. Things much to be noted which are discussed here concerning sacred confession. 741 CHAPTER XII. — Examples of Manasseh and David as penitents, and having obtained salvation. 749 CHAPTER XIII. — On conceiving the hope of divine mercy through penance and humility. 750 CHAPTER XIV. — A description of humility from its effects. 752 CHAPTER XV. — An epilogue, with thanksgiving to the Holy Trinity. 753 Book II. 753 CHAPTER I. — The vice and contumacy of the flesh are reproached by the soul. That from those things which the soul does and works through the body, one may know what it is and how great it is. 753 CHAPTER II. — That unless the limbs and members of the body grow, the functions of the soul do not appear; and if any member has perished or been vitiated, the soul does nothing according to that part. In what part of the body the soul or mind is to be thought to dwell. That soul and body were created for each other. 758 CHAPTER III. — That when the body is dissolved by the death-fate, the soul is by no means dissolved and extinguished, confirmed by Plato’s argument. 762 CHAPTER IV. — Why the world was created before man, and the body before the soul. The nobility of the one, the vileness of the other. 764 CHAPTER V. — Which of the first parents, and which part of the soul, sinned more. The detestation of pride, whose author and origin is Lucifer. 764 CHAPTER VI. — That the soul rather than the body paid penalties for the sin of the first parents. In what way the body of each has been miserably changed. That death seems a light and beneficial penalty. That the soul departing from here will dwell either well or ill. 769 CHAPTER VII. — What it signifies to be made to the image and likeness; and that we are more truly men according to the soul. Concerning the incredible speed of souls. 769 CHAPTER VIII. — That the body of Adam was created neither subject to destruction, nor apart from it. 772 CHAPTER IX. — Into what regions souls depart from this light. 772 CHAPTER X. — Concerning the resurrection of men on that supreme day, and what kind of bodies both the blessed and the damned will have then. 774
A Cap. XI. — Whether Christ, by his descent into the underworld, snatched all souls from thence. 777 Cap. XII. — A passage from St. John of Damascus regarding those whom Christ liberated from the underworld. 781 Cap. XIII. — By what manner each soul will recognize its own body as it rises from the dead. 782 Cap. XIV. — That all men will generally recognize one another until some are separated to the right and others to the left of the Judge. Afterward, the just will do so for all eternity; but sinners will recognize each other no more. 783 Cap. XV. — On the great and last day, the entire creation will be changed to a more elegant form and to incorruptibility, and in like manner human bodies and souls will be changed for the better, and their two parts (in which, namely, the power of irascibility and concupiscence resides) will cease to be. The *tò kat’ eikóna* (that which is according to the image) is compared with the archetype. 785 Cap. XVI. — A passage from St. Gregory of Nyssa concerning the tripartite soul, from the disputation on the soul and resurrection held with his sister Macrina. 789 B Cap. XVII. — A fuller dissertation concerning the resurrection from the same *Macrine* discourses of Gregory of Nyssa, as our author calls them. An exhortation to delve into the sacred books, and thanksgiving to the most holy Trinity. 795
Book Three. 795 CAPUT PRIMUM. — That the mind commits many things wrongly without the body, and that there is no function of the body with the soul alone without the mind. That the just soul, once led forth from this prison, praises the Lord together with the angels, forgetful of the affairs of this life: while the sinful soul in the underworld remembers its crimes. 795 Cap. II. — That angels celebrate divine praises without a corporeal instrument. That they consist of three times three orders. What the hymn of each triad is like. 799 Cap. III. — That human nature surpasses the angels in dignity for two reasons above all: that it is the spouse and queen of Christ. How greatly the Spouse has honored her in heaven. 800 Cap. IV. — How long and how zealously the Son of God sought a spouse for himself: with what ornaments he adorned her, demonstrated by an elegant parable. 803 Cap. V. — The conjunction of human nature with the divine, declared by a certain comparison with an exaggeration of such a great benefit. 804 Cap. VI. — That every creature of every kind will be new in the age we expect. That Paradise, the ancient habitation of Adam, will be no more after the judgment has been performed. 806 Cap. VII. — The passage of Blessed Paul to the Romans: *For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God*, and what follows, explained almost entirely by St. John Chrysostom. That the state of the blessed body is not perfectly known in this life. 809 C Cap. VIII. — That the end of the world is uncertain: upon this, the prophecies and conjectures of many. The opinion of Gregory of Nazianzus. 812 Cap. IX. — Concerning the precursors of the second coming of Christ. Concerning the signs, wondrous works, and the rise of Antichrist. 814 Cap. X. — The prophecy of the patriarch Jacob concerning Antichrist explained; his character, and the calamities and miseries of those last times. 815 Cap. XI. — Further concerning the wicked deeds of Antichrist, and why God will permit him to live and rage. 819 Cap. XII. — An incitement to the perpetual consideration of death. The praise and adoration of the holy Trinity. 820
Book Four. 821 CAPUT PRIMUM. — Why God created all the heavenly and intelligent substances first and at once: yet continues to produce inferior ones endowed with the power of understanding (such as the souls of men) one by one. The affinity of souls with the blessed minds and God, and their immortality. 821 Cap. II. — That souls are entirely devoid of corporeal accidents and, according to substance, vary by no distinction. That in the resurrection there will be no difference of the blessed bodies or souls, but rather of glory and rewards. 823 Cap. III. — The wonderful and manifold discrepancy among men, both from the soul and morals, and from the body and the senses. That the body of every individual consists equally of four elements. 824 Cap. IV. — The twofold world, superior and inferior. That man is a participant of both. The two qualities of each element. Which humors correspond to which element on account of similar qualities: in what way the same seasons of the year agree with those same elements and four humors. By what reason D the cause of the aforementioned variety of qualities and humors is owed to the temperament in the human body. Paradigms for illustrating the matter. 825 Cap. V. — In the human voice there is the highest variety and dissimilarity, put before the eyes by a certain comparison to a lyre or musical instrument. 831 Cap. VI. — Although man is led toward vices on account of his temperament, he can nevertheless correct himself, if he wishes, with God’s assistance. That some works are above the course and order of nature. What must be done by those desiring the benefits of God. 833 Cap. VII. — The various inconveniences and miseries of the human body are enumerated. The origin is inquired into from the constitution, on account of which there is a copious prior disputation concerning the four humors, the principle of generation, and the four ages and seasons of the year. 838 Cap. VIII. — Intending to explain the cause of the vices of the body, he is carried off to another subject, and teaches why God did not create man simple, as the angels. Then he attacks the ravings of the Manichaeans. 840 Cap. IX. — Concerning the providence of God in the creation of the world, and why He did not make man immutable and immortal. 842 Cap. X. — Finally, he ascribes the cause of monstrous births and those marked by some deformity to the incontinence of the parents. He demonstrates that in these very births there is a utility for correcting the morals of men. 844 Cap. XI. — How the devil sows tares in our souls, and with what weapons he is to be resisted. Why God does not allow the tares to be uprooted from here. 846 Cap. XII. — Concerning the four cardinal virtues and the opposing vices. Also many things concerning the perturbations of the soul, which are and by which virtues they are tamed. 848 Cap. XIII. — Who is to be called carnal, who animal, and who spiritual. That only that is good which proceeds from free will, and that it merits praise and reward. 851 Cap. XIV. — How God fashioned man as communicating with all creatures; how the same contains the image of the Trinity. 855 Cap. XV. — That the heart is soul, although it is incorporeal, yet it clings to corporeal and perishable things. Whence the war within it. Who is the peacemaker. The functions of the four cardinal virtues. When the grace of the Holy Spirit assists men. 857 Cap. XVI. — The primary origin of the war between body and soul. That the devil’s attacks happen to us for our salvation. Of what things outside the body the soul is mindful. How it praises God without the body. In what way blessed spirits deprived of bodies are affected, and have senses without senses. Concerning the increase of the happiness of souls at the second coming of Christ. 860 Cap. XVII. — That Christ did not enter that terrestrial paradise with the thief, nor did any souls of the saints enter it after his resurrection. 866 Cap. XVIII. — A recapitulation of the things treated in the fourth book. 867 Cap. XIX. — That I have not approached writing by my own authority, but by another’s. That all our actions depend on God. The books of both Testaments. Diverse writings of the Holy Fathers. How writers have need of divine aid. From whence he has proceeded. A summary of things taken from the doctors. 868 Cap. XX. — A tearful lamentation and complaint against the soul. Many things concerning the vanities of the world. Concerning the final judgment and the last hour of life. Tropical considerations concerning the heavenly paradise and the infernal regions. 871 Fragment. Concerning the way in which we celebrate the third, ninth, and fortieth days. 878 A treatise concerning the affairs of Armenia. 879 Concerning the heresy of the Jacobites and the Chatzitzarians. 879 A discourse of the Jacobites. 883 A narrative of St. Gregory concerning those who were his successors in order, or of his see, etc. 886 The Catholics of Armenia. 899 Armenian kings from Balare and up to Tase, and thereafter dukes. 903 JOB MONACHUS. THE LIFE OF ST. THEODORA THE QUEEN. PETRUS CHRYSOLANUS. Notice 909. ORATION ON THE HOLY SPIRIT 913. ALEXIUS COMNENUS EMPEROR. NOVEL CONSTITUTIONS WHICH PERTAIN TO ECCLESIASTICAL MATTERS.
I. — The Golden Bull which grants to the mother full power of administration of the empire. 922 II. — Concerning holy vessels and that they should not be converted to profane use at any time henceforth. 922 III. — Constitution concerning the metropolis of Lacedaemon. 926 IV. — Novel concerning the metropolis of Attalia. 926 V. — Concerning the canon and customs which are given under the name of ordination, and concerning the blessing of marriages, and concerning the airy [realm], and all things pertaining to the soul, a sanction of the Golden Bull. 926 VI. — Golden Bull granted to the Great Church concerning various chapters, and that the bishop, who may be decorated with the dignity of an archbishopric or metropolis, should remain intact. 927 VII. — Novel constitution concerning bishops promoted to a higher throne. 930 VIII. — Golden Bull, by which possession of Cephalonia Mesolimni is granted to Master Leo. 931 IX. — [Golden Bull, by which] Patmos is granted to the monastery to be founded there. 931 X. — [Missing title] 959 XI. — Golden Bull granted to the Venetians. 959 XII. — Constitution concerning those who are nominated to Oriental Churches. 939 XIII. — Rescript to the Patriarch Nicholas. 942 XIV. — Golden Bull granted to the Pisans. 942 XV. — Novel constitution concerning the right of the patriarch regarding monasteries. 942 XVI. — Novel law sanctioning regarding elections, and what sort of persons those should be who are pontiffs throughout the world, and likewise priests, in the provinces, metropolises, and bishoprics. 946 XVII. — Decree in the case of Eustratius, bishop of Nicaea. 967 XVIII. — Two decrees concerning the possessions of the Dochiariou monastery. 967 XIX. — Novel constitutions concerning the monastery of Mount Athos. 967 XX. — Concerning the chartulary, and that those who are worthy should be preferred in elections. 967 XXI. — Novel constitution concerning the bishopric of Soterinou. 971 XXII. — Acts of a certain synod convened at Constantinople under Alexios Komnenos, in order that the offense might be removed. Epistle written by Leo, Metropolitan of Chalcedon, to Nicholas, Bishop of Adrianople. 971
IRENE AUGUSTA. TYPIKON OR RULE. 986 Prologue of the translator. 986 Index of the chapters and titles of the work. 986 Preface of the author. 991
CAPUT PRIMUM. — That the monastery of the Mother of God, Full of Grace, ought to be free and under its own jurisdiction. 1002 Cap. II. — That those who lead a monastic life in the monastery of the Full of Grace ought to embrace the cenobitic institution. 1003 Cap. III. — What has been ordained concerning the patronage of the monastery; and that whatever I shall ordain in my testament concerning the monastery ought to obtain, as well as the present Typikon, which is likewise never to be changed or varied. 1006 Cap. IV. — How our nieces, who it may happen are to be tonsured, ought to conduct themselves in the monastery, and to whom it is permitted to dwell in it, and also those who, coming to this monastery from a more illustrious and splendid life, are tonsured in it. 1007 Cap. V. — Concerning the number of nuns. 1011 Cap. VI. — That all the nuns ought to live in one house. 1014 Cap. VII. — That those who it may happen are to be tonsured should be tonsured free of charge, and when that which is offered is to be received. 1014 Cap. VIII. — That goods—movable or immovable—consecrated to the monastery of the Full of Grace by laypeople with a pious purpose are to be admitted. 1015 Cap. IX. — That those things which are assigned to the monastery, whether movable or immovable, should never be alienated. 1015 Cap. X. — When movable property of the monastery may be alienated. 1018 Cap. XI. — How the superioress is to be chosen and appointed. 1018 Cap. XII. — That the election and appointment of the superioress and officials ought to be made without partiality. 1022 Cap. XIII. — Concerning the removal of her who discharges the office of superioress otherwise than is meet. 1023 Cap. XIV. — That the steward in the monastery ought to be a eunuch and of honest life. 1026
Cap. XV. — Concerning the priests. 1030 Cap. XVI. — That all nuns ought to be under one spiritual Father. 1030 Cap. XVII. — By what reasoning those who come to the monastery ought to address the nuns, and who, and when. 1030 Cap. XVIII. — By whom the appointment of officials ought to be done, and how. 1031 Cap. XIX. — Concerning the skeuophylakissa, or keeper of the vessels. 1035 Cap. XX. — Concerning the ecclesiarchissa, or person set over the church. 1038 Cap. XXI. — Concerning the official who receives and spends what is necessary for food; and that these things must be committed to writing by her. 1038 Cap. XXII. — Concerning the keeper of the wine. 1038 Cap. XXIII. — Concerning the horrearia (granary keeper). 1039 Cap. XXIV. — Concerning the office of the depositaries. 1039 Cap. XXV. — Concerning the refectoraria, and her office. 1042 Cap. XXVI. — Concerning the institution of the epistemonarchissa, or provost of discipline, and her office. 1043 Cap. XXVII. — Concerning the overseers of works. 1046 Cap. XXVIII. — Concerning the depositaries of the vestry. 1046 Cap. XXIX. — Concerning the ostiaria (doorkeeper). 1046 Cap. XXX. — How long she who comes from the outside and is to be tonsured ought to wait in the monastery. 1047 Cap. XXXI. — Who are those to be sent to care for the monastery’s farms. 1050 Cap. XXXII. — Concerning the office of the first, third, and sixth hours. 1050 Cap. XXXIII. — Concerning the mesoria, or middle hours of the first, third, and sixth hours, concerning the typika, concerning the holy Liturgy, and concerning holy communion. 1054 Cap. XXXIV. — How many loaves are to be offered in each Liturgy, and for whom. 1055 Cap. XXXV. — Concerning the ninth hour, vespers, and the pannychis, or vigil. 1056 Cap. XXXVI. — Concerning the Apodeipnon, or Compline. 1058 Cap. XXXVII. — Concerning the Office of the middle of the night. 1058 Cap. XXXVIII. — Concerning the night Office. 1058 Cap. XXXIX. — Concerning the beginning of Matins. 1058 Cap. XL. — Concerning the calling to the table, and the discipline to be maintained there. 1059 Cap. XLI. — What is to be done if anyone has behaved herself unseemly in the refectory. 1062 Cap. XLII. — What is to be done if anyone has disputed about the place of precedence. 1062 Cap. XLIII. — That nothing ought to be requested from one another. 1062 Cap. XLIV. — That those who are well cannot decline the common table, and concerning the infirm. 1063 Cap. XLV. — That a second meal ought to be made. 1063 Cap. XLVI. — Concerning the diet on the days of litanies or processions. 1063 Cap. XLVII. — Concerning the diet in the Great Lent. 1066 Cap. XLVIII. — Concerning the diet in the Lent of the Holy Apostles and of the Nativity of Christ. 1070 Cap. XLIX. — That one must not eat in secret. 1071 Cap. L. — Concerning poverty. 1071 Cap. LI. — That nuns ought not to lose heart on account of the precepts of the cenobitic institution of the Typikon. 1071 Cap. LII. — That all the expenses of the nuns ought to be made from the revenues of the monastery. 1073 Cap. LIII. — That exomonitides, or outside nuns, or dismissed ones, are not to be received in the monastery. 1074 Cap. LIV. — That exocurities, or those tonsured outside the monastery who are endowed with virtue, are to be admitted; unless they have used the power of an emperor or some magnate. 1075 Cap. LV. — That the cenobitic institution is never to be changed. 1075 Cap. LVI. — That the food, drink, and clothing of all nuns ought to be the same, except for the infirm. 1078 Cap. LVII. — Concerning the access of the doctor to the monastery, and the care of the infirm. 1078 Cap. LVIII. — Concerning the bath. 1079 Cap. LIX. — Concerning the solemnity of the Dormition of the Mother of God. 1079 Cap. LX. — Concerning the solemnity of the Nativity of the Mother of God. 1079 Cap. LXI. — Concerning the feast of the Nativity of Christ. 1082 Cap. LXII. — Concerning the feast of the Meeting, or Purification. 1082 Cap. LXIII. — Concerning the lights of the holy Passion. 1082 Cap. LXIV. — That alms ought to be given daily at the door. 1082
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
Cap. LXV. — That the Typicon ought to be read to all who are listening every month. 1083 Cap. LXVI. — Concerning the daily lighting of the divine temple. 1083 Cap. LXVII. — Concerning the bowls (craters) suspended in the circle of the dome, and concerning the relics. 1083 Cap. LXVIII. — Concerning the lighting of the wax candles. 1083 Cap. LXIX. — Concerning water. 1085 Cap. LXX. — Concerning the sepulcher of the nuns. 1086 Cap. LXXI. — Concerning the various commemorations to be performed throughout the year. 1090 Cap. LXXII. — Concerning the washing of the feet (lavipedium) which ought to be performed on Holy and Great Thursday. 1095 Cap. LXXIII. — That no changes should be made to the buildings of the monastery. 1098 Cap. LXXIV. — That the monastery must not be exposed to the eyes of outsiders in any way. 1099 Cap. LXXV. — That chanters are not to be called in for any solemnity, but that the monastery should be inaccessible to them as well. 1102 Cap. LXXVI. — How and where our daughters and granddaughters who wish to be buried in the monastery are to be buried, and in what manner their commemorations ought to be performed. 1102 Cap. LXXVII. — Concerning the number of registers (breviculorum) and typica of the venerable monastery of Grace-Full (Gratia-Plena), and where each of them is to be stored. 1103 Cap. LXXVIII. — Admonitory exhortation to the nuns. 1103 Cap. LXXIX. — Concerning the more sumptuous buildings recently constructed in the monastery by my majesty. 1107 Cap. LXXX. — Concerning those matters which ought to have inspection of the monastery. 1115 Concerning the precinct of the monastery. 1118 Various tables. 1122
ELIAS ECDICUS Notitia. 1127 ANTHOLOGIUM GNOMICUM. 1130 SENTENTIÆ GNOSTICÆ. 1117 Addenda. 1477
EXPOSITION BY NICETAS on the Orations of St. Gregory of Nazianzus. 1177 Exposition on Oration XXXVIII. 1177 Exposition on Oration XXXIX. 1212 Exposition on Oration XL. 1144 Exposition on Oration XLI. 1301 Exposition on Oration XLII. 1301 Exposition on Oration XLIII. 1410 Exposition on Oration XLIV. 1472
NICEPHORUS BOTANIATA GOLDEN BULL. 1481
NICETAS SEIDUS Notitia. 1483 ON PASCHA. 1486 Index to Nicephorus Bryennius. 1487 Index to Manasses. 1491
END OF THE HUNDRED TWENTY-SEVENTH VOLUME.
Paris. — From the Presses of J.-P. MIGNE.