[by the] most holy and most divine patriarch Arsenius, as having usurped with guile the authority of the empire from the son of Theodore Lascaris. Therefore, does the divine head of the martyr work such miracles unceasingly, granting healings for all kinds of afflictions: for pains of the head and bodily ailments, for burning fevers and rigors... A The discourse shall now proclaim three of his miracles, those of old and those of the present, but the rest I will leave aside willingly. Emperor Manuel the Porphyrogenitus... [concerning] this catholic church, whether he raised its church and city from a patriarchal archbishopric to a metropolis in a proper manner. The grand duke Alexios was one of the Apokaukoi and superior of his lineage. In the place of the Ammoi, where the saint has completed his martyrial course, it is still preserved and beheld. And a short while ago, the emperor John Palaiologos, excellent in all things, was freed from illness when he had caused the head of the martyr to be brought to him.
ADDENDA
(Col. 825.)PRIVILEGE OF PHILOTHEUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE, FOR THE BISHOP OF HIERISSOS
He confirms his episcopal rights on the Holy Mountain.
(Ralli, Canonum collectio, V, 151.)Philotheus, by the mercy of God, archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and ecumenical patriarch.
On the third day of the month of April, in the sixth indiction, our humility presiding in the right-hand catechumena of the most holy Great Church of God, with the illustrious archbishops—of Caesarea, of Cyzicus, by the opinion [given] to our humility, of Chalcedon, of Bizye, and of Brusa—sitting with us, there were brought the documents and letters of the most beloved of God, the bishop of Hierissos and the Holy Mountain, setting forth how he is finding temptations and vexations from the most holy Protos of the venerable monasteries on the Holy Mountain, B who is presuming to hold some of his episcopal rights. For he says, he wishes to introduce into the Holy Mountain those ordained by the Serbs; and he has expelled him from his cathedra in Karyes, prohibiting him from carrying his pastoral staff there, from officiating, and from having the bishop commemorated before the Protos—but rather the opposite—and, furthermore, [prohibiting him] from even entering into the Holy Mountain at all without his invitation and permission, and from performing ordinations. Having brought all these things in writing, the most beloved of God, the bishop of Hierissos and the Holy Mountain, besought our humility to find help from it, so that these things might be corrected and he might have his rights. Our humility, having examined these matters with the holy and great synod of the venerable bishops, declared in accordance with the decree of the holy and ecumenical council of Chalcedon, which states in its eighth canon, word for word: "The clergy of hostels and monasteries, under the jurisdiction of each individual..."
A bishop, must remain according to the tradition of the holy Fathers, and not insolently revolt against the bishop; but those who dare to overthrow such an ordinance, if they are clergy, let them be subject to the penalties of the canons, but if they are monastics or laymen, let them be excommunicated." The aforementioned most God-beloved bishop in the Holy Mountain also possesses all his episcopal rights, just as all bishops have in their own B Churches, and he shall exercise these without hindrance, finding no obstruction or inquiry from anyone on the Holy Mountain. Instead, he shall perform all these things as a genuine high priest of the Holy Mountain according to the arrangement of the sacred canons, and as our humility knows, such things being done there, having spent a long time there and knowing these things well. Hence, it is also synodically commanded that he enter the Holy C Mountain freely, whenever he wishes, as his own diocese, and perform sacred rites in it where and when he wishes, and hold the pastoral staff, as in all this, so also in Karyes, and that he be commemorated first, then the Protos, and that he also have his seat in Karyes, if every high priest of the Holy Mountain has had this from of old. Ordinations are to take place as is customary: those to be ordained in the great monasteries are to be chosen by their abbots and the rest of the priests, and examined and testified to by them, and thus ordained by the bishop; but those in the outer hermitages and cells are also to be ordained by him with the knowledge of the Protos. And, simply, he also is to perform every episcopal act without hindrance in the entire Holy Mountain, and not be examined D either by the Protos or by any other person. As for those ordained by the Serbs, our humility commands by this present sigilliod letter that none of the Athonites receive them for the present, until the envoys sent by us there return, so that we may know whether they have been united and are obedient to the most holy great Church of God among us, and then what is proper shall be done. Therefore, all these things must be done according to this present command of our humility. And so that no one may find in him any hindrance or inquiry, but he may do everything without hindrance, this [decree] proclaims the weight of the penalty of excommunication against anyone who wishes to harass him at all regarding any of the rights belonging to him. For the guarantee concerning this, this present synodical diagnosis and decision of our humility has been issued to the most God-beloved Bishop of Ierissos and the Holy Mountain, in the month of April of the current sixth indiction of the year 6876.
Our humility, as has been said, having stayed for a long time on the Holy Mountain, as those among the Athonites who are still alive know, knows the order there accurately, and that then some of the powerful
A attempted to abolish the rights of the bishop, and they did not succeed in any way; for this reason, even now this cannot happen, but such an action shall be maintained unshakable in perpetuity. Regarding the ordination of the Serbs, we do not say that this is now to be rejected by the monks of the Holy Mountain; but from the time when they departed from our communion, and seized the churches belonging to us and subject to our great and catholic Church, from that time onward they are to be received neither here nor anywhere else. But since they have now sought to be united, and we have sent legates for the sake of union, for this reason our humility says that these men are not to be received yet, until, upon the return of the legates, we know what is to happen, as is also being done here by the holy and great B synod, and by all the others who are subject to it. Let this, therefore, be done also by those living on the Holy Mountain. This document bore the seal of the patriarchal dignity: Philotheus, by the mercy of God, Archbishop of Constantinople, New Rome, and Ecumenical Patriarch.
PHILOTHEUS, PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE
AGAINST GREGORAS
TWELVE BOOKS OF ANTIRRHETICS
See Tome CLI.BY THE SAME
ENCOMIUM OF GREGORY PALAMAS
See ibid.BY THE SAME
LIFE OF SAINT DEMETRIUS THE MARTYR
See Tome CXVI.Index of Subjects and Words contained in the Historical Books of John Cantacuzenus.
(The reader is referred to the larger numbers inserted in the Latin text.)
A Abdera, a small maritime town, today Polystylos, 472. Surrenders, 569. Abraham’s seed, 474. Absalom, 16. Abstinence from food for a time, 251. Abydus, a town, 887. Acarnania, 65. Acarnanians, 275. Despot of Acarnania, 289, 501. Acarnanians’ debate concerning receiving the Emperor, 303, 304, 505. Acarnania unjustly severed from the Roman Empire, ibid. Restored, 306, 307. Rebel Acarnanians, princes yield to the cities, 321. Acarnanians bring detriment to the Tarentines, 522. Courageous beyond their strength, 16. Acarnanian expedition, 584. Acarnanian cities plundered, famine, 786. Acarnania reclaimed by the Kral, 788. Attributed to the Romans, 791. Imperial acclamations, 156, 613, 626, 749. Acclamation to the King of the Mysians, 796. Vinegar in a glass cup, 632. Latins occupy Achaea, 750. Achelous, a place, 885. Acheron, 511. Achitophel, 16. Acbris, 170, 171, 172. Western city besieged by the Triballi, 261. Achyraitæ, 414. Acindynus, a monk, follower of Barlaam, 693. Opponents of Acindynus, monks and bishops, ibid. Leaders of the Acindynians, 799. Acindynians hold with Barlaam, ibid. See Gregory Acindynus. Aconite, a city, 266. Two most beautiful youths seen in dreams, 664. Emperor is adored, 41, 50, 61. Empress adores the Emperor, 123. Bishops adore the Emperor, 152. Emperor is adored with the kissing of the feet, 151. Theotokos Hodegetria is adored, 187. Emperor is adored with heads bowed low, with the kissing of the foot, 209. Emperor is adored by the noble Phocaeans, 300. Also by the Rhogii, 400, 401. Emperor, 509, 512, 527, 568. Theotokos, 695. Emperor with the kissing of the feet, 739. Holy places in Jerusalem sought for the purpose of adoration, 757. Emperor adored, 773, 874. Adra river, 243. Adrianopolis, a large and populous city, 9. Named after Adrian Augustus, 17. Abundant in supplies, 117. Sedition of the Adrianopolitans, 411. Cantacuzenus attempts Adrianopolis, 448. The greatest of the cities of Thrace, 576. Its betrayal frustrated, 623. Surrendered to the Emperor, 647. Received by Matthew Cantacuzenus, 838. Receives John Palaeologus, 841. Captured by Cantacuzenus, ibid. Attributed to Matthew Cantacuzenus, 869. Adriatic Sea, 310. Proof of adultery by glowing iron, 439. Adyta, 122. Aediles designate, 618. Agreum sea, 287. Aegospotami, 617. Egypt, 730. Sultan of Egypt, 751. Egypt nourished by the Nile, 759. Aenus, 581. City of Thrace, 621. John Palaeologus claims it for himself, 821. Delivered to John Palaeologus, 879. Aetines, satrap of Caria, 238. Aetos, city of the Mysians, 264, 281. Africa tributary to the Italians, 711. Flaming wing, sign of speed, 184. Alans, 107. Cantacuzenus, King of the Alans, 756. Rural Albanians, 172. Use their own laws, 275. Auxiliary army from the Albanians, 277. They inhabit the mountains of Thessaly, 289. Have no king, ibid. Inhabit no city, ibid. Rebellion of the Albanians, 501. Their flight and slaughter, 302. They receive wages for their crimes, 205. Vastation brought upon the Albanians, 301. Albanians raid Roman cities, 350. They seek pardon, ibid. Raid Acarnania, 388. Albanian ditch, 527. War of Emperor Andronicus against the Albanians, 571. They defect, 884. The die is cast, proverb, 179, 417. Alamanni, students of tournaments, 126. Latin Alamanni, 184. Request money from the Constantinopolitan Emperor, 206. Ancient society of theirs with the Roman Emperors, ibid. Their region nourishes sturdy soldiers, 207. Their king, ibid. Three hundred in heavy armor from Alemania, 262. Alexander, King of the Mysians, 240. Son of Stranzimer, 280. His embassy to the Emperor, 285. The Emperor betroths his daughter to him, 307. Celebrates nuptials at Adrianopolis, 509. Seeks the exile Sismanus from the Romans, 352. Succeeds Michael, ibid. Considers his own convenience to be pursued by all means, 354. Friend and son-in-law of the Roman Emperor, 371. Breaks the treaty, ibid. Friend for a time, ibid. Thinks it serves Roman affairs, 372. His orators are formidable, 574. Confirms the treaty, 381, 591. Barbarian king, 429. Attempts Adrianopolis, 444. Ravages the cities of Thrace, 445. Seeks peace, ibid. Brother of the Kralena Helena, 491. His treaty with the Didymotichans, 536. Nine cities are given to him, he enters, 588. Equal to all Romans, 636. Vexed by the Persians, 795. His seat is Trinovum, 796. Sends support to John Palaeologus, 843. The Roman Emperor considered the successor of Alexander the Great, 117. Alexius Angelus, Emperor, 306. Alexius Bithynus, prefect of Eiones, 768. Alexius Cabasilas, 309. His hatred and anger against the Emperor, 311. Familiar friend of John Cantacuzenus, ibid. Author of defection, 312. Surrendered himself, 313. Honored with the rank of Great Connostable, 314. Alexius the Duke condemned to prison, 657. Alexius Metochites, protosebastos, prefect of Thessalonica, 761. Separates himself from Palaeologus, 764. Alexius Palaeologus, 165. Alexius Zamplacon, great pappias, 161. Aliseres, satrap of Cotyaeum, 388. Alleluia, legate of Berrhoea from the people, 515. Primary altar, 125. Alusianus, archer and hunter, 539. Amastris, city of the Romans on the Pontus, 685. Amblyopus, a place near Byzantium, 181, 183. Ambo, sacred lectern, 122. Amera, prefect of Jerusalem, 757. The power of friendship, 14. Choosing friends is most necessary, 4. Sign of renewed friendship, 50. The power of love endures, 248. Every prudent man rejoices to be overcome by friendship, 312. Observing the laws of friendship even for a dead friend, their hearts are possessed through friendship, ibid. To use faithful friends is the highest happiness after God, ibid. A hostile mind under the person of friends, 395. What is the evidence of true love, ibid. Property of the friends of Cantacuzenus plundered, of Cantacuzenus and the Emperor is admirable, 427. Friends of Cantacuzenus, dire friendships, 455. Familiar friendship with God, 459. Office of a friend, 451. Nothing more excellent than friendship, 491. All things of friends are common, 491. Friendship with great amount of money.
A and to be preferred over large cities, 497. Love, the most pleasant affection of all affections, 580. Imperial cloak, 275. Amnesty, 297. Ampar, an ambassador, 400. Amphipolis, an ancient city, 328. Restored by Andronikos the Younger, emperor, ibid. Maritime, 527. Amurius, satrap of the cities of Ionia, 287. Son of Aitinis, 293. He joins with John Kantakouzenos, 294. He sends soldiers to the emperor, 302. The most opulent of the satraps of Asia, 375. Most loving toward John Kantakouzenos, 510. He refuses gifts, 564. He tries to persuade the empress toward peace, 571. He falls ill, 575. Versed in extreme danger, 576. Accustomed to fight unarmed, ibid. He keeps watch at the headquarters of Kantakouzenos, 580. Reconciled with Sarchan, 649. He advises that Byzantium be sought, 659. He returns home, 662. Benevolent toward the emperor, 683. Sincere and candid, ibid. He plots treachery, 683. He assists Kantakouzenos with twenty-four thousand men, 787. Anzas the Persian, a fugitive, 623. He reveals ambushes, ibid. Steps covered with red silk, 122. Steps of the cantors, 125. Anactoropolis, a maritime city of Thrace, 767. Anastasiopolis is called Peritheorion, 454. Anastasios the emperor founded the city named after himself, 598. Anathema hurled against those zealous for Andronikos the Younger, 61. Retracted, 74. Against Kantakouzenos and his followers, and those keeping money, 470. On whom the penalty of anathema is to be inflicted, 610. Against him who might revoke the patriarch, 857. Against a slanderer, 899. Anchialos, 209. City of Moesia, 264. It surpasses Diampolis, 283. Ancyra, city of Eastern Scythia, 861. Andren, small island of the apostle, ibid. Andreas, a Genoese duke, subjugates New Phocaea, 238. Andreas Palaiologos the Zealot, 673. He is praised, ibid. Prefect of heavy armament, 677. Author of sedition, 680, 764. Prefect of the imperial table, 761. He burns imperial edicts in the forum, 762. Andreas Petrila, a Genoese duke, 739. Andronikos Asanes, father-in-law of John Kantakouzenos, 325. Son of the great aunt of the emperor, 392. His two sons are captured, 404. His authority declared, 447. Questioning held concerning him, 555. Destroyed in prison, 699. He is deceived, 818. Sebastokrator, 870. Andronikos Asanes, a boy, son of Manuel Asanes, 481. Andronikos Exotrochus, 47. Andronikos, son of John Kantakouzenos, 419. Shut up at home with his mother, 423. Taken by the plague, 730. A youth of the greatest hope, 752. Andronikos, son and successor of the emperor John Palaiologos, 839. Andronikos Palaiologos, great stratopedarch, 84. Prefect of the provinces of Rhodope subject to the Romans, 105. Envoy to the king of the Moesians, 116. Appointed great stratopedarch, 467. Son-in-law of Apokauchos, 470. In Thessalonica, 477. Protostrator, 517. Supreme leader of the army, ibid. He aspires to the empire, 528. Son of Constantine Palaiologos, 554. He corrupts the tally, 554. He is strangled in the Hebrus, 553. Andronikos Palaiologos, the first of this name, 823. Andronikos Palaiologos, protovestiarios, 130. Praises of the Balagrads, 132. Nephew of the elder emperor Andronikos, 144. Duke of the western army, 161. Andronikos the Younger, nephew of the elder, already decreed emperor, 10. Ornament of the human race, 8. More addicted to hunting and equestrian sports, 19. His reverence toward his grandfather, 33. Judged an enemy by his grandfather, 60. He is crowned emperor, 121. His marriage with Anna of Savoy, 126. An arrow is shot into the post, ibid. He challenges to judgment, 137. He scorns money, 149. He is miraculously healed by the holy martyr Demetrios, 167. Easy to be reconciled, 174. He captures Constantinople, 186. His notable clemency toward the insolent man, 191. How great his love toward John Kantakouzenos, 203. He exhorts his own men to war against the Barbarians, 211. Wounded in the thigh, 217. He exhorts John Kantakouzenos to take up the imperial insignia, 223, 224. Ill, he desires to be clothed in the habit of monks, 241. Miraculously healed by water drawn from the spring of the Mother of God, 250. He grieves that his grandfather has become a monk, 255. His appearance amiable and admirable, 261. Gentle in character, and prompt B to forgive, 299. Received as if a god coming from heaven, 303. Supported by heavenly help, he subdued the Tartars, 316. Most just, ibid. He falls ill, 318. He jokes with John Kantakouzenos, 325. He is angry with John Kantakouzenos, 328. Very desirous of buildings, ibid. He built Gynaecocastrum from the foundations, ibid. He raised up Siderocastrum, ibid. He restored Amphipolis, ibid. He encompassed Peritheorion with walls, ibid. He built Dipotamon, ibid. He restored Arcadiopolis, ibid. He commits controversies of faith to a synod, 355. He falls feverish, 357. Despaired of by physicians, ibid. He dies, 358. Upon his death, a public mourning, 349. His piety, 351. He bound himself by oath to the king of the Moesians, 355. An exemplar of the most perfect friendship with John Kantakouzenos, 360. He commends Kantakouzenos to the empress, 362. He left the vicarious government to John Kantakouzenos, 393. He defends John Kantakouzenos before his mother, 394. He gives much, with injury to his descendants, 450. He builds Gynaecocastrum from the foundations, 780. Gregoras laments his death, 802. His piety and religion, ibid. He condemned Barlaam with his followers, 805. Andronikos the Elder, emperor, impious toward his grandson, 11. Hurls mockeries at him, 20. Prudent and powerful, 65. Perjured, 76. His brothers and sisters, 129. He accuses himself, 186. Cast down from the empire, 206. Having become a monk, he puts on a worn garment, 244. Called Antonios, ibid. He dies, 248. His nephew, the Margrave of Lombardy, 707. Andronikos Tornikes, great cubicularius, 120. Driven out of Thrace, 159. Anema, fortress, 202. Angelitzes, a citizen of Gratianopolis, 587. Prefect of Gratianopolis, 588. Angelocastrum, a town, 510. Angel, acting as attendant, 43. Angels are exhilarated by peace, 108. Angels precede and follow the body of Christ when it is sacrificed, 396. Angels are witnesses, seeing all the deeds of mortals, 552. Angelos, of Kantakouzenos, 708. Angelos Komnenos Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, 736. Angelos, cupbearer, 445, 446. Cousin of John Kantakouzenos, 455. Duke, prefect of the army, ibid. Praetor of Akarnania, 786. Angelos, president of the Canicleion, 868. Angelos, protovestiarios, son-in-law of John Kantakouzenos, master in military matters, 169, 170. Prefect of Castoria, ibid. He hands over Castoria to Andronikos the Younger, emperor, 171. Great stratopedarch, 205. His praises, ibid. Angels, emperors, lords of Akarnania, 505, 512, 516 et seq. Angeli, triplets, brothers of Rhadiporos of Edessa, 169. Soul one in two, or two dwelling in one body, 134. Ecclesiastical power of the soul is compared to imperial [power] of the body, 134. Most human knowledge for the curing of the soul, 246. The soul grieving in death, 249. Sense in souls after death, 269. Stains of souls are washed away, 324. The salvation of souls redeemed by silver, 326. To which men religious souls are to be entrusted, 530. Curator of souls, 570. Profusion of souls for common utility, 375. The soul by purity ascends to God, 383. The motions and senses of each soul are manifest to God, 597. The depth of the soul, 432. Nothing dearer than the soul, 460. The nobility of souls, 515. Nothing more excellent than the care of souls, 804. Animals turned into stone in seals, 652. Anna, sister of Andronikos the Elder, emperor, mother of the protovestiarios, 130. Wife of Michael the Duke, of the house of Poutra, ibid. Anna, daughter of Michael the Ninth Palaiologos, 10. Her death, 11. Anna, daughter of the protostrator, wife of Manuel Asanes, 19. Anna, queen, wife of the despot John, 305. She dissuades from arms, 507. Anna of Savoy, wife of Andronikos the Younger, emperor, acts as empress, 226. Recognized as empress, 226. She laments the emperor who is near to death, 338. Commits the republic to John Kantakouzenos, 339. She mourns the dead emperor for nine days, 549. She speaks to absent John Kantakouzenos as if he were present, 360. She loves him no less than a brother by blood, 361. She compares herself to a shipmaster in the midst of a storm, 361. Destitute of counsel for the magnitude of evils, 362. Her tears, 363. They bind themselves to the sacred oath of Kantakouzenos, 395. Anna Augusta acclaimed, 436. Her son, the emperor John, 498. Her embassy to Kral, 518. Her mention in the golden bull, 527. Her mention in the solemnities of the sacrifice, 531.
C restored, 718. He disapproves of Cantacuzenus’s plan, 767. He convicts Gregoras of lying, 803. He deposes the Patriarch John, 805. He settles the war, 821. Years from the creation of the world, 187, 288, 359, 469. Years of Mahomet, 758. The Emperor’s ring, 506. Antarus Pinellus, a Genoese nobleman, 748. "To reap a thrum," a proverb, 607. Anthony Grimoaldus, prefect of the Genoese fleet, 836. Anthony, emperor, 288. Anthony, holy abbot, 532. He fights against demons, ibid. Apamea, a fortress repaired, 612. Apelmenes, a duke, 420. His studies and manners from adolescence, 483. Taken prisoner, 591. Aplesphares, a duke of the Byzantines, captured, 662. He speaks Persian, 665. Like a raging boar, 620. Apocauchus, prefect of the salary fund, 18. Somewhat estranged from the senior emperor, Andronicus, 29. Prefect of the sacred bedchamber, 73. A man of obscure origin, 74. A courier, 75. Grand Chamberlain, 159. Created administrator of public affairs, 208. He asks to be allowed to become a monk, although he had ordered some military levy, 326. Commander of the fleet against the Persians, 327. He courts popular favor, ibid. He suppresses the Emperor’s letters, ibid. He urges John Cantacuzenus to seek the empire, 537. Freed from prison by Cantacuzenus, 358. Seditious, 378. Commander of triremes, he plots to capture them, ibid. He flees from the *epibatai* (marines), 382. He calls John Cantacuzenus his physician, 383. He is kept in custody among the marines, ibid. Guilty of malevolence toward the Empress, 385. He fines himself, 391. A native of Bithynia, 392. He made a decree for the tax collectors, ibid. He served for hire, ibid. Among the first publicans, ibid. He defects from the senior emperor, 392. Wealthy, ibid. Quaestor, 393. Administrator of affairs, ibid. They grieve for Apocauchus, who is not saddened by the splendor of John Cantacuzenus, ibid. Most ungrateful toward John Cantacuzenus, 397. He used fraud in imperial letters and with money, ibid. John Cantacuzenus treats him with every honor, 399. Regarded as wicked and delirious, ibid. He sets traps for the young emperor John, ibid. He venerates the Empress with a submissive posture, 401. Conserved by the Patriarch, 405. He betroths his daughter to the Patriarch’s son, 489. To the widower he betroths his daughter, 489. He betroths his daughter to Artotus of Savoy, 411. Prefect of the City, 419. His attendants, ibid. Rash and impudent, ibid. He writes letters full of insults, 421. Apocauchus, "an egg to a stone" for Cantacuzenus, 458. Concerning a divine vision of Apocauchus, ibid. Apocauchus fears for himself and his own, 458. Declared Grand Duke, 467. He became everything, ibid. His cruelty toward the mother and kin of Cantacuzenus, 468. Administrator of the entire empire, 470. His arrogance, 501. His life and manners, ibid. He perverts the Empress, 524. Like a flame, 535. His perfidy, 551. Pride, 552. Other vices, 559, 621, 627, 646. His two sons defect to Cantacuzenus, 656. Bereft of his senses by God, 657. He is killed by prisoners, ibid. His head and corpse are displayed, ibid. Apocauchus drives Leo Calothetus from Chios, 750. He corrupts the Kral with money, 786. Insulting toward Cantacuzenus, 848. Apocrisiarius, 144. The Apostolic Roman Church, 655. Emperors to be compared to the Apostles, 670. Church of the Apostles, 264. Aprus, a city of Thrace, 85. Taken by force, 87. The city surrendered by the prefect, 619. Water drawn from the wonder-working fountain of the Mother of God, 250. The eagle, a distinguished house of Constantinople, 876. Arbenus, a man of obscure origin, envoy of the Kral, 514. Arcadiopolis, an ancient city of Thrace, 528. Founded by the emperor Arcadius, ibid. Restored by the junior emperor Andronicus, 528. Arcadius, son of Theodosius the Great, emperor, 528. He founded Arcadiopolis, ibid. Archimandrites, religious, 139. Archons, 425. Their cruelty toward the mother and kin of Cantacuzenus, 468, 469 et seq. They tear the Emperor with curses, 575. Their slaves and servants, 603. They despoil the Augusta of her power, 614, 615. They fish in the air, 616. They come to an agreement with the Persians, 687. Their ambition, 690. Their college, ibid. They lay traps for the Emperor’s intimates, 701. They demand the Patriarch back from the Galatians, 755. Archontitzes, prefect of the fortress of Empyrites, 665. D Arch of the Latins, "of the hangers," 108. Aregus, uncle of Andrew of Catania, surrenders Phocaea, 238. Enriched with gifts by the emperor, ibid. Aregus, rector of the Order of Friars Minor, 636. His praise, 638. Long silent, he views the land, 641. A Latin, he reproves them, 646. He cleanses the Augusta, ibid. Silver cups from Orchan gifted by the emperor, 273. Two hundred silver vessels brought into the imperial treasury, 426. Silver coins scattered, 670. Argyrocastrum, a town, 310. Aristotle, 329. Aristotelian philosophy, 654. Arius excommunicated by the holy synod, 601. Armenia, 177, 487. Arsenius Zamplaco, Grand Pappias, 207. His sons captured by Syrgiannes, 269. He convicts Syrgiannes, 274. Envoy to the Kral, 488. Mocked and derided by the trierarchs, 489. Prefect of Didymotichus, 838. Arta, the capital of the cities of Acarnania, 309. It is besieged, 311. Obstinacy of the Arta-ians, 314, 315. Their voluntary surrender, 318. Defection, 321. Artotus, son of Zampese of Savoy, 411. A Latin, 412. Rejected by the Empress with his mother, 413. Asanes, father-in-law of John Cantacuzenus, 287. Asanes, a Despot, 514. Asanes, Panhypersebastos, 690. Asanina, dragged by the hair and whipped with thongs, 514. Cantacuzenus, King of the Asanians, 756. Asia, 212, 281, 316, 375, 578, 579. Satrap of Asia, 617. Formerly under the Roman empire, 756. Placed on an ass facing backward, holding the tail for a bridle, 446. Five hundred asses, 447. The Galatians are compared to asses, 742. The Gate of the Incorporeal [Beings], 165. Asomatus, a small town, 581. Flattery is most pernicious, 554. As'acenus, a gulf, 273, 862. Asteroperes of Berrhoea, one of the leading men, 515. Astras, a Grand Stratopedarch, a distinguished architect, 720. Right of asylum, 554. Sacred asylums, ibid. Those fleeing to the church as to an asylum, 519. Athenians, 255. Albianus, an envoy, 687. Athletes cast off their garments, 172. Athos, the holy mountain, 93, 95. The heavenly city, 350. Monasteries at Mount Athos, 531, 555. Holy mountain, 765. Athyra captured, 612. Athyras, a village, 685. Monks compared to Atlas, 803. Attica, 387. A hall hung with silk and gold-interwoven cloth, 681. Fifty thousand gold staters paid out by the quaestors, 57. Cantacuzenus spends many myriads of gold for the common good, 86. Ten gold pieces assigned to mercenary soldiers, 102. Thirty-six thousand gold pieces assigned for the family and spouse of the emperor, 110. Gold scattered, 125. Three hundred and fifty thousand gold pieces owed, 146, 147. A woman's finery valued at twenty thousand gold pieces, 171. Twelve thousand gold coins found in the defendant's vessel, 171. The treasury of the Protovestiarius valued at forty thousand, ibid. Twenty-four thousand decreed to senior Andronicus for every year, 191. Chius pays one hundred and twenty thousand annually, 228. An annual payment of twenty thousand, 237. "To exchange gold for brass," a proverb, 263. One hundred thousand gold pieces taken from the treasury, 327. One hundred thousand gold pieces, and furnishings valued at forty thousand, donated, 577. A gold coin, the price of betrayal, 461. Gold coins scattered, 670. Gold coins scattered around the imperial standard, 767. A town ransomed for ten thousand gold pieces, 861. A tax of ten thousand gold pieces, 880. "To exchange gold for brass," a proverb, 881. Orchan ransomed for one hundred thousand gold pieces, 887. The Auriarus family, 27. Mutilated in the ears, 569. One ear of the defendant to be kept whole, 637. Musical instruments devised for the delight of the ears, 684. "Hear, O heavens, what I say," etc., 710. The south wind, a raging wind, 828. Axius river, 278. It overflows, 481. Its ford, 550. Babylonian furnace, 45. B Raima, a fortress of Macedonia, 289. Balagradi, 132.
Balagrita, a fortress, 301, 305. Baldwin, emperor, 310. Baltum, a town, ibid. Baptism abjured, 674. Purified anew by baptism, ibid. Barangi with axes, 123. They guard the gates of the city, [123]. Beard shaved, 94, 446. Torn out, 795. Barbara, martyr, 835. The character of the barbarians, 202. Barbarians address the Romans in Greek, 288. Living with barbarians, 307. Slaughter by them, 309. The custom of the barbarians when they go out to ravage, 686. Barbarian incursions, 688. Barbarian arms solicited as allies, ibid. Barbarian cruelty, ibid. Barbarians raid the mainland, 691. Over ten thousand barbarians sent as reinforcements, 719. John Cantacuzenus clears himself of having brought barbarians into the empire, 732. Barbarians ravage the Bottiaeans, 867. Bardales, protosecretary, 75. Bardas, a familiar friend of the emperor Andronicus the Elder, 47. Caballerius, 158. Barlaam, a monk from Calabria, 399. Versed in Euclid, Aristotle, and Plato, ibid. Admonishes Palamas, 332. His confidence, 333. He summons Gregory Palamas to court, 334. He is refuted by Gregory Palamas, 335. He asks for pardon, 336. He flees to Italy, ibid. He is made bishop of Hieracium, 537. Condemned by the judgment of all, 693. His followers stir up tumults, 797. He is excommunicated by the synod, and condemned by the younger emperor, 805. Bartholomew Delfini, a Viennese envoy to the empress, 708. His letter to Pope Clement, ibid. His letter to the Dauphin, 709. Baryus, an excellent physician, 247. Most cowardly, 248. Batatzes, governor of the suburbs of Didymoteichon, 503, 505. Chief of the huntsmen, 617. He is made Grand Stratopedarch, ibid. He conquers the Byzantines, 662. He defects to the empress, 663. His praise, ibid. Slain by the Persians, [663]. Batopedium, a monastery, 878. Beadnus, a city, 576. Belaurus, uncle of Alexander, king of the Moesians, 383. Bellicome, a village, 768. To wage war is shameful; to resist, glorious, 32. Three things bring an end to wars, 70. Not to participate in war is the greatest happiness, 71. To lay down arms is praiseworthy, ibid. The evils of war, especially civil war, 96. The material and causes of war, 98. What one who is beginning a war must consider, 295. War is the most destructive of all things, 348. Lasting for five whole years, ibid. The evils of civil war, 428, 429, 450. War is a violent master of evils, 443. The inconveniences of war, 614. As a raging flame, it spreads over everything, 634. The choice of war and peace rests with the combatants, 658. Civil war is the parent of many tears, 651. Money is the sinew of war, 722. A pious sentiment regarding war, 867. Belmasdis, a locality, 262. The blessing of the patriarch, 125. Holy blessings over marriages, 309. Benedict Zaccaria, a Genoese, takes possession of Chios, 227. He litigates with his brother Martino over six thousand aurei, [227]. He refuses the prefecture of Chios, 233, 234. Obstinate, 235, 236. Like a madman, ibid. He died of epilepsy, 259. Memory of favors, 25, 369, 370. Bera, 111, 115, 239. A fortress of Thrace, 433. Abounds in fodder, 453. It is besieged, ibid. A very strongly fortified castle, 879. Berrhoea, a city, 167, 168, 550. Large, populous, and fortified, 544. Pressed by the Triballi, 515. It receives the Emperor Cantacuzenus, 546, 573. The Berrhoean auxiliaries are slow, [573]; Triballi, 771. Berrhoea, a blessed city, ibid. The citadel of Berrhoea, a small city within a large one, 771. The leading men of Berrhoea sent into exile, 772. Berrhoea taken, 773. Assigned to the Romans, 791. Bessus, prefect of Gynaecocastron, 780. His treachery, 781. Bidene, name of a place, 872. Bithynia, 210, 220. Eastern Bithynia, 579. The coast of Bithynia, 901. Bizya, 120, 199, 622. The Bizyans relent from their stubbornness, 624. Their metropolitan, 626. They pass over to the emperor, ibid. The church of Bizya, 627. Blachernae, 177. A fortress in the Blachernae taken by storm, 698. The temple of the Mother of God in the Blachernae, 717. Rites performed in the Blachernae, 718. A synod convened in the palace at the Blachernae, 799. Blachia, a region, 526. The prefecture of Blachia, ibid. The borders of Blachia, 527. The governors of the Blachians, ibid. Cantacuzenus, king of the Blachians, 756. The Triballi occupy the city of Blessum, 490. Boeotia, 387. Boilas, brother of the king of the Moesians, 84. Called Despot of Moesia, 107, 109. He is held as dead, 110. He recovers Achrida, 171. Bogdan, a Triballian, brother of Liber, 491. Boia, a type of fetter, 151, 202. Boichnas, Caesar, a most noble Triballian, 887. He hands over Matthew Cantacuzenus to John Palaiologos, 892. Bolbe, a marsh, 278. Bontitze, a city of Acarnania, 321. No good comes from evil, 62. Boreas, the wind, 449. Boriam, a part of the island of Tenedos, 864. Bothrenium, a city of Acarnania, 321. Botiea, 275, 303. Ravaged by the barbarians, 770. Three hundred thousand oxen taken as loot, 302. Five hundred oxen bought for a hundred aurei, 303. Five thousand head of cattle for grazing, a thousand yokes of country-dwellers, 447. Oxen-sinews, 760. Bovli, peoples of Thessaly, 289. Bozices, a duke of the Triballi, 549, 550. Brachophagon, rocks lurking under the waves, 829. Bractas, a most excellent duke, 510. Braianus, prefect of Amphipolis, 769. Branus, seditious, 412. Warden of Adrianople, 623. Captured, ibid. He obtains the city, ibid. Author of sedition, 663. Bratilus, a messenger, 506, 507. Brunswick, Prince of, 35. Bryennius, an astronomer, 57. Grand Drungarius, 171. A trumpet sounding all night, 678. Bucellum, a small town, 199, 200, 201. Bucellum, a fortress, 623. Bulgaria, 140. Cantacuzenus, king of the Bulgarians, 756. Golden bulls, 146, 198. A sacred bull, 409. A golden bull sent word for word, 522, 526. The Burgundians, devoted to tournaments, 127. Butzanis, a small town of the Triballi, captured, 262. Bydina, 108. Byzantium. See Constantinople. Captured by the Latins, 510. The Byzantines, skilled in looting, 448. The Byzantine Strait, 580. The Byzantine territory, 642. The Byzantine region reduced to solitude, 643. Byzantium, the head and sum of the empire, 660. Recovered by Michael Palaiologos, 810. How long the Latins held it, ibid. The monasteries of Byzantium, 827. The humanity of the Byzantines toward the Catalans, 851. Monasteries, 832. C Caballarium, a small town of the Triballi, 262. A Latin horseman, 65. Latin horsemen, 126. Cabasilas, curator of the chapel, 599. Prefect of sacred buildings, 857. See Nicolas Cabasilas. Cabatzes, one of the nobles among the Triballi, 518. Heralds sent about peace, 262, 618. Slaughter, hateful to God and men, 495. Inscribed in blue color, 467. Cain, 194. Calabria, 329. Calamanus, Lascaris, an envoy, 241. Calergus, an envoy, 145. Callierenites, groom of the sacred bedchamber, 61. Callinicus, a Triballian monk, an envoy, 25. Calliopolis, a fortified maritime city, 18. It is besieged, 617. Occupied by the barbarians, 861. It collapsed from an earthquake, ibid. Callipolis by the Hellespont, 291. Callistus, a priest, 461. Afterward Patriarch of Constantinople, ibid. He demands that a synod be convened by the emperor; after the liturgy is completed, he invests Cantacuzenus with the imperial habit, ibid. He prays for peace, 844, 845. He refuses to designate Matthew emperor, 851. Recalled to the throne, 857, 879. He dictates an anathema against Zianes, 899. Clad in the sacred stole, he confirms oaths, 906. Envoy to the Kral, 908. His death and honorable funeral, 909. Callone, a fortress of Lesbos, 291, 295. Calocheretes, a common soldier, mail carrier, 79, 81, 82. Calothetus, a dynast of Chios, 227, 228, 250. Calothetus, protosebast, 663. Prefect of Phocaea, 886. Made panhypersebast, 887. Camaris, a traitor of Constantinople, 179, 181, 185.
C Chlapienus, a defector from the family of the Kral, 779. Chlereni, a small town, 277, 544. Two hundred camels, 447. Camel Gate, 633. Camel Bridge, 603. See Camels. Hunting dogs sent as a gift to the Emperor by the Persians, 273. To hate more than a dog or a snake, 623. Canicleum, 45, 868. Canina, a fortress, 301. Office of the Great Canon, 42. Sacred Canons, 627. Cantors, D *praktai*, 123. They sing praises composed by poets, 684. Capha, a fortress of the Genoese in the maritime regions of Scythia, 812. Hair shaved, 94. Torn out, 241. Captives released without ransom, 286. Redeemed, 302. It is illicit to treat a captive as Roman, ibid. Captives returned to their relatives for a ransom, 575. Captives buried alive, 657. Captives kill the Grand Duke, 657. Killed by the people in a temple, 658. Exchange of captives with the Sultan, 758. Their kindness toward Patriarch Lazarus, 761. Guarded in monasteries, 774. Liberated by Bishop Philotheus, 826. Ceremony of bowing the head, 122. To bow the head, 159. To strike the ground with the head, 193. To worship with heads bowed to the ground, 209. They bow their heads in reverence, 250. To touch the clouds with the head, 368. Sacred prayers recited over the head, 370. A head devoted to horrible curses, 403. Head shaved in ignominy, 446. White flame-colored head covering, 467. The Emperor saluting with head bowed, 477. A severed head carried fixed on a spear, 569. Head shaved with the chin, 572. Carbona, 682. Cardinal, 708. Cares are taken and snatched away, 607. Caria, 238. Charles, King of France, 810. Castellanus, a traitor of Constantinople, 179. Castellium in Constantinople destroyed, 868. Castoria, a city fortified by a lake, 168. Subject to the Kral, 275, 791. Castris, a small town in Thessaly, 288. Also called Castrium, 776. Categialus, one of the Persian nobles, 219. Catalans, neighbors of Thessaly, 56. They wage war with the Romans, 282. Inhabiting Attica and Boeotia, 387. Their triremes, twenty-six in number, 827. King of the Catalans, 828. Slaughter of the Catalans, 829. Catalans treated most humanely by the Byzantines, 851. Mercenaries, 866. Cataphracts, 547, 593, 653, 776. Catechumens' place, 125. Cathara, concubine of the Despot Constantine, 10. Cathedra, concerning which legal disputes arise, 369. To rise from the cathedra, 570. Patriarchal cathedra, 692. Cephalic symptom, a disease, 239. Wax sealed with a ring, without letters, 506, 507. Red wax sealed in sleep, 651. Waxen seals, 652. Ceramachumet, leader of the *kaso*, 739. Cerberus, 529. Wax candles lit for baptism, 674. Army of deer led by a lion, 582. Shield-bearing infantry, most warlike among the Moesians, 107. Chabrias, emperor of the Albettenses, 652. Chamarra, a town, 310. Chalcedon, in the region of Byzantium, 828. Chalcidice, a city of Thrace, 267, 433. A region, 585, 588. John Palaeologus retakes the towns of Chalcidice, 821. Harassed by Cantacuzenus, 846. Obtained by Matthew Cantacuzenus, 879. Chaliles, son of Orchan, captured, 886. Chariopolis, 91. Surrenders to the Emperor, 619. Charity, how great it should be towards God, 201. Charsia, gates, 646. Chartatum, a monastery, 93. Cherronesus, 381, 586. A peninsula, 617. Cheterus, son of the satrap Aitinis, 293. Chios, an island, 227. It pays one hundred and twenty thousand gold pieces annually, 228. It returns to Roman power, 232. Prefecture of Chios granted by Benedict the Genoese, 233. Revenues of that island, ibid. Pontificate of Chios entrusted by the Pope to a Latin bishop, 236. Watchtowers of Chios, 292. Chios besieged, 681. Handed over to the Latins, 682. Subdued by the Galatae, 681. Bishop accepted from the Byzantine Church, ibid. Prefect of Chios appointed by the Emperor, ibid. Chios surrendered to the Genoese, ibid. Chora, a small town, 618. Saved from plunder, ibid. Chora, a monastery, 464. Chortatum, 165. Chreles, Duke of the Triballians, 161, 162. He defects to Andronicus, 452. Most friendly to Emperor Cantacuzenus, ibid., 454. His praises, 475. He pledges his loyalty to John Cantacuzenus, 499. Died, 328, 530. Christian, who is, 46. Common enemy of the Christians, 674. Christians in Jerusalem under the Sultan's edict, 757. Persecution of Christians under the Sultan, 759. Christians under the Egyptian Sultan are infamous, 761. Monuments of Christ's saving death kept as a treasure, 187. Christ's economy, 302. Transfiguration on Mount Tabor, 532. Solemnity of Christ's nativity, 388. Christ's most holy body is sacrificed daily, 396. Christ the Savior, King of the ages, 457. Image of Christ the Savior, 467. We who are made members of Christ, 611. Monastery of Christ the Savior and Benefactor, 627. Monastery of Christ so named, 801. Christopolis, a fortified maritime town, 18. In Thrace, 25, 65. Fortification near Christopolis, 472. Wall breached near Christopolis, 541. Chumnus, the Great Stratopedarch, 165. A live stork holding a glass cup with its foot, 632. Emperors subscribed with cinnabar, 437. Cinnamus, Count of the Sacred Largesses, 470. Cinnamus, the Mystic, colleague of Isaac the Panhypersebast, 661. Cissos, a city, 266. Fleet of one hundred and five ships, 230. Seventy-five, 287. Eighty-four, 290. Two hundred and fifty, 573. Sixty, 471. One hundred and two, ibid. Ferocity of the naval troops, 676. Keys to the citadel hidden, 679. Claviger Strategius, ibid. Clazomenae, 294. Pope Clement the Sixth of this name, 655. His letter to the Empress, ibid. Letters of the legate Bartholomew to the same, 708. Cantacuzenus clears himself before him regarding the summoned barbarians, 732. He praises Emperor John Cantacuzenus, 737. His death, ibid. Clement, successor of Saint Peter, 610. Clenia, a city of the Moesians, 264. Clepta, a place, 184. Clergy of the Emperor, 264. All clergy are compelled to attend sacred funerals, 350. College of the Emperor's clerics, 369. Clerics refuse labor, 508. Order of clerics, 545. Princes of the clergy, 696. Clisura, a fortress, 501. Clopa, a port, 567. Shields adorned with their own devices, 230. Cocalas, the Grand Logariastes, 143. Father-in-law of the Protovestiarius Andronicus, 144, 145. Called *planus* by his contemporaries, 148. Codoniana, a village, 472. Celibacy, 764. Colauzes, an old commander of the Persians, 219. Collaria, a type of chain, 151, 203. Colonies, 172. Comani surrender themselves to Emperor John Batatzes, 14. Two thousand Comani in the army of the Kral, 25. They follow the camp of Emperor Michael II, 159. Comitopulus, prefect of the suburbs of Didymoteichon, 505. His loyalty toward the Emperor, 505. Impelled by divine inspiration, ibid. Rite of receiving the Eucharist is different for the priests and the common people, 124. Comnenes, meadows, 309. Embrace, a token of unfeigned reconciliation, 198. Confession of sins, 514. Fifty *congii* of wine are paid to the treasury, 748. Sharp stings of conscience, 865. Counsel must sometimes be changed, 30. Where there is no counsel, there is safety, 32. Bad counsel must be changed for better, 297. One must yield to the counsel of others, 352. In extreme lack of counsel, only trust in God remains, 485. Let shameful counsel be gone, 496. The solitude of those who counsel well ruins the republic, 601. Constantinople, queen of cities, 28. Most powerful, 66. Tower, 180, 186. Patriarch elected by the Pope, 681. Constantinople belongs to the Latins, ibid. Queen of cities, 709. See Byzantium. Constantine Acropolita, the Grand Logothete, 45.
A Constantine, brother of Andronikos Asanes, 407. Constantine Asanes, duke, 176. Captured, ibid. With his son, 535. Constantine, Despot, son of Emperor Andronikos the Elder, 81, 95. Called Kallistos, 212. Dragged into chains in the habit of a monk, ibid. Led out of prison, 243. And he escapes death and the loss of his eyes, 211. He pledges oblivion for his injuries, 252. Constantine the Great, emperor, 571. His palace, 514, 654. Constantine the Great, to be compared to the apostles, 670. His memory is celebrated in the month of May, ibid. John Cantacuzenus compared to him, 711. The day of his memory consecrated, 718. Driven by the Spirit of God, 903. Constantine Palaiologos, 91. Porphyrogenitus, 129. Uncle of Emperor Andronikos the Younger, 585. Son of Michael, the Despot Duke, 155. Honored as protosebastos, 488. Prefect of the Pheraeans, 551. Opposes the Triballian faction, 652. Constantine Porphyrogenitus, son of Michael I Palaiologos, 720. Constantine Tarchaniotes, placed in charge of the tax collection, 713, 747. Protostrator, prefect of the imperial triremes, 813. Seriously wounded, 816. His praise, 829. Prefect of Didymoteichos, 858. Battle of Contis, 651. Couton, which the Latins call "count," 120. B Contophres, prefect of Mesothenis, 210. Friend of the protosebastos, 685. Contostephanos, prefect of Garella, 616. Copsis, town of Moesia, 107, 109. Imperial cooks, 666. Crown, symbol of empire, 20, 122. Rites of imperial coronation, 121. Crowned triremes, 746. Corone, city, 584. Eating his own heart, 13. The heart is there, where our treasure is, 86. Kosmicus, city, 576. Kosmidion, 84. Place where ships were prepared, 742. Cosmitzus, duke of the Triballians, 845. Coteauizes, a defector from Thessalonica, 450. Imperial cothurni, 226. Kotyora, 588. Κράκτας, 125. C Kral, prince of the Triballians, 170, 275. Royal residence of the Kral, 492. Kral's flower and strength, ibid. He betrays Susa to Cantacuzenus, 508. Faithful to Cantacuzenus, 518. Seeks possession of the cities of Chrestos, 530. Attacks Pherae, 531. Besieges Pherae, 613. Is warned to keep the treaty, 615. Equal to all the Romans, 656. Oath-breaker, 652. Kral's faction, 639. Takes Pherae, 662. Proclaims himself Emperor of the Romans and Triballians, ibid. Occupies towns of Macedonia, 719. Seeks fame through largesse, 765. Besieges Thessalonica, 765. Admitted into the Venetian senate, 770. Besieges Edessa for sixteen years, 775. Kral's residence, 778. Moves against the Paeonians, 779. Praised with his wife by Emperor Cantacuzenus, 785. Corrupted by money from Apokaukos, 786. Besieges Pherae for a long time, ibid. Invades Thessaly, ibid. His perfidy and avarice, ibid. Confesses his own perfidy, 789. Fears Emperor Cantacuzenus, even seen in a dream, ibid. Co-opted into the Venetian senate, ibid. Invited to a banquet by Emperor Cantacuzenus, 791. Takes Edessa by treachery, 794. Forms a treaty against Cantacuzenus, 819. Sends seven thousand horsemen to John Palaiologos, 815. Dies, 882. Cranobunion, small town, 581. Crailea, city of eastern Scythia, 864. Purple slippers, 436, 836. Use of white slippers, 207. Crete, island, 278. Place called Cretensium, ibid. Κρημνοί, 209. Croeizimus, city, 527. Sign of the Cross, 15. The emperor carries the Cross in his right hand, 120. Cross made of brass, famous for miracles, 123. Brought from Sinai, ibid. Cross placed at the top of a banner, 200. Power of the Cross, 201. Armed with the sign of the Cross, 215. Cross made of the most precious stones, 595. Cross stolen from the sacred inner sanctum and used as a military standard, 476. Golden cross imprinted on a garment, seen in a dream, 664. Enemies of the Cross of Christ, 811, 709. Crybitziotes, brother of the prefect of Sozopolis, 825. Prefect of the sacred bedchamber, 575, 591. Cuminizes, cardinal, 708. Cumutzena, town and region, 287. Cumutzena town surrendered, 581, 880. Prefect of the guard, 539. Cutalas, father of George the chartophylax, 155, 193. Called the great chartophylax, 193. Cyberiota, president of the monasteries, 155, 193. Cyclades, 256. Cyclops, 513. Cydon, count of private affairs, 865. Cyparissiotae, fidelity of servants to their master, 891. King of the Cypriots, 450. Cyprus, 800. Cyriacus, courtier of Empress Anne, 825. Cyzicus, 209. D Demons exercised in devising destruction for men, 11. Demons as horrors, 532. Sowers and architects of all crimes, 414. Army moved to destruction, 427. Any wicked demon, 722. Worse than the demon himself, 760. Dalmatians, 26. Dalmatia, 65. Boundary of the Roman Empire, 73. Dalmatia and the Comani, 159. Damasis, fortress of Thessaly, 289. Damocrania captured, 612. Daniel, bishop of Ainos, 857. Daniel delivered from the lions' den, 43. Daonium, 83. Daphnidium, place, 621. King David, 474. Village of David, 488. David the psalmist, heavenly cithara-player, 711. Moved by the Spirit of God, 903. Deabola, 172. They gave gall for my food, etc., 632. Regarding the funeral ceremony for a deceased emperor, 349. Temples of the Theotokos. See Temple. Aid of the Theotokos, 44. Theotokos invoked and honored with the sacrifice of praise, 160. Adored, the sign venerated by the emperor, 209. Theotokos is a fountain of salvation, 250. Image of the Theotokos, 136. Trust in the Theotokos, 484. Prayers in the temple not made by hands, 674. Temple of the Hodegetria, 695. Adoration of the Theotokos, ibid. Image of the Theotokos Hodegetria, 704. Temple of the Theotokos called "the well," 707. Temple of the Theotokos in Blachernae, 717. Fountain of health, 874. Delfinus of Vienna, 708. Delfinus, legate of the Venetians, 809. Delii Hospitallers lying in wait for Chios, 255. Delii wishing to fight against the Roman emperor, 291. Delus, ibid. Auxiliaries of the Delii, 295. Demas abandoned Paul, 519. Sepulcher of the martyr Demetrius the myroblyte, 166. Church of the great martyr Demetrius, 568. Temple of the martyr Demetrius the myroblyte, 379. Demetrius Casandrinus, 400, 451. Demetrius Cydones, intimate of the emperor, embraced monasticism, 761. Demetrius, Despot, son of Emperor Andronikos the Elder, 161, 168. His palace, 192. His daughter betrothed to Matthew Cantacuzenus, 321. Demetrius, son of the great logothete Metochites, 42. By the surname Angelos, 129. Demetrius, son of Matthew Cantacuzenus, designated sebastokrator, 907. Demetrius Sguropoulos, legate, 416. Treated with great indignity, ibid. Demetrius Tornicius, 553. Demetrius Zamplaco, great stratopedarch, 652. Deputat, of the ecclesiastical order, 123. Derce, marsh, 631. Despotate, 527. Insignia of a Despot, 591. Nothing happens against God's will, 61. God is just and loved righteousness, 78. Provider of all good things, 151. Honors holy martyrs, 166. Let him freely call God Father, he who pardons the debts of his debtors, 191, 198. How much God is to be loved, who is always present to those who act, 226. Searcher of hearts and reins, 210. Establishes and prepares emperors, 247. Creator of nature, 249. Knows nothing not known to Him, 251. Leads to the underworld and leads back, ibid. Delights in all noble deeds, ibid. Dispenses victory from above, 308. Divine praises sung from the wall, 319. No one has ever seen God, 333. A suppliant of God, 55. God dispenses everyone's fate, 356. Most wise father of a family, ibid. Wounded by perfidy, 372. Propitiated by the building of monasteries, 575. Author of good things is ascended to through the purity of the mind, ibid. God dispenses all things justly as if by a balance, 593. To God the mind of each one
A of these motions and perceptions is manifest, 597. With God’s help, all things succeed well, 416. He knows all things, even before they happen, 418. He permits civil wars, ibid. He beholds all things from on high, 419. He is the guardian of truth, 427. He dispenses all things justly, 452. He knows all things before they occur, 440. A just judge, 456. The affections of bishops that are alien to right reason do not follow Him, 457. Alone He is able to avert shameless ruins, 462. Giver of peace, ibid. Whom God protects, no machination can destroy, 461. God is truth itself, yet He has sworn, 471. To those whom God favors, all things serve in reality, 481. God’s impregnable right hand, 485. Confidence in God, in extreme want of counsel, ibid. God’s arcane judgment, 525. What pleases Him comes to pass, 539. He will take vengeance upon the nations, B inspector of [all], 408. He renders those like God through wisdom, 712. God dispenses to each his own justly, 745. Deure, small town, 277. Castle, 776. Deuritza, small town of the Triballi, 262. Dexius, legate, 400. Leader of the Acindynians, 799. Right hand held by the right hand of another, 241. Diacibiza, 221. Deacons clothed in sacred stoles, 122. Bearing sacred vessels and relics, 124. Imperial diadem consecrated by bishops, 122. Diampolis, city of the Moesians, 180. Taken by first assault, 199. Received by surrender, 261. Didymotichum, 84, 85, 177, 228, 238, 262, 275. The bishop of Didymotichum, a divine man, 437. Sedition of the people of Didymotichum, 507. Prediction of the metropolitan of Didymotichum, 508. Didymotichum C is tempted by Apocauchus, 516. Didymotichum, a city far from the sea, 529. Another prediction of its metropolitan, 538. Another, 559. Another, 540. Another, 574. Suburban area burned, 594. Conceded to John Palaiologos, 838. The last day no one knows, 551. Most royal day, 578. Days of feasting, many banquets, 670. Day consecrated to the memory of Emperors Constantine and Helena, 718. The day called for the washing of hands, 350. The magnificence of feast days, ibid. See Feast. Dionysius the Great, a famous saying, 457. Diplobatatzes, protovestiary, prefect of Berrhoea, 779. Imperial diplomas, 207, 277. Dipotomum, castle, 328. Built by Emperor Andronikos the Younger, ibid. Custom of reclining on spread-out carpets, 717. Minister of Saint Sophia dissipated, 409. D *Ditheia*, 805. Riches, the price of the redemption of a man’s soul, 86. The patriarch as guardian of ecclesiastical dogmas and procurator of souls, 151. Dogmas of the Roman Church, 654. The Pope propitious to those following the perversity of a dogma, 655. Feigned stomach pain, 41. Domestics, 125. Lord’s Day, 41. Domenicus the Genoese, son of Andrea Cattaneo, 290. Mitylene besieged, 500. For lords to swear to servants is unheard of, 51. Their lord was a duke, etc., 631. Small house, a Ligurian one where the emperor is clothed in the purple, 122. Many small houses underground for the needy, 654. The emperor’s house is the Empire, 620. Sacred house, [house] of the Porphyrogenitus, 696. Pack beasts, 164. Drama, a town of Macedonia, 160, 161, 164. Dromora, friend of Sphrantzes, 277. Dubrunia, a town of the Triballi, 262. Duel offered, 111.
E Drunkard thinks the earth is reeling, 519. Drunkards mocking Christian mysteries, 671. The Church as a son according to the spirit, 151. Guards of the Church compared to physicians, 154. Ecclesiastical power compared to imperial, ibid. Church peace perturbed, 329. The patriarch threatens ejection from the Church, 551. Ecclesiastical laws, 526. The most holy Great Church of God, ibid. It embraces those who encounter it and do penance, 600. What the Church is A and its principal parts, ibid. Amputated from the body of the Church, 611. Ecclesiastical punishment not to be lightly esteemed, ibid. Roman Church, 654. Dogmas, religion, faith, concord of the Roman Church, ibid. Doctrine and rites of the Roman and apostolic Church, 655. Church divided, 681. War stirred up against the Church, 693. Desire for the Greek Church to be with the Roman, 753. Church notary, 858. Edessa, a small town but fortified, 168. Given to Emperor Andronikos the Younger, 170. Besieged by the Triballi, 479, 488. Defects to the Kral, 515. Besieged by the Kral for sixteen years, 775. A city almost impregnable, ibid. Taken, 776. Ascribed to the Romans, 791. Taken by the treachery of the Kral, 794. Edessenes expelled naked in the depth of winter, 795. Imperial edicts burned in the forum, 762. Eilone, a maritime city of Thrace, 768. Great Entrance, 115. Elason, a castle in Thessaly, 289. Elevation of the Lord’s and holy body during the Mass, 121. Elisabeth, wife of the Kral, 909. Empyrite, a castle, 631. Besieged for three days, 643. Surrendered to the empress, 665. Empythium, a castle, 447. Built from the foundations by John Cantacuzenus, 455. Besieged by Apocauchus, 516, 592. A most fortified castle, ibid. Strengthened by the garrison of Cantacuzenus, 814. Ennacosia, a region, 135, 367. Ephesus, a city, 287. The metropolitan of Ephesus removed from his rank, 799. Ephors or inspectors, 594. Ephrem, a small town of Morychea, 575. Epibate, a castle, 103. A most fortified citadel, 381. Castle of Apocauchus, 629. Near Selymbria, 900. Epithets thrown at the people, 125. Epidamnus, the bound of the Roman Empire, 75. The emperor ravages Epidamnus, 302. Epinikia celebrated, 746. Bishops, sacrosanct, 158. The emperor kisses their right hands, 123. They adore the emperor, 153. All bishops are equally participants in grace, 269. Promoted to more dignified chairs by emperors, ibid. The divine mind does not follow the affections of bishops, 457. Bishops as a principal part of the Church, 609. Interpreters and teachers of the divine will, 618. God does not follow the base affections of bishops, 611. Enemies of the bishops, 658. Bishops chosen as judges, 639. Gathered on account of a feast day, 670. Condemned for a declared cause, 695. The election of the patriarch left free to the bishops, 715. Bishops restored by the Sultan, 759. Bishop of the Jacobite heretics, 759. Bishops consecrated by the patriarch, 761. Their election, 906. Andronikos the Younger more addicted to equestrian games, 19, 45. Herds of horses at the Melas [Black] River, 58. Fifty thousand horsemen with Andronikos the Younger, 69. They descend from their horses to pray to God, 118. The emperor and empress sit on horses, crowned, 125. Equestrian contests received by the Romans from the Savoiards, 126. The horse of Emperor Andronikos the Younger wounded with seven wounds, 127. To descend from horse for the sake of honor, 154, 189. Pack horses of the camp-servants, 169. Three thousand selected horsemen take Achris, 171. The king of the Moesians kept running horses, 183. Four hundred Roman horses taken by the Persians, 222. Horses sent as a gift to the emperor by the Persians, 273. Thirty-seven horsemen taken from the imperial troop, 285. Five thousand horses taken, 302. Plague of horses, 519. Descending from their horses, they honor [the one] coming to meet them, 386, 388. Up to the horse to lead, 390. Legates despoiled of horses and baggage, 421. Collection of gifts, 456. Horses perished from cold, 446. Fifteen hundred pasture horses, 447. They descend from their horses to speak with the emperor, 477. The Triballi descend from their horses at the first encounter only, 492. The Romans descend from their horses further off, ibid. A horse, having its bridle seized, is led for the sake of honor, 499. One hundred horses given, 510. Thessalian cavalry, 516. The horse under Emperor Cantacuzenus falls—twenty thousand, 766. Seven thousand, 845. Stolen horses are restored, 577. Eressum, a town, 290, 293. Esaias, patriarch of Constantinople, 121, 154. Reduced to the patriarchate on a royal horse, 187. He pardons lapsed bishops, 198. Died, 261. Sacred Gospels used for oaths, 48, 75. Euboea, 275, 481, 561, 567. Island and small town, 817. Besieged, 822. Sacrament of the Eucharist carried with pomp, 124. Euclid, 329.
Eugenia, said to be a nun in the monastery of Irene the empress, 877. Attacked by slanders, 898. Eugenia Palaiologina, a nun and grand domestica, 69. Eugenius’s naval gate, 745, 821, 845. Eulochos, a town, 510. Eunuchs, 125, 470. Eunuchs falling to their knees, holding lamps, 681. A eunuch prodigal with his life, 766. Euripus, variable, 270. Europe, 212, 316, 756. Euxine Sea, 180, 200. Excommunication by the patriarch, perpetual, 351. Useless and harmful, ibid. It severs one from divine communion, ibid. Army of forty cohorts, 81. Exomologesis of sins, 514. Exotrochus, grand hetaireiarch, 171, 213, 214. Head split open with a sword, author uncertain, 222. Awake, you who sleep, and rise from the dead, etc., 890. From the dung, proverb, 608.
[F] He lacks a brain who would handle red-hot iron with his bare hand, 111. Masons, 618. Carpenters, 657. Things undone cannot be made to be un-done, 253. Intolerable hunger of the Acarnanians, 786. A torch raised at night summons enemies, 585. Torches frequently raised near the sea, 676. Those seized by fever dream of waters, 156, 157. A very cold diet for a poorly treated fever, 661. Syncope is contrary to fever, ibid. A live cat licking the ground with its tongue, 632. Wild beasts are not at all malignant toward their own cubs, 49. The bestial nature of certain men, 680. Wild beasts fleeing, forced by necessity to turn back, 790. The price for holding, games paid, 674. Red-hot iron handled by an unhurt person, 440. The emperor carries a ferula in his left hand, 125. A festival day for the confirmation of peace, 103. At the coronation of emperors, 125. At the arrival of the emperor, 503. Marriage feasting, 309, 319. The magnificence of festival days, 350. A panegyric feast, 378. The solemnity of Christ’s Nativity, 588. A festival day passed in common joy, 433, 436, 513. Feast days for happy news, 555. For the return of the emperor, 573, 575. For the imperial coronation, 570, 680. For the arrival of the emperor, 769. The parable of the evangelical fig tree, 459. An example of fidelity, 91, 591, 891. Faith follows not words, but deeds rather, 404. The faith of the Roman Church, 655. The Pope, the father, teacher, or leader of the faith, ibid. Whether true faith can ever be lost, 759. Torture rack, 514. Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, 520. Oaths were formerly not taken to the sons of emperors, 13. Good sons’ reverence toward their father, 141, 146. On the ancient law of the Romans regarding imperial sons, 200. The hope of sons to be placed in the hands of the Almighty, 351. Imperial sons proclaimed as successors immediately after the death of their fathers, 378. A spiritual son, 380. The end must be considered in all actions, 320. The emperor's treasury, 172, 191. The office of the treasury and exactions, 208. A flame-colored or white head-covering, 467. To swim across a river for sport, 595. The health-giving fountain of the Mother of God, 250, 261. In a church outside the city of Constantinople, ibid. Fountain of health, temple of the Mother of God, 875. Doors of the holy temple, 121. The power of fortitude, 905. The scales of Fortune, 525. The mutability of human fortune, 613. Fortune is slippery and often deceives, 871. Roman and Alban trench, 527. King of France, 121. The French, fond of tournaments, 196. Charles, King of France, 810. Francis Latinus, minister of Cantacuzenos and intimate of the Pope, 732. Frederic Spinula, a Genoese, 27. Friars Hospitaller, 256. Two hundred frozen to death, 512. A half-measure of grain sells for half a gold piece, 718. The wicked flees when no one pursues, 642. A torch excited by day summons enemies, 585, 587. Sacred funeral rites, 550. The harmful consumption of mushrooms, 110. Thieves are moreover accused, proverb, 787. Caught in the very act of theft, adage, 799. Furious men devouring their own flesh, 176. Neither knowing what they say nor to whom they speak, 255. Tearing their own bodies with pleasure, 512. We are like madmen, 524. With rage and wine, leaders go to arms, 699.
[G] Gabalas, a citizen of Thessalonica, mutilated, 569. Gabalas, an ambassador, 420. Protosebastos and later grand logothete, 420. Enemy of John Cantacuzenos, ibid. Appointed protosebastos, 167. Prefect or curator of the empress’s court, 370. Urges the empress to embrace peace, 595. Corrupted by the grand duke, 597. Fat and obese, 628. Uses medicines, ibid. Takes the monastic habit, 630. Put into prison, ibid. Gabriel Stephanus, despot and sebastokrator, 288. Gabriel’s village, 657, 658. Gacoras, a servant, betrays his master, 891. Galata, 235, 257, 259, 375. The Galatæ, a colony of the Genoese, 290. Galata, a town of the Latins, 633. The Galatæ offer vain help to the empress, 696. The Galatæ hostile to the Romans, 741. Galatæ occupy Phocaea, Mitylene, and Chios, ibid. Galatæ compared to donkeys, ibid. Naval victory of the Galatæ, 742. Galatæ celebrate a feast of salvation, 746. Galata gate opened by night, 808. The Galatæ seek pardon from Cantacuzenos, 809. Customary to return ingratitude, 811. Galata besieged, 811. Galatæ afflicted by Suleiman, 861. Galycus river, 270, 477. Not far from the city of Thessalonica, 816. Gani, metropolitan, 799. Garella, a city of Thrace, 78, 85. Makes surrender, 89. Under Cantacuzenos, 664. Gaura, a monastery, 421. Gaurobus, a village, 519. To embrace Genoa, 61. To kiss Genoa, 492. Three Genoese of proven faith, 27. The Genoese adore the emperor, 41. Trade in Chios, 236. A Genoese colony, 290. The Genoese capture the sons of the Persian nobles, 292. Treaty of the Genoese with the Roman Empire, 296, 299. Genoese nobles besiege Chios, 481. A Genoese merchant ship laden with riches, 741. Chios surrendered to the Genoese, 749. Discord between the Genoese and Venetians, 770. Treaty of the Genoese with the emperors of Constantinople, 810. Tumult of the Genoese people against the optimates, ibid. Genoese triremes perish, 830. The Genoese seek help from Orkhan, 833. They enter a treaty with Emperor Cantacuzenos, 836. Submit themselves to the prince of the Milanese, 857. They capture the Venetian fleet, 837. Defect from the Milanese prince, 838. Geometric demonstrations, proverb, 204, 551. George Bryennios, a duke, 109. George Chumnos, prefect of the table, 353. Ignorant and bold, ibid. Attacks John Cantacuzenos, 355. Impudent and abusive, 356. Grand stratopedarch, 409. Traitor, 410. Deceived by Apocauchus, 411. Declared grand stratopedarch, 467. Accuses Apocauchus, 529. Captured with his son, 555. George Cocalas, devoted to the emperor, 673. Plots against Apocauchus, 677. Author of sedition, 680. George Glabas, a duke, 453. Prefect of the Didymoteichon garrison, 573. George Lapithas, a Cypriot, student of Nicephorus Gregoras, 860. George Lucas, an ambassador, 162, 163. George Lyzicus, prefect of the Thessalonican citadel, 165. Prefect of Edessa, 776, 794. His beard plucked out, 795. George, the illustrious martyr of Christ, 667, 668. Checks the insolent temerity of a certain person, ibid. The temple of the martyr George renovated by the sultan, 757. George Palaeocastrita, a great martyr, 456. George Palaiologos, prefect of Bizye, 626. George Pepagomenos, an ambassador, 182. Quaestor, 397. Ambassador again, 599. George Pheraios, 532. George Phracases, a duke, 455. George Spanopulus, protovestiarius, ambassador, 732. George Tagaris, grand stratopedarch, 686. George Terteres, king of the Mysians, son of Sphentisthlabus, 106. His death, 107, 108. Gerasimus, prefect of the Lavra, 93. Gerasimus, a monk and slanderer, 754. Pseudopatriarch of Jerusalem, 754. Driven out by the sultan, 756. Dies on the journey, 759. Gerasimus, patriarch of Constantinople, 44. His death, 61. Daughter of the German prince, wife of Andronikos the Younger, 55. German Latin mercenary soldiers, 63. German
machine-artificer of walls, 108. Hospitality of the Germans with the Roman emperors, 206. Germans in need of money, ibid. The region of the Germans rears strenuous soldiers, 207. King of the Germans, ibid. Germans performing meritorious service, always ready for an expedition, 516. It is the Germans' ancestral custom to defend emperors, 547. All treachery is abhorrent to the character of the Germans, ibid. Germans are gifted with a donative, 750. Germans surrender themselves, 774. They followed the emperor through a thousand dangers, 774. Captives kindly treated, ibid. Sent by the Kral to Cantacuzenus, and recalled, 785. Getae beyond the Ister, 284.
Giaxis, satrap of Phrygia, 209. Giaxis or Gyaxes, leader of the Persians, 378, 381. Twice defeated, ibid. Glabas, great *droungarios*, 395. Glabas, *Scuterius*, 588. Sword of the emperor, 631. Not to be mastered by the desire for glory belongs to the slothful, 366. The pursuit of glory is as if hereditary to the Romans, 572. Vain glory is to be contemned, 905. Glykas, a worthless man and a hypocrite, 514. Golum, a small town of Thessaly, 289. Gorgepecum, monastery, 453. *Grabatulus* [bed], on which the emperor would rest during the day, 226. Cantacuzenus called king of the Greeks, 756. By the grace of God I am what I am, 712. Gratianopolis, 160. A very well-fortified metropolis of Chalcidice, 587. It is besieged, 587. It is captured with its citadel, ibid. It is obtained by Matthew Cantacuzenus, 880. It is occupied by John Palaiologos, 892. Heavy armor, 434, 448, 487. Strength of the people, 676. Gregorius Akindynos, monk, 536. Disciple of Barlaam, 557. Condemned by the bishops, 714. His followers ambitious, 716. They cause tumults, 797. He does not dare to speak freely, 805. He unjustly accuses monks, 807. See Akindynos. Gregorius, Archbishop of Bulgaria, 110. Gregorius, *chartophylax*, 135. Gregorius Klidas, *dikaophylax*, 133, 159. Gregorius Palamas, solitary, 330. Afterward Archbishop of Thessalonica, ibid. Two brothers of his, ibid. He admonishes Barlaam, 352. A most learned theologian, 534. He grants pardon to Barlaam, 556. A most beloved friend of John Cantacuzenus, 402. His praise, 692. He refutes the error of Barlaam, 693. Held in prison, ibid. Legate for peace, 699. Praised, ibid. His doctrine approved, 715. Worthy of the patriarchal throne, ibid. Consecrated Bishop of Thessalonica, 761. Provision made for him by the emperor, 762. Summoned to the synod, 797. Of what sort his associates were, 798. His struggle with the Akindynists, 799. His doctrine approved, 806. A monk unjustly accused, 807. Gudeles, prefect of Polystylon, cupbearer to the empress, 773. Gulielmus, bishop of the Order of Friars Minor, 735. Gymnoi [naked] Indians, 417, 553. Gynaecocastrum, built by Emperor Andronikos the Younger, 528. Whence it was named, ibid. Subject to the prefect of Thessalonica, 476. A very well-fortified fortress, 780. Captured, ibid. Added to the Romans, 791. Gyrolymnes, gates, 58, 177.
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Haemus, 281. Halmyros, river, 621. Hamati, breastplates, 201. Hebdomas, the Great [Holy Week], 56, 58. The New Week, 58. Hebrus, river, 118, 445. It freezes over, 449. Mouth of the Hebrus, 540. Several drowned in it, 588, 593. Helena, mother of Constantine the Great, 670. Her memory is celebrated in the month of May, 718. Helena, wife of the Kral, 411. Her praise, 496. She rebukes the empress's legates, 518. Sister of the King of the Mysians, 537. She provides Latin mercenaries to the emperor, 546. She reigns by herself, 882. Helena, daughter of John Cantacuzenus, 458. Betrothed to Emperor John Palaiologos, 705. Greeted as empress, 707. Her nuptials with Emperor John Palaiologos, ibid. She is crowned, ibid. Her children, 839. She is praised, 847. The Persians invade Hellas, 526. A pestilence sweeps through Hellas, 750. Hellespont, 209, 261, 291, 591, 649. Persian forces cross the Hellespont, 767. Heptascalon, naval station, 745. Cleared out, 796. Capable of holding many ships, 821. Triremes prepared therein, 823. Heraclea, city of Thrace, 79, 83, 597. The Heracleenses are students of the young emperor, 58. Heracleenses, 621. City of the Romans on the Pontus, 650. [Tribute] remitted, 827. Metropolitan of Heraclea, 839. Herbae, generating madness, 90. Hexamilion is besieged, 677. City of Thrace, 621. Winter, harsh, 445. In the middle of winter the Edessenes are cast out naked, 795. A Hierax, name of a place, 356. Hierax, prefect of Zernomiana, 647, 648. He promises to kill the emperor, 567. A perjurer, ibid. Wounded on account of a lost horse, 668. Prefect of the cities of Thrace, 663. Defeated by Matthew Cantacuzenus, 680. Hierum, a town, 629. City situated at the mouth of the strait, 648. Captured, 659. City of the Propontis facing the east, 870. Jerusalem, 520. Patriarch of Jerusalem, 627, 670, 757. Care of the temples in Jerusalem, 757. The holy places of Jerusalem frequented, ibid. Christian affairs saved in Jerusalem by the sultan's edict, ibid. Hippagogi [horse-transports], 230. A hippocentaur bearing a spear in his right hand, 632. Temple of the Hodegetria Mother of God, 104, 187, 515. Her icon, 704. Odegeon, monastery, 337. Men more prone to vice than to virtue, 148. Blessed men are most led by the desire for glory, 268. Every man should look to what is suitable for himself, 356. From where the customs and affections of men are to be discerned, 564. Man's highest good is to dwell with God, 383. In human form exercising the savagery of wild beasts, 515. Things in which men most rejoice and take pride, 522. Human fat tasted, 580. A man should consider nothing human as alien to himself, 826. The distinction between men and beasts among themselves, 905. To enslave fellow-members of the same race is an impiety, 265. Honorary nobles, 509. Honors of this life are fleeting and transient, 902, 905. What true and solid honors are, ibid. Hopantzus, legate from Mysia, 116. Hospitallers of Deli, 235. They avoid the stain of vice, 291. Hospitals of Byzantium, 852. Enemies praised by enemies, 637. Hugo de Spert, bishop of the Order of Preachers, 735. Oclavianus, emperor, called the King of Humanity, 711. Vespers hymns, 184. Alternating modulation of sacred hymns, 330. Hymn of the Trisagion, 370. Matins hymns, 585. Hyperborean mountains, 116. Hyperpyrakton, a small town, 588. Hyrtacina, 209.
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Ibanes, or John, legate of the King of the Mysians, 285. Ibanes Roussios, supreme commander, 107. He led three thousand Mysian cavalry, 181, 183. Ornament of the Iberian dogma, 756. Iberian monastery, 765. Ignifer [fire-bearer], 651. Illyrians, 525. Icons of the saints used as oaths, 48. Icon of the Baptist, 467. Icon of Saint George, 667. Of the Mother of God Hodegetria, 704. Icons acquired, 827. Imbertus Delfinus of Vienne, 709. An emperor proposed to all as an example of every honesty, 22. A very small blot in him seems a great one to wise men, ibid. The custom of emperors who encounter one another to salute, 104. The Roman emperor is considered a successor of Alexander the Great, 116. Imperial initiation, 133. The emperor is adored by the empress, 123. See Adoration. Emperors rise for the reading of the sacred Scriptures, 123. The emperor carries a cross in his right hand, a staff in his left, ibid. He bows his head to the deacon, 912. He offers incense to the holy table, ibid. He communicates in the manner of priests, ibid. He kisses the right hands of the patriarch and the bishops, 125. He is adored by the bishops, 153. He is urged by the patriarch to duty, ibid. Imperial power compared with ecclesiastical, 151. Two duties of emperors, 356. The emperor presides over the synod with the patriarch, 551. Lord of affairs, 565. Roman emperors excel all other kings, 571. Imperial ornament, 429, 433. Imperial letters subscribed in cinnabar, 434. Imperial garments, 456. Mention of the emperors in sacred rites, ibid. An imperial banquet, ibid. Emperors wear white robes in mourning, 436. Kisses fixed to the emperor's feet, 477. Not a few emperors…
… created like grain, 671. Betrothing their daughters to barbarians, 687. Four virtues of an emperor, 712. The emperor’s hand, 724. Adored by the soldiers, 874. The goods and evils of emperors common to their subjects, 902. That the soul of an emperor ought to be a mirror of every virtue, ibid. The Roman Empire, 121. Compared to a ship, 158. A shadow and phantom of the former, 548. To lay down the empire is a kind of death, 650. The prosperity of the ancient Roman Empire, 726. To shoot into the sky, proverb, 728. Detected in the very act of theft, adage, 799. Inas, the Hungarian duke, 107. Indians, 833. Infants forbidden to be slaughtered, 711. The dark places of the underworld, 429. Torments in the underworld, 559, 611. The arbiter of the underworld, 627. Punishment is prepared for unjust men in the presence of God, 171. A madman thinks others are mad, 519. Madmen eat their own flesh, 580. Insubria, 158. Envy is a most atrocious evil, 24. Like canker-worm, 318. The worst of all evils, 522. A deadly disease, 524. Ionia, 237, 293, 301, 305. The Ionian Sea, 306. Ionian naval forces, 388. Satrap of Ionia, 619. The Ionian Sea, 810. Implacable anger closes the bowels of Divine goodness, 180. Irene, wife of the emperor Andronikos the Younger, 75. Her death, 120. Irene, another Empress, wife of Andronikos the Elder, 45. Irene, daughter of the emperor John Palaiologos, 839. Irene, Empress, wife of John Cantacuzenus, 436. Gives gifts, 540. Crowned by her husband, 670. Most prudent, 720. Conciliates a son to a son-in-law, 839. Excludes John Palaiologos from Constantinople, 848. Assumes the monastic habit, 877. Irene, wife of the Marquis of Montferrat, wife of the emperor Andronikos the Elder, 158. Irene, wife of Matthew Cantacuzenus, captured, 892. Irene, daughter of Metochites the Great Logothete, wife of John Palaiologos the Panhypersebastos, ibid. Isaac Asanes, declared Panhypersebastos, 467, 636. Overseer of the highest affairs, 657. Colleague of the same, 661. His daughter, 733. Isaac, Megas Doux, 107, 412. Isaac, overseer of the Holy Mountain Athos, 93, 461. Condemned to the monastery of Petra, 464. Isaiah. See Esaias. The volume of the prophet Isaiah, 631. Isidore, patriarch of Constantinople elect, 716. Crowns John Cantacuzenus emperor, 717. Consecrates bishops, 761. His death, 763. Ishmaelites, 712. Ister [Danube], 281, 572. Isthmus, 217, 885. Italians, 121. Italy, 637. Cantacuzenus skilled in the Italian language, 875. Itiles Alanus, duke, 107.
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Jacobite heretics, 359. Their bishop, ibid. Jacobus Bragadinus, Venetian noble, legate to the emperor, 770. Jacobus Brulas, one of John Cantacuzenus’s familiars, 383. Legate to the empress, 570. Bloody along the track, 572. Killed, ibid. Jacobus Herminus, Genoese noble, 748. Days of fasting, 514, 515. Jesus Christ conquers, 664. John sounds like "by the grace of God," 712. John, son of Andronikos Asanes, captured, 404. Liberated, 435. Brother of Irene the Empress, 436. John Angelos, first cousin of John Cantacuzenus, 214. Serves the feasting emperors, 456. Praetor of Thessaly, 523. His praises, ibid. Blooming with imperial blood, 525. His virtues, ibid. Conditions of his prefecture, 526. Commended to Manuel Cantacuzenus, 568. First cousin of Manuel Cantacuzenus, 719. John Aplesphares, legate, 83, 116. John Apokaukos, son of the Megas Doux, 672. Primikerios and prefect of Thessalonica, ibid. Suddenly changes his opinion, 677. Captured, 679. Hurled from a wall, ibid. His head is cut off, his body lacerated, ibid. John Apokaukos, brother of the Megas Doux, 685. John Asanes, brother-in-law of John Cantacuzenus, 575, 592. Leads heavy armor, 631. Sebastokrator, 728. Prefect of Peritheorion, 881. Image of John the Baptist, 467. Christ baptized by him, 710. John Batatzes, Emperor, 14. Binds himself by an oath to Michael Palaiologos, 51. John Batatzes, overseer of the battle line of the Achaioi, 411. Occupies the castle of Beram, 411. Is terrified, 455. John Bryennios, legate, 652. John Cantabolenus, minister of the Augusta, 616. John Cantacuzenus, overseer of the sacred cubiculum, 13. Megas Domestikos, 14. Who and what his father was, 53. His mother Theodora Palaiologina, 79. Urges war against the barbarians, 110. Praised by the emperor Andronikos the Elder, 113. Fights with thighs and arms bare, 128. A contemner of money, 172. Pleads the cause of the lapsed bishops, 196. With how much love he pursued the emperor Andronikos the Younger, 201. Frees Syrgiannes from prison, 207. His horse precipitates into danger, 216. His love for the emperor Andronikos the Younger, 223. Refuses imperial insignia, 225, 226. Saves Martin the Genoese from death, 239. Issues sacraments, 242. Commands the reading of cities [records], 242. Saves Constantine the Despot from death, 244. His zeal towards the emperor Andronikos the Elder, 257. His benefits towards Syrgiannes, 270. Enemy to no one, 271. Compares himself to a rock, 272. Binds the satrap Amurius to himself, 295. Betroths his daughter to the despot Nikephoros, 306. Conquers the Persians, 308. Conquers the mind of Alexios Kabasilas, 315. Conciliates Artas to the emperor, 318. Persuades the Thomokastrians to surrender, 322. Attributes the prefecture to Apokaukos against the will of the emperor, 328. Makes a palinode regarding Barlaam, 355. Takes on the care of the emperor’s children, 339. A lover of truth, 349. Alien to insults, ibid. Sees to it that a piacular ceremony for the dead is performed, ibid. Writes more than five hundred letters in thirty days, ibid. Threatens the Albanians, 350. Feigns stomach pain and cramps, 353. Desires to rule, not for himself, but for those who most eagerly desire it, 355. Chief of all the Romans in both opinion and deed, ibid. Wishes to die for the emperor, 356. Abdicates from the administration of the empire, ibid. His authority, 357. His opinion on the republic, ibid. His most perfect friendship with the emperor, ibid. Yields the empire to another, 359. Exceeds the very idea of friendship, 360. Commended to the empress by the emperor, 362. Necessity imposed upon him to do all things with the greatest diligence, 363. His study of spreading his name, ibid. Amurius is explored and faithful, ibid. Urges Alexander, king of the Mysians, to peace, 373. Amurius observes his authority, ibid. His admirable prudence, 374. Spares neither body nor money for the common utility, 380. Reprimands the patriarch, 389, 390. How great his power, 391. Creates Apokaukos quaestor, 393. Appoints Apokaukos administrator of affairs, ibid. Refuses the imperial habit, 394, 395. Pardons Apokaukos, 397. Bestows every honor upon Apokaukos, 399. The credibility of his words, 400. What he has once decided, he does not retract easily, 402. His power and authority, 403. His mild nature, 410. He never took vengeance on anyone, ibid. He never preferred any private gain to the public good, 425. His manners approved, 427. Hates rapine and slaughter, 431. Knows how to benefit subjects, and to war down the proud, 433. Assumes the imperial role, 436. Is acclaimed in the third place, ibid. Roman empire decreed for him by God, 438. He eats a sour grape, ibid. Conserves the Roman empire whole and intact, 440. Builds on foundations, 447. His wealth is plundered, ibid. Commands the scoffer to be beaten, 450. Uses power without imperial vestments, 458. Vindicates the scoffer, 466. Does not need oaths for assurance, 473, 474. Fixes his hope in Him, 477. Wishes either to conquer or to die, 482. His magnanimity, 485. [Exhibits] other virtues, 495. Made "Crale" [Tsar] by him, 498. The eye of the Romans, 518. Once the happiest of all mortals, 523. Suffered unspeakable things from his friends, ibid. Desires to die for the emperor, ibid. Kind towards his traitors, 524. Rules with God favoring him, 538. Tossed by most serious cares, he prays to God alone, 541. Imprudently sharpens the sword against himself, 541. Could not be hurt by an archer, 560. High-spirited in dangers, 585. Renders an account of the well-governed republic, 601. A lover of truth from boyhood, 602. Most desirous of peace, ibid. Abdicates from the management of the empire, 604. To the governing of the empire
A recalled, ibid. Repels the Moesians and Triballians, 608. Useful to the Christian Church, 609. Never deviated from justice, 611. Appears in a dream, 651. Most tenacious of truth from childhood, 631. Compelled to use the aid of barbarians, 636. Praised by his enemies, 639. A terrible vision in dreams, 664. Crowned by the Patriarch of Jerusalem, 670. Crowns his wife, ibid. Forbids his daughter to become empress, 670, 671. Betroths his daughter to Orchan, 685. Makes his entrance into Constantinople with applause, 695. Invites the conquered to promised conditions, 699. Venerates the image of the Mother of God, swore upon it, ibid. An imitator of Christ, 709. Compared to Saint Stephen the martyr, Octavian, and Theodosius, ibid. To Constantine the Great, Octavian, Theodosius, Scipio, etc., 711. Crowned again by Patriarch Isidore, 717. Restored the Temple of Holy Wisdom, 718. Offers aid against the enemies of the Christians to Pope Clement, 735. Praised by the Sultan, 758. Meditates on monasticism, 763. Purges himself of ingratitude to Cral, 782, 783. An emperor even before the imperial habit, 787. Appears to be mocked by Cral in a dream, 789. Compared to a man drowned in water, 793. Convenes a synod, 798. Exalted by the Emperor’s dignity during the sacrifice of the Mass by the Patriarch, 800. Traduced by calumnies by Gregoras, 801. Receives Barlaam in hospitality, 803. Rejects money offered, 809. Brings forth monasticism, 820, 863, 876. Assumes the monastic habit, 877. Discourages his son Matthew from the desire for empire, 901. Explains the reasons for the empire managed by him to his son, 902. A monk with his children for more than a year, 908.
John Chrysoberges, legate, 613, 615. Endures blows fearlessly, 616. John Chrysostom, the great light of the world, 617. Always lives in Christ, ibid. John despotes, son of Nicephorus, 45. John Ducas, Prince of Acarnania, dies, 301. John, Duke of Acarnania, despotes, 289, 303. John the Evangelist, 201. John Gabalas, Grand Drungarios, 409. Legate to the Prince of the Triballians, ibid. John, son of Matthew Cantacuzenus, designated despotes, 907. John of Melitene, 47, 597. John, son of Michael, King of the Moesians, 352. John, legate of the Order of Preachers to the Pope, 357. John Palaiologos, son of Emperor Andronikos the Younger, 359. Only nine years old when his father died, 399. Acclaimed in second place after him, 436. Because of his immature age, he touched nothing of public affairs, 459. Crowned by Patriarch John, 467. His mother, Empress Anna, 498. His and his mother’s names inscribed on a golden bull, 512, 526. Led around as an adolescent, 585. Sick, 592. Because of his weaker age, he administers no public office, 672. Wise beyond his years, 698. A dwelling place of all graces, 705. His nuptials with Helena, daughter of Cantacuzenus, 701. Placed the final touch on the Temple of Holy Wisdom, 718. Crowned, crowns his wife, ibid. Taken to Galata without his mother’s knowledge, 725. The first rudiments of his military service, 732. Signs himself in vermilion after the bishops in a synod, 800. Prepares arms against his father-in-law Cantacuzenus, 818, 819. Claims Enos for himself, 821. Retakes the towns of Chalcidice, ibid. His sons and daughters, 839. Didymoteichon granted to him, ibid. His kindness to the captured Matthew Cantacuzenus, 893. Leads an army against the Moesians, 909. Takes Anchialos, ibid. Besieges Mesembria, ibid. Passes the night in a monastery, 910. John Palaiologos, Grand Constable, 85. Panhypersebastos, 129. Grand Primikerios, 453. John the Patriarch, excommunicated, 670. Cast out from his see, 715. His disturbances, exile, fury, death, ibid. Crowns John Palaiologos emperor, 718. Condemns Lazarus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 754. Stripped of his rank, 796. Driven from his see, 799. Presiding at a synod, ibid. Called to judgment, 803. Deposed by Empress Anna, ibid. Convenes a synod, 807. John Peralta the Latin, 718. Prefect of the Golden Gate garrison, 876. John Philes, born of a clear family, legate, 839. John the Cupbearer, 510, 385, 411. John Pothos, legate, 16. B John, presbyter to John Cantacuzenus concerning sacred things, 264. Announced as Hierarch of Thessalonica, 265. Patriarch of Constantinople, decreed and consecrated, 266, 383. Summons monks to judgment, ibid. Presides at a synod, 334. Mention of him in sacred records, 456. Crowns John Palaiologos, 467. John the Russian, supreme emperor, 107. John Rhoutzerios, legate, 182. John Sideros, legate, 384. John Spinula, 295. John Zaridas, 81, 94. John of Tzeplet the Cypriot, military leader, 120. Ioannina, city, 510. Joasaph, called Cantacuzenus in place of John, 877. Job the just, 711. Jordan, 710. Joseph in Egypt, 486. Joseph refuses the pontifical chair, 20. Bishop of Tenedos, 857. Jews, 457. Judea, 750. Jude the Sultan, 754. A judge who judges truly and incorruptly, 145, 195. Reconciles the good state of the city, 376. Let no one condemn a cause unheard, 806. A certain image of the Last Judgment, 193. The Last Judgment is horrible, 248, 566, 376, 552, 808. Twenty jugera sought by traitors, 180. Julius Caesar, 315, 711. The ancient and solemn custom of swearing, 12. Men were sworn by the holy Gospels and venerable images of the saints, 48. For a lord to swear to his servants is unheard of, 54. Oaths to the emperor subscribed by his own hand, 73. An oath hung upon a banner, 160, 161. Oaths do not move the wicked at all, 551. An oath remitted through legates, 553. The sacred formula of an oath, 370, 379. An oath proposed after the death of the emperor, 595. Terrible oaths, and dreadful to hear, 596. People are sworn through memory, 400, 661. They reconcile faith by oaths, 401. An oath confirmed by a bull, 412. An oath offered to the new emperor, 435. Anathema shouted at an oath, 462. The faith of an oath, 473. Why oaths are conceived, ibid. An oath in secret conspiracies, 628. An oath upon the image of the Mother of God, 705. Oaths recorded in tablets, 785. Accepted and confirmed by patriarchs, 906. Accepted by bishops, ibid. Justice abounding more than that of the Scribes or Pharisees, 196. Divine justice containing lightnings, 671. Justice and peace have kissed one another, 709. The power of justice, 905. One hundred noble youths armed follow the emperor, 124. Youth is the flower of age, 197. Easy to vices, ibid.
L Not yielding to labors, 511. The end of labors must be kept before the eyes, 566. The Lacedaemonians accustomed to return thanks poorly, 811. Tears joined with prayers, 22. Tears from joy, 105. A plenty of lamps, 550. Compelled to hold burning lamps in his hands, 480. Eunuchs holding lamps on the right and left, 681. Lampudios the Peloponnesian, a most wicked man, 751. Langada, 477. Lautzarethos, servant of John Cantacuzenus, 590. His faithfulness toward his master, 591. Appears in a dream, 651. Are some stones more precious than others, 905. Lascaris, one of the Edessene nobles, 169. Lascaris the Grand Chartophylax, 15, 684. C The Latin language, 279. Latin scouts, 291. The slaughter of the Latins, 292. The Latins dispersed, 291. They took Byzantium, 310. The Latin empire is harsh, 322. Latin customs, laws, dogmas, 329. The Peloponnesian Latins surrender themselves to the emperor, 384. Latin mercenaries, 456. Latin knights created, ibid. Latin mercenaries, 516. Men-at-arms, 856. Latin embassy to John Cantacuzenus, 631. They burn the naval base of Smyrna, 649. Latins from the Germans, 666. The Latins possessed Constantinople and Smyrna, 681. The Latin fleet, ibid. Their hatred toward the Phareolatres, 691. They occupy Achaia, 750. They burn the ships of the Persians, 786. They held Byzantium for more than sixty years, 810. Masters of the sea, ibid. Laura on Mount Athos, 95, 461. Philotheus, moderator of the sacred Laura, 763. Monks of the sacred Laura, 909. Lazarus, Patriarch of Jerusalem, 670. Crowns John Cantacuzenus emperor, 718. Legate to the sultan, 754. Condemned by John of Constantinople, ibid. Obstinate in the Greek faith, 755. Called a confessor, ibid. Restored, ibid. 758. His patience in enduring blows.
875.
Malacasii, peoples of Thessaly, 289. Mamanias, monastery of the martyr, 761, 851, 859. Mancaphas, domestic of the emperor Andronicus, 647. Mandyes, golden [garment] over the diadem and purple, 123. Manganen monastery, 155, 187, 878, 891. Manganis, plains outside Byzantium, 595. In Manganis, the fortress or rampart, ibid. Manganis, the citadel, 629. The Manganen citadel, so well fortified that it could resist all Constantinople, 653. Manuel, administrator, 521. Manuel, son of Andronicus Asanes, captured, 404. Liberated, Asanes. Manuel, son of the emperor Andronicus the Younger, 339, 451. Manuel, son of Apocauchus, prefect of Adrianople, 623. Transitions to the emperor, 624. Manuel Asanes, brother of the wife of John Cantacuzenus, 79. Rules the imperial battle line, 285. Leader of sixteen cohorts, detained for a time, 484. Fears sedition, 503. Tests the dispositions of the soldiers, 504. Chosen prefect of Bizye, 626. Paternal uncle of the empress Irene, 652. Sebastocrator, 720. Despote, 814, 825. Manuel Cantacuzenus, duke, 415, 455. Son of John Cantacuzenus, 475. His praises, 519. Prefect of Berrhoea, 568. His dream, 631. His power over surrendered cities, 670. Praetor of the Peloponnesians, 751. His faith and authority, 753. Expelled into Thessaly, 786. Prefect of the Peloponnese, 907. Manuel, cousin of Cantacuzenus, 816. Manuel Comnenus, emperor, 503. Manuel, despote, brother of John Palaeologus, given as a hostage to the Kral, 815. Transfers the province to his brother, 880. Manuel, despote, younger son of Michael II Palaeologus, 11. Prefect of Byzantium, 738. Manuel, younger son of John Palaeologus, 839, 847. Despote, 910. Manuel Lascaris, driven from Thrace, 159. Manuel Philanthropenus, prefect of the flagship, 746. Manuel Sergopalus, Byzantine envoy to the sultan, 751. Manuel Tagaris, grand stratopedarch, 59. Manuel Tarchaniota, killed by the Barbarians, 222. Manuel Tarchaniota, called Curtices, 582. Leader of the cavalry, 453. To return empty-handed, 881. Maratuncas, duke of the Persians, 759. Marcelatus, prince of shepherds, 770. Marquess, prince of Lombardy, 707. Marquess of Montferrat, 158. Marcus Cabailarius, 158. Example of a man struck by the fear of an evil conscience, 193. Obtained forgiveness for his crimes, 194, 197. Latins and Galatians wish to rule the sea, 741. Lords of the Roman sea, 718. Latins, 810. Venetians, 837. Maria, daughter of the emperor Andronicus the Younger, 31. Maria, daughter of John Cantacuzenus, betrothed to Nicephorus Ducas, 453. Praised, 884. Becomes a nun, 885. Maria, daughter of John Palaeologus, panhypersebast, 129. Marmarium, small town, 164. Martha, sister of Michael I Palaeologus, 765. Martha, monastery of, 469, 763. Martinus, brother of Benedict Zaccaria, Genoese, 528, 229. Considerations of surrender, 231. Snatched from death by John Cantacuzenus, 252. Led into chains, ibid. Beheaded by the Persians, 681. Martinus, Italian, prefect of Tenedos, 860. Martinus, envoy of Sphentisthlabus, king of the Mysians, 69. Martinus Niemorus, prefect of a Genoese trireme, 825. Urges the siege of Constantinople, 824. Many things are granted by God to the holy martyrs, 166. Great martyr George Palaeocastrites, 436. Marulas, parent of the prefect of the watch, 186. Massalians, 530, 539. A son honors his mother, 103. Maternal authority over a son, 821. Matthaeus Cantacuzenus, firstborn son of John Cantacuzenus, 324. His marriage with the daughter of the despote Demetrius, ibid. Brother of Andronicus, 419. Prefect of the cities of Maroneia and Rhodope, 455. Brother of Manuel, 453, 475. His praise, 519. Certain small towns yielded themselves to him, 581. Prefect of Gratianopolis, 588. Called emperor, 670. Placed in charge of the Roman army, 719. Solicited by his father to defect, 728. Recalled by his mother to sounder counsels, 730.
A His stratagem, 199. His cowardice, 201. He preserves perpetual peace with the Romans, 202. He wages war against the Triballians, 203. Michael Tarchaniota, legate, 527. Michael Tornices, grand contostaulos, 36. Microcephalus flees to the emperor, 601, 602. Soldiers reduced to extremities, 147. Military licentiousness, 633. The duty of soldiers, 721. Minerva’s calculation, 255. The emperor used to sign imperial edicts with vermilion, 226. Monks of the order of the Minors, 655. Their rector, 656. Their order, 733. Maurouesas of Philadelphia speaks Persian, 577, 578. Maza, half of a ration, 864. Media, a maritime city of Pontus, 737. Prelates of the Church compared to physicians, 154. Spiritual medicine, 216. Joannes Cantacuzenus compared to a physician, 583. Leanness procured by medicaments, 628. Italian physician, ibid. A medimnos, the average measure of grain brought in, is worth half a gold coin, 748. The prince of the Mediolanenses [Milan] is most wealthy, 837. Gratitude is poorly rendered to him by the Genoese, 838. Great Entrance, 125. Melec Nazar, sultan, 757. Melenikos, a city of Macedonia, 129. The suburbs of Melenikos, 472. A city most fortified by its defenses and the site of its location, 475. It is occupied by Cantacuzenus, 475. It can scarcely feed its own inhabitants, 486. An impregnable city, 499. Surrendered to Chreli, ibid. Granted to the Crali, 791. Its metropolitan, 839. Menalus, commander, 746. One must use a lie against a potent enemy, 405. Those accustomed to lies easily tell falsehoods, 408. He who lies to God is also vain among men, 692. Wandering beggars, 576. The sacred table, 122, 912. The royal table, 125. Imperial, 157. Prefect of the table, 355. License to carry on trade, 299. The duty of merchants, 724. Merchants provided for by the Sultan's edict, 758. Gold coins assigned to mercenary soldiers, 102. Stipends paid to mercenaries with a bonus, 441. The castles of Meropes surrender, 374. Held by Momitzilus, 650. Merizianes, eunuch of Orchanes, 766. The common people of Thessaly, 289. Mesembria, city of the Moesians, 107, 280. Besieged, 909. Mesene, an ancient city, destroyed long ago, 590. The town of Mesopotamia, 510. Mesothenia, 210. B Methone, a city, 837. Methymna, a town, 290. Metochites, grand logothete, 37. Interpreter of the Andronici [and their] polis and grandfather, 53. Father-in-law of the pankypersebastos Joannes Palaiologos, 129. His house plundered, 187. A meeting in his house, 870. Metre, a fortified village, 885. Metrophanes, metropolitan of Melenikos, 839, 846. Michael, son of Alexandros, king of the Moesians, 241. Michael Asanes, named king by his father, 309. Michael Asanes, kinsman of Emperor Andronikos the Elder, 145. Namely, son of his sister, 160. Oblivious of the Prosarum, 175. First-born son of the despot Asanes, 514. Michael Bryennios, commander of Pamphilia, 539. Flagellated, ibid. Dies before the feet of the emperor, 540, 591. Michael Callicrinites, eunuch, 45. Michael, nicknamed Carbarus, 11. Made a companion of Emperor Andronikos the Elder, 12. Michael, commander of Patras and surrounding Thessaly, 130. Michael, commander and despot, 455. Michael Lascaris, governor of Melenikos, 129. Michael Monomachos, contostaulos, governor of Thessalonica, 547. Michael I, emperor of the Palaiologi, 13. Demanded an oath from Joannes Batatzes, 54. His sons and daughters, 129. His wars with the Acarnanians and Thessalians, 506. His sister a nun, 463. Finds honor, 720. His daring enterprise, little fortunate, 735. He separates the city of Scopium from the Roman empire, 779. He recovered Byzantium, 810. He imposed customs duties, ibid. Michael II, Palaiologos, partner in the empire with his father, 10. His sons and daughters, ibid. His death, 11. The Comans followed his camps, 159. Michael Palaiologos, head of the Zealots, 675. Born for doing evil, ibid. Killed, ibid. Michael Prossel, commander, 189. Michael Scopell, governor of the city, 516. Michael Streautzimeri, son of the king of the Moesians, 108, 128. C Miracle of Saint Demetrios the martyr, 166. Of the fountain of the Mother of God the Virgin, 250. Of the bishop of Didymoteichon, 140. Mercy and truth preserve the king, 712. Mass, 122, 123. The sacrifice of the Mass, 596, 719. After the sacrifice of the Mass is finished, Cantacuzenus is adorned in imperial regalia, 800. During the sacrifice of the Mass, the names of the emperors are recited, 856. See Sacrifice. The people of Mitylene taken by assault, 290. Mitylene defended, 291. Besieged, 292, 296. Restored, 301. Occupied by the Galatians, 741. Three hundred mailed Moesian horsemen, 69. Moesian incursions into Roman territory, 106. The Moesians far inferior to the Romans, 112, 114. Subject to the Romans, 169. Perpetual peace between them, 212. The Moesians defeated by the Triballians, 263. Their treaty with the Romans, 283. Victory, 245. Treaty-breakers, 372. Treading each other down in flight, 558. Repelled by Jo. Cantacuzenus, 500. Cities of the Moesians traded for the price of an alliance, 614. The Persians burst into Moesia, 619. Moesian auxiliaries are of no use, 686. Moesia ravaged by the Persians, 688. Moesian booty, 689. The Moesians [are] barbarians, 696. Their avarice, 721. Moesia ravaged, 768. The Moesians acclaim their king, 796. Led against Cantacuzenus, 843. Flight, 845. Their fields ravaged by the Persians, ibid. Moesia ravaged by Salinianus, 846. Mogleni, 135, 139. Momitzilus, commander of the castles of Meropes, 571. His character and genius, ibid. Persuaded to treachery by promises, 585. Invades Abdera, 589. Created despot, 591. Sebastokrator, ibid. Names himself despot, 592. Considered insuperable, 594. Attacks envoys, 615. His power, 650. Mosa, ibid. Monasticism pleasing to God, 525. Joannes Cantacuzenus contemplates monasticism, 763. Monasticism embraced by the emperor’s most intimate friends, 764. Cantacuzenus brings forth monasticism, 820, 863, 865. The monk with whom the Empress Despoina had deposited her belongings is captured, 170. The reward of monks in heaven, 217. Monastic studies, 331. The spiritual laws of monks, 333. Monks as reconcilers of the divine Name, 575. A monk, as envoy, subjected to insult, 425. Because of the monks, the inhabitants are spared in the city, 454. A certain monk exposes himself to dangers for the sake of what is honorable, 457. Monks excelling others in holiness, 461. The order of monks most chosen, the primary parts of the Church, 609. The monks of the institute of the Minors, 655. Enemies of the monks, 655. Monks chosen as judges, 639. Monks [lead] a quiet life, 645. The monk as a scout, 685. The principal monks condemned without a hearing, 697. Monks inspired by God, 802. Traduced by the slanders of Gregoras, ibid. Compared to Atlas, 803. Unjustly accused, 807. Prayers of the monks for peace, 844. Monastery of Chartatum, 93. Monastery of Libis, 120. Manganense, 155. Of Thessalonica, 160. Manganium, 187. At Scete of Berrhoea, 530. Monasteries at Mount Athos, 531. Monastery of the Odygos, 557. Divine Providence appeased by the building of a monastery, 375. Monastery of Gaura, 421. Monastery of Batopedion, 462. Monastery called Petra, 461. Monastery of Chora, ibid. Monastery of Martha, 463. Monasteries subject to the Great Church, 526. Monastery of Christ the Savior and its benefice, 627. Prayers prescribed for monasteries, 642. The enclosures of monasteries, 654. Monasteries in Jerusalem spared by the Sultan's edict, 757. Monastery of the Iberians, 763. Monastery of Martha, ibid. Monastery of Saint Mamas, for prisoners being guarded, 774. Monastery of Christ in a solitary region, 801. Monastery of Batopedion, 805. Monasteries of Byzantium, 827. Monastery of Mamas the martyr, 851, 857. Manganense, 878. Monastery of Martha, ibid. Batopedion, ibid. Monastery formerly [such], now the castle of Dera, 879. Monastery of Martha, 883. Manganense, 894. Monasteries on Athos, 909. The emperor approaches the monastery at night, 919. D
A Monastic institutions, 93, 323. A good thing and beloved of God, 525. Monastic habit, 95, 160. Holy, 241. Habit of repentance, ibid., 215, 216. Habit of the Nazarenes, 248. Monastic garment, 489. Called the Great Schema, 51. The monk’s attire cast off, 630. Emperor Cantacuzenos assumes the monastic habit, 877. Monean, of the Catalan army, 851. Monilia (necklaces) worn as bridal jewelry, 403. Priest’s golden necklace hanging from the neck, 631. Sacred necklace, 634. Monomachos, the Great Contestaulos, 554. Venerable because of the integrity of his character, 556. Declared commander of the forces, 562. Monomachos, prefect of Thessalonica, 160, 163. His praise, 288. Sent into Acarnania, 310. Prefect of Thessaly, 450, 475, 477. Monomachos, a poisoner, 689, 690. Mount Immutus, 359. Marquis of Montferrat, 158. Moraba, a place, 491. Morrha, 118, 433. The small towns of Morrha surrender, 575. Morrha ravaged, 594, 608. Morrh boundaries, 630. The city of Morrha fails, 646. The region of the Morrhites is sunny and rich in fodder, ibid. Death unavoidable, 61. It brings oblivion of all things, 214. Stronger than nature itself, 219. Death announced, 250. To die, the most hateful and sad of all evils, 512. What is more horrible than death? 355, 363. To die in war, beautiful, 412. Mpalices, prince of the Alani, 682. Mugduphes, a seditious man, 412, 665. The calamity of a noble woman and a widow, 361. Female modesty and weakness set aside, 562. How great is the natural weakness of women, 568. A woman still touches the ground, even though her head may touch the clouds, ibid. A woman is a woman, 369. Levity belongs to women, gravity to men, 450. Mules scratch one another (proverb), 150. Three hundred mules, 447. Many things fall between the cup and the lip (proverb), 66. Women’s finery valued at twenty thousand gold pieces, 171. Musical instruments, 644. A mouse freeing a lion from snares, 5. Muslims serve in Jerusalem, 757. Muzalon, an envoy, 575. Mygdonia, 650. Assigned to the Romans, 791. Cities of Mygdonia summon Matthew Cantacuzenos, 887. Myriophylon, a town, 617. Myroblyte, Saint Demetrios the martyr, 166, 379. Holy Mystagogia, 122, 124, 184. B N. Nose sharpened by approaching death, 250. Mutilated in the nostrils, 569, 571. Natural things made by God are immutable, 438. Human nature does not fear to take up arms even against God, 445. It is for the few to rule over nature, 481. Those who are victors and masters of nature, ibid. Speech follows the nature of things, not the contrary, 555. Naupactos, a city of Acarnania, 321. Nautical license, 18. A ship without a master in the midst of the sea, 261. When the ship perishes, the sailors perish, 432. Persian ships burned, 581. The naval yard burned with the ships, the flagship, 646. Pirate ships burned, 768. Over twenty predatory ships, 769. Persian ships set on fire, 786. Nautical insolence, 819. Nazarenes, religious men, 330. Habit of the Nazarenes, 218. Neither did he escape the fire, 651. Nicephoros, son of the Great Duke Apocauchos, 911. Nicephoros Basilicus, prefect of Melenikon, 175. Nicephoros, prefect of the Caniclei, 45. Nicephoros Cantacuzenos slain by the sword by barbarians. Nicephoros the Despot, prince of Acarnania, 11. Son of the Despot John, 513. Not yet born for his seventh year, 514. Called Nicephoros Ducas, ibid. A clandestine flight arranged, ibid. Received by the Prince of Tarentum, 510. Besieged at Thomocastron, 510. He has little strength, 516. An exile from his paternal principality, 517. A boy, 519. His tutor, 520. John Cantacuzenos promises him all power, 525. Decorated with the dignity of Panhypersebastos, 521. Aid sent to him from the Peloponnese, 581. Maria, daughter of Cantacuzenos, betrothed to the boy, 527. Son-in-law of Cantacuzenos, 527. Designated Despot, 720. C He puts the emperor in danger, 739. Prefect of Thracian cities, three times, 883. Falls fighting against the Albanians, 885. Nicephoros Gregoras, a student of Metochites in astronomy, 37. Standard-bearer of the Acindynians, 79. Seditious, 800. Monk in the monastery called Christ’s, 801. Calumniates Emperor Cantacuzenos, ibid. Calumniates monks, 802. Laments the death of Andronicus the Younger, ibid. His impudent lie, 804. Condemned as a disciple of Barlaam, 806. Praises Emperor Cantacuzenos, 807. Tries to clear himself, ibid. Nicephoros, son of the Great Logothete Metochites, 42. Nicephoros Metochites, Great Logothete, 664. Nicephoros Sebastocrator, uncle of Matthew Cantacuzenos, 81. Nicephoros Tarentinus, prefect of the Thessalian troops, 780. Niceliatum, 221. Nicolaus Bazilitzes, 309, 314. Prefect of Arta, 318. Nicolaus Cabasilas, an envoy, 676. Embraced monastic life, 764. Still a layman, 839. See Cabasilas. Nicolaus Melitenensis, 597. Nicolaus Pisanus, admiral of the Venetian fleet, 815. Fearing for himself, 827. His timidity and cowardice, 830. His inhumanity and cruelty, 832. Considered a fool and a blockhead, 835. Refits the fleet, 836. Died in prison, 837. Nicolaus, prefect of the taxes, 502. Nicolaus Sanutus, prefect of the Cyclades, 236. Nicomedia, a large and populous city, 273. Impregnable by hand and arms, 280. Black River, 58, 69, 176, 178, 181, 441, 442, 883. History written by John Cantacuzenos by order of the Nile [i.e., of the emperor], 911. A certain tribe can divert the river Nile elsewhere, 759. D Niphon, bishop of the Moglenoi, 135, 139, 142. Noble youths, honorary, 492. The nobility of the soul excels the nobility of the body, 522. Noble Romans captured by barbarians, 845. Nomads, 210. Names subscribed to letters, 549. Name erased from a sacred [document], 670. Names of emperors recited during the sacrifice of the Mass, 836. My hour has not yet come, 710. Notary of the church, 858. Notia, a castle, 776. New Week [Bright Week], 58. Temple of the Nine Orders, 658. Night spent in discourse by the emperor and patriarch, 910. Ntisantas, father of the Catalan leader, 834. Imperial gold, silver, and bronze coins, 115, 670. Roman custom of contracting marriages, 405, 684. O. Precepts of obedience, 329. To consecrate oneself to the obedience of a spiritual father, 350. Bronze obols, 525. They were able to save three of the besieged, 296. Inconveniences of a siege, 298. Ochyron, a small town, 227. Iron chains, 593. Emperor Octavianus, 709. Called the King of Humanity, 711. Kisses fixed on the eyes, 50. The eye seeing all things, 73, 451. Laying hands on the eyes, 249. Seeing the divine light with bodily eyes, 350. Odoardus, prefect of Mitylene, 292, 300. Odrysae, 25, 69, 199. Odyssey, 513. Economy of Christ the Savior, 302. Holy oil, 378. Omphalopsychi, 350. More than ten thousand laborers gathered for the building of the fortress, 773. Ophiceiana Gate at Beroea, 775. Office of a craftsman, 724. Orchanes, satrap or prince of the Persians, 210, 211, 214. Laudatory to the Romans, 218. Sends an embassy to the emperor, ibid. Prepares to invade Byzantium, 307. Eastern satrap of Bithynia, ruling as far as Phrygia, ibid. Joins John Cantacuzenos gratuitously, 656. Seeks the daughter of John Cantacuzenos as his wife, 682. Succors the emperor, 687. John Cantacuzenos...
A emperor’s son-in-law, 717. Sends aid to his son-in-law, 719, 766. Desires to kill the younger emperor, ibid. Is invaded by the satraps of the Persians, 768. Hostile to the Venetians, 833. Helps his father-in-law Cantacuzenos with aid, 843. Hindered by illness, 865. Receives his son, who had been captured, 887. Sends aid to Matthew Cantacuzenos, ibid. Anxious for the liberation of his son, 901. Orcus helmet, 275. Those wearing the Orcus helmet, proverb, 820. Monastic instruments, 710. Orgidus, an envoy from Moesia, 116. Kisses fixed on the emperor’s feet, 50. Kisses fixed on the eyes, ibid. Kisses fixed on the feet and face, ibid. Hands, 104. Feet, ibid. Hands seized, 125. On one foot, 154, 209, 477, 483, 490. On the chest, and on the mouth, or the lips, 492. On the knees, ibid. Hands, 637. Feet, 759. Osman, father of Orchan, prince of the Persians, 219. Twelve hundred thousand sheep captured, 503. Five hundred sheep bought for one gold piece, ibid. Spiritual sheep, 569. Seventy thousand sheep, 447. Ovresis, son of Cralis, 882.
P Pachatures, one of the Persian nobles, 219. Paeonia, 262. Paeonians, 557, 779. Paganus Auria, prefect of the Genoese fleet, 815, 822. Attempts the walls of Constantinople, 821. Leader of seventy ships, 826. Stripped of his power, 836. Created leader a second time, 837. Cast into exile, 838. Paganus, 384. Paleologa Cantacuzena, kinswoman of the emperor, 212. The Paleologus emperors drove the Latins from the empire, 516. They contend among themselves for the empire, 318. Palestine, 756. Imperial palace, 121. Palace atrium, 125. Palace at Thessalonica, 168. Palace in Blachernae, open all day, 241. Palace fortified, 295, 559, 561. Palace hall, 589. Palace chambers, 350. Palace of Constantine the Great, 514. Palace guarded by God, 526. Prison in the palace of Constantine the Great, 654. Palace walls, ibid. Palace walls breached, 658. Palace of Constantine held by captives, 659, 660. Synod in the palace, 694, 695. Palace fortified, ibid. Surrounded by battlements, 698. Palace in Blachernae, 798. Pallene, 278, 586. Palm Sunday, 38. Pamphilus, city, 447, 448. Panactes, river, 890. Panagian, place, 287. The Pope entrusts the Chios pontificate to Latin bishops, 655. Master and leader of faith, ibid. Propitiates the Divinity for those following the perversity of certain doctrines, ibid. Pope Clement, the sixth of this name, ibid. Pope’s letters to the empress, ibid. The Pope elects a patriarch of Constantinople, 681. Invoking on him a most desirable war against the Barbarians, the enemies of Christians, 751. Paphlagonia, maritime, 631. Paraderno, small town, 68. Day of preparation (Good Friday), 58, 515. Paraspondylus, prefect of Adrianople, 647, 649, 665. Rebuked by the emperor, 665. Paraspondylus, a certain traitor, 668. Attempts to kill the sleeping emperor, ibid. Flees to the empress, 669. Those living by the sea (Parathalassii), 765. Leopard (Pardalis), 159. Leopard skins, 275. A live leopard holding a chart in one foot, 632. Natural love of parents for their children, 21. Parga, town, 310. Parthians, 533. Day of Easter, 57. Fable of the captured sparrow, 553. A signal example of a certain pastor’s faithfulness to his master and charity toward an enemy, 91. My father and mother have forsaken me, etc., 711. Spiritual father, 215, 216. His office, ibid., 218. To consecrate oneself to the obedience of a spiritual father, 730. The spiritual father’s solicitude for his sheep, 369, 730. More worthy of reverence than our parents, 390. All commit their senses to him, 459. They refer their affairs to him, 514. Patience to be shown in time, 28. Patra, 130, 527. Patriarch’s office and duty, 153, 155. Patriarch cast out of the patriarchate, 155. Led back to the patriarchate B riding regally on a horse, 187. Common teacher, and mirror of a holy life, 197. He signed first at the synod, 532. Threatens ejection from the church, 351. Presides at the council, 353. Patriarch’s throne and cathedra, 369. Mode of confirming the patriarch’s decrees, 307, 579. Patriarch rebuked by John Cantacuzenos, 389, 390. Common spiritual father of all, ibid. Most worthy of all reverence, ibid. Presides over the highest priesthood, 414. Patron of laws and justice, 416. Common parent and master of justice elected by God, 456. Patriarchate, 461. Patriarchal standard, 467. Patriarch is the master of the world, 469. Pastor, and tutor, and master of all elected by God, 605. Patron of justice to be revered, 606. Disciple of peaceful and gentle masters, ibid. President and patron of peace, 605. Election of the patriarch left free to the bishops, 715. Patriarchate, 851. The emperor yields to the election of the patriarch, 859. The patriarch is exempt, a certain god on earth, 909. Patriciota, 375, 377. Dies in torments, 515. Paul the Apostle, and herald of truth, 474. Forsaken by Demas, 519. Kept the faith, finished his course, 524. Communicated his gospel with other apostles, 735. Bore the stigmata of Christ in his body, 761. Peace, the reconciler of many commodities, 12, 78, 82. Exhilarates God and the angels, 132. Utility and increase of the republic, 26. Outweighs any war, 282. We are the peace-makers of good and evil, 363. Disciple of the peacemaker, 370. Peace salutary to the republic, 625, 413. Goods of peace, 570, 571. Peace the root of all good things, 814. Pazarlus, brother of Orchan, prince of the Persians, 214. Venial sins to be prayed for daily, 24. Common remedy for those sinning, 151. Sins of others to be forgiven, 282. Sins deplored, 248. Ransom for sins, 326. Various reasons for blotting out the stains of sins, 575. Sins to be compensated by right actions, 376. Confession of sins, 514. Sins detected in confession, ibid. Peris, name of a place, 288. Chest struck, 240. Chest to be kissed, 192. Money held in contempt, 58, 86. Money dispersed in the world, 125. Great force of money discovered, 171. Held in contempt by John Cantacuzenos, 172, 575. Hardly anyone unconquered by money, 376. Custody of money not very pleasant, 577. Quantity of John Cantacuzenos’ money, 470. Servants of money, 564. Money the nerve of war, 809. Offered money rejected, 809. Kisses fixed on the emperor’s feet, 49, 50, 92, 104. Striking the ground with the foot, a sign of one indignant, 111. To kiss the feet, index of subjection, 151, 209, 477. Those departing kissed the emperor’s foot, 485. Approaching, 490. Adoring, 509, 739. Pege, 209. City across the Hellespont, 861. Temple of the Mother of God, 707. Pelagonia, 173, 262. Pelecanus, 211, 217. Leopard skins, 273. Peloponnese, 50, 55. Invaded by the Persians, 316. Wishes to be under the emperor, 381. Letter of the Peloponnesians to John Cantacuzenos, ibid. Peloponnese embroiled, 750. Peloponnesian pretor (governor), 751. Peloponnese more desolate than Scythia, ibid. Peloponnesians factious, ibid. Little observant of the laws of Lycurgus, ibid. Peloponnese unconquered by enemies, 753. Imperial pension, 264. Pentecost, 69, 75, 184. Imperial cloak (penula), 124. Pepanus, guard of the walls, 177, 178. Perdicas, prefect of the sacred vessels, 837. Pergamenus Tenedius, author of the defection, 860. Perinthus, 441. Peristiza, city, 576. Peritheorium, maritime city of Thrace, 328. So called by Andronicus the younger C emperor, 529, 454. Besieged by Cantacuzenos, ibid., 461, 464. Its surrender impeded, 468, 471. Besieged a second time, 569, 574, 575. Remains in the faith of the emperor, 589. Excludes Momitzilus, 650. Handed over to John Paleologus, 879. Perjury is the denial of God, 603. Persian prince, sultan, 54. Persians summoned from the east by Andronicus the elder emperor, 94. Persian archisatrap, ibid. Persian brigands are cut down, 127. Persians besiege Prusa, 136. They adore the emperor, 209. In the height of summer they live in tents, 210. Persian incursion into Roman territory, 211. Flight, 213. Despair, twenty-four captured, 292. Persian infantry aid, 301. Persians of light armament and archers, 502. D Persians dismissed, 303. Persian slaughter, 508. Persians defeated.
and saved, ibid. Persian ships captured with selected marines, 309. Persians raid Thrace, Macedonia, Hellas, and the Peloponnese, 326. Very powerful in infantry and cavalry battles, 327. Most timid in naval conflict, ibid. Persian proverb about women, 368. Persian women, 381. Ships brought to the harbor, 388. Persians near the Romans, 391. They destroy the Moesians, 445. Persian felt cap, 480. Mercy of a certain captured Persian, 515. Persians plunder around Berrhoia, 562. They raid the Thessalonian countryside, 567, ibid. Persian tents, 583. Persian ships burned, 584, 586. Persians feign flight, ibid. They reduce all of Thrace to slavery, 595. Unlike us in religious worship, 612. They burn villages, 621. They infest Roman regions heavily, 651. They burst into Moesia, 649. Persian archers, 651. Imprudence of the Persian generals, 661. Persians return home, 662. They fall because of the treachery of Batatzes, 664. They insult the Patriarch, 681. They besiege Selymbria, 687. Persian generals feast with the Emperor, 687. Persians deform Moesia, 688. Allies and friends of the Emperor, ibid. Greed of the flowers [of the army], 722. Two thousand Persian plunderers captured, 738. Persians worship the Emperor and kiss his feet, 739. John Cantacuzenus skilled in the Persian language, ibid. Persians overcome, 740. They cross the Hellespont, 767. They invade the territory of the Persian dynast Orchan, 768. Persians plunder Moesia, ibid. Persian pirate ships, 769. Burnt by the Latins, 786. Persian incursion into Moesia, 795. Called out by John Palaiologos, 811. Ten thousand sent as aid to Cantacuzenus, 844. Most experienced of those for labor, 845. Flight of the Persians, 901. Pestilence, graphic description of, 730. Stone, and the fable of the broken ship, 272. Petra, monastery, 464. Petra, small town, 546. Fortress, 776. Petrogephyra, name of a place, 616. Petrogurgurus, boatman, 691, 692. Peter, bishop of Alexandria, 611. Peter the Apostle, concerning what he commanded to his successor Clement, 610. Instigated by the Master, he established certain boundaries of binding and loosing, ibid. Phaceolatus, prefect of triremes, 682. Conquers the Genoese, ibid. One of the college of Archons, 690. Plans concerning receiving the Emperor into the city, 691. Prefect of rebuilding the temple of Sophia, 718. Protostrator, 738, 744. Constructs a war machine, 814. His house plundered, 868. Phacrases, protostrator, defeats Tomprotitzas, 682. Legate, despot, or lesser leader, 814. Phacrasina, noble woman, 250. Phanarium, fortress of Thessaly, 289. Pharmaces, legate and orator, 676. Killed, 680. Pherae, fortified city, and abundant provisions, 161. Metropolitan of Pherae, 192. Pherae, many possessions of Cantacuzenus, 451. Pherae attempted, 510. The region of Pherae abounds in honey and meats, 510. City ample and flourishing, 531. Cruelty of the Pheraeans, 532. Misery and folly of the same, 613. They cruelly tear apart the legate of Pherae, ibid. Most excellent city, 614. Its prefect, 615. Besieged by the Kral, 652. City ample and illustrious, 660. The Roman Empire hangs upon it, ibid. Pherae lost, boundary of the Empire, 791. Granted to the Kral, ibid. Philadelphia, bishop Theoleptus, 46, 61. Tribute remitted by the satrap Amurius, 294. Philanthropenus, pincerna, 292. Philippi, town of Macedonia, 160, 161, 472. Location of the city of the Philippians, 890. Philippopolis, city ample and populous, 105. Besieged, 599. Metropolitan of Philippopolis, 599, 697. Philippus, logothete, 280. Philocrene, 221, 222. Philomathes, legate, 164. Philosophy, true and divine, 531. Aristotle, 634. Philotheus, moderator of the holy laura, and bishop of Heraclea, 763. His praise, 826. Metropolitan, 839. Patriarch, 859, 865. His pious sentiment concerning war, 867. Turns aside the fury of the people, 868. Restored, 916. His praises, ibid. Phocaea, ancient, 257. New Phocaea, 258, 290. Siege of Phocaea, 293, 295. Phocaea properly belongs to the Romans, 299. Noble Phocaeans worship the Emperor, 301. Phocaea seized by the Galatarians, 741. Prefect of old Phocaea created by the Genoese, 749. Phocaean pirates, 901. Phocas Marules, leader, familiar with the imperial palace, 157, 158, 159, 160. B Phrangopulus, seditious, 42. Seized by the holy fire, 665. Feigns hatred of the Emperor, 666. Gifted with largesse by the Emperor, ibid. Phrygia, 209, 578, 580, 631. Satrap of Phrygia, 636. Piamina, 351. Pieria, mountain, 261. Pikn, public tax, 191. Pileus, gemmed, of the Emperor, 20. Pirates, Phocaean, 901. Fish, to satiate with human flesh, what this means, 881. Pissa, river, 742. Pittacium, 92. Planus, that is, impostor, 148. Platamon, maritime city, 516. Platamonenses denounced by the Emperor, 563. Plato, 29. Which republics he deemed blessed, 712. Silver cups given by the Emperor to the Persians, 273. Penitence, the second plank after a shipwreck, 387. Penitence proven by a miracle, 439. Poets exaggerated facts beyond belief, 204. They compose praises for the bride, 681. Pogoniana, 388. Pologus, toparchy, 26. Polybotum, city, 266, 617. Polyps, if they grasp something, do not easily let go, 520. Polystylos, maritime small town, 472, 501. Procession, sacred, 123. Pompey the Great, 552. Bridge of camels, 178, 187, 665. Various bridges built at Galata, 814. Fifty thousand pigs, 447. Porphyrogeniti, houses near the palace, 187. Porphyrogeniti, small gate, 420. The Emperor stays in the house of the Porphyrogenitus, 695, 868. Gate of Gyrolimne, 58, 157. Gate of Asomaton, 165. Gate of Saint Romanus, 178. Small gate of the Porphyrogenitus, 420. Gate of Gyrolimne, 632. Gate of Camels, 653. Gate of Charisius, 646. Wooden gate, 656. Gate of Xylocercus, 669. Golden Gate, 692, 694. Golden Gate pierced through, 635. Gate of Engebra, 745. Royal gate of berrhuse, 771. Gate of Ophiceiana, ibid. Gate of Saint Barbara the martyr, 835. The bulwark of the Golden Gate, 869, 874. Harbor duties exacted, 645, 810. Porus, maritime place, 287. Potantiates died almost instantly from the touch of a vessel full of poison, 690. Potuca, small town destroyed in war, 109. Heralds precede the imperial acclamations, 6. Plunder, fifth part to the Emperor, and the other part offered to the supreme commander, 303. Order of Preachers (Dominicans), 735, 737. Predictions, 508, 518, 558, 559. Preludes of battle, 889. Praepositus, name of a painter, 655. It is better to fall from a height than from the tongue, 194. To dine at daybreak, 618. Hour of meal, 642. Prealimpus, leader of the Triballi, excellent, 586. Prefect of the Serbians and Thessalians, 777. Dies, 882. Prayers of men, sought by the holiness of those who are watched, 22. Daily prayers for the forgiveness of sins, 24. Other prayers, some spoken in a low voice, others clearly, recited by the patriarch, 121. Offered to the Blessed Virgin, 160. Offered to Saint Demetrios the martyr, 166. Prayers of others begged by the dying Emperor, 21. Prayers necessary for students of divine philosophy, 332. Imperfect prayer, 354. Sacred prayer recited over the head of someone, 570. Emperor venerates martyrs with prayers, 136. Devoted to sacred prayer, he sees wonderful things, 438. Archbishop illuminates the Kral with a favorable blessing, 500. Prayers poured out in the temple of the Mother of God, 58. Prayers appointed for appeasing the divine Deity, 642, 646. Prillapus, 26. Most fortified small town, 175. Prince, legate, 563. Island of the Prince, 741. Deserts, 828. Prinus, city, 447. Pristenus, village lacking walls, 191. Probatum, small town, 200. Probisdus, fortress, 574. Promusulum, fortress, 117. Propontis, 621, 870. Proposition, where holy things are placed, 193. Prosacum, most fortified small town, 175. Also called Prostacum, 489. Protoplast, 794. Protopsaltes, 123. Most unworthy death of the protostrator and protovestiarius, 627.
Rubric, a synod of the emperor is subscribed, 800.
S Sabas, an excellent monk, 462. His noble utterance, 461. Sabaudia, a count, 160. The Sabaudian nobles are praised, 126. The Count of Savoy, brother to the empress, 561. Sabaudus, a monk of the Franciscan order, 633, 637. On the Sabbath, according to custom, a happy acclamation is made to the emperors, 749. Sacci, a town, 85, 89. Its inhabitants are rustic and insolent, 90. Sacellum, 593, 697. Sacer ignis (holy fire), a disease, 665. Priests carrying the Eucharist in a holy procession, 121. Sacerdotal ministry, 261. A great multitude of priests performing the same rites, 350. Most ample stipends for priests, ibid. They make use of the ministry of invisible angels in sacrificing the body of Christ, 336. A priestly necklace, 631. Degrees of priests, 612. Supplications and propitiations enjoined for priests, 646. The priestly office to be revered, 670. The priest as a watchman, 685. Priests frequently offering the memory of emperors in the sacrifices of the Mass, 749. Mystical sacrifice, 596. The most holy body of Christ is sacrificed daily, ibid. With trembling, ibid. In the presence of invisible angels, ibid. The sacrifice of the Mass. See Mass. Solemnities of the sacrifice, 531. During the act of sacrifice, mention of the emperors is made, 626. Sacrifice performed in the camp, 681. Under the sacrifice of the Mass, the memory of the emperors is frequently recalled, 749, 856. Solemnities of holy rites, 134. A name ejected from the sacred rolls, 250. Servants of the sacred rites, 264. Holy nuptials, 309. Holy learning, 329. An institution of holy quiet, 531. Sacred vestibules of Divine Wisdom, 351. The most holy temple of Divine Wisdom, 354. Holy propitiatory rites for the dead, ibid. Holy asylums, 354. Holy bedchamber, 391. Holy bull, 409. Holy anchor, 414. Sacred linen, 434. In holy rites, mention of the emperors and patriarch, 436. Holy prayer, 439. Holy largesses, 470. Holy inner sanctuaries, 476. Sacred mountain, 512, 515. The sacred disease, 597. The most holy emperor, 599. Holy synod, 611. Sacred cult, 612. Mention in the holy rites, 642. Sacred mountain, 613. A name expunged from the sacred registry, 670. Performed in the sacred temple, 681. Sacred vestments, ibid. Holy Scripture, 695. Holy unction, 718. Holy monasteries, 721. Holy laura, 763. Holy relics, 780. Sacred houses, 851. Sacred vessels, ibid. Holy seat, 867. Sacred stole, 906. Holy laura, 909. An arrow smeared with poison, 539. Pierced with arrows, 680. Salt checks contagion, 546. Salatines, an envoy of the Persians, 570, 572. Prefect of the salt-works, 392. Salingarus, an old man among the Persian nobility, 219. Solomon’s saying concerning patience, 28. His saying concerning counsel, 64, 65. Another Solomon, Cantacuzenus, 708. The most wise Solomon, 710. Salsi, a lake, 528. Samothrace, 287. Sancta Justiana, a city, 576. Sancta Pax, a fortress, 574. Sanctus Donatus, a town, 310. An oath given to the holy men enumerated, 13. "Holy" pronounced three times, 123. Holy of Holies, 123. Sanctification distributed to the people, 124. Relics of the saints, 185. Brought forth from the bosom, ibid. The Holy Spirit suggests the utterances of holy men, 334. Holy oil, 378. Most holy body of Christ, 399. Holy things most unworthily trampled upon, 689. Imperial sandals, symbols of the empire, 240. Blood flowing continuously from the nostrils for twelve days, 84. A wise man from our fold, 52. Divine Wisdom, 332. Temple of Divine Wisdom, 334. See Sophia. The opinion of an ancient sage, 523. Wisdom makes men like God, 719. Sarchanes, a satrap of the Persians in Ionia, 257. He rules the Orient around Phocaea, 292. He greets the emperor with veneration, ibid. He provides four-and-twenty ships, 293, 294, 297. Satrap of Lydia, 378. His province is ravaged, 385. He meditates war against Amur, 649. He is reconciled to Amur, ibid., 662. He sends soldiers against the emperor, 686. Sarchanian soldiers desert to the emperor, 687.
Sardinia, island, 836. Satan, 502. Saturn, 805. Saul, 486. Ladder (made) of ropes, 184. Imposed upon twelve soldiers, ibid. Other ladders of ropes, 772. Searanus, a Persian, a fugitive, 625. His praises, ibid. Seeparian, a fortress, 561. Scele, a place, 331. Science of curing the soul, the most humane of all, 246. Science of heavenly things, how it is acquired, 551. Scipio Africanus, 553, 711. Scopelos, 180, 516. The imprudence and disaster of the Scopelenians, 517. Scopia, formerly belonging to the Romans, now subject to the Triballi, 490. Of Cralis the king, 778, 779. The archbishop of Scopia, ibid. Scriptures, the holy, while they are being recited, emperors stand, 123. Scribing in water, proverb, 176. Scribes, instituted at Thessalonica, 177. Shield, the emperor is invested with it at his initiation, 121. Scutarii, Latin, 126. Scutarium, 210, 222, 717. Scyphus (a goblet), glass, sustained by a stork, 632. Scythians, auxiliaries, 109. Scythians, dwelling near the Hyperborean mountains, most powerful, 116. Their satrap deceived by the Romans, ibid. Scythian double myriads (forty thousand), 117. Scythians, slaughtered to extermination, 118. Scythians, serving in the army, 180, 199. They capture, 285. Scythian incursions, 328. Exile among the Scythians, 353. Scythian solitude, 418. Scythian irruptions into Roman territories, 516, 517. The daughters of emperors betrothed to Scythians, 683. Scythians, Hyperborean, 730. Battle of the Scythians with the Genoese, 812. Scythians besieging Capha fortress, ibid. Scythia, oriental, 864. Sebastopulus Maesus, commander of three hundred soldiers, 217. Sitting in the shadow of death, the light has dawned upon them, 710. Sel, (messenger) from the patriarch to the side of the emperor, 13. Selybria, 68, 75, 89, 135, 159, 421, 441. Taken at the first assault, 642. The plain before the city, 681. Besieged by the Persians, 740. Maritime, 687. Selybrians’ dealings with the Byzantines, 691. Senacherim Protalagator, 81, 95. Senacherimus, commander of the fleet, 385. A good and strenuous leader, ibid. Sense of evils, 360. Sergentzium, surrender of, 85, 89. Sergentzi mountains, 743. Serica (silk) textile gifts, 273. Serica, curtains and interwoven with gold, draped, 681. Sermylians, an ancient city, 278. Like to a serpent hissing, 524. Deceived by the serpent, the Protoplast, 794. Serrae, 155. Servia, 516. Situated between Boeotia and Thessaly. Servitude of soldiers, 90. Servitude under the Barbarians, the fountainhead of all calamities, 430. Servitude, perfect and true, which is, 581. Sguropulus, envoy, 421. Torn by various reproaches, 423. If it should finally be revealed, let the first be silent, 353, 355, 356, 410. Sica (a curved blade), with cavities and handles smeared with poison, 685. The emperor even has a sica, ibid. Sichun, archisatrap, most hostile to Christians, 759. He condemns Patriarch Lazarus to death, 760. Worse than the demon himself, ibid. His death, 761. Sicily, 290. Sicilians, auxiliaries from, 293. Siderocastrum, a small fortress of the Triballi, 263. Near Pherae, 328. Built by the younger Emperor Andronicus, ibid. Whence named, ibid. Siderus, cruelly fallen, 513. Sigeras, praetor of the people, envoy, 732. Seal, red, 685. Green seal, ibid. Wax seals, 631. Golden seal appended, 641. Imperial standards fixed on walls, 227, 230. Standards lowered at the beginning of battle, 251. Military sign, the cross, 476. Imperial standards dragged in mockery, 746. Simeon Beniuzus, nephew of (the ruler of) Chios, 749. Simon Buccanegra, a plebeian Genoese, commander-in-chief of the republic, 815. The magistracy abrogated for him, 836. Appointed commander a second time, 857. Simon Cralis, brother of the lord of Acarnania, 882. Simonis, daughter of Andronicus the elder, 25. Without measure, for so it becomes us to fulfill all righteousness, 710. Single combat offered, 111. Sismanus, son of Michael, king of the Mysians, an exile, 382. Suppliant of the Roman empire, 381. Enemy of Alexander, king of the Mysians, 381. Sought by the Romans, 372. Defended, ibid. Smyrna, city, 287, 565. Smyrna, port, occupied by the Latins, 581. Smyrna taken by the Latins, 586. Smyrnae, naval depot burned, 619. Smyrna, metropolitan temple, 681. Socrates, god-like in wisdom, 712. Socus, a small town, 546. Sun as witness, 451. God makes His sun to rise upon the good and the evil, 711. Soa, 123. Solitary life, 329. Solitaries troubled, 330, 331. The most perfect kind of life, ibid. A holy and divine life, ibid. Solitary place, assigned for caring for the soul and propitiating God, 764. Throne, imperial, 19. Seats of bishops, 122. Solon's law, 751. Sleep, preferred to Indis, 19. Voice heard in sleep, the appearance of John Cantacuzenus feared, 789. Sophia, temple of the Word, 10, 121, 134, 135. Minister of Sophia, 409. Sophia, temple as asylum, 630. Temple of Sophia restored, 658. See Temple. Sopotus, town, 510. Sosei, a small town, 277, 510. Soscus, fortress, 776. Sostra, 318. Soteria, 319. Soteria celebrated by the Galatians, 746. Sozopolis, a large and populous city, 200. Sozopolitans, haughtily rejecting support, 825. Sozopolis captured, ibid. Sozopolis, tribute remitted, 827. Spalocota, servant of Aporauches, 399. Spanopulus, from the memory (office), 397. Spectre, agitated by, 583. Sphentisthiabus, king of the Mysians, 10, 66, 69. His death, 103. He afflicted the Romans severely, 283. Sphrantzes, (a man of) family killed, 576. Sphrantzes Palaeologus, 236. Governor of the towns near Castoria, 277. Councillor of the emperor, 278. He kills Syrgiannes, 279. Created Great Stratopedarch, ibid. Died, 319. Spinular family, 27. Holy Spirit, searches even the deep things of God, 331. Speaks in bishops, 518. Spouse, display of the, 684. Stagi, a fortress of Thessaly, 289. Staridolorum, a small town, 277, 516. Fortress, 776. Statue of the Mother of God, 94. Star on the right foot and shoulder of the lion, 651. Stenimachus, city, 84, 109, 575, 876. Given to Alexander, king of the Mysians, ibid. Stephaniana, a place, 686. Stephanus Crales, prince of the Triballi, 25, 66. Invades Macedonia, plundering, 386. A barbarian king, 129. Stephanus, duke of the Triballi, 519, 550. Stephanus, martyr, 709. Stibons, a city of the Mysians, 107, 561. Stipends, public, liquidator of, 376. Stoles (vestments), sacred of bishops, 122. Of deacons, ibid. Of patriarchs, 906. Of bishops, ibid. Stomach pain, taking away speech, 553. Stragula, emperor's garment, 226, 661. Strategius, key-bearer, 679. Strategus, curator of salt, 502. Streanizimerus, dynast of the Mysians, 108. Strobus, fortress, 776. Strombitza, a most fortified town, 175. Conceded to Cralis, 791. Strumpitza, city of Macedonia, 129. Strymon, river, 161. Fool, after receiving harm, grows wise, 613. Stygian water, 51. Stylurium, a small town, 581. Suggestus (throne/dais), sacred, 440. Sulaimasas, son of the satrap Altinis, 293. Sulimanus, duke, with the sons of his brother Orchan, 719. With twenty thousand cavalry, 766. Recalled home by his father, 768. Elder son of Orchan, 844. Commander of Persian troops, 834. Obtains the small town of Tzimpen, 860. A treaty-breaker, 862. Taken and conquered at Ancyra, 864. Sulmanus, son of Sarchanes, hostage, 292. Satrap, 198. Fever, he is seized by, 661. His death, ibid. Sulla, 552. Sultan, prince of the Persians, 54. Sultan of Egypt, power in reinstalling bishops, ibid. Sultan's letters to Emperor John Cantacuzenus, 156. Sultan's old friendship with the Emperors of Constantinople, ibid. He has care of the temples in Jerusalem, 757. He renovates the temple of St. George, ibid. The faculty and the retinue
A of the holy places offers gifts to those visiting, ibid. The Sultan’s edict that the Christians and the temples of the Christians are not to be violated, ibid. He prays well for the Emperor John Cantacuzenus, 758. He invokes Muhammad, ibid. His death, 759. He favors the Jacobite heretics, ibid. He bears the slaughter of the Christians with sorrow, 760. Pride is a huge evil, 458. Brows downcast, 250. Supplication at the main altar, 125. To the deaf a story (proverb), 149. Susanna, 45. A sponsor from the sacred font communicates his name to the sponsored, 14. Synadena whipped to death, 514. Synadenus, an envoy, 551, 592. Trustworthy, 602. Synadenus the protostrator, 225. Declared Duke of Mesembria, 306. Imprisoned, 309. Released from prison, 511. Prefect of Thessalonica, 385, 450. Synadenus, prefect of the watch, captured, 186. Syncope, contrary to fever, 661. Wine and theriac administered for its cure, ibid. The Emperor presides at the synod with the patriarch, 354. A synod is convened by the patriarch, 337. Tomes of the synods written in the ancient manner, ibid. The patriarch was the first to sign the synod, ibid. The Empress presides at the synod with her son; it was requested to be ecumenical by John Cantacuzenus, 758. Convened in Constantinople by Emperor Cantacuzenus, 798. The patriarch presides at the synod, 799. The patriarch signs after the Emperor, 800. The Emperor signs after the bishops, ibid. Those not obeying the synod are punished with imprisonment by the Emperor, ibid. The synod is convened by the patriarch, 807. Syrales, a most intimate friend of Cantacuzenus, 446. Set upon an ass in contempt, ibid. Syrgiannes, a Cypriot, made King of Armenia, 177. Syrges Ntelebuzias, prefect of Pherae, 450. Besieges roads, 471. Deceived by a stratagem, ibid. Scouts the army of Cantacuzenus, 473. Leads the Macedonians, 477. Renounced as King of Armenia, 487. His cruelty, 500. Called to the throne by the Armenians, 510. Syrgiannes, son of the most noble Cuman Syrgiannes, 14. Administers Thrace, 18. Envoy to the Tsar, 25. Traitor, 77. Besets Heraclea, 79. Invades the towns of Thrace, 206. Released from prison, 206. Commander of the western forces, 252, ibid. Like a ship tossed on the waves, 272. Judges it prudent, 279, ibid. Slain, 279. His funeral, ibid. Passionately devoted to the younger Andronikos, 592. Instigator of the crime and ringleader, 593. Syria, 250. Sultan of the Syrians, 754. Ornament of the dogma of the Syrians, 756. Syria is nourished by the Nile, 759. Syrpanus, a Dacian herdsman, 91. Syrus, an envoy regarding the order of clerics, 545. Sytzigan Syrgiannes, a most noble Cuman, 6.
T Letter carriers intercepted, 130, 454. Tabernacle of the Holy of Holies, 123. Tabernacle of the Emperor, 221, 681. Public tablets, 640. Wooden boarding erected for the empress to be shown, 681. Tetach, supreme Emperor of the Scythians, 118. Tamerchanes, satrap or prince of Phrygia, 209. Tanais, river of Scythia, 812. Tautessani mountains, 791. Tao, a place named for its pleasantness, 491. The Emperor placed on a carpet, 221. Carpets sent as a gift to the Emperor by the Persians, 273. The custom of reclining on spread carpets, 717. Tarchaniota, domestic, 91. Death of Tarchaniota, 58. Princess of Tarentum, 506. Tarentum is far distant from Acarnania, ibid. The Princess of Tarentum proclaims herself Empress of the Romans, 510. Betroths her daughter to the Despot Nicephorus, ibid. Tarentine barbarians, 515. Tarentine triremes, 519. The Tarentines are prudent, ibid. Obstinate, 520. The Princess of Tarentum defends Thomocastrum, 521. The Tarentines affected by the damage from the Acarnanians, 522. The rule of the Tarentines is harsh, ibid. Taspugas, leader of the Scythians, 118. Family of the Temarenses, 27. The power of temperance, 905. B Temple of the Sophia, the Word of God, 40. Temple of the Hodegetria Mother of God, 101, 187. Of the Sophia, 121, 134. Temple of the holy procession, 121. Portico of the holy temple, ibid. Vestibule of the temple, 135. Of the Mother of God at Hyrtacium, 209. In the temple before the city of Constantinople, a perennial fountain, 261. Temple of the Holy Apostles, 264. Of Divine Wisdom, 354, 357. Temple of the Sophia, the most spacious of all that the sun beholds, 350. Honored by all emperors with the right of asylum, 354. Temple of the holy martyr Demetrius, 508, 579. Of the holy martyr George of Palaeocastron, 436. Of the Mother of God, 515. Of Divine Wisdom, 515. Of the Hodegetria, ibid. Sophia, 650. Of the Nine Orders, 658. Temple of the Mother of God not made by hands, 674. Smyrnaean metropolitan temple, 681. Temples leveled, 689. Temple of the Mother of God Hodegetria, 695. Temple of the Mother of God called the Source, 707. Temple of the Mother of God in Blachernae, 718. Temple of the Sophia restored, ibid. The beauty of the temple in marble and tessellated work, ibid. The care of temples in Jerusalem, 757. Temple of the holy martyr George renovated by the Sultan, ibid. The Sultan prohibited the temples of the Christians from being violated, ibid. Temple of Divine Wisdom in Constantinople, 800. Votive offerings of the temples removed, 826. Temple of the Mother of God Hodegetria, 850. In Blachernae, 860. Fountain of health, 871. (Faith in the Mother of God, Hodegetria, Sophia, etc.) Everything flourishes in time, 249. The antiquity of time does not support a bad cause, 316. Time is a most valid helper, 429. A time to weep and a time to laugh, 710. The time and hour of Christ, ibid. Tenedos, an island, 818. The part of Tenedos called Borium, 861. Tents of the Persians, 583. The people shout three times, the patriarch leading, 125. Teristasis, a small town, 617. A fortress, ibid. Earthquake, 618. Overturns cities of Thrace, 861. Old Testament and New, 711. Tortoise (acta), 461. Woolen textiles and silk gifts, 273. Mount Tabor, 332, 334. Thasus, an island, 159. Theanitzes, commander of the garrison, 677. Wounded in the palm of the hand, ibid. Themata, western, 392. Theodora Asanina, wife of Manuel Tagaris, 59. Theodora, daughter of John Cantacuzenus, betrothed to Orhan, 681. Her constancy in piety and every virtue, ibid. Port of salvation, ibid. Wife of Orhan, 717. Theodora, daughter of Matthew Cantacuzenus the elder, 892. Theodora, daughter of Emperor Michael II Palaiologos, 69. Sister german of Emperor Andronikos the younger, 115. Married to the King of the Bulgarians, 116. From queen became a nun, called Theodosia, 169. Theodora Palaiologina, mother of John Cantacuzenus, 79, 86, 160. Theodorus Caballarius, captured, 591. Theodorus Cabasilas, military logothete, 148. Theodorus, Marquis, son of Andronikos the elder, 158. Prince of Lombardy, 707. Theodorus, son of Emperor Michael II Palaiologos, 129. Theodorus Pepagomenus, 562. His constancy in enduring punishments, 562. Theodorus Synadenus, protostrator, 26. Theodorus Tomprotiza, brother, 682. Theodorus Xanthopulus, envoy, 140, 149. Theodosia, a nun, formerly queen, 469. Theodosius the Great, Emperor, 528, 709. Theoleptus, Bishop of Philadelphia, 41, 61. Therapes (straits), 830. Theriac cures lethargy, 110. Administered to cure syncope, 661. Life saved by the use of theriac, 690. Treasure discovered, 587, 588. Thessaly afflicted by the incursions of the Catalans, 56. Confines of Volos, 288, 305. Thessaly subordinate, 506. Associated with the Roman Empire, ibid. Submits itself to Cantacuzenus, ibid. Thessalonica, 95, 161. Surrendered to Emperor Andronikos the younger, 166. The citadel of the same city is surrendered, 167. Many people of Thessalonica solitary, 550. Thessalonica is raided by Stephen Crale, 586. Metropolitan of Thessalonica, 464. City of greatest moment, ibid. After Constantinople, the greatest and most illustrious, 675. Raises up the Emperor, 676. Is in tumult, ibid. The artistry of Thessalonica like that of a small city, 678. Cruelty designed in it, 679. Other eye of the Empire, 761. Besieged by Crale, 763. Receives Cantacuzenus as Emperor, 769. Thomas, Despot, prince of Acarnania, 1. Thomas Palaiologos, a duke, 471, 477, 487. Thomocastrum, 309. Maritime city, 310. It is besieged, 311, 319. A small, stormy, and foul town, 312.
A Thoraces (breastplates) beloved, 201. Thracia (Thrace) superior, and maritime, 67, 111, 199. Thracia university once subject to the Latins, 516. Persians invade it, 581. Thracia, factions of its towns, 544. Persians invade maritime Thracia, 621, 649. Exhausted by civil war, 516. Thoroughly devastated, 529. Thracia's villages are plundered, 573, 595. Thracia reduced to servitude by the Persians, ibid. Reduced to a wasteland, 618. Cities of Thracia recovered, 621, 649. They desert, 664, 669, and are recovered, 810. Cities of Thracia shaken by earthquake, 861. The method of recovering them, 873. Throni (thrones) of gold of the emperors, with steps, 122. Throne patriarchal, 569, 665, 693. Thule, the most remote, 121. Thuribulum (censer), the deacon holds it, 912. It is given to the emperor, ibid. Tiara, jeweled, of the emperor, 20. Symbol of empire, 19, 836. Tibia (leg), from the knees down blackening, 250. Leg fractured, 572. Timorum, a town of the West, 501. Toga and tunic with purple fringe, 651. Toglutorga, supreme commander of the Scythians, 117. Tolisthlabus, a dynast, a defector, 779. Tomprotitzas, leader of the Roman army, 642. He flees, ibid. Prefect of the city of Media, 757. Tomus (tome) composed by the saints at Mount Athos, 385. Three tomes of the Constantinopolitan synod, 793. Gregoras attacks the third tome, 801. Topica (local) tax of ten thousand gold pieces, 888. Tournaments, the Romans received them from the Savoyards, 128. Trajanopolis, 114, 258. Destroyed, 581. Trapezuntium (Trebizond), 800. Triballi, 129, 160, 165. Rebuke the Triballi nobles who were Roman refugees, 174. Triballi besiege Achrida, 261. Mesos are slain, 263. An auxiliary army from the Triballi, 277. Triballi injurious and insolent, 587. Ruler of the Triballi, ibid. Despot of the Triballi, federal, 479. Archbishop of the Triballi, 499. Triballi crowd useless, 552. Land of the Triballi inaccessible by land, 553. Triballi flee, 550, 586. Driven back by John Kantakouzenos, 609. They subject all western cities to themselves, 614. Triballian faction, 652. Triballi capture Macedonian cities, dismissed without horses, 776. They capture Gynaikocastron, 780. Hired against Kantakouzenos, 845. Slain by the Persians, 845. The method of taming them, 873. They summon Matthew Kantakouzenos, 887. Few against many, Persians, 901. Tax collectors despoiled, 60. Taxes remitted to the Khians, 232. See Vectigalia (Revenues). Tribute remitted to the Philadelphians, 291. Also to the Heracleans, 827. Also to the Sozopolitans, ibid. Tricola, a fortress in Thessaly, 289. Triglia, 136, 307. Trinobus (Trnovo), royal seat of the Mysians, 108, 309, 581, 796. Trisagion, divine hymn, 122, 123, 570. Tuba (trumpet), signal given to arms, 211. Triumph sung, 216. Scythian trumpet, 284. Trumpet as a signal of war, resonating for the delight of the ears, 684. Tuntza, a river, 118, 309. Wooden tower constructed by a certain German, 168. Wooden tower placed upon two cargo ships, 815. Tower at Mesembria overturned, 910. Tzustria, a kind of game, 126. U Unction of the Lord, 31. Emperor anointed with holy oil, 121. And this in the form of a cross, 122. Holy unction, 718. Ungroblachi, 180. Prince of the Ungri (Hungarians), 279. Uva (grape), bitter, proverb, 438. Patriarch cannot live with a wife, 261. V To dismiss with empty hands, a proverb, 495. Sacred vessels, 124. Revenues remitted, 198. See Triballi. Collectors of public revenues, 387. Ecclesiastical revenues, 530. Common revenues removed, 608, 614. Immunity from revenue granted, 676. Unusual revenues imposed, 748. Local revenue, 880. Andronikos the younger more addicted to the hunt, 19, 45, 59. Also the Savoyards, 128. Prince of the hunters, 210. Poisoning rendered void, 666. Poison buried in the ground, ibid., 689. Contact with a vessel full of poison, 698. Venetians adore the emperor, 41. Venetia, 175. Venetians conduct business on the island of Chios, 256. Discord between the Venetians and Genoese, 770. Venetians elected the Kral to their senate, ibid., 789. They arrive unexpectedly against the Galatae (Genoese), 808. Their embassy to Emperor Kantakouzenos, 809. Their treaty with the emperors in Constantinople, 810. Venetians excluded from the Tanais, 813. Offend Orkhan, 833. Masters of the sea, 857. Defeated by the Genoese, ibid. Winds blowing, 562, 822. Springtime of life, 120. Mature spring in the month of May, 210. The force of John Kantakouzenos's words, 314. Words are worth nothing if deeds are lacking, 501. Evening hymns, 184. Royal wardrobe, 125. Emperor’s white mourning shroud, ibid. Emperor’s inner and outer, 437. Emperor’s private clothing, 458. Clothes of the athletes exposed, 472. Monastic habit, 489, 514. Imperial clothing under armor, 607. Imperial clothing placed, 639, 640. Wonderful clothing seen in dreams, 664. Sacred vestments, 681. Christians ordered to wear a certain color on their clothing as a sign, 761. Lethargy from eating mushrooms, 110. Virtue of the ancients, 453. Old age consumes all things, 602. Saying of an ancient king, 636. Oath suspended by a banner, 160, 161. Empire recognized by banners, 166. A cross placed on the top of a banner, 776. Vicars, 285. Sad victory, 176. News of victory occurring to them, 380. Timidity, 380. Many the conquered who conquered their conquerors, 896. They shall see whom they pierced, 632. Prefects of the watch, 178. Night watches, 584. Guards stationed upon the walls, 654. Soldiers proposed for guarding the roads, 130. To devise a path through impassable ways, a proverb, 154. Unmixed wine used for curing fainting, [passage text], 679. Vineyards, 682. Fifty congii of wine paid to the treasury/fiscus, 748. Iron rod, 482. A vision of a certain bishop, 438. Miraculous vision offered through a dream, 651, 664. Life suspended on the points of spears, 59. Immoderate greed for life, an evil, 482. Unskilled rabble, 360. Caught up for the sake of small gain, 419. Soldiers for the sake of pay, 494. Vile and wretched, 502. X Xanthia, 161. Captured, 650. Seat of Momitzilos, 651. Surrendered to the emperor, 652. Xene, mother of Andronikos the younger, is captured, 91. Sent to her son, 103. Puts on the monastic habit, 160. Bears the dismissal of Syrgiannes with difficulty, 206. The dying emperor decides nothing concerning her, 242. Her death, 288. She bears it heavily that she does not rule, 345. Is dutifully cultivated by John Kantakouzenos, ibid. Accuses John Kantakouzenos to her son, 391. Xylocerei (carob) gate, 665. Z Zampea, a Savoyard woman, most prudent, 126. From the empress's retinue, 735. Zamplacon, a Great Pappias, 281, 385. Grand duke, prefect of the triremes, 741. Prefect of Didymoteichon, 838. Zangri, a bow to the Latins, 108. Zelotai (Zealots), 472. Crimes and sacrileges of the Zealots, 476. Rich from beggars, ibid. Impede the reception of Thessalonica, 517. Their cruelty, 569. Their power, ibid. Zealots of note delivered into prisons, ibid. The audacity of the Zealots, 762. Burn the emperor’s letters in the forum, 761. Corrupted by the bribes of the Triballi, 769. Zepae, a town, 81, 109, 575. Given to the king of the Mysians, 576. Zephraetis, a hangman, 658.
1285 Zernomianuni (city), 118, 128, 200. Castellum, 418. [The Emperor] surrendered it, 647. [It] is given to John Palæologus, 842. Zeromioneuses [are] subdued by Cantacuzenus, 845. Zianus, a servant of Cantacuzenus, [shows] extreme audacity, 897. His calumny [is] detected, 900. Zichna, a town, 161, 164, 165, 173, 584, 586, 587. Crale [is] conceded, 791. Zimpanus, a Triballian cattle-herder, 488. 1286 Zurulum, 79, 85. Zybus, a most powerful man of the Thii, 749. Fighting spiritedly, he falls, 750. Zympe, a fortress of Thrace, 841 [is] occupied by the Persians. Zyraces, a servant of the Empress, betrays Byzantium, 690, 691.
ORDER OF SUBJECTS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
JOANNES CANTACUZENUS EMP. CONTINUATION OF BYZANTINE HISTORY. BOOK FOUR. 9
CAP. I. — He testifies to his own fidelity in narrating. The argument of the books. The Empress with her children before the image of the Mother of God. The Emperor swears, as [he had done] quite often before. Relieved of slanders, he gives thanks to God. Helena, daughter of Cantacuzenus, is betrothed to the young John, whom he commends. An oath is demanded from the subjects. Certain nobles refuse, wishing to be under Cantacuzenus alone; he does not permit it. A sanction regarding the goods of the one. Emperor John marries Helena, the daughter of Cantacuzenus. Quiet from discords and arms. The Marquis from Lombardy attempts to occupy Byzantium, Thessalonica, and Aenos as hereditary cities. 15
CAP. II. — The Marquis is deterred by a certain Bartholomew. His letters to Pope Clement and the Dauphin of Vienne regarding the praises of Cantacuzenus, in a very eloquent speech. Whom he also defends against accusers and commends to the Dauphin. He even prefers him to Constantine, Octavian, and Theodosius, and to Scipio Africanus. The scope of the eulogy is explained. 19
CAP. III. — The Emperor greets the patriarch, reminds him of past matters with a rebuke of his wickedness. He casts up the perversity of his dogmas to him; he gives him the power of challenging himself. A synod in the palace against the patriarch, and his abdication, sickness, insanity, and death. A debate about choosing a successor. Isidorus is elected; his praise. To what point the ambition of certain monks broke out. Their rebuke. The Emperor's grief on account of the dissension. Isidorus the patriarch publicly absolves the Emperor from the patriarchal excommunication. 29
CAP. IV. — Orchanes, the son-in-law, visits his father-in-law the Emperor with his whole family. [He is] wined and dined. The Emperor returns to Constantinople with his daughter and the sons of Orchanes. He is crowned again in the Blachernæ in the temple of the Mother of God. Why he was crowned a second time. A wife is joined to the Emperor John. Concerning the ruins of the temple of Saint Sophia and its restoration. Cities taken after the treaty are demanded back from Crale; against him, who is unwilling to return [them], a war is waged, having invited auxiliary forces of the Persians from his son-in-law Orchanes. Concerning their robberies and the sadness of the Emperor therefrom. 35
CAP. V. — The Emperor creates his younger son and son-in-law despots. He elevates Matthew further. He makes the brothers of his wife sebastocrators. Great lack of money on all sides: it is to be exacted per head. Again he defends himself against sycophants, of whom he complains vehemently. He purges himself concerning the Barbarians having been accepted as allies, and asks for opinions on helping the republic. 41
CAP. VI. — The reply of the leading citizens, by which they show themselves ready to do their duty. They also teach what is the Emperor's, what the soldier's, what the merchant's, and the craftsman's duty, namely, to contribute money for the feeding of the soldier. Why he asks for money from them. The malevolence of adversaries against the Emperor, and the accusation. Why he did not punish them and why he laid down the care of the whole business. New plots through the flight of the Emperor John [to] Galata, where war was being prepared. All the leaders are freed and restored to their functions. 47
CAP. VII. — The complaint of the nobles regarding the oath exacted, for they do not want to be subject to the junior Emperor and his mother. The Emperor excuses both. Even those who cannot believe that he will be faithful to the mother and son. Comparing himself with other emperors, he shows his own equity. He proves by arguments that the cause of the empire undertaken was necessary and that he is not hostile to the Empress and her children. The nobles are likewise repelled by the Empress Irene. Matthew the son is incited by the seditious to establish a principality for himself. The cause why they defected to him and their counsel was not sufficiently pious. 51
CAP. VIII. — Matthew leads towns to his own authority. The Emperor is greatly enraged at the instigators. Through his mother the son is reduced to sanity. Her feminine praise. Death of the son Andronicus. A most elegant description of the general pestilence, and how useful it was for the correction of morals. Maternal grief over the death of the son, and the commendation of the boy. The Emperor with his son-in-law visits the cities of Thrace for two reasons. The commendation of the junior Emperor. 57
CAP. IX. — The Emperor's embassy to Pope Clement; two points of the embassy: the clearing of a false opinion and the promise of aid against the Barbarians, the enemies of the Christians. The Pope, aware of all things transacted in the war, celebrates him with wonderful praises. Two bishops were sent back by the Pope with his legates. Thanks are given to him for his care for the young Emperor and his mother, and for his spirit towards the Barbarians. An exhortation is added concerning caring for the concord of the Churches. Again he shows his love against the Barbarians and his zeal for the peace of the Churches. The Emperor proposes a condition regarding a council. He is praised by the Pope. A meeting is promised; but the war among the princes of Italy dissipates the whole business. 61
CAP. X. — Death of the Pope. Tomprolitzas surrenders himself with a town to the Emperor. The Persians, ravagers, invade Thrace; they are beaten back and captured by the Romans at the town of Mesena. The remnants flee to a hill; descending from there, at the invitation of the Emperor, they surrender. Nicephorus the despot, the son-in-law, creates the highest danger for his father-in-law by his rashness. He is recalled from the fight. The captured Persians are sent away free. The audacity and virtue of the son Matthew; announcements of victory on both sides. On the Emperor's kidney disease and his constancy in bearing it. 77
CAP. XI. — Why the Galatæ stirred up war. Their perfidy. The space above the city, why they asked it from the Emperor. Why they are compared to donkeys. They burn the suburban buildings and the ships of the Byzantines. They fortify a hill with a tower they built; they surround the remaining space with a wall and ramparts. The Emperor at Byzantium is asked by the merchants and craftsmen for vengeance against the Galatæ. Ships are built; the Galatæ pray for peace, [but] having intercepted the place, they refuse to surrender. A war machine, from which stones were sent into the city. From the city, stones are again hurled at the Galatæ by catapults. The machine is submerged by a merchant ship. A Genoese merchant ship is intercepted. What befell the fifty Romans in it. The deceit of the Galatæ. Description of the naval battle. God punishes the Romans. The magnanimity of the Emperor. The exultation of the Galatæ in victory. 85
CAP. XII. — The calumny regarding excessive exaction is dissipated. Why the Emperor imposed unusual tributes, and what kind they were. Chius is demanded back from the Genoese. They excuse themselves and promise they will return it at an opportunity. The response does not please. On what conditions the city and island of Chius were left for a time to the Genoese. The obstinacy of certain men. Zybus promises with his aid to recover the island.
C How much he fears the emperor. His stubbornness, however timid he may be. Why he desires to retain the cities. The emperor testifies that he is forced into war by his wickedness. The Crales is terrified, and asks permission to consult for his own shame. The emperor again objects his iniquity to him; he divides the cities among them, makes peace, and invites him to a banquet. 115 D
CAP. XXII. — A pact for choosing nobles, who should hand over the cities in the name of each, and receive them. The Crales is seduced, he renounces the pact, he stirs up his men against Cantacuzenus. Forces are brought out on both sides. Neither begins the battle, each excuses himself. The emperor, being about to depart for Byzantium, warns the younger emperor to beware of the Crales, who takes Edessa by treachery. The governor of Cyzicus is punished and dies on the way, Edessa is destroyed, the greater part of the inhabitants are sent away naked. Concerning the incursion of the barbarians; the emperor clears himself to the king of the Mysians. A council concerning warding off the barbarians from Thrace and Moesia. A portent by which Alexander is confirmed against the Crales; the emperor purges the fleet. The Mysian breaks faith. When the emperor strives in vain to lead him back to duty. 171
CAP. XXIII. — On account of the heresy of Barlaam and Acindynus, a synod is granted by the emperor, and his diligence in that matter. Why Acindynus concealed himself. Upon his death, his followers take up the dissension. Four days are spent in disputations. The bishops of Ephesus and Ganos are deposed. Barlaam and Acindynus are excommunicated after their deaths. Concerning the tomes that were written. Silence is imposed upon the Barlaamites and Acindynistans, and they are kept in custody. 179
CAP. XXIV. — Nicephorus Gregoras, seditious and wickedly disposed toward the Byzantine Church. Access to him is forbidden. He writes insultingly against the emperor and the Church. He also attacks the monks as gluttons, and the heretics whom the emperor defends. The fable of Atlantis adapted to the holy monks. He pleads his own cause against the liar regarding his departure to the monks on Mount Athos. Why he returned from there, and in what manner he assumed authority. Concerning his intimacy with Barlaam, and his diligence in securing ecclesiastical peace. At the end, he testifies that heresy was falsely attributed to him. 185
CAP. XXV. — Gregoras is held to be a liar, shameless, and fickle. He denies that he wrote against the emperor and wishes to abolish those things. The emperor's response, full of grave reproach. The Venetians enter Galata by night through open gates; they are subsequently repelled with arms. They carry off merchant ships with them; they harass those passing by; they seek aid against the Genoese and do not obtain it. The Galatae beg for pardon, and that he not help their enemies. A temporary pact of the Venetians with the emperor. The origin of this custom. The Venetians, not having obtained help, depart indignantly. 197
CAP. XXVI. — The Galatae are censured. The haughty custom of the Lacedaemonians; the Galatae throw a rock from a machine at Byzantium, on account of which war is declared. The Venetians are recalled, with whom an alliance is initiated. The cause of the war for the Venetians and Genoese. The siege of Galata. The audacity of Nicolaus Pisanus, the prefect of the Venetian fleet. Three machines made in vain. A Venetian messenger concerning seventy galleys of the Genoese arriving. The tumult of the Genoese people against the optimates. It seeks democracy; it restores the fatherland and honors to the optimates, at whose expense a fleet is built and sent against the emperor. The cowardice of the Venetian Duke. Battle at Galata. Tarchaniota is wounded. The emperor returns to Byzantium in vain. The Venetian, returning, falls in with the Genoese. Fleeing into Euboea, he is saved. 205
CAP. XXVII. — The younger emperor is corrupted by certain envious men. Whence war is renewed. The causes of their malevolence. The simplicity and candor of the younger emperor. Andronicus Asanes, suspected by the malevolent, is deceived by them with an admirable fraud so that he might depart for Byzantium. Cantacuzenus, saddened by the adverse news, sends his mother to reconcile his son to him, which he successfully performs. He also rebukes the Crales and the Cralena most severely, and wards off war. 213
CAP. XXVIII. — The Genoese attack the town of Euboea and the Venetians in vain. They head for the Romans. They are driven back by the wind to Heraclea. Two having been killed, they desire to attack the city; they are deterred by the leader. Martinus, indeed, the trierarch, creates disturbances, by whose threats Paganus is terrified and permits the attack. The town is captured, having sent for aid in vain. They depart for Galata with select captives. They use the food found at Heraclea. How the emperor fortified Byzantium. To Martinus, urging the attack, the leader is opposed, with whom all agree. The forces of the Byzantines are examined, and the advice of Martinus is proven inept by the event itself. 221
CAP. XXIX. — The emperor sends help to the Pontic cities. The Sozopolitans reject it haughtily. They are captured by the Latins, being completely unprepared. The leading men are taken as hostages, and they redeem the burning and destruction of the city with money, and return to their fatherland. The miserable fortune of the Heracleensians at
A Galata, whom their bishop Philotheus liberates. A battle is engaged. The Genoese are defeated. The Catalans suffer slaughter. The treachery of the Galatae. 229
CAP. XXX. The Venetian fleet, the commander a timid delayer. Persuaded, he approaches Byzantium, though with danger. The Genoese are defeated in battle. The Catalans suffer maximum loss. The deceit of the Galatae against them. The slaughter of the Genoese, Venetians, and Catalans alike. The great spirit of the Genoese commander. The timidity of Nicholas ruins the victory; the anger of the Emperor and the Catalan commander against him. The extraordinary charity of the Byzantines toward the wounded and sick Catalans. How the negligence of the Venetian commander afflicted them. 231
CAP. XXXI. The Genoese decide to provoke the enemy of their own accord. Why Orchanes is hostile to the Venetians; he sends auxiliaries to the Genoese. The unwarlike spirit of Nicholas, at whom the Catalan commander is most enraged, and who, overtaken by grief, dies of illness; Monean is appointed in his place. The Emperor tries in vain to incite Nicholas to battle; and at last, as if he were deranged, he has him sent away; he joins a treaty with the Genoese. 241
CAP. XXXII. Nicholas refits his fleet against the enemy. Antonius Grimoaldus succeeds Paganus. He attacks the enemy at Sardinia and is defeated by the Venetians. The Genoese, afflicted, surrender themselves to the Prince of Milan under conditions. Paganus is again appointed over the fleet. The Venetians are defeated by the Genoese at Methone. Peace between the Venetians and the Genoese. Paganus, with the nobles, is sent into exile; the former status is restored. Palaiologos comes to Byzantium. Thence he departs for Didymoteichon with his wife and one of his sons. In the same place, Empress Irene is sent to reconcile the son-in-law. Conditions are prescribed. 247
CAP. XXXIII. The junior Emperor does not wish to confirm absolute governance to Matthew. The legates urge, he persists in his opinion. The junior is provoked to arms against the senior. He openly begins the war. Towns defect to him: he besieges Matthew in the citadel of Adrianople. Fearing the arrival of Cantacuzenus, he departs after the siege of Zeroomiana is lifted, and recovers it. The Adrianopolitans resist Cantacuzenus persistently. They are captured and plundered. The Zernomianenses are harassed, whose recklessness and audacity is shown. By orders of Cral, help is sent to Palaiologos, with his brother given as a hostage. Similarly from Muesus; Cantacuzenus calls the Persians. 253
CAP. XXXIV. Prayers of the Patriarch, bishops, and monks to Cantacuzenus for peace. The Triballi, Moesi, and Persians set up camp at the Hebrus. The panic and flight of the Moesi. The Triballi and Romans fight for a little while, and both flee, and almost all perish. The Persians, having devastated the lands of the Moesi, return to Asia. Emperor Palaiologos seeks to attach the Sultan to himself. His letters are sent from the Barbarian to Cantacuzenus. He, having sought peace in vain, afflicts the towns that have defected. He incurs a disease on account of the Chalcidicians, who again surrender themselves to him. The junior, seeking peace with a condition, is refused with a beautiful comparison. Evil advisors hinder peace. Palaiologos flees with his wife to Tenedos. The virtues of his wife. 259
CAP. XXXV. The cities of Palaiologos cross over to Cantacuzenus. Palaiologos comes to Byzantium. The diligence of Irene in guarding the city: Palaiologos, frustrated in his hope, turns toward Galata. He allows Cantacuzenus to be cursed; he excuses himself afterward. The tumults of the nobility of Byzantium, and an expostulation with Cantacuzenus, and a petition regarding appointing his son Matthew as Emperor. The Emperor, explaining the matter to be difficult, dismisses them without a response. 267
CAP. XXXVI. Callistus the Patriarch is consulted; he denies that Matthew should be appointed Emperor. The Emperor meets him. To those demanding again, he responds, and, as he had often done before, frees himself from all suspicion of tyranny, and seeks the praise of justice, humanity, and virtue. He accuses Palaiologos of being as little candid toward him as he is grateful, having enumerated those things which he had committed hostiley against him. Thence he contends to prove that not by his own injury is Matthew his son to be Emperor, but [claims] that it was announced by them themselves—so that he might avoid the ill-will of the act. Palaiologos excuses himself concerning the omission of the title of Emperor in the letters to Suliman, and concerning the insults of the rowers against him. 271
CAP. XXXVII. Matthew is created Emperor. The name of John is silent in acclamations and the sacred rites. The new Emperor is sent to Adrianople. Callistus is recalled from the monastery to his see and is rebuked. He excommunicates those compelling him to consecrate Matthew. His obstinacy is reported to the synod and the Emperor, and it is recorded in the tablets. There is consultation concerning electing a successor, and the canons are cited. The Emperor argues that he and his predecessors had been of bad faith in choosing bishops; he restores the freedom of election to the bishops. Philotheus is created Patriarch. Callistus flees to Galata, and from there to Tenedos to Palaiologos. B 279
CAP. XXXVIII. Matthew is crowned with his wife. A Pergamene of Tenedos, the author of the defection of the islanders, is bound and sent to Thessalonica. Cantacuzenus recovers money from Thrace from the Persians holding the castle of Zympe. An earthquake destroys the maritime cities of Thrace: the calamity of the peoples. The Barbarians seize cities with a garrison. The inhumanity of the Byzantine ship-commander. The treacherous Suliman leads colonists into Thrace. His zeal in repairing Calliopolis. Cantacuzenus devastates the Moesi, and reclaims cities from Orchanes. The excuse of Suliman is refuted. At the exhortation of his father, he returns the towns. Cantacuzenus gives birth to a monastic life. 285
CAP. XXXIX. Why Cantacuzenus himself desired to set out to Tenedos to his son-in-law. He is prevented from obtaining water. He returns to Byzantium. Suliman captures the cities of the Galatae. Cantacuzenus himself departs to Palaiologos, but nevertheless comes to Tenedos and returns with his business unfinished. Orchanes and his son profess that they will return the cities. Palaiologos comes to Byzantium; tumults of the people. Cantacuzenus, weary of human affairs, treats of the profession of monasticism. He dissuades the fight with Palaiologos, makes the nobles’ spirits hopeful of future aid, but deceitfully. He obeys the warning of Philotheus to the Emperor. Palaiologos proceeds armed against his father-in-law. 291
CAP. XL. The fury of the people renewed. Patriarch Philotheus hides himself for fear of Palaiologos. An embassy is sent, and a contract is offered. It is sworn to under certain conditions. A description of the rampart at the Golden Gate. Auxiliaries sought from Cantacuzenus are sent back. A deliberation regarding waging war on the Barbarians in Thrace. Cantacuzenus dissuades this, unless money and foreign soldiers and a fleet are provided first. A double judgment in his oration. The disparagement of the juniors and the emperors. Palaiologos hides his opinion. 299
CAP. XLI. Cantacuzenus urges the guards to surrender the rampart or fortress at the Golden Gate. They do not wish to surrender themselves to Palaiologos. Praise of the Italian John Peralta. The strategem of the Italian soldiers. Cantacuzenus threatens that he will render them infamous before their king. They ask for pardon for their audacity. The fortress is surrendered to Palaiologos, who deserts it shortly after. Plots against Cantacuzenus. Palaiologos is invited to the palace; he receives his father-in-law at a banquet. The commoners, having rioted outside on account of Cantacuzenus, are suppressed. 309
CAP. XLII. The father-in-law reveals to his son-in-law the intent of his soul regarding pursuing monasticism, from which he is dismissed with difficulty. He changes his name; his wife also becomes a nun. Emperor Palaiologos is slandered and defended. Why Cantacuzenus abdicated; from whom Palaiologos asks that he reconcile him with his son. Callistus recovers his see. Palaiologos is irritated against Matthew. Nicephorus the Despot breaks faith. Bera is received with the Cumatzenians. A treaty between the emperors. The fraud of the nobles of John. The war revives from the disobedience of his administrators. He excuses himself to Matthew and returns to Byzantium. 315
CAP. XLIII. The death of Cral. Simon his brother vindicates the province against his son. Helena, wife of the deceased, dominates. Factions of the nobility. Nicephorus the Despot obtains Thessaly by force. A servant incites the sailors to desert the Despot. The insolence and tyranny of the same. He besieges the citadel in vain. The queen departs for Byzantium: she sets out to her husband. The counsel of the household regarding imposing a wife upon him. She flees to her brother in the Peloponnese for the sake of security. Thence she is recalled by her husband, who is killed in battle by the Albanians. The wife, coming to Byzantium with her mother, becomes a nun. 325
CAP. XLIV. Matthew contends against Palaiologos. Palaiologos does not desert himself. Both depart without a fight; he prays that Orchanes’ son, who was captured by pirates, be redeemed by Palaiologos, which he does with huge money, as he could achieve nothing with arms. Matthew is summoned by the prefects of Mygdonia, who wish to surrender themselves. Friendship of the princes of the Triballi with Cantacuzenus and his son. By how great difficulties Orchanes’ quickly-dispatched forces compelled Matthew. He is compelled by them before the time into the Triballi. They commit plunderings against the agreed-upon pacts. The remainder struggle with the Triballi with javelins, and fewer Persians fall in the fight. The Emperor returns. 327 The Triballi following are repelled.
CAP. XLV. They flee out of false suspicion of the Emperor. A description of the city of the Philippians. The flight cannot be stopped by the authority of the Emperor. His virtue. He escapes safe by the work of a servant who places his horse beneath him. Hiding in the marsh near Philippi, he is captured by the Philippians. He is led to Drama to be guarded by Boichna. Palaiologos captures Gratianopolis, and there his wife with her children, whom he sends to Tenedos. Matthew perishes at the hands of Boichna, and he hands him over intact for the love of money. Various cause for desiring him to be blinded. Palaiologos is praised. Matthew C
A submits to his father's admonitions and swears on certain conditions. Palaiologos consoles him, promising that he will restore the habit and permits the buskins. With Matthew and his family, Cantacuzenus sets out for the Peloponnese; there he is met with calumnies. Manuel is of two minds, reveals the cause of his sadness to his father, and is healed. The reason why Matthew is brought there is indicated. A passage against the calumniators. He is commended to his brother Manual and is willingly received by him. B
CAP. L.
— Callistus, ambassador to the Cralena for an alliance against the Barbarians in Thrace. He dies with his companions. A false rumor that poison was provided to them by the Triballians. The Patriarch's funeral; the Cralena forbids the monks from Mount Athos from taking his body. The Emperor’s expedition against the cities of Mesembria toward the Pontus. The siege of Mesembria. Peace is composed. Philotheus receives the patriarchate; his commendation. Epilogue to the history.FOUR APOLOGIES OF JOHN KANTAKOUZENOS FOR THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION AGAINST THE MAHOMETAN SECT.
Argument of the book.APOLOGIA I.
— That Christ is the Son of God, and true and perfect God, and that being God He was made man, according to the testimonies of the theologians and prophets.APOLOGIA II.
— That the Son and Word of God, since He was God, in the last times, for the salvation of men, was made man, underwent death by crucifixion, was buried, rose again, and was assumed into the heavens. Yet it was not the divinity that suffered, but the man, who is the same who shall judge the whole world.APOLOGY III.
— That after the Lord’s assumption, His twelve disciples taught the whole world, simultaneously confirming their faith with miracles. Then concerning the Theotokos Virgin, and the question of Christ, the cross, and the icon.APOLOGY IV.
— That Mahomet taught deceitfully and perniciously, and that the Law and the Old Testament were not abolished by Christ, but rather illustrated. Furthermore, that what was weak and impossible in the Law, this the Gospel completed.CONTRA MAHOMETEM ORATIONES QUATUOR.
CHAPTERS OF THE FIRST ORATION.
1. That Mahomet in the time of his epilepsy, when he was foaming and tossing to and fro, said that he had seen the archangel Gabriel meeting him. 2. That he wrote the book called the Koran, but in Greek the life-giving law of God. 3. That he named himself prophet and apostle. 4. That he named the Mosaic, Psalter, and prophetic writings just, holy, and true, but especially confessed the Gospel to be just, holy, correct, true, and perfect, and (as is found in the chapter Iona) called them the admonitions of God. 5. That it was not brought by Mahomet, but also by others. 6. That the book promulgated by Mahomet was brought by the devil. 7. That a certain man of chalifa dignity, who is a supreme doctor, accepted the Christian religion. 8. That Mahomet, when he had fallen in with certain Nestorians and even some Jews, collected all their malice. 9. That boasting of himself he said: If all men and spirits and angels should gather together, they will not be able to constitute a Koran similar to mine. 10. That the name of Mahomet is inscribed on the right side of the throne. 11. That he came not to give the law through miracles, but through the sword; and that for those not believing in him, either punishment must be borne or tribute paid. C 12. That he forbade anyone to dispute with any of the Christians. 13. That Noah and Abraham, and finally the apostles, were also followers of the doctrine that he himself later promulgated.
CHAPTERS OF THE SECOND ORATION.
1. That what is contained in the Mosaic precepts, the prophets, the Psalter, and the Gospel, are holy, just, and the traditions of God; that he should name, embrace, and observe them: and that those are not his followers who have not fulfilled these things. 2. That those of the law are to be divided into three parts, of which only one is to be saved, but the rest are to be delivered to the fire. 3. That if the Alcoran were not from God, many things in it would be contrary to one another. 4. That when he ascended to God with Gabriel, he encountered an angel ten thousand times greater than the whole world, weeping for his sins, who by his own intercession obtained pardon from God. 5. That he is the goal and seal of the prophets. 6. That he prohibits rapine, slaughter, and perjury, but permits them again. 7. That God permitted him to perjure himself. 8. That when God was seated alone, He said that He created the world for the sake of amusement. 9. That in the chapter *Micapara*, that is to say, *The Heifer*, he said that Jews and Christians would obtain salvation, but in the chapter *Amram*, he asserts to the contrary that no one can be saved without the law of the Ishmaelites. 10. That he says he cannot enter paradise before him. And again he says that God showed him many women and men who had entered paradise before him. 11. That after the resurrection he promises the followers of the Mahometan law elegant houses and gardens, and that he will give them many more women. 12. That in the chapter *The Cow* he affirms that men were made from dust. 13. That in the chapter *The Fly*, concerning Solomon and the flies, he produces a foolish lie; which he also admits. 14. That in the chapter *The Spider*, concerning Solomon and the worm, he relates a story most similar to the former lie. 15. That in the book *Enarrationum* he sets forth the reason why wine is forbidden. 16. That the heaven was made from smoke; but the sea from a certain mountain named *Caph*. 17. That he says the sun and moon are equal in light and virtue. 18. That Gabriel, when he ascended to heaven, being called, felt such force of cold by the hand of God placed upon him that it penetrated even to the marrow of his back. 19. That in the chapter *Adam* he hands down that the demons were appointed by God to adore Adam; and when they did not want to do this in the manner of the other angels, they were made demons on that account. 20. He hands down the reason why swine's flesh is forbidden. 21. That God will kill the whole race of men and angels at the end of the world. 22. That he wrote the book, containing twelve thousand sermons: of which three thousand are indeed true, but the others are false. 23. That in the chapter *Ceramar* he states that the moon had been cut into two parts, of which one fell into his tunic, the other indeed to the earth; and then that he restored the whole to its place. D
A 23. That God and the angels pray for Mahomet. 24. That in the chapter *Helnaida*, which if you interpret signifies "the table," he asserts that the Hebrews and Christians are not the sons of God, nor his friends, because they are afflicted.
CAPITA OF THE THIRD ORATION
587 1. That it is impossible for God to have a son without a woman. 2. That if God had a son, there will be dissension between them both. 3. That in the chapter *Eluesa*, which signifies "women," he says that Christ is the Word of God, the soul of God, and the spirit of God. 4. That he testifies Christ to have been born from a virgin without the operation of a man. 5. That he denies Christ and God to be the Son, and his incarnation as well. But he calls the same person only a naked man, like Nestorius; but indeed holy, and more excellent than all men. 7. That God called Christ up to the heavens, but that he is to come at the end of the world, and will kill the Antichrist, upon which, Christ himself also is to die. 8. That he claimed that Mary is the sister of Moses and Aaron.CAPITA OF THE FOURTH ORATION
590 1. That Mahomet, having been snatched into the heavens, stood before God, and heard various things, and was again brought down to the earth. 2. That demons also will obtain salvation. 3. That no one understands the interpretation of the Koran, not even Mahomet himself, but God alone.ORATION I AGAINST MAHOMET 589 ORATION II 615 ORATION III 631 ORATION IV 675 PROOEMIUM OF THE TOME AGAINST BARLAAM AND ACINDYNUS BY CHRISTODULUS THE MONK 693 Monitum of the Editor of Patrologia. TOME COMPOSED BY PATRIARCH JOHN AND THE SYNOD AGAINST THE FALSE OPINION OF BARLAAM 695 PHILOTHEUS PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE 711 Notice from Fabricius 711 SERMON ON THE EXALTATION OF THE VENERABLE AND LIFE-GIVING CROSS 719 ON THE COMMANDMENTS OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST 729 ORDER OF THE SACRED MINISTRY 745 PANEGYRIC ON SS. BASIL, GREGORY THE THEOLOGIAN, AND JOHN CHRYSOSTOM 767 REFUTATION OF THE ANATHEMAS OF HARMENOPOULUS 821 (See further among the Addenda at the end of the volume) DEMETRIUS CYDONIUS 825 Notice from Fabricius 825 BOOK OF DEMETRIUS CYDONIUS AGAINST GREGORY PALAMAS 857 ON THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT 863 CAP. I. — That from the fact that they deny the Son of God is from the substance of the Father, many absurdities follow. 863 CAP. II. — In what sense theologians say it is one thing for substance to exist, and another for hypostasis. 870 CAP. III. — That substance, and hypostasis, and property are in reality the same in God. 874 CAP. IV. — That although paternity and filiation are substance, it does not therefore necessarily follow that the Son is the Father, or the Father the Son. 878 CAP. V. — That those who say: just as it is one thing for a hypostasis to be, and another for a substance, and another for paternity in God, it does not make a composition; so also some other things which are said to subsist in the substance of God, and which really differ from substance and from each other, do not make a composition, are reckless. 886 CAP. VI. — That the doctors of the Church speak theologically that the Son is from the substance of the Father, and is generated. CAP. VII. — That those who deny the Son is from the substance of the Father, or is generated, destroy the principle of faith, and oppose the doctors. 898 CAP. VIII. — What, finally, were the causes of their deception. 903 CAP. IX. — That to contradict those who say the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son, compelled them not to confess that the Son is from the substance of the Father. 907 CAP. X. — What, finally, the objections are which seem primarily to be brought against those who say he proceeds from the Father and the Son, and firstly concerning consubstantiality, and the solutions of such arguments. 914 CAP. XI. — That they bring another objection against them, which is concerning the two principles, and the solution of this. 925 CAP. XII. — That the saints argue theologically that the Holy Spirit is from the substance of the Father and the Son, and that he is from the Son, and exists, and proceeds, and goes forth. 934 CAP. XIII. — A brief repetition of those things which have been said, with an epilogue. 951 Epistle of Demetrius Cydonius to Barlaam concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit 959 (See among the mutual epistles of Barlaam and Demetrius in Barlaam). Monitum on the oration of Demetrius Cydonius on admitting the aid of the Latins 959 DELIBERATIVE ORATION OF DEMETRIUS CYDONIUS TO THE ROMANS 961 ANOTHER DELIBERATIVE ORATION OF THE SAME ON NOT SURRENDERING GALLIPOLI UPON THE REQUEST OF AMURATES 1009 MONODY ON THE THESSALONIAN SEDITION, IN THE YEAR 1343 1035 (Existent among the Scriptores post Theophanem, of this *Patrologia* volume CIX.) TRANSLATION OF THE BOOK OF BROTHER RICHARD, of the Order of Preachers, against the followers of Mahomet 1055 DEDICATION by Bartholomaeus Picenus of Montearduo, to Ferdinand, King of Aragon and both Sicilies 1055 Refutation by Richard of the Order of Brothers, who are called Preachers among the Latins, of the law given to the Saracens by the accursed Mahomet, translated from the Roman language into Greek, by a certain Demetrius 1057 I. Concerning the principal errors of this law. 1043 II. How one ought to conduct oneself with them. 1047 III. That this law is not the law of God, for the reason that neither the Old nor the New Testament testify to it: and that it is necessary for Saracens to obey the dictates of the Old Testament and the Gospel. 1051 IV. That the Koran is not the law of God, since it does not have a style and manner convenient with others. 1057 V. That the Koran is not the law of God, since it does not agree in sentiment with any other. 1061 VI. That the Koran is not the law of God, since in many things it contradicts itself. 1066 VII. That the law of the Saracens is confirmed by no miracle. 1070 VIII. That the law of Mahomet is irrational. 1074 IX. That the law of the Saracens contains manifest lies. 1099 X. That the law of the Saracens is violent. 1105 XI. That the Koran is not the law of God; for it is disorderly. 1107 XII. That the law of the Saracens is not of God; for it is iniquitous. 1111 XIII. Concerning the institution of the Koran, and who was the creator and inventor of this law. 1115 XIV. Concerning the fiction of a most reprobate vision. 1119 XV. Concerning certain six questions common in the Koran, and concerning the excellence of Christ over Mahomet. 1125 XVI. Concerning the excellence of the Gospel over the Koran. 1139 XVII. Concerning the response of the Saracens to the aforementioned. 1147
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Confession of the Christian faith, made to the Saracens, by an uncertain author. 1151
DEMETRIUS CYDONIUS, ORATION ON DESPISING DEATH
1169 ARGUMENT. Demetrius, as he teaches, that death is not to be feared, but to be despised and disregarded, puts forward three classes of people who fear death: first, those who abhor death because of the loss of pleasures (ch. 2-6); then, those who think that all things are destroyed by death (ch. 7-20); finally, those who, on account of eternal punishments, consider death to be the greatest and most heavy of all evils (ch. 21-25): so that he may reveal and demonstrate the vanity of each of their fears and the causes thereof. 1169DEMETRIUS CYDONIUS, EPISTLE to the Grand Primicerius Phacrases, written from Thessalonica, when in the year 1430 Amurath II was surrounding the city with a siege, which he soon destroyed after it was taken by iron and fire. — From this epistle we learn that Cydonius was a Thessalonian by birth, and not a Constantinopolitan or a Cretan, as Fabricius, along with others, thought. 1213
MAXIMUS CHRYSOBERGA, MONK
Editor’s Note. 1215MAXIMUS CHRYSOBERGA, ORATION TO THE CRETANS ON THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
1217PHILOTHEUS OF SELYMBRIA: ORATION ON SAINT AGATHONICUS.
1229ADDENDA
The Privilege of Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople, for the Bishop of Hierissos. He confirms his episcopal rights on the Holy Mountain. 1239Philotheus, Patriarch of Constantinople, Against Gregoras, Libri XII of the Antirretica. See volume CLI. The same, Encomium of Gregory Palamas. See ibid. The same, Life of Saint Demetrius the Martyr. See volume CXVI.
Index to the Byzantine History of John Cantacuzenus. 1215