INDEX IN MATTH. BLASTAREM. 1333
INDEX OF TOPICS AND TERMS MOST WORTHY OF NOTE WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN THE SYNTAGMA OF MATTHÆUS BLASTARES
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A Abscessus (concerning), what it is, 34. Accumbo, the same as *ἀνάκλισις*, 18. Acephali, who are called, 11. Adfinitas, what it is, 45. Adfinitas (concerning), 47. Administration (concerning holy), 171. Adoptio, what it is, 45. Adoptio (concerning), 52. Adrianus (emperor), called Ælius, 114. Ascendants and descendants (concerning the degrees of), 46. Ælia, of old called Solyma and Jebus, 114. Equinoctio verno (concerning), 215. Equinoctium, when it occurred in the time of Nabonassar, 201; in the time of Philip Aridaeus, ibid.; the year in which Christ suffered, ibid. Age (concerning the) of those who are to be ordained as clerics, 141. Agapae, how it is proper to celebrate, 17. Agapae, should by no means be held in churches, 120, 145. *Ἀκούμβιτα*, 18. *Ἀλάστορες*, who they are, 174. *Aleis* (concerning) that are vacant, 167. Alexius Comnenus (emperor), Novella, 619. Alien goods, concerning those stealthily taking, 172. Altar (concerning that which is sacred), those who are consecrated are permitted to enter; but emperors, etc., enter, 144. Altar (to the), it is not proper for women to enter, 85. Amulets (concerning), 173. Anagnini, churches of, 274. Anathema (concerning), 20. Anchialus (Michael), declaration, 166. Anconitana, church of, 284. Andreas, a most religious monk, 180. Andronicus Palæologus (emperor), 156. Soul (concerning that which is to be considered in the), 3. Animals (that it is not permitted to eat of), 220. Anna, wife of Constantine, 50. *Anno bissextili*, or intercalary (concerning), 59. Anomœans (concerning), 13. *Ἀντιμίνσια*, 115. Apollinarists (concerning), 9. Arians (concerning), 8. Armenians (concerning), 152. Arsenius (patriarch), decree, 41. Avarice (concerning), 220. Auguries (concerning), 199. Azymes (concerning), 145.
B B is taken for D in Latin words, 59. Baths, concerning those washing in them together with women, 84. Baptism (concerning sacred), 38. Baptized (concerning those who are), from among the Jews, 43. *Βαθέως ὄρθρου*, 218. Beasts (concerning those who have commerce with), 140. Bianor (concerning), a presbyter, whether he should be received into the clergy on account of an oath, 134. Bog, what it signifies, 12. Bogomils, what they are called in the language of the Mysians, ibid. Bogomils (concerning), ibid. Goods, concerning those stealthily taking the property of others, 29. Brutes, concerning those having commerce with, 19. Bulgaria (concerning), 116.
C Slaughters (concerning) in war, 255. Caesarea, called by the name of Straton, 114. Canons (concerning) ecclesiastical, 149. Canon (concerning), 150. Carnisprivium, how it is found, 208. Catechumens, two orders of, 154. Catechumens who have lapsed, those denying the faith (concerning), 6. Catechumens (concerning), 154. Celestius (concerning), 15. Chliarenus (patriarch) of Constantinople, 172. Chorepiscopi (concerning), 132. Christianity (concerning), 270. Chumnus, prelate of Thessalonica, 48. Foods, concerning those eating impure (concerning), 182. Clergy (that it is fitting to ordain those who do not belong to the priestly lineage, if they are worthy), 158. Clerics, should not be transferred, 158. Clerics eating in a tavern (concerning), 200. Cleric, it is not permitted to enter an inn, 150. Clerics, concerning the espousals of, 76. Clerics (concerning the order of), 235. Clerics contracting incestuous marriages (concerning), 67. Clerics supporting strange women (concerning), 229. Clerics setting up altars beyond the sentence of the bishop (concerning), 143. Clerics' children (concerning), 235. Clerics judged for their crimes (concerning), 99. Cleric, from the moment he falls into some sin, is deposed, but not excommunicated, 159. Clerics, it is fitting they receive guests in a guesthouse, 199. Clerics who do not wish to ascend to a higher rank, fall from that which they now have, 159. Clerics, it is not permitted for them to strike anyone, 248. Clerics, concerning those who do not confess their offenses, 229. Clerics denying the faith on account of fear (concerning), 4. Clerics, it is not fitting for them to undertake secular cares, 165. Clerics, it is fitting to provide for those in need from the resources of the Church, 158. Clerics casting off their wives under the pretext of religion (concerning), 79. Clerics of churches and monasteries, it is fitting they be under the authority of the bishop, 159. Clerics, should not be ordained absolutely, 159. Clerics, forbidden to accept interest, 245. Codicil (concerning), 169. Kin, concerning unlawful marriages of, 67. Consanguinity, division of, 45. Communion, for the grace of the divine, it is not fitting to accept anything, 161. Communion, it is not fitting to give to the bodies of the dead, 161. Communing, it is fitting for those who are (concerning), 163. Communicants, concerning those not hesitating to receive the sacraments from priests who have wives, 165. Communicants (concerning non-), 16. Communicant, it is not fitting for him who is to communicate to have relations with his wife, 162. Spiritual fathers, how it is proper to behave towards those confessing, 220. Consanguinity (concerning the) seventh degree of, 46. Constantinople (concerning the privileges of the most holy Church of), 114. Constantinople, patriarch ordained by him who is for the time being the metropolitan of Heraclea, 114. Consuetudines (concerning) of the Church that are unwritten, 110. Contracts (concerning), 228. Convivia, concerning banquets, 229. Cornelius (under), pope, a synod was held, 9. Cross, it is not proper to write on the pavement, 228. Creditors (concerning), 90. Curators of minors (concerning), 136. Cycle of the sun (concerning the finding of), 206. Cycle of the moon (how it is found), 206. Cycles, why there are nineteen lunar, 204. Cycles, why there are twenty-eight solar, 205. Cycles, why the moon and the foundations begin in the month of January, 205. Cycles, why the solar begin from October, 205. Cynics, whence so called, 14. Cyprus (concerning), 116.
D Dalmaticus, bishop, 279. Damned, concerning those held in prison, 258. Daniel, metropolitan of Ancyra, 286. Deipara (concerning the most holy), childbirth, 153. *Διατάγματα*, what they are, 201. Deaconesses and widows (concerning), 70. Day (concerning the space of), 141. Digamous (concerning), 94. Dionysius, epistle to Novatus, 234. Dioscorus and Eutyches (concerning), 11. Dissent (what it is), 22. *Δίστρον* (what it is), 200. Sunday, it is fitting to teach the people on, 168. Sunday, it is not fitting to fast on, or, etc., 168. Donation before marriage (concerning), 251. Donations (concerning), 108. Donatist, how to readmit, 14. Dowry (concerning the matter of), 226. Ducas (Michael, emperor), 166.
E Drunkenness (concerning) for those who are vacant, 167. Church, concerning those who take refuge in, 119. Churches of two cities, it is not fitting for one cleric to belong to, 120. Church goods, it is fitting they be inalienable, 121. Church (great), offices, 272. Churches, concerning the building and consecration of, 118.
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Ecclesiastical [privileges], which ones enjoy them, 113. Elections of those to be ordained, 259. Election of bishops, 115. Elias, patriarch and legate, 280. Elocation, 182. *Hutolia*, what they are, 245. Emption and vending, 18. Encratites, 7. *Epinemeseos* rite, 207. Episcopal Roman [See] as the head of the patriarchal sees, 117. Episcopal [office], not to be established in a small city or village, 131. Bishop, it is fitting that he administer the business of the Church, 126. Bishops and clerics, concerning their traveling, 20. Bishops made by laymen, 170. Bishops, concerning their resignation, 154. Bishops and clerics, concerning the accusation of, 154. Bishop, it is fitting he have a steward with him, 199. Bishops who attain churches through the power of princes, 124. Bishops, who should be appointed as heirs of goods, 154. Bishop, it is fitting he provide for needy clerics from Church goods, 129. Bishop who shaves his head after the manner of monks falls from the priesthood, 131. Bishops, concerning their election and ordination, 115. Bishop who has been ordained, etc., 123. Bishop, upon his death, it is not fitting that his goods be plundered by his clerics, 129. Bishops, concerning their reduction to the dignity of a presbyter, 129. Bishops, by what method elections are to be made, 259. Bishops and clerics, concerning those deposed, and by how many bishops they are deposed, 146. Bishops who keep strange women in their household, 83. Bishop, it is not fitting that he build a monastery to the detriment of his church’s goods, 128. Bishops, it is fitting that they reclaim bishoprics and monasteries if they have been made into common inns, 126. Bishops, etc., coming into the order of laymen, 171. Bishops must be separated from their wives, 81. Bishops, permitted to receive confessions of the penitent, 181. Bishops, concerning their private goods, 126. Bishops judged for their crimes, 99. Bishops, what kind of men they ought to be who are to be ordained, 261. Bishop, etc., it is not fitting he be ordained before he has made all his household Christians, 262. Bishops who seize churches that in no way belong to them, 29. Bishop, not permitted to ordain a cleric of another province, 264. Bishop, not permitted to perform ordinations in a district not subject to him, 264. Bishops, to some it is granted to receive foreign clerics and ordain them in their own churches, 264. Bishops, concerning the time within which they ought to be ordained, 260. Episcopal audience, 200. Bishopric, not to be raised to a higher throne unless the one who occupies it, etc., 126. Bishoprics and monasteries, it is fitting that bishops reclaim, etc., 126. Bishoprics made into metropolises, 125. Eudoxius, 13. Eunomius the Galatian, bishop of Cyzicus, 9. Eunomians, 8, 9. Eunuch, when to be ordained bishop, etc., 263. Eunuchs, 137. Eustathius, bishop of Pamphylia, 130. Euthymius, made Syncellus patriarch, 64. Eutyches, 11. Exarchs, 220. Excommunication, 34, 96. Excommunicated person, it is not fitting to communicate with, 161. Exorcists, 140.
F Falcidia, what it is, 252. Women taking a vow of chastity, 200. Fast of the fourth day, 245. Sureties of clerics, 109. Orthodox faith, 1. Denying the faith, 3, 4, 5, 6. Fornication, 222. Those who fornicate irrationally, 19. Fraternity through adoption, 45. Fraternities, those involved in, 231. Fruits to be offered in temples, 151.
G Gesticulations, theatrical, 199. Degrees in marriage, 45.
H Inheritance and disinherited children or parents, 154. Heresies, schisms, and parasynagogues, the difference between, 7. Heretics and how those who convert from heresies are to be admitted, 7. Heretics, civil laws regarding, 17. *Hydroparastatae*, 8, 152. Hymn, the Trisagion, 138. Subdeacons, 251.
I Ibas, bishop of Edessa, 15. His letter, ibid. Iberia, 116. Ides, 196. Image is so called because it imitates, 109. Images, in them the forms of the prototypes are shown; in idols, however, they are not, 111. Imperial privileges, 125. Minors, 34. Enchanters, who are called, 174. Incantations, 173. Fire, 111. Indiction, how it is found, 207. He who has fought with beasts to show virtue is not infamous, 115. Infants of Hagarenes baptized, 42. Injuries, 250. Innovations, 147. Institution, what it is, 169. Invasion, what it is, 22.
J Fast, 196. Fast on Good Friday and other days, 200. John Nesteutes, 33. Declaration of Patriarch John, 166. Jews, parricides of Christ, 71. Jews and that it is not fitting for the faithful to have communion with them, 45. Judgments, concerning those who accuse in, 101. Judgments, 95, 167. Oaths, 199. Every oath is not prohibited, 87. Law, 198. Justin, archbishop, which bishops he has under his jurisdiction, 116. Justinian’s Novella, 131. Justice, 95. *Katabrabeyein*, 14.
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L Laity denying the faith; those passing to second marriages, 62. Those contracting incestuous marriages, 68. Laity casting out their wives, 39. Latins, 171. Robbers, those who kill, 171, 255. Reader, no one is to be made one unless he is 18 years old, 20. Readers, 20, 62. Falcidian law, 252. Sacred books, it is not fitting to tear, 58. Books of Holy Scripture, genuine and spurious, 56. Letters of commendation, 25. Dimissory, 26. Pacific, 26. Letters of commendation, dimissory, and pacific, which are given by bishops to traveling clerics, 25. Liturgy, why it is performed at the third hour, 236. Places of penance, 177. Longinus, 133. *Lorum*, what it signifies, 117. Moon’s foundation, how it is found, 206.
M Macedonians, 8. Magicians, who are called, 174. Magicians, 173. Three characteristics of a good magistrate, 39. Magistrates, 33. Manichaeans, who they are, 11. Manichaean, if caught in a Roman place, to be beheaded, 17. Manichaeans, 11. Manuel, priest of Heraclea, 42. Sanction of Prince Manuel, 49. Marcellians, 13. March, first of the months, 201. Mother gave birth to the dark one (hom.), 47. Mathematicians, who they are called, 174. Marriage from three different kinds, 49. Physicians, 166. Those who keep harlots, 225. Metrophanes, why he was separated from the Church, 295. Michael, archbishop of Alexandria, 279. Mimes forbidden, 182. Effeminacy, 163. Monks, 186. Monks, it does not befit them to undertake secular cares, 165. Monks and nuns who have fallen, 192. Monasteries, 186. Monasteries, when it is fitting to reclaim them, 126. Monastery, it is not fitting for a bishop to build one to the detriment of his church, 128. Those taking on the monastic habit, 188. Nuns, 191. Montanists, 10. Montanists, Phrygians, 10. Political manners, 106. And Greek, 111.
Phamenoth, the first month of the Egyptians, 200. Philalethe, the title of a book, 11. Philippus Ardæus, 20. The Eucharist and baptism should not be given to the bodies of the dead, 162, 235. On the priests of Moses leaning during the battle against Amalek, 31. On not bathing with women, 84. On espoused women, 73. A woman separated from her bishop ought to be shorn, 81. On a woman neglecting her fetus, 87. On a woman wishing to transition to a second marriage, 65. On women during their period of separation, 33. On women contracting second marriages, 63. It is not fitting that women become presiding officers, 85. Nor is it permitted for them to have commerce with men, ibid.
N Nabonassar, 201. On blood kinship, 46. Nesteutai, 33. On Nestorius, 15. Nicetas, bishop of Smyrna, 295. Nisan, what it is, 201. On the Nones, 59. Novatus, more on him, 8. On marriages permissible and prohibited, 60. On marriages prohibited, except by blood kinship, 53. On those contracting multiple marriages, 62. On those who abhor legitimate marriages, 54. One ought not to contract marriages with heretics, 71. A daughter-in-law, what is meant by the term, 47.
O A bishop ought to have an oeconomus, 127. Offices of the Great Church, 272. On ordinations, 239, 260. On the ordination of a patriarch, 277.
P On covenants, 228. On preaching, 33. Pagans, who are they called, 74. Panarion, the book of Epiphanius, 14. On why a papal legate of Thessalonica is an archbishop, 115. On Paphnutius the bishop, 60. That the legal Passover is not to be celebrated before the equinox, 201. On finding the Christian Passover, 208. Patrara, the bishop of, 115. On the patriarch, 219. That a patriarch may send a stauropegion into the province of a metropolitan, 115. Why the ordination of a patriarch is attributed to the bishop of Heraclea, 114. On the Paulianists, 10. Paulicians, the same as Paulianists, 10. On Pentecost, 110. Pepuza, called Jerusalem, 10. Pepuzian heretics, 10. Periapta, what they are, 173. On perjury, 133. Photinus the heretic, originated from Sirmium, 13. Phylactery, what these are called, 176. On pictures/icons, 140. On pledges, 113. On the disagreement of authors regarding the full moon, 214. On punishments, 221. Penitents ought not to be rejected, 176. Penitents at the point of death ought to participate in holy communion, 180. It is permitted for bishops to receive the confessions of penitents, 181. Polychronius, 279. Books of Porphyry and other heretics to be burned, 58. On possession, 198. Præfects, who are they called, 33. On præfects, 141. On magic arts, 173. On the order of prayers, 138. On the rights of presbyters, 226. On the order of presbyters and laymen in communion, 165. On the privileges which churches and bishops possess, 113. Proclus, archbishop, 138. Procopius of Caesarea, bishop of Cappadocia, 278. On those laboring with an involuntary flow, 228. On the promensales, 20. Ptolemais, a city of Pentapolis, 10. A woman in childbirth is not bound to observe the appointed fasts, 85. Puerperium, what it is, 153. On the childbearing of the Holy Mother of God, 153. On schismatics, 232. On violators of sepulchers, 247. On burial, 235. Servants, when they are to be ordained, 265. Severiani, also called Acephali, 11. On Severus, ibid. The silence of women is an ornament, 85. On the removal of idols/images, 129. On ominous signs, 9. The tome of Sisinius, 48. It is prohibited to marry two first cousins, 49. Mother-in-law, what is meant by the term, 47. When one polluted in sleep may communicate, 163. On engagements/betrothals, 77. On the engagements of clergy, 76. Stauropegion, 115. Stupa the patriarch, 50. On reception through holy baptism, 52. On Sylvester, 117. On those who avoid the holy synaxes, 229. On synods to be held annually, 230.
T A table indicating the full moon according to the legal Passover, 211. Convivial feasts ought not to be held within the precincts of the temple, etc., 196. On the building and consecration of temples, 196. On a testament, 91. On witnesses at a tribunal, 154. On theaters, 142. Theodorus Balsamon, 36. Theodotus the patriarch, 27. On Theophany (on the saints), 143. On the manner in which those who are to be tonsured ought to be accepted, 187. On those who marry three times, 63. He who does not believe in the holy Trinity, nor in power in one Godhead, is not called a Christian, 17. A tutor, or curator, or procurator cannot purchase the property of an orphan, 19. On a tutor and minors, 53. On tutors and curators, 136. Tyana, a metropolis, 125.
U On the holy ointment, 195. On the tome of union, 64. On one who has a wife possessed by a demon, 86. On those who cast out their wives, 97.
V On seers/soothsayers, 173. On selling and buying, 18. On poisons/sorcery, 173. On vestments pertaining to sacred things, 112. On force and power, 56. On widows and deaconesses, 70. It is not fitting for men to bathe with women, 172. On those who defile virgins, 87. The holy Virgin called the wife of Joseph, 75.
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