INDEX OF MATTERS AND WORDS
AAngels: the overseer of the life of every man, 337. The oath of the angels, 268. The change of the name of the angels in the case of Komnenos, 341. By an angel, one hundred and eighty-five thousand [were] slain in one night, 193. Angels, 76, 78. Ministers of the spirit, 137. What those ascending and descending Jacob’s ladder signify, ibid. Whether they were created before the creation of heaven and earth, or after, 110. How they are said to have eaten in the Holy Scriptures, 132. Whence the appellation of angels comes, 76, 77. The camps seen by Jacob, 138. Why the mention of the creation [of angels] is not explicit, 75, 76. Divergent opinions regarding the creation of angels, 79, 80. Whence the angels’ predictions of future events arise, 107. What the word signifies, 78. Given to us by the angels themselves, 77. What they signify in the angels, ibid. A passage of Nicephorus the Patriarch on the angels, 137. Moses buried by the angels, 158. On the angels of individuals, a passage from Basil, [ibid. reference note omitted]. The expedition of the English and French into Palestine, 311. The origin of eels, 44. Whether the soul is a participant in the divine essence, 68. One in man, endowed with diverse faculties, 69. The drier it is, the wiser it is, 74, 116. How it exists in the body, 71. The soul’s essence is incomprehensible, 72. The sudden convergence of soul and body in the maternal womb, and their sudden separation at the time of death, 73. Expert of soul, entirely dead, 72. Faculties of the soul, 70. How we attain growth, 83. Three parts, and 111 et seq. On the seat of the soul, the opinions of Aristotle and others, 71, 72. On the soul of brute animals, the error of the Manichaeans, 104. A timid soul, 37. Ephemeral animalcules, 38. Whence so called, ibid. Animals having a large heart, why they are timid: and on the contrary, why they are still unclean today, 168. How certain [animals are] unclean, though they received a common blessing with the rest at the beginning of things, 168. The keen senses of terrestrial animals, 49. None of the footless animals [are without], a certain natural prudence given by God, ibid. Brute animals do not labor under envy, 44. Whence Noah was able to discern clean animals from unclean, 126. The power of the senses in animals, 50. Why offspring in brute animals show more likeness to their parents than in humans, 56. The liberality of Anna the woman, 267. The Annals of John Skylitzes, 286. The high price of grain under Constantine Copronymus, 284. What a year is, 25. The diversity of years in numbers among the Hebrews and Greeks, 121. The calculation of the years of Paul’s preaching, 227. On the weeks of years according to Daniel, 205. That the heresy of the Anomoeans originated from Origen, 242. Watchful geese, 44. Rome saved by geese, ibid. Anthropophagi among the Indians, 143. The prodigies of the Antichrist, 156. Antigonus, after Alexander died, gained possession of Asia, 202. By whom Antioch was founded, ibid. The calamity of Antioch, 269. Why Phocas abstained from Antioch, 307. The empress’s statue thrown down by the Antiochians, 357. Antiochus Epiphanes, 202. The ruin of Antiochus Epiphanes, 202, 203. Antiochus Eupator, 203. How Antiochus the Ostiarius was circumvented, 267. Anti-pelargosis (mutual filial care), 41. Antonius Caracalla, emperor, 243. Antoninus Philosophus, emperor, 241. He sells the imperial world, ibid. The doctrine of Antoninus Philosophus, emperor, ibid. Antonius Pius, 241. Antonius, by Augustus in the naval battle defeated, 203. The error of the Appellians, 20. The worship of Apis by the Egyptians, 130. Why bees are extinguished by oil, 47. How they punish drones, 45. The republic of bees, 40, 45. The cause of the foam of boars, 63. Apochaudas defeated by Nicephorus, 304. Apollinarius, in which council was he condemned, 271. When he lived, 244. His heretical dogma, ibid. The dogma of Apollinarius, 70. The illusions of Apollonius, 239. Why the Apostles are greater than the patriarchs, 230. How many gifts of tongues they received, 226. Why they were only twelve at first, ibid. B Aspidochelone, a species of whale, 36. An image of the devil, ibid. The water of contradiction, whence the fountain was so called, 102. Why water was placed by God above the firmament, 8. Why also below, ibid. What the water and fire in the mountains of Lycia conjoined remind us of, 17. Why river water is not salty, [it is] collected, 15. How it is said in the Scriptures that [honey] is everywhere, 14. [That] the water of the flood rose fifteen cubits above the mountains themselves, 126, 127. Whence it is evident that sea water is thicker than river water, 16. On sea water, that it is potable, how it may be extracted, 9. The fountain and principle of aerial waters, the sea, 9. Whence the heat of hot springs, 6. Whence the flux and reflux in the Euripus occurs, 22. The change, the first plague of Egypt, 131, and why, ibid. That all waters originate from the sea, 16. An eagle having become a Christian, 141. He does not abandon astrology, ibid. He is circumcised, and the holy writings are tainted, ibid. An eagle provides shade for Marcianus, 262. The eagle of the augury, 294. The iniquity of the eagle toward its offspring, 41. The augury of eagles, 300. The interpretation thereof, ibid. Feather, 43. The blasphemy of the eagle and the Mani, 82. The fertility of Arabia, 77. Arbaces the Mede, the slayer of Sardanapalus, 139. Why the tree of knowledge was planted in paradise, 100. Miracles of the tree and the spring, 277, 278. Great dissension among all concerning the nature and enjoyment of the tree of knowledge, 85. Various opinions on the tree of knowledge, 98, 99. Evergreen trees, or on the contrary, deciduous, 14. Golden trees with small birds, 289. Why the leaves of trees are diverse, 12. Arbylus, king of the Assyrians, 130. Why the Ark of the Lord was captured, 172. Because of the Ark, the Philistines were evilly punished, 172. The measure of Noah’s Ark, 126, 127. To the Ark the raven returned, 127. Why seven [clean] and two [unclean] animals were received, 126, 127. Arcadius, emperor, 258. Arcadius and Honorius, sons of Theodosius by Placilla, 256. Arcadius excommunicated by the letters of Pope Innocent, 249. The reply of Arcadius to the same, ibid., 260. Absolution, ibid. Archangels, 76, 77. What the word archangels signifies, 78. Ardeola, or the heron, of what kind of bird, 44. The virtue of Argyropulus’s wife, 312. What [the] asterisks designate, 1. Arius condemned in the first Council, 270, 271. His death, 252. That the Arians derived the occasion of their heresy from Origen, 241. When Aristotle lived, 202. The opinion of Aristotle concerning the essence of heaven, 5. Passage, 29, 51, 53, 62, 116. The inventors of arithmetic, 227. Armatius, see Harmatius. Armemunes, 291. Arsenius, having fled in fear of Arcadius being punished, 256. He is recalled with a petition for forgiveness, ibid. Sent to Theodosius, ibid. Artabanes, king, 202. Artabasdus makes himself emperor, 283. His end, 280. Son-in-law of Leo, 202. Artaxerxes, king, successor of Darius, 140. Artemius, emperor, 280. Artoclines killed by his wife, 318. King Asa, in what he sinned, 187. His piety, ibid. The Ascetica of Basil, 91, 168. Why the donkey is timid, 54. The donkey’s keen hearing, 49. Astarte, the idol of the Sidonians, 189. The same as Venus, 181. Asmodeus, a wicked genius, 170. Lover of Sarah, ibid. Three species of vipers, 58. Whence the Assyrians were called Persians, 140. The prediction of a certain astrologer, 261, 299. Astrologer, 279. Proscribed from Italy, 238. Refuted, 26, 27 et seq. The inventors of astronomy, 127. Asua, daughter of Adam, wed to Seth, 117. Athanasius driven from his throne by the Arians, 250. His exiles, ibid. Passage, 89, 91, 97, 119, 122, 207, 208, ibid. Athenais, later called Eudocia, sets out for Constantinople, 261. She marries Theodosius, the calligrapher emperor, ibid. The Catalans gained possession of Athens and Thebes, 344. The defeat of the Athenian general, ibid. Athenodorus, the restrainer of the lusts of Augustine, 206.
A The same's final precept given to Augustus, 206. Atlas mountain, 14. Atlantic sea, whence so named, ibid. Ink, which fish possess it, 37. Augustus Caesar, victor over Cleopatra, 58. Christ born in the forty-second year of Augustus, 207. Duration of his empire, 205. How anger is chastised, 206. Lusts restrained, ibid. Words of the dying, ibid. Whence the name, 205. Affection of subjects toward Augustus, 206. Nicopolis built by Augustus, 205. Peace under Augustus, ibid. Month of August, whence named, ibid. Singing golden birds, 192. Birds that lack breath and bladders, 48. Origin of birds, 44. What is to be wondered at in birds, 196. Aurelian the emperor, 244. Silver flooded under him, 245. Why the passages of the ears are fashioned winding like a snail shell, 31. Auses, previously called Joshua, 159. Azura, daughter of Adam, married to Cain, 117.
B Baal, idol of the Assyrians, 189. Baalim, shrine of Baal, ibid. Babylonians, the first inventors of astronomy through Zoroaster, 129. Bajazet, emperor of the Turks, 345, 1, 2. Bohemond, who is also Raymond, his craftiness, 334. Balbinus and Maximus, emperors, 243. Whales, a species of sea monster, 36. How they are called "great" in Scripture, 22. Baldwin, Emperor of Flanders, 342. Captured by the Vlachs, ibid. Belshazzar the king, 200. Baanah and Rechab, assassins of Ish-bosheth, punished with death by David, 177. Barak, a judge of Israel, 165. Valor even in barbarians themselves, 234. Barbarossa. See Frederick Barbarossa. Bardanes, pretender to the empire, 286. Bardas, killed by his nephew by chance, 205. Brother of the patriarch Xiphilinus, 326. The slaughter of Bardas, 293. His wicked deeds, 292. His dream, 293. The ends of Bardas and Photius, 293. Barlaam’s passage, 88. Seditious uprising of Basilacius, 331. Council of Basel, celebrated by the Germans against Pope Eugenius, 346, 2. Basil, adopted by Michael the Drunkard, 293. Basil the Macedonian, emperor, 204. He perishes nearly in a hunt, 297. Ingratitude of Basil the Macedonian, 291. His justice, 297. Liberality, 298. Death, 306. Frugality, 291. How the kingdom was signified to Basil the Macedonian, 294. Cisterns cleansed by Basil the Macedonian, 296. Temples built by Basil the Macedonian, ibid. Basil, son of Romanos, emperor, 109. Wars of Basil with the Bulgarians, 310. Triumphs, 311. Basil, pontiff of Caesarea, 303. Concerning the aquatic sea urchin, 303, 34. Basil’s opinion on the creation of angels, 80. Passage of Basil, 18, 19, 21, 25, 34, 39, 42, 51, 58, 70, 71, 74, 79, 80, 81, 83, 84, 88, 93, 94, 101, 105, 108, 112, 114, 120, 151, 155, 157, 168, 195, 207, 222, 251. Basil and Constantine, sons of Romanos, emperors, 305. Basilius, bishop of Amasea, killed by Licinius, 250. Basiliscus the emperor, 264. His death, ibid. What kind of animal the basilisk is, 57, 58. That the basilisk also harms the ears of those who hear its hiss, 58. That it kills by a mere look, 57. That an envious eye differs nothing from a basilisk, ibid. Root of the bryony, 278. Its use, ibid. Eyes of Batatzes gouged out, 320. How Beccus became patriarch, 345. Belisarius sets out against the Vandals, 266. Loved by all, ibid. He is cast into prison, 267. Deeds of Belisarius, 266. War with the Genoese, 346. Cause of the devil’s war with men, 106. When Daniel abolished the mud, 202. What to pray well means, 188. Commendation of beneficence, 171. Reward for kindness to the needy, 137. Concerning Bathsheba, why the first son of David died, 179. Bessarion and Isidorus, Greek cardinals, 347, 1. Eulogy of Bessarion, ibid. Tame beasts (ἡμερα ζῶα), 19, 20. Castle of Vodena, 309. Heresy of the Bogomils, 334. Boilus Romanus, raised to a high rank of dignity, 320. Whence the goodness of the Lord is manifest, 96. Botaniates. See Nicephorus Botaniates. Unlucky excavation of an ox's head, 304. Pestilence of oxen, 304.
B Brahmans, cultivators of virtue, 234. Abstinence of the Brahmans, 142. Their island, ibid. In that same island, the column of Alexander, ibid. Dragons, scorpions, and giant ants among the Brahmans, 143. Those fish that lack gills, 38. What the bregma (crown of the head) is, 115. Confused lust of the Britons, 143. What a bruchus (locust) is, 133. That certain brute animals provide for themselves in various ways, 65. The distinction between the cunning of brutes and human prudence, 65. Bryennius blinded, 331. Movements of Bryennius, 330. Equity of Botaniates toward Bryennius, ibid. Defection of the Bulgarians, 309. Fifteen thousand blinded, and by whom, 310. End of the Bulgarian kingdom, 311. When and by whom Byzantium, or Constantinople, was founded, 198. Siege of Byzantium, 342. A three-year siege, 249. A ten-year siege, 345. How it was finally abandoned, 235. In what year the renovations were celebrated, 249. Heraclea preferred to Byzantium, 249.
C Caballa region, 284. What the jar of oil in the history of Elijah means, 191. Slaughter of citizens in Thessalonica, 257. Certain just slaughters, 178. Caesarius, brother of Gregory of Nazianzus, 80. Caesarius’s opinion on the creation of angels, ibid. Passage of Caesarius, 143. Chaganus. See Chaganus. What the sect of the Cainites is, 120. Age of Cain, 121. Cainan, the first to include astronomy in his books, 129. Why Cain envied Abel, 117. Why he was not punished immediately, 122. Why he did not die at once, 118. Cain and Abel, figures of whom, 119. Whence Cain understood that God did not respect his offerings, 118. Whence he received the method of killing his brother, 119. What the word "Cain" signifies, 235. What the confession of Cain was like, 123. Comparison with Lamech, 122. Posterity of Cain, ibid. Why the years of his descendants are not recorded, 119. Azura married to Cain, 117. What mark was added, 119. That Cain sinned more gravely than Adam, 119. What induced Cain to offer sacrifice to God, 118. Gaius Caligula Caesar, 234. Duration of his reign, ibid. Death of the tyrant, ibid. His extravagance and rapacity, ibid. Gaius, an ecclesiastical writer, 235. What darkness (caligo) is, 106. Calligraphy of Theodosius, 262. Patriarch Callinicus proscribed, 279. Cause of fear being lack of heat, 62. What the place of Calvary is, 121, 1. Cambyses, by the name of Nebuchadnezzar, son of Cyrus, 202. His reign, ibid. A camel that cures itself, 49. A camel’s desire for revenge, ibid. Why a camel has a long neck, 52. Canaan. See Chanaan. Giraffe (camelopardalis), 61. Concerning the crab and the oyster, 35. Crab as an antidote for deer against venom, 55. Candace married to Alexander, 141. Alexander outwitted by Candace, ibid. Property of the dog star, 56. Dog, a grateful and faithful animal, 50. How it purges black bile, ibid. The dog of Simon Magus, 234. Fidelity of a dog, 285. Nature of the sea dog, 35. Hydrophobia from the bite of a rabid dog, 63. A memorable example concerning a dog, 51. Dogs alone are rabid in the summer time, 65. Dogs often eat grass for the sake of medicine, 84. Why a man has several sutures in his head, 115. Whence the Capitol was named, 141. Nature of the wild goat, 64. What the cause of the Egyptian captivity was, 145. Prisons changed, 252. Greek cardinals, 347, 1. What "flesh" (caro) is in Scripture, 124. Eating of meat allowed after the flood, 85. If there was no use for it before the flood, why then was Abel a shepherd? ibid. That meat tied to a fig tree softens, 13. King Charles of Naples, 343. How he was repressed by Palaiologos, ibid. 543.
343. Carns and Carinus, emperors, 245. Cassia, daughter of Job, 147; whence so named, ibid. Cassia’s response to Theophilus the emperor, 288. Chastity: without it no one shall see God, 324. Catalans: their political activity in Thebes and Athens, 314; deeds of the Catalans in Asia and Greece, 343, 1; their stratagem, ibid. Catherine, wife of Isaac Comnenus, 321, 1. Caucasus, a mountain, 16. Caucus: what it is, 275. Cephalus, a fish, its salacity, 55. Cephissus, a river, 344. Ceratium: how many coins it contains, 286. Cercopis: its nature, 46. Cerebrum: an instrument of the mind, 114; with what perverse humors it is said to be filled, ibid.; the amplitude of the cerebrum in man, and to what purpose it serves, 115; the ventricles, 116; why dry cerebra are superior, ibid. Deer: how the fetuses of hinds are not injured in running, 55; of the hind, an elegant image, ibid.; why the stag sheds its antlers, 54; why it is timid, 55; an image of a good man, 54; one who heals his own wounds, 49; that the stag hides itself after losing its antlers, and why, ibid.; that serpents are devoured by deer, 55. Cetacean (Cetus) captured, which was called Porphyrius, 270; species of the cetacean called Prion, 36; also the Aspidochelone, ibid.; also the seal, whales, etc., ibid.; why cetaceans are called huge, ibid.; how the greatest of them are spoken of in Scripture, 22; the habitat of cetaceans, 35. Ceyx: that this bird lays only one egg because of cold, 46. Chaganus, prince of the Chazars, 279. Chaldeans: incest among them, 143. Chalebo: giants slaughtered by him, 162. Chameleon: an image of the devil, 62; on the chameleon, ibid. Canaanites: the tyrannical invasion of strange lands, 129. Charadrius: why it closes its eyes when it sees someone suffering from the king’s disease (jaundice), 43. Charmione, 59. Chelidonium, 41. Chersonites: the cruelty of Justinian Rhinotmetus toward them, 391. Cherub: 76, 77; what the name of the Cherubim signifies, ibid. Chorda of the lupine, 62. Chosroes, king of the Persians, 275; the Persian wars of Chosroes, 276. Christ: the power of God, 207; the power of the Father, 221; why He placed His soul in the hands of the Father, ibid.; why He spent forty days on earth, no more or less, after the resurrection, 224; why He chose poor and unlearned disciples, 213; why He rose again within the third day, 223; why He did not ascend into heaven immediately after the resurrection, 224; when He first became known, 212; wherefore He descended into hell, 221; in what year of the world He was born, ibid.; on Christ’s descent into hell, 221; a brilliant comparison of Christ to the pelican, 45; Abel as a figure of Christ and of those who trust in Christ, 233; Christ incorruptible, 90; that He rose from the sepulcher naked, ibid.; the image of Christ sent to Abgar by Thaddaeus, 281; image of the sun, 24; in what year of Augustus His nativity occurred, 207; the new pasch of Christ, 213; when the passion occurred, 227; apparitions after the resurrection, 224; the hour of Christ’s passion uncertain, 223; why the burial covered three days, ibid.; the statue placed at Caesarea Philippi, 253; on the transfiguration of Christ, 214; six sacred feasts of Christ, 269; that He anticipated the day of sacrificing the paschal lamb of Christ, 217; why the Holy Spirit descended upon Christ, 212; that Christ was not in two places at the same time before the passion, 215; that He used leavened bread at the supper, 217, 219; that He partook of it Himself, 215; which three women poured ointment, 214; why the dead rose again when Christ was dying, 220. Christians: the first persecutor Nero, 235; that Christians are falsely called unclean by the Jews, 167, 168. Chronography: from whence the beginning is to be taken, 120. Chronographers: who they were, 245, 246. Chrysostom, patriarch, 258; attacked by certain calumnies, 68; contentions of Chrysostom with Eudoxia, 258; oration on the exile of Adam, 91; on the opinion of the Magi, 209; the discrepant opinions of Chrysostom and Epiphanius the presbyter regarding John the Theologian, 212, 213; the exiles of Chrysostom, 79, 80, 81, 83, 85, 87, 88, 89, 92, 93, 94, 102, 109, 115, 117, 118, 120, 121, 123, 124, 131, 135, 157, 189, 209, 210, 212, 214, 219, 220, 223, 225, 226, 229, 236, 283; what was objected against Chrysostom, 258; defense of Isidore, ibid.; Epiphanius alienated from Chrysostom, 258.
Food of man before the fall, what it was, 99; what the food of paradise was, 98. Cicada: ἄτρωτοι (invulnerable), 38; cold, 43; why they begin their song at the middle of summer, ibid. Storks: their piety, 41. Hemlock: its use, 12; that starlings eat hemlock, ibid. Circus: the equestrian circus began to be built by the emperor Severus, 241; adorned by Constantine the Great, 252. Cisterns: cleansed by Basil, 296. Slaughter of citizens, 267. Roman slaughter and the Servian sedition, 319. Claudius Caesar, 235, 244; his fearfulness, ibid.; the duration of his reign, ibid.; ancestor of Constantine the Great, ibid. Κληδονίζεσθαι (to divine by omens): what it is, 195. Κληδών (an omen): what it is, ibid. Clement Stromateus: when he lived, 241; a passage from him, 228. Cleopatra: on her death, 38. Clerics: why they are called priests of the new covenant, 139. Clopias, a fish, 46. With rennet (coagulum), sharp and vehement pains are calmed, 12. Heaven: what it is properly, 8; that other things come under the name of heaven, ibid.; on the essence of heaven, various opinions, 5; the image of heaven, the old temple, 181, 182; that the name of heaven is also attributed to the firmament created from the waters, 8; why earth was created by God later than heaven, 23; the three heavens, 8. Supper: that Christ instituted it to console the disciples, 219. On knowledge (cognitionis): from the tree, various opinions, 98, 99. Colossians: whence so named, 202. Colossus: a statue, ibid. Comet: 251; whence so named, 30; a comet under Constans, 277; what it portended, ibid.; under Constantine the Duke, 318; under Zimiskes, 308; whether comets are stars, 29; what they portend, ibid.; the rising of comets, ibid. Commodus, emperor, 241; how he became effeminate, ibid. Council of Basel, 347; Nicaea, 250; celebrated under Justinian, 270; Sardica, 350; words of the Council of Carthage concerning the condition of Adam, 95; councils, at what times and places they were celebrated, 270, 271. Confession: what kind is required of us, 122. Confirmation: the custom of the ancients, 225. Marriage: that it does not hinder the cultivation of piety and virtue, 168. Mutual love of spouses, 82. Conradin, the Swabian, put to death, 343. Conrad, Marquis of Montferrat, an illustrious man, 340; expedition of Conrad Caesar to Palestine, 337; his victory over the Turks, ibid. Constans, emperor, 276; hateful to his own, 277. Constans, father of Constantine the Great, a religious prince, 245. Constans and Galerius, emperors, 245. Constans and Licinius, Caesars, 230. Death of Constans, 278; his piety, ibid.; dream, 250. Constantine Barbatus, emperor, 278; whence so called, ibid.; his end, ibid. Constantine Copronymus, emperor, 283; what he thought about the saints and their invocation, ibid.; his cruelty and tyranny, ibid.; death of Constantine Copronymus, 281; what occurred under Constantine Copronymus, ibid. Constantine, Duke, emperor, 324; children of Constantine the Duke, 326; his studies, of little use, 325; avarice, ibid.; pious deed, ibid. Constantine and Basil, Roman Emperors, 305, 311. Constantine, son of Heraclius, emperor, 277. Constantine, son of Leo, emperor, 285; some of his vices, ibid.; he recovers the empire, 302; restores letters, ibid. Constantine Palaiologus, the last emperor of Byzantium, 348. Constantine, an illustrious patriarch, 323. Constantine Silvanus, a heretic, 278. The column of Constantine struck by lightning, 332. Constantine the Great baptized by Silvester, 231; and that at Rome, ibid.; he is baptized, 248; followed the party of the Arians, 250; Alexander the Monk on the baptism of Constantine the Great, 251; a refutation of the same, ibid.; the war of Constantine the Great with Maxentius, 217; empire, ibid.; his fall, ibid.; children, 248; death, 251; moderation, 231; dream, 218; plots against Constantine detected, 321.
A Constantinopolis, or Byzantium, when and by whom it was founded, 198. In what year and day it was captured by Mohammed II, the same having survived all destructions, 318. Its beginning, 248. Its recovery, 343. How Constantine adorned Constantinople, 252. The Roman patricians transferred to Constantinople, 249. By what art this was achieved, ibid. The separation of Alexandria from Constantinople, 263. The beginning and end of the Constantinopolitan empire, 348. Constantius, emperor, 252. From where man discovered the art of sewing, 109. Custom (from) nature, 66. The administration of the consuls, 201. The inventor of the conversion of years, Seth, 121. Abusive speech against God, to say that all things are subject to the fate of the stars, 26, 27. The origin of the name Copronymus, 281. Why animals with large hearts are timid, and conversely, 57. The knowledge of hearts is peculiar to God alone, 114. The crow, a lover of its offspring, 42. Crows as companions of storks, ibid. A passage of Basil on crows, ibid. What the horn of Amalthea is, 147. That deer horns repel snakes, 47. As body and soul suddenly come together in the maternal womb, so are they suddenly separated from one another, 73. What the growth of the body is, 83. That men admire the stature of the body, not virtue, 177. How the soul exists in the body, 69. The reason for the diversity of temperaments in bodies, 73, 74. Whether the crow sent out by Noah returned to the ark, 127. The greed of crows, 45. Their disease, 45. Patriarch Cosmas abdicates, 332. Cosroes the Persian. See Chosroes. The crab as a plague of cattle, 304. Crales killed by his own men, 314. The majesty and greatness of the Creator described by no bounds, 5. The rebellion of Crete, 333. What a crocodile is, 273. The hidrys, enemy of the crocodile, ibid. How it kills him, 274. Disaster received from crocodiles, 273. The disaster of Croesus crossing the river Halys, 140. Cronus, or Saturn, his origin, 129. The Cross discovered on earth under Constantine, 253. Revealed under Constantius, ibid. The adoration of the Cross confirmed at the Seventh Council, 272. What a cubit is, 127. Chrysostom deported to Cucusus for the sake of exile, 259. Why the gnat is a most troublesome animal, 151. The production of gnats born from dust, a third plague of Egypt, 152. Impossible for the Egyptian sorcerers, ibid. Cazina Mountain, 312. How the swan looks out for itself, 50. Cyprus occupied by the English and given to another, 341. The rebellion of Cyprus, 333. Cyril condemned, 261. Cyril’s letter to Constantius: you are a spiritual book, 159. A discourse on the creation of man, 88. A disquisition on Job, 146. A passage on the time of pollution for women in childbirth, 211. Cyril’s *Glaphyra*, 119. A passage of Cyril, 24, 69, 78, 82, 88, 110, 116, 118, 119, 123, 124, 126, 130, 132, 137, 146, 184, 199, 210, 218, 233. Cyril’s book *Thesaurus*, 78. The kingdom of Cyrus, 201. Victory over Croesus, 140.
D Dagon dashed to the ground and prostrated before the ark, 172. Samson captivated by the love of the Philistine Dalilah, 164. Damascene’s opinion on the creation of angels, 111. A passage of Damascene, 15, 16, 24, 65, 66, 71, 78, 80, 81, 82, 93, 98, 99, 100, 103, 105, 107, 221. Damatyri Mountains, 280. Dandulus, Duke of the Venetians, 312. Daniel escapes unharmed from the lions’ den, 201. In high esteem with Darius, ibid. When he abolished Bel, 261. Daniel the Stylite, 261. The power and skill of Daniel the prophet in prophesying, 201. His vision, ibid. Daniel compares Alexander to a panther, 142. Daphne, a suburb of Antioch, 253. Darius, son of Hystaspes, king, 202. Darius the Mede, son of Astyages, 201. Darius, successor to Cyrus, 110. Darius, the last king, 201.
B David saved by Abishai, 179. Created armor-bearer to Saul, 173. Overthroweth Goliath with a sling-shot, ibid. Anointed king, 178. David’s adultery and murder, 178. Why the first son died, 279. David’s five noble soldiers, 177. His reign, 180. David’s flight because of Absalom’s rebellion, 177, 178. That David handed down to Solomon the pattern for building the temple, 179. Peculiar narratives about David, 180. On the continuation of the Davidic line, a passage of Cyril, 199. The virtue of Deborah, 163. Decius, emperor, 244. Dolphins, a species of whale, 36. Demetrius, brother of Constantine Palaiologos, 316. The ravings of Democritus about the nature of the stars, 20. The number ten, a perfect number, 150, 156. Denderis the fool, 289. Why God regarded Abel’s sacrifices and turned away from Cain’s, 117. Why He created man from the very beginning as king of earthly things and immortal, 89. Why He subjected the Jews to the Romans, 222. Why He awaited the repentance of Manasseh, but not that of Amos, his son, 197. Why He did not also deem terrestrial animals, like fish, worthy of a favorable blessing, 48. Why He did not prevent man from eating of the tree of knowledge, 101. Why He willed the history of the destruction of Jerusalem to be written by Josephus, 238. God is not the creator of death, 85, 86. God, at the request of the Hebrews for a king to be given, was gravely offended, 173. Whence this was evident, ibid. Where God is, how He does not lack a place, 91. Where He wills, the order of nature is overcome, 3. God the avenger of the Gibeonites, 179. God’s care and providence, 51. What divinity is, 221. He is everywhere, ibid. That a certain notion of God is perceived from His works themselves, 131. That all works exceed the laws of nature and every series of art, 3. God’s providence in the formation of man, 114, 115. His tolerance, 125. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God, 190. What is pleasing to God, 174. That the knowledge of future things together with the knowledge of hearts is peculiar to God alone, 107. That God lowers Himself to our capacity, 68. That He does not neglect those suffering injuries, 165. That He vindicates those justly suffering injury by His judgment, 179. That although long-suffering, He yet eventually punishes, ibid. That He is not the author of evil, 106. That sometimes He cuts off the promised life when we are not looking, and vice versa. C The Devil. See Genius. The Devil good from the beginning, 106. The image of the Devil is the Aspidochelone, 36. Also the chameleon, 62. Also the ant-lion, 53. The wiles of the Devil, 39, 108, 196. Through the envy of the Devil death entered the world, 96. He circumscribed man, ibid. The fall of the Devil, 106. A passage of Basil on the punishments of the Devil, 105. The illusions of the Devil, 60. Why God granted the Devil the assault on the human race, 105. No repentance granted to him, ibid., and why, ibid. and 106. That the Devil knows how to minimize trifling faults, 53. The cause of war between devils and men, 107. From where shooting stars arise, 30. Dies, daughter of Job, 147. Whence so called, ibid. What a day is, 19. For what are day and night useful to men, 19. Whether the Evangelist may be called a Day, 217. How many hours the day had under Hezekiah, 191. Under Joshua, twenty-four, ibid. One day, instead of the first, 4. How the sun has authority over the day, 19. Night followed the day in creation, 32. Why all things were not created in one day, 1, 2. Days and the British "Doctes," 32. Of what the vicissitudes of days and nights in this life should remind us, 20. The calculation of the days of Christ’s burial, 123 et seq. The Flood under Argyropulus, 312. That the water of the Flood rose to fifteen cubits above the very mountains, 126, 127. The causes of the Flood, 124. After the Flood, the eating of flesh was granted, 85. Of what we are reminded by the Flood, 125. A passage of Josephus on the Flood, 123. The violation of Dinah, 145. Diocletian and Maximian, emperors, 245. Why they abdicated the empire, ibid. Diodorus’s opinion on the creation of angels, 80. Diogenes the Cynic, 112. When he lived, 202. His ravings about the nature of the stars, 20. Emperor Diogenes, having fought excellently, is captured, 329. His eyes put out, he ends his life miserably on the island of Prote, ibid. Diogenes’s wars against the Turks, 327. The conversation of Diogenes and the Sultan, 328. The Turks avenge the death of Diogenes, 329. The cruelty of his own men toward Diogenes, 328. Dionysius the Areopagite, 197. On the darkness existing while Christ was suffering, 219. A passage of Dionysius the Areopagite on the nine orders, 76 et seq.
Dionysius, Bishop of Corinth, 255. Martyr under Antoninus Pius, 211. Dioscorides, his narrative concerning Stratonicus, 56. Dioscorus and Eutyches, heretics, 263. Dipsas, the serpent, 58. Discipline, military, neglect of, 325. Disciples, why Christ chose them poor and unlearned, 312. Divinations (against), 195. A passage of Basil concerning various divinations, ibid. Divinity, the nature of, is indivisible, 225. Divite (concerning a certain), a whoremonger, 281. Docea, a castle, 328. Doeg the Syrian, by his works the priests were slain, 177. Dolores (pains), sharp and vehement, by what means they are soothed, 12. Dominatus (rule), 76, 78. What the designation of "dominatus" denotes, 78. Dominus (the Lord), His goodness, in what it is conspicuous, 89. Domitian, Emperor, 239. He orders an astrologer to his wife, ibid. Dissimilarity between the brothers Domitian and Titus, 239. The end of Domitian, ibid. John was relegated to Patmos by Domitian, ibid. Donec (concerning the word), a passage of Basil, 207. Dragons, among the Brahmins are very large, 145. Fabled, 60. The nature of dragons, ibid. On dragons, ibid.
E Church, its image is the moon, 24. Echeneis, the fish, 36. Echinus (sea urchin) of the water, an indicator of a storm, 34. The skill of the land urchin, 50, 65. On the sea urchin, a passage of Basil, 34. Eclipse of the sun. See Solar Eclipse. Ecnephias, a wind, 7. Ekpyronismos (conflagration), what? 31. Edem (Eden), what the word signifies, 67, 98. Electrum, what it is, 15. Its origin, ibid. Elements, when they were created, 5. Elephants, offspring of only one, 53. Why their feet lack joints, 52. Proboscis, ibid. Life, ibid. That a mouse is a terror to the elephant, 52. That a fallen elephant cannot rise, 53. That they fear their own shadow, 52. In the elephant, anger is long-lasting, 49. What excites procreation, 52, 53. Why elephants carry the fetus for two years, 51. How they cross rivers, 52. Eleutheropolis, the fountain of jaws, 161. Elias, the prophet, 188 et seq. Prince of prophets, 190. Elias and Samson, why they were violators of the law, 167, 191. The liberty of the mouth of Elias, 191. Persecutions, ibid. Eli the priest, his history, 172. His death, ibid. Sins of his sons, ibid. Hellebore, its use, 12. That turtledoves feed on hellebore, ibid. Empedocles, when he lived, 202. Enaq, the sons of, 162. Enaqim, the family of, 159. Encænia (dedication festival) of Constantinople, 249. Engastrimythi (ventriloquists), what they are called, 176. Enoch, born at 165 years of age, was taken up by God, 121. And why, ibid., 122. Parent of Methuselah, 121. What the translation of Enoch teaches us, 89. On Enoch, a passage of Athanasius, 122. Enosh, his age, 121. Epærastus, converted by Paul, 236. Cupbearer and concubine to Nero, ibid., 237. Ephræmus, what it signifies, 145. A passage of Ephræmus, 124, 125. Ephræma, a town, 214. Epiphanius, alienated from Chrysostom, 238. Presbyter, not bishop, 213. Response of Epiphanius to the slander of Eudoxia, 138. Opinion concerning the magi, 209. Passage of Epiphanius, 120, 128, 146, 158, 198, 200, 221. Discrepant opinions of Epiphanius the presbyter and Chrysostom concerning John the Theologian, 213. Bishop, made from an emperor, 331. Horses, the cause of their foam, 63. Hedgehogs, their coitus, 50. Erodius, or the heron, what kind of bird, 44. Its modesty, ibid. Eroticus, the sedition of, 319. Esaias, sawn asunder by a wooden saw, 197. Esdras, 182. Keeper of the sacred books, 199. By his writings, he embraced the return of the Jews from Persia, 198. The deeds of Esdras, 199. Esther, the history of, 169, 170. Etesian winds, 7. When they exist and whence they arise, ibid.
Eve, why she is called the helper of Adam, 82. Evangelists, the discrepant passages concerning the cock's crowing reconciled, 216. Eudocia, Empress, previously called Athenais, 161. She rules with her son, 326. Why she valued Paulinus greatly, 261. The cunning counsel of Eudocia, 126. Occasion of the discord between Eudocia and Theodosius, 261. Eudoxia, slander of, 238. Response of Epiphanius to her, ibid. Contention of Chrysostom with Eudoxia, 238. Eugenius IV, Roman pontiff, an embassy from Emperor John, 346. Eulogius, conquered by Spyridon, 250. Euripides, when he lived, 202. Euripus, the flow and reflux of the waters in it, whence it happens, 22. History of Eusebius Pamphili, 227. Passage, 182. Eustathius Camyzizes, captured, 333. Eustathius of Antioch, opinion concerning the hours of the day under Hezekiah, 194. Eutelida, a passage of Plutarch, 58. Euthymius, patriarch, 299. Eutocius, what kind of stone, 45. Eutyches and Dioscorus, heretics, 263. Their heresy, 251. Condemned in the 4th Council, ibid. Eutychius, the patriarch, relegation of, 272. Euxine, why fish seek it in shoals, 31. Exactions, new, 333. Excommunicated person becomes a martyr, 283. Example, illustrious, 100. Hezekiah. See Jezechias. Hezekiah, the purifier of the Psalms of David, 183. The piety of Hezekiah, ibid. Ezekiel. See Jezechiel.
F Famine under Valerian, very great, 214. A huge plague followed this, ibid. Fastening of bandages and lines, the custom whence, 290. Fate, what it is, 114. Refuted, 27 et seq. Fausta, wife of Constantine, death, 248. Faustulus, educator of Romulus, 140. Cats, why they see more keenly at night, 61. Felix, Duke of Savoy, created supreme pontiff by the Germans, 346. Female, for those giving birth, how much time of pollution is prescribed in the law, 211. And the reason, ibid. Femina (For a barren woman), a remedy, 53. The Agitæi subject to women, 143. Wild beasts in Libya, monstrous ones whence, 61. That we fear wild beasts, of what it should warn us, 80. Feasts sacred to Christ, six, 269. Beavers, their nature, 55. Fig tree, full of sap, 13. That meats tied to a fig tree become tender, ibid. Bulls are tamed, ibid. How figs become sweet, 13. Son, who plotted against the life of his father, 303. Expedition of a son against his father, 315. Sons for their nephews, 195. Punishments of rebellious sons, 345. Firmament, established from the waters, the name of heaven is also attributed to it, 8. Why water was placed by God above the firmament, 8. Why likewise below, ibid. Flagellum (whip), the signification of, 216. Flavianus, prelate of Constantinople, 263. In the "robber" synod, punished with blows, he died from the injury, ibid. River, flowing from paradise, divided into four fountains, 75. Why the four rivers flowing from one fountain of paradise did not have one water and quality, ibid. Leaves of trees, why diverse, 12. Fig leaves, why the first parents sewed them for themselves, 109. Fountain and tree, miracles of, 278. Longevity of fountains, whence, 16. Whence their diverse flavor, 16. Ant, that it guards itself against barley, 62. Ants among the Brahmins are very large, 145. Why they are extinguished by oil, 47. Fear, the cause of which is coldness, 46. That from fear the vital faculty undergoes contraction, 162. Fortune, he who does not weigh and revere the unforeseen accidents of, is foolish, 328. Fragrance, how it may be increased, 13. Franks and English, expedition into Palestine, 341. Expedition of the Franks or Teutons into Palestine, 333. Frederick Barbarossa, his expedition into Palestine, 341. Death, and his eulogy, ibid. Machinations of Manuel Comnenus against Frederick Barbarossa, 337, 338. Turks slain by Frederick Barbarossa, 340. Drones, how bees punish them, 45. Lightning, why it does not burn, 30. Why thunder is perceived first, 31. Thunderbolt, double, 31.
is sunk by the shot of a larger cannon because it omitted the military salute; after fourteen days of captivity, the captain is impaled by order of the sultan, having summoned to the palace a scribe, the son of Dominici Maistri; the sailors, with the exception of a few who were sent to Constantinople, were sawn through the middle of their bodies. There are some who say the cause was a war against the Venetians, Fabr. Cornerum having returned to Constantinople with the business unfinished. 1453. From this point Barbaro narrates certain matters outside the order of time. In the month of January 1453, the sultan brings a great force of infantry and navy against the city. In the month of February, he brings cannons near the city, with a cohort of ten thousand men attending. In the same month, Greeks enter Turkey with three ships and sell captives in Constantinople, inciting the sultan’s wrath. 1452. Mention of two Venetian triremes under the command of Gabriele Trevisano having arrived at Constantinople, which by order of the Venetian senate were accompanying three merchant ships that had set out from the Sea of Azov. Also, a Genoese ship sent by the Pope is mentioned, carrying Cardinal Isidore (el gardenal de Rosia) to reconcile both Churches, attended by 200 archers who would defend the beleaguered city; likewise, eight ships with supplies were present from Crete. Nov. 10. Two large ships coming from the Tauric Chersonese under the command of Hieronymo Morosino (Jeroluemo Norexini), though commanded by the Turks from the castle to drop anchor, barely obeyed and yet escaped death. When Barbaro had related these things, he proceeds at once in chronological order as before. Dec. 2. Soldiers of the Turkish castle garrison mistreat a Venetian trireme under the command of Jac. Coco, coming from Trebizond (Trabexonda); yet it arrived in Constantinople unharmed. 1452. Dec. 12 and 13. The union of both Churches is solemnly confirmed in the church of St. Sophia. The emperor, the cardinal of the Russians, the bishop of Mitylene (Leonardus Chiensis), and the Greek barons deliberate in the same church on the necessity of retaining the Venetian ships for the aid of the city. C Dec. 14. There follows whatever was deliberated by viva voce and in writing between the cardinal, the bishop of Mitylene, the Greek magistrates, the Venetian bailo, the ship-masters, and 21 most respected Venetians in the city of Constantinople, and a decree was added that the aforementioned triremes should not leave Byzantium. (Cf. Phrantz. 238.) Dec. 17-20. Twelve men of the Venetian nobility, after mature deliberation, determine by what plan and manner the newly-made decrees are to be deferred to the Venetian senate. 1453. Jan. 26. The Venetians make an agreement with the emperor on the condition that their ships should not desert the city without his permission, and that the opportunity to load and unload them should always be available. On the same day, Justinianus, having set out from Genoa with two ships and 700 auxiliary soldiers, came to Constantinople and was declared by the emperor as the commander of the infantry forces and prefect of the western part of the city besieged by the sultanic army. 1070 A Feb. 26. One of the Venetian ships, which by force of the pact ought not to have left, commanded by P. Davanzo with 6 merchant ships, escaped from the harbor aided by a favorable wind. March 14. The emperor, soliciting this, hands over the rowers of the Tanaan triremes to be used for the fortification of the sites and for surrounding the palace near the Cynegetic gate. March 31. Furthermore, on that same day of Holy Saturday, which indeed corresponds with May 29, which was a Tuesday, the rowers, by order of Diedo, the ship’s captain, make trenches before the emperor and the magnates. April 2. Barthol. Soligus, thus commanded by the emperor, shuts the mouth of the harbor between Constantinople and Pera with that famous iron chain (which is exactly described). The emperor, at the request of four Venetian nobles, hands over the guard of the four primary gates of the city toward the land: the Gate of St. Romanus (what is named Pylai) to Catarino Contarino; the second to Fabr. Cornaro; the third, which is named the Gate of the Pigai, to Nic. Mozenigo; and finally the Blachernae gate to Dolphino. There follow the names of 68 Venetian nobles who were present in the besieged city, among whom the author of the Ephemerides is named as a physician of the Tanaan ships. April 5. Sultan Mahomet pitches camp with 160,000 soldiers about 2 Italian miles from the city. April 6. From here he proceeds to one mile from the walls facing the sea, and a little later he places his camp in the western region of the city, from the Golden Gate as far as the Cynegetic gate for 6 Italian miles. On the same day, we are told that the emperor with many nobles and knights occupied their places at the Golden Gate; but the bailo Minotto, with very many Venetian merchants, in the imperial palace. We read further that the Grand Duke, holding the position second to the emperor, was in charge of the harbor, where 100 horses were kept ready for him; that the guard of the maritime walls was committed to the monks under the command of Manuel Giagaro (whom the Greeks call Iagari) and Neophytus of Rhodes; that finally, another region of the city was handed over to be guarded by Dorgano (who is without doubt the same as Prince Orchan) and a cohort of Turkish mercenaries who had defected from the sultan: all of which, just as other things we have now related, we dispense with comparing and discussing with the report of Phrantzes. On the same day, the emperor ordered the sailors, who were acting in a line, to lead the three aforementioned Tanaan triremes of the Venetians, as well as two others which Trevisanus commanded, so that he might add spirit to the inhabitants of the city and strike fear into the enemies. April 9. A council having been convened, they deliberate about using the fleet well and usefully. Then nine or ten larger ships, together with their commanders, are named (5 Genoese, 3 Cretan, 1 Anconitan, 1 imperial)—all of which, destined for the future battle, encircle the great harbor chain, while 17 others are reserved in the upper region of the harbor; among them, 3 Tanaan triremes together with two others of the Venetians consecrated to the common security, and 2 imperial ships stripped of their masts and arms, are catalogued.
April 14. Satan places his siege engines against the walls of the city in fourteen places (cf. Phrantzes, who writes: "The walls of the city were divided into fourteen places"). Then, three bombards were directed at the Emperor's Blachernae palace; likewise three against the gate of the Pēgē; two at the Golden Gate, and four at the gate of St. Romanus; among these, that huge one of 1200 pounds and another of 800 pounds are mentioned.
April 12-17. On the twelfth (according to Phrantzes, the fifteenth) of April, the Turkish fleet cast anchor in the region of the port of Constantinople; its number, on the authority of Barbarus, was 145, of which 12 were fully armed triremes, 70-80 were larger liburnians, 20-25 were parandariae (cargo ships used for war), and the rest are reported to be actuary ships. To this, add a merchant vessel from Sinope carrying war supplies and bronze balls (though it is more likely they were stone projectiles). The Turkish fleet holds the Anatolian shore far from the city. Those besieged within the city wait in arms for the enemy’s assault. Within, aside from the incessantly firing siege engines and light skirmishes against the Janissaries, nothing worth mentioning happens.
April 18. The assault of the Turks, which preceded the night of April 18, is repulsed at first by the Greeks, who were slightly shaken; more than two hundred Turks were killed.
April 20. On the twentieth day of the siege, four Genoese auxiliary ships enter the Hellespont, which, after a battle of 2 or 3 hours, aided by fortune, repulse the Turkish assault; then, as the sun set, the triremes of the besieged met the Genoese and brought them into the port with joy and a concert of music.
April 21. Mehmed proceeds to the fleet with 10,000 horsemen, inveighs bitterly against the commander of the naval forces, and orders him to resign from his office while his life is still spared; in his place, a man boastful of his memory, the son of Pietro Loredan (perhaps some deserter of the Venetian cause), is put in command of the fleet. On the same day, a terrible destruction was wrought by the enemy's projectiles in the western region, causing the ruin of the tower situated at the gate of St. Romanus; the attempts of the besieged to repair the damage are recorded.
April 22. On this day, which was Sunday, the Turks transport 5,000 ships [worth of equipment] over the land route from the Bosphorus into the port of Constantinople. Our author records, not without anguish of mind, that 72 armed ships, placed on rollers, were dragged by hand over the mountain which Pera sits upon to the north, by the Turkish camp-followers and the rabble. The Constantinopolitans, trapped in the city, for whom danger impended on all sides from the enemy fleet, placed one trireme as a guard to the strait which adjoins Pera, to give a sign to the naval commander if the enemy should attempt an assault.
April 23. In the church of St. Mary (of the Hodegetria, as it seems), men summoned for this purpose deliberate on how the enemy ships were to be driven from the port.
April 24. Lord Giacomo Coco, the patron of that Trapezuntine trireme, [prepared] two transport ships... the commander of those living in Pera was alerted by the Sultan regarding this matter; and the Genoese themselves, most treacherous men, urged the Venetian leaders to postpone the intended attempt for another night, promising their own help, while in reality intending to bring aid to the Turks with all their might.
April 25-27. During this interval of time, in which nothing worth noting occurred, Barbarus thinks that further misfortunes are the action of the divine God on account of the sins of which this age was guilty.
April 28. That night, two triremes, under the command of Gabriel Trevisano, the knight Girolamo Morosino, and Giacomo Coco, were deprived of the hope of burning the Turkish ships in the port with fire. Barbarus narrates this attempt more extensively than all others.
April 29. The admiral Diedo appoints Dolphinus to the place of the abandoned Trapezuntine trireme; and in his place, Giovanni Loredan is substituted to guard the Blachernae gate. The damages that the besiegers inflict upon the besieged are immediately repaired by the latter. Nothing else worthy of memory was done in the month of April.
May 1, 2. The same must be said of these two days. There is a shortage of food in the city.
May 3, 4. The Constantinopolitans oppose the enemy in the port with two bombards; the Turks place two machines of the same kind. Then, for ten days and as many nights, the siege engines toil on both sides without any memorable effect. By order of the Emperor, an actuary ship is sent toward the island of Negroponte to seek out the Venetian fleet and to ask Giovanni Loredan that he should come without delay to the aid of the city in its extremities. And this ship does indeed traverse the Archipelago under a Turkish flag and with a simulated Turkish disguise, but returned to Constantinople with its mission unaccomplished.
May 5. The Turks set up several bombards on the mountain dominating Pera, and from there they struck the enemy ships in the port with siege engines throughout the whole length of the great chain. Indeed, the third bronze ball projected sent a Genoese ship, full of merchandise and provisions, to the bottom of the sea. The ships of the Christians then withdrew to the walls of Pera, not without damage. The Turks, after they had directed the same engines toward the Kynegion without effect, finally added them to those which protected the inner walls.
May 6. On this Sunday also, the siege engines thundered continuously.
May 7. A nocturnal assault made by 30,000 Turks was bravely repulsed; in which, stupendous shouts reaching to the Anatolian sea forced the defenders of the city to prepare themselves for battle by land and by sea. Nothing, however, was attempted further by the Turks, except that, as they departed, they set fire to the Palatine gate; which the Greeks then obstructed with a wall. The ships held their previous position around the chain.
May 8. It was decreed by the Council of Twelve that the Tanaan triremes, having been unloaded, should be transported into the arsenal. Engaging the arm—
A a great mass of arrows, they cast them into the city, so that those within were affected by extreme fear. They said that their triremes were for them as homes; that they ought not live or die on the mainland. This opinion prevailed; and both they and the naval commander remained on the shore at Pera. Engines around the gate of St. Romanus continuously cast balls.
May 9. Sunday. Gabriel Trevisan, by the will of the Twelve, ordered 400 soldiers brought from two triremes to be spent on guarding the land wall.
May 10. In an assembly held by the Twelve in the church of St. Mary, Lord Diedus was designated commander of the fleet, on the condition that he have authority to oversee the harbor and all maritime affairs as he pleased.
May 11. The same deadly labor of the engines ensued.
May 12. The Turks, with their customary shouts and the discordant din of drums and flutes, attacked the wall situated near the palace; but the mercy of Jesus Christ averted extreme ruin from the city on this occasion, because, as Barbarus opines, the destruction of Constantinople was reserved according to the prophecy of the holy Emperor Constantine not for the present, but for a later phase of the moon.
May 13. Lord Trevisan, prefect of the fleet, landed with his soldiers to defend the damaged walls. From that place he did not withdraw until the city was taken. According to Phrantzes, between the Kynegion and the imperial palace, he behaved as a shepherd, not a mercenary. During this time, there was uninterrupted fire from engines against the western wall.
May 14. The Turks, as we have already seen, dragged the engines from Mount B St. Theodore, through Pera toward the gate of the Kynegion, from the direction of the harbor, and afterwards placed them behind the gate of St. Romanus, where the wall was suffering the worst damage, although the besieged studied how to repair the harm inflicted as best they could. Three hundred men, most of them pyrotechnicians and archers, occupied that gate, all foreigners, except for the Greeks, whose pusillanimity our author severely chastises.
May 15. Unceasing explosion of the engines and diligent repair of the damaged parts; otherwise, a truce.
May 16. A few Turkish light vessels approached the chain around the harbor and attacked the ships of the besieged; but suddenly, for fear that they would be repulsed, they retreated against their will. Mines dug by the Turks around the Kaligaria Gate were detected by the Grand Duke and thwarted.
May 17. Five Turkish ships advanced as far as the chain of the harbor for the sake of reconnaissance, but, received by 70 shots—all of which were vain—they fled with the greatest speed they could. But everyone feared that the enemy would attack the city with all his might, which everyone despaired of being able to resist.
May 18. The Turks, throughout the space of the night, constructed those turreted machines, which our Barbarus also mentions with admiration; nor could he wonder enough that the Turks had finished in four hours what all the Christians living in Constantinople could not have done in the space of a whole month. From this highest tower, the Turks made C an immense mention besides of that huge machine emitting 1200 lb. stones, and which, once ignited, not only walls but the very pavement of the city and the ships in the harbor were most violently shaken.
May 19. At this time at last, a bridge constructed by joining ships began to exist from Galata to the Kynegion, as Barbarus says; but according to Phrantzes, it took place after the ships had been transported, if we pass over the more confused chronology of Leonard, who judges it to have been made before the naval battle, with a difference of a whole month. Certainly Ducas agrees more closely with our Barbarus in this matter. The Turks did not cease to hurl bronze balls at the enemy and fill the air with shouts; the besieged repaired the losses inflicted.
May 20. Barbarus reports the attempts of those included to repair the yawning walls, to which work women, children, and old men, and ecclesiastics were exerting their strength.
May 21. The whole host of the enemy threatened an aggression long before sunrise; but after they had seen the ships of the besieged prepared for battle around the great chain, they attempted nothing; indeed, they withdrew. The same men, when they had detected a mine dug by the Turks near the Kaligaria Gate, obstructed it and slaughtered the diggers. Nevertheless, on this day the wall and the tower adjacent to it were very much damaged, and those who were within the city had sickly members from indefatigable labor and D hardships.
May 22. A tunnel near the Kaligaria Gate was again obstructed, frustrating the expectation of the diggers. But observing a wonderful celestial spectacle (Barbarus calls it a common eclipse of the moon), the Constantinopolitans, mindful of the prophecy of Emperor Constantine, saw a sign of impending ruin, while the Turks saw it as a pledge of victory.
May 23. Furthermore, a third mine found near the Kaligaria Gate and the emperor's palace was the reason why several makers of war machines were taken prisoner; and when, having been ordered, they had said where else mines had been constructed, their heads were cut off and they were thrown over the walls into the Turkish camp. On this same day, the light vessel sent on the fourth day of that month to seek the Venetian fleet in the Archipelago, having escaped the traps of the Turkish ships, returned into the harbor. The city was continuously harassed by the labor of the engines.
May 24. A fourth mine, which they again detected near the Kaligaria Gate, damaged the wall not a little. From the Turkish camp came a fierce shout and jubilation because of the hazardous battle now impending.
May 25. The last mine, found near the above-mentioned gate, greatly terrified those enclosed in the city. War machines did not cease to emit fire and stones into the city.
May 26. Festive fires spreading widely and jubilation in the Turkish camps because the city was to be attacked by force on the next day. The Constantinopolitans, with prayers and supplications to the Mother of God...
A they approached so that they might be liberated from the fury of the gentiles. An ominous trepidation in the Turkish ships.
May 27. Lord's Day. The following night, too, is illuminated by Turkish festive fires. The shouts raised strike the ears of the besieged, spreading even to the shores of Asia. Huge ruins of the crumbling wall collapse with a crash, a matter which the Constantinopolitans try in vain to remedy.
May 28. The Sultan orders it to be proclaimed throughout the camp to the sound of a drum that everyone should remain in his own place, threatening death to anyone who does otherwise, because the city is to be pressed with all forces on the following morning. Therefore, 2,000 ladders are already being brought up. In the Turkish camps, they inflame one another with greedy anticipation; for they were going to seize so many Christian captives that for one gold piece they would have two. They joked that they would use the beards of the Greeks for twisting nooses, with which to tie up their dogs. The machines vomit stones with extreme heat. Barbaro strenuously vituperates the avarice and perversity of the Greeks. For they did not sell their help except for money, and by this act they brought an immense amount of harm to the city. B Then, at the commander’s order, the Venetians stand at the inner wall so that (for so their commander advised them) they might live and die through the immortal God, for the salvation of the earth and the honor of all Christians. Nor do the sailors equip themselves any less for battle around the great chain of the port. Meanwhile, the Sultan proceeds to the fleet with 40,000 soldiers, and after he had indulged most lavishly in Bacchus with the admiral and the other warlords until he was drunk, he returns to the camp. Throughout that whole day, the heavy Turkish drum resonates, and the following night is very conspicuous for its festive fires and resonates with shouts which, to our author, seem to come from the depths of hell; and while the Turks fatigue Mohammed day and night with prayers for obtaining victory and booty, the Christians, prostrated before the Theotokos and all the saints, with groans and tears insistently implore liberation from the hands of the gentiles. But God our Lord decreed according to His inexorable will that on that very day the head of the Greeks should fall into the hands of Muhammad (and our Lord God [had] an harsh sentence against the Greeks, for He willed that this city go on this day into the hands of Mahomet!).
May 29. Barbaro recalls the ancient prophecies about the destruction of the Greek kingdom, C whose fulfillment, according to very many signs, was reserved for this very day. At the third hour before sunrise, the Sultan orders three armies, each of which had 50,000 armed men, to proceed toward the city. The first cohort indeed consisted of Christians whom the Turks had forced into partnership in the battle; the second was composed of an unwarlike rabble (nude people, that is, villains of that kind); the third, however, was composed of Janissaries and the strength of the army; after whom the Sultan finally occupied his place. And as for his first deeds, neither alive nor dead; but some say that he was seen among the number of the dead bodies; which it was said that he was suffocated at the entrance which the Turks made at the D gate of San Romano. On the margin of the Venetian manuscript it is read: "The Emperor prayed that his own men would kill him, and he threw himself into the fury with his sword, and fell, and rose again, then fell again; and thus he died."
1076 Those attempting to move ladders to the walls are repelled with huge loss, but they are driven to the walls by those following with such violence that they had to perish in one way or another. As Barbaro notes, the Sultan had placed those Christians in the front rank so that they would be exposed to certain death, while he spared the lives of the Turks, and so that he might tire out the defenders of the city through even their futile aggression; that which indeed happened, even though they were repelled from the second rank by the archers and bombardiers of the city with much blood. Then the third rank of the Sultan, with new strength and with a shout heard far and wide, the Janissaries and the strength of the army, break forth like lions. Notwithstanding the prayers and lamentations of the urban multitude, especially the women, and although the defenders fought most bravely on the walls, at sunrise the Turks, covered by dust from that great cannon, were the first three hundred to cross the walls. But after these themselves had paid for their audacity with death, and the same stratagem had been renewed, finally up to 30,000 soldiers burst into the city with an impetus such as is common to wild beasts, through parts of the wall around the gate of St. Romanus that had been torn down. So many Turks fell in that slaughter that, if one believes Barbaro, 40 cargo ships would hardly have sufficed for transporting the corpses. He further reports that Justinian was wounded, crying out that the Turks were already taking the city, which became the cause of flight for everyone. With the city taken by force, the Turks spill blood without regard for age or sex, until they judged it better to sell the unarmed, among whom were the Venetian merchants who had hidden themselves in cellars, for a price. The standards of Saint Mark and the Emperor were torn from the towers, and the dog of the Turks, as it is called, was substituted. Thus, the conquest of the city being known, those who held 70 ships in the port and a great fleet present through the Hellespont, lest they be frustrated of huge spoils, which at that very moment of time began to be loaded onto the ships. Barbaro relates that the Turks fixed a small flag to every house, monastery, or church which they had entered, which called back those who followed for the sake of plundering from proceeding further. More than 200,000 such tokens seem to have been affixed throughout the whole city, since a great part of the houses was decorated with ten such signs. Furthermore, the slaughter of the Christians was so great that the public streets, even after rain with water, were flooded with blood, and the corpses thrown into the Propontis floated on the sea like fruit. Our author says that nothing certain was discovered about the life and death of the Emperor, except that, as some relate, his body was found among those who had been crushed by the Turks entering the gate of St. Romanus. Barbaro also relates that the surviving Venetians took care to place their affairs, especially their ships, in safety. Among those who escaped with their lives...
1105 IN ANNALES MICH. GLYCÆ. 1106
pudicitiæ sua tuenda strenuitas, 315. Mulieres tres, quæ Christum unguento perfuderunt, 214. Mulius sub Constant. Copronymo loquitur, 284. Muli cur non gignant, 61. Mulorum procreatio humana solertia inventa, ibid. Mundus hic sex dierum spatio a Deo conditus, 1. Igni periturus, 8. Mundi hujus opificium cur non uno, sed sex diebus conditum, 1, 2. Linguæ septuaginta duæ, 128. Murænæ et serpentis coitus, 58. Mus cur timidus, 54. Murem terrori esse elephanto, 52. Murium ortus, 44. Musæ, deus Accaronitarum, 190. Muscæ caninæ, quarta Ægypti plaga, 152. Cur sic dictæ, ibid. Muscæ cur mel Atticum fugiant, 47. Cur oleo exstinguantur, ibid. Muscus odoramentum unde oriatur, 55. Quid sit, ibid. Mustela cur timida, 51. Mustelæ natura, 46. Myrmecoleon, sive leo formicarius, animal cujusmodi, 53. Imago diaboli, ibid.
# N Nabo mons, qui et Abaris, 157, 159. In eo mortuus Moses, ibid. Nabuchodonosoris pœna, 200. Ejusdem causæ, ibid. A Nabuchodonosore ter spoliata Hierosolyma, 198. Naira, 59. Narionis usus, 115. Narrationes de Christo apocryphæ rejiciendæ, 212. Natura ex consuetudine, 65. Supra naturæ leges etiam hodie non pauca accidere, 3. Naturæ ordinem, ubi Deus velit, vinci, ibid. Naturæ providentia, 51. Naturæ repugnare, grave, 112. Nautis respectus siderum necessarius, 26. Nazianzenus fit patriarcha, 256. Sponte sua solio cedit, ibid. Nazianzeni de angelorum creatione opinio, 80. Nazianzeni dictum, 282. Locus, 68, 85, 93, 94, 95, 99, 107, 110, 112, 120, 129, 208, 221, 231. Nectarius Nazianzeni successor, 256. Nectenabo rex Ægyptius, 141. Nemesii de ligno scientiæ, sententia, 102. Locus, 64, 105. Nero Cæsar, 235. Ejusdem imperii duratio, ibid. Parricida, 237. Primus Christianorum persecutor, 235. Se-ipsum interficit, 237. Neronis persecutio, 235. Neronis quoto anno Paulus interfectus, 128. Neronis vitia, 237. Nerva imp., 239. Sub Nerva ab exsilio revocatus Joannes Theologus, ibid. Nestorius quando vixerit, 214. Nestorii hæresis, 271. Contra eam in concilio III conventum, ibid. Secta, 260. Nicæa collapsa, 255. Nicææ obsidio, 331. Nicænum concilium. V. Concilium Nicænum. Nicephoritæ facinora, 329. Nicephorus Botaniates imper., 330. Ejusdem in Bryennium æquitas, 331. Cur imperio dejectus, 332. Nicephorus Heracleæ præses, 303. Nicephorus imp., 285. Ejusdem avaritia, ibid. et 286. Mors, ibid. Nicephorus Phocas. Vide Phocas. Nicephorus Phocas Imp. 303. In Apochandam pergit, 304. Invidia revocatus, 304. Nicephori Phocæ res gestæ, 304. Nicephori Phocæ et Polyeucti patriarchæ lites, 305, 306. Nicephori canon, 244. Nicephori patriarchæ de angelis locus, 127. Exsilium, 287. Nicetas Rangabis filius castratus, deinceps patriarcha, 287. Post dictus Ignatius, ibid. Nicetæ patriarchæ iustitia, 284. Nicopolis a quo exstructa, 205. Nilus cur per æstatem exundet, 10, 16. Nili prodigium cujus nos admoneat, 17. A Nilo cur auræ nullæ proveniant, 17. Ninueve seu Ninive a Nabuchodonosore capta, 171. Urbs unde dicta, 130. Ninus Semiramidem matrem duxit uxorem, 129. Nix quid, 63. Nivium ortus, 9. Noa cur post diluvium Deo sacrificium obtulerit, 126. Unde animalia munda ab immundis discernere potuerit, 126. Noæ continentia, 125. Filii tres, 123, 125. Pater quis, 123. A Noa dimissus corvus an in arcam redierit, 127. Nodi ecliptici, 23. Nominis mutatio, 341. Nomina de rerum eventis indere, Scripturæ frequens, 102. Nova Roma, 249. Nox quid, 19, 32. Nox et dies ad quid hominibus utiles, 20. Nox in creatione diem secuta, 4. A Nocte mensura temporis, 20. Noctes et dies Britannicæ, 32. Noctium et dierum vicissitudines in hac vita cujus nos admoneant, 20. Numerus denarius perfectus, 150, 156, 223. Numerus septenarius in Scripturis sacris quid denotet, 123. Nysseni locus, 28, 82, 83, 89, 92, 98, 108, 109, 130, 161, 222. Nῦξ unde dicta, 19.
# O Obedus Davidis avus, 169 Obliviones vehementes unde, 116. Ochozias rex, 190. Ex filiis Jorami regis solus superstes, ibid. Ochus Artaxerxis filius, 141. Octavius Augustus, 205. Unde sic dictus, ibid. Oculus quod corpori, hoc mens est animæ, 70. Oculi effectio celerior quam auris, 31. Oculum invidum a basilisco nihil differre, 57. Oculorum natura, 58. Odontotyrannus animal cujusmodi, 142. Oleam et pinum abjicere folia, 14. Olei cadus in Elisæ historia, quid, 191. Oleo cur muscæ, apes, formicæ exstinguantur, 47. Olophernis et Judithæ historia, 169. Omen de Leone Armenio, 287. Infelicis imperii, 311. Onagrorum natura, 61. Operarii quomodo alacres effecti, 268. Opera Dei omnia naturæ leges, et omnem artis seriem excedere, 2. Ex operibus Dei quamdam notionem percipi, 85. Opobalsamum, 278. Oratione (In) instandum, 136. Orationes prolixæ tædiosæ, 1. Ordinum novem tres gradus, 76. De ordinibus novem, Dionysii dogma, 76. Organum musicum a Theophilo imp. repertum, 289. Origenes qua ratione a fide desciverit, 212. Hierosolymam se confert, ibid. Exsecrationi ecclesiasticæ obnoxius, 215. Quando vixerit, 211. Quomodo libidines exstinxerit, 212. Quomodo simulacrum accipiat, 162. Origenis Scripturarum enarrationibus illustrarit, 212. Quot libros scripserit, ibid. Quoto ætatis anno mortuus, ibid. Origenis delictum ob verecundiam, 212. Discipulus Ambrosius, 213. Error, 109. Errores, 271. In concilio V damnati, ibid. Pater Leontius, 242. Temperantia, ibid. Vita, 242. Vitia et errores, ibid. In Origenem patris amor, 242. Orniam fratrem interficit Solomo, 180. Oro (In) monte mortuus Aaron, 159. Orphanotrophium instauratum, 334. Orpheus quando vixerit, 163. Ossa gigantum sub Anastasio inventa, 263. Ossifragæ pietas, 41. Ostenta sub Leone Magno, 263, 264. Ostreo (De) et cancro, 55. Otho imp., 238. Ovis cur pecus simplex, nec subdolum in Scripturis vocetur, 65. Ovis prudentia, 50. De ovium lanis vestes cur hominibus fieri voluerit Deus, 85. Ozias rex, 192. Lepra cur percussus, ibid.
# P Palæstina, oculus orbis terrarum, 278. In Palæstinam Franci et Angli expeditio, 341. Francorum sive Teutonum, 333. Item Friderici Barbarossæ, 340. Contra Palæstinos prælium ultimum, 180. Palæologus quomodo Carolum regem Neapol. represserit, 315. Ejusdem cum papa concordia, ibid. Palæologorum fratrum discordia, 348. Palas exstructor palatii, 110. Palatinus mons, ibid. Palatium unde dictum, ibid. Palma, arbor amatoria, 57. Palmam semper florere, iisdem retentis foliis, 14. Palmarum natura et proprietas, 13. Palmis (In) sexus discrimen, ibid. Paradisus cur ad Orientem constitutus, 75. Quando conditus, 66. Paradisi cibus, quis, 98. E paradiso cur homo creatus, 67; In paradiso cur arbor cognitionis consita, 100. De paradiso promanans fluvius, in quatuor principia divisus, 75. E paradiso quando exclusus Adamus, 120. Pardalis cur timida, 51. Quomodo ipsam necet, 50. Pardalidis in homines odium maxime, 19. Pardalidis cur comparatus Alexander, 112.
MICHAELIS GLYCAE TABULA
A DAY III. On the third day of the creation of the world. On the plants, trees, and herbs that sprouted from the earth together. On the differences between herbs, and which are poisonous and which are useful. On the differences between trees. On the green fig, and what power it possesses. How the fig tree emits a hot, sharp, and incisive breath. On amber. On evergreen plants. On Atlas. On the gathering together of the water. On the collection of the water into a gathering. How the sea is salt. On the Nile. On hot waters. On hot springs. On rainwater, and how it becomes putrid.
B DAY IV. On the fourth day of the creation of the world. On the two luminaries: the sun and the moon. On the primogenial light of the luminaries. On the night. How "day" is named. The vain labors of the ancients concerning the sun and the moon. On the sun, and the stars, and light, and size. On the great luminaries. How the moon contributes to animals, and plants, and certain other things. On the eclipse of the sun and the moon. On the moon, its power and its symptoms, and why he does not call it an eclipse of the sun, but an obscuration. On the year. On why the sky becomes gloomy. On the signs of the moon. On fate. On the signs of the stars. On comets, and whence they are constituted. C On the shooting star. Certain observations on clouds, and also on lightning, and thunder, and whirlwinds, and how they are constituted. On the rainbow. On lightning. On the whirlwind. On the thunderbolt. That the sun runs beneath the earth. On the primogenial light.
DAY V. On the fifth day of the creation of the world. That fishes come from the Propontis toward the Euxine. On the sea urchin. On the squid. On the octopus. On the crab. On sea monsters. On the sawfish. On the remora or the echeneis. On the magnet or magnetic stone. On the palm. On the octopus. On squids and cuttlefish. On the cicada. On crustaceans. On cuttlefish, squids, and octopuses. Which fish have gills, and which do not. On fishes, that they do not copulate. How the serpent copulates with the moray eel. On birds, or winged creatures. On the bee.
must be numbered the commander of the Tana triremes, Diedo, whom, alongside the author of these Ephemerides and the commander of the fleet, the Genoese prefect of Pera later set free, as well as the one who reached the sea by breaking the chain of the harbor with his trireme. Furthermore, the trireme of Gerolamo Morosini escaped—as did the Trapezuntine, under the command of Dolphinus, who had succeeded to the post and who, on the 28th of April, had lost some of his men—along with the trireme of Gabriel Trevisanus, who had been captured by the Turks, and the three Cretan ships which escaped due to the absence of the Turks, who were dispersed in the upper regions of the city. Less is known regarding the ships of the Genoese that were saved, and the five imperial vessels that were left bare and fell as booty to the enemy. Mention is briefly made of the Venetian prefect who was handed over for execution. The number of captives, as Barbaro writes, is 60,000; the booty taken by the Turks is 200,000.
ANONYMOUS NARRATIVE ON THE LIFE OF MOHAMMED
(From the Rehdiger Codex, ed. Dr. W. Gass in the Appendix to *Gennadius and Pletho*)B The thrice-cursed and godless Mohammed—who among the Hagarenes, his subjects, is called Mahomet and is considered a great prophet and honored by them as if he were God—appeared in the days of Emperor Heraclius, having been born in a part of Ethiopia to Ethiopian parents. He grew up and progressed to this point, advancing for the worst in truth, in the following manner. A certain monk named Gerasimus, an extreme Arian and, as they say, a *Pneumatomachus*, hailing from Isauria—having been raised in Constantinople and in the city of the Romans, and having been pressured many times by those of the faith to renounce Arianism and the other heresies by which he was held—was not persuaded. Consequently, so that he might not be a scandal of perdition to many, he, being otherwise wise, was exiled by the Orthodox to the regions of Coele-Syria. Living there in a certain cave beside the royal road to beg for his sustenance, since he was shunned, he occupied himself for the most part with astronomy and the method of horoscopy. C Seeing those passing by, he saw one day, along with other travelers, a certain young man—the aforementioned Mahomet driving a few camels—who was descending from Mesopotamia for trade in Jerusalem. For this same Mohammed, having been orphaned while quite young, used to go around to every door, being fed by the leftovers of others. A certain widow, a very wealthy woman named Fatuma, seeing him, took him into her house to raise, and would send him to graze her own camels. Having reached manhood, the woman, having fallen in love with him, cohabited with him in fornication. When she was discovered, and wishing to escape the disgrace of the many, she openly made him her husband. She gave him a portion of her property and sent him out for trade. She was, however, distressed in another way, because he was subject to falling, which constantly caused her not a little disgrace; therefore, she ordered him to seek and inquire, wherever he might happen to arrive, if he could find some physician and healer to free him from the affliction. D Therefore, the aforementioned monk, sitting on the road and seeing Mohammed traveling, asked him from what city he was coming; after many questions, he asked him for what reason he was waiting by the road. But as the one questioned the other, once Mohammed heard, along with the others, that he occupied himself also with the medical art, he became, as it were, overjoyed; and, reporting his own falling sickness—since he heard that the monk was able to free him from such an affliction—he gave him a portion for his expenses, saying as he left: "Upon my return from Jerusalem, I shall take you up with me to my house in Mesopotamia for the sake of my own and many others' medical treatment, since the land is entirely lacking a physician, in order to collect money and lead a relaxed and painless life." Having descended to Jerusalem and conversed with some of the heretics—and especially with Jews and Nestorians, as he was very fond of learning, but indeed also with wise Jews...
σοφοῖς A περιτυχών, καὶ διδαχθεὶς ἐξ Ἰουδαίων μὲν μοναρ..., ἀπὸ Πνευματομάχων δὲ πνευματομαχίαν, ἐξ Ἡμεροβαπτιστῶν δὲ τὸ καθ' ἑκάστην λούεσθαι, ἐπὶ ἀφέσει δῆθεν τῶν οἰκείων ἁμαρτημάτων, κακῶς ἐξηγουμένων τὴν τοῦ Ἡσαΐου φωνήν, τὸ, «λούσασθε καὶ καθαροὶ γίνεσθε», ἐκ δὲ Νεστοριανῶν αὖ καὶ Ἀρειανῶν τὸ μὴ εἶναι ἀληθῆ Θεὸν τὸν Χριστὸν, ἀλλὰ προφήτην μέγαν ἐλθόντα ἐπὶ σωτηρίᾳ τοῦ κόσμου, ταύτας καὶ ἄλλας τῶν ἀσεβῶν σπορὰς συλλεξάμενος ἐκεῖθεν, νέος ὢν καὶ πυρσολάτρης ἔτι, ἐν τῷ ἐπανακάμπτειν αὐτὸν δυσὶ περιτυχὼν Ἰουδαίοις μετερχομένοις τὴν ἰατρικὴν συνοδοιπόροις τούτῳ ἐς Μεσοποταμίαν εἶναι προσειποῦσι, καὶ περιχαρὴς γεγονώς, ὡς μέλλων καὶ ὑπ' αὐτῶν ἰατρευθῆναι, ὡς ἐκεῖνοι διισχυρίσαντο, ἤνυε τὴν ὁδὸν μετὰ αὐτῶν. Ἐν δὲ τῷ τόπῳ γενόμενοι, ἔνθα τὸν ῥηθέντα μοναχὸν εὗρεν οἰκοῦντα παρὰ τὴν B ὁδὸν, ἀνελόμενος αὐτὸν κατὰ τὸ πρὸς αὐτὸν σύνθημα καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς καμήλου τοῦτον ἀναβιβάσας ἤνυον τὴν ὁδοιπορίαν· κατὰ τὴν ὁδὸν ἀναδιδάξαντες αὐτὸν ὁ μὲν μοναχὸς τελείως τὸν Ἀρειανισμόν, οἱ δὲ Ἑβραῖο τὴν περιτομὴν, ὡς σύνθημα ποιησάμενοι μετ' αὐτοῦ, ἑλέσθαι τὴν ἑαυτῶν θρησκείαν τὸν Μωάμεδ, μόνον εἰ ὑπ' αὐτῶν ἰατρευθείη. Ἐν τῇ ἰδίᾳ τοίνυν τούτου πατρίδι, τῇ Μεσοποταμίᾳ ἀνασωθέντες, λαβὼν τὸν μοναχὸν καὶ τοὺς Ἰουδαίους, ἐξένισεν αὐτοὺς παρὰ τὸν ἴδιον οἶκον, δοὺς τῷ μοναχῷ ἰδίως οἶκον σμικρότατον ἐγγὺς τοῦ αὐτοῦ οἴκου εἰς τὸ καταμένειν. Πολλῶν δὲ φιλονεικιῶν γεγονυιῶν μετ' ἀλλήλων, τοῦ μοναχοῦ μετὰ τῶν Ἰουδαίων καὶ αἱ ἐκείνων πρὸς αὐτὸν διισχυριζομένων, καὶ ἀμφοτέρων, ὡς ἄρα ὁ Μωάμεδ ἐδιδάχθη τὴν σφετέραν θρησκείαν, ὁ μοναχὸς ἠθέλησε τοῦ Μωάμεδ χωρισθῆναι. Ὡς δὲ παρεκλήθη προσμεῖναι καὶ ὅ, ἂν αὐτὸς εἴπῃ πρᾶξαι, θεμάτιον ὁ μοναχὸς ποιησάμενος περὶ τοῦ Μωάμεδ, καὶ εὑρὼν ἐν αὐτῷ ὡς μέγας γενήσεται Μωάμεδ καὶ αὐξήσει, εἰ αἵρεσίν τινα καὶ θρησκείαν ἐπαναλάβηται, προσκαλεσάμενος τὸν Μωάμεδ, ἔφη πρὸς αὐτόν· «Εἰ ἀκούσεις μου τῆς συμβουλῆς, ὅσον οὔπω μέγας γενήσῃ». Τοῦ δὲ ὑπακούειν συνθεμένου, ἔφη αὐτῷ· «Ὅτε πίπτων εἰς τὴν γῆν σεληνιάζῃ, ἀνιστάμενος λέγε, ὅτι τὸν ἄγγελον Γαβριὴλ ὁρῶν πρὸς ἐμὲ ἐρχόμενον καὶ ὁμιλοῦντα, μὴ δυνάμενος ἀντοφθαλμῆσαι τῇ λαμπρότητι τοῦ προσώπου αὐτοῦ, πίπτω, ὡς ὁρᾶτε, ἐς γῆν». Καὶ ὁ μοναχὸς, ἰδὼν τοὺς ἐγχωρίους τελείως βαρβάρους καὶ δεισιδαίμονας καὶ ἑτοίμους δέξασθαι ἃς πρὸς αὐτοὺς ἐρεῖν φλυαρίας ἐσκαιωρήσατο, ἔλεγε τοῖς παροῦσι καὶ ὁρῶσι τὸν δαιμονιζόμενον· «Θεωρεῖτε ἃ γίνεται, βλέπων τὸν Θεὸν καὶ τοὺς ἀγγέλους ὁ Μωάμεδ ἔνθεος γίνεται». Ὡς δὲ ἀνίστατο οὗτος, καὶ κατὰ τὴν ὑποθήκην τοῦ μοναχοῦ ἔλεγεν ὡς ἄγγελον θεωρῶν πίπτει, ὁ δὲ μοναχὸς προφήτην τοῦτον ἐκάλει, πλανῶν τοὺς ἀκούοντας. Ὡς δὲ καὶ ἡ γυνὴ τοῦ Μωάμεδ ἤχθετο, ὡς C καταφάγοι τὸν αὐτῆς ἅπαντα πλοῦτον, ὁ μοναχὸς ἀπολογούμενος αὐτῇ ἔλεγε· «Μὴ δυσχέραινε, καθότι ὁ Μαχούμετ μέγας προφήτης ἐστί». Ἀκούουσα δὲ ταῦτα καὶ πιστεύουσα, οἷα γυνή, ταῖς ἄλλαις τῶν γυναικῶν ἐνουθέτει καὶ ἐκήρυσσεν, ὡς ὅτι μέγας προφήτης ἐστὶν ὁ Μωάμεδ· ἐκ δὲ τῶν γυναικῶν εἰς ἄνδρας διελθοῦσα ἡ πλάνη, βαρβάρους ὄντας καὶ λίαν ἀμαθεῖς, ἐπιστεύετο εἶναι ὁ ῥηθεὶς προφήτης Θεοῦ. Ὡς δὲ εἶδεν ὁ μοναχὸς προκόπτον τὸ αὐτοῦ βούλημα, ᾠήθη δεῖν καὶ πίστιν καὶ νόμον ἐκείνοις δοῦναι ἐπὶ συστάσει δῆθεν τοῦ Ἀρειανισμοῦ καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν αἱρέσεων, ὧν εἵνεκα ἐξόριστος ἦν· καὶ καθίσας ἔγραψε βιβλίον, τὸ λεγόμενον Κοῤῥάν, ὅ ἐστι Θεοῦ νόμος, ἐγκατασπείρας ἐν αὐτῷ ἅπασαν τὴν ἰδίαν ἀσέβειαν, διδάσκων μὴ ἔχειν τὸν Θεὸν μήτε Λόγον μήτε Πνεῦμα, καὶ τὸν Χριστὸν οὐ Θεὸν εἶναι, ἀλλὰ μέγαν προφήτην, καὶ ἄλλας πλείστας φλυαρίας συνεγράψατο· δοὺς δὲ τῷ ἰδίῳ μαθητῇ Μωάμεδ, ἐξεφώνησε τοῖς ἀνοήτοις ἐκείνοις κατεληλυθέναι τῷ Μαχούμετ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ τὸ βιβλίον τοῦτο παρὰ τοῦ ἀγγέλου Γαβριὴλ κοιμωμένῳ· οἱ δὲ ἐπίστευον οὕτως ἔχειν, ὡς ὁ μοναχὸς ἡσφαλίσατο περὶ τοῦ νέου νόμου. Οἱ δὲ προῤῥηθέντες Ἰουδαῖοι δυσχεράναντες τῷ Μωάμεδ καὶ μὴ θέλοντες αὐτὸν λατρεύειν ὡς μὴ ἐξακολουθήσαντα τῇ αὐτῶν θρησκείᾳ μᾶλλον ἢ ταῖς ὑποθήκαις τοῦ μοναχοῦ, θέλων καὶ αὐτοὺς ἱκανοποιῆσαι, παρεδέξατο ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαϊκῶν ἠθῶν τήν τε περιτομὴν καὶ τὸ ὑπονομάζειν μόνον τοὺς προφήτας· τὰ δὲ γεγραμμένα ὑπό τε Μωσέως καὶ τῶν λοιπῶν προφητῶν, ὡς τῷ μοναχῷ ἔδοξε, πέπραχε περὶ τούτων. Τούτων οὕτως γενομένων καὶ τῶν ἐγχωρίων πιστευσάντων τῷ νέῳ νόμῳ τοῦ Μωάμεδ, ἀποροῦντες ἀρχῆς, ἐξ ὑποθήκης τοῦ μοναχοῦ ἄρχοντα τοῦτον ἑαυτοῖς ἐποιήσαντο, ὡς εἶναι ὁμοῦ καὶ νομοθέτην καὶ προφήτην καὶ βασιλέα· τότε καὶ στρατιωτικὸν σύστημα ποιησάμενος, ἐληίζετο τὰς πέριξ κωμοπόλεις. Ἀκουσθεὶς δὲ τῷ βασιλεῖ Ἡρακλείῳ, ἀπέστειλε στρατὸν πρὸς αὐτὸν, καὶ παραγενόμενοι οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι ἐκεῖσε ἄρδην τοὺς ὑπουργοὺς Μωάμεδ ἀποκτείνουσιν· αὐτὸς δὲ φυγὼν μετ' ὀλίγων τινῶν στέλλει πρὸς βασιλέα πρεσβείαν, καλῶν ἑαυτὸν δοῦλον τοῦ βασιλέως, καὶ ἀξιῶν ἵνα ἐάσῃ τοῦτον ἀναπαύεσθαι ἐν ἑνὶ μέρει τῆς Αἰθιοπίας, διδόναι τῷ βασιλεῖ φόρον· ὁ δὲ πεισθεὶς εἴασε. D Μετὰ δὲ τὴν τελευτὴν Ἡρακλείου, συγχύσεων οὐκ ὀλίγων παρὰ τὴν τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχὴν γεγονυιῶν, εὑρὼν ὁ Μωάμεδ ἄδειαν ἐληίζετο τὴν Συρίαν· εἶτα ἐξ ὀλίγου ἢ ἐκ μηδενὸς εἰς πολὺ ἀποκαταστὰς διὰ τὰς ἡμῶν ἁμαρτίας, διέφθειρε τὸ πολὺ τῆς τῶν Ῥωμαίων ἀρχῆς. Μετὰ δὲ τοῦτον οἱ διάδοχοι αὐτοῦ καὶ τὸ ὑπόλοιπον τελείως ἀπώλεσαν καὶ διέφθειραν καὶ ἠφάνισαν. Τοῦτο μὲν ἐν συνάψει εἴρηται περὶ τούτου ἅπαν τὸ ἀληθές. Τέλος.
SYLLABUS OF AUTHORS, BOTH PUBLISHED AND NOT YET PUBLISHED, CITED IN THE ANNALS OF GLYCAS. The reader is referred to the bold numerals inserted into the Latin text.
A Alexander, monk, in the *History of the invention of the holy Cross*, wrote that Constantine was baptized at the end of his life; he is refuted by Glycas, **251**. Ambrose (S.), Archbishop of Milan, **257**. Amphilochius, Archbishop of Iconium. His opinion on the creation of the angels, **80**, **233**. Anabatianus, a book of the Cainite heretics, which contained the things that Saint Paul saw in heaven, **180**. Anastasius Sinaita, Patriarch of Antioch, interpreted most things in the Old Testament allegorically, **10**, **15**, **17**, **24**, **33**, **38**, **46**, **74**, **80**, **86**, **89**, **93**, **94**, **99**, **102**, **105**, **166**, **183**, **197**. His *Commentary on the Hexaemeron*, or on the works of the first six days. His oration on the Resurrection. Anaxagoras, philosopher, along with Anaximander and Anaximenes, **20**, **21**, **202**. Andreas, of Jerusalem, Archbishop of Crete, in an *Oration on those who have fallen asleep*, **86**, **231**, **233**. Andromachus, physician, inventor of the Theriac, **59**. Antoninus, philosopher emperor, **241**. Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea, **70**, **244**, **271**. Apollonius, Tyanean magician, **239**. Aquila, of Pontus, from a Christian a Jew, **241**. Arcadius, emperor, response to the letters of Pope Innocent, **259**. Aristotle, the Stagirite, **5**, **7**, **29**, **51**, **53**, **62**, **116**, **202**. Athanasius (S.), Patriarch of Alexandria, in his *Oration on the Assumption*, **89**, **122**. Discoursing to the Prince of Antioch, **91**, **97**. Passim from other works, **28**, **89**, **91**, **97**, **119**, **122**, **132**, **207**, **208**, **209**, **224**, **241**, **250**, **251**. Athenodorus, philosopher, gives precepts to Augustus, **206**. Babylonians. See Zoroaster.
B Barlaam, wrote to Ioasaph; his words, **88**. Basilius (S.), Archbishop of Caesarea in Cappadocia, cited passim in the *Ascetica*, in the *Hexaemeron*, and in others, **3**, **4**, **6**, **8**, **9**, **11**, **12**, **14**, **18**, **19**, **21**, **25**, **27**, **29**, **32**, **34**, **42**, **51**, **58**, **67**, **70**, **71**, **74**, **79**, **80**, **81**, **83**, **84**, **88**, **93**, **94**, **101**, **120**, **131**, **155**, **157**, **168**, **193**, **207**, **222**, **231**, **234**. Basilius, physician, author of the heresy of the Bogomils, **334**.
C Caesarius (S.), brother of Saint Gregory Nazianzen, **80**, **143**. Caius, ancient theologian, writes that Peter and Paul died at the same time, **235**. Chrysostom (S.). See Joannes. Claudius Aelianus, **51**, **62**. Claudius Galenus, physician of Pergamum, **56**, **58**, **59**, **96**, **111**, **131**, **133**, **231**. Clement of Alexandria, called the *Stromateus*, **228**, **242**. Cosmas the Great, author of the *Tetraodion*, **298**, in the Notes. Cyrill (S.), Patriarch of Alexandria, in the book of *Treasures*, **78**. In his *Oration on the creation of man*, **88**. *On adoration in spirit*, **159**. In the *Glaphyra*, or *Varieties*, **118**, **119**, **123**, **124**, **126**, **127**, **130**, **132**, **137**, **146**, **181**, **185**, **193**, **210**, **211**, **218**, **253**, **261**, **271**. Cyrill, Bishop of Jerusalem, in letters concerning the visible sign of the Cross to the Emperor Constantine, **253**, **271**.
D Damascenus (S.). See Joannes. Damasus, Pope, **271**. Daniel, prophet, **101**, **143**. Democritus, philosopher, **20**. Diodorus, of Tarsus, as I think, bishop, **80**. Diogenes, the Cynic, what he felt about the stars, **20**, **112**, **203**. Dionysius (S.), the Areopagite, ὁ θεοφάντωρ καὶ μέγας, **76**, **182**, **193**, **208**, **219**, **232**. Dionysius (S.), Bishop of Corinth, **255**, **271**. Dioscorides, of Anazarbus, as I think, physician, on Stratonicus, the Sicilian general, **56**.
E Empedocles, philosopher, **282**. Ephraem (S.), deacon of Edessa, **124**, **125**, and perhaps others. Epiphanius (S.), Bishop of Constantia in Cyprus, in the *Panaria* passim, **46**, **120**, **128**, **146**, **158**, **198**, **200**, **221**, **259**. Epiphanius, Presbyter, not bishop, in his oration on the immaculate Nativity of the Mother of God, **213**, **290**. Concerning John the Theologian, he thinks otherwise than Chrysostom, **213**. Esdras, preserves the sacred books, **182**, **198**, **199**. Eustathius, Patriarch of Antioch, on the day under Hezekiah, **194**. Eusebius Pamphili, Metropolitan of Caesarea, ὁ πολυμαθὴς καὶ πολυΐστωρ, **182**, **227**, **235**. Hezekiah, king of Judah, **183**, **194**. Eutyches, heretic, **263**. Eutychius, Patriarch of CP., **272**.
G Galenus. See Claudius. On Gems. See Salomon. Genesis, little, ἡ λεπτὴ Γένεσις, an apocryphal book, is cited three times, **104**, **108**, **211**. On Genii, or on angels and demons. See Salomon. Gennadius, Patriarch of CP., on the creation of the angels, **79**, **80**. Georgius, syncellus or syngellus of Tarasius, Patriarch of CP., and chronicler, **117**, **118**, **121**, **122**, **131**, **139**, **140**, **156**, **197**, **198**, **215**, **216**. Germanus (S.), Patriarch of CP., **79**, **280**, **281**. In his oration on the Falling Asleep of the Mother of God, Mary, **233**. Gregory (S.), Bishop of Nazianzus, **3**, **68**, **80**, **83**. From the poem *On the Soul*, **93**, **94**, **95**, **99**, **107**, **110**, **112**, **120**, **129**, **208**, **221**, **251**, **256**, **271**, **282**. Gregory (S.), Bishop of Nyssa, brother of Basil, **2**, **11**, **28**, **82**, **83**, **89**, **92**, **98**, **100**, **108**, **109**, **150**, **161**, **222**. Gregory (S.), Roman Pope, **240**, **282**. Gregory II, Pope, **281**.
H Hadrian, emperor, **240**. Heraclitus, philosopher, **74**, **116**, **202**. Hermes Trismegistus, **28**, **114**. In his epistle to Ammon the Wise. Herodotus, historian, **202**. Hippocrates, prince of physicians, **51**, **202**. Hippolytus, perhaps a martyr, on the day under Hezekiah, **194**. On St. John the Apostle, **239**.
INDEX
A Hippolytus the Theban, historian, distinct from the martyr, concerning the time of the death of St. Stephen, **227**. Homer, prince of poets, **7**, **184**, **195**. Innocent I, Pope, letters to Arcadius, **259**, **260**. Isidore of Pelusium, disciple of St. Chrysostom, **98**, **223**, **258**. Iamblichus the philosopher, regarding the creation or origin of angels, **107**. Jeremiah the prophet, **287**. Jesus Sirach, **203**. John (St.) the Apostle and Evangelist, passim. John the astronomer, **300**. John (St.) Chrysostom, Archbishop of Constantinople, passim, **2**, **4**, **8**, **9**, **12**, **18**, **27**, **59**, **66**, **67**, **68**, **69**, **72**, **77**, **79**, **80**, **81**, **82**, **83**, **85**, **87**, **88**, **89**, **91**. In his oration on the exile of Adam, **123**, **124**, **125**, **131**, **132**, **133**, **157**, **189**, **209**, **210**, **212**, **214**, **215**, **218**, **219**, **220**, **223**, **225**, **226**, **227**, **236**, **258**, **259**. John (St.) Climacus, or author of the Ladder, **112**. John (St.) of Damascus, monk, passim, **8**, **15**, **16**, **17**, **21**, **52**, **65**, **66**, **71**, **78**, **80**, **81**, **82**, **93**, **98**, **99**, **100**, **103**, **105**, **107**, **111**, **208**, **209**, **221**. John Scylitzes, or Curopalates, historian, **245**, **246**, **286**, **293**, **294**, **297**. John Zonaras, historian, **140**, **286**, **291**, **297**. John Xiphilinus, Patriarch of Constantinople, **325**, **326**. Job the Patriarch, **116**, **147**. Prayer of Joseph the Patriarch, an apocryphal book, **259**. Josephus the Jew, historian, **1**, **12**, **40**, **102**, **119**, **121**, **123**, **128**, **129**, **130**, **135**, **139**, **143**, **145**, **148**, **150**, **155**, **158**, **163**, **164**, **174**, **175**, **176**, **177**, **179**, **185**, **186**, **187**, **188**, **192**, **198**, **228**, **254**, **258**. Julian of Halicarnassus, heretic, **243**. Julian the Emperor, called the apostate, or "perverted-minded," **117**, **128**, **185**, **199**, **251**, **253**, **254**. Julius Caesar, dictator, **201**. Justinian the Great, Emperor, **266**, **272**. Justin, philosopher and martyr, **4**, **15**, **19**, **241**. Juvenal, prelate of Jerusalem, on the burial of the Blessed Virgin, **252**, **270**. Leo (St.), Roman pontiff, **271**. Leo the Wise or the Philosopher, Emperor, **296**, **297**, **298**, **299**, **300**. Leo, a learned man, Archbishop of Thessalonica, **291**, **292**. Libanius, Sophist of Antioch, **258**. Sacred Books, of Solomon, apocryphal. See Esdras, Genesis, Josephus, Solomon. Book on the miracles of St. Basil, usually attributed to Amphilochius, **235**. Luke (St.) the Evangelist, **236**, **237**, **281**. Macarius (St.), abbot, in his letters, **105**, **255**. Manes the heretic, **82**, **111**, **214**. Marcus Antoninus the Emperor, **241**. Mark (St.) the Evangelist, **216**. Mark, oikonomos and monk, who completed the Tetraodion of Kosmas, **298**, in the Notes. Matthew (St.) the Apostle and Evangelist, **284**. Maximus (St.), monk and confessor, **3**, **5**, **6**, **25**, **70**, **71**, **95**, **110**, **194**. In his writings to Thalassius. Metaphrastes. See Simeon. Methodius, Patriarch of Constantinople, **289**. Michael Parapinakēs, Emperor, an inept poet, **330**. Michael Psellos, who is "the wise in truth," **171**, **181**, **328**, **350**. Michael Cerularius, Patriarch of Constantinople, **319**. Moses, lawgiver of the Hebrews, passim up to pages **157**, **160**, **211**. Nazianzen. See Gregory. Nectarius, Patriarch of Constantinople, **256**. Nestorius, from Germanicia in Syria, Patriarch of Constantinople, heretic, **245**, **260**, **271**. Nemesius, prelate of Emesa, philosopher, on the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, and other things, **64**, **102**, **165**. Nicander of Colophon, a Greek poet, on serpents, **25**. Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople, lauded among the patriarchs, on angels who offer our prayers, **137**, **244**, **287**. Nyssen. See Gregory. Origen Adamantius, Alexandrian presbyter, whom he calls "the accursed and foolish-minded," **109**, **162**, **241**, **242**, **243**, **271**. Lesser Genesis. See Genesis. Patricius, prelate of Prusa, from an oration on St. Pionius, **1083**. Paul (St.), the Apostle, often cited, **136**, **213**, **214**, **217**, **228**, **229**, **235**, **236**, **237**, **239**. Paul of Samosata, heretic, **244**, **278**. Paul of Sinope, on the rabies of dogs, **63**. Peter (St.), prince of the apostles, **124**, **233**, **236**. Peter, writing to Faustus about the natal star, **26**, **113**. Philo the Jew, **234**. Philon the philosopher, on ecclesiastical history regarding the power of anathemas, **282**, **283**. Philolaus, Pythagorean philosopher, **20**. Photius, Patriarch of Constantinople, **293**, **297**, **298**. Plato the philosopher, **5**, **202**. Plotinus, a follower of Plato, **70**. Plutarch, philosopher of Chaeronea, **58**, **131**. Porphyry, Platonic philosopher, **107**. Prayer of Joseph, the apocryphal book, **239**. Proclus, Patriarch of Constantinople, **260**. Procopius of Caesarea, historian, **270**. Psellos. See Michael. Ptolemy, Alexandrian astrologer, **134**. Pyron, or Pyrrhon, writer of Annals, wrote that Adam entered Paradise after 200 days, **82**. Pythagoras the philosopher, **202**. Rufus, a medical writer on the cause of hydrophobia, **63**. Sabellius, heretic, **213**. Books of Solomon the king of the Jews on angels and demons, on gems, etc., **182**, **183**, **184**, **185**. Scylitzes. See John Scylitzes. Serapio or Sarapion, mathematician, **243**. Seth, inventor of the conversion of the year and other things, **121**. Severianus, Bishop of Gabala, **67**. Severus, an Acephalous heretic? **80**, **271**. Simeon or Symeon Metaphrastes, **245**, **252**. Sophocles the poet, **202**. Symmachus, **242**. Tertullian, a Latin writer, a man of brilliant reputation at Rome, **235**. Theodoret, Bishop of Cyrrhus, **14**, **19**, **33**, **63**, **79**. In the Therapeutica, **80**, **106**, **132**, **176**, **179**, **181**, **187**, **189**, **192**, **198**, **211**, **230**, **261**, **263**, **270**. Theodore, Bishop of Mopsuestia, **245**. Theophanes the Confessor, chronographer, continuator of George Syncellus, **246**, **287**. Theophilus, Patriarch of Alexandria, **257**, **258**, **259**. Theophylact, Archbishop of the Bulgarians, **210**. Thucydides the historian, **202**. Timothy, Patriarch of Alexandria, **271**. Valens the astronomer, most accurate among astronomers, **249**. Valentinus the heresiarch, **111**, **142**. Xenophanes the philosopher, **20**. Xiphilinus. See John. Zonaras. See John. Zoroaster, King of the Persians or an astrologer, **199**.Table of Contents of the Matters Contained in This Volume
[LATIN] A occasion for death, 309. The death of the same, ibid. Letters of Joseph to Zimisces, 305. Zoe married to Argyropulus, 312. A lewd woman plots against her husband, 314. From Zoe Carbonopsia a son is born to Leo the philosopher, 299. Place in Zonaras, 140, 286, 294, 297. Zoroaster the Persian astronomer, 129. Zorobabel, son of Salathiel, takes the kingdom from the Jewish tribe, 199. The history of Zorobabel, 198. Zonaitas, prince of Smyrna, 346. Zygenae, a species of whale, 36.
TABLE OF CONTENTS OF THE MATTERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME
MICHAEL GLYCAS. Notice from Fabricius, ed. Harles, I. Joannes Lamius’s first Dissertation on Michael Glycas and his writings, in which is inserted an index of authors and books, both published and unpublished, from which Michael Glycas collected his own material, VII. The same author’s second Dissertation, XIX. Casimir Oudin’s Dissertation on the age and writings of Michael Glycas, XXII. A review of the letters of Michael Glycas from the Greek theological manuscript Codex 160 of the Vienna Library, XXXVI. A review of the same letters according to Codex 193 of the Royal Library of Turin, XXXIX.
MICHAEL GLYCAS’S ANNALS FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD TO THE DEATH OF EMPEROR ALEXIUS COMNENUS, IN THE YEAR 1118. Philippus Labbe, S. J., Commendatory Epistle to Cardinal Mazarin, 1. Preface by the same to the Reader, 3. Preface of Joannes Leunclavius, 5. Table of Michael Glycas from the manuscript codex of Fontisebrault, transcribed and translated by Philippus Labbe, 465. Part I, containing the history of the universe, 27. Part II, from Adam to the empire of Caesar, 231. Part III, from the empire of Caesar to Constantine the Great, 385. Part IV, concerning the emperors of Constantinople who reigned subsequently, 465. Continuation of the Glycan Annals from Joannes Comnenus to the capture of Constantinople by the Turks, by the author J. Leunclavius, 625.
MICHAEL GLYCAS’S EPISTLES. Epistle I. To the lord Joannes Sinaites, monk and stylite, most venerable. Whether one ought to show indulgence to those who have fallen into sin, or whether, as reason demands, they should be rebuked, 647. Epist. II. To the venerable monk, first of all, the lord Joannes Smeniotas. Whether those are to be heard who say that man from the beginning had a perishable body, and was subject to passions, or natural inconveniences, even before the transgression; and that he used sensible food in Paradise, and that the tree of knowledge was a fig tree, 659. Epist. III. To the same. Concerning the glory and brightness with which Adam shone from the beginning, 715. Epist. IV. To the same. For what reason the devil attacked Adam through the serpent and not through another animal, and from what it is eventually established that Adam was attacked by him through the serpent, when Scripture does not expressly say so, and whether Scripture has hidden that very thing for some true reason, 721. Epist. V. To the honorable monk, the lord Joannes Aspiotes. Of what nature the bodies of men will be when they rise from the dead, and whether they will then eat sensible food, as some assert, 727. Epist. VI. To the same. Whether the bodies of men will rise with the distinction of male and female, 753. Epist. VII. To the same. Whether one ought to pay attention to those who say that those who are about to rise will not recognize one another; and if they do recognize one another, whether the just will be recognized by sinners, but sinners not by the just, 782. Epist. VIII. To the very venerable monk, the lord Esaias. Whether the just ought to progress in knowledge and glory, or not, after that restitution which will be there, 795. B Epist. IX. To the same. Whether one ought to pay attention to those who say that Paradise is corruptible and that the thief did not enter into it immediately after the Cross, 799. Epist. X. Why the Lord was incarnate in the last times, and did not come into the world much earlier; for if He had done this earlier, that vast multitude would perhaps not have finished their lives in impiety out of ignorance, 811. Epist. XI. To the most honorable Father, the lord Gregorius Acropolita. Whether the heaven is round and immobile or not, according to St. Chrysostom, 817. Epist. XII. And this is also asked: since God created light on the first day, for what reason He established the luminaries on the fourth, 831. Epist. XIII. To the very venerable monk, the lord Esaias. If our mind was created according to the image of God, how is it that the same mind is intelligent in one person but not intelligent in another; and for what reason do all people differ from one another in form, age, and other things, 838. Epist. XIV. To the same. Concerning the manner in which it is proper to respond against the Jews, when they strive to twist the mystery of God even more, 845. Epist. XV. To the most venerable brother in the Lord, the lord Joannes Tricha. In what manner one must understand that which we find in the Apocalypse of the divine evangelist Joannes: "I saw a new heaven and a new earth, and the sea is no more," 897. Epist. XVI. To the most venerable monk, the lord Chariton. Whether the blessed John the evangelist yielded to death, or not, 899. Epist. XVII. To the most venerable monk, the lord Nectarius. Concerning Judas, whether he hanged himself with a noose according to the evangelical history, or whether, surviving after these things, as some say, he suffered from dropsy and thus died, 903. Epist. XVIII. To the most venerable and intimate lord Esaias. Whether faith should be given to those who say that the souls of the saints, having departed from here to some place of rest, do not now make prayers for us, and, standing in the sight of Christ, in no way care for the earth: likewise concerning the soul. There precedes [a treatise of] a certain Unknown on the same argument, 913. Epist. XIX. To the monk Nilus. That prayers and alms for the dead are not in vain, 921. Epist. XX. (Fragment) To... That the prayers of the just are beneficial even to the impious dead, 927. Epist. XXI. (Fragment) To... It relates that the Virgin’s soul descended to the underworld after death, 929. Epist. XXII. (Fragment) It declares and proves that not only the Virgin’s soul, but also the souls of the rest of mankind descend to the underworld after death, but with this difference: that to the just, for the sake of contemplating the mysteries of Christ even in that region, a place of passage to the heavenly realms is granted; to the impious, a place in which they remain to be tormented by eternal punishments, 929. Epist. XXIII. To Constantine Palaeologus. That those who have rashly opined that Paul was one of the twelve disciples of Christ are not to be heard, 931. Epist. XXIV. To Andronicus Palaeologus. Concerning the day of Lights [Epiphany]. Whether it is more worthy than the solemnity of the Nativity of Christ, 955. Epist. XXV. To the monk Esaias. Concerning not assimilating the monk to baptism, 935. Epist. XXVI. (Fragment) To the monk Alypius. Concerning celebrating the fast before the Nativity of the Lord, 951. Epist. XXVII. (Fragment) To the recluse Alypius. Whether second marriages are prohibited among the Greeks, 955. Epist. XXVIII. (Fragment) To the monk Alypius. He excuses his Greeks who use the rites of the Jews, 957. Epist. XXIX. Concerning the procession of the Holy Spirit, 959.
JOANNES DIACONUS OF ADRIANOPLE. Political poem in praise of Joannes Palaeologus, to which Ang. Maria Bandinius prefixes [an introduction], 959.
ESAIAS CYPRIUS. On the procession of the Holy Spirit, to Nicolaus Sciengia, 971.
HILARIO MONACHUS. On the mystical bread of the Greeks and the unleavened bread of the Latins, 977.
JOANNES ARGYROPULUS. Notice from Boerner on learned Greek men, 985. ON THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT TO THE GRAND DUKE, WITH AN EXPLANATION OF THE DECREE MADE IN THE SYNOD OF FLORENCE, 991. Epistle to Dominicus Roboreus (de la Rovere), Cardinal of Turin, by whose grace he had undertaken the interpretation of Aristotle’s *De Anima*, 1007.
THEODORUS AGALLIANUS. Refutation of the book of J. Argyropulus "On the Holy Spirit," 1011.
JOSEPHUS CPOLITANUS, PATRIARCH. Confession of faith when he was in his last moments, 1051. His epitaph, 1053.
JOB MONACHUS. Proemium to the commentary on the Psalms, 1055.
BARTHOLOMEUS DE JANO. Epistle against the Turks, to Albertus de Sarthiano, 1055.
NICOLAUS BARBARUS, PONTIFICAL VENETIAN. Ephemerides of the siege and conquest of the city from the month of March until the 29th day of May, 1455, 1067.
ANONYMUS. NARRATIVE concerning the life of Mohammed, 1077.