Subjects — N
284 subjects · from Migne’s own Ordo Rerum, in English
Naamanes the Saracen
Leaving the worship of demons, he is converted to the faith of Christ
Naamanes the Saracen, son of Alamundarus, is treated kindly by Maurice
Nabonassar
Naboth
by whom and for what reason he was killed, the mention of
Nahum
SYNOPSIS Nahum
Nain
arriving, Christ raised the only son of the widow, 361; and how
Naisus
Name
custom among the Greeks of imposing it upon children
Names
What the promulgation of names is
Names of Jeremiah, Jerusalem, etc
Names which are relative to something
How they differ from quality
What sort they are
what they are
Narcissus
deceived by his own love
Nard and cinnamon
custom of distributing
Nard boxes
once, more elegant people used to carry them with them just as we carry boxes filled with sneezing powder today
Narration on Belisarius, manuscript
Narration on Bertrandus Romanus, manuscript
Narses
His piety toward God and his devotion to the Virgin Mary
Narses is sent into Italy by Justinian and overcomes Totila and Teias, the kings of the Goths
Narses, Romanorum dux
Narseus
received Sicorius Probus and negotiated peace
Narthex prayers
Narthex veils
Nasar
Nathan
The cleverness of Nathan in rebuking King David
Nathanael
A demon clothed in bull hide tries to terrify him in the guise of a soldier or executioner
By his example, one must exult at the knowledge of Christ
faith confirmed by Christ
He acknowledged Christ
He struggles with the demon and wins
His firm purpose and confidence
how and when he was called to the faith
how he made his confession of faith, 771; what words being heard
Seven bishops visit him
the perpetual keeper of the cell
The same demon tries to lure him from his cell in the figure of a boy
very studious and highly learned
who he is
Nathanael preached that Christ is the Son of God and the king of Israel
Nativitas B. Virginis quomodo celebrata a S. Josepho
Nativity of the Lord
customary acclamations at the feast
In this feast, meals of nineteen couches were set
Things to be observed in its procession
Natura (nature)
"Beyond nature" and "above nature" differ
according to Plato is an organic cause rather than an efficient one
Analogy of nature and the art of sculpture
Definition of nature
In natural things, form and end are the same
Nature acts according to reason
Nature and according to nature differ
Nature carries out all things antecedent to the cause of form
The cause of nature is God
The name of nature, which in Greek is φύσις, and its concept differ
Whether nature is matter or form, or a composite, or the very production of a natural thing
Why nature sometimes errs
Natural and innocent passions
Natural law
Natural law, definition of
Natural purifications, Jewish and Gentile
Nature
A description of natural things
For what cause some things sometimes happen against the course of nature
is a faculty implanted in bodies by God, the principle of motion and rest
is sometimes carried toward the better, sometimes toward the worse
Nature and character of Romanus IV
Nature and form of locusts
how they wage war; they are troublesome to crops and herbs
Nature and properties of stones
among which one repels diseases, another attracts iron, and others, when struck inside, kindle fire placed outside
Nature fashioned the face as a mirror of the soul
Nature of God, impossible for anyone to take
Nature of things
what it contains
Natures which are possessed of mind, there are two evils
Naupactus
Nautical arts, inventors of
Nautical science
Navatus
Nazaratus
Nazarci
Nazarene worship
Nazareth
Christ passes by that in which He is said to have been raised
the place of Christ's upbringing, not of His nativity
Nazareth, having imitated Eden, embraces Him who planted Eden
Neapolis of Macedonia
Neapolis of Macedonia, now called Christopolis
Neapolitanus, a certain bishop
killed by the Samaritans
Nearly one hundred thousand of the Sclaveni burst into Thrace
Nearly one hundred thousand of the Sclaveni burst into Thrace
Nebridius of Mundelheim
Nebula (mist)
An indication of clear weather rather than rain
How it is made
The nerves of the eyes are hollow and canaliculated
what it is
Necessity
what it is according to the philosophers
Nechephres, King of the Egyptians
Necrologium of Molesme
Necromancy
The necromancy of the Tyrrhenians or Etruscans has fallen silent
Necropyla
Nectarius
Nectarius, admitted by providence
Nectarius, bishop of Constantinople
Nectarius, life and customs of
Nectarius, ordination did not please Damasus
Nectarius, penitents in the Church
Nefarious and illicit marriages of kin
Neglecta
b 10
Negligent hearers
Negligentes
b 10
Negligentes in religione
b 99
Negligentia
b 46
Negotiosa et occupationibus distracta vita
b 77
Neighbor
The rule for acting toward one’s neighbor
What it is to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind; who is our neighbor
Neighbor (Proximus)
A neighbor is not to be judged, nor is one to engage in litigation with him
He who does not think about his own sins and final judgment judges and mocks his neighbor
On that which must be forgiven to a neighbor
On the love of neighbor
Regarding this, places in Holy Scripture
That one should not rashly condemn a neighbor
Neighbor, definition of the evangelical
257
Neither virtue nor malice is always constant
Nemean games
Nemethy
The widow of Nemethy carries away the dowry to Tokaj with her
Neocastra
Neocæsarea frustra oppugnatur ab Joanne imp
Neophytes
It is better to deliver faith to neophytes than deep discourse and laborious exposition
Neophytes must ruminate on the doctrine of catechesis
Neophytes who have been baptized at an unseasonable time are not to be admitted to the holy tables
Neophytos
Neophytos
Nephalius
He casts Severus out of the monastery
He is sent to Alexandria by Zeno Augustus for the sake of repairing unity
Nephalius, a monk of Syria
Nepos
Nepos, after Glycerius was driven out, is made emperor of the Romans
Nero slew Peter and Paul on the same day
Nesteutai
NESTONGI
Isaacius
Nestorians more recent
Against whom the author institutes a dispute
As to what manner Nestorius maintained the mission of the Son
Barsuma of Nisibis
departed somewhat from the opinion of Nestorius
In what manner they fell into errors concerning the mission of the Son
Nestorians' fasts
Their Church which was formerly Damascene
Nestorius
He is condemned in the Ephesian synod
Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, founds a new heresy
The blasphemy of Nestorius is demolished
Nestorius denies that the Virgin is the Mother of God
Nestorius, crime of
Nestorius, death of
Nestorius, deposed
Nestorius, exile of
Nestorius, heretical bishop
Nestorius, succeeded to see of Constantinople
Neustapolis
New news of the Dervisarii
New Phocaea, its surrender
New reception of Chairadinis
New Rome
New Testament, when the writers ceased to write by the inspiration of the divine Spirit
New wine
New wine, the New Testament or the grace of Christ
Nicaea, great fame
Nicaea, Synod of
Nicarete of Nicomedia, life of
Nice, daughter of Nicetas the patrician, marries Theodosius
Nicene faith, disturbance of
Nicene Synod, convened
Nicene synod, decrees of
Nicene synod, first universal
Nicene synod, letter to the Church of Alexandria
Nicephorus
Nicephorus Basilacius
Nicephorus Botaniata imp
Nicephorus Callistus
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Nicephorus Callistus copies Evagrius Scholasticus somewhere
NICEPHORUS CALLISTUS XANTHOPULUS
Dedicatory epistle of Sebastian and Gabriel Cramoisy to Cardinal Richelieu
ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, EIGHTEEN BOOKS
Nicephorus's encomiastic address to Andronicus Palaeologus
Notice from Fabricius
Nicephorus Caspax
Nicephorus Chaluphes Dalmatiæ præficitur a Manuele
Capitur ab Hungaris
Nicephorus Dasiota
Nicephorus Gregoras
Nicephorus patriarcha
Nicephorus Petralipha
Nicephorus Phocas, the most valiant emperor
his inauguration
It is not certain whether he died a natural death or was destroyed by poisons and force
NICEPHORUS THE PHILOSOPHER
Notitia
Nicephorus Xanthopoulos
Nicephorus ὁ γενικὸς λογοθέτης
Nicephorus, Historical Epitome
Nicephorus, moved to Tarentum
Nicephorus, Patriarch
Converses with Theophanes while absent
His judgment on Leo the Armenian
Is relegated
Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople
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Nicephorus, son of Constantine (Copronymus), Caesar
Nicetas
son of Constantine Triphyllius
NICETAS CHONIATES
Book I
Book II
BOOK II OF THE SAME REIGN
Book III
Book IV
BOOK ON THE DEEDS AFTER THE CAPTURE OF THE CITY
Book V
Book VI
Book VII
Chronology of Nicetas
Epistola nuncupatoria
Fabrot’s Brevarium
Glossarium Fabroti
HISTORY OF NICETAS
NARRATION ON THE STATUES WHICH THE FRANKS DESTROYED AFTER THE CAPTURE OF THE CITY
Notice
ON THE DEEDS OF MANUEL COMNENUS, SEVEN BOOKS
REIGN OF ALEXIUS COMNENUS
REIGN OF ALEXIUS SURNAME MURZUFLUS
REIGN OF ANDRONICUS COMNENUS BOOK I
REIGN OF ISAAC ANGELUS TOGETHER WITH HIS SON ALEXIUS
REIGN OF ISAAC ANGELUS, THREE BOOKS
NICETAS MARONE
Dialogue fifth
Dialogue first
Dialogue fourth
Dialogue second
Dialogue sixth
Dialogue third
DIALOGUES ON THE PROCESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
Hergenröther’s Monitum
Proemium
Nicetas the Paphlagonian
NICETAS THESAURUS ORTHODOXAE FIDEI
BOOK FIRST. — On the errors of the ethnic philosophers and Jews
Cap. II. — Origin of Greek mysteries and philosophical sects
Cap. III. — Plato on the causes of three things
Cap. IV. — The delusions of Pythagoras, the futile prater
Cap. IX. — Of the time of the last judgment. Synod of the stars, deluges
Cap. V. — The gluttony of Epicurus’s honey-cakes
Cap. VI. — Moses more certain than the philosophers regarding the principles of material elements. From what element the first things were produced
Cap. VII. — Of ideas and of heaven
Cap. VIII. — Of the stars, sun and moon, or are they planets? The order, motion, and harmony of the planets
Cap. X. — Of the magnitude and interval of the sun, moon, and earth
Cap. XI. — Of the eclipse of the sun and moon
Cap. XII. — Of the qualities of the sun, moon, and stars
Cap. XIII. — Of the course of the sun and moon, and the definition of the year
Cap. XIV. — The matter of the sun, moon, and stars, fire
Cap. XIX. — Signs, months, and prognostications
Cap. XL. — Of the Pharisees
Cap. XLI. — Of the Hemerobaptists
Cap. XLII. — Of the Nazarenes
Cap. XLIII. — Of the Essenes, and the pseudo-prophet Elxai, and his brother Jezaeus with his sisters Martho and Marthana
Cap. XLIV. — Of the Herodians
Cap. XLV. — Epilogue of the first book
Cap. XV. — Of the zodiac, the houses of the planets, and their elevations
Cap. XVI. — Of the ten figures of the moon
Cap. XVII. — Of the seven zones of the planets and their course, with an explanation of Psalm VIII
Cap. XVIII. — Of the tropical or solstitial point
Cap. XX. — Of the motion of the stars and the rest concerning the moon
Cap. XXI. — Of the vacuum
Cap. XXII. — From which [element] the element was produced
Cap. XXIII. — Of comets and those lightnings which are called the darting stars
Cap. XXIV. — Of rain, snow, hail, and what is formed from vapor
Cap. XXIX. — Of the resurrection of bodies and the immortality of souls
Cap. XXV. — Of the rainbow, halo, parhelia, and halos [virgulae]
Cap. XXVI. — Christian and philosophical account of earthquakes
Cap. XXVII. — Of winds
Cap. XXVIII. — Of lightning, whirlwind, thunder, storm, etc
Cap. XXX. — Of the authors of Judaism
Cap. XXXI. — Of the cause of Jewish heresies and seditions
Cap. XXXII. — The division of the twelve tribes into two kingdoms under Rehoboam
Cap. XXXIII. — The captivity. Ezra is sent to Babylon into Samaria, which is uninhabitable for idolaters
Cap. XXXIV. — The heresy of the Samaritans
Cap. XXXIX. — Of the Scribes
Cap. XXXV. — In what the four sects of the Samaritans agree, and in what they do not
Cap. XXXVI. — Of the Essenes in particular
Cap. XXXVII. — The division of the Jews into seven sects
Cap. XXXVIII. — Of the Sadducees
Chapter I. — Synopsis of Mosaic Genesis, from Adam to Moses
Epistola nuncupatoria
Index of books of which the Thesaurus orthodoxae fidei consists
Monitum, Cardinal Angelo Mai
Proemium
Nicetas, bishop of Smyrna
Nicetas, son of Constantine (Copronymus)
Nicetas, son of Gregorius, cousin of Heraclius (I)
And son-in-law
Father-in-law of Heraclius (II)
Gilded statue
His son is a patrician
Nicetiate, castle
Nicholas (St.) bishop of Myra in Lycia
a strenuous soldier, he routed and overturned Arius and Sabellius
an architect
He fed the starving people with a different supply, and repressed the fury of famine
He is compared to most of the saints of the Old Testament
He was an eye of the Church in solicitude, and a resounding trumpet
he was long-suffering
Like an angel without flesh, in the flesh at a moment he was present everywhere
reading the Lives of the saints, he culled all the best things
Nicholas (St.) bishop of Myra in Lycia, sublime on a pontifical throne, shines forth even to those placed far away
Nicholas Callicles
Nicholas Trivet
Nicholas, Canon of Liège
Nicias
Nicias the Monk, against Philoponus, Severus, and the Gentiles
Nicocles the martyr, patron of Myra along with Crescens and Dioscorides
Nicocles, Julian's teacher
Nicodemus
An explanation of those very words
He believed the testimony of miracles most certainly
However, he was afraid to confess Christ, 620; why
is argued to be carnal
is attached to Mosaic laws
is prompt toward the faith
one of the doctors and princes of the Jews
Nicodemus, not understanding the mystery, and ineptly crying out
Nicodemus, the nocturnal disciple
And he strives to bury him in the sepulcher with spices brought by himself
comes to bury Christ
He takes down the body of Christ from the cross with Joseph
Words of Mary, that she might exhort him to this task
Nicolaus Angelus
Nicolaus Muzalon patriarch. Cp
Nicolaus Scutellops
Nicolaus, manclavita
Nicomedia
Nicomedia, burning of presbyters
Nicomedia, fell by earthquake
Nicoplaus, physician
Nicæa
Night
night is calamities
Nilammon, holy monk
Nile, cause of increase
Nilus Doxapatrius
Nilus, fluv
Nimbus
Niphetos (snowfall)
Clouds, what they are
Non-uniform density of clouds
Now, what it is and how manifold
Number is twofold
Nutrition and augmentation, when they are together, when nutrition only, and when nutrition and diminution occur together in a vegetable body
Snow, what it is and how it is made
That which is numbered is likewise twofold
The signs are not of one and the same temperament
There are always six signs above the horizon
ulterior division and so on
what it is
Niquetius
Nisan, what it is
Nisma port
Nitria, monasteries of
Nitria, monks of
No labor is to be refused for eternal life
No one attains perfection
No one can emerge from wicked habit except by the power of God
No one is safe from growing old
No one is to be tonsured except in the presence of the superior
I, 333
No one ought to bring death upon himself
before God has sent the necessity of dying
No saint could redeem us
No Samaritan shall have a Christian slave
I, 298
No synod is to be preferred to the Nicene
II, 44
No woman is more wretched than a mother when she sees her son dead
Noah
preserved from the flood
Noah, a just man
Noah, begat three sons
Noah, built an altar
Noah, drunkenness of
Noah, found grace before the Lord
Noah, husbandman of the earth
Noah, name of
Noah, pleased God
Noah, restored what Adam had taken away
Noah, six hundred years old
Noah, the leaven of the world
Nobilitas et Ignobilitas
b 79
Nobilitas infelix venerationem meretur
Nobles
The flight of the nobles
Their houses are demolished, their goods plundered
things to be observed in their promotion
Nobody among the Scythians speaks Greek easily
Nobody among the Scythians speaks Greek easily
Nocturnal hymns, Arians and Homousians
Nomads
Hamaxobii, Nomads, and Gymnosophists
Nomen bonum, seu fama bona
b 49
Nomes, inventors of
Nomizein Theon
Non jurandum temere, vel omnino non jurandum, et de proclivibus ad juramenta
b 63
Non pœnitentes
a 19
Nonnosus, History of embassies
Nonnus Panopolitanus, borrowings and imitations
Nonnus Panopolitanus, contemporary poets
Nonnus Panopolitanus, critics
Nonnus Panopolitanus, education
Nonnus Panopolitanus, history of editions
Nonnus Panopolitanus, life and contemporaries
Nonnus Panopolitanus, manuscripts
Nonnus Panopolitanus, plan and character of epic
Nonnus Panopolitanus, translators
Nonnus's collection and interpretation of histories mentioned by St. Gregory Nazianzen
Nor is it permitted for them to have commerce with men
Normans
whence they are called Bigothi
Nosce teipsum
a 39
Nostradamus Caesar
Not introduced by St. Damasus
Not to appear empty before God
Not to appear empty before God, in what sense
Note
Note on the heglerbegat of the entire Ottoman Empire
which they possess today
NOTES OF DAVID HOESCHELIUS ON THE BIBLIOTHECA OF PHOTIUS
Notes of Tiro
Notes of various scholars
Nothing can proceed from the imperfect to the perfect
Nothing is more ungrateful against God
A certain interpunctuation of Cyril on Ps. LVIII
Impossible is put for possible
Iniquity for the punishment of iniquity
Israel to be saved after the Gentiles
It is not right to ask God for the slaughter of enemies
No one is immune from the passion of anger
Nothing is more ungrateful against God than idolatry
The image of the Savior is not God but the image of God
Unbelief is the mother of impurity
Nothing ought to be received for the sake of divine communion
Nothing should be done with a bad intent
even if it has the appearance of good
Nothing useful unless it is honorable
Notitia
Notitiae veteres Graecorum
Novatians
The heresy of the Novatians is confounded
Novatians, dissent of
Novatians, dogma on forgiveness of sins
Novatians, sects of
Novatus
Novatus and Novatian
Novatus, more on him
Novel of the Emperor Alexius Comnenus concerning betrothal
Novella constitutiones Manuelis
Novellae Constitutiones of the Emperors of Constantinople
Novellae in the corpus [juris civilis]
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Novellae of the Emperor Manuel
Nubes dicitur B. Virgo
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Numa, king of the Romans
Numa, king of the Romans, was the first to build a temple to Faith and Peace
Number seven, a perfect number
Numerarius
who was so called, his various duties
Numerianus
Numerus
this name designates a peculiar class of soldiers; their various duties
Numisma secundum
Numismata, or gold solidi
these were accustomed to be given as a prize for victory in the circus
Nuptial crown of the emperors of Constantinople
Nuptial garments, mystically
Nuptiæ honestæ
a 4
Nuradinus Berrhoæ satrapa
Nymphaeum
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