Subjects — V
458 subjects · from Migne’s own Ordo Rerum, in English
Vacuum
A vacuum does not exist in the world
How ancient philosophers felt about the vacuum
The double place of vapor
The vacuum of Democritus
What a vacuum is, and how many kinds there are
what it is according to the philosophers
What vapor is
Vadiana
Vadiana
Vadsarmanes
how much detriment he brought to Roman affairs
Vain glory, to be avoided from good works
Vainglory
The first three evils: gluttony, avarice, vainglory
Vaivoda
"Vaivoda" generally signifies a commander of soldiers
"Vaivoda" is a governor holding administration in place of a king in some province under the condition that he be inferior to the governor
Valachia
today Wallachia (Ifliakia)
Valaincourt (Mahieu de)
Valas, king of the Persians
Valediction of worldly things and exercise of monastic life
Valencia
The Kingdom of Valencia
Valens
An elegant and magnificent description of the solemnity in which he was overtaken by dizziness
Being prejudiced by the Arian Eudoxius, he harasses the legates of the Council of Lampsacus and drives them into exile
Emperor Valens, most covetous of gold and most hostile to Christ
favors Eudoxius and Acacius, and disturbs the churches
Gregory the Elder opposes him
having been adopted as consort in the empire by his brother and having been moved to the Arian party, grievously afflicted the Church
He betakes himself back to the Church and hears Basil speaking with the voice of God
He does not, however, receive him safe and sound, because, relying at the same time on the Arians, he mixes salt water with sweet
His similarity to Xerxes, king of the Persians
More bitter than the persecution of Julian the Apostate
prepares arms again against the Church and favors the Arians; and how
The aqueduct of Valens cutting through the middle of the city of Constantinople
The commemoration of them moves one to tears
The first contests of Valens against the Orthodox
This was the first restoration of affairs to a better state
Valens came to Caesarea again while Basil held the episcopate
Valens, upon his son falling sick, sends for Basil
What sort of persecution his was; with what mind he undertook an expedition against the Catholics
What thoughts he then revolved in his mind
Yet he is ashamed of his change, like iron which, though softened by fire, retains the nature of iron
Valens and Ursacius, confession of
Valens the emperor
Concerning the tyranny of the Emperor Valens, which he perpetrated in the city of Edessa in the martyrdom or temple of St. Thomas
He is dragged from Antioch to Constantinople in the war of the Goths against the Romans, and how
His impiety
How Valens aroused a very grave persecution against the pious at Antioch, casting some into the Orontes river to drown, and driving others into exile
Imprudence and foolishness against Theodore and other philosophers, as well as other celebrated men whose names began with the letters "Theo"
Terentius, ibid. A Trajan, conquered by the Goths, how bravely he suffered
The end of Valens the emperor
The impiety of Valens against the church of Egypt
The meeting of Valens and Britannion the bishop
The reason he was led to refrain from persecution
What evils and slaughter Valens and the Arians brought upon pious men in Egypt
what happened to him on account of Basil
Valens' religion
what it was
Valens, emperor
Baptized by Eudoxius the Arian in Constantinople
Burns his traitorous generals
Driven by his wife Dominica, an Arian, against the orthodox
Entrusts the churches to Eudoxius and other Arians
Kills the tyrant Procopius
Overturns the Synod of Lampsacus
proclaimed
Relaxes the persecution for a time, then stokes a new one
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Valens, harasses the Catholics
Valens, partner in the empire
Valens, persecution by
Valens, recalls Athanasius
Valentinian II, emperor
VALENTINIAN sect
at what time it arose
They fashioned for themselves a clearly poetic God
Valentinian the Junior, emperor
Valentinian the Younger, account of
Valentinian's daughters
and concerning their teacher
Valentinian, chosen
Valentinian, death of
Valentinian, flight of
Valentinian, observance toward religion
Valentinian, the father of Gratian
Valentinian, Theodorus, Marosa, Bassus, Basson, Paul
Valentinian, Valens, and Gratian, emperors
Valentiniani, he boasted that he followed the opinion of Matthias
Valentiniani, one was to Agatopodes, where he writes that it was for the continence of Christ
Valentinians
Accused of the anthropomorphite heresy
are to be shunned above all by Christians and deprived of all commerce
Assailed by Cyril
He recounts their hypothesis rather than that of Valentinus
Reprehended for the use of sacrifices
Their fables and various errors against the Holy Spirit
They are called Gnostics by a special title; yet they are distinguished from them by Cyril
They claimed for themselves—and indeed for themselves alone—the knowledge of divine generations
They distinguished two orders of souls
They left the faith to the Catholics as if to the unlearned
They made Him of the female sex
They maintained that only souls are immortal
They taught that the prophets were not inspired by God, but by a Demiurge
Valentinians or Euchites
Valentinians, error concerning faith
Valentinians, error concerning marriage
Valentinians, error concerning spiritual communion
Valentinians, errors concerning his soul
Valentinians, errors concerning the spiritual and animal man
Valentinians, Valentinus used to babble that they were immortal from the beginning
Valentinians, what the Achamoth or Enthymesis was among them
Valentinians, whether they were attacked elsewhere
Valentinians, why so called
Valentinians’ heresy
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Valentinus
adulterates the words of the Gospel
Aeons
Against Marcion and Valentinus
An account from the book of Valentinus concerning the aeon, the parent of all
By what places of Scripture Valentinus proved his ravings
He confirms the *ogdoad* he invented from the first chapter of the Gospel of John
His homeland is unknown
his monstrous doctrine regarding the aeons and gods
How many gods he invented
introducer of the hermaphrodite God
It is reported, however, that he was an Egyptian
Likewise concerning the remaining crowd of spiritual males and females
Other fables of his
Refutation of the errors of Valentinus from Irenaeus
Refuted by Irenaeus
The figment of the aeons is borrowed from the poets, hysterema
The names of those who are contained in the *ogdoad*
Their names
Valentinus’s dogmas from Irenaeus
What the *ogdoad* is among them
What they think concerning Christ everywhere, whether they constitute orders
Whom they call Achamoth the Savior, etc
With him, Bythus is the same as Chaos with Hesiod
Valentinus (Elianus)
taught that Christ passed through the Virgin as through a conduit
Valentinus concerning faith
Valentinus concerning martyrdom, and other errors of his
Valentinus concerning the sin of Adam
VALENTINUS Phrebonites
A leader certainly of Secundus, Epiphanes, etc., but not the absolute first inventor of those dogmas; rather, he was a successor of the Gnostics
At what time he arose, in what year he came to Rome, how long he prolonged the time
He held to the Catholic faith in Egypt and also at Rome in the beginning
How he fell into heresy
otherwise Phoebonites and Phibionites, a maritime Egyptian, educated in Greek letters at Alexandria. Whence also an imitation of Hesiod’s Theogony
The impious dogma of Valentinus and Simon Magus that good works are not necessary for salvation
Valentinus the heresiarch
a herald of thirty gods; the exposition of his heresy, and certain errors of Cyril within this exposition
Also a double baptism
He distinguished souls into those saved by nature and those perishing by nature
He is the depth of malice
He taught that Christ was passed through the Virgin as if through a conduit
Worse than the heathen
Valentinus, one of the emperor's bodyguards
Valentinus, one of the emperor's bodyguards
Valentinus’s *Enthymesis* or thought, and by what figments it is explained by him
A most vain opinion concerning the love of women
An inquiry into his tears and what kind of humor flows from them
Another opinion regarding the trifles of the same man
Fire will consume the world
He makes the devil the governor of the world together with the angels of wickedness
Horus, or the boundary, and Orothetes, the redeemer and reaper
How man is believed to have been created by him
How the animal, spiritual, and carnal man differs according to him
How they divide the prophecies of the prophets
How Valentinus’s thirty aeons indicate the number of thirty years of Christ’s life according to his mind
Into how many kinds of things he imagined it to be produced from a triple material
Of what parts and elements he consists
On which places of Scripture Valentinus builds his dreams
The fiction regarding the seven celestial spheres
The outrages of the Valentinians
The tears of the *Enthymesis* and other trifles of this kind
They claim the Savior was composed of four natures
Three kinds of men according to the Valentinians, the dogmas of Valentinus
What he thinks concerning those things that are outside the *pleroma*
Valentius heretic
Valerian
delayed the ambassadors and followed them
Emperor Valerian oppressed by the Persians
Valerius Maximus
Valid regarding heretics
Valley of Salt
Valpoum
Strigonium, river Granus
Valpoum, the fortress of Peter Perenyi, is captured
Vandals
Vandals defeated
Vandals defeated
Vandals embraced the worship of the Christians
Vandals embraced the worship of the Christians
Vandals overcome by the Romans
Vandals overcome by the Romans
Vanity
is numbered among all the pomps of the devil
Vaporalia and pyrilia
what they were; their use
Varanes II
whether he is the same king of the Persians who exacted punishment from Manes, and whose son perished through the deceit of Manes
Varangians
Vararanes the Persian
Vardanes the Parthian
Vardanus (St.)
martyr in the province of Arzanene
Varied description of the strong angel descending from heaven
Various diseases which are excited in man and against man, from the flesh and from the spirit
Various kinds of tortures of the martyrs
Various names of the Antichrist
Various narratives concerning Romulus and Remus
Various opinions concerning the incarnation
Various opinions of natural philosophers concerning the universe
Various species and harm of the spiritual locusts
Various studies of the Nitrian monks
Silence and care of the cell
Their hospitality
Various Tomes
Authors defend it
consecrated with unusual ceremonies
Hagioritic Tome
issued for and against Palamas
Palamite Tome
Synodic Tome against the Messalians and Bogomils
Tome against Barlaam
Varna
the nobility at the defeat of Ladislaus
Varna was once Dionysiopolis
Varro
Varronianus
comes
Varro’s opinion on the primary origin of temples
Varus (Q.)
praetor of Syria
quells a Jewish sedition
Vas dicitur B. Virgo
Vassal (δοῦλος)
Vaste
wife of Artaxerxes, repudiated for contumacy
Vates (Prophets)
who they are
Vaticinia (Prophecies)
False
Vatinius
Veccus
After the death of Emperor Michael, he secretly departs
Banished: his complaint
chartophylax: his eulogy: he also renounces concord: he easily refutes the emperor and other learned men, excels all by far in talent and eloquence
Eloquence in the synod
He is created patriarch: renders singular service to the emperor: whom he had as assistants
Vectigalia (taxes) and tributes
various kinds of
Vegetius
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Vehicle of God
that is, the Cherubim
Vehicles
To be carried alone in a chariot was taken as arrogance; therefore the ancient emperors were accustomed to take a friend with them
to use them in the city was formerly considered invidious
Vehiculum dicitur B. Virgo
Veientine War
Veil
the triple sense of this word
Veil of the temple
A sign of the house to be broken up
Not the slightest bit of it was left behind
rent
The face veiled over during the time of exorcisms
Wherefore
Veil, that a woman’s head must be covered, and with what kind
Velitrae
the fatherland of Augustus
Vellus dicitur B. Virgo
Venal exhortation
Venal exhortation
Venal souls
swapping their salvation for corruptible gain
Venantius, bishop
I, 644
Venceslaus (Gr. Σφεντοσθλάβος)
Prince of the Bulgarians, he had two wives; of whom one was the sister of the younger Andronicus, Theodora
Venereal pleasure, the saying of the poet Sophocles
Venerius, a priest of the Church of Milan
I, 593
Veneti faction at Byzantium and the Prasina faction
Contest of the different factions in the hippodrome
The Veneti were always preferred to the Prasini, by the favor of the emperors, to whom the Prasini were mostly hateful
what they were; of which citizens they were constituted; their duties
Venetia
formerly Aquileia, according to Zonaras
Venetian artisans are removed from the city of Galata
Venetian faction
Venetian fleet
Another fleet of the same, likewise hostile to the Genoese, arrives at Byzantium
Fourteen Venetian triremes blockade the mouth of the Euxine Pontus
Why the Venetians abandoned the siege of Galata
Venetians
adore the emperor
arrive unexpectedly against the Galatae (Genoese)
conduct business on the island of Chios
Consultations of the Venetians and Hungarians against the Turks
defeated by the Genoese
Discord between the Venetians and Genoese
elected the Kral to their senate
excluded from the Tanais
Heirs of Scantaris, Prince of the Albanians
How John VI was received by them
John V seeks aid from them in vain
many are captured and killed by Mohammed II
masters of the sea
offend Orkhan
The flight of the Venetians
The insolence of the Venetians toward John
The Venetians abandon the Isthmus
The Venetians are attacked by Omar
The Venetians are noted for perfidy
The Venetians attempted to enclose the Isthmus with a wall
The Venetians make peace with Sultan Bayezid after he is softened by gifts
The Venetians occupy Argos
The Venetians vigorously attack Mitylene
The war of the Venetians and Turks in 1408, Turca
their embassy to Emperor Kantakouzenos
their treaty with the emperors in Constantinople
They aid the besieged Constantinople with three triremes
they are defeated by Amurath
they are the authors of the same to undertake war against the Turks
They are urged to virtue by Constantine XI
They capture Aenum
They capture Imbros and Athens
They demand satisfaction from the emperor: they are not heard: they despise the Byzantines
They disagree with the Ligurians
They hold Crete, purchased and occupied by Boniface, Marquis of Montferrat, etc
They mock them proudly: laden with booty, they return home
They occupy Strobolium
They receive Euboea from the Genoese
They refuse to aid Constantinople publicly when besieged by the Turks
They take possession of Monembasia and Lemnos
Venetia
Venetian orators in Hungary and their speech
Venetianus perished by a military death
Venetianus perished by a military death
Vengeance
is not to be taken, and why
Vengeance is not to be exacted twice for the same matter
Vengeance of God
the sin of one sometimes brings down vengeance upon the whole people
The vengeance of God is clement
Vengeance twice
Vengeful powers
Vengeful powers among the dead
Ventidius (P.) Bassus
defeats the Parthians
Ventidius Bassus
receives money from the Parthians defeated by Antigonus
Ventridaemon
Ventriloquist
Ventriloquist, dissertation against Origen
Ventriloquists
The signs of ventriloquists, exalted by the praises of the heathens
The ventriloquist draws out Samuel, or seems to draw him
who they were called by Isaiah
Venus
Allegorically: Pleasure
Her dominion is wild and rabid
Her statues fashioned more impudently than any harlot
How Venus with Amor or Cupid was hateful to Antisthenes
Lust
The goads, how they are extinguished
The image of Venus placed on high
The meretricious mysteries of Venus
Under the image of Venus, men addicted to women worshipped their own vice
Venus made a goddess from a harlot
What Plato decided concerning venery
Venus is perverse
Venustas angelorum B. Virgo
Vercelli, a city of Gaul
Veredarii (couriers)
Verina, the wife of Leo
Verissimus subscribes to the Synod of Sardica
Verminas
son of Syphax, gifted with his father's kingdom
Verona
is recaptured by the Goths
Verona, of which Lucillus is bishop
Versaiubes
Versaiubes, son of Giokelpis
Verses of an oracle
Verses of Orpheus
Verses of Ovid
Verses of poets
Vescia captured
Vespasian
a military leader of Nero, fought the Jews bravely
Emperor Vespasian collects money
How long he reigned
On the evening of the Sabbath, which dawns, etc
Private and public acts of Vespasian
The Jewish War is entrusted to Vespasian
Triumph, avarice, and death of Vespasian
Vespasian besieges the city of Jerusalem
Vespasian proclaimed Emperor in Judaea
Vespasian saluted as Emperor
Vespasian sent against the Jews by Nero
Vespasian stained with mud
When and by whom Vespasian was made emperor
while aedile, treated unjustly by Caligula
Vesper
A figure similar to life from wheat
Bodily vices, through which priests were repelled from the ministry of sacred things
External ones are those rece
Figures empty of the good odor of life
God Himself is life according to nature
He who begins to cultivate it is vexed by temptation
How victory over the devil is figured
It is foolish to observe the flight of birds
It was offered for the universality
Pleasure, cupidty, and convenience pull one toward sin
Signification of the calling to the faith
signifies the coming of the Lord
Some pleasures are inborn in us, others adventitious
The Churches took care of those in bonds
The cult of the calf among the Egyptians
The devil entices men through pleasures
The flowering rod of Aaron signifies Christ
The immaculate calf is a figure of Christ
The labors of virtue are rendered sweet in Christ
The most holy Virgin was not subject to the law of purification
The perfect vanity of life is reserved for the next century
The pleasures of Eve function in us by gift
The rod is a sign of kingdom
Those raw in the way of virtue are ruled more gently by God, those more accustomed, more severely
Those seeking it should discard many attachments of the soul
Through the accompaniment of prudence and fortitude one arrives at its perfection
To cultivate even imperfect virtue does not happen without divine favor
Vices. One must rise completely from vices
Virtue cannot be acquired immediately by converted men
Virtue needs fortitude and greatness of soul
Visions before the advent of Christ were shadows of the advent of Christ
We cannot leave vices or progress in virtue without Christ
What a sacrifice for sin signified
What it means to live in Christ
What the hyacinthine ribbon with fringes, bound to the hand, signifies
What the mortification of vices is
Which sacrifices for sin it was lawful to eat
Why a blind sacrifice was rejected
Why the deflowering of a virgin is called humiliation by Holy Scripture
Wine is a sign of joy
Vespertine chant
Vessels
Sacred vessels of different temples
their use
various kinds among the Greeks
Very elegant small vessels fashioned by the inhabitants of Didymoteichon are carried to Constantinople
Vessels of Solomon's temple
dedicated to the Babylonian gods
Vessels of the Lord
Vessels of the Lord, what they signify
Vessels, how precious they were, and what they were among the pagans
Vessels, one should not glory in their multitude
Vessels, precious for uses which it is shameful to name
Vessels, there were innumerable gold and silver ones which were used in pagan baths
Vessels, various kinds
Vessels, whose use is illicit
Vestals
perpetually virgins
Vestes mutatoriæ (changing garments)
How they are changed by the emperors during feasts and processions
what they are
Vestes pelliceæ (fur garments)
what they were; their origin
Vestes sigillatæ or historiatae
what they are
Vestiarium
The private Vestiarium of an emperor who is traveling
was not only called the storehouse of garment-supplies, but was the treasury of all precious goods
Vestibula cancellata
what they are
Vestibule of the baptistery
names were perhaps given by those to be baptized
Vestibules
Those who are unworthy of the vestibules must not leap into the sanctuaries
Your footsteps shall not be known
Vestitor, vestiarius, and vestiarita
the various duties of each
Vestments
in the synaxes must be offered to the Church clean along with the bodies
Of what thing the putting off of vestments is a symbol
Vestments called ‘holobera’ (all-silk)
I, 121
Vestments pertaining to sacred things
Veszprém
Veszprém began to be besieged on the penultimate day of June and was taken the next day with memorable speed
Vethaimenses
Fire having been thrown into their fortress, they are snatched away to Strigonium
Vetranio, bishop
Veturia
mother of Coriolanus
Vexilla
what they were
Via dicitur B. Virgo
Viaticum
Not to return a favor to those from whom you have received a benefit is counted as a vice
To make the viaticum of wickedness a law
Viaticum of salvation is the reading of the sacred Scriptures
Viator subscribes to the Synod of Sardica
Vibius Sequester
Vicar of Pontus
Vicar of the Bridge
Vicar of Thrace
Vicars
Vice
a turbulent subversion and drunkenness of the mind and error
In the same vice are readiness for vice and laziness toward virtue
The devil is a great sophist
The stimulus of vice to the impious and flagitious, from the power of speech
The way leading to life is compared with that which leads to virtue
To vice is attributed the name of virtue, when they bless with their mouth and curse with their heart
Vice is at hand, and the course to evil is easy
What vice has of good
Vice easy, virtue difficult
Vice, how it is to be distinguished from sin
Vice, that alone brings destruction to those who progress toward cognition
Vice, that alone is evil
Vices
A crafty man easily suspects his own vices in others and proclaims them
Vices adorned with the names of virtues
Vices and most vicious men are marked in the register of the gods
Vices are called serpents because of the variety of pleasure
Just as in virtue, so also in malice progress takes its increase from smaller to greater [things]. We kindle the flame of hell
There are many beasts in us, namely vices, by which you strive that you may preside over the empire [of the soul]
Vices are compared to dust that hinders respiration
Vices are not the soul, but certain warts of the soul
Vices to be punished, virtue to be honored
Vicissitude of human affairs
Victim
A single victim was offered for all, which excels all in dignity and price
divinely burned
The unique victim for all is Christ, far surpassing every price and dignity
What is the most beautiful victim
Victims
burned by fire spontaneously risen
Divine fire consumes Gideon's victim
Unbloody victims
What intellectual victims are
Victims are sometimes called sins
VICTOR
a leader whose name is proclaimed among all
Calumnies do not diminish the love of Victor for Basil
He walks in the truth and in the ways of God, and has served always in the integrity of faith
His predecessors excelled the Church
How the vanquished is often a victor
It is corrected
One ought to be a victor of temptations
Requests the letters of Basil
Roman bishop
The epistle of Irenaeus to Victor, and the work On Easter, are one and the same writing, according to Dodwell
The excellence of the victor is often a consolation and honor to the vanquained
When victors are more miserable than the vanquished
Who are the true victors
Who is deservedly to be called a victor
Victor and Vicentius, priests
legates of Pope Sylvester at the Council of Nicaea, consent to the condemnation of Arius
Victor Capello
The speech of Victor Capello, a Venetian patrician, concerning waging war against the Turks
Victor Rechlinger
Victor subscribes to the Synod of Sardica
Victorinus
kills the assassin of Probus
minister of Justinian I, mentioned in a certain inscription
survives Commodus
Victorinus subscribes to the Synod of Sardica
Victorinus, Consular Orations
Victory
Authority of a prince is strengthened by victory
Denied communion of victory is a cause of war
It is shameful not to have been a participant in victory
Slip of victory
The incomparable victory of the Christians
To steal victory
Victory as a gift of God
Victory brought favors now some, now others
Victory exerts its power in few things due to the vice of men
Victory is more glorious from difficult things
Victory is not good in all things
Victory must be earned by labor
Victory sometimes consists in this, that we seem to succumb and yield
What is the victory of a virgin
What the victory of movements ought to be
What victories should be sought
Victory in judgments without loss
Victory joined with bitter slaughter
Victory of Neptunus Doria over Chairadine
flight, vauserai
Victory, most foul and most dissolute
Victory, most foul and most dissolute
Victurus
Vidin
The city of Vidin, situated on the Danube, defects from Musa and is again subjugated by the same
Vidin is elevated to a metropolis from a bishopric
Vidin is not correctly written as "Bydena"
Vidna Lazari
The craftiness of Vidna Lazari
Vienna
Vienna in Austria besieged by Suleiman
Vienna is besieged by Sultan Suleiman for twenty days
Vigil, first week of Lent
Vigil, the great
how it is accustomed to be celebrated, and what things are to be observed in it
On this day the patriarch was obliged to recite a homily
Vigilance
Satiety does not know how to be vigilant
Watch and pray, that you enter not into temptation
We must be vigilant
Vigilance (concerning)
Vigilance is the firmest shield against demons
Vigilius
the renowned Roman pontiff, was present at the Fifth Synod, which became famous for its ecumenical decrees
Vigilius, bishop of Rome
Being dragged by force from the temple where he had taken refuge because Justinian was indignant
He despises the session of the Fathers of the Fifth Synod, and while returning to Rome by way of Illyricum, he dies
he excludes Menas, its bishop, from holy things
He restores Menas
He takes care to have his own name restored to the primary place
Rome having been taken by the Goths, he comes to Constantinople
Vigils
Vigils in the Oriental churches
Viminacium
taken by the Romans
Viminacium, a city of the Mysians in Illyricum
Viminacium, a city of the Mysians in Illyricum
Viminacium, the city where Athanasius addresses Constantius
Vincent (St.), church of
destroyed at Constantinople by an earthquake
Vincentius
a presbyter, distinguished for his virtue, acting in the place of the Pope at the Council of Nicaea
Vincentius, bishop of Capua in Campania, approaches Constans with Athanasius
Vincentius, deputy for Silvester at Nicaea
Vindanius Anatolius, Collectanea on the Discipline of Agriculture
Vindicius
a slave, informant of the conspiracy
Vine
watered with wine withers, and why
Who was the first to teach how to plant a vine and produce wine from it
Vine, why introduced into this life
Vines
after the vintage, they sprouted with buds and fresh grapes in the times of Julian the Apostate
Vineyard
We are commanded to work in the Lord's vineyard
Who are the worker of the Lord's vineyard
Vinicius
put to death by Messalina for having refused adultery
Vintage
various rites to be observed in them
Violated religion of legates
Violated religion of legates
Violence
offered to Gregory, so that he might undertake the care of the Church
To be governed by force and compulsion is not according to our law
Violence and power
Violence is honest for taking the kingdom of heaven
Violent
Who are the violent who take the kingdom of heaven by force
Viper
How those who are compared to vipers are compared
The viper preserves the poison of wickedness
To use the flesh of vipers
Virga dicitur B. Virgo
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Virgin
A cruel virgin, Diana
A virgin pledged to Christ as a bride
A virgin who denies that she had vowed her virginity is rebuked for her profession before God and angels and men
A virgin who marries after her vow commits two evils: she abandons her spouse and flees to the corruptor
A virgin who marries after her vow is an adulteress
Adulteresses are subjected to the judgment of Basil
And he who marries a virgin does not admit her until she is declared [innocent] by him
At sixteen years of age, she can be admitted to the profession
Basil orders that a virgin of this kind who is living as a presbyter in a monastery be placed elsewhere
He tramples upon the Son of God and has defiled his spouse with adultery
He violates the gifts of God, as if someone were to inscribe the shape of swine upon royal gifts
How one who is consecrated to God ought to live
immolated by Magnentius
is multiplied
It is in vain for virgins to say they did not promise virginity
It is not easily admitted, because she is being offered to a relative, not prompted by her own will
joined to God, is compared to water raised upward against nature
One is called a virgin who offers herself voluntarily to the Lord
The adultery of a virgin brings insult upon the Lord upon whose altar she was offered
The corrupter of a virgin, if he is a servant, is considered stubborn in his master's bed
The dress of a virgin must be worthy, and her rubescence from modesty is beautiful, and the decorum of abstinence and the pallor of vigils
The honors of virginity
The loss of a virgin's reputation is the ruin of all
The order of virgins
The pledges of virginity
The purer she is seen to be, the more intensely is she attacked by the evil one
The sacred choir of virgins, the assembly of the Lord, the church of the saints
The yoke of divine union
Those who return to the world having once professed virginity in heresy should be baptized, and the marriage is not to be condemned by them
Violation of the profession is inexorably punished
Virgins who are called subintroductæ are prohibited
Virgins who violate their pacts are not admitted to communion until a year after, like digamists
Women who have married after their virginity, if they are blessed by their resolve, are their own
Virgin birth
a path prepared for faith by lesser miracles
Virgin Mary
Maria virgo pro virgine Eva intercedit; Maria quotidie beata dicitur
Mother of God
Virgin's enduring grace, excellence of
Virgin's Spica (the star)
Virgin, among the Lacedaemonians, when it began and stopped being sacrificed
Virgin, annually sacrificed to Juno among the Falerii
Virgin, birth of proved by barren
Virgin, who is so named
II, 74
Virginity
a great thing
A lustful and shameless eye does not preserve virginity
Although virginity is more honorable, marriage is not on that account base or ignominious
exempt from the dominion of death
From what it is injured
Let women cherish virginity, so that they may be mothers of Christ
Marriage is superior
more excellent than all praise
Not to be imposed upon all
Procreation, in the Incarnation of the Word, mixed with virginity
regarded as true in all pursuits
She who is chaste separates herself entirely from the world
The flower of virginity is the garment of the Church
the proper and perfect attribute of the divine and incorporeal nature
Virginity brings no profit if contrition and
Virginity (concerning)
Boasting intercepts the fruit of virginity: but it must be guarded against
One must strive lawfully for the virginity one has professed
The Jews envy the virginity of Christians
The vow of preserving virginity
Virginity excels other parts of continence
Virginity is easy for Christians who are willing
Without charity and humility, no one can attain virginity
Virginity is advised, not commanded
Virginity is the altar and temple of God
Virginity is to be placed far before marriage
Virginity of Mary
incorrupt and intact in birth
signified by the burning bush
Virginity was rarer in the Old Testament
Virginity, a plant from the heavens
Virginity, arduousness and excellence
Virginity, gift of God
Virginity, necessity of studying doctrine
Virginity, Paul's doctrine examined
Virginity, praise of
Virginity, state and vow of
Virginity, to be cultivated and praised
Virginity, whether it is more excellent than marriage
Virginity, whether the vow of it was asserted by Clement of Alexandria
Virginity, who among the Indians practiced
Virginius (L.)
Virgins
raped, not women
They prove that the birth of a virgin is not impossible
Virgins affected by martyrdom during the raid of Syrianus
Virgins and married women
Convents built for virgins by Basil the Great, and precepts committed to writing
In what way this can be done
Sacred virgins treated most inhumane by the Arethusii, under the Emperor Julian
should be one in the Lord, and a mutual ornament to one another
Slaughter is more tolerable than such a disgrace
The Alexandrian virgins, the insults they suffered from the Arians
The calamity of imprudent virgins; when others are led into the bridal chamber, they themselves will be barred from entering
The modesty of virgins insulted by the Arians
The varied duties of virgins and married women toward God
Virgins are venerable by their consecration to God
Virgins cast out of their houses in the year 350
Virgins of Christ, corruption of
Virgins of the New Testament according to the inner and outer man
Virgins precede all others after the twenty-four elders
Virgins should have their hands covered with their cloak
Virgins stripped and struck in the raid of Gregory
Virgins suspended in wooden frames by order of the Arians and whipped
Virgins thrown into prison after the entry of George into Alexandria, by the invading soldiers
Virgins, betrothed to Christ
Virgins, constitution of
Virgins, endowments of
Virgins, small number compared to other saints
Virgo dicitur Maria, quia immaculate concepta
Virgæ (halos)
which appear in the air around the sun, whence they arise
Virtue
A certain monk said that virtue is one in nature
A comparison between virtue and riches
A comparison of one practiced in virtue from youth with a victor in the Olympic games
A comparison of the former with angels, and the latter with beasts
A comparison of the former with lamps
A comparison of those endowed with virtue with angels, and the vicious with beasts
A comparison of virtue and fire
A description of a man endowed with virtue
A doctor ought to be adorned with all virtues
a great path for advancement may be made
All agree in the praise of Virtue
All virtues are lovable
alone, even when perfect, benefits nothing at all to one who does not cultivate virtue in all things
Although the work of virtue is laborious, it is a gift
An encomium of virtue
An enumeration and commendation of many virtues, from the examples of the saints
And why
Aristotle enumerates four general virtues
as he is removed from virtue, so he finds himself in danger
As there are degrees of virtues, so also there are certain degrees of vices
Between virtue and vice the choice must always be made
Cult of virtue makes one acceptable to God and the Angels
Each one of these is a certain path of salvation
Embracing virtue and fleeing vice is fitting
Excellent virtue is believed to be worthy of a kingdom
Few strive for Virtue
Four virtues under which all others are distributed
Four virtues, according to Gregory the Just; and on the considerations regarding them
He who cultivates them should strive to advance and study to proceed further, and insist on the footsteps of Christ
He who has ample means sufficient for sustenance ought to embrace the cultivation of Virtue
He who is stirred by paternal bowels cannot use patience
He who sins in some part of the duty of virtue is in no way fit for the good
How a lover of virtue can become a possessor of an honest life
How one may arrive at the highest summit of Virtue, which alone is a pure sacrifice to a pure God, which does not happen in this life
however much it may be held in contempt, is an impregnable thing, and exceedingly useful
If those exercising virtue do not obtain in this life what is fitting to receive, they shall in the other life
In the same vice are readiness for vice and laziness toward virtue
In the struggle of Virtue, excessive confidence and desperation are to be avoided
In the way of Virtue, do not stop
In what virtue is situated
Increases in virtue are to be desired until we arrive at the end for which we were created
is a mean between two vices
is a possession that cannot be taken away
is divided, yet not diminished
is indeed one in genus, but there are many diverse species
is the good odor of Christ
It alone is our possession
It contended with an envious spirit in Job, for what reasons
It flows to men from God
It is a certain evil of Virtue to cast away hope, or to have too much confidence, as if it were easy to be excellent
It is better to practice virtue than to know all things
It is calamitous for those endowed with virtue to fall under suspicion
It is fitting for one devoted to virtue to cut away superfluities
It is unstable if we seek what is honorable for the sake of another
Its effect
Labors are to be undertaken in the name of virtue
lacks or exceeds the fitting measure is not virtue
Little by little one must progress in Virtue
Love contains all virtues within itself
Many mortals hold virtue in high esteem
Many who are endowed with virtue live unknown
Martial virtue does not adorn a prince as much as kindness does
Men understand invisible things from visible things
Neither sex, nor the diversity of language or nation, is an obstacle to the pursuit of virtue
No gift more pleasing to God than Virtue
No human Virtue is pure from every stain
No single action makes a man virtuous, but he must cultivate the virtue for his whole life
Not progressing in virtue is considered as being in vice among Christians
Nothing is excellent except Virtue
Nothing to be preferred to Virtue
One must not fall away from virtue
One who possesses virtue does not do so for the sake of empty glory
ought to be observed by all the powers of the soul
Paul teaches that we must progress daily in virtue
precedes action, and depends upon the divine will
Quiet is the foster-sister of virtue
Reason from opposites
Some are more prone to certain virtues than others
Such was once the state of affairs, that people were valued no less for their excellence in virtue than for their dignity of rank
that a man endowed with virtue should not be confident
That eternal satiety does not soothe today's hunger, nor does yesterday's noble deed avail if you cease today
That honor and a crown accompany virtue
That one ought to strive for virtue among brothers
That those who possess the treasure of virtues ought to be more watchful than those who have nothing
That virtue and riches can exist together
The attainment of virtue is rare and arduous, however much there may be things that draw and invite us to it
The best way of virtue
The cultivation of virtue should be joined to the flight from vice, and why
The difference between those endowed with virtue and vicious men
The disparity between virtue and fortune
The distinction between virtue and vice
The division of virtues
The effect of virtue
The eternal way is the way of virtue
The everlasting delight of virtue
the excellence of virtue
The exercise of virtue is precious, it is the most pleasant spectacle for those who encounter it
The four cardinal virtues are lost in games and spectacles
The increase of virtue for upright and honest men comes from the power of speech
The increase of virtue is the mind
The judgment of the multitude is to be preferred, if it is against everyone, over what is right for those who do not deviate
The law of virtue for Christians is not to succumb even to the slightest vices
the only way to God, although divided into parts
The opinions of philosophers concerning virtue
The ornament and everlasting honor of virtue
The peak of virtues is glory
The perfection of virtues proceeds from God
The praise of virtue is twofold
The pursuit of virtue must be accomplished by necessity
The pursuit of virtue must not be intermitted
The reward of Virtue is to become a god; to overcome is not wisdom
The root of virtue is bitter, its fruit is sweet
The virtue of the righteous person lies hidden in troubles and is increased
The virtues of the saints ought to inform our life
The vote for victory must be given to virtue, not to vice
There are also six degrees of virtues, namely: physical, ethical, political, purgatorial, theoretical, and theurgical
There are three orders of virtues
There is no change in virtue alone
There is nothing more illustrious than virtue
Those endowed with virtue are most attracted by insults
Those who are outstanding in virtue are beyond the hazard of judgment
Those who cultivate virtue are like one another in a cloudy night
Three virtues perfect man: sanctity, justice, and prudence
Through virtue we are made neighbors of Christ
To attribute all things to God is the greatest virtue
To die securely wealthy in the riches of virtue
To find among them that one which surpasses the others is not very prompt or easy
To praise virtue openly while following pleasure in private differs nothing from theatrical actors
To rejoice in good things is no small virtue
To what he calls virtue
Virtue after money
Virtue and doctrine are allies
Virtue and vice are neighbors
Virtue and vice are to be known by every writer
Virtue bestows honor, not dignity
Virtue brings forth crowns, vice brings forth punishments
Virtue cannot remain hidden, and though obscured by envy, it shines forth again
Virtue is a gift not only of God, but also a concern of man; and not only of man's will, but of the great power of God
Virtue is a great thing
Virtue is a source of veneration for Christians and infidels
Virtue is a watchtower
Virtue is better than riches
Virtue is dead unless it is animated by faith
Virtue is full of troubles, as a rose surrounded by thorns
Virtue is held to be clear and eternal
Virtue is not expended
Virtue is suspected from past manners
Virtue is the greatest and most beautiful of all goods
Virtue is the only joy
Virtue is to be practiced for its own sake
Virtue is to be sought, so that after death a blessed life may be found
Virtue is true nobility
Virtue is unknown to all
Virtue is wrongly called the handmaid of money
Virtue makes one lovable
Virtue must be practiced from youth
Virtue must be practiced, glory must not be sought
Virtue of a stranger is treacherous
Virtue ought to be devoid of reward, so that it may be virtue, proposing for itself nothing but the good itself
Virtue places some on high
Virtues are common to men and women
Virtues are situated in a middle and royal path
Virtues of princes and private individuals distinguished
We are trained for virtue through exercise itself
We ought to praise those virtues most, by whose desire we are most led
We should shamefully eradicate that which is implanted in us by nature
What are non-rational virtues
What is the argument of virtue
what it is
What the arbiters of virtue and vice do
When the chorus of virtues is blind
When virtue is greater and more beautiful
Where is the virtue of the Gospel
Whoever honors Virtue is kindled to the study of Virtue
Whose saying it is
Why the foster-children of virtue should not be ostentatious
Why the Son of God is called by this name
Virtue alone is worthy of praise
Virtue can be acquired by no one unless it is true victory over all the perturbations of the soul
Virtue difficult to acquire, vice easy
Virtue implanted in all by nature
Virtue is more excellent than nature
Virtue is not difficult
Virtue is true and is so called
Virtue of old men
Virtue of the ancients
Old age consumes all things
Saying of an ancient king
Virtue to be honored, vices to be punished
Virtue venerable to all
Virtue, acquired by diligence and study
Virtue, always makes progress
Virtue, definition of
Virtue, esteem highly
Virtue, God calls him alone a man who cultivates
Virtue, in itself good
Virtue, is possible
Virtue, it is acquired by discipline and exercise
Virtue, it is not inborn in us
Virtue, necessity for those with capacity
Virtue, partly good, partly better
Virtue, pursuit of
Virtue, seated in the will not nature
Virtue, since it is light itself, shines with its own splendors
Virtue, the word ἁρετή
Virtue, to be cultivated from childhood
Virtue, why some attain to a greater, others to a smaller degree
Virtues
Virtues which ought to be brought into the open
Virtues which ought to be kept in the dark
What is necessary for one wishing to attain a numerous abundance of virtues
Virtues are not borne in the beauty of garments, but in the decorum of the soul
Virtues are not in us by nature
Virtues are vain without almsgiving
Virtues should be multiplied daily
Virtues, exercise of
Virtues, how they are common to men and women
Virtues, they are taught by the Mosaic Law
Virtues: a way of growing in virtues, easy and ready
Virtus dicitur B. Virgo
Viscera
raised to heaven
Visigoths
Having devastated Rome, they withdraw into Gaul
Monastic life, for the sake of feeding the Lord’s flock, by what men it was deserted
plant settlements in Roman territories
The admirable life of the Palestinian monks
They occupy Spain
what race they are and concerning their deeds
Vision
Divine visions offered to certain ones, portending the death of Julian the Apostate
of the great father Antony, when it came to pass truly
The protection of Constantinople by angels under the generalship of Galba
Theodosius's struggle about to be engaged again against Eugenius
Vision occurring to Sisinnius in a dream on account of Eutropius the reader
Vision and audition are reciprocal in spiritual things
Visions
In what visions and how far faith should be placed
Prayer against nocturnal visions
Seeing many things is sometimes referred to the illness of a tipsy brain
We must not attribute more to visions than to salutary teachings
Visitatio velox ægrotantium B. Virgo
Visitation (concerning)
Vita beatæ Apollinaris virginis
Vita et conversatio S. Joannis Calybitæ
Vita et conversatio S. Marciani presbyteri
Vita et conversatio S. Parthenii episcopi
Vita et conversatio sanctæ Euphrosynes Alexandrinæ
Vita et conversatio sanctæ Eusebiæ
Vita et martyrium S. Luciani
Vita et martyrium S. Polyeucti
Vita et res gestæ S. Ephrem Syri
Vita Euthymii hegumeni in eremo sanctæ civitatis
Vita omnium B. Virgo
Vita S. Agathæ virginis et martyris
Vita S. Ananiæ apostoli
Vita S. Anastasii Persæ
Vita S. Auxentii
Vita S. Babylæ martyris
Vita S. Clementis Ancyrani et sociorum
Vita S. Cornelii centurionis
Vita S. Ignatii Deiferi
Vita S. Jacobi monachi
Vita S. Joannis Chrysostomi
Vita S. Joannis Eleemosynarii
Vita S. Nicephori martyris
Vita S. Theodosii cœnobiarchæ vitatis
Vita S. Timothei apostoli
Vita S. Tryphonis
Vita S. Vincentii martyris
Vita S. Xenophontis et filiorum ejus Joannis et Arcadii
Vita sancti Symeonis Stylitæ
Vita sanctæ Julianæ
Vita SS. Cyri et Joannis
Vita SS. Leonis et Paregorii
Vita SS. martyrum Hermyli et Stratonici
Vital spirit
from where it is accepted
Vitalian
Power and slaughter of Vitalian
Vitalianus
He captures Hypatius after routing the army
He ensures the reception of the Synod of Chalcedon
He forces Anastasius by oath to restore the orthodox bishops and to permit other things to the general council
He is acclaimed emperor by the wishes of the people
He is designated Magister Militum, consul, and deputy for the present by Justin
He occupies most of the cities under Roman rule
He procures the expulsion and execution of Severus
inflicts a huge disaster upon Anastasius
Vitalianus, archdeacon
legate of Hormisdas to the synod at Heraclea
Vitalianus, tribune
most strenuous against the Persians
Vitalis
a man conspicuous for holiness, is infected with the contagious disease of Apollinaris
Vitalis the bishop
Vitalis the presbyter
Vitalis, bishop of Antioch
Vitalius
Vitalius subscribes to the Synod of Sardica
Vitallianus, an interpreter
Vitallianus, an interpreter
Vitallianus, an interpreter, cast into chains
Vitallianus, an interpreter, cast into chains
Vitas sanctorum
Vitellian banquets
cost 2150 hundred thousand drachmas
Vitellius
Death
Empire of Vitellius
Liberality of Vitellius toward the Jews
Vitellius (L.)
the prudent elusion of a tyrannical lie
Vitellius, emperor
Vitianus
a general of Theodosius, destroyed the remains of the Saracens
Vitis dicitur B. Virgo
Vituperation and calumny
Vituperium
a 52
Vitus
a presbyter, endowed with virtue, acting in the place of the Pope at the Council of Nicaea
a renowned monk
Vitus, deputy for the Roman pontiff at the Synod of Nicaea
Vivianus, city prefect
Vivianus, city prefect
Vivifying
To whom the power of vivifying belongs
Vlachs, originating from the Romans
Vladislaus, dynast of the Tauroscythae
Vladislaus, King of Bohemia, goes to Jerusalem with Conrad
Vladislaus, King of Hungary
Vocation (concerning) by God
Places of Holy Scripture
Vocation of the Gentiles
143
Vocation, let everyone sincerely obey his own
Vocula vel interpretatio (The particle ‘or’ or interpretation)
I, 244
Voice
how the voice and the cup are to be understood in the following verse
is to be measured by use
The sound of a voice is to be preferred when moderate
The voice of the Word is the voice of virtue
Whence and how the voice is formed
Who the voice of the bridegroom through the prophets is
Voice from heaven
announcing the death of Leo the Armenian
Voivode of Moldavia
The Moldavian Voivode fights strenuously against Mehmed
The Moldavian Voivode flees and hides himself
The Voivode of Moldavia inflicts a huge defeat upon the Turks
Voivode of Wallachia
The Wallachian Voivode attempts to attack Mehmed's camp at night
The Wallachian Voivode flees into Hungary and, having been captured, is imprisoned by the King of Hungary
The Wallachian Voivodes, when they withdrew themselves from the obedience of the Hungarian kings, preferred to be called despots rather than vaivoda
Vologesus the Parthian
attacks Iza
Volumen dicitur B. Virgo
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Voluntary
What is voluntary and non-voluntary in Christ
Voluntary and involuntary
Voluntary, what it is
Voluptuary
Against voluptuous thoughts, the mean [is the remedy]
Vosibius, and his various books
Vossius
His opinion concerning the Jerusalem Symbol is refuted
wrongly holds Cyril’s 17th Catechesis to be suspect
Vota (vowed) games
what they are, and what is to be observed in them
Whence the license to attack with insults in these games draws its origin
Votes, that prayer is made during the voting
Votes, that they are taken for others if elected are unwilling
Voting, order of
Votum or feast of the vows
what it is, and when it was celebrated
Vow
A common saying
That which is not common has the power of attraction
The common people mock those who study letters
The profane common people ought to be outside the sacred enclosures
The vain vows of fools
The vow of the common people, That I may not need the help of an enemy
The vow of the common people: May I not be reduced to needing alms given by an enemy
Vow of chastity, rites in the Law
Vow of Chosroes, King of the Persians
dedicated to the holy martyr Sergius
Vow of continence and chastity, whether it was approved by Clement of Alexandria
Vows are to be rendered to the Lord
Vows of religious persons are not to be novel
Vows must be fulfilled
Vows of abstinence from swine's flesh are ridiculous, abstention is not necessary
vracheologōs (concisely)
vrachymeria (shortness of day/time)
vrynai (to spring forth)
Vulcan
Allegorically, fire, and the arts using the aid of fire
foolishly worshipped by the Gentiles as the creator of fire
shamefully exiled from his kingdom by his son
Vulcan cast down from heaven
Vulcan is an igneous substance
Vulcan is cast down from heaven
Vulcan restored among the gods through Theseus
Vulcan, those who worship are impious
Vulnus dæmonum B. Virgo
Vultures
Vultures pass over meadows and gardens, but fly toward corpses
Vultures in their first procreation fed in the meadows
Vultures are said to give birth without the mating of the seas
Vvitalianus
Through envy of the slaughters under Anastasius, he is killed by treachery at Constantinople
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