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General Index to Socrates' Ecceliastical History · Part 2

Eutychius, unknown person excommunicated, 70.

Eutychius, Semi-Arian bishop of Eleutheropolis, 95.

Eutychius, leader among the Eunomians, founds the faction of the 'Eunomiœutychians,' 135.

Euxine Sea, 24.

Euzoïus, Arian bishop of Antioch, as deacon associates with Arius and is exiled, 28; returns from exile, 28; recants, 29; received by the Synod of Tyre, 32; promoted to the see of Antioch, 73; baptizes Constantine, 75; holds the churches at Antioch, 84; attempts to depose Peter and install Lucius, 105; his death, 116; succeeded by Dorotheus, 119.

Evagrius, bishop of Mitylene, deposed, 70; elected bishop of Constantinople by the orthodox, but banished by the emperor, 103.

Evagrius, a Christian writer, disciple of two Egyptian monks, both named Macarius, 107; deacon in the church of Constantinople, 107; titles of his books, 81, 107; quotations from, 107, 108, 161; avoids bishopric, his excuse, 109.

Evagrius, bishop of Antioch, succeeds Paulinus, 125, 138, 139.

Evagrius, Semi-Arian bishop of Sicily, 95.

Excommunication, 74, 130, 158.

Exemption of clerics from civil office, 52, 71.

Exorcism, 109.

'Expansion,' Marcellus' theory of, 57.

'Exucontians,' a sect, 74.

Famine, in Phrygia, 104; among the Persian prisoners, 164.

Fasting, in distress, 34; prescribed by Eustathius, 72; forbidden on Sundays, 72, 131; imposed as penance, 128; various customs relative to, 131; required before baptism, 161.

Fatalism, taught by Manes, 26.

Felix, Arian bishop of Rome, appointed, 65; expelled, 65.

Festivals, Christian, origin of, 130.

Fidelis, a person of the name, excommunicated, 70.

Fire, causes destruction at Constantinople, 17; from heaven consumes the iron tools of the Jews, 89; Persians worship, 157.

Firmus, bishop of Cæsarea, 178.

Flaccilla, first wife of Theodosius the Great, 114; bears him a son, 124.

Flavian, bishop of Antioch, a candidate for the episcopacy, 119; made bishop, 122; other bishops combine against him, 123; uses all means to counteract their influence, 125; his death, 157.

'Fortune,' goddess of, 85.

Franks, a northern race, invade the Roman territories, 40; subdued by the consul Constans, 41.

Fravitus, a Goth, honored with the office of consul, 142.

Fritigernes, chief of a division of the Goths, 115.

Frumentius, missionary bishop in 'India' (Ethiopia), 23; appointed bishop, 23.

Funeral rites, of Constantine the Great, 35; of Paul, bishop of Constantinople, 122; of Theodosius the Great, 137; of the 'Tall Monk' Dioscorus, 150; of Maximian, bishop of Constantinople, 175; of John Chrysostom, 177; of Paul the Novatian, 177.

Gaïnas, a Goth, commander-in-chief of the Roman army, 140; rebels against the Romans, 141; approaches Constantinople with an army, 141; is proclaimed a public enemy, 142; defeated, flees to Thrace, and is slain, 142.

Gaïnea, a book written by Eusebius Scholasticus, 142.

Gaïus, Arian bishop, refuses to anathematize Arius, 62; deposed by the Synod of Ariminum, 63.

Galates, son of Valens, 111.

Galatians, Epistle of the, 130.

Galerius, surname of Maximus, 1.

'Galilæans,' Christians called by Julian, 85.

Galla, wife of Theodosius the Great, and daughter of Valentinian I., 114.

Gallus, Cæsar, nephew of Constantine the Great, invested with the sovereignty of Syria, 55; destroys Dio-Cæsarea, 59; attempts innovations, and is slain therefor by order of Constantius, 59, 77.

Gangra, Synod of, 72.

'Generation, the Eternal,' 33.

George, a learned Arian presbyter, 156.

George, Arian bishop of Laodicea, 27; gives an account of Eusebius of Emisa, 39; leads the purely Arian faction at the Council of Seleucia, 68; author of the 'Exucontian sophism,' 74.

George, Arian bishop of Alexandria, installed, 41; raises tumult at the arrival of Athanasius at Alexandria, 42, 54; commits horrible atrocities, 54-56; one of the Semi-Arian leaders at the Council of Seleucia, 68; persecutes his opponents, 74; burnt by pagans, 79; his death resented by the Emperor Julian, 79, 80.

Germinius, Arian bishop, 57; vacillates, 61; refuses to anathematize Arius, 62; deposed by the Synod of Ariminum, 63.

Gladiatorial games, caused to cease by Constantine, 22.

Gnostic, the, a book written by Evagrius, 107.

Gold, used for churches, 17; for sacred vessels, 164.

Gomarius, a rebel general put to death by order of Valens, 97.

Gospels, book of the, 159.

Goths, invade the Roman territories, and being defeated embrace Christianity, 22; many accept Christianity under Valens, 115; renew their attack against Constantinople and are repulsed.

Grammarians, 74, 76, 87, 126, 135.

Grata, daughter of Valentinian I., 114.

Gratian, proclaimed Augustus, 100; recalls the orthodox bishops, 118; excludes Eunomians, Photinians, and Manichæans from the churches, 119; takes Theodosius as a colleague, 119; obtains a victory over barbarians, 120; slain by Maximus, 124.

Greek literature, studied, 39, 156; defense of, 86, 87.

Gregory, Arian bishop of Alexandria, designated as such, 39; his installation resisted and resented by the people, 40; ejected from the see of Alexandria, and succeeded by George, 41, 112.

Gregory, bishop of Neo-Cæsarea, called Thaumaturgus, 111, 112.

Gregory, the Just, recognizes three virtues, 108.

Gregory, bishop of Nazianzus, his sketch of the Emperor Julian, 92; associated with Basil, 100, 110; ordains Evagrius, 107; pupil of Himerius and Prohæresius, 110; also of Libanius, 111; studies Origen, 111; made bishop of Nazianzus, 111; transferred to Constantinople, 120; abdicates, 12O; transference of, 173.

Gregory, bishop of Nyssa, brother of Basil, 111, 112; becomes patriarch of the diocese of Pontus, 122; pronounces a funeral oration on Melitius of Antioch, 122.

Hades, descent of Christ into, 61.

Hail of prodigious size falls and is considered ominous, 100.

Harpocration, bishop of Cynopolis, 19.

Heathen temples in Alexandria demolished, 126.

Hebrew, study of, 156.

Hebrews, Epistle to the, ascribed to St. Paul, 109, 130.

Helena, mother to Constantine the Great, erects a magnificent church on the site of the Holy Sepulchre, 21, 22; also at Bethlehem and on the Mount of Ascension, 21; her death, 21.

Helenopolis, previously Drepanum, 21, 35.

Heliodorus, bishop of Tricca in Thessaly, reputed author of the Ethiopica, 132.

Helion, a Roman of distinction, negotiates with the Persians, 163; conveys the crown to Valentinian, 166.

Heliopolis, corrupt practices at, 22.

Helladius, bishop of Pontus, 121, 122.

Helladius, a pagan grammarian, having slain nine Christians, flies from Alexandria to Constantinople and becomes the teacher of the author, 126.

Hellespont, the stronghold of Macedonianism, 74, 97.

Heraclides, bishop of Ephesus, a Cypriot by birth, ordained by Chrysostom, 146; his case investigated by a council, 149, 150.

Heraclius, bishop of Jerusalem, 74.

Heraclius, a priest of Hercules at Tyre, ordained a deacon, 72.

Herculius, the surname of Maximian, 1.

Heresy, why allowed to arise, 26.

Heretics, hostility towards, 169.

Hermes, a bishop exiled under Constantius, 55.

Hermogenes, a general under Constantius, slain, 41.

Hermogenes, a Novatian bishop, 158.

Hierax, presbyter, exiled under Constantius, 55.

Hierax, a teacher of letters at Alexandria, 159.

Hieroglyphics, found in the Serapeum, 126.

Hierophilus, bishop of Trapezopolis, 173.

Hilary, bishop of Jerusalem, 74.

Hilary, bishop of Poictiers, confutes Arianism, 84.

Himerius, a sophist of Athens, 110.

Hippodrome, place in Constantinople, 21; sports of the, 117, 136, 165, 166.

Holy Spirit, divinity of, 74, 81.

Homoion, first used at the Council of Ariminum, 61; again by Acacius, 69, 70, 74.

Homoiousion, first used by Acacius, 69; again as a counterfeit of homoousion, by Macedonius, 73.

Homoousion, first used in the Nicene Council, 10, 94, 101; discussion of the meaning of, 10, 11, 12, 27; accepted, 94, 101-103; rejected by Arians, 68, 84, 119.

Honoratus, first prefect of Constantinople, 71.

Honorius, emperor, son of Theodosius the Great, 124; his birth, 124; assumes the government of the Western Empire, 137; his death, 165.

Hosius, bishop of Cordova in Spain, takes letter from Constantine to Arius and Athanasius, 6; present at the Nicene Council, 19; refuses to put out Athanasius from the Council of Sardica, 47; attends the Council of Sirmium, 56; compelled to assent to its decisions, 58, 59; originated the controversy concerning theological terms, 81.

Huns, the, vanquish the Goths, 115; ravage Armenia, 138; invade and devastate the territories of the Burgundians, 170.

Hymns, processional, sung nightly by the orthodox, origin of, 144.

Hypatia, a female philosopher of Alexandria, murdered by the monks, 150.

Hypatian, bishop of Heraclea, 56.

Hypostasis, used with the meaning of 'essence' or 'subsistence,' 3, 10, 44, 45, 56, 81; with the meaning of 'personality,' 27, 40; various meanings in various authors, 81; rejected by the Acacians, 71; used in the Nicene Council, 10, 102.

Hypselopolis, 32.

Iberians, converted to Christianity, 24.

Ignatius, called 'Theophorus,' third bishop of Antioch, introduces nocturnal hymn-singing into the church, 144.

Image of the Father, Christ the, 40

'Immortals, the,' Persian troops called so, 163.

Impostor, miraculous detection of a Jewish, 161; a Jewish, causes great sacrifice of life under the name of Moses, 175.

Incomprehensibility of God, denied by Anomœans, 98.

'Indians' (Ethiopians) converted to Christianity, 23.

'Indifferent Canon,' the, of the Novatians, 129.

Inferiority of the Son, asserted by the Arians, 58.

Inmestar, sports of the Jews at, 161.

Innocent, bishop of Rome, 157, 158.

Innovation, in doctrine, to be avoided, 81.

Interment, magnificent, of Constantine the Great, 35; of Theodosius the Great, 137; of Atticus, bishop of Constantinople, 167.

Irenæus, grammarian, 81.

Irenæus, bishop of Lyons, 81, 130.

Irene, virgin daughter of Spyridon of Cyprus, 18.

Irene, church so called, 21, 34, 38, 43.

Irenion, Semi-Arian bishop of Gaza, 95.

Isacocis, Semi-Arian bishop of Armenia Major, 95.

Ischyras, pretended presbyter, maligns Athanasius, 30; exposed, 31; made a bishop, 47.

Isdigerdes, king of Persia, converted to Christianity, 157; his death, 157, 161.

Isidore, an Egyptian monk, professes perfection, 107.

Isidore, a presbyter of Alexandria, opposes the ordination of John, 138.

Ision, a Melitian used as a tool against Athanasius, 29.

Jerusalem, visited by Helena, 21; church erected in, 21, 30, 32; synod held in, 32, 52, 54; visited by Eudocia, 178.

Jews, of Dio-Cæsarea, revolt, 59; attempt to rebuild the temple of Solomon, 89, 90; irregular observance of Passover by, 15, 130, 131, 133; not converted by the healing of a paralytic, 155; expelled from Alexandria, 159; outrageous conduct of, at Jerusalem, 161; many converted in Crete in consequence of the doings of the Pseudo-Moses, 175.

Johannites, the, adherists of John Chrysostom, so called, 151; conciliated by Atticus, 166.

John, called also Achab, Melitian, 31.

John, bishop of Jerusalem, succeeds to the see, 126.

John, bishop of Gordium, 173.

John, bishop of Constantinople, called Chrysostom, ordained bishop, 138; his birth and previous education, 138, 139; his works, 139; ordained presbyter by Paulinus, 139; draws on himself the displeasure of many, 140; his treatment of Eutropius, 140; becomes increasingly celebrated, 144; institutes processional singing, 144; ordains Heraclides bishop of Ephesus, 146; warns Epiphanius, 148; expelled by the Synod 'at the Oak,' 148, 149; banished, 149; returns on account of sedition among the people, 149; preaches against Eudoxia, the empress, 150; exiled a second time, 150; dies in exile at Comana, 151; his name registered in the diptychs, 166; his remains removed to Constantinople, 177.

John, secretary of Theodosius II., usurps the sovereign power, 165; put to death, 166.

John, bishop of Antioch, deposes Cyril, but is reconciled to him, 172.

John, the Apostle, First Catholic Epistle of, 171.

Josephus, author of Jewish Antiquities, 131.

Jovian, Emperor, prefers, while still an officer in the army, to resign his office rather than renounce Christianity, 85; proclaimed emperor, 90; closes the Persian war, 91; publicly accepts the 'homoousian' creed, and shuts up the pagan temples, 94; proclaims general tolerance, 95; is declared consul at Antioch, but dies suddenly, 95.

Judaizing not consistent with Christianity, 133.

Judgments of God mysterious, 26.

Julian, Emperor, made Cæsar, 59; rebuilds a Novatian church, 66; proclaimed emperor, 75; his early education, 76, 77; is married to the emperor's sister, 77; a civic crown falls upon his head, 77; takes the barbarian king prisoner, acts independently of Constantius, throws off Christianity, and excites a civil war against Constantius, 77; makes a public entry into Constantinople, 77; recalls the exiled bishops, 78; commands the pagan temples to be opened, enforces economy in the household, reforms modes of travelling, patronizes literature and philosophy, and writes against the Christians, 78; resents the murder of George of Alexandria, and writes to the citizens of Alexandria on the subject, 79; recalls bishops Lucifer and Eusebius from exile, 80; becomes hostile to Christians, favors pagan superstitions, and is rebuked by Maris, the blind bishop of Chalcedon, 85; excludes Christians from the study of Greek literature to disable them for argument, and interdicts their holding official positions, 85; endeavors to bribe their compliance, goes to war with the Persians, and extorts money from the Christians, 85; seeks to apprehend Athanasius, and mocks the Christians, 86; accelerates his movements against the Persians, 88; oppresses the trade of Antioch, opens the pagan temples of that city, and endeavors to obtain an oracle from Apollo of Daphne, but fails, 88; commands the prefect to persecute Christians, and cruelly tortures Theodore, 89; receives and abruptly dismisses the Persian envoys, orders the Jews to rebuild the temple of Solomon at the expense of the public treasury, 89; thwarted in this by earthquakes, fire, etc., 90; invades Persia, believes he is second Alexander, and refuses to wear armor, and is mortally wounded, 90; the pagans lament his death, 90; Libanius composes funeral oration, 91; estimate of his character, 92; his obsequies, 95, 96.

Julius, bishop of Rome, declines to appear at the Synod of Antioch, 38; affords Athanasius a refuge, 42; vindicates the privileges of the see of Rome, 42, 43; defends Athanasius, 43; censured by some, 47; writes to Alexandria, 50; his death, 59.

Justa, daughter of Valentinian, 114.

Justina, wife of Valentinian I., 114; persecutes and banishes Ambrose of Milan, 124.

Justus, father of Justina, his remarkable dream for which he is assassinated, 114.

Juvenal, bishop of Jerusalem, 172.

Kingdom of Christ, everlasting, 44, 45, 56.

Knowledge, complete, of God, Arius denies the Son to have, 4; Eunomius asserts men to have, 98.

Laity, right of, in episcopal elections, 38, 129, 138.

Lamps, prayers at lighting of, 132.

Lampsacus, Council of, 97.

Lauricius, a military commander under Constantius, 68; at the Council of Seleucia, 70; exiles Anianus, 71.

Law, study of, 112, 138, 139.

Layman, a, made arbitrator, 174.

Lent, 54; varieties of usage as to, 131.

Leonas, an official under Constantius, 68, 69; summarily dissolves the Council of Seleucia, 70; exiles Anianus, 71.

Leontius, bishop of Antioch, 54, 60; his death, 61.

Leontius, bishop of Tripolis in Lydia, deposed, 70.

Leontius, bishop of Comana, 94.

Leontius, Novatian bishop at Rome, 125.

Leontius, bishop of Ancyra, 150, 152.

Leontius, a sophist, father of the Empress Eudocia, 164.

Libanius, the Syrian rhetorician, surreptitiously instructs Julian, 76; address orations to the emperor and to the Antiochenes, 88; composes a funeral oration on Julian, 91; refutation of it, 91-94; instructs Basil and Gregory, 111; instructs John Chrysostom and others, 138, 139.

Liberius, bishop of Rome, elevated to the see, 59, 96; exiled and reinstated, 65; receives a deputation of bishops and dismisses them, 100-103, 119.

Licinius, a Dacian, is appointed successor to Maximian Galerius, 1; persecutes the Christians, 2; deceives Constantine by his craft, but is defeated by him, 2; compelled to live at Thessalonica, rebels, 3; his death, 3, 16.

Linen vestments, 29.

Loaves of benediction, 158.

Logos, eternal and uncreated, 4; personal, 45.

Lucian of Arca, Semi-Arian bishop, 95, 109.

Lucifer, bishop of Carala, appointed to the see of Antioch, 80; constitutes Paulinus their bishop and departs to Antioch, 80, 83; his adherents become a sect, he leaves them and returns to Sardinia, 84.

Lucius, bishop of Adrianople, expelled and restored, 42, 51; dies in prison, 54.

Lucius, Arian bishop at Alexandria, 80, 96; installed in the episcopal chair of Alexandria, 105; attacks the Egyptian monasteries, 109; attempts to ordain the Saracen Moses, 116; expelled, 117; retains authority although absent, 119.

Lyons, city in Gaul, 59.

Macarius, bishop of Jerusalem, written to by Constantine, 16; present at the Nicene Council, 19; aids Helena in recovering the cross, 21; dies, 38.

Macarius, a presbyter, conducted in chains to the Council of Tyre, 30.

Macarius, monk, 'the Egyptian,' 107; gives lesson in contentment, 108; exiled, 109.

Macarius, monk, 'the Alexandrian,' 107; exiled, 109.

Macarius, Novatian, 129.

Macedonians, the, sect of, 9, 14, 73, 81, 96, 161; correspond with Liberius of Rome, 100-103; accept the Nicene Creed, 101; relapse and reject it again, 119, 121.

Macedonius, bishop of Constantinople, a deacon, 38; elected bishop, 41; installed as bishop, 43; massacre on this occasion, 43; holds meetings separately, 51; persecutes those who differ from him, 54; excites tumults and desolates the churches, 65, 66; becomes odious, 67, 68; deposed by Acacius, 72; conspires to excite commotions, 73.

Macedonius, bishop of Mopsuestia, 31, 44.

Macedonius, a Christian who endured cruel martyrdom, 86.

'Macrostich,' creed so called, 44-46.

Magi, attempt to deceive Isdigerdes, 157.

Magic, 30, 39, 72, 76, 78, 105.

Magnentius, slays Constans, 53, 56; becomes master of Rome, 59, 77; is defeated and commits suicide, 59.

Magnus, a quæstor, 59.

Magnus, an unknown individual, excommunicated, 70.

Magnus, Arian bishop of Chalcedon, 95.

Magnus, treasurer, 105.

Mamre, pagan altar at, a church built instead of, 22.

Mancipes, their office, 127.

Manes (Manichæus), born a slave, enfranchised and educated, 25; put to cruel death, 26.

Manichæans, 55, 119, 144, 171.

Mantinium, inhabitants of, defeat the troops of Macedonius, 67.

Marathonius, bishop of Nicomedia, 66, 74.

Marcellus, bishop of Ancyra, deposed, 33, 44, 45; is restored, 34; expelled and restored, 42; reinstated by the Council of Sardica, 47; refuted by Eusebius Pamphilus, 48; restored to his see by Constantius, 51; again ejected, 54; succeeded by Basil, 72.

Marcian, a Novatian presbyter, 99.

Marcian, Semi-Arian bishop of Lampsacus, 121.

Marcian, Novatian bishop of Constantinople, 129; his death, 138.

Marcian, Novatian bishop in Scythia, succeeds Paul at Constantinople, 178.

Marcus Aurelius, emperor, 92.

Mardonius, a eunuch, 76.

Mareotes, a district of Alexandria, so called, 29, 31, 43.

Marinus, Arian bishop of Constantinople, succeeds Demophilus, 124; his views, 134.

Maris, Arian bishop of Chalcedon, defends Arianism, 9; refuses to assent to the Nicene Creed, 10; conspires against Athanasius, 29, 33, 41, 44; joins the Acacians, 71; reproves Julian, 85.

Mark, a Syrian bishop under Constantius, 44; exiled, 55.

Mark, another bishop exiled under Constantius, 55.

Mark, bishop of Arethusa, 56.

Marriage, not allowed after ordination, 18; condemnation of, heretical, 72.

Martyrdom, eagerness for, 105.

Martyrius, one of the authors of the 'Lengthy Creed,' 44.

Maruthas, bishop of Mesopotamia, treads on Cyrinus' foot, 148, 151; sent on a mission to the king of Persia, 156; cures the king by his prayers, 157.

Mary, the Blessed Virgin, 56, 170.

Massacre at the installation of Macedonius, 43.

Matthew, the Apostle, preaches to the Ethiopians, 23.

Mavia, queen of Saracens, heads a revolt against the Romans and offers to lay down arms on certain conditions, 116; the Roman generals consent, 116; gives her daughter in marriage to Victor, the commander-in-chief of the Roman army, 116; enables the inhabitants, of Constantinople to repulse the Goths, 118.

Maxentius, made emperor by the Prætorians, his atrocious acts, 1; drowned, 2.

Maximian, surnamed Herculius, lays aside the imperial dignity, 1; attempts to regain it, 1; dies at Tarsus, 1.

Maximian, bishop of Constantinople, succeeds Nestorius, 173; his death and funeral obsequies, 175.

Maximin, Cæsar (Maximian Galerius) appointed by Maximian, 1.

Maximin, a governor of Rome, 113.

Maximin, assessor in the Roman armies, accompanies Helion to Persia, is imprisoned, released, and concludes a treaty of peace, 163.

Maximus, bishop of Jerusalem, 38, 52; ejected, 65.

Maximus, of Ephesus, a philosopher, put to death as practicer of magic, 76; deludes Julian, 90; taught Sisinnius, 129.

Maximus, of Byzantium, distinguished from preceding, 76.

Maximus, bishop of Seleucia, 139.

Maximus, usurper, 25; causes Gratian to be assassinated, 124; is admitted by Valentinian II. as his colleague, 124; Theodosius puts him to death, 125.

Maximus, Novatian bishop of Nicæa, 113.

Meletius (or Melitius), bishop of Sebastia, transferred to Berœa and thence to Antioch, exiled by Constantius, 72, 73; holds assemblies at Antioch, 83, 84; recalled by Jovian, 94, 95; expelled by Valens, 97; his death, 111, 122; funeral oration of, by Gregory of Nyssa, 111, 122; retained his see at the accession of Theodosius, 119, 120.

Meletius (Melitius), bishop of Alexandria, deposed, becomes the head of the sect called Melitians, 5, 6; restored to communion by the Nicene Council, 12, 13.

Melitians, their origin and union with the Arians, 5; separated from the church, 13; accuse Athanasius of crimes, 29.

Memnon, bishop of Ephesus, 172.

Menander, Greek poet, 81.

Menedemus, suffers martyrdom, 104.

Meropius, a Tyrian philosopher, murdered, 23.

Merum, martyrs at, 86.

Methodius, bishop of Olympus in Lycia, author of Xenōn, 147.

Metrodorus, a philosopher, 23.

Metrophanes, bishop of Constantinople, succeeded by Alexander, 35.

Milan, Synod of, 60; tumult at, and ordination of Ambrose, 113, 114.

Miracles, 18, 23, 25, 109, 111, 112, 161, 174, 175.

Misopōgōn, book so called written by Julian, 88.

Mithra, murderous rites in the temple of, unveiled, 78, 79.

Mithreum, cleansed, 79; demolished, 126.

Modestus, the prefect, burns eighty pious men in a ship, 104.

Monasticism, extension of, 66, 109, 161; harassed by Arians, 106.

Monk, the, treatise by Evagrius, 107.

Monks, of Egypt, their remarkable lives, 106, 107; their sufferings and Christian endurance, 108, 109; the 'Tall,' of Alexandria, 143.

Monks, to the, living in communities, treatise by Evagrius, 107.

Montanus and Montanism, 27, 63, 171.

Mopsucrene, Constantius dies at, 75.

Mopsuestia, 44.

Moses, bishop of the Saracens, at the instance of Queen Mavia he is ordained, 116.

Mulvian bridge, battle at, 2.

Mursa, battle near, 59.

Mysteries, name applied to the Eucharist, 17, 112, 128, 145.

Mythology, the pagan, impure, 93, 94.

Nails of the cross, the, 22.

Names, many persons change their, to avoid death from suspicion, 105; Atticus, changes ill-omened, 167.

Narcissus, bishop of Neronias, under Constantius, 44, 54, 72.

Narcissus, bishop of Jerusalem, 173.

Narsæus, Persian general, 162.

Nectarius, bishop of Constantinople, elected, 121; consulted by Theodosius the Great as to points of difference between the Christian sects, 122, 123; abolishes the office of penitentiary presbyter, 128; his death, 138.

Neonas, bishop of Seleucia, ejected, 72.

Nepotian, a usurper, assumes the sovereignty of Rome and is slain, 53.

Nestorius, a governor of Alexandria, 52.

Nestorius, bishop of Constantinople, native of Germania, invited to Constantinople, 169; persecutes the Macedonians, 170; his heresy, 171; deposed by the Synod of Ephesus, 172; banished to the Great Oasis, 172.

New Jerusalem, church called by the name, 21, 32.

'New Rome,' Constantinople called, 21, 22.

Nicæa, Council of, summoned by Constantine, 8; Eusebius Pamphilus' account of it, 10-12; names of bishops present, 19; period of the assembly of, 19; did not alter the time of celebrating Easter, 131.

Nice, town in Thrace, Arians hold a council at, 65.

Nicene Creed, 10; Arians scheme to subvert, 39, 47; not to be changed, 62, 70, 102.

Nicocles, a grammarian, 76.

Nicolaus Damascenus, a Greek writer, 167.

Nilammon, a bishop exiled under Constantius, 55.

Nile, superstitious views of its inundations, 22; Athanasius on the, 86.

Nisibis, 91, 162.

Nitria, monks of, 106, 160.

Nocturnal services, 144.

Novatianism, principle of, 17; origin of, 112.

Novatians, orthodox as to faith, 18, 66, 100, 123, 125, 128, 167; persecuted by the Arians, 66, 100; alter their Easter, 113; divided among themselves respecting it, 129, 134.

Novatus, presbyter of the Roman church, 42, 112; secedes from it, 112; suffers martyrdom, 112.

Oak, Council of the, 149.

Oak of Mamre, 22.

Oasis, the Great, 55, 172.

Oaths, 35, 99, 112, 130, 141, 146.

Œnomaus, philosopher, condemns Apollo, 94.

Olympius, a Thracian bishop proscribed by Constantius, 54.

Optatus, pagan prefect of Constantinople under Arcadius, 151.

Optimus, bishop of Antioch in Pisidia, 122, 173.

'Oracles, the Christian,' the New Testament, so called, 60.

Oracles, pagan, 22, 88, 93, 94, 99, 105.

Ordination, necessity of, 30; refused to the lapsed, 33; the Holy Spirit conveyed at, 70.

Orestes, prefect of Alexandria under Theodosius II., 159; opposes Cyril, bishop of that city, 159; is attacked by the monks, 160.

Origen, views of, 49, 60, 74, 81, 132, 143, 171; works of, 110; pupils of, 112, 156; condemned by Theophilus, 144, 147; defense of, 147, 148; contrast between treatment of, and treatment of Chrysostom, 177.

Origenists, a party in the church so called, opposed to the Anthropomorphitæ, 145.

Origen's principles, on, treatise by Didymus, 110.

Otreius, bishop of Melitena, 122.

Ousia, used by the Nicene Council, 10; various meanings of, 81; rejected by Acacians, 58, 62, 71; accepted later by the same, 95.

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Pagan rites, 79, 86, 126.

Palladius, governor of Egypt under Valens, 105.

Palladius, bishop of Helenopolis, 173.

Palladius, a monk, disciple of Evagrius, 109.

Palladius, a celebrated courier, 163.

Pallium (philosopher's cloak), 78, 94.

Pambos, an Egyptian monk, 107.

Pamphilus, 81, 112.

Pancratius, bishop of Pelusium, 56.

Paphlagonia, Arian violence in, 67; temperament of people of, 112.

Paphnutius, bishop of Upper Thebes, 8; honored by the emperor for the truth's sake, 18; opposes an austere view of marriage, 18.

Parembole, a gnostic monk from, 108.

Pasinicus, bishop of Zelæ (Zena), 94.

Patricius, Arian bishop of Paltus, 95.

Patripassians, a heretical sect, 46, 101, 102.

Patrophilus, Arian bishop, conspires against Athanasius, 33; ejects Maximus, 65; not present at the Synod of Seleucia, 68; deposed, 70; Acacius favors him, 73, 101.

Paul, bishop of Tyre, 31.

Paul of Samosata ('The Samosatan'), 33, 45, 47, 56, 57, 171.

Paul, bishop of Constantinople, elected, 38; ejected by Constantius, 38; reinstated, 41; again expelled, 42; returns to Rome, 44; again reinstated by the Council of Sardica, 47, 49, 51; strangled, 54; his body honorably interred by Theodosius the Great, 122.

Paul, the Apostle, at Athens, 127; his opposition to Judaism, 130.

Paul, reader, associated with John Chrysostom, 149.

Paul, Novatian bishop at Constantinople, 161; exposes a Jewish impostor, 161; his piety, 169; preserves a church from burning, through his prayers, 175; his death, 178.

Paulinus, bishop of Treves, exiled by Constantius, 60.

Paulinus, bishop of Antioch, ordained by Lucifer, 80, 93, 96; left unmolested by Valens, 97; retains a portion of the church, 119; protests against the association with him of Meletius, 119.

Pazum, Novatian Council of, 113, 129.

Pelagius, Semi-Arian bishop of Laodicæa, accepts the Nicene Creed, 95; invested with the administration of the churches in the East, 122.

Pelargus, church at, 66, 175.

Pelusium, 53.

Penitentiary presbyter, office of, abolished, 128.

Perigenes, bishop of Patræ, 173.

Persia, bishop of, at Nicæa, 8; wars with, 53, 85, 88, 162; spread of Christianity in, 156, 157; persecution of Christians in, 162.

Peter, bishop of Alexandria, suffers martyrdom, 3; deposed by Meletius, 5; celebration of martyrdom of, 20.

Peter, another bishop of Alexandria, succeeds Athanasius, 105; is deposed and imprisoned, 105; exposes the falsehoods of Sabinus the Macedonian, 106; returns from Rome, 117; his death, 117.

Peter, implicated in accusations against Athanasius, 33.

Peter, Semi-Arian bishop of Sippi, 95.

Peter, a monk, brother of Basil, 111.

Peter, archpresbyter of the church of Alexandria, 144.

Peter, a reader, ringleader in the murder of Hypatia, 160.

Pharmaceus, a port in the Euxine, name of, changed, 167.

Philadelphia, Synod of, 81.

Philip, prætorian prefect under Constantius, entraps the bishop Paul, 42, 43.

Philip, a learned presbyter of Side, author of Christian History, 168; a candidate for the see of Constantinople, 172.

Philippopolis, Arian Council of, 47, 49.

Philo, bishop, exiled under Constantius, 55.

Philosophers, Julian claims to be one of them, 78, 164; many resort to him, 78; disagreement among, 7, 115.

Philosophy, studied among Christians, 87, 88, 110, 129, 154; applied to ascetic life, 24, 107.

Philumenus, 29.

Phœbus, excommunicated, 70.

Photinus, bishop of Sirmium, heresy of, 44, 45; deposed, 56, 58; exiled, 58; Nestorius accused of following, 171.

Phrygians, temperament of, 112.

Pilate, tablet of, recovered, 21.

Pior, an Egyptian monk, 106.

Piso, Semi-Arian bishop of Adana, 95.

Piso, Semi-Arian bishop of Augusta, 95.

Piterus, a learned Egyptian monk, gave scientific lectures, opening with prayer, 107.

Placidia, mother of Valentinian III., and daughter of Theodosius the Great, 114, 166.

'Placidian,' an imperial palace so called, 149.

Placitus (Flaccillus), bishop of Antioch, 38, 54, 97.

Plato, ancient philosopher, 60, 87, 90, 92, 156, 160.

Plintha, commander-in-chief under Theodosius II., 134.

Pliny, a bishop exiled under Constantius, 55.

Plotinus, 160.

Pneumatomachi, party among the Arians, 74.

Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, suffered martyrdom under Gordian, 130.

Polycarp, bishop of Sextantaprista, 173.

Polytheism, Arians charged with, 27; pagan philosophy teaches, 87.

Porphyry, an author, attacks Christianity, 14; surnamed the 'Tyrian old man,' 91; his History of Philosophers, 91.

Porphyry, bishop of Antioch, 157.

'Porphyry Column,' the, 21, 35.

Prayer, efficacy of, in divers cases, 135, 144, 157, 165, 174, 175.

Prayers, variously performed in different churches, 133.

Preaching, Chrysostom's, 140; as a means of amassing wealth, 146; Atticus', 154; Proclus', 168, 176.

Presbyter, an (unnamed) Arian, influence of, 28.

Presbyters, priestly functions of, 30; benediction given by, 72; represent bishops, 8, 95; not allowed to preach at Alexandria, 132.

Probus, a consul, committed with the chief administration of affairs in Italy during the minority of Valentinian II., 124; leaves Italy and retires to Thessalonica, 124.

Proclus, bishop of Cyzicus, a presbyter, 168; ordained to the bishopric, 168; transferred to Constantinople, 175; his virtues, 175, 176; preaches on Ezekiel's prophecy, 176; conciliates those who had seceded from the church, 176; makes an unprecedented ecclesiastical appointment, 178.

Procopius, usurper, seizes the imperial throne, 97; marches with an army against Valens, is defeated and put to a horrible death, 97.

Procopius, a Roman general, holds a command in the war with the Persians, 163.

Prohæresius, celebrated rhetorician of Athens, 110.

Protogenes, bishop of Sardica, 47.

Protopresbyter, office of the, 144.

Providence, mysterious counsels of, 26; denied by Epicureans, 87.

Psalmody, 40, 89, 177.

Psamathia, 29.

Psathyrians, a party among the Arians, 134.

Psenosiris, a bishop exiled under Constantius, 55.

Psilanthropism, 33, 34, 44, 47, 171.

Pythagoras, ancient philosopher, 25, 90.

Pythonic demon, expelled, 22.

Quartodecimans, excommunicated by Victor, bishop of Rome, 130; claim to have received their custom as to Easter from the Apostle John, 131; discipline among the, 132; deprived of their churches by John, 146, 151; persecuted by Nestorius, 169.

Queen, the, of Iberia, converted to Christianity through a captive maid, spreads the gospel, 24.