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The true vine is Christ, and the tending of that vine, 51. Likewise the Word of God, 38.

Vice, what it is, 254. The serpent a deceiver, 31. How it comes to be in man, 301. Its image, from Prodicus, 87. Its two kinds, 159. Avarice and pleasure the mother of all vices, 316.

Glass, its various kinds, 89. Ostentation in glass cups, 69.

Whether the living or the dead are the greater number, 269. The faithful live not only on the fruits of the earth but on the word of God, 62. Whether it is lawful to live indifferently, 190.

Many are called, few chosen, 236. Who are named the called, 135. The universal calling of all nations began after the coming of Christ, 295. Let each discharge the office of his own calling, 197

Nets are rightly spread for birds, 202. Why the eating of birds of prey was forbidden, 168.

If there is the will, the power is not lacking, 160. What it is to do the will of the Father, 324. Of how many kinds the voluntary is, 167.

Pleasure, what it is, 59. Whether it is a good, 190, 207. Without usefulness it is meretricious, 77. It is openly called a vice by Xenophon, 175. The metropolis of all vices, 305. Whether, according to certain heretics, pleasure is overcome by pleasure, 177. The seat and the allurements of pleasure, 33. How greatly the pursuit of it misbecomes Christians, 101.

What vow is pleasing to God, 112.

A voice heard without any appearance of a speaker, 268, 270. An unexpected voice dismays more than an unexpected sight, 335. What it ought to be in conversation, 75. The kinds of voices or words in the world are very various, and yet all of them signify, 133. In the voice or speech three things chiefly are considered, 331.

Vulcan, by whom he was held a god, and why, 19. A lame worker of iron, 8. Cast down to earth by Jupiter, an allegory, 69. Several Vulcans, 8.

The fox, what it means allegorically, 121, 208.

The shameful workshops of the depilated, 95

X

Xanthus the Lydian, on Lesches, 144. What he relates about the magi in his Magica, 185.

Xenocrates, successor of Speusippus in the Academy, 130. He attributed some thought and knowledge of God even to the brute beasts, 252. What gods he laid down, 19. He calls one Jupiter the highest, another the nethermost, 257. In what he placed happiness, 180. How he defines wisdom, 159. He wrote on not seeking food from animals, 304. "Karchedonios" [the Carthaginian], 19, 252. More correctly "Chalkedonios" [the Chalcedonian], 180, 257.

Xenophanes of Colophon, founder of the Eleatic philosophy, what successors he had, 128, 130. At what times he lived, 130. How he pronounced on the images of the gods, 302. A passage of Xenophanes, 256.

A passage on God of Xenophon the Athenian, a Socratic philosopher, 21, 256. A passage against pleasure, 175. A passage drawn from Stasinus, 265. A passage drawn from Alcmaeon, 265.

The expedition of Xerxes, 145.

Xiphodres the Persian, 242.

Z

The repentance of Zacchaeus, 209.

Zechariah, when he prophesied, 142, 143. A passage of his, 26.

The mystical silence of Zechariah, 4.

Zaleucus the first lawgiver, 133. He took his laws from Minerva, 132.

The veneration of Zamolxis, 213.

The goad of jealousy, 187.

Zeno of Elea, a hearer of Parmenides, 130. Steadfast under torture, 213.

Zeno of Citium, disciple of Crates the Academic, founder of the Stoic sect, what successors he had, 130. He would have neither temples nor images set up to the gods, 249. What he laid down as the highest good, 179. He said that all good men are friends to one another, 253. He longed to see an Indian enduring fire, 178. What kind of virgin he set before us in an image, 109. His diet, 177. To whom his more secret writings were communicated, 245 A passage from the book On the Republic, 249.

Zeno of Myndus, a historian, 13.

The times of Zethus the musician, 139.

Zeuxippe, concubine of Apollo, 9.

The tares in the human race, by whom they were sown, according to the Antitactae, 189. The devil mingled tares with philosophy too, 275. The tare, an earthly and dreggy soul, 341.

The signs of the zodiac, and the planets, what powers they have, 343. How the zodiacal circle is mystically signified, 240, 241.

Themisto, daughter of Zoilus, 224.

The Crater of Zopyrus of Heraclea, 144. Zopyrus, the tutor of Alcibiades, 48.

Zoroaster the seer, 144. What he wrote about himself, 255. The rivals and the books of Zoroaster, 131.

Zerubbabel restores Jerusalem, 142, 143.

INDEX

OF WORDS, SENTENCES AND THINGS

WHICH ARE CONTAINED IN THE THREEFOLD DISSERTATION OF DOM LE NOURRY.

The reader is referred to the heavier numerals inserted in the text.

A

The tunic of Aaron a type of the tunic of Christ, 39.

Abaris the Hyperborean seer, who he was, 279.

Abdera, a maritime city of Thrace, later Clazomenae, 265.

A poem cited under the name of the Abderite, 324. His opinion on the final end, 262.

Abiathar the high priest was a figure of Christ, 22.

Abraham is said to have stood before God because of his piety, 230. What his polygamy was, 199. It is excused, 112. Abraham made use of astronomy and arithmetic, 126. By their use he rose to the knowledge of God, 307. Before his coming the Egyptians were untaught in the philosophical disciplines, 269. He taught the Egyptians the science of numbers and of the stars, 283. He was a prophet, 108. The Marcionites falsely asserted that he was damned, 22.

Abstinence from evils is the base of the Gnostic's progress to perfection, 212. Abstinence from meats is good, 130; and from wine, 13. Clement of Alexandria approved it, 259. Examples of abstinence in Peter, Matthew and John the Baptist, 13. And among the heathen, 309. And in athletes, 309.

The Academic sect, 107. Whence it arose, 251. The Old and the Middle, 255. Its founder Plato, and who were his successors, 255. How long the Middle flourished, 256. And the New, 256.

The opinion of the later Academics on the final end, 263 and following. Of the older ones, 264.

The Acephalus goes before the wandering star, 14, 95.

Silver cruets, 14.

Achaicus the writer, 316.

The Achamoth of the Valentinians, 232.

Phoenix, the tutor of Achilles, and who he was, 102.

What the pillar of Acicarus was, 257.

The age of Acrisius, 330.

"Akrothorax" [half-drunk], what it means, 20.

Actinus the poet, who he was, and at what time he lived, 325.

Actis, son of the Sun, founded Heliopolis and taught the Egyptians astrology, 283.

The book of the Acts of the Apostles, how it was entitled, 154. Who its author was, ibid. The passage of the Acts of the Apostles on the philosophy of the Epicureans and Stoics, pointed out by no one, where it is found, 159.

Acusilaus of Argos, whether he was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272. Who he was, 298. He turned the poems of Hesiod into prose, 298. What he says of the Corybantes, 8. His thefts, 125.

The proverbs of the ancients drawn from the sacred Scriptures, 111.

Adam, from what earth he was formed, 139. How perfect in body and soul

he was created by God, 187. Heretics saying that he could be created neither perfect nor imperfect are refuted, ibid. That his soul is spiritual and immortal, ibid. Adam sinned, and what wounds were inflicted on men therefrom, 189. What their remedies are, ibid. The devil by the craft of the serpent plunged him into crimes, 2. What his first sin was, 115. Whether it was that he anticipated the appointed time of intercourse with his wife, 182. Errors of heretics concerning him, 115. Adam was a prophet, 108.

Why Hercules and Apollo are said to have served Admetus, 235.

Admetus the Thessalian, a seer, 277.

That wonder is the beginning of knowledge, 111. And of truth, 303.

That Clement of Alexandria is the author of the Exhortation to the Greeks, 6. At what time he wrote it, 6. Whether before the books of the Instructor, ibid. Whether he composed it from discourses delivered in public, 6. Where, 6. Its analysis, 6. What the title of this book is, 6. What its argument is, 6. Whether distinguished into various parts, ibid. To be divided into chapters, ibid. That there are certain things in it not sufficiently coherent with themselves, ibid. What eloquence and erudition are in it, ibid. What manuscript codices of it survive, ibid. Whether it is entire and uncorrupted, 7. What passages of it are charged with corruption, ibid. How testimonies of Sacred Scripture are cited in it, 22. It is cited in the Stromata, 130.

Adrastea, why so called, 236.

Adrastus, tutor of the sons of Croesus, 12, and who he was, 102.

Give heed to thyself, 111.

Flatterers, hangers-on of tables, 20. What they are at banquets, 15. Whom they resemble, ibid.

In how many ways adultery is spoken of, 199.

By what Roman laws the nefarious revellings of adulterers and others were condemned, 92. With what punishment adulterers were visited, and by what law, 310.

What is signified by the name of Adumbration, 349.

Analysis of the Adumbrations on certain Catholic Epistles of Peter, John, and Jude, 348. Why so entitled, 349. When written, 352. Where and when printed, 349. Whether Clement of Alexandria is their author, 349. Or whether they are part of his Hypotyposes, ibid. New notes on them, ibid. That this little work is corrupted, 350. A fragment transposed, 350. Whether passages of Sacred Scripture in it are cited from the Vulgate version, 350. The supreme divinity of Christ asserted there, 350. And the soul is said to be not naturally incorruptible, 351. What is said concerning original sin, 352.

Whether Aeacus first built temples to the gods, 51. The barrenness of the earth driven away by his prayers, 25. And how, 249. The fable of Aeacus and Rhadamanthus in Plato, 267.

Aegias or Agias, the writer, 316.

The Magi philosophers of the Persians are more ancient than the Egyptians, 269. Their various method of handing down letters, 121. How many kinds of letters they had, 239. What kings they chose, ibid. Their gods, 234. The greatest, Serapis, ibid. The Egyptians are said first to have attributed divinity to the stars, 49. To have set up temples and statues, 51. They attributed divinity to beasts, 8. They venerate them and fishes, 3. And which ones, 73. Why they did not touch fishes, 241. Originally no statues in the temples of the Egyptians, 56. Their sanctuaries, 3. The priests in the rites of purifications fed only on the lightest little birds, 241. And used them for food, 130. The symbols and enigmas of the Egyptians are recounted, 121. More studiously than others they concealed their mysteries, and to whom they divulged them, 121, 239. Hence they had placed sphinxes before their temples, 121, 238, 239. And they used hieroglyphic letters, 239. Some used a crocodile, others a boat, a boy, an old man, a hawk, a fish, a hippopotamus, ears, eyes, an ox, a horse, a sphinx, a man, ibid. And what they signified, ibid. What the Comasiae were among them, 240. Why they worshipped the ibis, 240. Their magical letters and the instruction of boys, ibid. The Egyptians before the coming of Abraham ignorant of philosophical disciplines, 269. They were the first imbued with astrology, 283. They boasted that the sanctions of the best laws were first invented by themselves, 276. And that letters, arithmetical and geometrical speculations, very many arts, and the best laws were invented among them, 283. Whether they were truly the inventors of geometry, 283. They first lit lamps and divided the year into twelve months; they forbade intercourse with women in temples, and approaching sacred rites unwashed after a wife, 283. The prophets of the Egyptians presided over philosophical disciplines and used a peculiar method of philosophizing, 268. Documents of their philosophy and religion, 125. The first philosophers of Greece were their disciples, 250. Their applause, 14. Most of their towns took their name from beasts and cattle, 66. Their sepulchres, 16. And months, 172.

What an enigma is, 144.

Oenone the prophetess, 280.

To whom the working of copper is attributed, 286.

The error of the Aerians concerning fasting, 204. They are refuted, 43.

The invention of working copper and iron attributed to Thobel or Tubalcain, 272. See Iron.

Aeschylus, having uttered the mysteries on the stage, about to be overwhelmed with stones, 287.

Aeschylus the writer of tragedies. His age, and certain of his poems, 324. What he culled from Sacred Scripture concerning God, 123, 247. Concerning His supreme power, 123, 308. Poems cited, 308. And emended, 138. Certain verses ascribed both to him and to others also, 102.

What Aeschines says concerning the Mercury of Andocides, 9. His plagiarisms, 124.

Several Aesculapiuses, 3, 65, 67. Which one struck by a thunderbolt is said to be buried at Cynosurae, and why a god, 3. The improver of medicine, 285. He invented surgery and the compounding of medicines, ibid. And the purging of the bowels, and the extraction of a tooth, ibid. And the temple at Epidaurus, 236.

The testimony of Aesop, 259, concerning the squealing of swine, 316.

How great the endurance of the Asopians in tortures, 312, 313.

The Ethiopians used to bind criminals with golden chains, 94. They fashioned their gods black and snub-nosed, 234.

Whether Aethlius was the author of the book On the Boundaries of the Samians, 157.

The Aetolians, 130. Diana angry with them on account of Oeneus, 235.

How ingrained evil affections can be cut off, 337. What freedom from affections can be obtained by man, and how, 223. What it is in God, 224. See Apatheia, Apostles, God, Gnostic.

Human affections enrolled in the number of the gods, 73. Their figures and statues, 5, 73.

The opinion of Africanus concerning the years during which Christ preached, 173. His opinion concerning the Watchers, angels, 44.

Africanus first of all instituted shaving daily, 83.

Agamemnon Jupiter, and whence this name comes, 66.

The love-feasts of the Christians, 13. Their abuse, 47.

Valentinus wrote an epistle to Agathopus, 233.

The age of the prophet Haggai, 108.

Hagnon of Teos fastened his slippers with golden nails, 86.

The paschal lamb a type of the Eucharist, 41.

What the mysteries of Agra were, 77.

It is lawful to devote oneself to agriculture, 17.

The Agrigentine on faith, 121. See Empedocles.

What Aisia is, 240.

Alabaster is a stone, called by another name onyx, 87. What alabaster vessels were, 87. Women immodestly used these for drinking, ibid.

The Alani worshipped Mars under the symbol of a sword and scimitar, 57.

Albertinus is refuted, 40, 41, 42, 43.

The opinion of Alcander concerning the origin of the Muses, 100. Whether a poet, ibid.

Alcestis died for her husband Admetus, 315.

Alcibiades, 62. After whose likeness the statues of the Hermae were fashioned, 62. Who he was, ibid. His guardian Pericles, and who the tutor was, 103. He did not restrain his fornication, ibid.

What Alcman invented in music, 290. At what time he flourished, ibid.

Who Alcmaeon the seer among the Acarnanians was, 281. Cypresses around his tomb, 281.

Alcmaeon of Croton said that the stars are gods, 47, 79. Alcmaeon or Alcman first wrote a book on nature, 292. His plagiarisms, 124.

Alcyone was called Juno by her husband Ceyx, 74.

Diviners by flour, 2.

Alexarchus the grammarian fashioned himself into the likeness of the sun, 74.

Alexander Polyhistor, 252. He is praised, and certain of his works are cited, 316.

Alexander wished to be called a god, 74. Enrolled in the register of the gods, 5. He wished to be painted by none other than Apelles, and modelled by Lysippus, 104. Leonides was his tutor, but did not prune away his pride, 102.

Verses of Alexis emended and cited by others, 101. At what time he lived, ibid. Praised by the name of the comic poet alone, ibid.

Why foods are to be used, 13. Abundance of them is harmful, 13. Those from the flesh of animals are unprofitable, 259. See Food.

The most shameful mysteries of Halimus, 77.

Alius founded the city of the Eleans, 68.

How it is lawful to use garlic, 92.

The Allobii, barbarian philosophers, 107. What their manner of living was, 269.

What the true altar of God is, 236. A sacred altar properly so called among the Christians of the first century of the Church, 56 and following.

In what sense a crown of amaranth is said to be permitted to Christians, 91.

That one must love so as if about to hate, 275. Whose saying this is, and whether that of a true wise man, 275.

Pythagoras commended to Amasis by Polycrates, 252.

The warlike bravery of the Amazons, 314.

The threefold kind of friendship, 112, 208, 253. What each one is, 208. Friendship and strife are not first principles nor gods, 4. Friendship subsists among good men alone, 248.

A friend is another self, 208. That all things of friends are common, 5. Who is a friend of God, 129.

Aminocles is said to have first built a trireme, 286.

The oracle of Ammon vanished, 75. See Jupiter.

The chastity of Amoebaeus the cithara-player, 114. How great it was, 309.

Amphiaraus, 76. The Athenian seer, 217, 280, 282. He foreknew his death, 278. His age, 278. He invented divination by fire, 284.

Amphictyon, interpreter of portents and dreams, 284.

Amphilytus the Athenian foretold the sovereignty to Pisistratus, 217.

Several called by the name of Amphilochus, 299.

Amphilochus, 3. Son of Amphiaraus, a seer, 278. In Cilicia, 281.

Amphilochus the historian pillaged the writings of Melesagoras, 298 and following. His plagiarisms, 125.

Various Amphions, 325. The song of Amphion, 2. Whether he introduced idolatry, 49. He is said to have moved stones by the song of his cithara; at what time he reigned at Thebes, 325. And lived, 108. He excelled in the science of the Magi, 281. He is called the inventor of music, 289.

The Antiope of Amphion, 325.

The epigram of Amphion of Thespiae on Musaeus, 325.

The poems of the younger poet Amphion concerning God, 246. What he took from Sacred Scripture, 123.

Who made the statues of Amphitrite and Neptune of nine cubits, 103. See Neptune.

Love is born from sight, 297.

Love enrolled in the number of the gods, 73. But he is not a god, 5. His statue, 3.

Who first sang love-songs, 290.

Amos the prophet; his prophecy is vindicated for him, 23. Composed by him under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, 149. Amos cited by the name of Scripture alone, 158.

Amycus, king of the Bebryces, is said to have invented the long thongs of boxers or the cestus, 286.

Who the uninitiated is, 9.

The error of the Anabaptists concerning the Davidic psalms, 147.

Anacharsis the Scythian is said to have excelled many philosophers of the Greeks, 270. Whether the anchor and the potter's wheel were first invented by him, 270. Whether one of the Seven Sages of Greece, 272, 273. He used a symbolic kind of speech, 121, 239. His sayings, 273. To me all Greeks are Scythians, 273. My clothing is wool, my supper milk and cheese, 273. By race I am a Scythian, not in disposition and manners, 273. My country is a disgrace to me, you to your country, 273. By whom he was slain, and for what cause, 70.

What Anacreon of Teos invented in music, 290. At what time he flourished, ibid.

The opinion of Anaxagoras concerning the first principles of things, 4, 78. He transferred the Ionian school to Athens, 250. Whether one of the Seven Sages of Greece, 272.

How Anaxagoras abandoned his patrimony and wealth, 343. He is said to have published a book written by himself, 292. His opinion concerning the first principles of things, 4, 78. His opinion concerning the supreme good and ultimate end, 262.

Anaxandra the female painter, 316.

Whether Anaxarchus the writer was called Eudaemonicus, and his book On Kingship, 317.

Whose disciple Anaxarchus of Abdera was, and in whose place he succeeded, 304. His reply to the tyrant when he was being pounded with iron pestles, 313. Who that tyrant was, 313.

Anaximander succeeded Thales in the Ionian school, 250. His opinion concerning the first principles of things, 78. He vainly supposed that the infinite is the first principle, 4. He is said to have first published a book on nature, 292.

Anaximenes, the one an orator, the other a historian, and which of them pillaged the writings of Melesagoras, 299. His plagiarisms, 125.

Anaximenes, philosopher of the Ionian sect, 300. He said that air is the first principle of things, 78.

Whether the anchor was first invented by Anacharsis, 270.

The almost infinite multitude of handmaids among the heathens, and what their names and duties were, 88. See Slaves.

Who Andocides was, 9. The orator, and his book On the Mysteries pointed out, 317.

Androcydes the Pythagorean, 240. Various works of his are cited, 317. Whether a physician, ibid. He invented the Ephesian letters, 121, 663. His plagiarisms, 124.

Andron of Ephesus, the writer, 317.

Who Androtion the pillager of the writings of Melesagoras was, 298, 300. His plagiarisms, 125.

When and where the angels were created, 184 and following. They are the most excellent things in heaven, 184. Superior to the Gnostic man, 184.

Certain angels superior to others, 185. Distributed by an ancient divine command, 185. Who the Watcher angels were, and why called by this name, 44. They needed divine grace to persevere, 184. Whether after they were confirmed in grace they merited anything by their services towards men, 185. Whether, still uncertain of their own salvation, they await our deliverance, 341. Whether they are to be delivered from the vanity of the world, ibid. Superior angels act upon human affairs and speak with men through other inferior ones, 350. The offices and functions of angels, 185 and following. Wisdom given to the Greeks through the inferior ones, 185. How they announce the divine will to us, 185. Set over nations and cities, 185. Angels deputed to the guardianship of individual men, 185 and following. Testimonies of various authors on that matter, 186. They handed down certain teachings concerning divine Providence and heavenly things, 243. Certain angels fell into sin, 185, 186. Overcome by desires, cast down hither from heaven, 114. Into a place near the earth, 350. Giants, corrupters of women, 45. They announced to women whatsoever things they themselves knew, 121. They are said to have taught men astronomy and other arts, 347. Before prophecy was given to the Greeks, they announced secrets and whatsoever things they knew to women, 141 and following. That good and bad angels were not unknown to heathen writers, 141 and following. They said that the bad were the souls of dead men, 125. What wonderful things were ascribed to them, 125. Poems of the poets concerning angels, 185.

Who Anius the seer in Delos was, 281.

Eels of the Maeander, 13, 93 and following.

Of what nature the human soul is, 45. It is a substance thinking by itself; how it is defined by Plato, 45. It does not fall under sight, nor can an image of it be made, 188. It has no sex, 127. After the resurrection it is of neither sex, 187. The human soul created by God, 187. It is moved of itself, 345. It is always active, and thinks by itself, 45. Even without the aid of the senses, ibid. What its principal part is, 187. In what part of the body it is, 188. It is the principle of all actions, 187. And actions are ascribed to it, 120. It is most precious to God and capable of virtues, 120. A dry soul is wisest, 45. Why it is called threefold, 45. Which thoughts of the soul are better, 45. Ceasing by night from the senses, and turned towards itself, it is more partaking of prudence, 188. How it is drawn away from the body, and being lost is found, 223. It does not need sleep, 15. While the body sleeps, it works by itself, 15, 119. Whether there is a certain corporeal soul in man, 187 and following. What it is to lose and to find the soul, 116. Vices, sicknesses, and affections of the soul are to be wholly removed, 336. Various opinions of philosophers concerning the soul, 116. Plato learned from Pythagoras, and both from the Egyptians, that it is immortal, 257, 300. Whether the error concerning their pre-existence is asserted by the author of the book: Who is the rich man that is saved, etc., 340 and following. Rejected by Clement of Alexandria, 343 and following. By whom it was said that it is sent down from heaven to the things which are worse, 253. They are refuted, 120. The Stoics denied that it is in any way affected by the body, 116, 257. What the souls of irrational animals are, 188.

Animals are moved by appetite and vision, 259. Whether they had some knowledge of God, 164. Which ones change voice and colour, 15. Their blood is not to be drunk, 16. What animals the Egyptians worshipped, 73 and following.

Anius or Alius was worshipped among the Eleans, 68.

Anna the prophetess, 108.

Anniceris the Cyrenaic, founder of the Annicerian sect, 261. He ransomed Plato, 261. How the Annicerians placed the supreme good in pleasure, 261.

What ring is to be worn, by whom, on what finger, and why, 86 and following. What its seals should be, ibid. The origin of wearing it, 86. On what condition a golden one is permitted to a woman, 17. On what finger it is to be worn, and what seal is to be engraved on it, ibid. No image of God is to be engraved, 63, 64. The ring of Execestus for knowing the time for transacting affairs, 279. Most shameful rings kept by pagans, 4.

Into how many months the year was formerly divided, 284. Who first divided it, 283.

Antheos, a magical name, 190.

Cannibalism falsely charged against Christians, 28. Pagans guilty of this crime, ibid.

The friendship of Anticlea, 315.

Anticlides the writer, 99.

What Pythagoras calls the counter-earth, 124. Why heaven was so called by the Pythagoreans, 247.

The Antigonidae, 287.

Antigonid cups, 14.

The books of histories of Antilochus or Antiochus, 317.

The plagiarisms of Antimachus, 124.

The temple of Antinous, 3.

Antiochus and a great part of his army fastened golden nails in their slippers, 86.

The book of Histories of Antiochus, and who he was, 98.

When Antiochus Cyzicenus reigned in Syria, 61.

Who were called by the name of the writer Antipater, 317.

Three books on virtue by Antipater the Stoic, 317. In them he subscribed to the teachings of Plato, 264. His opinion on the supreme good and ultimate end, 261, 262.

To what writers the name of Antiphanes was given, 293.

Antiphanes On the Inventors of Things, 293.

The plagiarisms of Antiphanes, 124.

Antiphon of Rhamnus is said to have first composed rhetorical speeches, 288.

A witty mockery by Antiphon, 241.

The age of the comic poet Antiphon, and how many comedies he wrote, 325.

Antisthenes, founder of the Cynic sect, 81. Who he was, 251. He wishes rather to be mad than to be affected by pleasure, 251. He used to say: If I should catch Venus, I would pierce her with javelins, 251. His opinion concerning God, 4, 81. Why it is said by Clement: He did not think this as a Cynic, 81. His opinion on the ultimate end, 263.

What Antisthenes took from Sacred Scripture, 123.

The opinion of Antisthenes the Socratic concerning God, 246.

The Antitactae, or adversaries, taught that one of those who were created by the good God the Father of all sowed tares, generating the nature of evils, 233. How they corrupted the Sacred Scriptures, 233. And interpreted the prophets too literally, 233. Their error concerning evil is refuted, 113.

Antoninus used golden vessels for obscene uses, 87.

Anytus and Meletus, 256.

Ehud, judge of the Israelites, 261.

What Apatheia is, 223. Of what sort it is in the Gnostic, 225 and following; and was in the apostles, 225 and following. What the opinion of Augustine was concerning it, 226; and of Jerome, 226; and of others, 226 and following. Its habit, 127 and following. See Affections.

Diana Apanchomene, 77.

Apellas wrote commentaries On Delphic Matters, 99.

How eminent a painter Apelles was, 103.

The hand of Apelles, 64. See Alexander.

The historical books of Apion, 317.

Who Apis or Serapis was, and by whom worshipped, 253. Inventor of medicine, 285.

The Apocalypse is ascribed to John, 155. Whether written by the inspiration of the divine Spirit, 143.

Apocrypha cited in the Sacred Scriptures, 29. And by the apostle Paul, 156.

The etymology of Apollo, 234. See Hercules. Six Apollos, 66. Yea, even innumerable, 3. Sminthius, and why so called, 67. Clarius, Pythius, Didymaeus, and Amphion, 60. Patareus, 59. The statue of Apollo both Hians and Obsonator, ibid. What sort of medical science Apollo is said to have invented, 285. The sayings of the Sages of Greece consecrated to Delphic Apollo, 274. His altar in Delos where no bloody victim was ever slaughtered, 236. His statue, 3; pillar, 237. The statue of Patareus, 9. Apollo bore witness to the glory of God, 123 and following.

Who were called by the name of the writer Apollodorus, 238, 317 and following.

Apollodorus the grammarian, 288; and critic, 317.

Apollodorus the chronographer, 317.

The opinion of Apollodorus of Cyzicus on the ultimate end, 263.

Apollonides cited by the name of the tragic poet alone, 102.

The Argonautica of Apollonius Rhodius, 325.

The scholiast of Apollonius on the Corybantes, 8.

Jupiter and Hercules Apomyios, 72.

What the apophthegms of the wise men were, 238. Taken from the Sacred Scriptures, ibid.

Whether the apostles after receiving the Holy Spirit attained the highest summit of perfection, 195. Whether they fell into lighter sins, 196. Whether and to what perturbations of the soul they were subject, 126, 197, 225 and following. They were perfect Gnostics, 118, 126. Who comprehended in mind all things which are doubtful and inexplicable to us, 196. They suffered for the Churches which they founded, 118, 196. See Polycarp. The apostles and prophets inspired and taught by the divine Spirit, 106. They knew no arts of philosophy, 244. Whether they preached the Gospel in Hades, 125, 175. Images of the apostles, 65.

How appetite is distinguished from pleasure, 202; and from desire, 118.

The Egyptians call water Mo, 145. Various and best kinds of waters, 89. Water ought to be the drink for Christians, 41; and to suffice for healthy men, 13. Carried about with them by the kings of the Parthians, 13. Water of the Choaspes carried about by the kings, 89.

The soul of the righteous man is an altar, 130. See Altar.

The Arabs worshipped a stone, 57. They devoted themselves to auguries, 284.

The age of Aratus, and his poems concerning God, 4. Where they are found, 81. What was culled from them by the Apostle, ibid. Poems concerning the supreme power of God, 247. Cited by Paul, 156.

The fourfold grafting of trees, 127; and what each one is, 260.

Arcadia, a female philosopher, 267.

The observations of Arcerius on the books of Clement, 142.

Various witticisms of Arcesilaus, 241, 318.

Archelaus first brought natural philosophy from Ionia to Athens, 251. In vain he said that the infinite and mind are the first principle, 4. His opinion concerning the first principles of things, 78. Socrates heard him, 256. Natural philosophy flourished down to him, 256. His plagiarisms, 124. Archelaus will make a dancer, 293, 294.

The books of Euboean Affairs by Archemachus, 318.

The opinion of Archidemus on the ultimate end and supreme good, 261, 262.

The age of Archilochus, 275, 281. His wantonness, and his books proscribed by the Lacedaemonians, 325. He related base things, 105. He devised the iambus, 289. His poems concerning God, 247. His plagiarisms, 124. He stole poems of Homer, and what those are, 295.

The plagiarisms of Archinus, 124.

How architecture is useful to Christians, 307.

Arete the Cyrenaic, teacher of Aristippus and female philosopher, 267.

Who first invented silver, 287.

Argia, daughter of Diodorus, devoted herself to dialectic, 267.

Argis, a magical name, 240.

Argus fashioned the statue of Tirynthian Juno, 103.

Arignote, daughter of Pythagoras and Theano, a female philosopher, 267.

The song of Arion, 2, 325. Whether he introduced idolatry, 49, 50.

Who was the author of the Arimaspian poems, 279.

The Arimaspian cities, 120.

Aristeas of Argos, the writer, 318.

Aristeas of Cyrene, a seer, 217.

Who Aristeas of Proconnesus, the seer, was, 279. Author of the Arimaspian poems, ibid.

The winds recalled by the sacrifice of Aristaeus, 125, 249.

Aristander of Telmessus, a seer, 281.

Aristarchus, 252.

Who Aristarchus, the author of the commentaries on Archilochus, was, 318.

Several Aristippuses, and which one was the writer of the books of Arcadian Affairs, 318.

Testimonies of Aristippus cited by Clement and others, 101. His error concerning pleasure, 112.

Aristobulus wrote many books to prove that the Peripatetic philosophy was taken from Sacred Scripture, 123. His testimony concerning the things which were done on Mount Sinai, 125. His opinion on an older version of interpreters, 151. Cyril of Alexandria attributes to him certain things which are ascribed to Megasthenes, 270.

Several called by the name of Aristocles, and which of them pillaged the writings of Melesagoras, 298, 299. His plagiarisms, 125.

Aristocritus the writer, 238. His books against Heracleodorus, 318.

Whether Aristodemus was one of the Seven Sages of Greece, 272. What he says concerning the inventors of things, 293.

Aristonicus published a book On Dancing, 294.

Several called by the name of Ariston, and one a seer, 318.

The poems of Ariston, 325; and his opinion on the ultimate end and supreme good, 262.

Aristophanes on woman's ornament, 86. The Thesmophoriazusae and Daedalus of Aristophanes, where he pillaged many things from others, 328. Certain poems cited, 101. Where they are found, 325. Whether his words are rightly corrected, 139. His plagiarisms, 124. From Epicurus, 297.

Several called by the name of Aristotle, 318. Aristotle, founder of the Peripatetic sect, 256. Who his successors were, 256. He married the concubine of Hermias, and sacrificed to her, 265. Whether rightly accused of incontinence, 265. He conversed with a certain Jew, 107, 256, 319. The writings of Aristotle were of a twofold kind; and what those were, 267. The opinion of Aristotle concerning God, 80. He circumscribes His providence as far as the moon, 4, 80. His opinion concerning faith, 205; and concerning the supreme good, 264. He said that those endowed with virtue see better dreams, 266. Aristotle will make a natural philosopher, 293, 294. His plagiarisms from Sacred Scripture, 123, 247. He culled many things from Plato, 125. He wrote On the Inventors of Things, 293. His books On the Commonwealth of the Phocians and of the Locrians, 318.

The chastity of Aristotle of Cyrene, 114. He alone despised Lais when she loved him, 310.

Aristoxenus, 252. Who he was, and his works, 318. His age, 331.

What Aristoxenus the musician, hearer of Aristotle, says concerning Pythagoras, 258.

What the utility of arithmetic is, 236. Abraham used it, 126.

Ariusian wine, 13, 89.

All armour is attributed to Mars as its author, 286.

By whom the making of arms was invented, 286 and following.

What Arnobius says concerning the Corybantes, 7. A passage concerning Zeno of Myndus, 54; and concerning the sepulchre of Telmessus, ibid. Another passage is charged with corruption, 70.

The inventors of arts, 283. The utility of them and of disciplines, 305. If they are not conjoined with philosophy, they will be fatal to anyone, 306. In all of them there is something good, 305. Those which consist in words only are to be rejected, 308. See Disciplines.

Artapanus or Artabanus, historian of the Jewish nation, 145. His work on the Jews, 318.

Artemisia, daughter of Diodorus, devoted herself to dialectic, 267.

When and how Artorius, the physician of Augustus Caesar, died, 102 and following.

By whom haruspicy was invented, 284.

Whether the psalms inscribed with the name of Asaph were composed by him, 148.

The hake or ass-fish is said to have its heart in its belly, 97. The adage: Like the ass-fish, ibid. Gluttons like it, 13.

What Askion is, 240.

The Asopians, inhabitants of Boeotia, 312.

Aspasia of Miletus, whom Socrates used for philosophy, Pericles for rhetoric, 268.

Whether assent is sometimes to be withheld, 333. Why it is withheld, 334.

Divine assimilation, 119.

The end of the kingdom of the Assyrians, 315.

The race of the Astomi living only by the smell of roots and flowers, 259.

Astrabacus is worshipped among the Laconians, 68.

By whom astrology was invented, 283. More exact astrology is attributed first of all to the Thebans, 268.

By whom astronomy was invented, 284. How useful to Christians, 307. Abraham used it, 126.

The chastity of Astylus the athlete, 114. How great his abstinence, 309.

The temple of Minerva was an asylum, 55.

The swiftness of Atalanta in hunting, 315.

Athamas seized with madness, 311.

The opinion of Athamas the Pythagorean concerning the first principles of things, 254. His plagiarisms, 124.

The opinion of Athanasius concerning the world and all things that are in it being created together, 184.

What the inscription of the altar of the Athenians was, cited by Paul in the Acts of the Apostles, 156. Pan was unknown to the Athenians so long as they had not learned from Philippides who he was, 235. Their garments, 15. They laid aside iron, and indulged in luxury of garments, 84.

Who were called atheists by the pagans, and harassed under that name, 82. Euhemerus of Agrigentum, Nicanor or Nicagoras of Cyprus, Diagoras, Hippo, Theodorus, Leon of Pella, and Heraclitus, 82.

Athenodorus, preceptor of Augustus Caesar, and another of the same name, 99.

How great the abstinence of athletes was, 309. What their foods were, 90; what their chastity, 114; what their small gifts, 21.

Whether Atlas, son of Libya, was the inventor of astrology, 283, and of the ship, 285. Why he was said to have borne the whole world on his shoulders, 235.

The war between the Atlantians and the Athenians, 267.

Ateas, king of the Scythians, used a symbolic kind of speech, 121. How he wrote when about to wage war on the Byzantines, 238.

Atossa, queen of the Persians, first wrote letters, 288. Who she was, ibid.

Atropos, 3.

Francolins of Egypt, Ionia, and Phrygia, 96.

Of Attica, 3.

The plagiarisms of Augias, 124.

What augury and auspice are, and by whom invented, 284. Certain superstitious auguries, 241.

The opinion of Augustine concerning the Epistle to the Hebrews, 155. Concerning those whom Christ after His death delivered from hell, 176. His opinion concerning the evil actions of unbelievers, 204. What he thought concerning man's freedom from passions, 226.

Augustus Caesar. In what year he began to reign, 171. By a vision of the physician Artorius he escaped the snares of Brutus and Cassius, 102. He used razors to shave his beard, 83.

Who first discovered mines of gold, 287. Ants dig up gold, griffins guard it, 15 and 93. Wicked and evil-doing men bound with golden fetters among the barbarians, 94. Golden Lydian dust, 94. The golden streams of Pactolus, 94.

Where gold-mines are, 93.

Auxo, 3.

The stain of avarice is to be plucked up by the roots, 336. See Riches.

The averting gods, 72.

Whether birds change their nature, voice, and colour, 95. Reared at great expense by heathen women, 96. The Indian bird, that is, the parrot, 96. Who first observed the flight and song of birds,

284.

The opinion of Avicenna concerning the manner in which milk is formed, 92.

Axiothea of Phlius, a female philosopher, used manly attire, 267.

B

The Babylonian captivity, 108.

What sort of ointment baccharis is, 91.

Whence the name of Bacchus comes, 3. Bacchus or Dionysus torn in pieces limb by limb by the Titans, 67. Minerva carried off his heart, 67. Men sacrificed to him, 3. His obscene mysteries, 2, 77, and most cruel and obscene orgies, 5, 68. They celebrated them by the eating of raw flesh, 68. Crowned with serpents, 68. Men slaughtered in them, 68. Other mysteries, or rites of the Bacchanalia, 68. The pillar of Bacchus, 237; his temple burned with fire, 54.

The age of the poet Bacchylides, and certain of his poems, 304, 246, 326. His plagiarisms, 124. What he took from Sacred Scripture, 123.

Bacis, the Arcadian seer, 277.

Bacis the Athenian, 277.

Bacis, the Boeotian seer, 277, and his predictions, ibid.

Zoroaster taught the Bactrians philosophy, 269.

What the baths were among the heathens, 88. Whether noble, ibid. Hanging baths first made by Gaius Sergius Orata, 88. Common to men and women among the heathens, 16, 88. Reproved by Cyprian and Jerome, 88. The incredible magnificence of the baths, 16. How precious and innumerable the golden and silver vessels in them, 16, 88. How great the shamelessness of women in them, 16. To whom, and for what reasons, the use of baths is permitted, 17. How it is permitted to Christians, 48.

The names and effects of baptism, 12, 39. By Clement it is called the womb of water, 189. Catechesis premised to it, 39. Whether repentance, 39. Whether Clement of Alexandria speaks of the honey and milk wont to be given after baptism, 40. By the water of baptism we are regenerated, 183, 189. What its perfection is, 12. Sins committed before it are washed away by its water alone, 189, and how, 191. All sins are forgiven in it, and how, 39, 120. In the baptized man Christ builds a sacred temple, 5. After baptism they are called disciples, 40, and Christians called one another brethren, 189. A certain image of it among the heathens and the Jews, 189 and following.

The beard is neither to be laid aside, nor to be cultivated with immoderate care, 16. How it is to be grown, 17. When it began to be shaved, 83. Those who shaved it are reproved, 83. The witticism of Diogenes against him whose beard was shorn, 83.

Who the barbarians were who philosophized before the Greeks, 268. They were imbued with the knowledge of all sciences and arts before the Greeks, 107. Yet more recent than Moses, ibid. They fashioned their gods savage and of fierce manners, 234.

Who devised the barbiton, 289.

Bardesanes. Whether Bardesanes the Syrian was the preceptor of Clement of Alexandria, 10.

The Bards sing hymns, and are poets, 269.

Barnabas is said by some to be the same as Matthias, 159. The judgement of Clement of Alexandria concerning the Epistle of Barnabas, 29. It is often cited, 121, 122, 159. How he calls him, 159. Whether he sometimes departed from his opinion, and how, 95. Barnabas said that Moses was the author of the book of Exodus, 144. His opinion concerning the necessity of divine faith, 205. Concerning the differences of sins, 111. He exhorts us to meditate on the fear of God, 206. What he said was signified by the number τιή, CXVIII, 174. Basilides refuted by his authority, 112. Cited for Clement of Rome, 126, 160.

The opinion of Baronius concerning the day on which Christ was born, 172.

The words of Baruch cited under the name of Jeremiah, and why, 24. Written by the inspiration of the divine Spirit, ibid.

What the errors of Basilides were, 120. Concerning the soul, 120. Concerning the perturbations of the soul, 112. Concerning faith, 120. Concerning martyrdom, 118, and martyrs, 233. He boasted that he followed the opinion of Matthias, 156. His testimony is cited, 120.

Whence the Basilidians were so called, 230. They boasted that they followed the opinion of Matthias, 230. Their opinion concerning the day and month in which Christ was born, and how they celebrated it, 172 and following. Their error against faith, 110. Obscurely explained by Clement, 231. Errors concerning marriage, 113, 118, 198. Concerning perturbations of the soul and the necessity of all things, 231, and concerning martyrs, 231. They are refuted, 111, 206. Certain words cited under their name, which Epiphanius attributes to Epiphanes the son of Carpocrates, 231 and following.

How Basil the Great believed Christ to be subject to hunger, thirst, sadness, and other affections of the soul, 175. His opinion concerning the beauty of Christ, 38.

Who the Batali were, 89.

Battus of Cyrene is said to have composed the divination of Mopsus, 278.

Diverse degrees of eternal beatitude, 127. Explanation of the eight evangelical beatitudes, 117. Eternal salvation and knowledge

of God are the same, 218. Whether the one is to be preferred to the other, ibid.

Bedy, 121. It signifies air or water, 240.

The contrivances of sweetmeats are to be rejected, 13.

That Bellona is not a goddess, 5.

Certain peoples when waging war used musical instruments, 14. The Greeks praised those who died in war, 116.

The warlike bravery of certain women, 314. Certain warlike nations addicted to drunkenness, 89.

A man doing good to others is the image of God, 208.

That by beneficence man becomes like God, 201. See Liberality.

What benevolence is, 110.

The Chaldaean History of Berosus, 318. The books of Antiquities falsely ascribed to him, ibid.

What knowledge beasts have, 124, 303. Certain ones living in caves either on the thickness of the air, or on the exhalation of their own body, 259.

Beets among the Ascraeans, 96 and 97.

Bias, one of the Seven Sages of Greece, 272.

Propriety and decency are to be observed in drinking, 15. Certain women drinking unseemlily, ibid.

The words of Biblias when racked with tortures, 30.

Ten called by the name of Bion, 299.

Bion of Proconnesus pillaged the writings of Melesagoras, 298 and 299. Certain witticisms of his, and who he was, 241. His plagiarisms, 125.

The story concerning the death of Biton and Cleobis, 258.

The cavils of Blondel against the distinction of the episcopal and presbyteral order made by Clement are refuted, 191; and his opinion on the same matter, 44.

The judgement of Bocchoris, king of Egypt, concerning the young man who in his sleep had seemed to himself to lie with a girl, 118, 312.

Who the prophetess Boeo was, and her poems, 282.

The Boeotians slaughtered and routed by the Aeolians, 76.

The clod of Mantinea, 96 and 97.

That the good alone is honourable, 123, and just, 12. The good, the noble, and the honourable are in virtue alone, 15. That one good is better than another, 224.

Earthly goods are to be rightly used, 118.

The good man alone is praiseworthy, the bad man alone blameworthy, 12. The good and just man is rich and happy; the unjust and arrogant man is poor, 16. See Just.

What the cluster of grapes given to the Israelites in the desert signified, 13. It is a figure of the blood of Christ, 41.

The Brahmans, barbarian philosophers, 107. They were various, 270. Their manner of living and philosophizing, 269, 270. Their abstinence, 114. Accounting life as nothing, they venerated Hercules and Pan, 114, 234. Pythagoras is said by some to have been their disciple, 107.

Branchus the soothsayer, 281. Verses of Empedocles ascribed to him, 281. The temple of the Branchidae built by him, 282.

Brennus, 280.

The island of Britain, 123. See Cymbals.

Whether Brontinus of Croton was the father or the husband of Theano, 330. His Robe and Physics, ibid.

Bryaxis the celebrated sculptor, 103.

Bupalus, 328.

Buddha honoured as a god by some peoples of India, and who he was, 235. Many among the Indians obeyed his precepts, 270.

Butter for the use of a lamp, 93.

What byssus is, 287. By whom garments of byssus were first made, ibid.

C

The Cabeiri the same as the Corybantes, 7. Distinguished by some, 8.

Cadmus first discovered the stone-quarry and mines of gold, 285.

Slaughter enrolled in the number of the gods, 73.

The celibacy of Christians is good, 114. Whether it is more excellent than marriage, 200. It is not commanded, but counselled, 1021. Human laws against celibacy, 113.

In what respect an unmarried man is inferior and superior to others, 151. Whether those initiated into sacred orders ought to be celibate, 192; what penalties were imposed on the unmarried, and by what laws, 266. See Lycurgus.

Who invented the cestus, 286.

Whence the Cainite heretics obtained their name, 230, 234.

Whether Caius was the preceptor of Clement of Alexandria, 10. His opinion concerning the Epistle to the Hebrews, 154. His opinion concerning the daughters of Philip, 194.

The epistle of Calanus to Alexander the Great, and his noble reply, 313. He burned himself alive, 251.

Various kinds of shoes, 86, and luxury in them, ibid. They are forbidden to be adorned with gems and gold, 85.

Calchas the seer, 278.

The invention of the shield is attributed to Chalcus, son of Athamas, 286.

The hanging floors of warm baths, 88.

How varied cups were, 14, 87. What Thericlean ones were, 87. Antigonides, ibid. See Cups, Vessels.

Callias's saying about the mad, 295, and thefts, 124.

Callimachus's Aetia, and other poems, and who he was, 99. Hymns, and certain poems, 326. Testimony, 304. Poems on the sacred seventh day, 248. They are attributed to Linus, 248. What he took from sacred Scripture, 123, 124. He spoke symbolically, 121.

The age and writings of the poet Callinus, 326.

Callipho said that pleasure with moral worth is the ultimate end, 261.

Callistagoras was worshipped among the Tenians, 68.

Callo the distinguished sculptor, who he was, 103.

What image of the Furies Calos made, 9.

The errors of the Calvinists concerning the sacrament of the Eucharist are refuted, 40 and following. See Eucharist.

The opinion of Calvisius concerning the day on which Christ was born, 172.

The Campanians admitted gladiatorial contests at banquets, 89.

The cause of grey hair, 14, 84.

Those who dyed or anointed grey hair are rebuked, 16, 84. Women on that account grow grey more quickly, ibid.

Canter's observations on the books of Clement, 141.

Tankards, 14.

Who first sang a song for dancing, 290.

That women who dye their hair grow grey more quickly, 14. Those using false hair are rebuked, 84. A presbyter does not bless a woman adorned with these, 44. See Head, Hairs.

Capito the poet and musician, and his modes of singing, 100, soft and effeminate, 2.

She-goats trained for divination, 3 and 76, and following.

He who has a counterfeit head cannot possibly show a true soul, 84.

Caranus first gained control of the empire of the Macedonians, and how, 76.

The Carians invented foreknowledge from the stars, 279.

Chelidonian figs, 96 and 97; and Attic ones, 97.

Cariophylus, bishop of Iconium, 337, 340.

Hexameter verse, by whom invented, 291 and following.

The flesh can resist the powers and spirits of dominations with the help of God, 117. Why it is called grass and the flower of grass by Isaiah, 120. Abstinence from flesh is good, 13, 100. How its use is permitted, 115. Food prepared from meats is unprofitable, 259.

Carpocras on the old law, 112; on marriage, 198; on the community of wives, 112; he is refuted, 114. He abused the authority of Plato, 232, 265. Epiphanius attributes this to his son Epiphanes, 232. How impious the assemblies of Carpocrates and the Carpocratians were, 232. They called them agape, 48. They abused the testimony of Matthew, 158. They enticed familiar demons, ibid. They had painted images and others, 65.

Whether Casaubon rightly charges a certain passage of Clement of Alexandria with corruption, 20.

Cassian's opinion concerning holy and chaste dreams, 215, 216. Cassian the chief of Docetism, 233. He had feigned that Christ assumed only a fictitious flesh and in appearance only, 233. His arguments against marriage solved by Clement of Alexandria, 233, and concerning the human soul, which he said was divine from the beginning, and afterwards, having become effeminate, came to destruction and consists in error, 233. His error concerning evil generation and marriage is refuted, and the objections are solved, 115, 181. The error concerning the soul is refuted, and the objections are dissolved, 118. The error concerning the phantom body of Christ, 115. The objection taken from the Gospel according to the Hebrews is solved, 153. His Exegeticon, 160. The book On Continence, 233.

The Castalian augural spring vanished, 2, 75.

Chastity and celibacy of Christians. How the former is good, 114. It is not good except for the love of God, 201. The vow of it and of continence, 200 and following.

Castor and Pollux, men subject to diseases, 98. Why the former is a god, 3.

What Κατάσκιον is, 240.

Catecheses prefixed to baptism, 39 and following. What doctrine was handed down in the catecheses, 18.

By catechism a pagan is imbued with Christian doctrine, 260.

Catechists are the spiritual fathers of those whom they instruct, 103.

The instruction of catechumens, 40. How much philosophy profits them, 244. See Philosophy.

Silver and golden dishes, 14. See Vessels.

What Κατόρθωμα is, 204.

Taverns forbidden, 17.

Fourfold cause, 333 and following. Various names of causes, and what a properly called cause is, 334. Whether they are corporeal or incorporeal, 334. Co-operating cause, 244; assisting, 244. What distinction there is between it and a co-cause, 334. Which causes need time to act, or do not need it, 334. That causes are not causes of themselves, 334.

Whether there can be several of the same effect, 244.

Caution the daughter of the law, and nothing more lovely than it, 112. Its necessity, ibid.

Cecrops the Pythagorean, 330, is said to have first called upon Jupiter, 49.

Cedrenus's opinion on the origin of images, 58, and on the Watcher angels, 44.

Who the daughters of Celeus were, and where buried, 52.

Celmis and Damnaneus, Idaean Dactyls, first discovered iron in Cyprus, 271.

Celsus's objection concerning the beauty of Christ, 37.

Celtic peoples, 83, prone to drunkenness, 89.

Celtiberian women after childbirth wait upon their husbands lying in bed, 264.

What Κεφάλαιον is, 137.

Whence the name of Ceres comes, 3. Various surnames, 70. Why the name of Thesmophorus was given to her, 276. Whether laws were first promulgated by her, 276. Whether she is the same as Themis, 70. The orgies of Ceres or Cybele, and impious and obscene mysteries, 2, 69. By whom introduced, ibid., 69. Melampus transferred them from Egypt into Greece, 69. They were called Eleusinia, 70, 77. Whether they are the same as the Thesmophoria, 70. Chastity to be observed by matrons for some days before, 70. They seal the tongue for the initiated, 238. Clement congratulates him who had pierced with arrows his fellow-citizen imitating these mysteries among the Cyzicenes, 2, 70. Who he was, ibid. See Cybele and Metragyrtes.

The Cerinthians used only the Gospel according to the Hebrews, 152. Whether they cut anything off from it, 153.

The origin of the Pythian, Isthmian, Nemean, and Olympic contests and games, 77.

What the small gifts of contestants formerly were, 20.

The Cean sophist called wise, who he was, 101. His testimony concerning women's garments, 15.

Ceyx wished himself to be called Jupiter, and his wife Alcyone Juno, 74. Various opinions concerning his parents, 74. What Abbot Chaeremon said concerning holy and chaste dreams, 215.

The Chaldaeans were first imbued with astrology, 283. Whether they were the inventors of it, and of the observation of birthdays, 284. What their method of philosophizing was, 268.

The Chalybes are said to be the authors of the discovery and forging of iron, 286.

The writings of Chamaeleon, 318.

The prophecy of Cham, 125. Pherecydes of Syros used it, 273.

The charadrius, 96. Whether it is a jackdaw or another bird, 96.

Charidemus will make a general, 293. How skilled in war, 294.

Twofold charity, and what it is, 121. Its necessity, 116, and connexion with faith, 110. See Faith. It is greater than faith and hope, 208. What he who is endowed with it does, 208. By what steps one arrives at it, 208. See Gnostic. The primary and secondary motive of charity, 219. That in the twofold precept of charity all other precepts are contained, 17. Always to be sought for its own sake, 131. How to be sought, and found, 121. Building up, it abides in truth, 107. What Plato and Empedocles said about charity, 265. Description of charity towards one's neighbour, 208. Of what sort it ought to be, 208 and following. Even towards enemies, 208. Three virtues are its companions: hospitality, humanity, love, 208. Merciful are those who desire to do good to others as much as lies in them; brotherly charity, 209.

Charmus first worshipped Cupid, 3.

Diana Chaelitis, 72.

What the figures and wings of the Cherubim signified, 64.

Chilo the Lacedaemonian, one of the seven sages of Greece, 272. His thefts, 124.

The fable of Chiron the Centaur, 272.

Chian wine, 13.

Who invented surgery, 283.

The river Choaspes, and its excellent water, 89.

The coney, 24.

Who first invented the choral dance, 290.

The divinity of Christ asserted by Clement of Alexandria, 31, 32, 34, 161; it is also defended by the author of the Adumbrations on certain canonical Epistles of Peter, John, and Jude, 350. The oracles of the prophets, and His precepts and miracles, prove that Christ is the Son of God, 127. Why He is called begotten, though He is without beginning, 351. He is beginning from beginning, 32. Not only nearest, but altogether the same was His nature as that of the Father, 166. Why it is called nearest, 167. He is one God by nature with the Father, but distinct in person, 33 and 34. Always like His eternal Father, 11. The Word of God is not προφορικόν, external and transient; but ἐνδιαθετόν, internal and immanent, 165. That the will of Christ is omnipotent, 165. He is diffused everywhere, 165, 166. God the Maker, 165. Creator of all things, and how, 165 and following. He is the good will of the good Father, and wisdom

genuine, 18. Why He is said to serve the Father's will, 167; and firstborn or first-created wisdom, 167; and archetypal light, and ocean of good things, 32. Against His divinity a new opinion of a certain more recent Socinian is refuted, 168. Titles of His divine nature, 18. Christ existed before all creatures, 165. A beginning lacking time and beginning, 166. He is infinite and the circle of all powers, which revolve into one and are united, 166. He is not truly one as one, nor many as parts, but as all things one, whence also all things come, 166. Distinct in person from the Father, 165. Subordinate to Him, 166. Before He became man, He truly existed, 32, 34. He presented Himself to be seen by the patriarchs, 12. He spoke with them, 34. Of the Israelites as also of Christians He was leader and instructor, 34. How, 35. Then still without a name, 35. See Son of God, Trinity, and Word. How many sacred oracles foretold the incarnation of Christ, 168. The seventy-two weeks of Daniel are explained, 169. See Daniel. Why sent into this world, 120. Christ became man after the 72 weeks of Daniel, 108. From what earth formed, 139. Born of a virgin, 115. The nativity of Christ, 171. In what month and day, 171. Opinions of various authors on that matter, 172. How many years He held public discourses, 173. In what year and month, at what hour He died, 173. Opinions of various authors on that matter, ibid. What the fruit of His death is, 176. The year and day of His baptism, preaching, and death, 108. Baptized, that He might sanctify the waters, 348. Christ beautiful above all, and His perfections, 110. Whether His body was deformed, 35. What the opinion of Clement and others was on that question, 35. He was of humble bodily form, 128. Beautiful neither in face nor in body, 16. The most ancient bronze figure of Him, 64. His flesh is said to have been handled by the hands of John, 352. Whether His tunic was ankle-length and variegated, 13, 38. He drank wine and how, 42. Christ most perfect in every kind of virtue, 174. Whether He was subject to the affections of hunger, thirst, pain, sorrow, and other affections of the soul, 174. He was free from perturbations of the soul, 126. Subject to no sin and perturbation, 11. With Him is the power of forgiving sins, 11. Made man for the sake of men, and why, 11. His perfections, 33, and following. Subject to no sin, He forgives sins, 33. Those who denied that Christ is good are refuted, 12. What His chastisements and rebukes are, ibid. Through Him all Gentiles must be saved, 123. Why He led a celibate life, 175. He had the Church as bride, 114. How He fulfilled the Mosaic law, 146. Why He spoke in parables, 105. His words: Give to him who asks of you, how to be understood, 114. And those: Go, sell what you have, etc., 116. His words to Salome, 114. Since Christ was crowned with thorns, it is not fitting for His disciple to be crowned with flowers, 14. The divine Word did not forsake His body and soul in the sepulchre, 38. Whether He preached the Gospel in hell, 125. Whether He freed righteous men, even Gentiles, from there, 175. How much Christ is to be loved, 336. He is an inexplicable sacrifice, and the door of eternal life, and the sole instructor of men, 120, 175. Alone to be heard, 3, 5. See Instructor. That He is the true sun of righteousness, 5. How we ought to imitate Him, 11.

How Christian and orthodox truth is distinguished from all heresies, 132. It is more ancient than the Phrygians, Arcadians, and all pagans, 2. Christian moral doctrine can be known without letters and Gentile philosophy, 106. Its reception is compared with the fourfold grafting of trees, 260. See Doctrine. What is signified by the name of Christians, 11. Why they are called little lambs, calves, sucklings, simple doves, young of doves and of hens, infants, sons, little children, a new or nascent people, 11. How glorious this appellation is, ibid. Far dearer to God than the rest, ibid. What the manner of living of Christians ought to be, 13, 17, 18. Precepts and institutions of Christian life, 17. What the perfect Christian ought to do, 118. How Christians are to be taught so that they may attain the supreme virtue of the gnostic, 112. How much philosophy, which they ought to study, profits them, 242, 244. They cleave not to words, but to things, 128. Foreign to all contention and the vice of a wavering mind, 333. How and whence they attain truth and knowledge, 333. Whether they could speak enigmatically, 122. See Philosophy. Of what sort the garments of Christians ought to be, 48, 125. See Garment. They ought to use wine most moderately, 13. What things are to be driven away from their banquets, 14. Whether they may use ointments, 14. It is not fitting for them to be crowned with flowers, since Christ was crowned with thorns, 14, 19. Nor to approach Him without blood, 19. They ought to be not sad, but modest and grave, 14. It is unlawful for them to defile their ears with debaucheries and fornications, 4. Christians, how undeservedly they were harassed by pagans, 54, 129. And on that account blessed, 313. With what spirit the Christian is endowed, 117. He alone is good, and truly rich, 16. Pious, religious, temperate, and like God, 105, 129. Christians, even the less eloquent, are not inferior to the most learned

pagans, 106. Various customs of Christians, 46. At night more than once they rose from bed to sing praises to God, 46. How long this custom flourished, 46. Their vigils, 14. What they did at night, 46. Their approach to the church, 46. How great their modesty in churches, 46. Abuse of certain ones departing from the Church, 46. Where the first Christians held their assemblies, 56. See Church and Temples. Their altars, 56. Christians at certain stated hours, the third, sixth, ninth, used to pray to God, 209. For what reason, 210. Turned towards the east, and why, 130, 210. Bending the knees, 210. How they greeted one another, 47. They wished peace to one another, 47. They offered the kiss, and the abuse of it, 47 and following. Banquets, luncheons, suppers, feasts, tables of Christians, 47; agapae, 47. What use of baths, 47. How the faithful disciples of Christ are to be loved, 336, 47. How they are called by Christ, ibid. Christians called one another brethren, 189.

Christians prefigured, in the laughter of Isaac, 21.

Various chronologies are presented by Clement of Alexandria, 108. Chronology of the Hebrews, 108.

Chrysippus said that virtue is teachable, 262. What concerning marriage, 265. He will make a dialectician, 293, 294. Chrysippus cited for Cleanthes, 259. See Cleanthes.

Chrysis, priestess of Argive Juno, whether she perished with her temple, 53.

Chthon, 121. It signifies Earth, 240.

Chthyptes, a magical name, 240.

The use of foods indifferent, 13. Their variety the cause of diseases, 102. The belly-demon presides over more sumptuous ones, 13, 90 and following. The use of the most exquisite ones to be rejected, 13. With what the table of Christians is to be furnished, 13. Before food God is to be praised, 14. What certain men did that they might feed more daintily on meat tempered with milk, 112. Whether it is lawful to eat foods sacrificed to a false deity, 118. Spiritual food can be increased in a twofold way, 105.

Cicero's opinion on the origin of idolatry, 48. What concerning the manner in which Plato bids one go to sleep, 216.

The Thessalians honoured storks on account of custom, 8. Why, ibid.

Who the catamites were, what tunics they had, and what they sang, 89. Women basely abused their company, 16.

Who invented the cithara, 289; and the modes of citharoedic songs, ibid. It is lawful for a Christian to sing with the cithara, and how, 14.

Clarius, 76.

Who invented the drawing up of a fleet, 286.

Claude, the minister of Charenton, is refuted, 36 and following. See Eucharist.

Clazomenae, what city, 263.

Cleanthes, disciple of Zeno, 125, 128; and poet, 251. A Stoic as it were of the greater nations, and what he thought concerning God, 4, 80, 246; and concerning the ultimate end, 261, 262. To him Clement attributes an opinion concerning the soul which is attributed to Chrysippus by Cicero, 251. His poetry, 326.

The opinion and poems of Cleanthes of Pisada, or of Assos, concerning God, 81. What Cleanthes took from sacred Scripture.

Clearchus, tyrant of the Heracleots, 53.

The writings of Clearchus the Peripatetic, 319.

Clearchus or Cleomachus, who he was, and where buried, 53.

What the name and surname of Clement of Alexandria were, 10. What his native land was, 10. At first devoted to the superstitions of the pagans, ibid. He quickly sent them a bill of divorce, and embraced the Christian religion, ibid. He approached the most learned instructors, ibid. Who they were, ibid., 105. He travelled through various parts of the world, where he was imbued by them with the teachings of the Christian religion, 11. He settled at Alexandria, and was placed in charge of the instruction of the catechumens, ibid. He discharged the office of catechist, 6, 19. Whether enrolled in the number of historians, 337. Clement was the author of the Exhortation to the Gentiles, 6. See Exhortation. And of the three books of the Instructor, 18. See Instructor. Clement's instructors were still alive when he wrote the books of the Stromata, 134. Why he wrote them, how they will be able to be pleasing to his instructors and useful to others, 105. What and how he is going to discuss in them, 105, 107. Why he inserted philosophical and other dogmas into them, 105. What their style is. See Stromata, 106. Of what sort the books of the Hypotyposes of Clement of Alexandria were, 352. How many errors in those books, 346. Whether the epitome of Theodotus was excerpted from them, 346. See Hypotyposes. Whether he is the author of the book which is entitled: Who is the rich man that is saved, etc., 338. Whether he is the author of the Adumbrations on some canonical epistles, 349. Fragments of the books of Clement of Alexandria, 343, 255. A fragment of the eighth book of the Stromata cited by Acacius, ibid. Whether also by John of Damascus, 344, 346 and 347. Acacius, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, presents a fragment of the third and eighth books of the Stromata of Clement of Alexandria, 343. Clement promised various treatises, 357; a treatise on secret mysteries, 357;

a book on the resurrection, 358; that in names there is nothing base, 358; books on continence, and marriage, 358; on the duties of bishops, presbyters, deacons, and widows, 358; against the opinions of philosophers on the ultimate end, 358; on first principles against the Marcionists, 113, 358; on the soul against the same Marcionists, 358; on prophecy, 118, 358; that there is one God, Who is preached through the law, the prophets, and the Gospel, 358; against heresies, 358; on the origin of man against Cassian, 358; against the heresy of Prodicus, 358; on metempsychosis against Basilides, 358; on the members of God to be understood allegorically, 358; on angels, 358; of what sort the gnostic is in the contemplation of natural things, 358; on the marks and characters of the true Church, 358; he promises a true explanation of the coats of skins of Adam and Eve, 115. Which works of Clement of Alexandria are lost, 352. The books of the Hypotyposes, 353. One book On Easter, on what occasion written, and its subject, 355. Two fragments of it, 355. Disputation On Fasting, one book On Slander, 356. Exhortation to Patience, 356. On the Ecclesiastical Rule, or against those who follow the errors of the Jews, and what its subject is, 356. A fragment of it, 356. Work on the prophet Amos, 356. Fragments of the book On Providence, 356. Certain passages of the works of Clement of Alexandria which are charged with corruption, 77, 262. Others restored and emended, 62, 70, 73. Whether he was skilled in the Hebrew language, 21. Clement of Alexandria's exposition of the seventy-two weeks of Daniel, 168. See Christ. Even before the time of the supreme pontiff Victor he strenuously defended the divinity of Christ, 6, 133. His opinion on the necessity of divine grace for performing any good works, 176. On the year, month, and day on which Christ was born, 171; and on the years in which He preached, 173. On the year, day, and hour in which Christ died, 173. Whether he did not believe Him subject to the affections of thirst, hunger, sorrow, and other affections of the soul, 174. His opinion on the tunic of Christ, 38; and on the preaching of Christ and the apostles in hell, and whether it is true, 175. He is wrongly accused by some of error concerning the pre-existence of souls, 257. Whether Clement of Alexandria's opinion concerning original sin is true, 181; and his opinion concerning the free will of man, 178; and concerning sins, 179. Whether he held anything of the Novatian error concerning repentance, 190. His opinion concerning the bond of marriage never to be dissolved, even on account of adultery, 199. Opinion concerning the perpetual virginity of Mary the Mother of God, 176. Concerning the statues and images of Christians, 63. Concerning the daughters of Philip, 194; and concerning the wife of the apostle Paul, 195. How great the gentleness and indulgence of Clement of Alexandria is, and how much he abhors excessive severity, 20. Clement of Alexandria fell in with a follower of the heresy of the Gnostics, 112. A certain man tried in vain to weaken his authority, 29.

The epistle of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians, 118. Frequently cited by Clement of Alexandria, and how, 160. Which fragments he transcribed, 160. Why cited under the name of the Romans alone, 160; and why he is called an apostle, 160. Hervet's error concerning it is refuted, 160. Wrongly cited under the name of Barnabas, 160. In it a model of the gnostic is presented, 213. Clement of Rome cited the Gospel according to the Egyptians, 154; and the Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews, 154. What he handed down concerning the number seven and eight, 306 and following.

The fable concerning the death of Cleobis and Biton, 258.

Who the poetess Cleobulina was, 315. She washed the feet of her father's guests, 118, 315.

Cleobulus of Lindos, one of the seven sages of Greece, 222.

Cleomenes or Cleomedes, seized with madness, did not know himself, 311. The last of the heroes, and why, 312.

The town of Cleonae, 249.

The Capture of Oechalia of Cleophilus, 124.

Cleophon the Corinthian seer, 277.

The negligence of clerics sleeping through whole nights, 46. See Orders.

Clitarchus is praised, and his various writings, 319.

Clops, a magical name, 240.

Clotho, 3.

By whom the shield was invented, 286.

Cnachzbi, a magical name, 240.

The Cocalus of Philemon, 125.

The things which are in heaven, not to be worshipped, 4.

Suppers of Christians, 47.

Sumptuous little suppers to be rejected, 13.

Of what sort the supper of Christians ought to be, 13. What those invited to it ought to do, 13. What use of wine at supper, 13.

Knowledge, γνῶσις, what it is, 111. It is twofold, and what each is, 111, 118, 124, 305, 333. One common to all, and the other of a few, 211. Which this is, and its excellence, ibid. It is called a rational death which separates from perturbations and leads to good works, 211. The knowledge of God

and eternal salvation are the same, 218. How it can be acquired, 120. The beginning of knowledge is wonder, 111. How far the knowledge of spiritual things extends, 126. How great its perfection is, 131. It is the nourishment of the soul, 131. It is the most perfect good, 127. Most difficult to acquire, 127. Why it is said to puff up, 133. Whether there is any in beasts, 124, 303.

Coitus a small epilepsy, 101.

The Colophonian spring, 3. It ceased, 75.

The Syrians venerated doves, 74 and following; and why, 74.

Pillars among the pagans, 109. Formerly they venerated them as statues, 58. The pagans adored them before images and statues, 237. The pillar of Bacchus, 237, and of Delphic Apollo, 237. Whether they signified the pillar which went before the Israelites in the desert, 237. The pillar of Acicarus, 237. Pillars of Mercury, on which they engraved philosophical doctrines in hieroglyphic letters, 237. Stone ones inscribed with unknown letters, and where, 237. One of brick, and another of stone raised by the descendants of Seth, and for what reason, 237.

Those who shaved their hair are rebuked, 83. See Hairs.

Combefis, 337, 340, 341, 358.

Who was the inventor of comedy, 291.

Several comic poets cited by name alone, 101.

Cometas the Cretan seer, 277.

That comets are not goddesses, 5.

Commelin's observations on the books of Clement, 141.

At what time Commodus was slain, 133.

Those who called mystical communion open venery are refuted, 113.

More delicate shellfish, 96. Giant mussels, ibid.

What distinction there is between a preacher and a writer, 103.

The temple of Concord, 75.

Why sexual intercourse is called knowledge, 115. How great the evils of immoderate intercourse are, 15.

Concupiscence can be diminished, not consumed, 15. He who has lusted, and afterwards restrained himself, is like a widow who through temperance again becomes a virgin, 13. See Desire.

Various contrivances of seasonings to be rejected, 13.

Diana Condylitis, 72.

What marriage is, 87. That it and the procreation of children are good, 114, 115, 119. The objections of heretics are dissolved, 850. The first law of marriage, 93. Precepts appointed for spouses by the Apostle, 198. How marriage can be holy and happy, 118. Its bond never to be broken, 114. What its legitimate use is, 114.

Spouses ought never to do anything except what is honourable and chaste, 15.

That evil customs handed down by the fathers are to be forsaken, 4.

Twofold contemplation, one of philosophers, and the other of Christians, 126. Threefold divine contemplation, 122. There are two parts of contemplation, and what they are, 222. How man is raised to the contemplation and understanding of God, 221. See Gnostic. Strife and friendship are not first principles, nor gods, 4.

One must live continently in all things, 115.

Definition of continence, 201. What distinction there is between the continence of pagans and of Christians, 202. The excellence of the latter, 201. It is good, 116. Its necessity, 11. It does not belong to God, ibid. It is commanded by the Mosaic law, 112. Christian continence is more excellent than philosophical, 114. Without the grace of God no one can attain it, ibid. What its habit effects, 346. To attain it desire must be cut off, 202. The errors of heretics concerning it are refuted, 202. Those who asserted that it should be observed out of hatred of the Creator are refuted, 114. Those who under pretext of it condemned marriage and creatures are refuted, 115.

The temple of Outrage, 73. Its image, 3.

Twofold conversion, from pagan religion to faith, and from faith to knowledge and charity, 131. Sincere conversion is to cease henceforth from every evil work, 225.

How one must behave at banquets, 14. Who are to be kept away from them, 13, 14, 90. The use of garlands at them, ibid., 13, 90 and following. No one is to be mocked at them, 13. Banquets of Christians, 47. How a Christian ought to speak and conduct himself at them, 14. What things are to be driven away from them, 14.

Eudoxus of Cnidus, hearer of Conuphis the Egyptian, 255.

Why certain psalms are inscribed with the name of the sons of Korah, 148.

The poetess Corinna, surnamed the Lyric Muse, victress over Pindar, and her works, 315.

The origin of garlands, 13, 90; use at banquets, 13, 90. Dead gods and men crowned, 10, 91. That custom increases, 14, 91. Why the use of them is forbidden, 91; by no means necessary, 14. Forbidden to a Christian, ibid. What crown is permitted to him, 91. It is not fitting for him to be crowned with flowers, 14. Garlands consecrated to false gods, 14.

The town of Corone, 279.

Our body is good, 120. Its right constitution

contributes to the skill of the mind, 116. Care must be taken of it, and why, 116.

That bodily chastisements are necessary for every Christian, even the perfect. See Gnostic, 213.

Rebukes rightly compared with a grain of mustard seed, 12.

Who was surnamed Κόρη, 133.

Augural ravens and taught to give responses, 2, 76. White ravens, 76. The pagans thought that the raven was the messenger of God, 5. Ravens imitate human voices, 128, 260.

The Corybantes slew their third brother, and how, 69; where they buried him, 7. Orgies of the Corybantes or Cabeiri, 5. They are assailed, 69.

Persian and Etruscan buskins, 71.

Crates the grammarian, who he was, and his various writings, 319. How and to whom he left his possessions, 343. Certain of his poems cited, 326.

The form of Cratina in the image of Cnidian Venus, 69.

Cratinus, poet of the Old Comedy, 85. His age, 331. Why the name of his comedy was Epigrameni, 298. Various works of Cratinus, 326; thefts, 124.

Certain poems of Cratinus the Younger cited, 327.

Crantor and Crates, hearers of Polemo, in whom the Old Academy ended, 255, 256.

That created things are good, 119, 224. But some better than others, 119. Those who condemned them are refuted, 115. How they differ among themselves, 259.

Crenus among the Heraclidae, 280.

Whether Creophilus wrote the Capture of Oechalia, 297.

Attic and Sicyonian sandals, 86. Adorned with golden nails, ibid.

Clay (creta), what kind of earth it is, 139.

Cretan wine, 23, 89.

Women who dye their hair are rebuked, 14. See Hair, Head, Hairs.

How great the abstinence of the athlete Crisson, 309, and chastity, 114.

Critias's saying concerning sons whom paternal severity renders best, 296. Thefts of Critias, 124.

Who were formerly called critics, 288. Who first received the name, 287.

Critolaus's opinion concerning the supreme good and ultimate end, 264. He succeeds Lycon, 256. Who he was, 257. Whether a Phaselite, ibid. The embassy given to him and Carneades and Diogenes, 257.

Barley-diviners, 2.

Crobylus will make a seasoner of viands, 293, 294.

The saffron robe steeped in ointments, 85.

How Croesus was freed from the fire, 3. Who the sons of Croesus were, and who their tutor was, 102 and following.

Croton, a town of Italy in Magna Graecia, 251.

Who Ctesias was, and his books concerning the kings of the Assyrians and Persians, and his age, 319.

Desire, 13. A good desire, under which temperance and prudence are placed, 223. It changes itself into various forms, 45. Its fuel is pleasure, 112. It is the root of vices, 14. To be cut off and how, 202. It and pleasure mutually generate each other, 202. How it is distinguished from appetite, 202.

No one worshipped Cupid before Charmus, 3.

Whether the Curetes are distinct from the Idaean Dactyls, 271.

Who are said to have first made the chariot, 287.

The ridiculous priests of Cybele collecting alms from door to door, and how, 82.

Cyclic poets, 277.

Cydippus, writer On the Inventors of Things, 293.

The sound of cymbals playing rhythmically in the island of Britain, 125.

The Cynic sect, 107. Whence it arose, 251. Its founder Antisthenes, 251.

Cinyras the Cyprian seer, 277. Who he was, and where buried, 54.

The riches of Cinyras, 16.

The gymnasium and temple of Cynosarges, 25.

Cynosuris, 67.

Who was the author of the Cyprian poems, 100.

Cyprian's opinion on the first origin of temples and images, 52.

Certain verses ascribed to the Cyrenaean and also to others, 102.

Whence the Cyrenaics were so called, 260 and following. Their threefold sect, Hegesiac, Theodorian, and Annicerian, 272. What pleasure they called the supreme good, 260.

Cyril of Alexandria's opinion on beauty, 88; and on the origin of the worship of the gods, 50.

Cyril of Jerusalem's opinion on abstinence from blood and what is strangled, 31.

The Cirrhaean tripod, 2.

By the command of Cyrus, Croesus freed from the fire, 3.

Mount Cithaeron, 2.

D

Dactyls. See Idaean.

The rhythmic composition of the dactylic foot, 271.

How beautiful the image of Daedalus's cow was, and by whom fashioned, 62.

To whom the name of demons was given, 3. See Hesiod. Whether they are the souls of dead men, 186. The name of gods given to them, by whom, 236. Myriads of demons dwelling on earth, 5. By whom the guardianship of men is said to be entrusted to them, 68. What wonderful and extraordinary things they were said to have done, 125. They were reported to have stirred up hail, storms, pestilence, 249. Magicians boasted that they had made them their servants, 4. Whence the worship of demons began, 49. See Idolatry. The pagans thought that they rejoiced in kitchen-smoke and libations, 236.

What the daemonion of Socrates was, 256. See Socrates.

What credit is to be given to Daimachus, 269.

Whose wife Daira was, 52.

Damasus, wrongly Damastus, brother of Democritus, foretold rain, 125.

What Δαμναμενεὺς is, 240.

Damnaneus and Celmis, Idaean Dactyls, first discovered iron in Cyprus, 271.

The deed of the daughters of Danaus, 314.

Who was the author of the Danais, 314.

What Daphne among the Antiochenes was, 97.

Dardanus showed the mysteries of the mother of the gods, 69.

The age of Darius son of Hystaspes, 274. The epistle of Darius to Heraclitus, 274.

By what law it is established that the dasypus is not to be eaten, 24. Whether it is the same as the hare, ibid.

David was a prophet and the author of the psalms, 24. He sang the psalms harmoniously and rhythmically, 307. By spiritual songs he called men away from the worship of idols, and put demons to flight, 2. The garments of David's daughters, 15.

Walking about sometimes lawful, 17.

Deborah the prophetess, 108.

Certain things added to the precepts of the Decalogue, 24. Explanation of it, 128. By most of its precepts idolatry is forbidden, ibid. See Moses.

Of what things a definition consists, 333. Definitions are various, 334.

Delas the Phrygian, one of the Idaean Dactyls, 271. To him Theophrastus ascribes the invention of smelting and tempering bronze, ibid.

The altar of Delos, 236.

Delphus invented divination by entrails, 238.

Demenetus the Phocian seer, 277.

Several called by the name of Demetrius, 102, 319.

Demetrius contrary to the established laws wished to be initiated into all the mysteries at once, 237.

Demetrius, writer of the Argolica, whether also of the books On the Kings of Judah, 98 and 319. He wrote books of Jewish Antiquities, 59.

Demetrius of Delos, the physician, 102.

Democritus, whom he succeeded, 254. How he left his patrimony and possessions, 343. He foretold rain, 249. His opinion concerning the first principles of things, 79. His εἴδωλα, or images, ibid. What εἴδωλα and first principles of things he established, 4. Opinion concerning the ultimate end, 262, 263. Why he disapproved of marriage, 265. What he said concerning God known by beasts, 164. The books and travels of Democritus, 237. Democritus cited by the name of the Abderite alone, 101. A certain saying attributed to him and to others, ibid.

The age of Demodocus, 108.

What demonstration is, 333. Its essence, ibid. It is twofold, ibid. How we can arrive at true demonstration, ibid. and following. It is reduced to faith, ibid. Most certain demonstrations concerning God, 110.

Demosthenes will make an orator, 293 and 294. His thefts, 124.

Demylus the tyrant, 312.

Who invented the extraction of a tooth, 285.

Dercetus, 74.

The Derdae, a race of mountain Indians, 93 and following.

God. Whence Θεὸς is called, 109. Its etymology, 165. As often as the article ὁ is prefixed to this name in sacred Scripture, so often is God Almighty signified, 163 and 165. Neither by that name nor by any other is the nature of God expressed, 163. His chief and mystical name is Jehovah, ibid. His other names, ibid. God is called law and reason, 109. What His various names are, 122. God can be expressed by no words, ibid. Nor known without the helping grace of the Son, ibid. How it can be known that God exists, 114, 124, 120. Whether it can be demonstrated, 120. Most certain demonstrations concerning Him are gathered from sacred Scripture, 110. Of what sort He is cannot be known by man, ibid. Man can know not what God is, but what He is not, 164. The knowledge of Him is always to be sought, 4. He is difficult to know and to explain, 164. Yet no one was utterly devoid of the knowledge of the one and almighty God, 164. Even in animals lacking reason there is a certain notion of God, ibid. Ignorance of God no one

can excuse, ibid. That in Greek philosophers it was imperfect, ibid. The unity and nature of God, 5. It is incorporeal, and what His perfections are, ibid. God, without beginning, is the beginning of all things, 120. One and unbegotten, 4. His omnipotence and providence known by the pagans, 164. He is not the author of evil which He did not prevent, 107. He who denies Providence is to be convinced by punishments rather than by words, 127. When it is taken away, the whole economy of the Lord's incarnation is removed, 107, and seems a fable, 164. It extends to all things, 107. That God is good is proved, 12. Mercy properly belongs to Him, 11. His mercy is the same as His justice, 12. His justice and beneficence is eternal, and never rests, 164. How He predestined men, ibid. What His chastisements and admonitions are, and their names, 12. God alone wise, 66. From Whom all fountains of wisdom and truth flowed, and how, 128. He is the first teacher of truth, 243. He is to be believed even without proofs, 120. God can be seen by no one in this life, ibid. We shall see Him face to face through pure and incorporeal applications of the mind alone only after death, 221. God is not subject to perturbations of the mind, 111, 119, 161, 164, 223. The wrath of God to be understood only metaphorically, 12; and His members allegorically, 122, 164. God, infinitely distant from man, approaches man, 110. With whom He communicates Himself, 121. Why to be loved with the whole heart, 5. He alone is to be served, 4. Follow God, 111. What His precepts are, 17. What His image is, and how it is in man, 112, 188. The opinion of the ancients concerning God, and various poems of the poets, 246 and 247. Of what sort gods and goddesses were among the pagans, 65. They are false, 381. They were men, 3. Their vices and shameful deeds, 3. Greater gods and of the greater nations, and other lesser ones, 67. Gods of the second order, 3. Tutelary gods or averters of evils, 8, or averrunci, 72 and following. The Greeks and Gentiles fashioned gods like themselves in form, morals, and perturbations of the mind, 130. And how, 234; angry, 235; injured by other men, 130. Their fictitious marriages, 247. What sepulchres, 3. Why kings and private men were enrolled in the order of the gods, 74. Who those were who believed that the power of proclaiming themselves or others gods was granted to them, 3. How the worship of several gods was introduced, 48. Those who venerate gods and goddesses are worse than the Egyptians, 3. See Idolatry. That goddesses were no more chaste than gods, 70. The mother of the gods is Phrygian, 251. Priests of the mother of the gods, 251. Certain philosophers, who mocked the gods, rewarded by emperors, 251.

The book of Deuteronomy written by Moses, 144.

The devil. He sometimes spoke true and useful things, 107.

The order of the diaconate, 191. See Order.

Why Diagoras was called an atheist, 2, 82. He treated Hercules with insult, 83.

Definition of dialect, 301. How many general dialects and languages there were in the beginning, 301. How many opinions on that matter, ibid. From the beginning barbarian, 302. How many among the Greeks, ibid. Dialects are attributed to the gods by Plato, 1226; and to animals lacking reason, 303.

What dialectic is, 306. From whom it took its beginning, ibid. It is twofold, one to be rejected, and the other to be acquired, 306. How great the usefulness of the latter is, ibid. Its duty, and from whom to be learned, 109. It is a rampart impregnable to the cavils of sophists, 126.

Diana Apanchomene, 72. Chelytis, ibid. Condyleatis, Condylitis, and Podagra, ibid. Destruction of the temple of the Ephesian foretold, 3. How magnificent the temple of Leucophryne was, 53. Feast day and temple of Munichia, 60. By whom the statue of Munichia was made, ibid. Men sacrificed to the Taurian, 3. What Diana, who had given birth in the temple, replied to Minerva, 235. Angry against the Aetolians on account of Oeneus, 130, 235.

Dicaearchus boasted that he was a disciple of Aristotle, 98.

By whom the dichord was invented, 291.

Those who cleave to the ornament of words miss the things themselves, 109. What Christian diction ought to be, 106. See Christians.

Didymaeus, 76. Didymus the grammarian, why called Chalcenterus, and how great the number of his books is, 319 and following. See Dionysius.

What the day on which God is said to have made the world signifies, 184. What Christians ought to do when day fails, 15.

Dieuchidas's books of Megarica, 320. He took many things from Philochorus, and his books cited, 300.

Love, 117, 208. See Charity.

Diodorus succeeds Critolaus, 356. Who he was, 357.

The five dialectician daughters of Diodorus Cronus, and who they were, 267.

Very many called by the name of Diogenes, 99. Diogenes of Apollonia said that air is the first principle of things, 78; whether also infinite worlds, and an infinite void, ibid.

Diogenes or Diomenes of Smyrna or of Cyrene, whom he succeeded, 254. His disagreements with Metrodorus and Zeno, ibid.

Witticism of Diogenes the Cynic against him whose beard was shaved, 83. His verses concerning an inscription affixed to his house by some wicked man, 241.

A passage of Diogenes Laertius is explained, 251.

Diogenes, author of the Persica, 99.

What and how many tragedies of Diogenes the tragedian, 326.

Diogenea, daughter of Celeus, 52.

Diomedon the tyrant, 312.

Dinon, writer of Persian History, 99.

Who Dion the philosopher and writer was, 320.

Whether Dionysius bishop of the Corinthians was the instructor of Clement of Alexandria, 10.

Dionysius the tyrant took away the golden garment from the statue of Jupiter, 8. Who that Dionysius was, 61.

Dionysius of Argos, 60, 320.

Dionysius the Carthaginian seer, 277.

Who Dionysius Thrax the grammarian was, and what his books were, 320.

Dionysius of Halicarnassus in the Chronica, 320.

Dionysius Iambus, 327.

The statue of Dionysus, 3.

The statue of Dionysus Morychus, 60. See Bacchus.

Diotimus put off the plague for ten years, 249.

Diotimus the Stoic, enemy of Epicurus, accused of atheism, paid the penalty with his head, 263. In what he said the ultimate end consists, 263.

Dipaenus the sculptor, 60.

The comedies of Diphilus, 327. Poems concerning the supreme judgement of God, 243. What he took from sacred Scripture concerning the general judgement, 123. His other thefts, 124.

The liberal disciplines are handmaids to philosophy, 106. In all of them there is something good, 305. How useful the knowledge of disciplines, arts, and sciences is to all, 305, 306. How a Christian ought to use them, ibid. They are useful so that the sense of the sacred Scriptures may be rightly perceived, 106. In them even the most perfect gnostic can be exercised, 223. What their use is, 126. Useless abuse is to be avoided, 126. See Inventors.

Which disciples were like their masters, and their names, 293 and following.

That the disciples of Christ spoke parabolically, 144.

Who invented the dithyramb, 289. Its etymology, 290.

The book entitled Who is the rich man that can be saved, 335. Analysis of that book, 335 and following. How that book, and by whose agency it has come down to us, 337. Where and when published under the title of a homily of Origen, 337. And afterwards under the name of Clement of Alexandria, ibid. Ghislerius's annotations on it, ibid. When, how, and where published by Combefis and with what observations, ibid.; and by John Fell, bishop of Oxford, 338; and by Thomas Ittig, ibid. What notes of Valesius on its last part, 338. That this book is corrupt, 338. Whether Origen is its author, 338. Or Clement of Alexandria, 338. Whether this work ought to be called a book or a homily, or is composed of certain discourses, 339. At what time written, 339. For what reason, 339. Whether it is the eighth book of the Stromata of Clement of Alexandria, 339. New observations on it, 339. Whether there is in it the error of Origen concerning the pre-existence of souls, 340; and concerning the uncertain salvation of angels, 341; and concerning divine grace, 341; and the error of the Novatians, 342. Whether its author cleaves less than is fitting to the literal, and too much to the allegorical sense of sacred Scripture, 342; and speaks of the true ordination of sacred ministers of the Church, 342. Whether by the name of σφραγῖδος he designated baptism or confirmation, 342; and made mention of the monastic order, 343. Fragments of that book, 343.

How the things which Christ said to the rich are to be explained, 335. On what condition entrance to the heavenly kingdom is not shut off to them, 336. Which of them have, or do not have, a place in heaven, 336. Why certain men despaired of their salvation, 335, 336, 339. Preposterous praises and flatteries of them, 335. See Poor.

What true riches are, 116. In what they consist, 16. Whether they are to be utterly renounced and forsaken, 336. Not of themselves, but from their use are they good or bad, 336. How they are to be used, 16. The desire for them is to be plucked up by the roots, 336. How pernicious bad administration of them is, 14. Whose they and other magnificent things ought to be, 15.

Various kinds of diviners, 2.

Division is threefold, 333.

Docetae, heretics. Why so called, 230, 234. Their chief Cassian, 115. See Cassian.

Of what sort he who teaches others ought to be, and how he ought to teach, 105 and following.

That doctrine and nature are a similar thing, 119.

How wonderful the doctrine of Christ is, 105. Not rashly by

all to be either received or imparted, 105. Fourfold grafting of Christian doctrine, 127. Its beginning God, 107. Why it was not handed down in writing by the elders, 343. Twofold doctrine of beginners and of the perfect, 122.

The Dodonaean bronze, 2. It ceased to prophesy, 75. Whether distinct from the Thesprotian cauldron, ibid.

What distinction there is between master and servant, 16.

How proud the furniture of houses was among the pagans, 86. It is refuted, ibid.

Not to have a swallow in the house, 238.

What the time for sleeping is, 13. Of a sleeping man there is no use, just as neither of a dead man, 46. One must not sleep through the whole night, 46.

Dorotheus's Pandects and other books, 320.

Draco the lawgiver of the Athenians, his age, 276.

Why Drepanum was so called, 67.

What the method of philosophizing of the Druids among the Gauls was, 269. A woman of the Druids foretold the empire to Diocletian, 271.

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The Ebionites admitted the Gospel according to the Hebrews, 152.

Drunkenness forbidden, 13. It is dissuaded from by the deeds of drunkards, ibid. and following; to be shunned, 89. Which nations are more prone to drunkenness, 13, 89 and following. See Helots.

The Church or congregation of the faithful is the holy and true temple of God, 130. Which is the true one, and what its marks and characters are, 163. It is most ancient, one, and catholic, 133, 163. Rebecca a figure of the Church, 21. The Church the bride of Christ, 114. To fulfil the person of the Church, 18. Whether Christians had any churches in the first centuries, 56. Whether they were called temples, 56. How one must approach the Church, 46; and remain in it, 17. How great the modesty in it, 46. Abuse of certain ones departing from it, 46. See Temple.

The book of Ecclesiasticus, 149. Whether canonical, 149. Cited under the name of Wisdom, 149, 157. Why ascribed to Jesus Sirach and Solomon, 149. Written by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, 23. Which passages of Ecclesiasticus Clement of Alexandria cited in a manner different from others, 25, 28. How great the variety of its various codices is, 25. Passages of it indicated by no one, 26. They are pointed out, 157.

Edemus among the Cythnians, 68.

Several called by the name of Eetion, and who they were, 69.

Eetion supplied the orgies of the Samothracians, 69.

Of the same effect there are sometimes several causes, 334. See Cause.

The Watcher angels, 44. See Angel.

Who the Elcesaites were, 234.

By whom the Eleatic sect was instituted, and why so called, 254, 107.

How the elect are called by the poets, 120.

Alms to be imparted, 17. To whom and how, 337. By it sins are purged, 111. See Rich.

By what words the elements were signified, 121. That they are not gods. See Philosophers.

The industry of elephants in drawing someone out of mud, or a ditch into which he has fallen, 303.

Elephantine, a region of Egypt, 73 and following.

Eleusinia. See Ceres.

The city of the Eleans founded by Alius, 68.

Gluttons are compared to Elpenor, 14.

The Elysian fields, 120.

Empedotimus the seer, 279.

Empedocles the philosopher and poet is extolled with great praises, 99. His poetic philosophy, 248. He calmed the winds, 125, 249, 327. Certain of his poems, 327. What he said concerning God known by philosophers, 164. Concerning the first principles of things, 78. Concerning charity, 121, 265. Concerning the wretched condition of man, and where his poems about it are found, 258. Concerning the future blessedness of man after this life, 248. Concerning the world to be consumed and renewed by fire, 248. Thefts of Empedocles, 124. What he took from sacred Scripture, 123, and from Athamas, 296. By whom his poems were cited, 249. See Branchus.

Whence the Encratites obtained their name, 230. They are refuted, 42, 234. Their manner of living, 107.

The words of Enoch concerning the transgressing angels, 345, 347.

The Enthymesis of the Valentinians, 232.

That Enyo is not a goddess, 5.

Ephaptides unlawful, 15.

What the Ephesian magic letters were, 190. Who invented them, 121.

The Ephors of the Lacedaemonians, 311 and following.

Ephorus of Cumae, the historian, 320.

Various comedies of Epicharmus the poet and comic writer, and certain of his maxims, 327 and following. Whether he invented comedy, or rendered it more perfect, 192. By whom his verses concerning the supreme power of God were cited, 247. Concerning the divine Word, 123.

Concerning faith, 205. Concerning happiness, 120. Thefts of Epicharmus, 124. From sacred Scripture, 123; corrupt verses, 139.

What Ἐπικιναίδισμα is, 89.

The age of Epicurus, 277. At first he had taught grammar, 288. He said that all men must philosophize at every time, 117. He received his dogmas from Democritus, 300. He was an author of impiety, 105. His opinions concerning God, 125. Concerning the providence of God, 4, 80. Concerning faith, 110, 205. Whence Epicurus received that all things happen at random, 247. What pleasure he said was the supreme good and ultimate end, 260, 261, 264. Why he disapproved of marriage, 265. Whether also in a wise man, 265. His error that a wise man can secretly commit injustice is refuted, 119. Epicurus used to say that in sleep he would be like himself, 216. His sayings concerning self-sufficiency, freedom from perturbations, and frugality, 297. Thefts of Epicurus, 124, 125; from sacred Scripture, 123.

The philosophy of the Epicureans to be rejected, 107. They took away the providence of God, and enrolled pleasure in the number of the gods, 107. Their opinions concerning God, concerning pleasure, and concerning atoms, 257. And that a wise man, if he is able to lie hid from all, can do injury to others, ibid. They had certain secrets, which they did not permit to all, 266.

What inscription was before the temple of Epidaurus, 236. What that temple was, 236.

Epigenes the Thespian seer, 277.

Epigenes the astrologer and historian, 327.

Epigenes the poet, and his various poems, 327. Book On the Poetry of Orpheus, 327. He interpreted the symbolic modes of speaking of Orpheus, 121.

The age of Epimenides, 52. Whether he first erected shrines, 52.

Epimenides the seer, 279. By his sacrifice the Persian war was put off for ten years, 249. His body preserved by the Lacedaemonians, 279.

Whether Epimenides the Cretan was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272. Cited by Paul, 156.

The fable of Epimetheus and Prometheus in Plato, 267.

Epiphanes son of Carpocrates, and who he was, 232. His book On Justice, 232. His errors, 197; concerning marriage, 198. Concerning the community of wives and execrable assemblies, 113, and concerning the old law, ibid. He used the authority of Plato in defence of his error, 265. See Carpocrates.

The opinion of Epiphanius concerning the year, month, and day on which Christ was born, 171. Concerning the celibacy of those initiated into sacred orders, 193. A passage of Epiphanius emended, 83.

Whether the names of bishop and presbyter were used indiscriminately, 192. The order of bishops is distinct from the order of presbyters, 45. Clement of Alexandria distinguished both, 191. What the opinion of Clement of Alexandria was on that matter, 192.

The etymology of Ἐπιστήμη, 119.

Who first wrote letters, 288.

Who were called Epoptae, 237. In what year they became such, 238.

Feasts of Christians, 47. See Banquets.

Erichthonius first yoked horses, 287.

Eratosthenes of Cyrene the critic, whether the first grammarian, 287. His various writings, 320.

The Eretrian sect, 254.

Whether Erichthonius is rightly said to have first yoked horses, 287. His sepulchre, 52.

Eriphyle the Argive courtesan, and whose the poem about her is, 83.

The Erinyes or Furies, 61. See Furies.

Erythras is said to have first built a ship, 285.

Abundance of meats to be rejected, 13. See Food.

Esdras the priest renewed the sacred Scriptures, 109. Whether his fourth book is canonical, 150. Cited by Clement of Alexandria, 158.

The book of Esther, 150. Whether canonical, 150.

Ethics introduced by Socrates, 256. See Moral and Socrates.

The falsity of the religion of the pagans is demonstrated from their impious worship, 48. They knew God imperfectly, 125. Their idolatry, 125. They sacrifice to dead men, 125. They concealed their mysteries from others, 120, 122. See Gods and Idolatry. Virtues of the pagans, 201. Good precepts not to be rejected, 17. How corrupt their morals were, 83. See Morals.

The Etruscans devised the trumpet, 285. Necromancy of the Etruscans, 2.

Evander built the Lupercal, 236.

There are only four Gospels, both canonical and of divine authority, 152, 162. In what order written, 152, 162. By those with whose name they are inscribed, 128. Certain words cited by Clement of Alexandria under the name of the Gospel alone, 28. Whence taken, 159. See Luke, Mark, Matthew, John, Scriptures, Testament. In what way the Gospel according to the Egyptians was cited by Clement of Alexandria, 153. Certain words of it, 153. By whom rejected, 153. Certain words of it are explained, 115. The Gospel according to the Hebrews,

111. Cited by Clement of Alexandria and others, 152. What that Gospel was, 152. Written in Hebrew, and preserved in the library of Caesarea, Jerome translated it, 152. Who used it, 152. Whether it is different from the Gospel of Matthew, 153. What the opinion of Clement of Alexandria concerning it was, 153. Why cited by him, 153. Certain words of it spoken to Salome are explained, 114. The Gospel according to the Apostles, 153. The Gospel of the Twelve, 153.

Who Eubulus the poet was, and when he lived, and how varied his comedies were, 327.

The Eucharist is good grace, 41. By its name alone the sacrament of the body and blood of Christ was called, 190. Its image in the bread and wine offered by Melchisedech, 190. A type of it was the cluster of grapes given to the Hebrews, 41; and the paschal lamb, 41. In the Eucharist wine is diluted with water, 13. Wine tempered with water is converted into the blood of Christ, 13. That in the Eucharist there is the true body and blood of Christ, Clement of Alexandria asserted, 12, 13, 40, 41, 42, 190. In what sense the words of John the Evangelist concerning this sacrament were taken by the same Clement, 40; and of Matthew, 41, 43. The Eucharist a wonderful mystery, 40. In it we are nourished, and receive true increases of the soul, 38, 40. Partakers of it are sanctified in body and soul, and how, 41. Not to be rashly received or imparted by all, 105.

The statue of Samian Juno made by the chisel of Euclides, and who he was, 103.

Eudemus the Carian, 299.

Eudemus of Naxos pillaged the writings of Melesagoras, 299. His astrological histories, 299. Thefts of Eudemus, 125.

Three bore the name of Eudoxus, who they, and especially the Cnidian, were; this one was the disciple of Conuphis the Egyptian, 258.

Euhemerus called an atheist by the pagans, and why, 2, 82.

Eugamon or Eugrammon ascribed the book of Musaeus On the Thesprotians to himself, 124, 297.

Eumelus the historiographer turned the poems of Hesiod into prose, 298.

Eumelus the Corinthian poet, 298. Who and when Eumelus the poet was, and his various works, 329. Thefts of Eumelus, 124.

The Eumenides or Furies, 61. Their origin, 3. See Furies.

The cithara of Eunomus, 2.

Euphorion too obscure, and who he was, 100. His poems concerning God, 247. He spoke symbolically, 21. What he took from sacred Scripture, 123.

Eupolemus's book On the Kings of Judaea, and various fragments of it, 321.

Euripides the philosopher of the stage, disciple of Anaxagoras, and certain of his poems cited, 328. In these he mocked the gods, 4, 82. Where they are found, 82. He noted the voracity of the insatiable Hercules, 82. His Chrysippus and Protesilaus, 297. Corrupt verses are corrected, 138. He abused the authority of Plato, 265. Having imitated a poem of Homer, 295. Poems of Euripides concerning God, 82. Cited by various writers, 247. Obscure discourse concerning the Father and the Son of God, 167. Where his verses concerning the wretched condition of man are found, 258. Concerning Hippo, and by whom cited, 272. Thefts of Euripides, 124. From sacred Scripture, 120. From Hyperides, 296. From Epicurus, 297. Whence his verses are cited, 236, 258, 296. Certain ones cited under the name of poetic grace, 238, and under the name of the tragedian alone, 102.

Author of the Europia, 327.

Eurydemusa mother of the Graces, how embraced by Jupiter, 66.

Eurysus the Pythagorean said that man was created by the supreme Maker, who used himself as model, 253.

The opinion of Eusebius concerning the year in which Christ was born, 171. Concerning the first origin of idolatry, 49. And of temples, 51.

Why the Eutychites were so called, 230. Sprung from the Simonians, 234. Whether the same as the Euchites, 234.

The Chronica of Euthymenes, 321.

The ring of Execestus tyrant of the Phocians, by which he foresaw future things, 279. See Ring.

Bodily exercise granted to youths and men, 48.

The book of Exodus written by Moses, 144. A passage not indicated is pointed out, 156.

What experience is, 111.

What the true expiation of the soul is, 130.

Whether expiations among the pagans were distinct from the lesser mysteries, 237. Certain superstitious ones, 241.

Expectation, what it is, 110.

The Tuscans or Etruscans devoted themselves most to divination by entrails, 284.

Whether the prophet Ezekiel was represented by Zoroaster, 252. Prophecy is asserted for him, 23. Which passages of his Clement cited in a manner different from others, 27. Pythagoras is called by some a disciple of Ezekiel, 107.

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Whether the use of beans is evil, 847. It is said to have been forbidden by the Pythagoreans, 258. Whether that is true, 258. See Pythagoras.

Rational faculties the ministers of the will, 111.

Precept concerning the treatment of servants, 17.

Which women were called Φαινομήριδαι, 84.

Fell (John), bishop of Oxford, 338.

Life, salvation, and grace common to woman with man, and all things common, 11. How virtues are common, 117. Whether they can be changed into males, 95. Artifice of women, 46. They ought to give attention to wool-working and when, 15. What their ornaments ought to be, 15. The garment ought to cover all parts of their body, 15; and their head is to be covered with a veil, and of what sort, ibid. The luxury of women adorned with gems is rebuked, 15. Cosmetics, of what sort and how damnable, 16. The luxury of those who kept animals of great price is rebuked, 16. See Garment. Women carried in a litter on the shoulders of Gauls to the temple, 16. See Woman.

What preparation of dishes is forbidden, 13.

To whom the discovery of iron is attributed, 271, 272, 286. See Bronze and Idaeans.

Whether the fetus which is carried in the womb is an animal, 333. That this question ought not to be raised, 335, 347; and it is useless, 308.

Who is faithful, 110; and in what, 120. He will become faithful who observes the commandments of God, 129. He believes the sacred Scriptures, more certain than any demonstration, 210.

Faith is twofold, 333. Good and bad, 120. Divine and human, 111, 202. What the distinction between them is, ibid. The unity of faith, 117. Definition of divine faith, 202. How it was distinguished from knowledge by some, 202. Whether it is in reality distinguished from it, 120. In what it ought to be, 120. By meditation on faith comes knowledge, 110. But it is more excellent than it, and is its criterion, 110, 203. How faith differs from opinion, 110. By faith we believe past things, 111. That faith, piety, and charity are connected with one another, 111, it dwells with hope, 202. How from it we ascend to charity and γνῶσις, 203. What the connexion of faith with charity is, 110. See Charity. Faith a virtue unto salvation, is a free assent to those things which are handed down in sacred Scripture, 111. Although in our free choice, it is nevertheless the gift of God, 110. Infused by Him, 177. It is voluntary, and the gift of God, 202. It is something divine, 110. The necessity of faith, 110; unto justification, 245. Of how great necessity it is for attaining eternal salvation, 202; even for Jews and Gentiles, 203. See Abraham and Philosophy. Why no one of those who have not received the Christian faith can give a legitimate excuse, 106, 244, 245. Assent must be given to faith, 110; how certain it is, 202. Faith is the basis of truth, 110, 202, 203; the beginning of action, and the foundation of prudent choice, 110, 202; the basis of charity, 202. Besides faith good works are necessary for attaining eternal salvation, 205. That it is productive of good works, 121, 205. See Gnostic. Faith is the worker of good things, and the foundation of righteous action, 122. Besides it there is need of inquiry, 203. The duty of faith is repentance, 110. Its virtue, 345; force and power, 203. It raises us to the Word of God, 110. It is the fullness of the Mosaic law, 336. By it the unbeliever is transplanted into Christ, 202; and sins are purged, 110. Faith is perceived by the ears of the soul, and how it becomes perfect, 120. When it is established, 120. All can attain it, 110. See Hope. By faith we learn not to resist divine providence, 110. From sacred Scripture it gathers most certain demonstrations concerning God, 110. How he who has received it becomes a royal man and a gnostic, 128. By it the gnostic stands, 111. The errors of heretics concerning it are refuted, 202. What Solomon and Xenocrates said concerning it, 110; and other philosophers, 110. Who first set up the temple of Faith and Peace, 120. Faith dedicated on the Capitol, 73.

What confidence is, 110. Only in God, 110.

Paternal severity renders sons best, 296.

Why the Son of God is said to be without beginning, yet eternal, 351. He is the true image of the Father, 5. The Son of God did not cease to recall men first through the prophets, then through Himself to the true worship of God, 2. Why He willed to become man, 168. He is the most perfect and most excellent of all; His offices, and benefits towards men, 129. He called all equally, ibid. The divine Singer, by heavenly harmony He founded the world, 2. The first teacher of all, 126. Allegorically He is called light and day, 119.

Various opinions of philosophers concerning the ultimate end and supreme good are recounted, 113, 260. See Philosophers.

Firmicus. See Julius.

Inventors of the pipe, 285.

The use of flowers, 91; by no means necessary, 14. What use is lawful for a Christian, 14. Ointments composed from flowers, 14.

The ancients feigned that rivers were animate, 66. The Persians worshipped them, 66.

The sound of leaves in the woods like the song of birds, 125.

Ants dig up and guard gold, 15, 42. Of what sort and of how great size, 42.

In how many ways fornication is spoken of, 199. The Apostle proscribed it, 115. To defile the ears with fornications and debaucheries is unlawful for Christians, 4.

What and of what sort fortitude ought to be, 112. What is desired in women, 117. What its species are, 200. That by it man becomes like God, 201.

Fortune consecrated by the Romans on a dung-heap, 61. Her altar, ibid. That she is not a goddess, 5.

Who called one another brethren, 189. Those who are regenerated by the same Word, 208; and in the same city, 123, 248. Precept concerning rebuking brethren, 17.

How approved frugality is, 13. We ought to pursue it, 16. How rich it is, ibid.

Cosmetics and various mixtures bring on diseases, 16. How immoderate and damnable the cosmetics of women are, 16. It is rebuked, 84. All cosmetics are forbidden, 17.

By what names the Furies were called, 61. Their origin, 3. That they are not goddesses, 5. By whom their images were fashioned, 9. Of what material, and by whom their statues were fashioned, and where placed, 61.

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Gaius Julius Nepos the seer, 281.

Who the Galactophagi were, 273.

Galen's opinion concerning the manner in which milk is formed, 93.

Galeus and the Galeotae seers, and whence this name was given to them, 280.

The frugality of the Gauls, 16. Women foretelling future things, 271. Pythagoras is called by some their disciple, 107. See Women.

Gluttons are assailed, 20.

Joy enrolled in the number of the gods, 73. Its image as of a god, 3.

What Gaunacae or Gausapae were, 86.

The use of gems unlawful, 13. See Women.

Who attacked generation with curses, 113. They are refuted, 114. That it is not evil, 182. See Marriage.

The book of Genesis written by Moses, 144.

By whom geometry was invented, 283, 284. Its use, 126. How useful to Christians, 307.

The opinion of George the presbyter concerning the preaching of Christ in hell, 176.

The opinion of George Syncellus concerning the Watcher angels, 44.

Gerandrion, 2. That oracle of Jupiter Ammon vanished, 75.

The hair of the Germans, 83. How their women foretold future things, 107.

Ghislerius, 206, 208, 337.

Gladiators used to be fattened with stronger foods, 90. They were present at banquets, 20. How cruel their contests there were, 90. By whom that custom was introduced, 90. They are to be kept away from banquets, 13. To whom they are compared, ibid.

The sword of Mars discovered, 57. The sword sacred to the kings of the Scythians, 57. With a sword or blade set up the Scythians sacrificed to Mars, 98. See Acinaces.

To Glaucus of Chios Herodotus ascribes the invention of smelting and tempering bronze, 271.

Glory is not a goddess, 5.

By the name Γνῶσις the perfection of Christian life is more often signified, 212. It is sometimes taken for the intuitive vision of God and eternal salvation, 211. Γνῶσις a twofold knowledge, one of barbarian or Greek philosophers, the other of true philosophers, or Christians, 211. Various definitions of the latter, 211. Of what sort and how great perfection it is, 211. Its foundation, faith, hope, charity, 211. It is a spiritual death, and how, 211. It is most difficult to acquire, 211. It is the nourishment of the soul, 213; and rational food, 122. Gnostic doctrine is compared with engrafting, 260. The gnostic life is praised by the Greeks, 122.

What the name of Γνωστικοῦ, gnostic, signifies, 210. Who he is, 111, 210. His chief virtue is knowledge, 126. How great it is, 211. Its usefulness and duty, 127. He knows spiritual things, 126. Preliminary exercises of the gnostic life, 118. Its basis and foundation, 118; and progress, 118. Purgation and progress of the gnostic, 126. Various are his advances in virtue, and various the kinds of perfection, 212. Through the whole course of life he always makes progress, 212. He loves truth, and how he is raised to God, 116. What the gnostic ought to do, and what his whole manner of living ought to be, 131. Even to the supreme summit of virtue, 131, 132 and following. What the gnostic does, 117, 120. He ought always to give attention to good actions, 223. What his good works ought to be, 213. His words, life, and morals ought altogether to correspond to one another, 213. According to the merit of grace he manifests his operations, 213. His works follow knowledge, as a shadow the body, 213. He acts on account of the hope of promised honour, but asks for eternal happiness, 212. He does not

act for the sake of a reward to be received from God in this world, 212. The works, thoughts, and words of the gnostic are pure, 127. How he discharges a magistracy, 129; and gives attention to virtues, 129. His will, judgement, exercise, words, dogmas, morals are the same, 111. By what steps of virtues and good works he arrives at the perfect assimilation to God, 129. The cardinal virtues of the gnostic, 140. He ought to give attention to them, 213. How he ought to use prudence, 213. The justice of the gnostic, 213; and how he ought to use it, 213. It is fourfold, 127. Its companions wisdom and holiness, 213. He is recognized by the increase of justice, 128. How the gnostic is called continent, 131. Of what sort his temperance and continence ought to be, 214. His wife after the begetting of children is judged by him as a sister, 214. How solicitous he is towards her and his children, 132. Of what sort his use of food, drink, and anointing is, 131, 214. The firstfruits of the things which he uses he offers to God, 214. Some of the gnostics abstained from meats and wine, 130, 214. How the gnostic understands the fast of the fourth and sixth day, 132, 214. Discourse which brings any pleasure he holds suspect, 131, 214. He chastises the faculty of sight, 132, 214; and also his own body, and why, 120, 215. How he restrains pleasures by day and by night, 215. He devotes himself wholly to knowledge, 215. He strives with great force that he may become free from desire, 215. He transcends the whole world, 220. The gnostic admits nothing of alluring pleasure, not even in dreams, 130, 132. What the cardinal virtues and charity effect in him, 131. How he approaches banquets, 130. What his dreams are, 132. How chaste and holy they are, 215, 216, 224. What Clement of Alexandria and others handed down concerning them, ibid. What the gnostic does and attains by fortitude, 214. Enjoying familiar intercourse with God, he possesses fortitude and endurance, 112. What he does in adversity, 212. By no adversities is he torn away from the charity of God, 117. He despises any tortures inflicted by tyrants, 131. Always prepared for death, 132, 214; and to undergo martyrdom, 118. How he undergoes it, 214. The gnostic stands by faith, 111, 217. How necessary faith is to him, and how it is perfected in him, 217. He joins it with hope, 217. The gnostic inseparable from hope, and from the commandment of God, 217. He not only hopes for, but desires his own and others' eternal happiness, 217. How great the charity of the gnostic ought to be, 217. On account of it alone he acts, 218. What some have said concerning his pure love, and concerning the sacrifice of eternal salvation, 217. Whether Clement of Alexandria subscribed to this opinion, 217. In what sense he said that the knowledge of God is preferred by the gnostic to eternal salvation, if they could be separated, 218. If anyone should propose to the gnostic eternal salvation separated from the knowledge of God, he will choose the knowledge of God, 118. If by hypothesis he should receive from God the power of doing without any punishment those things which are forbidden, he will do nothing contrary to right reason, 219. Nor even if he should be persuaded that the things which he does will lie hid from God, ibid. Drawn by an interior delight, he will always choose that which is honourable, 219. Why Clement of Alexandria proposed these impossible hypotheses, 219. Love persuades the gnostic of all things, 111. Through charity he becomes the friend of God, 212. Of what sort the charity of the gnostic towards his neighbour is, 131 and following. No one is an enemy to him except on account of sin, 131. How he conducts himself towards his neighbour, 214. He loves his neighbour, and prays to God for him, 212. The gnostic, in thought, mouth, and words, pours forth prayers to God before food, while he takes food, before he goes to bed, and in the time of night, 220. In every place and time he honours and prays to God, 127, 130; and always becomes better, 130. Always pure for prayer, he prays with the angels, 132. What the prayer of the gnostic to God is, 119. What he asks from God, 127, 130, 220. He asks for an increase of contemplation and virtue, and perseverance in justice, 178. He asks for perseverance in good and eternal happiness, 220. What he asks for others, 221. With what mind he asks, 221. He obtains from God all things which he asks for, 130. And God hears his thoughts, 130. Before he asks, God hears him, 127. His whole life is prayer to God and conversation with Him, 131. Gnostic virtue renders a man cultivated by contemplation and action, 345. Of what sort the contemplation of the gnostic is, 221 and following. It is continual, and perpetual, as far as can be done, 222, and how, 222. It never excludes either good actions or good acts of the virtues, 222. There are two parts of his contemplation, and what they are, 222. From it flow good actions, 223. The essence of the gnostic is to contemplate God perpetually, 118. How God is always present before his eyes, 223. He ought to imitate God, 120. In what his likeness and image to God consists, 127. How he becomes perfectly like God, 120, 224, 225, 227; and to the divine Word, and Christ, 227; and to the angels, 227. How he becomes like God the Saviour, equal to the angels, an apostle, presbyter, and deacon, 127. A royal man and holy priest of God, 130; improperly he is a presbyter and deacon, 191; and an angel, 214; but inferior to him

in vesture and time, 166, 184. Why he is called a god, 113. How his soul becomes an earthly image of God, and a temple of the Holy Spirit, 130, 131. Who is the perfect gnostic, 112. That he may become perfect, three things are required, and what they are, 223. His perfection, 118. What the greatest purgation or perfection is, 223; and the highest, 126. It is described in the Epistle of Paul to the Corinthians, 132, 213; and in the epistle of Clement of Rome to the same, 213. What his rest is, 214. Whether the gnostic is free from perturbations of the mind, 214. Of what sort Ἀπάθεια or freedom from perturbations is in him, 223, 275, 276. He cannot obtain the perfect habit of it in this life, 223, 225. In what sense Clement said that he arrives at the most perfect habit of impassibility, 224; and that his principal part is immutable and invariable, 224. That by assimilation to God he becomes impassible, 224. What desire he excludes from him, 225. In what sense he said that he no longer has need of fortitude and temperance, 225; and no longer uses the body, 225; and is in the flesh just as if he were without flesh, 226. The gnostic becomes unique and immutable, and holily contemplates God, 120. How the habit of virtue becomes natural in him, 130, 228. Whether he arrives at that incommutable habit of perfection whereby he can no longer lose virtue, 228. Why the gnostic alone is a brave man, 213; pious and religious, 210; and for what reason, 129. He is the holy and true temple of God, 130. Of what sort the knowledge of the gnostic is, 128. Even the most perfect can be exercised in human disciplines, 223, 225. How he ought to use the knowledge of disciplines and arts, 121, 305. What he receives from them, 211. How he ought to use music, and also astronomy, 307. He notes the increases and decreases of numbers, 306. He can render human learning holy, 76. To what philosophical study and how he can indulge, 78, 243. He ought to teach others, 112. How he teaches them, 78. He ought to beware of pride, 112. To whom and how he reveals sacred mysteries, 127.

The Gnostics are rebuked, 345; and those who said that man can no longer sin, 348. Error of a certain Gnostic concerning concupiscence, 118; and concerning pleasure, 112. A certain man prated that through the use of pleasure he fought with pleasure, and that he alone was great who, having experienced pleasure, was not overcome, 234. He abused the authority of Nicolas, 234.

Gobryas, 234.

What Γόνιμος λόγος is, 180.

Gorgias of Leontini the orator and sophist pillaged the writings of Melesagoras, 298. How distinguished an orator and what orations he is said to have first composed, 288. His thefts, 125.

Gorgonios, a magical name, 240.

Whether the jackdaw is the same as the charadrius, 96. The pagans thought that it was the messenger of God, 3.

The Greeks always children, 109, 255. All Greeks are Scythians to me, 273. They fashioned milder gods, 234. Thieves and pillagers of writers of every kind, 124. Their thefts from our sacred Scriptures are recounted, 123; and their mutual thefts, 124, 295.

Who was the inventor of grammar, 287. Its necessity and usefulness, 306. For one desiring to profess philosophy, 245. Who was first called a grammarian, 287.

Hailstorms and tempests were reported to be stirred up by demons, 249; and by magicians, 249.

The necessity of grace for doing all good works is demonstrated, 177 and following; for good thoughts, 177. For rightly knowing God and His Son, 177; for continence, and abstinence from lusting, 177; for overcoming temptations, 177; for believing, and having true faith, 177. Whether the necessity of prevenient grace was asserted by the author of the book: Who is the rich man that is saved, etc., 291. The chief thanksgiving is to do those things which are best, 129.

The opinion of Gregory the Great concerning those whom Christ after His death freed from hell, 176.

Not even a syllable, 320.

Griffins guard gold, 15. Where, and what they are, 93.

How great the vice of gluttony among the pagans, 304.

What Γυνὴ signifies, 53.

The gymnasium or bodily exercise useful for health, 17. Granted to youths and men, 48. Granted to youths instead of baths, 88.

The manner of living of the Gymnetae, 270.

Whence the Gymnosophists arose, and received their name, and what their method of philosophizing was, 269. Their twofold kind, 269. They remain in virginity, and how they announce future things, 114. They do not use women, 270. They rashly cast themselves into the fire, 116; and at the beginning of old age were burned alive, 309. Questions proposed by Alexander the Great to the Gymnosophists of the Indians, and solved on the spot, 270, 125.

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Heresies were foretold by Christ, 132. Whence and in what

way they obtained their names, 230. From their founders, places, nation, or perverse acts and dogmas they received their name, 133. The origin of all is referred to two heads, 113, 279. All are more recent than the Catholic Church, 133, 230. By what marks and how heresies are distinguished from the teachings of the true Church, 163, 230. Their disagreement ought not to prevent one from giving one's name to the Christian religion, 132. Heretics are of a twofold kind, 230. The Δοξόσοφοι deceived themselves alone, 230. Others corrupted or rejected the sacred Scriptures, 230. In how many ways they adulterated them, 143. They abuse them, 133. Puffed up with pride, ibid. They leave no stone unturned lest they be driven from their seat, ibid. Why they mock one another, 133. Although heretics do not err in certain things, nevertheless they have utterly overthrown our chief dogmas, and how, 127. Certain petty men and of no value said that man was formed by diverse powers, and that the parts as far as the navel are of a more divine art, while those below are of a lesser, 233. Who they were, ibid. Of what sort the baptism of heretics is, 190. They seek water without water in the sacrament of the Eucharist and of baptism, 108. The errors of heretics are demonstrated from the sacred Scriptures, 163. Wherefore they shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven, 133. Questions of heretics are to be avoided, 120. The multitude of heretics ought to restrain no one from the profession of the Christian religion, 230. Which heretic can be healed, 229, and led back to the way of truth, 113. He is drawn to the truth by force, 260.

The town of Halcyone, 279.

Dorian and Phrygian harmony, 307.

Who invented the harpe or curved sword, 286.

The spear among the Romans formerly the image of Mars, 57.

The Hebrew language is more ancient than the Greek, 128. It has a peculiar dialect, ibid. And various tropes, and why, ibid.

The philosophy of the Hebrews far more ancient than the Greek, 107. See Moses, Philosophy, Philosophers, and Writers. Whether there was any statue or image in the temple of the Hebrews, 63.

Hecate. Chief of wicked demons, 60.

Several Hecataeuses, and which one was the pillager of the writings of Melesagoras, 298 and 299.

Hecataeus's opinion concerning the ultimate end, 262, 263. Thefts of Hecataeus, 125.

Herodotus copied many things of Hecataeus of Miletus, 300.

Who Hecataeus the historian was, and his books, 321 and following.

The Hegesiac sect, 261.

Whether Hegesias was the author of the Cyprian poems, 100.

Heinsius's observations on the books of Clement, 141.

Helicon, 2.

Heliopolis, by whom founded, 283.

Two Hellanicuses, and which one was the pillager of the writings of Melesagoras, 298, 300.

Thefts of Hellanicus, 125.

Hellen, whether he is the son of Jupiter and founder of the Greek language, 302.

Gluttons like the hake-fish, 13, 97. They are compared with the headless monster and Elpenor, 14. They are assailed, 20.

Helosphyraton, 61.

Why the Haimatitae were so called, 230, 234. They rushed rashly into death, that they might be accounted martyrs, 234.

Heracleodorus refuted by Aristarchus, 321.

Heracleon the heresiarch, disciple of Valentinus, 232. His error concerning martyrdom, 117, 232. He sealed with fire the ears of those washed in baptism, 345, 348.

The opinion of Heraclides Ponticus concerning εἴδωλα, and the first principles of things, 4, 79; and concerning the Sibyl, 161. Who he was, 83.

Heraclitus, more recent than Pythagoras, 273. His age, 274. His epistles to Darius and Darius's to him, 274. The book of the obscure and dark Heraclitus, 273. He spoke symbolically, 121. Heraclitus said that fire is the principle of things, 78. His testimony concerning God, 247. He mocked all the gods universally, 83. His opinion concerning faith, 110, 205. Concerning the world it is said to be diverse, 248; and why, ibid.; opinion concerning the supreme good and ultimate end, 262; concerning the dry soul, 45; concerning the Sibyl, 161. Certain poems of Heraclitus, and whether they belong to Heraclitus the Ephesian philosopher, 328. Thefts of Heraclitus, 124; from sacred Scripture, 123; and from Orpheus, 296.

Hercules, of what bodily figure, form, and stature, 98. The Thebans said that his nurse was a weasel, 74. Why he is said to have served Admetus together with Apollo, 235. Hercules, one of the Idaean Dactyls, instituted the Olympic games, 271. Insatiable at a banquet, he ate green figs with meats, 82. Wounded by the sons of Hippocoon, 99. Virtue and Vice were reported to have come to meet him, 262. Why a god, 3. Who worshipped Hercules, 234. The Brahmans venerated him, 114. To Hercules Ἀπόμυιος the Romans sacrifice, 72. He was treated with insults by Diagoras, 83. What his labours signify, 235. They are painted, 62. By whom the statue of Tirynthian Hercules was made, 60. Why Hercules, seer and natural philosopher, is said to have taken up the pillars of the world from Atlas, 235.

Herillus said that the supreme good is knowledge, and how, 261.

The fable of Er the Armenian, 248; in Plato, 267.

What Hermas said concerning the preaching of Christ and the apostles in hell, 125, 175; and concerning public repentance, 190. Testimony concerning fear and repentance, 111, and concerning those who are of a double heart, 109; and against those who cleave to the ornament of words, ibid. He is undeservedly accused of the error of Novatianism, 342. The book of Hermas concerning the twofold sense of Scripture, 128.

Hermas the Theban seer, 280.

Whether the Hermionean was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272.

Who Hermippus of Berytus was, and his writings, 321.

Hermodamas, teacher of Pythagoras, 252.

Hermogenes taught that the Saviour placed His body in the sun, 346.

The opinion of Herodotus concerning the origin of the worship of the gods, 50. Passage concerning the response of the Pythia, 139. Another cited slightly differently, 326. Chastised by Strabo concerning the Hyperboreans, 270. His thefts, 124. Which Herodotus was cited by Clement of Alexandria, 235.

What Hervet said concerning corrupt passages in the Exhortation to the Gentiles, and whether rightly, 8. What concerning others in the three books of the Instructor, 20. How imperfect his Latin translation of the books of Clement of Alexandria and his commentaries are, 141. Which testimonies of sacred Scripture cited by Clement he did not find, 22.

The age of Hesiod, 81, 328. How often mention is made of him, 81. Hesiod's verses concerning God, 4. Cited by various writers, 81, 246. Concerning the sacred seventh day, 248. Concerning the guardianship of men entrusted to demons, 68. He absurdly sang of thrice ten thousand immortal demons set over the guardianship of men, 3. Verses concerning Jupiter deceived by Prometheus, 234. Thefts of Hesiod, 124; from sacred Scripture, 123; and from Homer, 295.

Hicesius or Icesius cited by very many, 98.

Hieroglyphic letters inscribed on pillars, 239.

The opinion of Jerome concerning the seventy weeks of Daniel, 170; concerning the day and month in which Christ was baptized, 172. Concerning the beauty of Christ, 35. Concerning perturbations of the soul, 226. Concerning the error of the Pelagians about dreams, 218. Concerning the celibacy of those initiated into sacred orders, 193; and of the apostles, 194. Concerning abstinence from blood and what is strangled, 30.

Hieronymus of Rhodes, and his opinion concerning the supreme good, 98.

Hieronymus the Peripatetic said that the ultimate end is to live honourably and without any trouble, 261.

The four pillars of the temple of Jerusalem, 121. Mystical interpretation of the things which were in it, 121, 307.

What the images of the city of Jerusalem are, 120.

Hincmar, 17.

With what punishment Hipparchus the Pythagorean, who had handed down the decrees of his master in writing, was visited, 122, 266.

Hippasus of Metapontum said that fire is the principle of all things, 78.

Hippias the sophist wrote concerning the thefts of the Greeks, 124; and who he is, 300.

Hippo or Hippe, daughter of Chiron and prophetess, 282. Dwelling with Aeolus, she taught him the contemplation of nature, 272. She first foretold future things from the rising of the stars, 272.

Hippobotus, 252. Writings of Hippobotus, 321.

Hippocoon and his sons wounded Hercules, 98.

Thefts of Hippocrates, 124.

Hippodamus, disciple of Pythagoras, 253. His opinion concerning the threefold kind of friendship, 253.

Why Hippon of Melos was called an atheist by the pagans, 2, 82.

Who Hipponax the poet was, and the petulance and lasciviousness of his poems, 328. He related base things, 105. Hipponax the Ephesian devised the limping iambus, 289.

Goat meats, 259.

Why the Jews did not sacrifice a he-goat, 130.

Pagan historical writers, and their thefts, 124. See Writers.

Saying of the historian concerning plants, 297; thefts, 124.

Kids in Melos, 13, 96.

Whence the surname of Homer, and what his first name was, 66. Who his parents and native land were, 66. His age, 328. By what right he can be called the most ancient of poets, 295. He will make a poet, 293, 294. Whether the works of Homer were written after the manner of tragedy and comedy, 292. His opinion concerning God, 123. Obscure discourse concerning the Father and the Son of God, 167; whence the verses concerning God the Father and the Son are cited, 247. He seems to have indicated Them, 123. Homer mocked his own gods, 4, 82. Where his verses concerning the wretched condition of man are found, 258; and concerning marriage, 216; concerning the sacred seventh day, 248; and concerning the evil effects of wine, cited with his name suppressed, 102; and concerning Margites, 328. Thefts of Homer, 124; from sacred Scripture, 123; from Orpheus and Musaeus, 295. Who stole the verses of Homer, 295; where those cited are found, 295, 297.

Man is twofold and how, 275. To the image of God

made, and in him the image of God, 123. Whether he has it in body and soul. How, 188. False opinions on this question are refuted, 189. He is the living image of the Son of God, 5. The nobility of man consists in this, that he chooses all the most beautiful and most honourable things, 112. Those who prated that his lower parts were made by another than the divine power are refuted, 113. Inferior to the angels in time and vesture, 184. His wretched condition, 115. Born to labour, 258. The impious custom of sacrificing men to the gods, 68. All men are wicked, or most men are wicked, 275. Whose this saying is, 275.

Moral worth alone to be sought for its own sake, 219.

That the honourable alone is good, 264; and that honourable things are most pleasant, 119, 219.

The temple of Honour, 73.

The appointed hours for pouring forth prayers to God were the third, sixth, and ninth, 130. See Christians.

What Hosanna signifies, 21.

Hospitality, 208. See Charity.

The feet of guests used to be washed, 118. Cleobulina washed them, 315.

That the gifts of enemies are no gifts, 295. See Enemy.

Humanity, 208.

Who the Hyacinthides were, and their great courage, 265.

Whether the hyena in turn every year changes the male sex into the female, 95. By what law it is established that it is not to be eaten, 24.

The books of Hydaspes, and whether Paul exhorted the Gentiles to read them, 161.

Hydroparastatae. They used water alone in the sacrament of the Eucharist, 234. See Eucharist.

The Hylobii the same as the Allobii, 269.

Who first sang a hymn, 290. Hymn in praise of Christ, 18, 19.

Hyperborean cities, 120. Hyperborean barbarian philosophers, 107. What regions they inhabited, and what their manner of living was, 270. How they put sexagenarians out of the way, 270. Honours of Apollo among them, 321. Where their daughters were buried, 53. Who they were, ibid. How the Delians offered funeral rites to them, ibid.

How perfect an orator Hyperides was, 321. His thefts, 124.

Hyperoche and Laodice, daughters of the Hyperboreans, where buried, 53. How the Delians offered funeral rites to them, ibid.

Hyporchema, ὑπόρχημα, what it is, and who are said to be its inventors, 290.

What the fourth hypostasis of the Lord is, 140.

Of what sort the books of the Hypotyposes were, 352. Why so entitled, 352. What their aim was, and what their subject, ibid. Read by Eusebius and Photius, ibid. Eusebius noted nothing in them that was not altogether sound, 353. Photius, however, noted six hundred errors, ibid. Whether these books were corrupted by heretics, 349. Whether composed before Clement was imbued with all the true teachings of the Christian religion, 354. No other was the author of these and of the books of the Stromata, ibid. That they did not perish because they abounded in errors, ibid. Various fragments of them, copied by Eusebius, ibid. By Oecumenius, ibid. By John Moschus in the Spiritual Meadow, 355. An entire manuscript codex of them, ibid.

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Iacchus or Bacchus, 70. See Bacchus.

Who devised iambics, 289, 325. The inventor of the limping iambus, 328.

Who Iamus and the Iamidae seers were, 280.

The Iberians prone to drunkenness, 89.

Fortitude of Iberian women, 117. Women neighbouring to them give birth while labouring in the fields, 314.

What bird the ibis was, and why the Egyptians adored it, 240. It was to them a hieroglyphic letter, ibid.

Who the Idaean Dactyls were, and where they dwelt, 271. By them fire was discovered, and the use of iron, or bronze, 271, 286; and of musical modes, and how, 271; and of armed dances, ibid. Addicted to juggleries and incantations, ibid. They used Ephesian letters, ibid. Whether distinct from the Corybantes and Curetes, ibid.

Idanthuras king of the Scythians sent to Darius instead of a letter as a symbol a mouse, a frog, a bird, a javelin, a plough, 121, 239.

Why certain psalms are inscribed with the name of Idithun, 148.

Who Idmon the seer was, 281.

What the origin of idolatry was, 48. Introduced in seven ways, 3, 47. Another beginning of it, 49. From whom it took its beginning, ibid. Some think that there was none before the times of the flood, 50. Others that there was in the time of Enos, ibid. See Gods and Temples. Why idolatry is called fornication, 199.

One must abstain from things sacrificed to idols, 13.

An idol forbidden, 64. No greater perversity than the worship of idols, 5.

The Persians and Sarmatians worshipped fire, 4.

What ignorance is, 111. It is the beginning of sin, and what

its remedy is, 180.

Who the author of the Little Iliad was, 329.

Arctinus composed the Sack of Ilium, 326. Yet it is attributed to Lesches, 329; and to Acatus the Argive, ibid.

Illyrian women give birth in the places where they labour, 314.

The Helots, slaves of the Spartans, 17. They forced these to get drunk, so that they might deter boys and youths from drunkenness, 89.

No images and statues among the earlier Christians, 63. Whether that is true, and when they began to be in use, ibid. Whether and when an image of God was fashioned among them, 63, 128. Who forbade it to be made, 107. Whether any images are forbidden by divine law, 63. Most ancient ones of Christ the Lord, of the woman suffering from an issue of blood, of the Apostles Peter and Paul, and of the martyrs, 64. See Statues. No image is God, 5. Numa king of the Romans forbade it to be made, 253. Images and statues expressed in human figure, and what happened therefrom, 3. The pagans adored images later than pillars, 257. There were originally no images of the gods in the temples of the Romans, 56. Certain most base ones kept at home by the pagans, 4. The images of four figures among the Egyptians they call four letters, 190.

Immarus or Immaradus, son of Eumolpus and Daira, 52. Where buried, 52.

Who arrives at the habit of impassibility, and what he does, 118. See Apatheia and Gnostic.

The temple of Impudence, 73. Impudence a goddess, adage, 73. Her image, 3.

Is Inachus contemporary with Moses, 108.

Earrings forbidden, 17.

What is indifferent to the Stoics, 265.

That one must not live indifferently, 114. Those who said this are refuted, 114. See Stoics.

They said that all things are indifferent, 257.

Indian birds, 16.

The Indians lead their life naked, foretell future things, worship a certain pyramid, 114. They took themselves out of life by fire, and how, 251. An Indian tortured by fire is preferred to the rest by Zeno, 112.

That aborted and exposed infants are handed over to a guardian angel to be brought up, 346, 347. See Boys.

Hell and the lower world. See Apostles and Christ.

What unbelief is, 110. Its definition, 203. It is twofold, one good, and the other bad, 204.

Whether all the actions of unbelievers are sins, 127, 204. From their cause and from their end, ibid. Or because they do not avail for attaining eternal life, ibid. How wretched and short the life of an unbelieving man is, 117. He is justly condemned by God, 127.

Weakness is the beginning of sin, and what its remedy is, 180.

What misfortune is, 180. See Sin.

An enemy is more easily guarded against than a friend, 296. Precept concerning the love of enemies, 17. See Christian and Gnostic.

Precept concerning the forgetting of injuries, 17.

To abstain from injustice is the beginning of salvation, 116. See Sin.

Innocence of morals is placed beyond the hazard of envy, hatred, and calumny, 345.

By disobedience man becomes like beasts of burden, 13.

Engrafting, ἐνοφθαλισμὸς, what it is, 260.

Proverb concerning the mad, 295.

Fourfold grafting of trees, 260.

What understanding is, 111. It is the faculty of reasoning, 45.

Nothing is in the intellect which was not first in the senses, is an Aristotelian saying rejected by Clement of Alexandria, 45, 303; and previously by Plato, 304.

The reply of Intaphernes to Darius, 296.

Who the inventors of arts, sciences, and other things were, 283. That they were invented not by the Greeks, but by the barbarians, 283. Who handed down anything in writing concerning the inventors of things, 293.

Who Ion of Chios was, and how many his tragedies and other books were, 322.

The founder of the Ionian sect of philosophers, 107, 249. Who his successors were, 249. What other sects flowed from it, 251.

What the Ionian Muses were, 250. Their saying, 122.

Iophon the Athenian tragedian, and what his plays were, 329.

Iophon the comic poet, 329.

Iophon of Cnossus, the poet, 329.

Anger enrolled in the number of the gods, 73.

Irene the female painter, 316.

Lost works of Irenaeus, 28. The opinion of Irenaeus concerning the year in which Christ was born, 171.

Isaac a prophet, 108. What the laughter of him and Rebecca signifies, 21.

Isaiah the prophet, inspired by the divine Spirit, composed his book, 22. It is asserted for him, 23. Passages of Isaiah in a manner different from others

which Clement cited, 27; and those indicated by no one are pointed out, 158. A passage not found by Hervet, 22.

The most ancient of the Isaurians. They devoted themselves to auguries, 284.

Ischomachus will make a farmer, 293.

Isidorus son of Basilides, 231. Fragment of his book On Morals, 231. Book of Expositions of the Prophet Parchor, 231. Errors concerning marriage, 113, 198. He rejected the error of Basilides, 112.

Isidorus On the Thefts of Greek Writers, 125.

Isidorus of Charax, 99.

How perfect an orator Isocrates was, 296. His thefts, 124.

Whether the Israelites by right deservedly despoiled the goods of the Egyptians, 146.

Ister the historian, and his various books, 322.

The origin of the Isthmian games, 77.

Itanus the Samnite is said to have first invented the shield, 286.

The Italian sect of philosophers. Instituted by Pythagoras, 107, 251. Why so called, ibid. It ended in Epicurus, 254.

Italian wine, 13, 89.

Ittig, 337, 342.

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Jacob was a prophet, 108. His rod of storax, 24.

The Protevangelium of James, 176.

Jehovah the chief and mystical name of God consisting of four letters, 163.

The precept of fasting, 17.

The fast of the fourth and sixth day. Of how great antiquity it is among Christians, and whether established by apostolic law, 132, 209. Why Christians fasted on these days, 209. See Aerians, Gnostic, Lent.

Jeremiah the prophet by the inspiration of the divine Spirit composed his book, 22. It is asserted for him, 23. Why the words of Baruch are ascribed to him, 24. Its chapters in another order in the Greek than in the Latin translation, 27. Which passages of his Clement cited in a manner different from others, 27.

By the name of Jesus the goodness of Christ is signified, 12. See Christ.

Joabas. See Jubas.

John the Baptist the precursor of Christ, 118. His abstinence, 13. He spoke symbolically, 122, 144.

John fled Cerinthus, 51. How he brought a certain youth to repentance, and restored him to the Church, 337, 338, 342.

The first words of the Gospel of John cited by Clement of Alexandria, 29. See Gospel. The first canonical epistle of John, 155. Adjudged to him, 28, 155. It is canonical, 155. It is called the greater, and therefore others were written by him, ibid. The second canonical Epistle of John is said to have been written to virgins, 350. Adumbrations on the first epistle of John, 348; and on the second, 349. See Adumbrations. The Apocalypse of John, 155.

The opinion of John Climacus concerning holy and chaste dreams, 215 and 216.

John Damascene cites certain fragments of Clement of Alexandria, 344, 346, 347.

The book of Job truly written by himself and by the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. Where these words: No one is clean from filth, etc., are found, 147.

The opinion of Jobius concerning the preaching of Peter in hell, 176.

The prophecy of the prophet Jonah, 149.

The patriarch Joseph, mystical explanation of his coat of many colours, 144.

The chronology of Josephus, 109.

Jovinian bathed in baths which were common to men and women, 88.

Jubal is said to have given attention to music and to have invented the psaltery and cithara, 289.

Jubas or Joabas wrote concerning the Assyrians, 317.

The Epistle of Jude, 17. Written by him by the inspiration of the divine Spirit, 155. It is asserted for him by Clement, 28. Whether numbered among the canonical ones, and by whom, ibid. Objections against this opinion are dissolved, 29. Publicly read in the Churches, 29. Why in it Jude called himself the servant, not the brother of the Lord, 348. Whence he received that Michael and the devil disputed concerning the burial of Moses, 147. Certain men refuted by the authority of this epistle, 113. Adumbrations on the epistle of Jude, 348. See Adumbrations.

How great the antiquity of the Jews is, 107. See Basilides, Hebrews, and Heretics. Their baptisms, 189. Various heresies, 132, 230. Impious worship, 125.

Whether judgement or the second operation of the mind is an act of the will, 304.

What Julian Augustus said concerning the beauty of Christ, 36.

The Julian law against adulterers, 93. See Adulterers.

What Julius Firmicus said concerning the Corybantes, 7.

The temple of Argive Juno destroyed by fire, 53. Of Samian Juno the statue,

by whom made, 103. The statue of Samian and Tirynthian Juno, 3. The twofold wooden image of Cithaeronian and Samian Juno, 57. Of what material the statue of Tirynthian Juno was, and by what artist, 59.

The error of Junius, 66.

Jupiter, by whom first so called, 49. There were three Jupiters, 3, 65. Who they were, 66. Varro and Tertullian said that there were three hundred, 66. Jupiter under the figure of an ant begot Myrmidon of Eurydemusa, 66. His untamed and unbridled lust, ibid. Deceived by Prometheus, 234. Men sacrificed to him, 3. Jupiter Agamemnon, whom the Spartans venerated, and who he was, 66. The oracle of Jupiter Ammon vanished, 75. To Jupiter Ἀπόμυιος, Myagrius, and Myodes the Eleans sacrifice, 72. Jupiter Belus the inventor of the science of the stars, 283. The temple of Jupiter Belus, ibid. Jupiter Bald and Argive, 66. Jupiter Myagros, or Miagrius, or Myodes, 72. The temple and figure of Olympian Jupiter, 8; statue, 3; of what material the image was, and by whom made, 58. The golden garment taken away from him, by whom, and where, ibid. and 11. What Phidias wrote on his finger, 58. Who Jupiter Προστροπαῖος, or Ἀποτροπαῖος, or Piacularis was, 8. Jupiter Patareus, 58. His image, 9.

An oath is forbidden, 248.

Swearing forbidden, 123.

The opinion of Justin concerning the beauty of Christ, 38.

Definition of justice, 213. It flowed from prophecy, and is perfected in the Gospel, 110. Why those who hunger and thirst after it are blessed, 122. See Piety. The figure of Justice as of a goddess, 5. That she is not a goddess, ibid.

The just man is blessed, 264; even in the greatest torments, 313. He is not moved away from truth and virtue by evils, 250.

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Labyrinths the sepulchres of the gods, 3.

Milk is a perfect nourishment, 12. How it is formed, 12, 93. Called manna by some, 12. Why nurses abound in milk more in winter than in summer, 93. That from milk flowing forth from the breasts of women carnivorous beasts are engendered, 346, 347. The mixture of milk with honey and sweet wine, 40. It is wholesome, 12. The fat of milk they call butter, 125.

The patience of the Lacedaemonians, 312. How they accustomed boys to bear any hardships patiently, 312. Their law against celibates, and against him who had married a bad wife, 266. The Lacedaemonians permitted flowery garments and ornaments of gold to be worn by courtesans alone, 84. They rejected ointment and purple, 84. For the most part abstaining from baths and anointing, ibid. How great their modesty, sobriety, and frugality were, ibid. A crimson garment granted to soldiers, why and by whom, ibid. Virgins by whose garment the knee was not covered were rebuked for immodesty, ibid. Perfumers and dyers of wool they expelled from Sparta, 92. Their scytale, 110. See Helots and Spartans.

Lachesis, 3. Her speech, 255.

The opinion of Lactantius concerning the years in which Christ preached, 173; concerning the origin of the worship of the gods and temples, 50, 51.

What sort of garment the laena was, 273.

By whom Lais was despised, 310.

Lamia the courtesan desperately loved by Demetrius, 75.

Lampis will make a sailor, 293. He was a most wealthy shipowner, 294.

More precious wools unlawful, 15.

From what cities dyers of flowery wools were expelled, 92.

Wool-working, 15.

Where Laodice and Hyperoche, daughters of the Hyperboreans, were buried, 53. How the Delians offered funeral rites to them, ibid.

Stones have a habit and why, 259. See Machines. A stone among the Arabs the image of Mars, 59. Those who adore stones are foolish and impious, 4.

Who first invented the stone-quarry, 287.

Whether Lasus was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272.

What Lasus invented in music, 289.

Lasthenia of Mantinea, a female philosopher, 267.

The game of draughts, 62. Apes not deceived by their figures, ibid.

That one must rise at night to sing praises to God, 14.

Whom the parable of Lazarus designates, 116.

The Attic Leaena, though racked with torments, did not betray the secret, 314.

The writings of Leander, 98.

Whether Leandrius was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272.

Who Leandrius the pillager of the writings of Melesagoras was, 298, 299. His thefts, 125.

The Thesprotian cauldron ceased to prophesy, 75. Whether distinct from the Dodonaean bronze, ibid.

Litters in which women were carried, 88.

Softer couches forbidden, 14.

Who are said to have first made a bed, 287. Luxury, softness, and all superfluities of beds to be removed, 14. How great among

the pagans their magnificence was, 86. It is refuted, ibid. See Coverlets.

A lawgiver ought to be like a shepherd, 109. Which lawgivers among the pagans were more celebrated, 275.

Why Leon of Pella was called an atheist by the pagans, 82.

Leon's treatise on the Egyptian gods, 322.

Leonides the tutor of Alexander the Great, 12; but he did not cut away his pride, 105.

What vessel the lepaste was, 87.

Goblets, 14.

By what law it is established that the hare is not to be eaten, 24, 95. Whether the same as the dasypus, ibid.

Lesbian wine, 8, 89.

The age of Lesches the Lesbian poet, 329. Author of the Little Iliad, 329.

The opinion of Lycimus concerning the supreme good and ultimate end, 264.

Whom Leucippus succeeded, 254. He said that the full and the void are the first principles of things, 778; in vain, 4.

Leucophryne buried in the temple of Diana at Magnesia, 53.

Leucostolos, a magical name, 240.

Who Levi the apostle was, 197 and following.

Whether the book of Leviticus is cited anywhere by Clement, 28.

Law. By the name of the Law God is signified, 109. Threefold will of the Law, ibid. How not laid down for a just and good man, 116. He who fulfils it alone is wise and possesses all things, 110. Transgressors of divine laws are worse than beasts, 5. By the Mosaic law moral virtues are handed down, 111. It is good and full of humanity and kindness, 111, 112. It leads us to Christ, ibid. What it announces is to be feared, 206. Weakness excuses no one from fulfilling it, 112. Its perfection is compared with Christian perfection, 118. Those who said that it is evil are refuted, 110. See Moses. Christian laws are most holy, 5. See Christ and Christians. By whom laws were first enacted, 276. The Julian law against celibates, 266; and against adulterers, 310. The Papian law against celibates, 266. The Roman law concerning a pregnant woman, not to be subjected to capital punishment before childbirth, 112, 310. The Romilian law against adulterers, 310. See Lycurgus.

Book. Books and writings the children of our soul, 105. Who published the first book, 292. The liberty of writing books is not to be denied to a Christian and upright man, 105, 134. The pagans published with impunity books full of curses and impiety, 134. How the books of the Greeks are to be read, 24; and of the pagans, 308. Who ascribed the books of others to themselves, 124.

By what laws liberality is commanded, 112.

Human liberty, 120. In what the true liberty of a Christian consists, 144. How liberty or the free will of man is defined, 178. Whether Clement of Alexandria attributed more than is right to it, 179. It works together with the divine grace of the Saviour, 178. For an evil man the greatest good is not to be his own master, 112. The temple of Liberty, 73.

Lust altogether forbidden, and its names, 15. Every kind of lust permitted by the laws of the pagans, 92. Lust enrolled in the number of the gods, 73.

Wood the symbol of Diana, 57. Those who adore pieces of wood are foolish and impious, 4.

A certain Ligurian woman, having given birth to a boy, immediately returned to her work, 314.

Whence the variety of languages or dialects arose, and how many from the beginning, 301. See Dialects. The Hebrew language has its own dialects, 302. It is more ancient than the Greek, ibid. See Hebrew. From whom the Greek language had its beginning, 302. How many dialects of the Greeks, 302. Key of the tongue, 325.

Attic soles, 96.

Whether Linus was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272. He was the instructor of Hercules. What his age was, 329, 330. His maxims, 259. See Poets.

Threefold or fourfold kind of letters among the Egyptians and what they were, 239. The images of four figures they call four letters, 240. What the Ephesian magic letters were, 240. The four magic letters of boys, 240.

Λὶξ, what it is, 210.

Who the writer Loetus or Choetus was, 322.

Who invented the long thongs of boxers, 286.

Luke wrote his Gospel under the inspiration of the divine Spirit, 22. Luke the author of the Acts of the Apostles, 154, 350; and translator of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 154, 350. See Acts of the Apostles.

Who first taught to light lamps, 283. Previously men used the flame of a torch, ibid. See Butter. What feast day was called the lighting of lamps, 283.

Lucius, 252.

Wrestling is sometimes permitted to be practised, 17. Granted to men, 88.

The third evangelical beatitude of those who mourn, 117.

The Phrygians adored the moon, 51. See Sun.

The Lupercal, a temple of Pan at Rome built by Evander, 236. When sacred rites were performed there, 236.

The Lupercalia, 236.

The Luperci, 236.

The Delphians worship the wolf, 74.

Whether the nightingale changes its voice and colour, 95. Whether it is taught to speak Greek and Latin after the human manner, ibid.

Whether lustrations were distinct from the lesser mysteries among the pagans, 237. Of what sort and how they were performed, 237. Superstitious and impious, 130, 241.

All luxury both in garments and in other things is condemned, 15, 16, 17.

The house of Lycambes, 325.

Lycon succeeds Theophrastus, 256.

Lycophron spoke symbolically, 121. His Alexandra obscurely written, and his other poems, 329.

The age of Lycurgus the lawgiver. He gave laws to the Lacedaemonians, 276. He was reported to have received them from Delphic Apollo, 109. Addressed by the name of the Laconian lawgiver, 266. What he enacted against celibates, 266.

The opinion of Lycus the Peripatetic concerning the supreme good, 264.

Gold is called Lydian scrapings, 94.

To Lydus the Scythian Aristotle ascribes the invention of smelting and tempering bronze, 271.

It is lawful for a Christian to sing to the lyre, and how, 14.

Lysias the rival of Isocrates, 296. His thefts, 124.

The remarkable modesty of the woman Lysidice while bathing herself, 314.

How distinguished a sculptor Lysippus was, 103. The arts of Lysippus, 64. See Alexander.

M

Chronology of the kings of the Macedonians, 108. Public endurance of the Macedonians, 312. They worshipped fire, 78.

Macaria, to render the Athenians victorious, put herself to death, 315.

The books of the Machabees, 150. Whether canonical, 150 and following. Their title, 150.

Inventors of machines for lifting stones and drawing water, 286.

How delicate a food maenidae in Lipara are, 96.

Magic letters and various magical names are recounted, 240. See Ephesian letters.

Who is the first teacher of all, 126. Teachers make disciples like themselves, 133. Who are said to have done so, and their names, 293. Teachers of various philosophers, 125.

Who the Magi were, and whence they came, 269. The Magi among the Persians, more ancient than the Egyptians, devoted themselves to philosophy, 269. How great their abstinence was, and how hard their manner of living, ibid. Yet joined in marriage with mothers and sisters, 209. They renounced this after the coming of Christ, 210. The Magi worship angels and demons, 209. Entangled in various errors, 113. What their incantations were, 209. By songs and sacrifices they drove away hailstorms, 249. They boasted that they had made demons their servants, 4.

The prophecy of Malachi, 149. He is called Angel, who was one of the twelve, 150.

Evildoers among the barbarians used to be bound with golden fetters, 94.

Evils are mixed with good things, 230. God uses evils well, 107. For an evil man the greatest good is not to be his own master, 112, 179.

He who does not obey the commandments of God, by denying God denies himself, and is an unbeliever and a hypocrite, 117. He who obeys His commandments is a martyr and witness of God, 117.

Manna signifies the first milk poured out for drinking, and the mother, 93.

By whom gentleness towards animals was commanded, 112.

Who the prophetic Manto was, 282.

Marcion of Pontus, 232. Error concerning the evil Creator, 117. Marcion's error concerning the body of Christ, and concerning the sin of Adam, 115, 233. Concerning the Creator and the evil creature, 117, 233; and evil matter, 233. Concerning the Pleroma and Aeons of Valentinus, ibid. Concerning faith, 120, and the pretext of continence, 233. Marcion corrupted the sacred Scriptures, 133. He boasted that he followed the opinion of Matthias, 156. He vaunted that he had drawn his errors from Plato, 233. Clement of Alexandria more frequently refuted him, 232.

The Marcionites increased the errors of their master, 348. Errors of the Marcionites concerning matter, the creature, and marriage, 113, 198. Ungrateful towards the Creator, 233. They condemned marriage and the procreation of children, and why, 233. Their error concerning the old law is refuted, 111. They abused the words of Christ, 115. They attribute certain words of the Gospel to Philip, 159. From the ill-explained opinion of Plato, Heraclitus, and the Pythagoreans they gathered that human procreation is evil by its nature, or arises from a God not good, but just, 307, 308. They abused the authority of Plato in defence of their error, 265.

When Mark wrote his Gospel, asked by whom,

350, 353. Whether approved by Peter, 152.

Margites, 328.

The perpetual virginity of Mary the Mother of God, 132, 142. Defended by Clement of Alexandria, 176. Who are reported to have said that after childbirth she was examined by a midwife and found a virgin, 176.

Miriam the sister of Moses a prophetess, 108.

Marius the Roman sacrificed his daughter to the gods, 68.

Marptes, a magical name, 240.

Various opinions concerning the native land of Mars, 65, 66 and following. Whether an Arcadian, 66. The sword of Mars discovered, 57. It was his image and among whom, 57.

Marsyas transferred the whole harmony to flutes, 285.

Martyrs suffer persecution for the sake of justice, 117. They never met death rashly, but when God called, 118, 131. What a martyr sought for punishment does, 116. He dies not on account of the promise of good, but on account of the good itself, 218. He dies for his own salvation, and is called a brother, 117. For the confession of Christ, with his blood shed, he arrives at the summit of perfection, 118. Martyrs visited with the most exquisite tortures, 112. Greater than the world, they are rightly called gods, 115. The martyr is truly a philosopher, a brother of Christ, greater than the world and pleasure, 229. He is a gnostic greater than the world, 210. His supreme perfection, ibid. How there is in him a cessation from acting, 223. How frequent and great the number of martyrs was, 134, 229. Their images, 65.

Martyrdom is the sanctified pattern of a glorious conversion, 116. It is the beginning of true life, 117. It is the cleansing of sins with glory, 118, 119, 229. Opposing objections are solved, 118. It is the work of perfect charity, 229, and its consummation, 833, and the sum of virtue, 229. Those who have ended their life by it are blessed, 117. Why the Christian endures martyrdom most constantly, 116. The gnostic does not anticipate the occasion of it, but undergoes it when he is called by God, 214. What the occasions of martyrdom are, 117. Heretics denied that martyrdom ought to be undergone. Two diametrically opposite errors of theirs concerning it, 116. They are refuted, 116, 229. Those condemning it are rebuked, 117. See Basilides. What the unbloody martyrdom of Christians is, 117. Martyrs are those who have not ended their life by tortures, but have persevered in the true worship of God and piety even unto death, 229. Martyrs of the Old Testament, 229.

Whether a male can be changed into a female, 95.

Where mastic grows, 95. Those chewing it, 94 and following.

Things which lack matter can be comprehended by the mind alone, and through the first application of the mind, 334.

The power exterminating material men, 349.

What marriage is, 113. How it is defined by Clement of Alexandria, 197. Why he called it the first conjunction, 198. What its end is, 198. It is good and holy, 44; and that is demonstrated against heretics, 198. Who those heretics were, and on what reasons they relied, 198. Their errors, 113. When and by whom to be entered into, 44, 198. How chastely to be preserved, 198. How and when to be used, 44, 198. No one is bound by any law of Scripture to enter into marriage, 199. Its necessity and usefulness, 113. Of what sort, and how holy it ought to be, 113. Its aim and end, 15. What use of it is lawful or unlawful, 15. See Wedlock, Nuptials, Wife. Marriage can never be dissolved, even on account of adultery. What Clement of Alexandria determined on this matter, 199 and following. Separation of spouses as to bed and as to bond, 200. What philosophers determined concerning marriage, 113, 265. Disapproved by certain pagans, 265. Indifferent to the Stoics, 265. Good to the Peripatetics, 265.

The abstinence of Matthew, 13. He used seeds, berries, and herbs without meats, 197. Whether and by what kind of martyrdom he is said to have met death, 197. The Gospel of Matthew, written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, 22. See Barnabas. Whether he wrote in Hebrew, and at what time, 125, and following. Where the passage which the Carpocratians abused is found, 158. And other passages are indicated, ibid. See Gospel.

Matthias is called by some a chief of publicans, 159. By others the same as Barnabas, ibid. He showed himself worthy to become an apostle, 192. The traditions of Matthias, 305. What they are, 156. Certain passages of them, 156. Which heretics boasted that they followed the opinion of Matthias, 156. And abusing it, 113.

Mausoleums the sepulchres of the gods, 3.

Medea first devised the dyeing of hair, 287.

The Median bird, the peacock, 96.

Who invented the compounding of medicines, 285.

Who invented medicine, 285.

Various sects and heresies of physicians, 132, 230.

Diligent meditation conquers all things, 275.

The gods of the Medes, 234.

What the Megalian ointment is, and by whom invented, 92.

Whence the Megarians were called, 254.

Megasthenes's books On Indian Affairs, and what credit is to be given to him, 269, 322.

Homer was called the son of the river Meles, 66.

Who Melampodes or Melampus was, 69. He is said to have transferred the feast of Ceres from Egypt into Greece, 69.

Melancomas the tyrant, 273, 274.

Poems of Melanippides concerning God, and who he was, 246. What he took from sacred Scripture, 123.

The etymology of Melchisedech, 120. His offering was a figure of the Eucharist, 190.

How many and how great writers pillaged the writings of Melesagoras, 125, 298.

Practice is everything, 275.

Meletus and Anytus, 256.

Which Muse Melpomene was, 238.

Thin skins of garments, 85.

Menander the prince of the New Comedy, and his various poems, 329. How many his comedies were, ibid. In verses he mocked the gods, 4; and the Metragyrtae, or ridiculous priests of Cybele, 82. Where his verses are found, ibid.; poems concerning angels, 185; concerning guardian angels, 247; concerning faith, 121; concerning marriage, and by whom cited, 265. Certain ones attributed by some to Philemon, 247.

What Menander took from sacred Scripture concerning God, 123; what from Plato, 296. He was cited by Paul, 156. Praised under the name of the comic poet alone, 102.

Lying to be shunned. Prohibition of it, 17.

Mendesian wine, 13, 89.

Menecrates the physician boasted that he was Jupiter, and why, 74.

Menexene daughter of Diodorus gave attention to dialectic, 267.

Mind dedicated on the Capitol, 23.

What things can be comprehended by the mind alone, 334. See Intellect and Judgement.

Infamous hangers-on of tables are assailed, 20. By what names called, ibid.

What the Egyptian months were, 172.

Several Mercuries, 3, 68.

Mercury Andocides, Amyetus, and Typhon, 9 and following. Infant Mercury, adage, ibid. Which Mercury was the same as Thoth king of Egypt, 255. Herms represented after the likeness of Alcibiades, 62. What the pillars of Mercury were, 227.

Merops, 3. Whether he first built temples to the gods, 51.

Whether the blackbird changes its colour and voice, 95.

Metallium ointment, 92.

Metapontum, a town of Italy in Magna Graecia, 251.

Metempsychosis, whether Plato was its author, 99.

The metoposcopist divining from the features, 95.

The Metragyrtae, priests of Cybele, who begged alms from door to door in her name, 82. How and whence that custom arose, and how long it persevered, ibid.

Metrodorus, hearer of Epicurus, 125, 265. Whether of Democritus, 79. Whom he succeeded, 254. He said that nothing at all is known by anyone, 254. His disagreements with Diogenes and Zeno, 254. He had Leontium to wife, 265. Whether he said that the full and the void are the sole first principles of things, 4, 79. How great his inconstancy was, ibid. He said that of whatever sort anything appears, of such sort it also is; concerning other things nothing can be affirmed with certainty by us, ibid. How he said that the supreme good consists in pleasure, 261. Certain noble words of his, 261.

Metrodorus the Isocratean, teacher of Theocritus, 98.

Definition of fear, 13. He who abstains from injustice out of fear is not good of his own accord, 119. See Fear.

Fear enrolled in the number of the gods, 73. Its image, 3.

Michael through a neighbouring angel disputed with the devil, 350.

Micah the prophet. One of the twelve, and his prophecy, 150.

Midas the Phrygian showed the Orgies of the Phrygian Mother, 69.

The city of Miletus, capital of Ionia, 250.

Soldiers adorned with gold, 15.

Miltiades led the Athenians in the dead of night through the desert, and routed the army of the Persians, 146. Miltiades in leading back his army imitated Moses, 109.

There were five Minervas, 71; or six, 3. The fifth Minerva adorned with the skin of her father, slaughtered by her, 71. Wounded by Ornytus, 71. Angry against Diana, 130. What Diana, who had given birth in her temple, replied to her, 236. The sacred temple of Minerva an asylum for refugees, 55. Her statue, 3. She was worshipped with winnowing-fans set up, 21.

At what time Minos lived, 275, and following. They write that he enjoyed familiar intercourse with Jupiter, 10, 265. How long, and where, ibid. After his conversation with Jupiter he gave laws to the Cretans, 276. He was reported to have received them from Jupiter, 109, 110. The pagans wished to imitate the miracles wrought by our holy men, 125, and which ones, 249.

Mercy, to whom it properly belongs, 111.

Merciful are those who do good to others, or who, when they are not able, with a sincere mind desire to do good to others as much as lies in them, 209. The fourth evangelical beatitude of the merciful, 117.

Mithridates called Dionysus, Bacchus, and Liber, 74.

The second evangelical beatitude of the meek, 117.

Miton, a magical name, 246.

Mnesiphilus, with whom Themistocles associated, 273, 274.

Due measure is best, 275. Whose this saying is, 275.

Moeris or Myris king of Egypt invented the beginnings of the elements, 284.

Who of Egypt venerated Moetis, 73 and following.

Moirae, a magical name, 240 and following.

Monimus's book On Wonderful Things, 98.

Three called by the name of Mopsus, and who they were, 278 and following. Which one was the seer, 278. By whom the divination of Mopsus was composed, 278 and following. Mopsus is said to have approached Halcyone and Corone, 279. The temple of Mopsus famous for its oracle, 279.

Whence the Greeks drew the beginning of moral science, 111. See Ethics.

Of what sort the morals of the pagans were, 308. How corrupt, 83. See Pagans.

Death signifies the departure of the soul, 119. What natural and spiritual death are, 211. What the latter is, 116. The necessity of death, 297. To be bravely met in war for one's country, 297. To fear it is the mark of slaves, 117. How Christians always meditate upon it, 116. The Church is full of them, 117. The philosopher meditates upon it through the whole time of his life, 255. Death enrolled in the number of the gods, 73. She is not a goddess, 5.

I do not wish to die, but I count it as nothing to be dead, 327.

The pagans crowned the dead, 14.

Various poems of Moschion, and where they are found, 329. His thefts, 124.

Moses more ancient than all the gods of the pagans, 144. And writers, 108. He is said to have been born in the seventh generation, and how, 146. Various surnames of Moses, 109. Why called Moses, and the etymology of this name, 144. He was also called Joachim and Melchi, and how, 145. His other names, 145. At what time Moses led the Israelites out of Egypt, 145. His birth, education, life, and history, 109, 144. Doctrine and deeds, 109. He slew an Egyptian man, 114. His wonderful conversation with the king, 109. He is reported by a word alone to have slain the Egyptian, 145; and to have appeared to Necephres king of the Egyptians, and how, 145. Moses is said to have stood before God on account of piety, 230. He was a theologian, prophet, and interpreter of sacred laws, 145. In what sense he was called a living law, 146. His wisdom, knowledge, and justice, 146. Most instructed not only in the science of reigning, but also of leading an army, 146. He was that wise man whom philosophers call king, lawgiver, commander, just, holy, friend to God, 109. A wise king and lawgiver, inferior to Christ, 110. His various sciences, 109. Moses spoke with God as a friend with a friend, 110. The wonderful things which he saw on Mount Sinai were true, 125. The miracles of Moses. They ought not to be incredible to the pagans, 125. It is not incredible that the Israelites were led by him at night, a pillar of fire shining before them, through the desert, 146; and that God on Mount Sinai presented Himself to be seen by him, 146; and that wonderful sounds were raised on it, 146. Moses dying was seen twofold by Joshua and Caleb, 128, 147. Whence the dispute of Michael and the devil concerning the burial of Moses was taken, 147. The little book On the Assumption of Moses, 147. Moses was the author of the Pentateuch, 24. His words: Come out from the midst of them, etc., how to be understood, 114. He is said to be the author of eleven psalms, 148. The law of Moses. The law divinely given to him, 109. That it is good is proved, 109. And that it and the natural law are one, 109. Full of humanity and gentleness, 146. How fulfilled by Christ, 146. Alone it did not suffice for salvation, 336. The philosophy of Moses divided into four parts, and what they are, 109. Why he wished only one temple of God to be built, 121.

Mullets in Sciathos, 13, 96.

Who called woman the work of Satan. Woman was the cause of life just as of death, 114. Most ancient bronze figure of the woman suffering from an issue of blood, 64. Illustrious and brave women are recounted, and their names, 118. Warlike fortitude of certain women, 314. Which women were philosophers, 118, 267. Which women were poetesses, 118, 315. Female painters, 118, 316. Women of the Germans prophesying, 270. Women carried through the streets of cities in a litter borne on the shoulders of Gauls and servants, 88. What look of women is evil, 118. The fire of women greater than fire, 296. Various names of women's attire, 86. Various ornaments forbidden, ibid. What the garments and adornment of women ought to be, 48. Not so much adorned as burdened with gold, 15. A presbyter does not bless a woman adorned with false hair, 44. Why those who smear their head with ointment grow grey more quickly, 84.

In what works they ought to be exercised, 17. Not base for them to go to the mill, and prepare food and drink for men, ibid. What Homer and Euripides said concerning women, 117. See Woman.

What perfect cleanness is, 119.

A twofold world, one archetypal, the other falls under the senses, 123. There is only one, 122. Whether the world and all things which are in it from the beginning were created simultaneously and with no interval of time, 83. Why they are said to have been created at successive times, 183. What the day signifies on which God is recorded to have made heaven and earth, 184.

The fifth evangelical beatitude of the pure in heart, 117.

Sicilian lampreys, 13, 96.

What golden muraenulae were, 86.

What men venerated mice and why, 67.

Various opinions concerning the origin of the Muses, 100. The Ionian Muses, 122. Which ones, 250. The Muses, more pleasant than the Sirens, 258. Whose this saying is, ibid.

Several called by the name of Musaeus, 330. Whether Musaeus was the son or disciple of Orpheus, 329; or his instructor, 330. His age, 329, 330. He used a symbolic manner of speaking, 239. His responses are attributed to Onomacritus, 108. To whom his poems were ascribed, 108.

Familiar and domestic flies, flying upon flesh, 21. Expellers of the multitude of flies bringing pestilence, 72.

Who are said to be the inventors of music, 284; and how, ibid.; and of musical modes, 271, 289. What music is, 307. What its usefulness is, and what befits a Christian, 307. Which is to be rejected, what its use is, 126. Carian music, 14.

Musical instruments, 14. Who their inventors were, 284. Whether and which ones it is lawful for Christians to use, 14. What songs and harmony are permitted to them, ibid.

The Thebans worship weasels, and why, 74.

Mucius the Roman thrust his hand into the fire as if into bronze, 313.

Jupiter Myagros or Myagrius, or Myodes, 72.

Midas, 16.

Myia daughter of Pythagoras and Theano, a philosopher, 267, and poetess, 315.

How Myrmidon was begotten by Jupiter, 66.

Myron the maker of the cow of Daedalus, 62.

The opinion of Myrsilus or Myrtilus concerning the origin of the Muses, 100.

How Myrtilus the charioteer slew Oenomaus, 8. How he died, ibid.

Whether Myson of Chen was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272.

The booty of the Mysians, 312.

Who were called Mystae, 145, 237. Why Clement uses their authority, 145.

The mysteries of the Christian religion cannot be perceived without faith, 110. Not to be revealed to an unbeliever, 110, 120, 121, 134. Those who by any perturbation of mind have revealed them to pagans are punished by Christian law, 111. See Justin Martyr. Various degrees of mysteries among the pagans, and what they were, 122. The lesser and greater mysteries of beginners and of the perfect, and what they were, 237. What space of time had to be interposed in order that they might be initiated into these mysteries, 237. The greater mysteries accustomed to be celebrated only every five years, 238. Never to be revealed to the uninitiated, 238. What punishments those revealing them paid, 238. That this silence was not always observed, 238. How, if necessity compelled, something was said concerning them, 238. See Egyptians. Mysteries in Sagra, or rather Agra, and Halimus, 77.

The opinion of the Mystics concerning the state of transformed souls is refuted, 211; and concerning idle quiet and the cessation of good actions, 212, 213, 223. Concerning bodily chastisements, 214, 215. Concerning the pure love of God, and the sacrifice of eternal happiness, 217, 221. Concerning prayers poured forth by the mouth, 220; and in thought, 221. Concerning contemplation, and its various direct and reflex acts, and the intuition of Christ and of the finite idea of the divinity, 221; and discursive acts, 221, 222. Concerning the contemplative life, 227. See Gnostic.

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By whom the nabla was invented, 290.

Words of Nahum cited by Clement under the name of Isaiah, 24.

The Naiad goddesses, 4.

The narcissus, 16. It strikes torpor into the nerves, 91.

Wild nard, 92.

Who were the first inventors of birthdays, 283, and of hours, 284. Why those devoted to this science were called Chaldaeans, 284.

That nature and teaching are very similar things, 119.

In whose place Naucydes was substituted, 254.

Nausicaa went to the washing-troughs, 118, 316.

Nausiphanes disciple of Pyrrho, and teacher of Epicurus, 254. His opinion concerning the ultimate end and supreme good, 262.

Nausithous tutor of Philip king of the Macedonians, 12. But he did not cure his vice of drunkenness, 102.

Who first built a ship and sailed the sea, 285, 286. Various kinds of ships, 286.

Naxian wine, 13, 89.

The Nazaraeans. Whether the same as the Peratae, 283. They used the Gospel according to the Hebrews, 152.

Whether Nazaratus was the instructor of Pythagoras, 107, 252. He is badly called Ezekiel, 252.

Nealces the distinguished painter, 316.

Neanthes, 252.

Various writings of Neanthes of Cyzicus the orator, 322.

Nearchus the tyrant, 312.

Necephres, or Chenephres, king of the Egyptians, 145.

The things which are necessary for us are easy to procure, 119.

The origin of the Nemean games, 77.

Why Nemesis was called mind, 236. Nemesis is not a goddess, 5.

Neobule daughter of Lycambes, 325.

Several Neptunes, 67. Neptune a physician, 67. Neptune violated the virginity of Amphitrite, 9. To Neptune the affairs of the sea, and the equipping of a fleet were ascribed first of all, 286. Neptune is the moist substance, 78. Statue of Neptune, 3. By whom the statues of him and Amphitrite were fashioned, and where placed, 9. Thelesius made them nine cubits high, 103. Those who adore Neptune are impious, 4.

Nothing in excess, 274. Whose this saying is, 274 and following.

The Nereids, 4.

Why Nicagoras, or Nicanor, was called an atheist by the pagans, 82 and following. He arrogated to himself the name of Mercury, 74. Various works, age, and profession of the poet Nicander, 100.

Why Nicanor was called an atheist, 2. See Nicagoras.

The Antirrheticus of Nicephorus of Constantinople against the Iconoclasts, 356.

What Nicetas metropolitan of Heraclea transcribed from the books of Clement of Alexandria, 153.

Nicias of Carystus, the seer, 277.

Nicocreon the Cyprian tyrant, 313.

Clement freed Nicolas from error and crime, 231. Those abusing his authority, 112, 113. A certain Gnostic is refuted on that account, 234. In vain they boasted that Nicolas, one of the first seven deacons of the Church, was their founder, 231.

In what age Nicostratus Clytemnestra the comic poet lived, and his various works, 101. What he said concerning women's attire, 86.

Niobe devoid of sense, 5.

The opinion of Nisbet concerning the day on which Christ was born, 172.

In what the nobility of man consists, 112.

Noah a prophet, 108.

Who the Nomads were. Their food, 16.

He who imposed names on things is the most ancient of wise men, 345. Why grammarians reduced them to twenty-four letters, 334. The knowledge and distinction of names contributes not a little to understanding the sacred Scriptures, 305. The Greeks cleave to names, Christians to things, 305, 306. Certain magical names are recounted, 240.

Who first sang nomes in the chorus, 290.

To the Noropes the working and refining of bronze and the discovery of iron are attributed, 272, 286.

Know thyself, 111, 238, 274. Whose this saying is, 274 and following.

Know the time, 275. Whose this saying is, 275.

What the error of the Novatians concerning repentance is, 191. See Hermas. Profane novelties to be avoided, 106.

Night. That one must rise at night to sing praises to God, 14. That one must not sleep the whole night, 13. That the night is to be illuminated by good works, 15.

Nullus or Mullus or Magnes the first of the comic poets, 292.

Numa king of the Romans, instructed by Moses, forbade any image of God to be made, 107, 253. He first set up the temple of Faith and Peace, 120, 253. Why and whether rightly he was called a disciple of Pythagoras and a Pythagorean, 253. In his sepulchre were found books of Pythagoras, in which the decrees of Pythagoras were written, 253.

Words and fragments of Numenius the Pythagorean, 253 and following. Saying concerning Plato, and the books of Moses read by him, 247.

Who were the inventors of numbers, 283. More concerning them, 126. What usefulness comes from the knowledge of them, 306. The senary, septenary, and octonary number, 128. What the septenary signifies, 307. The octonary is the first cube, 306. What it signifies, 307. The tenth is in every way perfect, 306. It is sacred, 307. Mystical explanation of the twenty-second, 307. The twenty-fifth is the symbol of the Levitical tribe, 307. The number 318 signifies the name and cross of Christ, 126, 174, 306. The hundred and twentieth is composed of a triangle, a square, a pentagon, and a hexagon, 306. Of what others it consists, ibid.

Marriage approved by Christ, 114. It is not evil. Those who said that the devil is its author are refuted, 114. The opinion of the orthodox concerning first and second marriages,

113. Why second marriages are permitted, 113. Those too prone to them are chastised, 113. Whether Clement of Alexandria condemned them, 198. Whether he said that they are sin and fornication, 199. From what perfection they lead a man away, 199. Various opinions of philosophers concerning marriage, 265. They are refuted, 113 and following; and of magistrates, 266. See Wedlock, Marriage, Wife.

Why nurses abound more in milk in winter, 93.

The Nymph goddesses, 4.

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Odrysus taught Midas the mysteries of Ceres, 69.

The Capture of Oechalia, 124. By whom written, 297.

How Oenomaus king of Elis and Pisa was slain, 8.

Who Oenone the prophetess was, 282. She was the daughter of Cebren, 281.

Oeneus, 30. On his account Diana angry with the Aetolians, 235.

What vessel the oenochoe was, 14, 87.

Oenuphis of Heliopolis, teacher of Pythagoras, 252, 333.

Mutual duties of men, 117.

Olda the prophetess, 108.

That certain diseases are healed by oil and ointments, 14.

Who are said to have lived by the smell alone of roots and flowers, 259.

Where the city of Olympia is situated, 8.

Olympiacus the physician, 98.

The origin of the Olympic games, 77. Who their founder was, 271.

Olympicus, writer of the Samiaca, 98.

Whether Olympus was the inventor of the flute, and of modes, 286.

Omophagia, 68.

The age of the poet Onomacritus, 108, 330. The poems of Orpheus, and the responses of Musaeus are attributed to him, 108, 330.

Onomacritus the seer, 280.

The onyx, by another name alabaster, 87.

Good works are required besides faith, 127. They are necessary for attaining eternal salvation, 205. Their reward will be in eternal life, 205.

Why the Ophians were so called, 230, 234.

Whether we give assent to a false or true opinion, 304. How anyone can be recalled from a false one, 304. Whether demonstration comes from opinion, 304.

The temple of Ops, 72.

Oracles of the pagans, 2. What they were, 15.

The Scythian oracles, 279.

The failure of oracles, 75.

What makes a complete sentence, 334. Who first composed a rhetorical oration, 288.

Thefts of the Greek orators, 296. See Writers.

Diverse orders of the sacred ministers of the Church, 43, 127. There are three in the Church distinct from one another, of bishops, presbyters, and deacons, 191. That some are superior to others, 191. Distinct from the rest of the state of Christians, 191. By the imposition of hands these sacred ministers are inaugurated, 191. What their ordination is, 342. In how great honour they are to be held, 192. Whether those initiated into sacred orders ought to be celibate, 192. Whether canons of the Church were established on that matter, 193. In what sense Paul admitted the husband of one wife to sacred orders, 193.

The Orgies, a feast of Bacchus, 68. See Bacchus.

The age of Orpheus, 329, 330. Whether one of the seven sages of Greece, 272. He is reported to have been a disciple of the Idaean Dactyls, 271. He was also a seer, 281. To whom his poems are ascribed, 108. They are attributed to Onomacritus, 330.

Poems of Orpheus concerning God, 4, 82, 123, 247. He calls Him τὸ πᾶν, 123. Whence he received this, ibid.; and Mother-father, 123. His obscure discourse concerning the Father and the Son of God, 123, 167. Poems concerning angels, 185; concerning guardian angels, 247. The song of Orpheus, 2. Whether he introduced idolatry, 49, 50. His maxims, 259. Who interpreted his modes of speaking, 121. What he took from sacred Scripture, ibid. See Poets.

Origen, hearer of Clement, joined the study of sacred Scripture and true philosophy, 243. His opinion concerning the Epistle of Paul to the Hebrews, 154; and concerning the Gospel according to the Hebrews, 153; concerning the beauty of Christ, 37. Concerning the number of years in which Christ preached publicly, 173. Error concerning angels, 341. Concerning the world and all things which are in it, created simultaneously, 184. Passage concerning Aristocreon emended, 313.

Whether Origen is the author of the book: Who is the rich man that is saved, etc., 338. A shoot of his is the error of the Pelagians concerning dreams, 215.

Ornytus wounded Minerva, 71.

Orontopagas, 239.

Orthagoras the seer, 252.

Kisses of Christians. Abuse of them, 47 and following. What is to be avoided in kisses, 17. Husbands ought not to kiss their wives in the presence of servants, 17.

Hosea the prophet. Prophecy is asserted for him, 23. Instead of Amos

cited, 23, 149.

Osiris son of Jupiter is reported to have first built temples and images among the Egyptians, 51.

Who the Osseni were, 234.

Abydene oysters, how delicate a food, 96 and following.

The Samians worshipped a sheep, and why, 74.

Lustration with eggs, sulphur, and torches, 241.

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The sixth evangelical beatitude of the peacemakers, 117.

Why the streams of Pactolus are called golden, 94.

Clement of Alexandria was the author of the books of the Instructor, 18. Analysis of these books, 11. Why that title was prefixed to them, ibid. What their subject and aim are, 18, 124. How many books, 18. Whether divided into chapters by the author, 18. Very many summaries of the chapters altogether inept, 18. At what time these books were written, 18. Whether composed from discourses, 19. Their style, 19. And profane erudition, 19. What manuscript codices, 19. Notes written on them, 19. How great their usefulness is, 19. That in them each reef of a harsher and a softer mind is avoided, ibid. Whether entire and uncorrupted, 20. Concerning their first phrase in the edition of Hervet, 20. Passages of them which are charged with corruption, 20. Their Latin translation is not free from faults, 21. New observations on these books, 22.

What the end of the Instructor is, 11; what his office, 18. That Christ alone can discharge the office of instructor, 11. He is our Instructor, 18. Who are to be instructed by Christ, 11. What the duty of Christ the Instructor is, what the instruction, what the end, 11. In the Old and New Testament, 12. More excellent than other instructors, 11. How good an Instructor He is, 12. How great the gentleness and mildness in His exhortations, 12. What His doctrine is, 13. By words and examples He recalls from vice, and exhorts to virtue, 17. His precepts are recounted, 17. Various instructors, 12. Certain more illustrious ones, and their names, 102. Who the instructors of the sons of the king of the Persians were, and what they taught them, 103.

What Παίδων διδασκαλία is, 241.

Whence the name of Pallas comes, 67, 71. See Diana.

The Palladium called Diopetes, 59. Made from the bones of Pelops, 59. Whether deposited with Demophoon, 59.

The Romans sacrificed to Pallor, 72.

Pammerope daughter of Celeus, 52.

Who Pan was the Athenians learned from Philippides, 3, 235. Who worshipped him, 234. The Brahmans venerated him, 114.

Panathenaea, 64.

Pans and Panisci, 62.

The opinion of Panaetius concerning the ultimate end and supreme good, 261, 262.

Mount Pangaeus, 237.

Pantaclea daughter of Diodorus gave attention to dialectic, 267.

Pantaenus, 10. The teacher of Clement of Alexandria, 346. He joined the study of sacred Scripture and true philosophy, 243. Whether the first, ibid. His testimony, 346, 347.

Fair Pantarces written on the finger of Olympian Jupiter, 8.

The age and poems of the poet Panyassis, 99. He arrogated to himself the Capture of Oechalia of Creophylus, 124, 270.

Whether Papias was the author of the millennial kingdom, 331.

What a parable is, 127, 144.

Parasites to be kept away from banquets, 13, 90. Whom they are like, ibid. They are assailed, 20.

The Parcae, 3. They are not goddesses, 5.

How parents are to be left, 336.

The great Parmenides, successor and friend of Xenophanes, 254. What he said are the first principles of things, 78. His verses concerning God, 246; concerning hope, 254, 265; concerning charity, 121; a verse omitted in Latin in the last edition of the Stromata, 134. By whom other verses were cited, 330. His thefts, 124.

Parrhasius the distinguished painter, 61.

The kings of the Parthians carried water with them, 13. See Water.

The Paterniani said that the lower parts of the human body were made not by God, but by the devil, 233.

Who spiritual fathers are, 103.

Distinguished examples of patience of certain pagans, 312.

My country is a disgrace to me, you are to your country, 273. Those who died for its sake are praised, 315.

To the most ancient of the patriarchs God granted a longer life on account of the invention of astronomy and geometry, 284. Their polygamy rightly permitted, 199. See Abraham, Christ.

Patrocles of Thurii, 98.

Paul by antonomasia is called the Apostle, 28. He led a celibate life in the apostolate, 193. Whether previously he had married a wife, 195. Most ancient images of Paul and Peter, 65.

Paul wrote under the inspiration of the divine Spirit, 22. His Epistles, 22, 154. Heretics rejected them, and why, 111. Paul in the first Epistle to the Corinthians exhibited a model of the gnostic,

213, 226. He was the author of the Epistle to the Hebrews, 154. What the opinions on that matter are, 154. Why rejected by some, 154. What its title is, 353. Who its translator was, 350. Rendered into Greek by Luke, 154. Where a passage of it indicated by no one is found, 159. How the writings of Paul are to be understood, 118. Whether his words to the Macedonians are rightly cited, 23. How these words: Sin shall not have dominion over you, are to be understood, 114. Whether Paul exhorted the Gentiles to read the books of the Sibyls and of Hydaspes, 161. See Sacred Scripture. The Revelation of the Apostle Paul, and other apocryphal writings, 162.

What vessels were carried along in the triumph of Paulus Aemilius, 87.

Patience and fortitude of Paulus the friend of Lacydes, 313.

The opinion of Paul of Samosata concerning the book of Psalms of David, 147.

In what true poverty consists, 116, 117, 225. The first evangelical beatitude, 117.

What harm poverty does, 116.

Certain holy and illustrious poor men, 337. How they profit the rich, 337. Comparison of the poor man with the elm, and of the rich man with the vine. See Rich and Alms.

The peacock a Median bird, 16, 96. It was a more delicate food and of great price, ibid.

The Romans sacrificed to Pavor, 72.

Peace given to the lapsed, 47. Christians wished peace to one another, 47.

Definition of sin, 13. What it is, 179. Its threefold kind, ibid. Whether the malice of sin, or formal sin, is something physical, ibid. It can be called neither a substance nor a work of God, 118. How distinguished from vice, 180. How sin, misfortune, crime, and injustice differ from one another, 111. Sin is voluntary and free, 179. It is also involuntary, 111. What the voluntary is, ibid. Six species of the involuntary, ibid. A certain involuntary sin worthy of punishment, 80. Even if it has arisen from perturbation of the mind, ibid. Its remedies, 180. Two principles of sin, ignorance and weakness, 133, 180. What the remedies of both are, ibid. Distinction between the absolution of sin and of the punishment due to sin, 39. Sin is the death of the soul, 182. Whereby man is deprived of reason, 13. Sins ought to be feared more than disease, of which they are the cause, 345. How sins committed after baptism are remitted, 120. See Basilides. Original sin, 352. It is asserted by Clement of Alexandria, 181. Even in the children of the sanctified, 182. From it arise evil motions and perverse impulses, 182. How all sinned in Adam, ibid.

The sinner has need of a pious guide to do penance, 337. Why he sometimes obtains what he asks from God, 131. That the sinner and the impious man are earth and ashes, 120.

Methymnaean scallops, 96.

The error of the Pelagians concerning dreams is refuted by Jerome, 215. Whether rightly, ibid.

How Pelops caused Oenomaus to be slain, 8. Funeral rites of Pelops, 8. Where Pelops was buried, ibid.

Shells of Pelorus, 96.

Who invented the pelta or very small shield, 286.

Silver basins, 14.

Penelope and Telemachus, 189. She was an example of conjugal fidelity, 17.

That Moses was the author of the Pentateuch is proved, 23, 144.

Robes unlawful, 15.

Why the Peratici were so called, 230. Who they were, 234.

Who the Peratae were, and their errors concerning the world, concerning three gods, three words, three minds and men, and concerning Christ, 234.

Perdix will make an innkeeper, 293.

Christian perfection, 117. Its various kinds, 118. Both women and men are capable of it, 118. The supreme perfection of man, 111. Whether anyone besides Christ has attained the supreme summit of perfection, 118. How one must strive towards it, ibid. See Gnostic.

Perfect is spoken of in many ways, 195; and how anyone can be such, 118. No one is altogether perfect except God the Father and Christ, 12. Those who vaunted themselves as more perfect than the apostles are rebuked, 12. What the perfect Christian does, 118. See Apostle, Christ, Gnostic, Martyr.

Whether Periander of Corinth was one of the seven sages of Greece, 272 and following.

The Peripatetic sect, 107. Whence it arose, 251. Its founder Aristotle, 256. Who his successors were, 256.

The opinion of the Peripatetics concerning the supreme good, 261. They believed that marriage is good, 265. They distinguished a twofold kind of discourse, and what it was, 122.

Much learning does not teach the mind, 306.

Perronius confirms the opinion of Clement concerning the sacrament of the Eucharist, 41. See Eucharist.

Chronology of the kings of the Persians, 108.

Who the instructors of the sons of the king of the Persians were, 12, 103. What they taught them, ibid. The Persians are said to have been the first to make a bed, a chariot and a footstool

287. The gods of the Persians, 234. The Persians worshipped fire, 4. They bestowed divine honours upon rivers, 57. They had no temples, nor altars, 51.

The twofold persecution of Christians, 336.

The age of Perseus, 330. What vessels he used at a banquet, 87.

Extraordinary and wonderful sounds on three mountains of Persia, 125. The Persian war delayed for ten years by the sacrifice of Epimenides, 249.

The emperor Pertinax, 133.

Man by his own nature is subject to passions and movements of the soul, 119, 223. The soul ought to be separated from all of them, and how, 112. He who is unwilling to cut them out kills himself, 131. See Philosophi. Freedom from passions, 119. Which can be obtained by man, and how, 223. Which is in God, 224. See Apatheia, Gnosticus, Deus.

Pericles the tutor of Alcibiades, 103. See Alcibiades.

The feet of guests were washed, 315. See Hospites.

Pestilence was said to have been stirred up by demons, 249; and by Diotimus, 249.

Whether Petavius grasped the opinion of Clement of Alexandria, 166. See Christi divinitas. The opinion of Petavius concerning the day on which Christ was born, 172; and concerning the seventy-two weeks of Daniel, 170.

Petronilla the daughter of the apostle Peter, 194. Whether her father healed her when suffering from paralysis, 194.

When Peter married, and what wife, 192, 194. Whether he left her after assuming the apostleship, 194. Who was his daughter, ibid. He rejoiced over his wife being led to execution, 131. What he is reported to have said to her as she hastened to martyrdom, 194. His abstinence, 13. The most ancient images of Peter and Paul, 65. The first canonical Epistle of Peter, and adjudged to him, 155; by Clement of Alexandria, 28; and it is cited as if dictated by Christ, 28. The Adumbrations on this epistle, 348. See Adumbrationes. The Preaching of Peter is cited, 125, 128, 155. The Apocalypse of Peter, 346, 347. It is an apocryphal book, 155. What is said in it concerning abortive infants, ibid.; and concerning milk flowing from the breasts of women, ibid.; and concerning the soul infused into the body, 346.

Phaemonoe the prophetess, 282. She is related to have sung future things in hexameters, 291.

The Sineitae worshipped the phagrus-fish, 73.

The bite of venomous spiders, 47.

Among the Phalereans a certain hero on the stern was worshipped, 68.

Phalli, 62, 67.

Various writings of Phanias or Phoenias, 322.

Poems and a certain poem of Phanocles, 99. The thefts of Phanocles, 124.

Phanotea the wife of Icarius is said to have invented hexameter verse, 291.

Venus laid snares for Phaon, 71.

Phasian birds, how delicate a food, 96. Whence they took their name, ibid.

The age of Phenius the citharist, 108.

What game pheninda is, by whom invented, and whence so called, 88. Permitted to men, ibid.; and it is lawful to exercise oneself with it sometimes, 17.

How many comedies of Pherecrates the Athenian comic poet there were, 330.

Pherecydes the Syrian, the master of Pythagoras, 252. Whether he was one of the seven wise men of Greece, 272. He had no teacher, 107. Of what sort the theology of Pherecydes the Syrian was, and whence culled, 273. Whether his epistle is genuine, ibid. What he said concerning the Corybantes, 8. The thefts of Pherecydes, 124, 125. Which poems of Homer he drew from, 295.

Phidias the celebrated statuary, 103. He made the statue of Jupiter and of Patarean Apollo, 9; and of Olympian Jupiter, and what he is said to have written on the first, 8; and of very many others, 59.

Two called by the name of Philemon, 330.

Philemon, in the comedy Suppositus, pillaged the Cocalus of Aristophanes, 298. His poems against idolatry, 247. Certain other things are attributed to him, which by others are ascribed to Menander, 247; and to Posidippus, 330. Where the poems of Philemon occur, 191. The thefts of Philemon, 124. From sacred Scripture he proscribed the worship of idols, 123. Certain other poems of his, and by whom cited, 330.

The figures and postures of Philenis depicted by pagans, 62.

Philinus the orator, 322. His thefts, 124; from Demosthenes, 296.

Who Philippides was, Pan taught, 3.

Philip married a wife and begot daughters, 192, 194. Who that Philip was, whether the apostle or the deacon, 194. Who his daughters were, and whether given in marriage by their father, 192, 193. Where buried, 195. Whether Philip ended his life by martyrdom, 196. Certain words of the Gospel cited under the name of Philip, 159.

Nausithous was the tutor of Philip king of the Macedonians, but he did not cure his vice of drunkenness, 102. He wished to be added to the number of the gods. Worshipped in the gymnasium Cynosarges, 75.

Who Philistus the historian was, and what his histories and other writings were, 322. His thefts, 124.

Several called by the name of Philo, 323.

Philo the Jew, a Pythagorean, and his writings, 323. His opinion concerning the world, and all things that are in it created at once, 184.

Philo the dialectician, the master of Carneades, 267, 323.

Philochorus, 98; the writer, 103. What he said concerning the statues of Neptune and Amphitrite, 9.

Philochorus the pillager of the writings of Melesagoras, 298, 300. His other thefts, 125.

Philolaus the Pythagorean, 257. His words, 254.

To whom the invention of philosophy is ascribed, 286. Formerly it was called wisdom, 257. Called the meditation of death by Socrates, 122. What Clement of Alexandria understands by the name of barbarian philosophy, 128, 196. It is more ancient than the rest, 107. What philosophy is to be rejected, 107. What is to be admitted, 108. Not altogether to be repudiated, 127. The devil is not the inventor of philosophy and dialectic, 106. It touched upon certain true teachings, but not all, 127. It flowed forth from God, 128; and it ought to be studied, ibid. God gave it to the Greeks, and for what reason, 129. The Son of God instructed the Greeks in it through angels, 129. True philosophy is placed in contemplation, 124. The barbarian is true and perfect, 110. What the foundation of true philosophy is, 123. Its end and aim, ibid. For finding the truth it is only an assisting or concomitant cause, 245; and an imperfect and helping cause, 108. Philosophy flourished in Greece alone, 128. As often as it was prohibited by the magistrates, so often it perished, ibid. Christian philosophy disseminated through all parts of the world, ibid. The more fiercely it was harassed, the more it always flourished, 129. Partakers of true philosophy are brothers, and of the golden race, 139. It gladly communicates itself to others, 105. All must philosophize, and at all times, 118. Some feared Greek philosophy no otherwise than boys fear masks, 244. Whether Christians ought to study philosophy, 117, 242. The state of this question, 242. Twofold was the kind of philosophical dogmas, some right and true, and culled from the sacred Scriptures, others both corrupted by the Greeks and false, to be rejected by Christians, while the others are to be cultivated and embraced, 242. By what arguments this is proved, 242. Whether Clement of Alexandria was the first assertor of this opinion, 243; or Pantaenus, ibid. Many opposed it, 243. The contrary arguments are resolved, ibid. That the author of true philosophy is not the devil, 126, 128, 243. But God, 243, 244, 245. Although it attains the truth in some way or other, or stole it by theft, it is nevertheless good and useful, 243. And even though the tares of error were scattered over it, 243, 245. And although the prophets and apostles learned neither it nor its arts, 244. It is not prohibited by the apostle Paul, ibid. What its utility is, 244, 245. It led the gentiles, as the law led the Jews, to Christ, ibid. The utility of philosophy is demonstrated, 126, 128. Even of gentile philosophy, 105, 107. It paved the way for the Christian profession, 106, 108. But one must not linger in it, 106. What that philosophy is, 106. Other disciplines are handmaids to it, ibid. Whether philosophy rendered the gentiles just and holy without any faith in Christ, 106, 245. The opinion of Clement of Alexandria, 245. It is as it were the first and second step towards justice, and how, ibid. But without faith it made no one a partaker of it, ibid.

The Christian Church is full of philosophers, both men and women, spending their whole life in the meditation of death, 117. It is not lawful for a Christian to return to gentile philosophy, 126. Pythagoras was the first who wished to be called a philosopher, 107, 249.

Who the barbarian philosophers before the Greeks were, 268. They are more recent than the Hebrew writers, 242. From the barbarians philosophy flowed to the Greeks, 107. Who were the chiefs of the barbarian philosophers, 107. What difference there is between the most ancient and the more recent philosophers, 333. The sects of philosophers. How various, 249. They are enumerated, 107. Their age, 107. In the various sects of philosophers there are manifold particles of truth, 107, 242. Culled from the divine Word, 107, 108. The various opinions of philosophers are enumerated, 257. Those who said that nothing exists except what is material are refuted, 110. The Stoics said that God is corporeal and pervades even the vilest matter, and that the soul is in no way affected by the body, and that all things are indifferent, 257. The opinions of the Epicureans concerning the providence of God, concerning pleasure, concerning the wise man, and concerning atoms, 257. Of Plato and Pythagoras concerning the immortality of the soul, 257. Of Plato concerning the world and concerning good and evil things, 258. Of him, Empedocles, and others concerning the wretched condition of man born to labour, 258. Of Heraclitus concerning evil procreation, 258. Concerning the motion of animate and inanimate creatures, and their various differences, 259. And of others concerning marriage, 265. See Matrimonium. Which of them served pleasure, 113. Of the philosophers concerning the ultimate end and supreme

good, various opinions, 260. Of the Cyrenaics and Epicurus, 260 and following. Of Dinomachus and Callipho, 261. Of Hieronymus and Diodorus, 256. Of the Annicerians, 261. Of Metrodorus the Epicurean, 261. Of the Stoics, 261. Of the Physicists, 262. Of Pythagoras, 262. Of the Abderites, 263. Of the Academics, 263. Of Plato, 264. Of the Platonists, 264. Of the Peripatetics, 264. How manifold the opinions on that matter are, 264. Which philosophers said that one or more elements were the first principles of things or gods, 77 and following. Those who said that fire or water was the first principle received it from the Persians, or Sarmatians, or Magi, 78. The opinion of Thales, Anaximenes, Diogenes of Apollonia, 78. Of Parmenides, 78. Of Hippasus of Metapontum, Heraclitus of Ephesus, and Empedocles, 78. Those who venerated the elements are refuted, 107, 257. The philosophers who said that something more sublime than the elements was the first principle, 78. The opinions of Anaximander, Anaxagoras, Archelaus, ibid. Of Leucippus, Metrodorus of Chios, Democritus, 79. Of Heraclides Ponticus, Alcmaeon of Croton, Xenocrates, 79. Of the Stoics, Cleanthes, 80. Of Theophrastus of Eresus, and Epicurus, 80. The philosophers who spoke more truly concerning God, 80. The opinion of Plato, Antisthenes, Xenophon, Cleanthes, 81. And of Pythagoras, 81. The Greek philosophers knew God imperfectly, 164. Why they attributed human affections to Him, 128. Those among the Greeks who philosophized rightly saw God through a glass and received the labour of reward, 157. They were able to acknowledge God and His Son, 108. They concealed many of their dogmas from others, and who they were, 266 and following. Philosophers always fluctuate, 111. They cling to words, 128. See Christiani. Why few philosophize, 121. Gentile philosophers are thieves and robbers, 242. Their various thefts, 124, 125, 246. What dogmas they stole from the Hebrews, 107. Other thefts of theirs from our sacred Scriptures are enumerated, 123. They corrupted the true teachings received from them, 125. Thence their errors, 125. The philosophers learned from our sacred Scriptures that all things belong to the wise man, 246. That the wise man is the friend of God, 246. And free, rich, handsome, a king, and blessed, 246. And more things concerning the moral virtues, 246. And the law of Pythagoras concerning gentleness towards animals, 246. The opinion concerning the ultimate end of man, 246. That God is one and incorporeal, 246 and following. That His power is supreme, 247. That He is everywhere, 247. That heaven is His seat, the earth the footstool of His feet, 247. That nothing is above Him, and nothing escapes Him, 247. That He is called Mother-Father, and why, 247. And other things concerning God the Father and the Son, 247. Concerning His providence, 247. Concerning the souls of infants, and guardian angels, 247 and 248. Concerning the world, concerning oaths, concerning brotherhood, concerning the seventh day, 248 and following. Concerning the last judgement of God, 248. Concerning punishments to be suffered after death, 248. Who the female philosophers were, 118, 247.

Philostephanus On the Inventors of Things, 293.

The age and writings of Phocylides the philosopher and poet, 331. What he said concerning good and evil angels, 186. He took this from sacred Scripture, 123.

Phoenix the tutor of Achilles, 12. He was held by an insane love of women, and who he was, 102.

The Phoenicians are said to have been the first to attribute divinity to the stars, 49.

Several called by the name of Phormio, and who they were, 279. Which of them was a seer, 279.

Phoroneus, 3. At what time he lived, 51. He was falsely called the first of men, 51. Whether he was the first to build temples to the gods, 51.

The author of the Phoronis, 331.

The error of the Photinians is refuted, 34.

Why the Phrygians were so called, 230, 234. Their errors, 118.

The Phrygians were the first to observe the flights of birds, 194. They devised the flute, 285. They worshipped the moon, 57.

A Phrygian is corrected by blows, 312.

There were two Phrynes, and how surnamed, 62.

What is understood by the name of Physicists, 262.

Female painters, 118. The more illustrious ones, 316.

Piety, prudence, justice, faith, and charity are connected with one another, 111. Their definitions, 111. Christ demands true piety, 5.

The game of ball permitted to men, 88.

How hairs and locks are to be nourished, 16, 17. Who first devised dyeing them, 287. Those who dyed or anointed them are rebuked, 83, 84. See Capilli and Coma.

The poems of Pindar concerning God, 247. Concerning happiness, 120. Certain of his poems, by whom and how cited, 331. Others emended, 138.

Where Pisa is situated, 8 and following.

Pisander of Camirus stole the Heraclea of Pisinus of Lindus, 124, 297.

How the art of fishing is lawful, 17.

If any fish escapes from a snare, none of the same kind will be found on that day, 303. The more delicate fishes, 96. Those who feed on fish, their flesh becomes moist, 241. The Egyptians venerated fishes, 73. And the Syrians, 74.

The Heraclea of Pisinus, 124.

Pisistratus by the counsel and prediction of Amphiletus seized the kingdom of the Athenians, 277. Pisistratus is said to have been the first to set out books to be read at Athens, 292.

The etymology of πίστις, 119.

Whether Pittacus of Mitylene was one of the seven wise men of Greece, 272. Pittacus king of the Mityleneans is reported to have ground at the mill, 17. He gave laws to them, 272.

Plants are moved by passing through growth, 259. Whether they are inanimate, 259.

A plant does not naturally become tame, 297.

Who devised the plastic art, 288.

Plato a philosopher from the Hebrews, and why, 255. He came into Egypt, and from its inhabitants and other barbarians received sciences, laws, and true teachings, 4, 255. He is said to have been a disciple of Secnuphis of Heliopolis, 255. He was a hearer of Socrates, 125, 128, 256. Plato ransomed by Anniceris, 261. Plato delivered his teachings enigmatically and parabolically, 266. And veiled them in fables, 122, 267. He said that the truth must be learned from God, or from those who traced their origin from the gods, 255. He will make a philosopher, 293, 294. Whether he is the author of the book entitled Demodocus, 256. The republic of Plato placed in heaven as a model, 120. Where he prohibited temples and idols to be made, 236. What he said concerning the knowledge of God, 222. He denies that the divine nature can be explained by men, 4. His passage concerning God as difficult to know, 164. The mystery of the most holy Trinity was not wholly unknown to him, 167, 188. What he orders to be done before God is sought, 122. The opinion of Plato concerning God, 4, 80. Drawn from the Hebrews, 81. A passage of Plato concerning angels, 185. Concerning the world and its creation, 248. Another passage of his concerning the origin of good and evil, 258. Plato learned from the Egyptians that the soul is immortal, 257. And that souls had sinned previously, and therefore are thrust down into the body as into a prison, 257. How he spoke of a threefold soul, 45. And concerning the conversion of the soul, 116. How he teaches men to arrive at contemplation, 124. The opinion of Plato concerning faith, 205. Concerning hope, 265. Concerning charity, concerning oaths, 248. Concerning marriage, 265. Concerning the maintenance of a wife to be supplied by him who had not married a wife, 266 and 268. Concerning the care of the body to be taken, 116. Concerning the ultimate end of man, 264. Concerning the conflagration of the world, 248. Concerning punishments to be suffered after death, 248. Plato taught that the just man is blessed, and that he is to be execrated who separated the just from the useful, 264. Other teachings of his approved by the Stoics, 264. What he said concerning the constancy of a just man in the greatest torments, 255. Concerning chaste dreams, 216. Concerning the speech of Lachesis, 255. Concerning the Greeks being always boys, 255. Concerning avoiding excessive curiosity of words, 255. Concerning the philosopher always meditating on death, 255. And that all in the same city are brothers, 248. Plato shows us the king of the Egyptians, Thoyth, as wiser, and knew him to be Mercury, 255. His opinion concerning the seven wise men of Greece, 272. Concerning the fable of Her or Er the Armenian, 248. And concerning Crete, 139. The thefts of Plato, 124. From Pythagoras and the Egyptians, 125. Whether he read the books of Jeremiah, 101. Plato the best imitator of Moses, 85. What is Plato, except Moses speaking Attic Greek, 247. Taught by David, 13. A passage of Plato pointed out, 85, 296. Likewise another, ibid. Another, 302. Another, 305, 313. Several passages cited as if they were one, but corrupted, are explained, 139. Which heretics abused his testimony, 113. The disciples of Plato, and the chief of them Aristotle, 256.

The age of Plato the comic poet, and how many comedies, 331. His thefts, 124. The mutual thefts of him and Aristophanes, 298.

Plectron, 121. By that name some wished the air, Cleanthes the sun, to be signified, 240.

Plegmos, a magical name, 240.

A corrupted passage of Pliny, 252. A passage concerning apes restored, 62.

The Stromata of Plutarch, 893. A passage emended, 258.

Rain foretold by Democritus, 249.

How precious cups were among the gentiles, and what they were, 87. See Calices, Vasa.

Diana Podagra, 72.

Poena ascribed to the number of the gods, 73.

What repentance for sin is, 119, 337.

Repentance is not often asking pardon for those things in which we often sin, 111, 191. The necessity and utility of repentance, 190. And how it is to be performed, 112. Repentance a duty of faith, 110. It is as it were a second baptism, 342. To perform it there is the greatest need of diligence, 337. He who performs it will be gifted with eternal happiness, 337. One repentance after baptism, 111. In what sense Clement of Alexandria said that there is only one repentance, 190. See Novatiani. Public repentance, 39. What it was in the first times of the Church, 190.

Whence the peony herb was so surnamed, 103.

Paeonius the physician healed Mars when grievously wounded, 102.

The poets Orpheus and Linus are more ancient than the rest of the writers, 107. They were not inspired by the divine Spirit, 129. By

our prophets imbued with theology, 121. Which poets sang more truly concerning God, 81. Aratus, 81. Hesiod, Sophocles, Euripides, Orpheus, 82. Poets who mocked their own gods, 82. Menander, Homer, Euripides, 82. The thefts of the Greek poets from the sacred Scriptures are enumerated, 123. And from other writers, 124. Various poems of the poets cited by Clement of Alexandria, 324.

Whose the poems are that are cited under the name of poetic grace, 238.

Who the female poets were, 118. Certain distinguished ones, 315.

What ποιητικὴ is, 102.

Polemon the historian, 71.

Polemon succeeds Xenocrates, 255, 256. His opinion concerning the supreme good, 264. And concerning the statues of the Furies, 9.

Why Pollux is a god, 3.

What Polyaenus said concerning the Palladium, 60.

Polyaratus the seer, 279.

Who Polybus the physician was, and his book On Eight-Months' Children, 275, and following.

The opinion of Polycrates concerning the daughters of Philip, 194; and concerning his martyrdom, 197. The epistle of Polycrates, in which he commended Pythagoras to Amasis, 202. The ring of Polycrates, on which the image of a musical lyre was engraved, 86.

Polygamy permitted in the Old Testament, 115. And why, 199. Forbidden to Christians, 199. See Abraham and Patriarchae.

Polyhistor recorded the epistles of Solomon, 108.

Who Polyidus the seer was, 280.

Octopuses assimilated to rocks, 280.

How great care for modesty and decency Polyxena had when about to be sacrificed, 312.

The Hebrew high priests chosen after the image of God, 121.

What Porphyry said concerning the beauty of Christ, 33.

Certain poems of Philemon are attributed to Posidippus, 330 and following.

The opinion of Posidonius concerning the ultimate end and supreme good, 212.

What drink ought to be, 13, 41, 42. God is to be praised in drinking, 14. What the drink of gall is, 69.

Precepts are called the weapons of light, 119. What the precepts of God are, 17. To be fulfilled by all, 111.

What the divine predestination of blessed men is, 164.

The ten categories, and they fall under matter, 334. What things are placed under them, ibid.

The law commands the executions of pregnant women to be deferred until the day of delivery, and what that law is, 310. See Lex.

Twofold foreknowledge, 333.

Present yet absent, 247.

The luncheons of Christians, 47. No drink at luncheon, 13.

Sumptuous little luncheons to be rejected, 13.

Several called by the name of Praxiphanes, 287. Praxiphanes was the first to be called a grammarian, 287.

The Venus of Praxiteles, 64. In the statue of the Cnidian Venus he expressed the form of Cratina or Phryne, 62. The maker of the cow of Daedalus, 62.

The definition of prayer, 220. It can be poured forth with words and without words, 130, 220. God hears the interior prayer, 220. What it is, 220. What prayer is good and right, 130, 132 and following. That one must devote oneself to it, 130. What is to be asked from God, 131, 132. A precept concerning the manner of it, 17. See Gnosticus.

At what hour Christians were wont to pour forth prayers daily, 130, 209. Turned towards the east they poured them forth, 130, 210. And the gentiles also, 236. To be poured forth by night, 46. Poured forth in a barbarous and not vernacular tongue, 302. See Christiani, Gnosticus, and Prodicus.

The order of the presbyterate distinct from others, 191. Even from the episcopal order, 43. The blessing and laying on of hands of presbyters, 44. See Episcopus and Ordo.

How the presbyters of the gentiles sacrificed to the gods, 4.

The gnostic offers to God the first-fruits of those things which he uses, 214.

What the philosophers said were the first principles of things, 4. See Philosophi. — Certain principles cannot be demonstrated, 333. What the beginning in which God is said to have made heaven and earth signifies, 34.

Friendship and likeness exist among good men alone, 248.

Procatarctic causes, 334.

Storms were reported to have been stirred up by demons and magicians, 249.

Prodicus from the school of Carpocrates, founder of a new heresy, 232. He was a follower of pleasure, 133. He had the secret books of Zoroaster, 232. The error of Prodicus concerning pouring forth prayers to God, 130. From the Cyrenaics he received that one ought not to pray, 232. He corrupted the sacred Scriptures, 133. The followers of Prodicus called themselves gnostics, 232. Their errors are refuted, 113. Their most obscene communions, 232. Their shamelessness and outrages, 310. The fable of Prodicus concerning virtue and vice, which came to meet Hercules, 312.

Prometheus was the first to teach astrology to the Assyrians, 283. The fable of Prometheus and Epimetheus in Plato, 267.

Who the prophets among the Hebrews were, and their names, 108. Those who composed the sacred books were twelve, 150. The prophets and apostles inspired by the divine Spirit, 106, 129. When they wrote their books. The divine prophets knew no arts of philosophy, 244. Their miracles ought not to be incredible to the gentiles, 125. The prophets were afflicted, 121. They were tortured and slaughtered, 128.

Prophecies concerning the future incarnation of Christ, 168. And especially the seventy-two weeks of Daniel are explained, 168. See Christus.

The insolence of man in prosperity, 296.

Whom Protagoras succeeded, 254.

The author of the book of Proverbs is called a prophet, 142; and why, 142. And a Hebrew boy, and why, 23. This book written by Solomon, 23. Whether whole and entire, 149. Which passages of Proverbs Clement cited in a manner different from others? 25, and which he does not indicate in his editions, ibid. They are pointed out, and their various readings, 156.

The definition and names of prudence, 128. How the gnostic ought to use it, 213. See Gnosticus, Pietas.

Who our neighbour is, and how to be loved, 336. We ought to lay down our life for others, 337. See Charitas, Gnosticus, and Misericordes.

How it is lawful for a Christian to sing psalms, 14.

When and by whom the Davidic Psalms were composed, 147 and following. Various opinions on that question, ibid. They were written by the inspiration of the divine Spirit, 148. Whether David is their author, 23. See Paulus Samosatenus. An ancient interpretation of the first Psalm cited by Clement of Alexandria, 160. Exposition of the eighteenth, 346. How these words of Psalm 6: I have grown old among all mine enemies, are to be understood, 115.

Who invented the psaltery, 289.

What vessel the psycter was, 87. By what names called, 87.

The parrot, an Indian bird, 96. The gentiles kept parrots at great expense, 92.

False prophets sometimes said true and useful things, 107.

Ptolemy the fourth called by the name of Dionysus, 74.

The chief of the publicans, who said to Christ: Behold, the half of my goods I give to the poor, is by some called Zacchaeus, by others Matthias, 156.

Modesty is not to be put off with the tunic, 15.

How manifold the symbolic instruction of boys is, 121.

The impious custom among the gentiles of exposing children, 92, 112, 308. How and with what tokens exposed, ibid. What the instruction of children is in Clement of Alexandria, 190; and how manifold, ibid.

In what the true beauty of man consists, 16. The beauty of Christ, See Christus.

The twofold purgation of the soul, and what each is, 126. Who invented the purging of the bowels, 285.

By whom purple was proscribed, 308.

The unbridled and blind ardour of lust of Pygmalion king of Cyprus, 62.

Pyramids the tombs of the gods, 3. The Indians worship a certain pyramid, 114.

What the pyrrhic dance is and whence so called, 290. See Saltatio.

In whose place Pyrrho was substituted, 254. He will make a contentious man, 293, 294.

The ἐποχή, or suspension of assent, of the Pyrrhonians is refuted, 333.

The etymology of Pythagoras, 279. His age, 108, 274, 277. How various the opinions concerning his native land, 252; concerning his age, ibid. Commended to Amasis by the letters of Polycrates, ibid. He went to Egypt and conversed with the Egyptian prophets, 107, 252. Circumcised, and why, 252. He heard the Gauls and Brahmans, 252; and the Magi and Chaldeans, 252. His various travels for the sake of learning, 252. Whether he had no teacher, 107. Whom he is said to have heard, 107. His teachers, 252. Pherecydes the Syrian, ibid. Sonchetes, 252, 255, 277. Hermodamas, 252. Oenuphis of Heliopolis, 252. Nazaratus the Assyrian, ibid. Whether he was one of the seven wise men of Greece, 272. Pythagoras was the first to call himself a philosopher, 107, 249, 274. That he might signify that God alone is wise, 257. He enlarged knowledge, 249. He studied foreknowledge and divination, 279. Mocked on account of the quaternion, and accused of incontinence, 265. He served pleasure, 113. Whether he and his followers abstained from animate things, 258. He considered him who imposed names on things the most ancient of wise men, 345. Whom Pythagoras succeeded, 254. Author of the Italic sect, 107, 251. He philosophized for a long time at Metapontum, 251. There he gave laws to the Italians and to his disciples, 251, 277. How great the number of his disciples was, 251. He died there, 251. His ὁμακοεῖον where his disciples flocked by night to hear him, 253. Pythagoras is reported to have approached

the altar of Apollo, polluted by no slaughter or death, 130, 256. He forbade any image of the gods to be engraved on rings, 63, 64. The opinion of Pythagoras concerning God, 81. Concerning the supreme good and ultimate end, 262. From the Egyptians he learned that the soul is immortal, 257; and that the soul had sinned previously, and is thrust down into the body as into a prison, ibid. Whence the precept of Pythagoras concerning gentleness towards animals was taken, 112, 246; his poems, 12, 100. What his sayings and maxims were, 258. His saying concerning prayer, 120. He took symbolic sayings and other things from our sacred Scriptures, 109, 121, 125. The disciples of Pythagoras were of a twofold kind, hearers and mathematicians, 122, 253. Their five years' silence, and whence drawn, 122, 253. Whether Numa king of the Romans was a disciple of Pythagoras, and is rightly called a Pythagorean, 253. In his tomb were found the books of Pythagoras, in which his decrees were written, 253. Disciples of Pythagoras: Hippodamus, 253. Eurysus, ibid. Numenius, 253. Athamas, 254, and Philolaus, 254. Pythagoras the trainer is reported to have been the first to feed athletes on flesh, 90.

The Pythagoreans concealed many of their teachings from others, 266. With what punishments they visited those who had disclosed them, 266. The Pythagoreans said that it is good not to eat flesh nor to drink wine, 100. They forbade beans and all animate things, and why, ibid. and 258. When they ordered their followers to abstain from venereal matters, ibid.; and why, 113. What they said concerning God, 4. Why they called heaven ἀντίχθων, 247.

The origin of the Pythian games, 77.

Several men of the name of Pythocles of Samos, and what books they wrote, 323.

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The days of Lent consecrated to fasts, 209.

Who were the inventors of four-horse chariots, 287.

What the best question is, and what is to be avoided, 120. What ought to be done or not done, 120. What questions are to be raised by a Christian, and what not to be raised, 308.

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The Theban turnip, 96, and the Mantinean, 97.

Who is said to have been the first to construct a raft, 285.

The etymology of Rebecca, 120. What the name signifies, 21. She was a prophetess, 108.

A pious and holy director necessary for a sinner to perform repentance, 337.

Kings among the Egyptians were chosen either from the priests or from the warriors, 259. Kings were anointed, 121. Why some were ascribed to the order of the gods, 74. Who they were, ibid.

Prisoners among the barbarians bound with golden fetters, 15, 94.

True religion necessary for salvation, 4. See Christiana, Ethnici, Poetae, Philosophi, Superstitio.

Observations of Remus on the books of Clement, 141.

What resolution is, 333.

The Commonwealth is not a goddess, 5.

The fable of Rhadamanthus and Aeacus in Plato, 247.

What the turbot was among the Romans, 97.

Immodest and wanton laughter is forbidden to Christians, 14. What laughter is lawful, ibid. From immoderate laughter baseness flows, 14.

Whether the Romans originally had temples, 56. In their temples there were originally no statues of the gods, 56. Nor images, ibid. Among them formerly a spear was the statue of Mars, 58. See Templum.

Chronologies of the Roman emperors, 108. Laws of the ancient Romans against nefarious copulations, 92. See Adulterium and Lex. Luxury of the Romans, 86, 88.

Whether the potter's wheel was first invented by Anacharsis, 270.

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Who the priests and Levites are, 120.

The warlike courage of the women of the Sacidae or Sacae, 117, 314.

When sacrifices began to be made, 3. Why made in the old law, 130. Why the Word forbade them to be made, 132. How men were commanded to approach, 119. See Eucharistia. What the best, most holy, and most acceptable sacrifice to God is, 130, 225, 256. What the sacrifice of praise above burnt offerings is, 140. We offer no sacrifice like the gentiles and Jews, but offer ourselves to God, 129. Turned towards the east the gentiles made sacrifices, 236. They thought that the gods coveted sacrifice like food, 130. In certain sacrifices men were immolated to the gods, 68.

Saesara the daughter of Celeus, 52.

What the mysteries of Sagra or Agra were, 77.

The agitated sea spits out the spray of salt, 95.

Saleucus the mathematician, and other grammarians of the same name, 323.

What things were said to Salome by Christ, 114. Her words from the Gospel according to the Egyptians, 153.

The age of Solomon, 108. He was a prophet, ibid. He was the author of the book of Proverbs, and why he is called a Hebrew boy, 23.

Polyhistor recorded his epistles, 108. What he said concerning faith, 110.

Various kinds of dances, 290. Armed dances, by whom invented, 271.

Of what sort the salutation of Christians was, 47. See Osculum.

The temple of Safety, 73.

The Samians worshipped a sheep, and why, 74.

The barrenness of the earth driven away by the prayers of Samuel, 125, 249.

The opinion of Sanchoniathon concerning the origin of the worship of the gods, 49.

The definition of holiness, 213.

How the seed of the sanctified is holy, 182.

The contrivances of golden and jewelled sandals to be rejected, 15, 85. See Calcei.

Blood is turned into white pus, 93. Who commanded to abstain from the blood of animals, 30. Under what penalties, ibid. When that law began to be abrogated, or something of it to be repealed, 30 and following. Various statutes of councils concerning it, 30. Why it was enacted, why abrogated, 31.

What health contributes, 116.

He was called wise who professed philosophy, 257. God alone is wise, 116. That the wise man is the friend of God, 246. That he alone is rich, free, handsome, a king, and blessed, 110, 246. That all things belong to the wise man, 112, 246. One wise man from another, 326. How various the opinions were concerning the number of the wise men of Greece, and especially concerning the seventh, 272. The opinion of Clement of Alexandria concerning them, 272; and of Laertius, Pausanias, Plato, 272. The wise men of Greece were later in age than Moses, 273; and than Solomon, 108, 273. How more ancient than the Ionic, Italic, and Eleatic sects of philosophers, 273, 274. But after the poets Orpheus and Linus, 107. The manner of philosophizing of the wise men of Greece is Hebraic and enigmatic, 107, 274. Their maxims consecrated to Delphic Apollo, 274.

The book of Wisdom is ascribed to Solomon, 148. Whether canonical, 148.

The definition of wisdom, 213, 304. Its beginning is piety, ibid. It does not differ from knowledge in the gnostic, 116. Its sinews are not to believe easily, 327. Wisdom properly belongs to God alone, 164. The wisdom of the Son of God is knowledge, 123. What is called by the Apostle the wisdom of this world, 244.

Sappho the poetess, 315. Her age, 91; and poems concerning crowns, 91.

Sara a prophetess, 108.

Sardanapalus the voluptuary, 112. His epitaph, 326.

The Sarmatians, barbarian philosophers, 107. They worshipped fire, 4. Their twofold kind, and who they were, 269.

Saturn, driven from his kingdom by his son Jupiter, came into Italy, 67; where he brought in the golden age, 67. The sickle made or hidden by him in Sicily, 67. Where buried, 67. Altars erected in his honour by Janus, 67.

A satyr invented the cross-flute, 285. Satyrs as gods, 4.

Sauchtedon, a magical name, 241.

The warlike courage of the Sauromatian women, 117, 314. Before they were given in marriage, they had to kill one or three enemies, ibid.

The Sauromatians worshipped fire, 78.

Who are said to have been the first to make a footstool, 287.

The opinion of Scaliger concerning the day on which Christ was born, 172.

Scamon wrote a book On the Inventors of Things, 293.

What the Scantinian law was among the Romans, 92. See Lex.

Of what crime Scantinius was accused, how convicted, and condemned, 92.

Where a skiff was first put together, 285.

What wickedness is, 180. See Peccatum.

Sciathus, an island of the Aegean Sea, 96.

The etymology of knowledge, ἐπιστήμη, 304. What it is, 111, 304, 333. From it is given the definition of a thing, 334.

Scopas made the statues of the Furies, and very many others, 9, 61.

The ingenuity of Libyan scorpions for striking a sleeping man, 305.

What Christian writing ought to be, 106.

Of what sort a writer ought to be and how he ought to write, 105. The difference between him and a preacher, 105. The Hebrew and sacred writers are more ancient than all others, 107, 242. None more ancient than Moses. See Moyses. Sacred and profane writings of the writers of the second century of the Church, 319. Who were the most ancient of the Greek writers, 107. Mutual thefts of the Greek writers, 295. Of the poets, ibid. Of the philosophers, historians, and orators, 296. Who stole entire volumes and entire books from others, 297. Various writers cited by Clement of Alexandria, 316.

That the authors of all the books of Scripture were inspired by the divine Spirit, 22, 23, 142. An objection is resolved, 143. They called men away from vices and idolatry, and imbued them with holy institutions of morals, 4. The Hebrew text of sacred Scripture

how incorruptly and accurately to be preserved, 143. Sacred Scripture renewed by Esdras, 109. How the sacred Scriptures were corrupted by heretics, 143. By the tone of voice, and by the transposition of accents and points, 143. By rejecting entire books of it or some part of them, 143. By clinging to words, or explaining them preposterously, 143. The manner of speaking of sacred Scripture is enigmatic, 18; and symbolic, 121; parabolic, 127, 143. How useful the distinction of names and things in them is, 126. Why the sacred Scriptures were translated into the Greek language, 245. Of which books, 151. At what time, 151. How, 151. Whether in separate cells, 151. Whether by the inspiration of the divine Spirit, 151. The true sense of sacred Scripture, 128; and how to be investigated, 127, 143. It is twofold, literal and allegorical, 143. The latter is more difficult than the former, 143. How explained by the Fathers of the Church, 143. Tradition concerning its true sense, 162. That ambiguous senses may be rightly perceived, the liberal disciplines are useful, 106. In sacred Scripture the voice of God is the first indemonstrable principle of our doctrine, more certain than any demonstration, 142. It is itself more certain than any demonstration, 210. Scripture, like the Mother of God, brings forth truth, and itself is ever a virgin, 132, 142. From it the most certain demonstrations are drawn out, 132. How testimonies of Scripture are cited in the Admonition of Clement to the Greeks, 22. Which ones are not found by others, ibid. Which are cited in the three books of the Instructor, 23; and in the books of the Stromata, 156. Certain ones not found, 158. A passage of Genesis wrongly indicated is pointed out, 156. Certain things in the editions of those books wrongly indicated, 29. Various thefts of the gentile philosophers and others from the sacred Scriptures are enumerated, 123, 246. Concerning the individual books of Scripture see each under its own title, See Evangelium and Testamentum.

Silver dishes, 14.

Scylles the statuary, 60.

Kings of the Scythians, Atoeas and Idanthuras, 121. The hair of the Scythians, 83; frugality, 16. Subject to drunkenness, 89. How they sacrificed to Mars, 98. They and the Alans worshipped him under the symbol of a scimitar and sword, 57. I am a Scythian by race, not in disposition and morals, 273.

What the scytale of the Lacedaemonians was, 110.

Seleucid vessels, 87.

The ring of Seleucus, on which a ship's anchor was engraved, 86.

Silver chairs, 14.

Who the Σεμνοὶ were among the Indians, and their manner of living, 270. By the observation of heavenly bodies they foretold future things, 270.

The Σεμναὶ among the Indians remained virgins, 270.

What old age is blessed, 345.

That the seventh day was sacred not only to the Hebrews, but to the Greeks, 248. See Sabbatum.

The seventy-two translators of sacred Scripture, 109.

That the tombs of dead men were temples, 52.

Follow God, 258.

The figures of the Seraphim, 164.

Who Serapion or Sarapion the poet was, 331.

The etymology of Serapis or Sarapis, and who he was, 235. Whether he was a foreign or native god of the Egyptians, 60. Why called a great demon, 60. His effigy, 60; statue and burial, 3. The destruction of his temple foretold, ibid. It was destroyed by fire before the reign of Theodosius, 54.

How perfect Abbot Serenus was, 216.

Obscene discourses forbidden to a Christian, 14. See Christiani and Gnosticus.

Serpents close their ears to incantations, 5. The figure of the brazen serpent, 64.

How menservants and maidservants are to be treated, 17. How great a multitude of them there was among the gentiles, and what their names and duties were, 16, 88. See Ancilla.

The sons of Seth, the watcher angels, 44.

The Severae, or Furies, 61. See Furia.

The emperor Severus, 133.

Whether the Sibyls were for that reason unable to prophesy concerning Christ; they were prophetic, 282.

The Sibyl is called a prophetess and poetess of the Hebrews, 161. Why Clement recorded from Heraclitus that the Sibyl did not cease from the art of divining after death, that one part of her flew across into the air, the other remained in the earth, from which sprang an herb suitable for the use of divinations, and that her soul is the face appearing in the moon, 161. She is said to have appeared at Delphi, and there, instructed by the Muses, to prophesy while not yet dead, 107. What the Sibyl drew from sacred Scripture, 123. Certain poems of the Sibyls, 4. Cited with their name suppressed, 102. Cited by Clement of Alexandria, 161. Whether the apostle Paul exhorted the gentiles to read their books, 161.

Sicinnus the tutor of the sons of Themistocles, 12. Who he was, 98. He invented the satyric dance sicinnis, ibid.

Sicon or Simon the statuary, 60.

The Sidonians are said to have been the first to construct a trireme, 286.

Simaethus, a river of Sicily, 96.

Simeon the prophet, 108.

Apes deceived neither by waxen nor by earthen likenesses, 4. The gentiles kept them at great expense, 92.

Likeness exists among good men alone, 248.

A poem of Simmias of Rhodes, 331.

Simon Magus the author of the heresy of the Simonians, 230. Images and statues of Helen, 230. Whether Clement said that he heard Peter after Marcion, 230.

Whence the Simonians were so called, 230. Why they are said to wish to be assimilated in morals to the Standing One, whom they worship, 230.

Simon the statuary, 60.

Simon will make one skilled in horsemanship, 293. He wrote a book on horsemanship, 294.

Several called by the name of Simonides, 331.

The age of Simonides, and certain poems, 331. His thefts, 124.

What the first idols were, 3. Whether they and statues were more ancient than temples of the gods, 56. By what symbols the gentiles previously venerated their gods, 57. The Scythians and Alans worshipped Mars under the symbol of a scimitar and sword, 57. The Arabs under that of a stone, 57. A piece of wood the symbol of Diana, 57. The double wooden idol of Cithaeronian and Samian Juno, 57. A spear formerly among the Romans the idol of Mars, 57. Formerly the gentiles worshipped columns as statues, 58. The opinion of Cedrenus concerning the origin of idols, 58. Whether there was any idol in the temple of the Hebrews, 63. None in the temples of the Romans, and for how long, 253. Idols of the gods made after the human effigy, 58. Out of what material and by whom the idol of Olympian Jupiter was made, 58. How mocked by Dionysius the tyrant, ibid., and 61. What was written on its finger, 58. The idol of Minerva made by Phidias, 58. Of Jupiter and Apollo of the Patareans, 58. Of Apollo Hians and Obsonator, 59. Of Tirynthian Juno, 59; of the Palladium, 59. Of Tirynthian Hercules and Munichian Diana, 60. Of Dionysus Morychus, 60. Of Serapis, 60. Of Venus Tanais or Anais, 60. Of Cnidian Venus, 62. Of the Furies, 61. Of Evil Fortune, 61. A golden statue of Jupiter of fifteen cubits, 61. Of Hermae after the likeness of Alcibiades, 62. Very many most shameful and obscene idols, 62. Idols are not images of those whom the Greeks worship, 128. Images of harlots expressed in them, 3. The incredible lust of certain men towards them and statues, 62. By whom repudiated, 56; and treated contumeliously, 3. Which gentiles forbade them to be made, 236. How the pagans adored idols, 65. Why never to be adored, 3. How great is the impiety of those who adore them, 3. Their worshippers more wretched than a demon, 5; and worse than apes, 62. See Imagines, Statuae, Zeno.

How great the circuit of Mount Sinai is, 146. That true miracles were wrought on it, 125.

The Sineitae, a people of Egypt, worshipped the phagrus-fish, 125. Why, ibid.

Whether Sisarion was the inventor of comedy, 291.

The new opinion of a certain more recent Socinian against the divinity of Christ is refuted, 168. See Christi divinitas.

From his early age a demon foretold future things to Socrates, 247, 256, 270. At its warning, he consulted his safety by flight, 256. What that demon was, 256. Who the masters of Socrates were, 256. He was the master of Plato, and his dream on that matter, 256. Instead of physics he introduced ethics, 256. Socrates taught that the just man is blessed, and that he execrated him who separated utility from moral rectitude, 264. Where his words concerning pleasure, concerning Anytus and Meletus, and certain other things are found, 256. Most other philosophers afterwards took his dogmas, 123, 256. What he took from sacred Scripture, 123.

A companion is another self, 208.

That the sun and moon, and those things which are defined by their measure, are not gods, 5.

The age of Solon the Athenian, 273. He was one of the seven wise men of Greece, 272. His master Sonchetes, 255. He gave laws to the Athenians, 272. He forbade ointments to be sold, 92. By his invocation Croesus was delivered from the fire, 3. By whom the words of Solon concerning the wretched condition of man are cited, 258; and his poems, 331.

Sleep is like death, 15. It signifies the departure of the soul less than death does, 119. See Anima. How sleep is to be indulged in, 14. Prayers ought to be sent before it, 14; and thanks first given to God, 14. How we ought to betake ourselves to it, 216. Sleep ascribed to the number of the gods, 73. It is not a god, 5.

True dreams are the thoughts of a sober soul, 15. How holy and chaste the dreams of the gnostic are, 215. Whether a certain herb is useful for that, 215. The opinions of the philosophers concerning them, 216. By whom the interpretation of dreams was invented, 284.

Sonchetes the Egyptian archprophet, the master of Pythagoras, 252, 255, 277; and of Solon, 255.

Certain wonderful sounds, 125. In a cave of Britain, and on mountains of Persia and elsewhere, 146.

What Sophannim signifies, 24.

The name of sophist formerly honourable, 101. Sophists more talkative than cicadas, 106.

What the sophistic art is, and its office, 308. It is to be altogether rejected, 116, 308.

Sophocles, 4. His poems concerning God, 82; concerning faith, 121; concerning the allurement of sleep from the Aleadae, 296. His saying concerning venereal pleasure, 258. The thefts of Sophocles, 124, 296; From sacred Scripture, 123. Whether he took from Hippon the saying concerning time disclosing all things, 296. Sophocles cited by the name of the tragic poet alone, 102, 331. Certain of his verses pointed out, 91.

The frugality of the Spartans, 17. They compelled their slaves to become drunk, that they might deter young men from drunkenness, 17. The Spartans granted flowered garments to harlots alone, 15. See Lacedaemonii.

Spectacles forbidden, 14, 17.

The use of mirrors is censured, 16.

The definition of hope, 110, 206. How great the connection is between it and faith and charity, 110, 206. The gnostic stands firm by faith, 206. How great his constancy is, 206. Why it does not confound, 206. See Gnosticus. Hope belongs to perfect Christians, nor does it expel the expectation of eternal reward, 207. He who abstains from injustice out of hope of reward and fear is not good of his own accord, 119. By hope we await future things, 111. It is certain concerning a future immortal life, 121. The hope of future good or evil things acknowledged by philosophers and poets, 119, 206. What Plato and Parmenides said concerning hope, 265. Hope ascribed to the number of the gods, 73. Its statue, 3.

Speusippus the son of Plato's sister, and his disciple, 256. He succeeds him, 255. His first book to Ctesiphon, 256. His opinion concerning the supreme good, 264.

Sphinx, a magical name, 240.

Why the Egyptians placed sphinxes before temples, 238, 239.

The Holy Spirit is asserted, 34. See Trinitas.

Spiritual substance is known by faith and understanding alone, 110.

Become surety, mischief is at hand, 111, 274. Whose this maxim is, 274.

The book On the Mysteries of Sotades the Athenian philosopher, 323.

The foam of rivers, 95.

Staphilus the historian, 66.

Whether Stasimus was the author of the Cyprian poems, 100.

The thefts of Stasimus, 124.

Do not step over the balance, an adage of Pythagoras, 111, 238.

The gentiles adored statues later than images, 237.

No statue is God, 3. Statues of gentile women, 2. Some burned with nefarious love for certain base ones, 4. See Imagines and Simulacra.

Certain celebrated statuaries, and their names, 103.

Stone stelae written with unknown letters, and where, 237; and with hieroglyphic letters, 239.

Who said that the stars are spiritual bodies, 346.

Stemosis, a magical name, 240.

What Stesichorus invented in music, 290. At what time he flourished, ibid.

The Stoic sect, 107. Whence it arose, 251. Its author Zeno, 251. His successors, 251.

What philosophy of the Stoics is to be rejected, 107. Their various opinions, 257. Concerning God, concerning the soul, concerning all things being indifferent, 116, 257, 265. They said that the body, soul, and spirit of God pervade all things, even the vilest, 4, 80, 107, 247. That the soul is in no way affected by the body, 116; and is changed into wisdom, 116. That marriage and the procreation of children are indifferent, 265. What their ἐκπύρωσις, burning up, is, 136. Their opinion concerning the conflagration of the world, 248. Concerning the ultimate end, 112, 261, 262. What the Stoics drew from sacred Scripture, 123. They and Aristotle were said to have culled their chief dogmas from Plato, 125, 300.

Where the cited poem of Stasimus is found, 296.

What Strabo said concerning the Corybantes, 8.

Strato succeeds Theophrastus, 256.

Eight men had the name of Strato, 333. Which of them wrote on the inventors of things, 293.

How great the magnificence of couches was among the pagans, 86. It is refuted, ibid. See Lectus.

What Στρωματεῖς and Στρώματα signify, 36. Several prefixed the title and name of Stromata to their works, 136. That Clement of Alexandria is the author of the seven books of the Stromata, 133. At what time he composed them, 133. Whether advanced in age, 134. Whether in a time of ecclesiastical peace or of persecution, 134. For what reasons, 134. Their argument and aim, 135 and 140. In how singular

a manner written, 124, 133, 135, 137, 135. Profane dogmas mingled with sacred ones in them, 135. What their true title is, 116, 134, 135. How great their utility is, 116, 136, 137; and erudition, 136. The books of the Stromata are not complete and entire, 136. Truncated at the beginning, and how, 105, 136. Imperfect at the end, 136. Whether the division of the books was made with some art and industry, 137. Whether divided, or to be divided, into chapters, 137. To whom dedicated, 105. They are compared with a field, and with an ancient flowered offering, 116. Whether the eighth book of them was composed by Clement of Alexandria, 136, 342, 339, 344. Various editions of these books, 142, 344. What manuscript codices of the Stromata survive, 138. Certain corrupted and emended passages are enumerated, 138. How imperfect their Latin translation prepared by Hervetus is, 141. Whether rightly emended by others, 136. How necessary a new Latin translation is, 141. How imperfect the commentaries of Hervetus on these books are, 141. Of what sort the notes and observations of others on them are, 141. New observations, 142. Various fragments of the Stromata cited by ancient writers, 133, 355. How testimonies of sacred Scripture are cited in the books of the Stromata, 156. Certain ones not indicated in the published editions are pointed out, 157. Analysis of the book of the Stromata which is entitled the eighth in the editions of the Works of Clement of Alexandria, 333. Whether he is the author of this book, 334. This book is not entire, but mutilated, 335.

A starling taught to speak in the Greek and Latin languages, 95.

The storax rod of the patriarch Jacob, 24.

Storax, 24.

Whether subdeacons ought to be celibate, and by what law, 193.

By whom the prohibition of strangled things was prescribed, 30. Under what penalties, 30. When that law began to be abrogated, or something of it to be repealed, 30. Various statutes of councils concerning it, 30. Why it was enacted, 31. Why abrogated, 31.

How proud the furniture of houses was among the pagans, 86. More sumptuous furniture is forbidden, 14.

Punishment ascribed to the number of the gods, 73.

Painted eyebrows, 84.

Various superstitions of the gentiles are enumerated, 130. The superstitious abstinence of the Egyptian priests, 241. The absurd superstition concerning a mouse digging through an altar, 241; and gnawing an oil-flask, 241. Concerning the broken strap of the right foot, 241. Concerning sucking pigs devoured by a sow, 241. Concerning a pestle encircled in a coil by a serpent, 241. The superstitious purification of eggs with sulphur and torches, 241. They feared yellow wool, bits of salt, torches, squill, and sulphur, 241.

The hanging baths of the caldaria, 88.

The swine, ὗς, its etymology, 259. An animal suitable only for sacrificing, 259. It has a soul instead of salt, 259. It serves only the belly and fodder, 259.

Why the Jews did not eat swine's flesh, 130. Why forbidden by Moses, 259.

How syllogism and indication differ, 333.

The twofold symbolic manner of speaking, in words and in things, 121. How useful, 121, 122. By whom employed, 121. Those who denied that Christians could use it are refuted, 122. How often the symbolic kind of speaking was used by Greeks and barbarians, 238. How manifold it was, 238. What the various symbols of the Greeks in words were, 238. They are enumerated, 238. What the symbols in things were, 239.

Syncellus, See Georgius.

Synectic or efficient causes properly so called, 334.

Syringes, or columns dug into the ground on account of the fear of flood and oblivion, 237.

The Syracusans forbade women, except harlots, to adorn themselves with gold and garments dyed with a bright colour or purple, 84.

Syracusan wine, 13, 89.

The Syrians venerated doves and fishes, 74.

By the name of σφραγίς the sacrament of baptism and confirmation is signified, 342.

T

What game of knucklebones is forbidden, 17.

The city of Tanais, 61.

A certain poem is ascribed to Tarentinus, 70. Who he was, ibid.

The fable of Tartarus in Plato, 247.

Tatian's Oration to the Greeks cited by Clement of Alexandria, 160. Tatian's chronology of the Argive kings, cited by Clement of Alexandria, 110. His book On Perfection according to the Saviour, 233. Tatian was a disciple of Valentine, 233. His errors concerning Christ, 208. Concerning marriage and the begetting of children, 115. Concerning the law of Moses, 233. Concerning the author of the New and Old Testaments, 115. What is to be answered to Tatian, who said that these words, Let there be light, are those of one wishing, 345, 347. What he said concerning women, 345, 347.

The Telchines were reported to have been the first to make brass, iron, and the sickle, 286.

Telesilla the poetess, 315. Under her leadership the Argive women routed the Spartans, 314.

Telemus the seer, 280.

Telephus, who had said that there is a single way to the lower world, is refuted, 117.

Telesius the maker of the statues of Neptune and Amphitrite, 9.

Telmessus the seer, 280. Where his tomb is, 54.

Where the town of Telmissus is situated, 54.

The Telmissians excelling in the art of prophesying, 54. They invented it, 54. They studied divination which takes place through dreams, 284.

Temperance is to be pursued and why, 113.

Of what sort the temperance of the gnostic ought to be, 214. See Gnosticus and Virtutes cardinales.

In how many ways a temple is spoken of, 52. The beginnings of temples dedicated to false gods, 3, 51. How various the opinions on that matter are, ibid. Numa king of the Romans was the first to set up a temple of faith and peace, 253. The most ancient temples of the gentiles looked towards the west, 130, 236. Why, ibid. Others towards the east, 236. They were the tombs of dead men, 3, 52. Which temples of the gods were burned with fire, 3, 54. Whether Clement of Alexandria argues rightly against the gentiles from their burning and ruin, 55. Which gentiles forbade temples and idols to be made, 286. For how many years the Roman temples were without idols, 253. Why Moses permitted only one temple, and without idols, to be built, 55, 286. Mystical explanation of the temple of Jerusalem, 144. Whether Christians in the first centuries of the Church had temples, 57. God is circumscribed by no temple, 55. What the true and holy temple of God is, 130. See Aegyptii and Zeno, 9.

Time reveals all things, 296. Spare time, 238.

Drunkenness ascribed to the number of the gods, 73.

The town of Tenos, 9.

Tenos, one of the islands of the Cyclades, where situated, 9, 67.

The age of Terpander, 329. What modes of music he invented and composed, 100, 289. How soft and effeminate, 2.

Which Muse Terpsichore was, 238.

The earth to be cleansed by fire and water, 121. That those who adore it are foolish and impious, 4. That one must not sail upon the earth, 238.

What virgin earth is, 184.

What τερθρία or τερθρεία is, 162.

The opinion of Tertullian concerning the year in which Christ was born, 171. Concerning the beauty of Christ, 37. Concerning the years during which Christ preached, 173. Concerning the images and statues of Christians, 64. Concerning abstinence from blood and things strangled, 30. Concerning the separation of spouses, 200. Concerning the virginity of Mary the Mother of God, 176. A passage of Tertullian emended, 238, 278.

What game of dice is forbidden, 17.

The New and Old Testaments delivered by the same God through His Son, 110, 114, 115. The division of the books of the Old Testament, 144. When the writers of the New Testament ceased to write by the inspiration of the divine Spirit, 143. The sign of the holy quaternion of the old testaments, 144. See Scriptura sacra. Wills of the Romans made enigmatically, 122. They were of a threefold kind, 310. In which ones bronze, or asses and the balance, were employed, 311.

What τέτρας is, 190.

Thales of Miletus, one of the seven wise men of Greece, 272. His age, 108, 250, 223. He dies, 250. What his native land was, 250. He conversed with the prophets of the Egyptians, 250. Whether alone, ibid. He foretold an eclipse of the sun, and when, 250. Whether his epistle to Pherecydes is genuine, 250. He was the first to dispute concerning the nature of things, 249. Thales said that water is the first principle of things, 78. He was the author of the Ionic sect, 107, 249.

Thallo, 3.

Thasian wine, 13, 89.

There were several women named Theano, and who they were, 85.

Theano the Pythagorean was the first of women who philosophized, and is said to have written poems, 267, 291. After the death of Pythagoras she undertook the governance of his school, 267. What she said concerning the immortality of the soul, 267. How modest she was, 267. Her replies, 70, 267; and saying, 84.

Who Theatides, or Theanides, was, and his words concerning the one and unbegotten principle of all things, 261. He taught that there is one principle, 124.

The Thebans proclaimed that they were the most ancient of all, 283. Among them first philosophy and more exact astrology were invented, and how, 219; 233. They worship weasels and why, 74.

Thelesius the Athenian made statues of Neptune and Amphitrite of nine cubits, 103.

Themis was said by some to have invented the hexameter, 291, 70. Whether the same as Ceres, 70. What her secret symbols are, 70. See Ceres.

Themisto the daughter of Zoilus, wife of Leonteus, devoted herself to the Epicurean philosophy, 267.

Theoclymenus the seer, 280.

Theocritus of Chios, disciple of Metrodorus, first a sophist, and afterwards an orator, 98.

The poem of Theodectes concerning varying fortune, whence culled, 296. His thefts, 124.

Of Theodoret, 49. His opinion concerning the origin of idolatry, 49; and concerning the Gospel according to Peter, 153.

The Theodorian sect, 261.

Theodorus of Cyrene called an atheist by the pagans, and why, 2, 82.

The opinion of Theodore, deacon of the Church of Constantinople, concerning the preaching of Christ in the lower world, 176.

How great the patience in torments of Theodotus or Theodorus the Pythagorean was, 313.

Theodotus of Byzantium, by trade a tanner, 347.

Theodotus the Montanist, as it were the procurator of Montanus and Priscilla, 347. He said that the Father suffered, 346.

Whether Theodotus was the teacher of Clement of Alexandria, 11, 346. The Epitome of the Doctrine of Theodotus and of the Orientals, and analysis of this little work, 344. Whether its title is correct, 347; errors in its first part, 344. Why not yet rendered into Latin, 345. Who the author of this epitome is, 346. Whether excerpted from the Hypotyposes of Clement, 346. New observations on its second part, 347. Errors set forth there and not refuted, 348. That this little work is imperfect and truncated, 348. How published in print, 344. Who Theodotus is, whose name is inscribed on this little work, 347.

Theogne the daughter of Diodorus devoted herself to dialectic, 267.

The age and maxims of Theognis of Megara, 331. Where his poems concerning the wretched condition of man are found, 258. His thefts, 124.

Theonis the Egyptian harlot, 312.

Who Theophilus was, 10.

Whether Theophilus of Caesarea was the teacher of Clement of Alexandria, 10.

Theophrastus the hearer of Aristotle, 125, 128; and successor, 256. The fifth book of Theophrastus variously cited by various writers, 258. The opinion of Theophrastus of Eresus concerning God, 4, 30. His inconstancy, ibid.

Theophrastus wrote books On the Inventors of Things and On Plants, 293.

Theopompus, 300, 301. A historian, but a calumniator, 323. A retailer of slanders and fables, 105. The thefts of Theopompus, 124. The poems of Theopompus concerning bravely meeting death for one's country in war, 297.

Thericlean cups, 14, 87.

Who the Thersitae were, 92.

The Thesmophoria, 70.

Whether Thespis the Athenian was the inventor of tragedy, 291, 331. Or of one part only, 292. His words and comedies, 331.

The Thesprotian cauldron, 2.

The book of Musaeus On the Thesprotians, 297.

The Thessalians venerated storks, 8. Why, ibid.

Theut the inventor of geometry, 284.

Thmuis, a city of Egypt, 66.

The goat of the Thmuitans, 66.

Thobel or Tubalcain the inventor of weapons, 286. The invention of working brass is attributed to him, 272.

Whether Thomas the apostle met death by martyrdom, 247.

Thoyth, or Theyth, Thouth, Thoth, king of Egypt, the same as Mercury, 255.

The Thracians subject to drunkenness, 89. They fashioned their gods tawny and blue-eyed, 234. They invented the scimitar, 286; and were the first to use target-shields, ibid.

The saying of Thrasonides the comic character concerning the girl loved by him, 331.

Thrasybulus led back the exiles through desert places by night, with a pillar of fire shining before them, into their native land, 146. And thus he imitated Moses, 109.

Who Thrasyllus was, and a fragment of his chronology, 324.

Thrasymachus the orator, and what his orations and other writings were, 324.

The thefts of Thucydides, 124.

The Tyrian tunny, 96.

Who devised the flute, 285.

Why Timaeus of Tauromenium was called Epitimaeus and calumniator, 323. A retailer of slanders and fables, 105.

The book of Timaeus of Locri On Nature, and other writings, 324. His words concerning the one and unbegotten principle of all things, 247. What Timaeus took from sacred Scripture, 123.

Two comic poets called by the name of Timocles, 331. Or one a comic, and the other a tragic poet, 332.

Timon concerning faith, 121.

The poems of Timon of Phlius, by whom cited, 306, 332.

How manifold fear is, 206. Whether every fear is good, 116, 206. The fear of the Lord is good, 110, 206. That not all servile fear is evil, and how from it to filial fear and charity

we ascend, 207. The necessity of fear, 112, 206. By the fear of God we learn to avoid sin, 110, 111; and we are led to hope and charity, 111. It helps faith, and how it leads us to charity, repentance, and hope, 206. How it becomes love, 111. And he who has advanced to it is not a servant, but a son, 345. Why the gnostic and perfect Christian casts out fear, 207. That by it a man is not made a hypocrite and more of a sinner, 207. The error of the heretics concerning fear is refuted, 206. See Metus.

Timotheus the famous flute-player, 83.

Timotheus of Miletus is reported to have been the first to sing nomes in the chorus and on the cithara, 290. And that the Spartans were angry with him on that account, ibid.

The book of Timotheus of Pergamum On the Fortitude of Philosophers, 324.

Timoxeus of Corcyra, the seer, 277.

Who Tiresias the seer was, 282.

When barbers first came into Italy, 83.

Barber-shops forbidden, 17.

Which gentile men endured the most bitter torments, 117.

Twofold tradition, the one public, and the other to be concealed, 138. Divine traditions without writing, by voice alone, 126, 162. Why the apostles handed down certain things without writing, 162. Tradition concerning the true exposition of sacred Scripture, 162. Concerning the four sacred Gospels only, and the order in which they were written, 162. What honour is due to these traditions, 162. Who preserves their deposit, 163. The key of the Lord's tradition, 133. What human tradition is to be guarded against, 107, 162. Apocryphal traditions, 352.

Who the inventor of tragedy was, 291. Several cited under the name of tragedy or of the tragic poet, 102.

The mystery of the Trinity asserted by Clement of Alexandria, 167, 354. Not altogether unknown to Plato, 167. The obscure speech of Orpheus, Homer, and Euripides concerning the Father and the Son of God, 167. It is absurdly asserted that from those things which Plato had said concerning the λόγος of God, the persons of the divine Trinity were made, 168. What the holy trinity of virtues is, 140.

Who first constructed a trireme, 286.

Who Trismegistus is said to be, 280.

The time of the destruction of Troy, 108.

What a trope is, 144.

Who devised the trumpet, 285.

Tubalcain. See Thobel.

Daphnian thrushes, 96.

Baseness lies not in the members, but in vice, 14.

The Tuscans are said to have devised the plastic art, 287.

The Tuscans thoroughly mastered haruspicy, 284.

Whence a cough is stirred up, 72.

Who Typhon was, 9.

U

By whom anointings were proscribed, 308.

Various kinds of ointments, and what they are, 91. How wholesome their use is, 101. Certain ones composed of flowers are useful, 14. See Oleum. The use of ointments by no means necessary, 14. Objections drawn from the examples of Christ and the kings of Israel are refuted, ibid., what use is lawful, 14. And how, 92. Gentile women daily devised various kinds of ointments, 91. How much they abused them, 14.

Most cities filled with perfumers, 92. Driven out of well-ordered cities, 14; and by whom, 92.

What ὑποπιάζω signifies, 215.

What ὕποπτοι and ὑποπτική signify, 140.

Ὑπόρχησις, a song adapted for dancing, 290; who first sang it, 290.

Usous, having used a tree in place of a vessel, committed himself to the sea, 285.

Nothing is useful unless morally right, 219.

Socrates and Plato execrated him who separated the useful from the morally right and just, 264.

He who had betrothed a wife was exempt from military service, and by what law, 146. To whom it is lawful to marry a wife, 15. What sort is to be married, 115, 198. A wife is never to be put away, 113. How she ought to conduct herself and obey her husband, 118, 198. What her dress and ornament should be, 17. A wife is judged a sister by the gnostic after the begetting of children, 214. See Conjugium, Matrimonium, Nuptiae. What law was enacted by the Lacedaemonians against him who had married a bad wife, 217. What Plato ordained against him who had not married a wife, 216. With what punishments an adulteress was to be visited, 200.

V

The cow of Daedalus, 62.

The epistles of Valentine, 232. One was to Agathopus, where he writes that such was the continence of Christ that He did not void food, 232. He boasted that he followed the opinion of Matthias, 156.

Valentine concerning the body of Christ, 115, 233. Concerning the sin of Adam, 118. Concerning faith, 120. Concerning martyrdom, and his other errors, 118. What Valentine said concerning the thefts of the Greeks, 125.

Why the Valentinians were so called, 230. Valentine prated that from the beginning they were immortal, sons of eternal life, an elect race, whereas the orthodox were animal, 232. What Achamoth or Enthymesis was among them, 232. The errors of the Valentinians concerning the spiritual and the animal man, 348. Concerning his soul, ibid. The error of the Valentinians concerning faith, 110; concerning marriage, 113; concerning spiritual communion, 113. By whom the Valentinians were attacked. By Clement of Alexandria, 111, 206. Whether elsewhere also, 247.

The opinion of Varro concerning the first origin of temples, 52.

Various kinds of vessels, 14. The use of which ones is unlawful, ibid. How precious, and what they were among the pagans, 87. Innumerable were the vessels of gold and silver which were used in the gentile baths, and what they were, 88. One must not boast of their multitude, 17. Precious vessels for uses of which it is shameful to speak, 87.

Who the seers among the gentiles were, and their names, 277. Women also were seers, and the names of some of them, 282. How those seers foretold future things, 108.

That the head of a woman is to be covered with a veil, and with what sort, 15.

Pardon is better than punishment, 111, 288.

Minerva was worshipped with winnowing-fans, 71.

The belly-demon set over more sumptuous foods, 13, 90.

Ventriloquists, 2, 90.

Winds recalled by Aristaeus, 249. Stirred up by Empedocles, 249.

Various surnames of Venus, 71. She was said to preside over the beginnings and end of life, 71. Venus τυμβωρύχος, 71. Venus laid snares for Phaethon, or rather Phaon, 71. Venus is not a goddess, 5. Obscene images and base statues of Venus, 62. The statue of the Cnidian Venus, 62. Praxiteles expressed the form of Cratina or Phryne in it, 62. Other Venuses painted after the beauty of Phryne the harlot, ibid. The statue of Venus Tanais, or rather Anais, 4, 60. When the use of venery was forbidden by the Pythagoreans, 258.

Hunger is the remedy for venereal appetite, or if not, the halter, 326.

The Venustians the same as the Paternians, 233. See Paterniani.

The Word or λόγος is more ancient than Lucifer and coeternal with the Father, 2. He is the very truth itself, and the divine idea, 121. He is diffused everywhere, like the sun, 130.

The Word speaking through the prophets and through Himself is to be believed, 122; He is the first master of truth, 243. By the divine Word good justice from heaven was first announced, 12. He did not forsake the body and soul of Christ after death, 38. The Word is all things to the infant or Christian, 40.

One must not cling to words and expressions, 260. Contentions of words to be avoided, 106; and excessive curiosity about them to be guarded against, 255. See Christiani.

Modesty is not a goddess, 5.

What truth is, 111. It is twofold, names and things, 128, 305; and an idea, 305. Even though it is one, it has manifold particles, 107. Truth is derived from God, 115. It subsists in four things, 305. It is a queen, and the principle of great virtue, 305. Its beginning is wonder, 305. Truth is occupied in knowledge and action, 305. Edifying charity is occupied in it, 107. Lying hidden in sacred Scripture, not yet fully ascertained by us, 110. Those who seek after it are to be praised, ibid. It alone is to be studied, 106. Truth is to be sought after. How, 345. The many criteria of truth, and by whom to be sought after, 305. Philosophy and other disciplines help us to acquire it, 305. The first master of truth is God, and His divine Word, 243. It is learned from God, or from those who traced their origin from the gods, 255. All its fountains flowed from God, and how, 128. He who does not believe it is wretched, 124.

Of what sort garments ought to be, 15, 17, 48, 85. Of what sort their colour should be, ibid. Simple garments, and those dyed with various colours, 85. By whom garments of fine linen were first made, 287. The luxury of garments is censured, 15, 84. Garments adorned with gems and precious stones are forbidden, 85. Neither the whole garment nor its fringe is to be woven with gold, 16. Garments so thin that the interwoven figures of animals and flowers can be seen on all sides are forbidden, 85. Deceitful garments, by whom proscribed, 308. See Femina and Mulier.

Let us not walk on the royal highways, 238.

At what time Victor was created pope, 6.

The temple of Victory, 73.

Observations of Victorius on the books of Clement of Alexandria, 141.

A widow by the virtue of temperance becomes a virgin again, 131. Whether she is to be preferred to a virgin, 201.

The nocturnal vigils of Christians, 14, 46. See Christiani.

Guilty men among the barbarians were wont to be bound with golden chains, 94.

Wine, its various kinds, 13, 89. Chian, Ariusian, Thasian, Lesbian, Cretan, Syracusan, Mendesian, Naxian, Italian, 89. Immoderate use of wine to be shunned, 89. It is the hemlock of men, 317. Abstinence from wine good, 13. 100. For whom its use is lawful or unlawful, 13. How, 115. It ought to be mixed with water, ibid. At supper and at dinner, in winter or at another season, ibid., and only a moderate use of it is allowed, 41. Who may indulge in it a little more cheerfully, 20. Verses on its evil effects, 102. See Zaleucus.

Virginity is counselled, not commanded, 200. Whether the vow of it is maintained by Clement of Alexandria, 200. Whether it is more excellent than marriage, 200. Who among the Indians cultivated virginity, 270.

A virgin sacrificed yearly to Juno among the Falerians, 68. Among the Lacedaemonians, when [the sacrifice of a virgin] began and ceased, 68.

Men: which exercises are lawful for them, 17. Men no less than women among the heathen ruined by luxury and softness, 83. Luxury is rebuked, 16.

Virtue, its definition, 20. It is not inborn in us, 201. We are born fit to acquire it, 127, 201. It is acquired by discipline and exercise, 201. Why some attain to a greater [degree of it], others to a lesser, 201. Virtue is acquired by no one except by a true victory over all the passions of the soul, 129. Virtue suffices for salvation, 123; and for blessedness, 264. Whether the most perfect Christian cannot lose it, 228. See Gnosticus. The trinity of the theological virtues, 208. Those three virtues are the foundation of rational knowledge, 208; and they follow one upon another, 208. Which are the cardinal virtues, 97, 200. How far they are connected with one another, 201. What the foursome of the virtues is, and what it effects, 140. How the virtues are common to men and women, 117. They are taught by the Mosaic Law, 111. In what the Christian virtues consist, 223. See Gnosticus. The temple of Virtue, 73.

Vice, how it is distinguished from sin, 180. It alone brings ruin to those who are advancing towards knowledge, 180. It alone is evil, 131. Vices and the most vicious men enrolled on the register of the gods, 49.

Let each comply sincerely with his calling, 119.

All are called by God, 110.

What the voluntary is, 178.

Pleasure, its definition, 13. Its source is desire, 202. Each begets itself, 202. Pleasure is a kind of appendage of the natural necessities, 202. It lies in wait for us day and night, 202. What its use is, 112. Pleasure unlawful, 15; and to be shunned, 114. No room is ever to be given it, 114. How one must fight against it, 301. It is to be rooted out, and how, 112, 113. From it [come] all the passions of the soul, and the temptations of the devil, ibid. The saying of the poet Sophocles on sexual pleasure, 258. See Antisthenes.

Vosibius, and his various books, 98.

Whether the vow of continence and chastity is approved by Clement of Alexandria, 200.

Vulcans, several, 3, 65. Vulcan is a fiery substance, 78. Those who worship Vulcan are impious, 4.

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Xenocrates' teacher Plato, 128. He succeeds Speusippus, 255, 256 He seems to have pointed to the Father and the Son, 123. His verses on God the Father and the Son, 247; and on God as known by beasts, 164; on faith, 110; on the highest good, 261. He said that the seven planets and the world are gods, 79. Whether he was called the Carthaginian or the Chalcedonian 4, 79.

Xenophanes, founder of the Eleatic sect, 107, 254. His age, ibid. By whom Xenophanes' verses on the gods of various nations are quoted, 254. What he drew from Holy Scripture, 123

What Xenophon said about God, 81, 246. Xenophon's thefts, 124, 296. What Xenophon stole from Holy Scripture, 123.

Xephodres, 239.

Xilander's observations on the books of Clement of Alexandria, 141.

Xystides [fine robes] unlawful, 15.

Z

Zabratus, Zaratas, Zaratus, Nazaratus: whether the same, 252.

Zacchaeus, chief of the tax collectors, 159.

Zechariah the prophet, his age, 108; prophecy, 150. Zechariah father of John the Baptist a prophet, 108.

Zaleucus, why he is called the first lawgiver, 276. The laws he gave to the Locrians he was said to have received from Minerva, 109, 276. Laws passed by him against wine drinkers and against adulterers, 276. He put out one eye of his son, convicted of adultery, and one of his own, 276.

Zalmoxis the hero, and what embassy was sent to him yearly, and by whom, 285.

Zaps, 121. What it signifies, 240.

Zarina, queen of the Sacae, 314.

Zeno the Eleatic, Parmenides' successor, 254 He spat his tongue at the tyrant, 312. Who that tyrant was, 312.

Zeno, founder of the Stoic sect, 251, 254. He forbade temples and images to be built, 251. He used to say that he would rather see one Indian being roasted than learn all the proofs about the endurance of toil, 112, 251. His opinion on the highest good and last end, 261, 262; on marriage, 265. To whom, and which of his writings, he handed over to be read, 266.

Who Zeno of Myndus was, 54. His writings, 98.

Zethus is said to be the inventor of music, 289

Zopyrus the tutor, 12.

Zoroaster the Median seer, 279