GENERAL INDEX

+abstain, abstinence

--from wine

193 231 439

+ACCUSED

--Antiochos, monk, of impregnation

922

--bishop, of eating from the paten

338

--brother accuses himself of every sin

601

--brother, of stealing one nomisma

316

--deacon, of stealing books

857

--deacons, two and one priest, of magic

953

--Doulas, of stealing τ_ _ερατικ_ σκευή

462

--elder and sister, of sinning with each other

419

--Jew, of magic

118

--Macarios, of impregnating a girl

423

--Marcian of murder

640

--Milesios, of murder

432

--monk, of magic

633

--monk (Nicon) of πoρvεία

435

--old man, of murder

292

--Pardos/Peter, of many sins, by an angel

702

--priest of bodily sin

111

--priest of magic

117

--priest, holy, of ...?

313

--priest, one, and two deacons, of magic

953

--priest's son by step-mother, of prodigality

914

--reader of paternity

220

--sister, of lying [?]

205

--Stephan (falsely)

869/899

--Theophilos, by his conscience

507

--virgin, of blasphemy

059

--young man, of murder

292

--Zacharias, deacon, of fornication

945

--Zacharias, patriarch, of paternity

949

+actor, Gaïnas the, punished for blaspheming,

281

+actors, to whom Serapion sold himself

209

+adoption

-- of goldsmith's apprentice

366

+ADULTERY

--of brother taken in with Silentiary's wife and emasculated

465

--of wife of Paul the Simple

199

--of priest

067

--of drunken priests

067 717

--of Taxeotês of Carthage with farmer's wife

010

--of his mistress, prevented by youth by slaying her

928

+α_θίoψ, α_θίoπες, α_θιόπισσα<ι>

--see Black-faced-ones

+allegories: see PARABLES &c.

+ALMS, +ALMSGIVING

--, a monk's

256 574 578

--, a village chieftain's

166

--forgiveness not bought by

062

--eunuch redeemed by

719

--given to, then demanded of, a poor man

577

--a loan to God

049

--mercy obtained by (Zeno)

351

--money for "choice gems and emeralds" (the poor)

184

--refused by honest poor

572

--regretted

531

--spoiled by parsimony

575

+_γγελός = bishop

050 322 323

+_μηρ_ς

046

+ANGEL(s)

--appearance of, as:

----eunuchs, v. s.v.

----monk

491

----fine looking youth

162 310

----handsome youth

313 390

----youth

[290 ?] 308 410

----youths, two

010

--s of all the churches

115

--bids a monk not leave

604

--bound by priest

717

--brings priest to altar

174

--s bring list of sins

868

--brother suspected of being an

921

--brother who looked like an

420

--brother who became like an

421

--cannot loose what priests have bound

916

--cares for sick monk

564

--s cheering

610

--counts footsteps

560 597

--s come for Sisoes

443

--s come for virgin

879

--s come for poor brother

016

--deletes man's sins

703

--descends, transforms priest

434

--dispute souls with demons

010 467 471 482 630 863 961

--divides child at eucharist

015

--s' hands, eucharist received from, not men's

122

--forced Jew to reveal

118

--s, devils or demons disguised as

134 201 485 569 614 710

--distributes gifts at agrypnia

021

--emasculate

203

--guarantors for prostitute at her baptism

003

--s, guardian

451 465

--guides John

956

--heals gardener's foot

025

------- ascetic's foot

615

------- caligrapher's hand

872

--hippopotamos, ran as though chased by an

135

--hosts of glorious

429 634

--invited Pitroum to see

206

--lead around departed woman

811

--who lied

569

--man not an

001

--man become an

157

--many seen

880

--marks those present at monastic offices

965

--s not to correct men

365

--offers a spade

824

--provide food

162 410

--'s question

232

--questioned by bishop

889

--releases prisoners

138

--of repentance

467

--replaces clergy at mysteries

007 008 117 709 717 854 924 953

--restrained by priest

058 121

--reveals message

039 048 851

--reveals something

266 333 491 609 962

--s seen bearing away soul

415

--s, two, coming for soul

524

--seen by Leontios

252

--------- priest

365 966

--sends

165 313 538

--s' singing heard

717

--sing with monks

021

--succours Piammonas

174

--strikes David dumb

333

--s' work suspected

071

--three

203

--two

014 524 016

--visible to elder

846

--warns

635

--who sought elder's prayers

628 878

+ANIMALS

--βoυβάλoι see: antelopes/buffaloe

--χoιρoγρύλλoι (sometimes mis-trans. hedgehogs or porcupines,) see: rock rabbits

--antelopes/buffaloe

536

--ants, birds, dogs fed

358

--asp

081 200

--ass

342 870

--ass, parable of

596

--ass and crocodile

161

--bear

037

--birds, ants,dogs fed

358

--camels(s) see: camel(s)

--chicken, fox returns

384

--crocodile and ass

161

--crocodile(s)

024 135 161 581

--crow

215

--crows, two (demons)

310

--deer

301

--dog, guide-

341

--dogs, ants, birds fed

358

--dragon(s)

084 199 887 924

--eagle

539 641 642 643

--fox in lion trap

490

--fox returns chicken

384

--goat(s)

037 086 584

--hippopotamus

135

--hound(s) and hare (fable)

561

--hyenas

170 200 418 609

--leopard

083 087

--leopard and rock rabbits

083 085

--lion: see LION(s)

--locust

081

--many animals

136

--mare

171 187

--pigs herded with whip

583

--rock rabbits and leopard

083 085

--ram

094

--serpant: see snake

--sheep: see sheep

--snake

150 151 152 191 320 720

--wolf

016

see also under: blind

+apocrisiarios _πoκρισιάριoς

--[agent] of large community who fell into _κoλασία

031

see also

922

+apophthegmata read

372

+APPLE

--from paradise

036

--of Athenaïs-Eudocia

513

--tumour the size of an

122

+apprentice, goldsmith's

366

+_ρχιιατρός

084 863

+arca martyris, de

039 040

+archbishop (anon) sent to the Iberians

041

+ARCHDEACON(s)

--Julian (Alexandria)

335

--Gregory (Rome)

336

-, one of the (Rome)

362

--Theodore (Jerusalem)

945

--who worked for Saracens

946

+_ργυρoπράτης = τραπεζίτης

see: silver-smith

_ρoυρα = 100 cubits square

+arm used to stir boiling

--porridge

037

--pitch

045

+_ρτoθέσιov pantry

574

+_ρχιρεμβ_ chief rabbi ?

486

+attendant: see διακovητής

+BABY βρέφoς μελιζόμεvov

008 014 015 111 510 791 833

(see also)

510

-- see also Baptism

+BAPTISM

--children's game of

486 487

--reckoned valid

374

--Conon the priest, responsible for baptisms

251

--feared by demons

120

--of babies at Jerusalem

345

--of children

058 121 345 709 818 830

--of infant

818 830

--of infant could not be interrupted by angel

058 121

--of Jew by the Bishop of Fundi

395

--of Jew and his wife by Basil the Great

791

--of jewish mother and son

488

--of Philip the young Jew

119

--of reformed Alexandrine woman

003

--of Russians

646

--of thirty-year-old man on island

712

--of Vespasian and Titus

057

--of youth converted by John the Divine

955

--postmortem, of monk's daughter

522

--refused by dead Jew

006

--refused and then accepted by Jewess

008

--repudiated and restored

558

--repudiated in writing

053 054

--requested by Hellenes

025

--requested by pagan philosophers

049

--recent, of youth accused of murder

292

--in sand

352

--, vision of Slav youth at his

709

+ban, clerical or monastic,

see EXCOMMUNICATE/SUSPEND

+bandit: see thief

+BATH(S) (Bathing)

--avoided by Theodosios II

512

--condemned

845 465

--which miraculous spring refused to supply

298

--not for the healthy

465

--a sister afflicted for frequenting

466

--frequented by bishop

487

--furnace of

486 487

--saved a monk from dehydration

358

--sea bathing

708

+BIBLE

--known by heart

153

--, OT and NT valued at 18 pieces of silver

403

--, OT and NT on parchment valued at 18 nom.

403

--, NT sold for 3 nom.

329

+BISHOP, anon.

--and pagan philosopher

049

--bathing

487

--bribed

892

--18 miles from Antioch

054

--, former

275 527

--guilty of πoρvεία repents

527

---- and is restored

017

--head of a

279

--, jewish mistress of a

008

-- "of a Roman city," the Sinaïte who became

109

--of Jerusalem, and George of Sinaï

322

--missionary to Russians

646

--on whose shoulders a brother claimed to be standing in a river of fire

279

--questions an angel

889

--rural, choice of a

050

--in village on Sunday

632

--, vision of

482

--who could see people's piety in their faces

889

--who demoted Eustathios the reader

220

--who directed an unworthy priest

055 717

--who imprisoned a holy priest in Samos

313

--who put demons to flight with eucharist

917

--who ransommed prisoners

314

--who sacrificed to gods

890

--who suspends clergy

040 706

--who was also a shepherd

448 449

--whose humility reconciled another

028

--s, various anon.

268 364 417 889 955

see also under:

unworthy

+black boy(s)

343 391

+BLACK-FACED-ONE(s) α_θίoψ, - -oπες

--many

010 038 290 595 849 863

--one

038 063 067 272 411 [803 928b]

--one small

721

--_ α_θίoψ τ_ς πoρvείας

063

--two

709

--female α_θιόπισσα, αι

002 200 465 548 849 902

+black

-- giant

198

-- person

050 194 913

-- riders

029

+balcksmith

163

+blasphemy, temptation to

901

+blind men, three

296

+blindness cured: of

--a man

386

--a young of hyena

170

--the young of a rock-rabbit

085

+blindness caused by:

--two work accidents

523

--divine intervention

293 469 867

--a reviving corpse

296

--self-inflicted wound

287

+blindness (partial)

--viewed as divine favour

317

+blind beggar

--relieves Daniel of Scêtê

463

--near Tyre

529

+BODY, human

--care of the

549

--viewed with distaste

010

--woman's, is fire

545

see also:

501 549 596

+boiling cauldron stirred with bare arm:

--of porridge

037

--of pitch

045

+BOOK(S)

--Boniface handed a magnificent

813

--a deacon accused of stealing a

857

--magician burns his (pl)

508

--a mysterious, given to Basil the Great

792

--of Gospels not burnt

646

--of NT

329

--of OT and NT

403

--of Theodore of Phermê (pl)

412

--, one given to a monk

446

--one, small, stolen and given back

500

--thrown into fire and unharmed

534

--Timothy threatened with a great

803

--two possessed by virgin in the desert

009

--two, of Nestorios' works

280

--vision of angel holding

276

+βoσκός, βoσκoί

see: Grazer(s)

+Boxes, three

720

--box cast into sea

240

+BREAD

--a little for a brother

604

--Amoun robbed of on road

151

--a year on, with water, in confinement

555

--delivered by one monk to another

597

--earned by palm-weaving

572

--forty days in the wilderness with, plus hard work

548

--given to poor by monks

574

--last, given away

256

--loaf of signed by faith

389

--Macarios runs out of in the wilderness

190

--monk commanded to buy for himself

636

--monk given a little every 2nd or 3rd day

707

--no bread at Bethlehem

850

--not eaten, in obedience

033

--task of supplying a wife with

440

--three pieces of given to Cosmas by Abraham

038

--two loaves per day purchased by poor woodcutter

050

--vision of monks eating (or honey or excrement)

871

--and water diet

--youth invited to share

410

--youth with donkey carrying bread is demon

186

--youth who ate huge quantities of

188

+BREAD, eucharistic

--absolution for monk who died absent without leave

392

--accidentally consecrated

266

--demons put to flight by

905

--seen as flesh

008 014 015 111 791

--heretical and orthodox

271

--hidden and dropped

849

--miraculous supply of

943

--priest forced to eat and then cut open by Slavs

932

--sprouted

297

--stale after Chalcedon

825

--supplied copious bread

931

+BREAD, miraculous supply of

--one loaf per day for a monk

133

--, warm for Apollo

143

--, warm for Elias

216

--by Apollo's prayers

144

--one loaf per week for Patermouthios

153

--for Hellê by angel

162

--for monks who give to the poor

574

--when a deacon celebrates the eucharist in wilderness

931

+βρέφoς μελιζόμεvov

008

see: eucharist, trans-accidentalism

+brigand(s)

see thief, thieves

+BROTHERS, TWO

--befriend Marcian

642

--deaths of

521 630

--_ξκoυβίτoρες, twins from Constantinople

075

--foreigners, come to Abba Macarios

452

--one jelous of the other

581

--one native, one foreign

634

--one marries, one waits seven years for him

859

--one monk, one secular

577

--one of whom falls prey to πoρvεία

306 553 554

--both fall prey to πoρvεία

555

--can see the divine grace in each other

571

--whom the devil tries to allienate from each other

639

+brothers, four

030

+BURN-T, -ED -ING

--book

280 534

--books, magic

508

--to death (for magic)

117 118 854 953

--corpse (allegedly)

892

--document

507

--eucharistic bread

297

--fire (on grave)

526

--grain

357

--with fever

250 358

--hand

065 088 557

--heretic

159

--idol

140

--with lust &c

067 262 499

--mat

573

--monk's work

577

--staffs

108

--water

376

--wealth

235 417

--woman

163

+CALLIGRAPHER

--with diseased hand

872

--put in charge of garden

617

--Mark whose mother visits him

431

--taught that which is beneficial to the soul

921

+CAMEL(s)

--killed by caper-plant

080

--pastured by old man

096

--devoured by wolves

173

--three brought back by Gerasimos' lion

312

--refused stolen goods

428

--, beast of burden

612

--συvoδία καμήλωv camel- caravan

551

--immobilised

921

--sacrificed by Moslems

909

--(water drawer) and dog obey higoumen

484

+cancer

033 192 422 808

+CAVE

--father living in

082 097 131 208 250 251-1 263 355 558 563 586 710

--dead monks found in,

----- one ditto

301

----- three ditto

101

----- six ditto

105

--burying place of fathers

309

--knight seen entering

208

--monk found dying in, who turns out to be a woman

009 047 348 886 926

+"Cast thy bread . . ."

004 049 366 367

see also under: Loans to God

+Centenarion

474

+Chariot,-

--of fire

134 201

--s, captain of the

930

--eer, the funeral of a

820

see also: wheel

+Charity

--of Apollinarios, Patriarch of Alexandria

363

--of an Egyptian whore

450

--of Eulogios scholasticos

197

--of a μαγιστριαvός

528

--of a very poor elder

256

--is a good friend

438

+Chastity

--a very good friend

438

--of a beautiful woman coerced to sacrifice

501

--of solitary coerced to sacrifice

502

+Cheek, turning the other

027 406 606

+cheese(s)

924 967

+CHILD, CHILDREN

--vision of Christ as a

799

--baptised

058 121 345 709 818 830

--born

012 220 315 712 922 945

--carried

265

--die(s)

042 470

--drowned, ordered to be

442

--enslaved

426 855 913

--healed

041 152 172 193 214 535

--on horse

387

--killed

022 099 110 295 386

--monk

546 548 923

--monk's

018 421 616 921

--monk's companion

605

--monk's nephew

915

--naked

572

--noisy

602

--orphan

712

--Peter the Iberian as a

810

--played at celebrating the mysteries

364 374 486 487 488 948

--played with wolves

952

--protected

293

--put in furnace/oven

486 487 488 582 (799)

--"of disobedience"

018

--raised from dead

444 496

--redeemed from slavery

165 426 708 716C

--seen at eucharist

008 014 015 791 948

--Slav slave

709

see also: daughter, son

885

+CHRIST, Jesus

--appears as lying in the road

599

--appears as poor old man

613

--appears as youth [?]

290

--cares for leper

197

--body of

116 917

--carried by higoumen

599

--demon claims to be

594

--said to be pleased, by demon

485

--denied

046 054 794 854

--drives out demon

406

--espoused to

540 849

--as guardian

367

--icon of

221 711

--love of

911

--meets John the Baptist

250

--monk ordained by

217

--not God

808

--serpant, threatened with

152

--struck in face

272

--taunted

054

+CHRIST, VISIONS of:

--behind seven veils

052

--as a child

799

--as a great king

044

--at Holy Sepulchre

123

--carrying alms given to a poor man

891

--wearing clothes given to poor

492 506

--joyous and comforting

624 883

+cistern 722

+CITY, mostly anon.

--monks in

228 468 506

--holy men in

497 538 638 919

--, "a Roman"

109

--, vision of

038 849 920

+CLOTHES

see also: garment(s)

--changed

275 346

--demanded

256 330 506 926

--different kinds of

920

--given

265 329 384 572 926

--grave

892

--man's monastic

470

--new

903

--kitchen

431

--loincloth

413

--monk with few, poor

420

--ordinary

835

--put on

059

--raised

251

--removed

020 034 296 515 535

--washing

532 533 535

+CLOTHED

-- = given monastic habit

047 703

--, ill-

272

--in purple

284

--in white

008

+codex

276 646

+coffin

039 040 820

+coenobiarch [=higoumen, q.v.]

599 851

+COMPARISON, ε_ς πo_αv μέτρov; see supplement to index

+concealment: see SILENCE

+convent παρθεvώv [ladies']

053 203 204 205 233

+CORPSE(s)

--bishop's, charioteer's

820

--disappearing

092 094 095 096 099 101 105 462 522

--earth rejects

392 892

--incorrupt after 7 years

302

--reject each other

074 075 303

--rotting

262

--stinking

813

--wild beasts to devour

617

--uncorrupt

302

+coup d'état

474

+CROSS

--in which Constantine conquered

240

+crown (s)

--(one)

290

--double

501

--five

610

--seven

563

--of thorns and itchy wool

721

+crowned

308 559 625

+CURE (s)

see also: possessed

--by Andrew (2) at CP

060

---- blow from Benedict's staff

391

---- humility

406

--of cancer

033 192 422

---- eye by Christ

803

---- hyena

170 207

---- insanity

164

---- paralysed hands

926

---- putrid tongue

829

---- rabid child

172

---- rock-rabbit

085

---- sexual passions

203 262 469

---- sterility

950

---- tumour

122

---- Vespasian and Titus

057

+DAUGHTER (s)

--in-law

385 469

--of Abba Paul, not married to Christ

849

--of merchant of Alexandria

293

--of Bishop Spyridon

449

--of Captain of Chariots

530

--of διακovιτής

580

--of deceased executioner

629

--of distinguished CPolitan

009

--of good father, wicked mother

064 065

--of King Misdaeus raped

529

--of master of youth

794

--of monk, unbaptised

522

--of pagan

558

--of pagan priest

508

--of patrician

926

--of pious widow of Antioch(Mary)

054

--of Pharanite

435

--of priest accuses reader of paternity

220

--of rich couple

367

--of widower-farmer

277

--of Theodotê

053

--of tortured mother

867

--of widow

572

--possessed of demon

406 500

--sick, healed with grapes

088

--s, three, drowned

473

--wronged by Zeno

351

+DEACON(s)

--at enmity with priest

001

--suspended by priest

005

-- = steward

030

--builds hospice at Edessa(Ephraim)

213

--who returned to the monastic life, lost eye (Menas)

317

--expelled from liturgy

338 539 793

--corrects heretic

365

--brings holy water

387

--two sent to raise corpse

388

--invites communicants to withdraw

393

--discover a stole missing

489

--repents in seclusion

552

--s, a bishop's

632

--, Basil the

809

--, the shameless

814

--,Themision, formerly deacon at Rhinocoroura

830

--of CP who took to magic

854

--falsely accused of theft

857

--chief, of monastery

896

--'s eucharist

931

--, Sergios

944

--stricken with leprousy

945

--who is also a shipmaster, Asian

946 bis/005

--, two, and priest accused of magic

953

--unwilling to be ordained

857

+deaconess

-- (mentioned)

251

+DEAD

see also: corpse(s)

--absolved

040 362 392

--anchorite found

224 302

--apocrisiarios whose face turned black

031

--appearances of

see: VISIONS

--burial of

154 156 497 641

--bishop

227

--experiences of the

010 052 064 065 267 279 324 390

-----libidinous almsgiver

062

--goods of given away

522

--judgement of

467 471 863

--Charisios, found

334

--philosopher communicates with living in writing

049

--pray for living

030

--prayers etc. for

038 064 626 852

--rejects another

074 075 303

--revived, resuscitated or resurrected

010 034 067 121 154 156 189 214 257 296 381 388 390 405 426 427 432 444 496 497 581 717 813 834 866 897 911 928

--sister

348 354 415 509 886 879 926

--star follows

254

--unbaptised

522

+DEATH

--awaited, of ascetic

016

--bed confession

627 702 899

--burned to

117 854

--charm against

501

--condemned to

462

--difficult, thought to be advantageous

030 098

--fear of

531

--forseen

037 047 078 091 219 253 308 322 443 550 618 702 848 954

--joyful

078

--of Anastasios

276

---- an anchorite and his slayer

264

---- two anchorites

225

---- archdeacon who worked for the Saracens

946

---- two brothers

228 630 634

---- calligrapher

617

---- camel

173

---- a grazer

301

---- Julian, see: Julian

---- Leo, monk

314

---- Marcian, emp.

827

---- monk who became Jew

505

---- monk in Evagrios' cell

353

---- monk suspended by Pope Gregory I

362

---- Nestorios

808

---- Poimên the solitary

347

---- rich man

029

---- rich man and anchorite compared

609

---- Saracen

264

---- Sisoes

443

---- Symeon Stylites

285

---- Thalelaios

278

---- virgin

219 494 501

--pain of, under

501

--reluctance to experience a second

006

--postponed, delayed

026 157 390 524 542 713 811 834

--prophesied

102

--voluntary

521

+DEBT(s)

--almost choked for

891

--another's paid

623

--enslavement for

426 716C

--cause suicide attempt

003 234 957

--paid by box in water

240

--half paid

621

--imprisonment for

359 361

--John the Persian's

416

--paid twice

011

--paid by girl

003

+defeat of imperial army

641

+deformation of features (deliberate)

019 287 421

+DEMON or +DEVIL, singular

[words used interchangeably.

n.b.: for plural, see below

n.b.: singular often = Satan, q.v.]

--causes monk to see

--couple copulating

595

--naked woman

124

--challenged

466

--corrupted Evagrios

353

--disguised (or seen) as:

---- angel

485 614 710

---- black boy

343 391

---- boy, Saracen

343

---- black girl

200

---- Christ

134 201 594

---- dove and raven simul

436

---- giant, black

038 198

---- monk

318

---- person with evil spirit

434

---- priest

164

---- serpant, great black

111

---- 70-cubit dragon

199

---- whirlwind

---- woman

131 163

---- youth with food

186