He refused to accept gifts made by the Lombards out of plunder, 365. Though a presbyter, he scarcely knew the elements of letters, ibid. How learned was his ignorance, ibid. Holy. The royal power of the saints, 16. The provident discernment of the saints is expressed by the nose of the Church, 90. Why small vices are mingled with the great virtues of the saints, 308. Cheerfulness in the saints is praised, 360. The faults of the saints, even the least, are sometimes punished with death, 405, 408. Against the life of the saints the reprobate sometimes receive power to rage, unto their own greater damnation, 408. The saints are neither lifted up by prosperity nor broken by adversity, 662. With what fruit they use both, ibid. How useful it is to hand down the lives of the saints in writing, 121.
How useful are the examples of the saints, 152, 153. How dangerous it is to hold the admonitions of the saints in contempt, 197, 200. How the saints are partakers of the counsels of God, 241. The counsels of God set forth by Him in Scripture can be known by God's saints; the hidden ones cannot be, 241, 244. Whether the saints obtain all that they ask, 265. Holier men do not dwell even with the most holy women, 289. Very many of the saints led a continent life with their spouses, and were taken up to the governance of the Church, 1130. Why all the good are taken away, or are very few, 365. The saints sometimes perform wondrous things by power, 264. — The souls of perfect saints, going forth from their bodies, are at once received in heaven;
but the souls of the imperfect are deferred, 408. What the single or double stoles of the saints signify, 409. The saints in heaven recognize the good who remain with them in the kingdom, 424. Likewise the evil in hell, ibid. This vision comes to the blessed as an increase of their joys, ibid. The saints know nothing in heaven who know the One who knows all things, 425. The hearts of the saints in heaven lie open to one another mutually, 445. They give thanks to God not only for the eternal joy they enjoy, but also for the eternal torment of the wicked which they have escaped, 449. Why the saints do not pray for the reprobate suffering in hell, 452. The uncertain memorials of saints are not to be honoured, 710. Blood signifies fault, 1027. In what way blood is said to touch blood, ibid.
For those labouring with vomiting of blood, fasting is harmful, 1117, 1121. And to one who is exasperated, 1121. Who the healthy are that must be admonished, 49. Santones, or Mediolanum Santonum, an episcopal city of Gaul, 828. Palladius, bishop of Saintes, ibid. Saona or Sagona, in the Middle Ages a city of Corsica, now destroyed, 562. Gregory commits the visitation of the Saonese Church to Bishop Leo, ibid. He appoints Martin as bishop, 563, 564. Who the wise are that must be admonished, 40. Let them learn the foolishness of God to be wise, ibid. The heart of the wise is consistent with itself, unlike the heart of the foolish, 60. How the wise man endures like the sun, 854. It belongs to a wise man both to weigh more broadly things briefly heard, and to correct in haste the things that displease God, 1081.
Wisdom deserts those whom it has long called while they refuse, 49. The wise foolishness of God, and the foolish wisdom of the world, 40. The wisdom that is from above is chaste and peaceable, 69. The soap-makers of the city of Naples were already forming into a guild in Gregory's day, 1058. Sardica, once the metropolis of New Dacia, now the capital of Bulgaria, 735, 756. Felix, bishop of Sardica, 755. Sardinia, a huge island of Italy under the dominion of the Spaniards, 542, 543. Sardinia was the seventh and last diocese of the African province, 543, 848. Sardinia was subject to the praetorian prefect of Africa, 550. When the Vandals occupied Africa, Sardinia, Corsica and other islands obeyed them, 847, 848. When these were defeated, Sardinia was joined to Africa, 848.
The nobles of Sardinia are rebuked because they do not turn their peasants away from the worship of idols, 702, 703. Gregory sends a bishop into Sardinia to convert the idolaters, 768. The Sardinians, that they might be permitted to sacrifice to idols, used to pay money to the judge, and after receiving baptism were compelled to pay this, 768. Gregory orders that guard be kept against a renewed incursion into Sardinia, 928. And that certain places be fortified, 930. The inhabitants of Sardinia are at length converted to the faith of Christ, 1106. Bishops of Sardinia: Agatho, 932. Vincdotius, ibid. The Church of Sardis. Why the angel bids this Church confirm the good things it had done, 94. The frying-pan signifies the frying (torment) of the mind, 32. What it is that an iron frying-pan is set as a wall between the prophet and the city, ibid.
Sarzana, a city of the Genoese domain, succeeded Luna in episcopal dignity, 700. He gives satisfaction to God and to men who brings back what is astray to rectitude, and what is presumptuous to the norm of humility, 929. 'Satisfaction' among jurists is the giving of a pledge or a surety, 821. Saturninus, a presbyter forbidden to approach the sacred ministry of orders, to whom the care of certain monasteries is committed, 729, 730. Because after his deposition he presumed to minister, he is deprived of communion until death, 733. Saturninus, 539. Saul fled the summit of governance while humble, but once placed in governance he swelled with pride, 5. Because Saul refused to be publicly rebuked, God tore away his kingdom, 5. Saul was preferred through humility, rejected through pride, 21.
David with his harp soothed the frenzy of Saul, who was tormented by an evil spirit, 36. By Saul the elation of the powerful is signified, ibid. Also evil pastors, 39. What Saul purging his belly signifies, ibid. Saulus. See Paul. Sava. What his heresy was, 802. Savinella is roused to good works, 1185. The monastery of St. Savinus, 1229. Savinus, abbot of St. Stephen on the island of Capri, 547. Savinus, a subdeacon. See Sabinus. Savona, an episcopal city of Liguria, 1207. Transmarine Saxony, or England, 1150. A huge rock, as it was falling, was marvellously fixed in place, 156. What the itch signifies, 12. To offer an occasion of scandal to the weak is altogether to be avoided, 96. How grave an evil is scandal, 851. Gregory swears that he wishes to give no man an occasion of scandal, 879.
Certain scandals are to be despised: others otherwise, 1128, 1129. Scandinavia, from which the Goths, Vandals and Lombards came forth, is called the workshop of peoples and the sheath of nations, 368. Schism. Why in schism good works perish, 718, 967. The formula for abjuring schism, 1300 and following. What the schismatics in the cause of the Three Chapters were contending, 937. What their end was, 938. They understood neither what they were defending nor what they were following, 938. Schismatics are recalled to the Church, 615, 718. Schismatics returning to the Church must be assisted, 823, 826, 827, 999, 1000. What Gregory was prepared to do for the sake of recalling them to the unity of the Church, 972.
Schismatics who have returned to the Church are harassed by schismatic bishops, 982. Gregory wishes help to be brought to them, 985. Felix, a deacon who returned from schism, is incardinated in the Church of Syracuse, 694, 695. Schismatic bishops returning to the Church are received in their orders, 1001. 'Schola' is the same as college, order, corps, 905, 1121, 1122. Of the imperial officials there were eleven chief 'scholae', 905. St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated to God from infancy, 265. Her holy conversations with her brother, 268. How great was the efficacy of her prayer, ibid. In the likeness of a dove her soul goes forth from her body. 'Scholasticus' was the name given to any eloquent man learned in the studies of more polished literature, 488, 721, 940.
The advocate, the judge, and the assessors of the judge were called 'scholastici', 488, 977. Gregory bestows on the scholastici the title of 'Glory', as on prefects, patricians, exarchs and kings, 721. The assessor and counsellor of the exarch is called 'scholasticus', 761. The causes of bishops were sometimes committed to scholastici together with bishops, 975, 976. Scholasticus, a defensor, 920, 1105. He claims for himself the goods of the bishop whose son he was, ibid. He is ordered to restore these to the Church, ibid. Scholasticus, judge of Campania, 635. To him the cause of Bishop Paul is committed, 623, 625. The Sclavi or Sclavini, or Slavs, peoples poured out to the North and East, and forced into servitude, 933, 934. The Sclavi burst into Italy, 1065.
Scodra, once an episcopal city, afterwards the metropolis of the province of Praevalitana, 528, 898. Bishops of Scodra: Stephanus, 527. Senecius, who subscribed to the Council of Ephesus, 528. Constantinus, 1201. The Scots differed from the whole Church in assigning the day of Easter, 1036. There is no vanity of writing where necessity compels, 1036. A 'scribo' is a prefect or count of the domestics, of the horse and of the foot, 757. It is also taken for a guard of the palace, ibid. The office of the 'scribones' was to choose and examine recruits in the provinces, 504. 'Scrinia' are chests, coffers, cabinets, in which the acts of the Church are kept, 662. A 'scriniarius', or 'chartophylax', that is, a record-keeper, ibid. There were various scrinia, ibid. Sacred Scripture.
Who they are that must be admonished who do not rightly understand Sacred Scripture, 72. Sacred Scripture is a lamp in the night of the present life, ibid. Ill understood, it is turned into darkness, ibid. The pride of those not rightly understanding Sacred Scripture, ibid. Heretics turn it into a sacrifice to Satan, 73. It is a book sealed with seven seals, 418. Christ, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, opened this book, ibid. The words of the sacred discourse are the divine banquet, 617. The afflicted ought to seek their consolation in the reading of Sacred Scripture, 618. In the understanding of Sacred Scripture, whatever does not resist sound faith ought not to be rejected, 680. Out of one understanding of Scripture, each of the expositors, through innumerable meanings, composes as it were various ornaments, 680.
Sacred Scripture is, as it were, a letter of God to His creature, 712. It is to be read ardently, ibid. One must learn the heart of God in the words of God, ibid. The passages of Scripture are not to be bent to persons, nor to unusual or profane meanings, 854. St. Gregory often adopts the sense of Sacred Scripture, not the words, 869. He exhorts noble maidens to read it, 1180. Sacred Scripture was anciently distributed among the Jews into various sections, 1271. The scruple. In a solidus there were four scruples, 648. The scrutinies of baptism, what they are, 735. 'Scolae', that is, guards, sentinels, 591, 592. Sebastian, bishop of Rhisinium, 518, 769. Sebastian, a bishop, 866. Sebastian, an antigraphus (secretary) appointed to examine the cause of Bishop Hadrian, 630.
What it is to cut open the pregnant women of Gilead, 72. 'Secretarium' among jurists is called the place in which judges hear cases, 503. Among ecclesiastical writers it is called a certain secret part of the temple, 504. It is also called 'diaconium' and 'salutatorium', ibid. Why the secretarium was called salutatorium, 787. Secundianas, in the palace, or the tribunal, 1301. 'Secundicerius' or 'secundocerius', 880, 881. See Primicerius. Secundinus, bishop of Tauromenium (Taormina), 558, 1291. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Secundinus, a bishop, 780. His equity and solicitude in discussing and settling a cause is praised, 779. Secundinus, made abbot after his lapse, is to be deposed, 640, 641. Secundinus or Secundus, a servant of God at Ravenna, 816.
He is called 'inclusus' (an enclosed hermit), 964. A 'monomachus' (solitary), 965. And perhaps he is the one called abbot, 1270, 1271. His writings are praised, 964. Why Gregory did not reply to these, 1270. Secundus, his humility, 965. Gregory sends him incense, 970. Two codices of the Homilies, a vestment and images, 971. What it is that the axe flees from the hand, and the iron leaps forth from the handle, 32. Rash security is to be guarded against by penitents, 85. The evil of security, 99. Security concerning one's merits is a corruption of the soul, 102. Man from paradise, and the angel from heaven, though secure, fell, 840. The mother of negligence is wont to be security, 869, 870. No one ought to be secure concerning his sins while he can still bewail them, 869. To sit.
What it is that future preachers sit in the city, 76. The Apostolic See and St. Peter are said reciprocally (of each other), 526, 852. Many preachers are read to have been sent by St. Peter into various provinces, that is, by the Apostolic See, 526. It is just that the Apostolic See should take care for keeping unity in the minds of priests, 685. All bishops are subject to the Apostolic See, if any fault is found in them; but otherwise they are equals, 976. Without the authority of the Apostolic See, the things done in synods have no force, 984. The Apostolic See is the head of all Churches, 1254. See Roman Pontiff. To seduce is to lead aside, 686. The city of Zoar saves the fleeing weak man, 80.
How the spouses in the small city of Zoar are defended from the flames, ibid. Seed. The man suffering an issue of seed, what he signifies, 18. The seeds of the harvests, covered by frost, sprouting more fruitfully, what they signify, 876. Narrow is the path that leads to life, 46. Senator, a presbyter and abbot of the hospice of Augustodunum (Autun), 1221. Senecius, bishop of Scodra, subscribed to the Council of Ephesus, 528. The old man. Which old men must be admonished, 35. The conversations of old men were always pleasing to Gregory, 197. When an elder must be rebuked, 925. An old man or a sick man is not to be chided, 1260. Whether in Africa, besides the metropolitan, any bishop was called 'senex' (elder), 559. Opinions spoken without writing do not deserve to have the name of 'sentence' (judgement), 1255.
An example of an ecclesiastical sentence on behalf of a bishop, ibid. 1256. The bilge-water secretly rising does the same thing that the storm openly raging does, 91. Seventh. See Hebdomum. Enclosure. Ecclesiastical enclosures. See Asylum. The tomb. Hypocrites are like whitened tombs, 95. The pious custom of preparing a tomb for oneself, 273, 332. The laws did not allow human bodies to be moved from their place, 547. Whose right of burial in churches once was, 253. Burials of laymen in churches, 409, 457. The custom of washing bodies before burial, 400, 416. Whether it profits souls if their bodies have been buried in churches, 457. Those whom grave sins press down are, to the greater heap of their damnation, buried in the church, 460, 461.
A consecrated woman buried in a church appeared burned to the half, 460. Because a bishop had buried the patrician Valerianus, a lascivious man, in the church, he was suddenly punished with death, 460, 461. The body of Valentinus, defensor of the Church of Milan, buried in the church, demons drag out of the church by night, 461. The body of a certain dyer, buried in the church, was disinterred by divine power and was not found at all in the tomb, ibid. It is forbidden to exact a price for burial, 897, 927. Yet if anything is offered for the lights, it is lawful to accept it, 927. Lights used at burials, 927. The custom of the ancients was to bury the dead clothed, 1290.
Serenity, a title of honour with which Gregory addresses the emperor Maurice and his son Theodosius, 494, 495, 804, 805, 841. Serenus, bishop of Ancona, 943. He is called Severus, 996. To him the visitation of the Church of Aesium is committed, ibid. Serenus, bishop of Marseilles, 830. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. With what mind Serenus broke the images, 1006. He is reproved concerning them being broken, 1100 and following. And concerning wicked men received into fellowship, 1141. To him are commended the monks journeying into England, 830, 1144. Serenus, deacon of Ancona, 943. Sergius, bishop of Praeneste, 1287. Sergius, a defensor. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Discourse. Let the discourses of priests be seasoned with the salt of discretion and wisdom, 17.
The discourse of teachers ought to be formed according to the quality of the hearers, 33. That discourse is penal which is empty of the profit of usefulness, 312. What it is to converse with God, 48. He is called 'Seronatus' whom his mother bore late and laboriously, 488. Hence many were named Seronati, ibid. The cunning of the serpent is to be tempered by the simplicity of the dove, 47. A serpent set as guardian of a garden by a miracle, 161. Serpents attacking the wilderness of God's servant are marvellously slain, 312. Under the appearance of a serpent the devil tries to terrify the monk Martin, 316. Serpents slain by the sign of the cross, 356. Servandus, a deacon and abbot, friend of St. Benedict, 269. He presided over the monastery of St. Sebastian, ibid. Servandus, deacon of the Church of Fiesole, 1074.
'Servator loci' is a kind of dignity, 460. One holding the place of the prefects, that is, a vicar of the prefects, ibid. The 'servatores' were vicars or those holding the place, 593, 594. The 'servator' of the praetor is his vicar, 661, 663. Servitude. Freeborn boys are not to be forced into servitude, 547. Servitude is an impediment to matrimony, 815. Servulus, a paralytic poor in goods, rich in merits, 303. His charity, ibid. His marvellous death, ibid. The slave. Which slaves must be admonished, 40. Slaves can justly complain against their masters, 624. They can sometimes, for a just cause, be given liberty against their masters' will, or be sold to others, ibid. Christians should not drive sick slaves from their house, but provide them with necessaries, ibid.
Slaves abandoned in sickness enjoy liberty by the laws, ibid. The laws of nature forbid slaves to be admitted to the habit of conversion (the monastic life) against their masters' will, 653, 654, 676. Both canon and civil law, ibid. Yet Justinian permitted these to be received, unless it was established that they were guilty either of theft or of some crime, 676. It was lawful to redeem for a price slaves wishing to be converted, 651. Slaves were formerly marked on the hand, 676. A slave of the Church is asserted into liberty by monastic profession, 761. But if he deserts his profession, he is to be restored to his former condition, ibid. Slaves of public right, 1183. Whether in Gaul there had long been no slaves properly so called, 1197. Gregory calls himself the servant of the servants of God, 1213. See Gregory.
Slaves of the Jews. See Jews, 539, 716, 1231. Servus Dei, a deacon, deacon of the Roman Church, 539, 1231. Severianus, bishop of Gabala in Syria, wrote many things, 1071. St. Severinus, apostle of the Norici, whose body was translated to the fortress of Lucullanum, 624, 638. In his honour a celebrated monastery was built in that same place, 623. Gregory asks that relics of St. Severinus be sent to him for consecrating a Church at Rome, 637. And for dedicating an oratory, 1115. Severinus, bishop of the Church of Miria, carried the ministries away with him, 735. Severity. Gentleness is to be mingled with severity, 23. Severus, a heretic, 1174. Severus, bishop of Ancona. See Serenus. Severus, the schismatic bishop of Aquileia, is ordered to come to Rome, 501.
He is called the head of the whole schism, 1240. Why he was called bishop of Grado, 502. Aquileia being burned, he transferred the see to Grado, 609, 1240. Severus of Ficulle is appointed visitor of the Church of Ariminum (Rimini), 548, 549. And of the Church of Ravenna, 754, 755. Severus, a presbyter of the province of Valeria, 204. Having delayed to visit a sick man to whom he had been called, he blames himself for his death and mourns it, ibid. At his tears God recalls the dead man to life, ibid. Severus, a scholasticus or assessor of the Exarch, 761. Severus, a magnificent man, 1097. The 'sextariaticum' was a burden exacted from tenant-farmers over and above the individual sextarii (a measure), 533. Hence it is called a burden of addition, ibid. Gregory forbids this burden, as unjust, to be exacted from the tenants of the Roman Church, ibid.
What the gentle hiss (whistle) signifies, calming horses, inciting whelps, 33. Shechem, son of Hamor, oppressing Dinah by force, is a type of the devil corrupting the negligent soul, 85. Sicily. In Sicily certain places vomit forth flames and fires, 429. The places of torments seem to be opened in these places, ibid. Every three years the bishops of Sicily were bound to come to Rome, to whom Gregory grants that they should come once every five years, 469, 867. The same bishops were compelled to come to the Roman council either every year, or every three years, or every five years, 486. Gregory commands them to assemble once a year with the subdeacon Peter, 486. Likewise it was the custom that they should come to Rome every year to celebrate the birthday (anniversary) of the pope, 526.
Gregory abolishes this custom of vain and foolish superfluity, ibid. In Sicily there was no metropolitan in Gregory's time, 486, 487. Sicily especially supplied grain to the Romans, 488, 557. From the time Sicily was joined to the Roman Empire, the ploughmen of Sicily paid to the Romans a tithe of the grain they gathered, 533. Often in place of grain they paid its equivalent in coin, whereby they were burdened, ibid. It is provided that nothing similar be done by the agents of the Church toward the ploughmen in the patrimony of Sicily, 533. How the bishops of Sicily may guard themselves against the compulsory services of feigned defensores, 556. That the Sicilian bishops should not come to Rome for the birthday of St. Peter because of the unfavourable season, 557. St. Gregory appoints prayers for Sicily when enemies threaten, 1138.
In Sicily there were very many evildoers (sorcerers) in Gregory's time, 1259. How Sidon is brought to shame through the voice of the sea, 83. The sign of the cross was very frequently used by the ancient Christians, 196. Its efficacy, ibid. See Cross. By signs in the sky of spears and fiery armies are foretokened the disasters and slaughters to be brought upon Italy by the Lombards, 368. Silence. The violent keeping of silence is sometimes harmful, 53. He who restrains his tongue but not his mind sins the more dangerously the more securely, 53. If the tongue would calmly disclose the annoyances inflicted, the grief would flow off from the conscience, 54. The tongue must be learnedly bridled, not always tied, 54. The city of the mind that has not the wall of silence lies open to the enemy's darts, 54.
Those who are zealous for silence, being simple and clean of heart, are easily heard by God, 312. What a golden siliqua is, 1105, 1107. In a solidus there are twenty-four siliquae, 648, 955. St. Gregory takes care that siliquae beyond a pound of just weight not be exacted from the peasants, 534. What the 'siliquaticum' is, 534. Tiberius, bishop of Silva Candida, 1287. It is called the heresy of Simony, 586, 587, 782, 786, 788, 790, 795, 798, 1007, 1247. How grave a crime it is, 937, 1015, 1016. It inflicts a lethal wound, 1017. Simoniacs are to be kept from the sacred orders, 659, 753, 786, 788, 789, 790, 798, 937, 963, 1007. The ordination of Maximus as bishop of Constantinople is null, and he was ordained corruptly, 608. A presbyter ordained simoniacally is to be deprived of his order, 694.
In what sense the priesthood of Simoniacs is not counted in the priesthood, 1134, 1135. Simony was condemned by Christ, 1007, 1134. And by the apostles, 1008, 1016, 1034, 1148. And by the Fathers, 937, 1007. Simony runs rife in the East, 1134. And in Gaul, and in various other provinces, 781, 782, 788, 790, 797, 1007, 1140 and following, 1141, 1142, 1143. How many and how great were Gregory's efforts that the stain of simony might be removed from Gaul, 782. He asks that a synod be convened against it in Gaul, 1010, 1012, 1014, 1015, 1018, 1141, 1142, 1143, 1145, 1146, 1148, 1149. He himself also routs it in a synod, 788. He tries to turn kings away from simony, 1007. He who, corrupted by a reward, permitted someone to be made bishop, is said to sell Christ for money received, 612.
It is forbidden to accept anything for ordinations, marriages, or for veiling virgins, 707. Likewise for burial. See Burial. Every kind of simony is condemned, 1290. Under the appearance of piety simony is sometimes committed, 1008. The almsgiving that is made from money received for orders does not profit, 1008. The simple. Who are to be admonished as simple, 47. Let them never speak false things, but sometimes keep silent about true things, ibid. Great is the security of the simple, 48. What the conversing of God with the simple is, 48. The simple and pure of heart are easily heard by God, 312. Why Christ wishes His servants to be simple as doves, 766. Prudence is to be joined to simplicity, 47.
Simplicity in Sacred Scripture is often associated with prudence and rectitude, 766. Simplicius, bishop of Paris, 1144. Simplicius, the third abbot after St. Benedict, 208. Simplicius, 1092. 'Simultatio' means the same as 'simultas' (enmity), 487. The mountain of Sinai, where there is a celebrated monastery, 1091. Frequent pilgrimages to that monastery, ibid. There is a celebrated home for the aged there, 1092. Sincerus is harassed by the creditors of his father-in-law, 821. The left hand. Why riches and glory are placed on the left hand, 77. Sipontum, once an episcopal city of Apulia, but destroyed, to which Manfredonia succeeded, 546. Bishops of Sipontum: Felix, 546. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Vitalianus, 900. Vitulinus, 1287. Sirica, an abbess, 931.
Her testament, although she did not put on the monastic life, is declared void, ibid. Sirica, wife of Gaudiosus, 547. Sisinnius, a presbyter accused of idolatry and sodomy, is to be thrust into prison, 1044. Sisinnius, defensor of the Church of Messina, 897. Sisinnius, a judge whom, labouring in want, Gregory relieves with a yearly subsidy, 596. 'Sitonicum' sometimes signifies a certain measure of grain, sometimes a public granary, 488, 1204. The curator of the sitonicum, 1205. Augustine, the apostle of the English, seeks and obtains for himself relics of the martyr St. Sixtus, 1157. Sixtus of Siena, along with Gregory, believed the fire of hell to be corporeal, 111. Smaragdus, the exarch, burning with zeal for ecclesiastical unity, 1240. Gregory kindles his zeal, 1241.
There is no society in which there are not wicked men among the good, 1127, 1128. What it is to flee from burning Sodom, 80. Sodom proclaimed its sin, 89. Why the Sodomites perished by fire and stench, 437. Why the Lord is said to come down, that He might know the things done in Sodom, 860. What a 'solarium' (upper chamber, terrace) is, 228. 'Solatium' is the same as help, aid, 558, 646, 980, 1206. It is sometimes taken for the pension or return paid to the proprietor by reason of an estate, 922. What a golden solidus is, 189, 569. The gold coin, when Constantine the Great was emperor, obtained the name of 'solidus', 648. How many solidi in a pound, ibid. Six solidi in an ounce, ibid. In a solidus four scruples, twenty-four siliquae, ibid. Forty denarii, 570.