The visitation of the Church of Aesis is enjoined upon Bishop Severus, ibid. No one can desire eternal things without grace, 1077. Those things are to be sought which, once found, do not pass away, nor, once attained, fail, ibid. Aetherius was bishop of Lyons, not of Arles, 830. He is praised, 1141. St. Gregory writes to him about abolishing simony, 1142. On the privileges of his Church, ibid. On the writings of St. Irenaeus, ibid. Etna in Sicily, 1055. By afflictions to Christ, 1081. In affliction, since the aforesaid precepts console us, we ought, 895; the things we suffer, to hope for the promised things, 895. In the time of affliction the humility of God's servants ought to appear, 599; nor in affliction, 383. Necessity itself increases impatience with grace to us, 383. Through sin, adversity.
Correction, the scourges of God for sins. See Persecution, Punishment, Tribulation. Why the Africans are afflicted from ordinations. Africa is afflicted by pestilence, 1087. In Africa the dignity of primate was annexed not to the rank of place, but to the antiquity of the episcopate of each bishop, 559. St. Gregory attempts to abolish this singular custom of Africa, ibid. To his endeavor the more numerous part of the bishops of Africa was opposed, ibid. Nevertheless he afterward permitted this custom to be retained, 561. Carthage was not subject to this custom, 559. The extortions of the judgment of the Africans, 1095. Agapes, or religious feasts in the churches, 1176. The eulogy of Agapetus to the emperor, 1303.
Agapetus, journeying to the emperor Justinian, in the regions of Greece, after offering the sacrifice of the Mass, healed a man who was mute and lame, 284. Agapetus the abbot, 1172. He complains of the vexation brought upon his monastery, 498. Agapetus the subdeacon asks that oil be given to him as alms, 260. The veneration of St. Agatha is most ancient, 547. Agatho, elected bishop of Syracuse, 753. Agatho, bishop of Palermo, having set out for Rome, barely escaped a most severe tempest, 469. Having offered the sacrifice of the Mass, he delivers a sailor from shipwreck, ibid. Agatho, a bishop in Sardinia, 932. Agatho is received into a monastery, 827. He is not the one who was afterward pope, ibid.
Agathosa obtains the restoration to herself of her husband, who had been made a monk against her will, 1137, 1138. Agathus, bishop of Lipari, deposed for crimes, 665. Gregory orders that his sustenance be provided from the goods of the Church of Lipari, ibid. What it is to heap up a mound, 31. The conversion of Agilulf, king of the Lombards, to the Catholic faith, 114. On what condition he would not refuse to make a general peace, 762. Gregory foretells that, the truce being ended, he would not make peace, 930. Gregory gives him thanks for the peace concluded, 957. Why he refuses to subscribe a pact with him, 1002. In what year peace was made with Agilulf, 1272. Agilegius the notary, 610. St. Agileus or Agilegus, martyr, who suffered at Carthage, 1182, 1183. Agnella the abbess, 1095.
Gregory exhorts Agnella to good works, 1185. Agnellus, bishop of Fondi, 947, 1291. Driven from his city by enemies, he is installed at Terracina, 634, 633. Gregory writes to him about the Synagogue of the Jews to be transferred elsewhere, 497. He is reproved for the peasants of the estate, 908. Agnellus, bishop of Sutri, 1287. Agnellus the abbot, 856. He is urged to the keeping of regular discipline, 857. Agnellus, a monk of the monastery of St. Gregory, whose death is foretold, 409. Agnellus, notary of the Roman Church, 685. He violates Petronilla, a convert (nun), and carries her off pregnant from the monastery, 683. Gregory orders his crime to be examined and punished, 686. The error of the Agnoetae, 1065. The Agnoetae are called Themistians, ibid. The Agnoetae are a sect of the Theodosians, 1066.
And Nestorians, 1070. The error of the Agnoetae is refuted by the Fathers, both Greek and Latin, 1065. And by St. Gregory, 1063, 1069, 1070. The Lamb. Who sing the Canticle to the Lamb, 83. Ago, king of the Lombards, 683. Agrigentum, a maritime city of Sicily, episcopal under the archbishop of Palermo, 557. Gregory, bishop of this city, having been accused, had come to Rome to be judged, 633. A fourth part of the revenues of the Church of Agrigentum is granted to Peter the visiting bishop, 737. Bishops of Agrigentum: Gregory, 737; Gregory, 557; Eusanius, 717. The surveyor. By the surveyor of old questions about boundaries were settled without the cognizance of the governor, 888. Agrippinus, priest of the Church of Fiesole, 1074, 1145.
Aigulf, bishop of Metz, 1144, 1145. The Alamanni invade part of Italy, 1061. The alabaster. The woman who poured out the alabaster holds the type of Holy Church, 924. Albanum, a city of Latium, 633. One of the six older cardinal bishoprics, ibid. Bishops of Albano: Andreas, 1287; Homobonus, 1291. Albinus, prelate of the Church of Rieti, 168. Albinus, bishop of Formia, 947. Albinus, son of Martin the colonist, 707. What a white spot (albugo) in the eye signifies, 12. Albula, a precious stone, 1272. Alcisso, bishop of Epirus, 796. Alcuin, tutor of Charlemagne, in what year he flourished, 107. He brings forward testimonies of the Dialogues of St. Gregory, ibid. Alcisso, bishop of Corcyra, 1261, 1266, 1271.
Aldio, master of the soldiers, requests that priests and deacons be ordained in his own city, 951. Aldius, a magnificent man, 590. Peter, bishop of Aleria in Corsica, 808. Alexander, praetor of Sicily, 1096. Alexander, a magnificent man, 539, 1098. Alexander, deacon of the Church of Alexandria, 1258. Alexander, whom Gregory greets, 493, 877. Alexander Frix, a colonist of the Roman Church, 920. Alexandra, foundress of a monastery at Naples, 1050. Alexandria, a widow, is commended by St. Gregory, 823. There is a special bond of charity between the Church of Alexandria and that of Rome, 836. The See of Alexandria is called apostolic, 836. Why, 764. And the Chair of Peter, 888, 889, 1065, 1069.
Peter adorned the See of Alexandria, to which he sent the Evangelist as his disciple, 888. Bishops of Alexandria: Didymus, 1036; Eulogius, 1288. See the Index of Letters. Alfred, king of England, a monk, 1149. Alger, monk of Cluny, in what year he flourished, 107. He cites the Dialogues of St. Gregory in his book on the sacrament of the body and blood of the Lord, ibid. Alien. Why the malignant spirits are called aliens from us, 49, 74. Aligernus, 1104. Alleluia was of old not sung in the churches only during the fifty days of the Resurrection, 939. Someone complains that Gregory had ordered the Alleluia to be sung in the Roman Church outside these fifty days, 940.
The Alleluia was of old sung at the funerals of the dead and in Lent, 939. To be lifted up. Who is cast down together with the one lifted up, 1027. The altar of God is the soul of the just, 43. What the trench of the altar signifies, ibid. An altar was of old not consecrated without the relics of the saints, 547, 548, 572, 577, 1176. See Dedication. The Greeks have a single altar within each of their churches, 828. Among the Latins there is another custom, ibid. Altars were the sepulchres of the martyrs, ibid. Altars in private houses in Gregory's time, 825. Height. What it is to be lifted up upon the heights of the earth, 491. Who truly loves the high, 1030. Let those who stand on high fear a fall, 83. Alulf, monk of Tournai, in what year he flourished, 107. A book out of all the works of St.
He wrote a book out of the works of Gregory, ibid. Amalphia and Amalphis, a city once episcopal in Campania, now archiepiscopal in the kingdom of Naples, 808, 809. Pimenius, bishop of Amalfi, 808. Amandinus, a priest and abbot deposed, may hold the first place among the monks, but is not to be restored to his former rank, 730. Amandinus, a household servant, 1081. He was forbidden by a dream to write anything to Gregory in harsh words, ibid. Amandus, bishop of Sorrento, 1052, 1053. He is ordered to come to Rome, 1053. St. Ambrose used to feed consuls and prefects, 580. Amantius, a priest of remarkable simplicity, 336. By laying on his hand, he heals whatever sick, ibid. By the sign of the cross he kills serpents, ibid. He heals a frenzied man, ibid.
His name is inscribed in the martyrology, 356. What ambidexterity means spiritually, 764. Ambition. Ambition and avarice are idolatries, 30. Ambition alone is condemned as a crime by the most severe strictness of the canons, 698. The ambitious are to be repelled from the office of pastor, 3. A friend. What it is to go to the wood with a friend, 32. Those incautiously joined in friendships with the wicked are bound in their faults, 70. Friends are not to be flattered in their faults, but admonished, or even freely rebuked, 597, 598. How one is to be grieved over the loss of friends, 498. All things are to be discussed with friends, but first about themselves, 324. Amiternum, once a city of the province of Valeria, 164. Castorius, bishop of the city of Amiternum, 168.
Ammonia offered a house by title of donation to the Roman Church, 948. Ammonius, a monk in the Gregorian monastery, 412. From him Gregory had learned what he relates about Armentarius, ibid. Love is born of fear, 353. Love and power have a great kinship between themselves, 873. See Charity, Love. Love of neighbor. The neighbor is to be loved in God, and God is to be loved in the neighbor, 540. Those sin against love of neighbor who, by acting secretly good, allow evil to be thought of themselves, 95. Let us not hate a man because of his error, nor love the error because of the man, 772. However poor and abject our brethren, we ought to despise them in nothing, 1129 and following. Amos, patriarch of Jerusalem, 880.
Fifty-eighth in order, 899. The 'amphimalum' is a garment shaggy on both sides, 1211. A glass flask cast upon the rocks, and not broken, 260. An 'amula' is a wine-vessel, or a small pitcher, 539, 540. Onyx amulae, 539. Anaea, a city of Caria in Asia Minor, 713. The 'anagnosticum' or 'anagnosma' is called everything that is read or recited, 1031. Ananias, for the moneys which he had vowed to God being withdrawn, was punished with death, 523. 'Anas' or 'anax', a kind of pitcher, 713. Anastasius, bishop of Antioch, is not to be confounded with one of the same name, 494. Nor with the younger Anastasius, ibid. Why this elder Anastasius was cast down from his see by Justinian, ibid. St.
Gregory asks that honor be restored to him, not the jurisdiction, which, being unjustly deposed, he had not lost, 495. He kept his right, but hindered, ibid. Gregory wishes to detain him with himself at Rome, 495. St. Gregory writes to him as to a former patriarch, just as to the other patriarchs, 507. To Anastasius, Gregory complains of the pastoral burden, 516. On the death of Gregory of Antioch, Anastasius is restored, 507, 764. Anastasius is praised, 873. He used both hands spiritually as a right hand, 764, 765. Anastasius was poor in spirit, 896. Anastasius held that the title 'Universal', usurped by the bishop of Constantinople, was of no great concern to the emperor, 873. Gregory sends to Anastasius the keys of St. Peter, which shine with miracles.
517. Anastasius, bishop of Antioch, called the younger, in what year he was made bishop, 962. In what year and by what kind of death he died, ibid. The error of Nicephorus about this Anastasius, ibid. Anastasius is praised for his right profession of the faith, 962. Anastasius of Corinth, lamenting, discloses his own ordination, 517, 518. Anastasius was deposed for his crimes, 779. The administration of this deceased Anastasius is called a nefarious pest of pollution, 787. Anastasius, bishop of Terni, 570. Anastasius, bishop of Thessalonica, vicar of the Apostolic See throughout Eastern Illyricum, 487. Anastasius, bishop of the city of Tibur, 1287, 1291. Anastasius, priest of Jerusalem, 879. He is praised, ibid.
He is roused to settle a controversy between a bishop and an abbot, 880. Anastasius, a religious near Palermo, 596. St. Gregory orders six gold solidi to be paid out to him, ibid. Anastasius, notary of the Holy Roman Church, 180. He was a monk, 181. And he presided over a monastery most holily, 177, 181. Called by heaven, he dies, ibid. Deceased, he obtains the death of one of his monks by whom he had been asked, 181. Anastasius the tribune, 847. Anastasius the librarian, in what year he died, 107. He is praised, 1192. Anastasius the physician, on account of many evils perpetrated in the monastery of nuns, is forbidden entrance to it, 733. What difference there is between anathema and excommunication, 613.
Not only a certain and manifest cause, but also the consent of the archbishop or of the co-bishops to the anathema is necessary, ibid. He is held by the bond of anathema who, even compelled by necessity, has anathematized that for which he is reproved, 1130, 1132. See Excommunication. Anatolius the deacon, appointed vice-dominus, 498. Anatolius, patriarch of Constantinople, cast down Aelius the archdeacon, who was odious to him, by promoting him to the priesthood, 504. Anatolius the deacon, apocrisiarius of St. Gregory in the city of Constantinople, 878, 879, 1096. See the Index of Letters. Anatolius of Alexandria, a learned man, at what time he flourished, 1036, 1037. The Scots and St. Columban followed his canons on Easter, 1038.
Ancona, once a city of suburbicarian Picenum, still episcopal, 943. The Church of Ancona, 1269. Serenus, or Severus, bishop of Ancona, 943. Angers, 1146. The bishop of this city, 1219. The monastery of St. Andochius at Autun, 1219. The monastery of St. Andrew at the Clivus Scauri, built by St. Gregory in his own house, 902, 903, 1124. There the holy Apostle works many miracles, ibid. and following. In favor of this monastery St. Gregory confirms a transaction, 903. Andreas, bishop of Albano, 1287. Andreas, bishop of Fondi, 289. Incautiously keeping a nun in his episcopal residence, he is pressed by temptation of the flesh, ibid. Warned by a Jew who had learned the matter in a vision, he is delivered from danger, 292.
He baptizes that same Jew, ibid. Andreas, first a muleteer, then a deacon, afterward bishop of the city of Aquino, 293. Andreas, metropolitan of Nicopolis, 898, 983, 1265, 1266. Gregory approves his being elected metropolitan, 796. Andreas, bishop of Taranto, on account of the suspicion of intercourse with a concubine whom he had had before his ordination, what he is bound to do, 656, 657. On account of the woman being beaten by his order, he is suspended for two months, 656. Why he was tardily received by Gregory, 789. Andreas, deacon of Illyricum, 583. Andreas, an enclosed monk, a most wicked forger, 1174. He foists spurious works upon St. Gregory, ibid. He is condemned in a synod, 1296. Andreas, an illustrious man, to whom Gregory laments over his own elevation to the episcopate, 519.
Gregory sends him a key in which were enclosed particles of the chains of St. Peter, ibid. Andreas, a magnificent man, importunate to Gregory about obtaining the use of the pallium for the bishops of Ravenna, 837. Andreas the scholastic, to whom Gregory commends Castorius the chartulary, 775. And Marinianus of Ravenna, 777. And why Gregory refuses his commendation for obtaining worldly dignities, 875. He consoles this man in his infirmity, 932. Anise (dill). Why Christ reproached the Pharisees for tithing dill, 92. Angaria, a Persian word, or Latin, derived from 'angere' (to afflict), 725. It signifies exactions, services, forced works, 604, 724, 725, 735, 1003. It is taken also for the furnishing of horses for the public post, 723.
Hence 'parangariae', that is, forced servitudes, ibid. 'Angariae' sometimes signify vexations and injuries of any kind, 735. They are used also for service and ministry, 923. Those heretics of old who were worshippers of angels were called 'Angelici', 673. The angel. Angels are not equal, but in power and order one differs from another, 784. The cult of angels is not wholly condemned by the Apostle or the ancient Fathers, 673. The angels having in part fallen through pride, the elect stood the more robustly the more humbly, 308. England is called Saxony beyond the sea, 1150. What St. Gregory prescribes for establishing the English Church, 1150. And the whole letter 64 of book XI, 1163 and following, 1164, 1176. The distinction of the episcopate of England, 1164. The English.
Gregory orders that English boys be purchased from the revenues of the Church in Gaul, and sent to Rome to be educated in a monastery, 796. The Gallican bishops neglected the conversion of the English, 834, 835. Before their conversion the English worshipped wood and stones, 918. The English converted to the faith, 1110 and following. The miracles wrought in this conversion, 1110 and following, 1148. The English neophytes, joined in prohibited degrees, are not to be separated, 1153. Angulus is a city of the Vestini in the Aprutium, 444. The corner (angulus). What lofty corners signify, 48. The soul of the just is the altar of God, 43. Why the pregnant women of Gilead are called souls, 72. The origin of the soul is uncertain, 970. Errors against the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of bodies, 114. They are refuted, 115.
Many doubt the immortality of the soul, 369. The soul can be called at once mortal and immortal, 452. What it is that man and beasts perish by one death, 376, 377. That the soul is immortal is proved by the death which the martyrs underwent, 381. The miracles of the martyrs also prove it, 384. How the soul is said to be dead through sin, 802, 883. The opinion of certain philosophers about one soul informing two bodies, 664. The soul sees with the bodily eyes, and performs its other vital motions through the bodily organs, 381. The nature of the soul is invisible, 380. The life of the soul in the body is perceived from the motions of the members; the life of the soul outside the body is weighed from the highest, 381. In this visible world nothing can be disposed except through the invisible creature, ibid.
How the dissolute soul is said to hunger, 55. The soul is like a boat ascending against the stream, 94. In how many ways the soul is led outside itself, 217. In a certain twilight of the mind we now see more concerning souls, 445. How the soul may have confidence in its own beauty, 1030. How it fornicates in its own name, ibid. How the soul, from that whereby it is more beautiful, may descend, ibid. The soul in death. The soul going forth from the body can be seen by the eye of the mind, but a cleansed one, 384. Souls going forth from the body have been seen, 269, 384, 385, 388. Sometimes the soul's merit is declared not at its very going forth, but after death, 404. Sometimes souls about to go forth from the body know things to come by revelation, 409.
By their own power and subtlety, souls soon to depart foresee something to come, ibid. Why in the last times of the world so many things about souls become clear which before lay hidden, 445. Sometimes only the shepherd cleanses souls at their departure, 453. Sometimes God strengthens the minds of the trembling at their departure by revelations, ibid. Souls after death often desire the saving Victim to be offered for them, 464. The souls about to depart can sometimes be foretasted by the Church not through a dream but while waking, 412, 413. The soul about to go forth generally recognizes those with whom it is to be assigned in one dwelling, 425, 428. Why a ship appeared to the departing soul, and why it testified that it was being led to Sicily, 428, 429. Why certain souls return to the body after departure, 429.
Examples of certain souls that returned to the body, 432. The reward of souls. To some souls going forth from the body the reward of blessedness is given, to others it is deferred, 408. Whence this difference, 408. In judgment, how the souls of the saints are to have two stoles, 408, 409. The punishment of souls. The souls of the wicked are immediately after death thrust down into hell to be tormented, 416. Immortal death, unfailing failure, and infinite is the end of the damned soul, 453. The damned soul is called both mortal and immortal, 452. The care of souls. The government of souls is the art of arts, 3. Why the care of souls is not to be committed to the young, 213. Why it is not permitted to refuse the care of souls, 6. They cannot be guides of souls who have not learned, 1009, 1014, 1017.
The things of the soul are to be pondered more than the things of the body, 1240. The animals that leap within the wall. The mind, when it is divided among many things, becomes lesser toward each single one, 172. The mind is to be pressed down amid miracles, 1112. Unity of minds, see Charity. Anio, count of the Castrum Aprutiense, 1187. Anua deserved to obtain what she had asked, because after her tears she remained in the same vigor of mind, 473. The origin of annates and of the bulls by which bishoprics are provided is rather recent, 700. Anselm, bishop of Lucca, in what year he died, 107. He brings forward testimonies of the Dialogues of St. Gregory in his collection of canons, ibid. Ansericus, bishop of Soissons, 1288. The Church of St. Anthemius, desolated by enemies, is united to that of Nomentum, 638.
This appears to be the bishopric of Curium of the Sabines, ibid. Anthemius, subdeacon of Campania, 506, 1103, 1270, 1235. He is called a defensor, 867. He is reproached for neglected paupers, 528. He is rebuked because he did not punish a slanderous subdeacon, 1171. How he ought to deal with negligent bishops, 1233, 1236. The various offices he discharged by Gregory's command, see the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Antichrist is called a vessel of damnation, 71. King of pride, 744. He will falsely claim to be God, 881. How harmful is the concord of Antichrist's preachers and satellites, 71. An army of priests is prepared for him, 744. He forestalls Antichrist who calls himself universal Priest, 881.
Antichrist at his coming will cause the Sabbath day and the Lord's Day to be kept free from all work, 1213. For what reason, ibid. Antigraphus signifies a chancellor or notary, 519, 630; a dictator, a rescript-writer, 519. The masters of the record-offices are also called antigraphi, ibid. What the functions of the antigraphi were at the imperial court, ibid. Antioch. Why the see of Antioch is specially called apostolic, 764. Peter established the See in which he sat for seven years, though he was to depart from it, 888. The bishop of Antioch holds the See of Peter, 804. Bishops of Antioch: Anastasius the elder, 494. See the Index of the Letters. Gregorius, 507. Anastasius called the younger, 962. Copyists (antiquarii) in monasteries, 169.
The labour of the copyists most befits monks, ibid. They were occupied in the work of copying, ibid. Antonia, daughter of the patrician Venantius, 1113. St. Gregory consoles her over her father's impending death, 1118. And promises his patronage, ibid. He commends her to John, bishop of Syracuse, 1119. See letter 78, book XI. Antoninus, subdeacon and rector of the patrimony in Dalmatia, 639. The various offices he discharged by Gregory's command, see the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Antoninus, defensor, 525, 593, 593. Antonius, subdeacon, provost of the hospice at Rome, 949. Antonius, a monk, who with daily tears panted after eternal joys, 453. Called again by a nocturnal vision, having received remission of his sins, he died, ibid.
On what day his memory is celebrated, 456. Anysius, bishop of Thessalonica, vicar of the Apostolic See throughout Eastern Illyricum, 487. What it is to lay open the iniquity of sinners, 17, 510. To lay open the troubles inflicted upon one is sometimes useful, 54. The imperial letters are called sacred marks (apices), 540. Principal orders, divine orders, are also so called, 731. Gregory calls letters apices, 762, 836, 1096. The niceties of the law (apices juris), that is, the strict reasoning of the law, 1097. There were also priestly apices, ibid. Apollonius, master of the soldiers, 1076. Apostates. As a monk left his monastery, a dragon met him to devour him, 256. What punishments from God apostate monks are to fear, 523. Apostates are to be brought back to their own monastery and chastised, 530.
The Apostles are the first pastors, 17. Why the Holy Spirit rested upon them in the form of tongues, ibid. The Apostles are members of the Church, 743. They are called rams of the flock, 765. Although there are many apostles, for the sake of the primacy itself the See of Peter alone prevailed in authority, 888. The Roman Pontiff was already called Apostolic in the sixth century, 169. He is so named by the Greeks, 170, 517. There are many apostolic Churches, but the Roman is called the Apostolic See above the rest, 517. Whatever bishops were once called apostolic, and their sees, see See (Sedes). What an apparitor signifies, 345. The possibility of nocturnal apparitions is established from Holy Scripture, 252. The apparition of St. Peter, 333.
Why those to whom apparitions have been made sometimes fall ill after them, 333. Appeals to the supreme pontiff, 627, 628, 629, 933, 842, 1072. With what caution the case of those who appealed to the Apostolic See was to be examined, 1061. It belongs by right to the Roman Pontiff to review the sentences of others, 1061. — Appeals to the emperor, 627, 629. Apelles, a heresiarch, 1168. To crave. Those who covet the goods of others are the sooner stripped of their own, 895. The Appian Way, 1125. Gregory greets Appio, 589, 724. To apply (applicare) means the same as to accuse before the emperor or the judges, 998. A chalice pledged (appositus calix), that is, given in pawn, 537. Aprutium in Samnium is called Interamna, 1090. The fortress of Aprutium, 1187, 1188. What it is to let out water (aquam dimittere), 53.
What it is to drink water from one's own cistern, 73. What it is to spread waters in the streets, 74. What it is that giants groan under the waters, 849. — Water miraculously drawn from the rock, 221, 224, 313. Water used in lamps in place of oil, 173. The water of a flood from an inundation of the river reached up to the windows of the church of St. Zeno, yet did not enter, 323. — The use of lustral (holy) water, and the miracles from its use, 200. It is used in the dedication of temples, 1176. Aquae Salviae, the name of an estate, 1273. Aquae Sextiae, a city of the province of Narbonensis Secunda, ibid. The bishop of Aix (Aquensis), Protasius, 832. Aquileia, a city once most renowned among the Carni, metropolis of Venetia and Histria, 502. The origin of its patriarchate, ibid.
Having once suffered various calamities from the Goths and Lombards, it now lies in ruins, ibid. Its patriarchal see was transferred to Udine, ibid. The bishop of Aquileia, Severus, 501. Aquinum, an episcopal city on the near side of Cassino, 240. After bishop Constantius and the two who followed him, it was deprived of bishops through the hostility of the barbarians, 293. Bishops of Aquinum: Constantius, 240. Andreas, 293. To plough. Because of the cold, the sluggard is said not to plough, 56. Africa, Sardinia, and above all Sicily ploughed for the Romans, 488. The cultivators of trees are to be punished, 908. The Ark, whether it was made of incorruptible wood, 1133. What it is that the ruler, after the example of Moses, should consult the Lord about doubts before the Ark of the Testament, 19, 512.