Leo III., Emperor, admired by Leo V.,
58

Leo V., Emperor: origin 11; Count of
the Federates, 13; strat. of Anatolics,
24; prophecies of his elevation, 25;
ambiguous conduct at Versinicia, 26,
350 sqq.; elevation, 28 sq.; reign,
43 sqq.; ecclesiastical policy, 56
sqq.; dealings with Iberia, 265;
with Paulicians, 277; treaty with
Lewis the Pious, 325, 329; embassy
to Lewis in A.D. 817, 329; interest
in Venice, 327; war with Bulgarians,
353 sqq.; Wall of, 359; erects
watch-tower in Greece, 378

Leo VI., Emperor: parentage of, 169; law
on interest, 217; military salaries
under, 225

Leo III., Pope: letter to Theodore Stud.,
37; crowns Charles, 318 sq.

Leo IV., Pope, 185, 193

Leo, bishop of Mytilene, 75
Leo, candidatus, envoy of Michael II. to
Lewis, 117

Leo Chamaidrakon, 124

Leo Grammaticus, chronicle, 456
Leo Kastor, 174

Leo Lalakon, 191

Leo, magister, 440

campaign in Italy, 315; proposed
marriage with daughter of Theo-
philus, 331, 432

Lewis the German, 373, 382 sqq., 389, 425
Libellus Ignatii, 198
Liburnia, 325
Licata, 299

Licosa, cape, battle of, 314

Lipari, as place of exile, 37
Liudewit, 330, 363
Lizikos, 182

Logothete of the Course (Toû Spóμov), 35;
Hexabulios, 49, 106; Theoktistos,
144; Symbatios, 159

Logothete, General (TOÛ γενικοῦ),
functions, 210; Nicephorus, 5;
Phlotheos, 171

Logothete of the Herds (Tŵv åyeλŵv), 211
Logothete, Military (TOû σTрATIWTIKOÛ),
210

Lombards of South Italy, 309 sqq.
Longoi, 102

Lothar, Emperor, 328, 331

Lothar II. of Lothringen, 200
Luchane, 412

Lulon, 245, 246 sq., 254, 280, 472, 474,
476

Lycaonia, Paulicianism in, 13

233 sq.; finance under, 237; at
Baghdad, 243, 259; struggle with
Amin, 251; with Babek, ib.; war
with the Empire, 254 sqq., 472 sqq.;
death, 256; expedition against
Khazars, 408; interest in science
and learning, 446 sqq.

Maniakes, see Constantine, Armenian
Manichaeanism imputed to Paulicians,
40, 200, 277
Manikophagos, 268, 271
Mansur, Caliph, 239 sq.
Manuel, protostrator, 27; stratêgos of
Armeniacs, 46; uncle of Theodora,
81 (cp. 476); regent for Michael
III., 144, 155; connection with
Studites, 145, 149; speech in
Hippodrome, 146; magister, 149;
flight of, 256 sq. (cp. 272, 461),
474 sqq.; Domestic of Schools, 258
Manuel, archbishop of Hadrianople, 356,
359, 382

Methodius, Patriarch: abbot of Chêno-

lakkos, 73; at Rome, ib.; brings
papal letter to Michael II., 115;
imprisoned, 116; treatment of, by
Theophilus, 139 sq., 435; share in re-
storing images, 145 sqq.; Patriarch,
147; date of death, 145; scandalous
charge against, 151; moderate policy
against heretics, 152, 182; attacked
by Studites, 181 sqq.

Methodius, painter, 374, 386
Methone (in Peloponnesus), 378
Metopa, 71

Metrophanes, bishop of Smyrna, 151,
190 sq., 396, 486

Mezkert, 260

Michael I., Emperor: Curopalates, 14;
children, 14; relations to Stauracius,
17 sqq.; reign, 21 sqq.; policy, 23
sq.; defeated by Bulgarians, 26;
fall, 29; death, 30; ecclesiastical
policy, 39 sqq.; negotiations with
Charles the Great, 325; Bulgarian
war, 346 sqq.; conspiracy of brothers
of Constantine V. against, 346
Michael II., Emperor: supports and
deserts Bardanes, 11 sq.; Count of
the Tent, 12; relations with Leo V.,
44 sqq.; Domestic of Excubitors,
46; conspiracy against Leo V., 48
sqq.; accession and coronation, 77
sq.; character, 78 sqq., 112; second
marriage, 110 sq.; ecclesiastical
policy, 111 sqq.; letter to Lewis
the Pious, 117, 462; death, 118;
attitude to fellow conspirators
against Leo V., 125; lightens hearth-
tax, 218; attempts to recover Crete,
289 sq.; sends expedition to Sicily,
296 sqq.; Dalmatia under, 330
Michael III., Emperor : birth, 126 (and

Appendix VI.); minority, 154 sqq.;
marriage, 156; overthrows the re-
gency, 157 sqq.; proclaimed sole
autokrator, 160; expels Theodora,
ib.; consigns government to Bardas,
161 sqq.; passion for horse races,
162, 176, 285; travesties ecclesias-
tical ceremonies, 162 sq.; extrava-
gance, 164; relations with Eudocia
Ingerina, 156, 162; promotes Basil,
168 sqq.; arranges murder of
Bardas, 170 sqq.; letter to Photius,
172; elevates Basil to throne, 174
sq.; murder of, 177 sq.; called
Drunkard, 176; fortifies Ancyra,
266; campaigns against Saracens,
279 sqq., 419; suppresses fire
signals, 285; military demonstration
in Bulgaria, 384; acts as sponsor to
Boris, 385; repels Russians, 421;
length of reign, 468

Michael, Synkellos of Jerusalem, 75;
imprisoned by Theophilus, 139;
abbot of Chora, 147

Michael, commander at Panormos, 297,
450

Michael, stratêgos of Sicily, 450

Michael, bishop of Synnada, 65, 75
Michael Syrus, chronicle, 275, 462 sqq.
Miliarision, 214

Milings, 376, 379, 380

Miliniska, 413

Mineo, 302, 303, 304
Mines, 212

Miniatures, 431 sq.
Mint, 211, 212
Minturnae, 310
Misenum, 314

Moechian controversy, 34 sqq. (cp. 38,
note 1)

Mohammad ibn Huzaw, 288

Mohammad, African general in Sicily,
301

Mohammad ibn Musa (al-Khwarizmi),
438

Molos (in Lesbos), 75

Monasteries (see also under Constanti-
nople)-

Agathos (Bosphorus), 68, 112
Agros (Sigriane), 74
Crescentius, 112
Despotai, 56
Kleidion, 151
Pelekete, 75

Phoberon, 140, 141
Satyros, 30, 133, 183
Sosthenes, 136

Theodore, St. (Bosphorus), 68, 112
Tryphon, St., 116

Monasteries, taxation of, 213, 215
Monasticism, 196, 208 sq.
Monegarius, 326
Monembasia, 73

Money, comparative value of, 220
Mopsuestia, 245, 250, 276
Moravia, Great, 383, 392 sqq.
Mordvins, 411

Morocharzamioi, family, 60
Moros, see Theodore Moros
Mosaics, 131 sq.
Mosmar, 86
Motyke, 306

Mumdzhilar, mound at, 367
Mummeries of Michael III., 162 sq.,
176

Muntamir, 374

Mustain, Caliph, 243, 286

Mutasim, Caliph religious views, 234;
Turkish bodyguard, 237; goes to
Samarra, 238, 243; war with
Empire, 259 sqq.

Mutawakkil, Caliph, 234, 307
Mutazalites, 233 sq.

Mutazz, Caliph, 286
Myron, father-in-law of Petronas, 257
Mytilene, 191

Naples, 309 sq., 311 sq., 313 sqq., 331
Nasar, stratêgos of Bukellarians, 283
Nasr, Saracen rebel, 259, 262, 265, 272
Nasr, envoy, 279 sq.

Naukratios of Studion, 192
Navarino, 377

Navy, 229 sqq., 291, 301, 421; Im-
perial, 91, 230, 421; Thematic,
90, 230; Saracen, 293
Neatokometes, see John Neatokometes
Negroes, 89, 124, 238
Neocaesarea, 108, 264

Neoi, island of, 293
Nestor, see Pseudo-Nestor
Nestorians, 243

Nicaea (in Thrace), 347

Nicephorus I., Emperor: General Logo-
thete, 5; conspires against Irene,
ib.; coronation, 6; descent and
character, 8; reign and policy, 9
sqq.; family, 14; age, ib.; death,
15, 344; story of his hunting, 30;
ecclesiastical policy, 31 sqq., 57;
financial measures, 212 sqq.; war
with Saracens, 249 sqq.; fortifies
Ancyra, 266; negotiations with
Charles the Great, 320 sq., 324 sq.;
recovers Venice, 324; revolt against,
in Liburnia, 329; Bulgarian wars
of, 340 sqq.; revolt of Peloponnesian
Slavs against, 376 sqq.
Nicephorus, Patriarch of Constantinople:

political action in reign of Stauracius,
18 sq.; requires capitulation from
Michael I., 20; election as Patriarch,
32 sqq.; his praise of Leo V., 47;
demands oath of orthodoxy from
Leo V., 56 sq.; opposition to Leo,
62 sqq.; illness, 66 sq.; deposed,
67;
his monasteries, 68, 112;
writings of, 69, 70; visited by
Theodore Studion, 112; buried in
Church of Apostles, 182; Life by
Ignatius, 183; relations to Roman
See, 208

Nicephorus Maleinos, 175

Nicephorus, envoy of Leo V. to Lewis
the Pious, 329

Nicephorus, engineer, 343
Nicetas, abbot of Medikion, 73
Nicetas Paphlagon, his Vita Ignatii,
470 sq. (The attribution has been
unsuccessfully assailed by Papado-
pulos-Kerameus.)

Nicetas, author of Refutation of

Mohammad, 439

Nicetas, bishop of Myra, 117

Nicetas Rentakios, 380

Nicetas Triphyllios, 5

Nicetas, commander of a fleet against
Venice, 324

Nicolas I., Pope: letter to Theodora,
177; ideas and claims, 192 sq.,

199; policy in the Ignatian schism,
correspondence with Michael and
Photius, 193 sqq.; gifts of Michael
III. to, 193; claim to Sicily and
Illyricum, 194 sq.; letter to Eastern
Patriarchs, 197 sq.; synods of,
199; opposition to, in the West,
200 sq.; anathematised at Con-
stantinople, 201; responses to Bul-
garian questions, 389 sqq.; summons
Cyril and Methodius to Rome, 400;
death, ib.

Nicolas, caretaker of St. Diomede, 166
Nicolas, iconoclastic preacher, 38, 41
Nicolas Skutelops, 197

Nicolas, Studite monk, 71, 145, 192, 452
Nicomedia, 83

Nicopolis, on Danube, 338, 347
Nicopolis, on Jantra, 362
Nigrinianae, 367

Noto, 308

Novgorod, 412, 413, 417, 419, 423
Nyssa, 266

Obelierius, 323, 324, 325
Ochrida, 371, 384

Oderzo (Opitergium), 321
Oekonomos (ecclesiastical), 35, 108
Okorses, 366

Olbianos, stratêgos of Armeniacs, 87, 90,
99, 102
Oleg, 423

Olivolo, 321, 324

Omar, Emir of Melitene, 259, 281 sqq. ;
death, 284

Omurtag, Bulgarian king, aids Michael

II. against Thomas, 100 sqq.; reign,
359 sqq.; form of his name, 360;
buildings and inscriptions, 366 sqq. ;
persecution of Christians, 382;
children, 451
Onegavon, 365 sq.
Onopniktes, river, 112

Ooryphas, question of identity of persons
of this name, 143 sq.; Nicetas, 191,
230; see also 290, 292, 419
Oracles, 300; books of, 51
Organs, 128, 134

Orthodoxy, Feast of, 150 sqq.
Oskold, 422 sq.
Ossero, 313

Ossetians, 409

Ostia, 314

Otranto, 309

Oxeia, island, 30, 36

Paganism, 381, 440 sqq.

Parteciaci, of Venice, 328 (see Agnellus
Parteciaci)

Partridge, symbolic, 170

Paschal I., Pope: correspondence with

Theodore Stud., 71, 73; on image-
worship, 115; death, 118

Passau, archbishopric of, 392, 400
Patrae, 167, 377 sq.

Patriarchs of Constantinople, appointment

of, 189 sq., 196; oath of, 189; elec-
tion of laymen, 32, 33, 194, 196, 207
Patriarchs, oriental, 138, 192, 197, 200
Patrikes, architect, 132

Patzikos, see Constantine Patzikos
Patzinaks, 411, 424, 425, 492
Paulicians, under Nicephorus I., 38;

persecution under Michael I., 40,
277; support Thomas, 86, 109;
persecuted by Theophilus and
Theodora, 276 sqq.; settlements in
eastern Cappadocia, 278; in Bulgaria,
388

Paulus, stratêgos of Kephallenia, 324
Paulus, bishop of Populonia, 389
Peacocks, 322

Philotheos, General Logothete, 171
Photeinos, 289 sq., 296 sq., 479 sq.
Photius, Patriarch: family of, 156; 163;

constructs genealogy for Basil I.,
165; 171; letters to Michael III.
after murder of Bardas, 172 sqq.,
175; career, 186; doctrine of two
souls, 187; Patriarch, 190; con-
ciliatory policy, 192; correspondence
with Pope Nicolas, 193 sqq.; con-
demned by Roman synod, 199;
condemns Latin heresies, 200;
obtains condemnation of Pope, 201;
accused of forgery, 202; deposed,
203; death, 204; a Father of the
Church, ib.; De mystagogia, 205;
champion of Greek national feeling,
206; letter to Boris, 387 sq.; friend-
ship with Constantine the Philo-
sopher, 393 sq.; sermons on the
Russian peril, 420 sq.; sends bishop
to Russians, 422; books of, 432, 446
sq.; learning, 435; alleged compact
with the devil, 444 sq.; on earth-
quakes, 445; Bibliotheca, 445 sqq. ;
relations with Cretan Emirs, 439
Phrixu-limen, 127

Physiologus, illustrations of, 432
Pictures, 430 sqq.; Last Judgment, 386
(see Icons and Skylitzes)

Pidra, 11

Pippin, King, 323 sq., 326
Piracy, 327

Pisidia, Paulicians in, 38

Platani, 305

Plate, island, 30, 183

Plateia Petra, fort, 176

Plato, abbot, 32; exiled, 34, 36

Plato, Bodleian MS. of, 448; Arabic
translations, 438, 441