Pastoral Rule, Dialogues & Letters 845 part 15/29

He is roused to solitude, hospitality and almsgiving, 626. John the abbot in Sicily, 1211. John the monk, brother of Eleutherius, is warned of the day of his departure, 425. At the very moment of death he calls a monk of another monastery, who dies at that same instant, 425, 428. John the monk in Gregory's monastery, 456. He is forewarned of his coming death, ibid. Two years afterward, summoned from the tomb by his dead brother, he dies, 456. He is venerated, ibid. John the monk left Fantinus the defensor as his heir, 539. John the surveyor, 887. John the banker, 1108. John, a most eloquent man, counsellor of the prefect George, 527. John, defensor and Notary of the Roman Church, 613, 620. He is sent into Spain, 1250.

His opinion, 1255. John, Duke of Bourges, third son of King John, 116. John the ex-consul, patrician and quaestor, by whose efforts Gregory attained the pontificate, 520. John, founder of a monastery at Pesaro, 826. John, notary of Campanianus, master of the soldiers, 537. John, notary of Milan, 730. John, prefect of the city of Rome, 1045. John, vicar of the prefects of the city, 296, 460. John, acting in place of the prefecture at Milan, 955. John, provost of Italy, 1054. John the Palatine, 1058. He greatly harasses the soap-makers, ibid. He was their defensor, ibid. John the regionary, 1019. John the religious is set over a deaconry, 1109. John the schismatic, returned to the Church, 823, 826.

John, servant and agent of Venantius, 1115. John the tribune, 324, 1106. Joatha, a woman, 554. Job. Why the devil, having slain Job's sons, left him a sickly wife, 744. Gregory does not allow his commentaries on Job to be read at the vigils, 1195. A certain passage of this commentary is corrected by St. Gregory, 1196. Jobinus, deacon and abbot, having lapsed, is irrevocably deprived of his office, 730. Jobinus, prefect of Illyricum, 540, 584. The punishment of a jester foretold by St. Boniface, bishop of Ferentino, 188. Jehoshaphat, on account of his friendships with King Ahab, is rebuked as almost perishing, 70. Joseph the patriarch, who was a citizen of Jerusalem, is compelled to serve Babylon, 923. Joseph the Jew in Gregory's time, 524.

Jovinus, a fuller of the city of Aquino, and afterward bishop of the same city, 293. Judas, a citizen of Babylon, serves Jerusalem, 923. The Jews are permitted to live under Roman laws, not to be burdened contrary to reason, 497, 498. The Jews are permitted to transfer elsewhere the synagogue they have at Terracina, 497, 498, 525. A synagogue taken from the Jews is to be restored, 930; if the synagogues taken away have been consecrated, they are not to be restored, but their value is to be paid, 973, 974. The Jews are forbidden to erect new synagogues, but permitted to keep the old, 930. The Jews are to be afflicted with no injury in the things granted to them, 914. They are not to be barred from celebrating their solemnities, 1226. Why matters were handled otherwise with pagans and heretics, ibid.

It is unlawful for Christians to be held in servitude by Jews, 498, 652, 700, 868, 1016, 1018. And this by human laws also forbidden, 652, 910. Christian slaves bought by Jews, or by the judges themselves, are to be handed over to the judges, or sold to Christians within forty days, 933, 934. Christian slaves are not to remain in the house of a Jew, 934. Yet sometimes it was granted to Jews to have Christian slaves, 1018. Slaves of the Jews taking refuge in the Church are to be claimed into freedom, 688, 689, 910. Yet this practice did not prevail everywhere, 688. If the Jews should either pervert their Christian slaves, or afflict them out of hatred of the faith, they were punished by the loss of them, ibid.

Christians who had long cultivated the lands of the Jews may continue to cultivate them, 700. If the slaves of Jews wish to be converted to the faith, they are to be claimed into freedom upon the price being repaid, 818. The laws forbid pagan slaves to be circumcised by Jews, 819. These are to be claimed into freedom without the price being repaid, ibid. The Jews are to be led to the faith not by force, but by the sweetness of preaching, 542, 930; by admonitions and blandishments, 1226. By Chilperic, king of Neustria, many were driven to baptism by force, 542; and by Childebert, 543; and by Sisebut, king of the Spains, 543. The Fourth Council of Toledo forbade this to be done, 543. Whether Dagobert and the emperor Heraclius compelled the Jews to baptism, 543.

What was the opinion of Gregory and of other Fathers concerning the conversion of such persons, 525, 703, 734. Gregory wished that those who became Christians from among the Jews should have somewhat of their rent relaxed, 592, 734. What was the ancient custom of baptizing Jews, 543. They were not admitted to baptism without great caution, 735. The Church provides food for converted Jews, lest they suffer want, 714. Gregory commends Joanna, a Christian woman from Judea, to Peter the subdeacon, 556, 557. He orders the bond to be returned to Jamnes the Jew after the debt has been paid, 974. It is forbidden to Jews to feign Christian rites, 652. Whence proceeds the feigned conversion of the Jews to the faith, 525. The vision of a certain Jew who spent the night in the temple of Apollo, 289, 292. He is baptized, ibid.

He judaizes who keeps the day of the Sabbath, 1213. Judge. Who in the Church are contemptible and to be appointed to judge, 25. Of old, as now, ecclesiastical and lay judges took cognizance together of the same matter and avenged what deserved punishment, 623. Excellent counsels of salvation given to judges, 487, 488. The justice which they bear in mind they ought to display before men, 542. Whatever they know to be wrongly committed, let them restrain by swift prohibition, 550. Let them refer the dignity bestowed upon them to the glory of God who bestows it, 584, 585. Before judges the boldness of the wicked ought to find the goads of correction rather than the solace of defense, 754. Judges led by favor become infamous, and are bound to the injured party in the estimation of the suit, 505.

In judging cases God alone is to be regarded, 836. In doubtful matters it is better not to exercise strictness, but rather to incline toward the kinder side, 948. What he deserves who conducts God's causes on earth, 998. He ought to leave nothing unpunished in the Church of God, 1007. How judges ought to deal with those who have committed fraud in public affairs, 1079 and following, 1081. Negligent judges are not without sin, 1080. How much they ought to beware of anger, ibid. Yet anger is sometimes to be shown and not exhibited; sometimes exhibited, but not followed, 1080. With just judges there is no need of commendation, 1083. Let judges not lend assent to the words of wicked men, 1082.

What things ought to be urged and suggested by those who assist judges, 761, 762. A judge ought to show himself common to both parties in a suit, 959. The punishment of judges who unjustly judge bishops, 1251. The discretion of judges, 1263. A delegated judge, See Delegate. The violence of the African judges, 1095. Judgment in ambiguous matters ought not to be absolute, 656, 1060. Those things are to be fulfilled which have been adjudged, 1139. Judgment was of old permitted to arbiters, whom the parties could choose, 932, 941, 942, 1261. In ecclesiastical judgments the sacrosanct Gospels are placed in the midst, 906, 907, 961, 962, 1004, 1045, 1060, 1256. Whether ecclesiastical judges use another formula, 1046. See Judge (verb). The judgment of God is not to be scrutinized, but feared, 413, 517.

How the judgments of God are known by the saints, 241, 244. How they are incomprehensible, and how they are not, ibid. The judgments of God are uncertain and far different from ours, 768. The last judgment. As each one departs hence, so is he presented in judgment, 411. How great the trembling of the soul dreading the sentence of damnation, 453. In the last judgment a new heaping-up of glory shall come to the Saints, 408, 409. The strict judge will approve each one not by the prerogative of a loftier rank, but by the merits of works, 562. In the examination of the just Judge the quality of actions changes the merits of ranks, 84. Who shall stand secure in judgment, 645, 656. How Christ knew not the day of judgment, 1069, 1070.

The consideration of the last judgment is necessary for those who hold public offices, 487. The judgments of men are vain and to be despised, 95. To judge. One who is absent cannot be judged, 1234. In passing judgment, what cautions are to be employed, 1250, 1251, 1252, 1263. What laws are to be followed, 1252, 1253, 1254, 1255. Juliana, abbess of the monastery of St. Vitus in Sardinia, 542. Julian the Apostate by a law forbade soldiers to be converted to the monastery, 678. He commanded hostels to be built throughout the several cities, 706. Out of hatred of the Christian religion he ordered clerics to discharge the office of senators, 1047. In peril he took refuge in the sign of the cross, 196. Julian, defensor of the Roman Church, and afterward bishop of the Church of Sabina, 169, 193, 417.

Julian, bishop of Toledo, published a Prognosticon of the future age, in which he cites many things from the Gregorian Dialogues, 106. Julian the Jew, converted to the faith, 714. Julian the scribo, 957. Gregory complains of his iniquity, 1066. Julian, 1231, 1242. Juliomagus, an episcopal city of Celtic Gaul, 1146. Beast of burden. How there is one destruction of man and of beasts, 377. What man has more than the beasts, ibid. An oath upon the Gospels or relics introduced for canonical purgation, 597. Oaths at the body of St. Peter, 597, 864, 1241. At the body of St. Apollinaris, 837, 838. To swear upon the hand is not lawful for Catholics, ibid. Nor by the life of the king or of his sons, ibid.

What admonitions are to be given to those who sow quarrels, 71. Why a man who sows quarrels is called an apostate, ibid. This one in a single evil perpetrates innumerable ones, ibid. He fights for the enemy of God, ibid. The jurisdictions of laymen and of clerics, being distinct, ought each to be contained within its own bounds, 627. Those who usurp another's jurisdiction are condemned, 1265. What Juritheum means, 890. The highest law is the highest injury, 638. To each his own rights are to be preserved, 645. In what right and honor differ, 495. Right and use are sometimes separated, 522. Right and force are opposed, 693. Princely commands—for the letters of emperors, the sacred rescripts, are called divine commands, 731. Justiniana Prima, formerly a city of Macedonia, 585, 627. Adorned with metropolitan right, and with the dignity of vicar of the Roman See, 585.

Why it was called Prima (First), ibid. John, bishop of Justiniana Prima, 983. See his entry. In what year the emperor Justinian began to reign, 348. He urges the convocation of the Fifth Council and the condemnation of the Three Chapters, 615. By an edict he ordered that the faith of the four holy councils should be subscribed by the bishops throughout the whole world, 515. The Franks did not obey his Novellae before the middle of the fifth century, 1021. The archive of Justinian was already burned in Gregory's time, 1031. Why the emperor Justin was called the Elder, 281. Justinus, praetor of Sicily, 487, 59. Led by avarice, he neglected to take vengeance on a most wicked Jew, 652. Let the judge also demonstrate by his works the justice which he bears in mind, 542.

To cultivate justice is the highest good in kings, 1023. The just are often innocently tempted, 87. Why the anger of the just is so greatly to be feared, 188. The just, having overcome great enemies, lest they be lifted up, are wearied even by the least adversaries, 308. The wicked in certain goods, and the just in temptations to evil, are compared with one another, 87. Justus, a cleric of Sorrento, 530. Justus the monk, severely punished by St. Gregory for the vice of ownership, 45 and following. By what means he is freed from the pains of purgatory, 468. Jutum and Jutus signify adjutum and adjutus (helped), 642. St. Juvenal the martyr appears to Probus, bishop of Rieti, as he was dying, 389. Which young men are to be admonished, 35. The Kyrie eleison is said one way in the Roman Church, another way among the Greeks, 940.

Of old it was chanted at Matins and Vespers, 939. Laban an image of the watchful shepherd, 963. The lips of the priest guard knowledge, 510. What lips are polluted, 312, 313. Labina, a religious woman, had built a monastery in Corsica, 545. Milk. In fasting one must abstain from milk, 1303. Tears. What it is to draw waters divided from the eyes, 84. Foul are the tears of one bewailing sins which he does not forsake, 86. With what zeal the grace of tears is to be sought, 333. Tears are signified by the upper and lower springs, ibid., 356. The punishment of a nun who ate a lettuce, 165. What a laena is, 1092. Which of the joyful are to be admonished, 57. The joyful have luxury close at hand, ibid. Self-will pertains to joy, 62.

Let no layman of whatever merit presume to aspire to the episcopate, nor be elected, 588, 601, 602, 989, 995, 996, 1227, 1228. Laymen are called by Gregory the sons of the Church, 666, 787, 793, 889, 987. Among the laity the more honorable are called by him 'the Order'; the rest, 'the people', 550, 576, 634. Nowhere did Gregory call laymen 'men of God', 295. The violences of laymen are to be restrained, 626, 627. Laymen are not to be admitted to ecclesiastical services, 1289. Lamigia (Lamiggiga), a city of Numidia, 566, 567. A twofold bishopric of this name, ibid. Argentius, bishop of Lamigia, 567. The use of lamps in churches, 311, 344. A broken glass lamp is restored by a miracle, 180. Our lamps are good works, 1126.

What it is to take oil in vessels with the lamps, 1126, 1127. Lanfranc, archbishop of Canterbury, in his book on the Body and Blood of the Lord draws an argument from the Gregorian Dialogues, 107. The Gregorian Dialogues no little promoted the conversion of the Lombards, 114. The Lombards raging against the monks of St. Equitius are seized by unclean spirits, 173. They cut down forty peasants who refused to eat forbidden foods, 337, 340. They put to the sword a very great multitude of captives because they would not adore the head of a goat, 340. An Arian bishop of the Lombards, about to do violence to the Catholic Church, is struck with blindness, 341. Sanctulus miraculously escapes the sword of the Lombards, 364.

The Lombards, after the vision made to bishop Redemptus, invade Italy, 368. Their violences and cruelties, ibid. They hang two monks on the branches of a tree, who after death were heard singing psalms, 404. A Lombard, slaying a certain deacon, is handed over to an unclean spirit, 405. Suranus the abbot is killed by the Lombards, ibid. Gregory wishes the sons of the Arian Lombards, baptized in heresy, to be reconciled to the Catholic faith, 502. Gregory calls himself a Lombard, not a bishop of the Romans, 520. Something was given daily to them by the Roman Church, so that it might be permitted to live among them, 731. Under the Lombards Italy is captive, 766, 767, 836.

Peace with the Lombards on fair conditions which they themselves accept is not to be refused by the exarch, 762. From what time they occupied Italy, 1244. A truce is made with the king of the Lombards, 1067. The small stone cut from the mountain without hands is Christ, 772. The stone rejected by the builders is Christ, 854. What the stones of the sanctuary signify, 25, 26. Which are scattered at the head of every street, 25. Why they are said to be scattered not in the streets but at the head of the streets, 26. The lapsed are said to be those falling into idolatry, or heresy, or schism, or fornication, 503. A graver punishment for lapsed clerics, the higher the rank the fouler the guilt, ibid.

Priests and other lower clerics who have lapsed are to be shut up in monasteries in which discipline flourishes, 538. Let the goods of the lapsed benefit those poor monasteries, or be given to the parents of the lapsed, a stipend being assigned to the lapsed themselves, ibid. A handmaid of God who has lapsed and been shut up in a monastery—let her goods be gathered swiftly for her own stipend, 539. Gregory is always consistent with himself when he speaks of lapsed ministers of the Church, 729. Lapsed clerics are irrevocably deposed. See Clerics. Larissa, a city of Thessaly in Greece, 627, 628. John, bishop of Larissa, is deprived of jurisdiction over Hadrian, bishop of Thebes, 630, 631. Concerning the same John, 789, 983. See his entry.

The Lateran monastery, built after the destruction of the monastery of Cassino, under abbot Bonitus, 208. The Latin Way (road), 1125. Side. 'Sent from the side' (a latere), that is, from the retinue and household; a most ancient manner of speaking, 758, 928. See Legate. To wash. The custom of washing bodies before burial, 400, 416. Whether a body may be washed on the Lord's day, 1214. Various customs of washing, 1159. This custom of washing was disapproved by some of the Fathers, 1160. A man sleeping with his own wife is not to enter the Church unless washed with water, 1160. Why the Jews of today do not wash the body, 1159. The city of Lauda. See Laus Pompeia. To praise. In vain does one praise the deeds of others who does not imitate them, 45. How those who praise the unlawful things they do are to be reproved, 88.

That voice which is fitting to the Creator alone ought not to be given in praise of the creature, 854. With what mind those who praise and those who blame are to be heard, 1093. When the tomb of St. Lawrence was opened, all who saw his body died within ten days, 709. Particles of St. Lawrence's gridiron are sent to Dynamius, 648. And of his relics to bishop Palladius, 828. The monastery of St. Lawrence, 1264. Lawrence the antipope, 444. Lawrence, bishop of Milan, 1103. He is called Patriarch by Childebert in a letter, 565. How the case moved between Lawrence and the Roman Church is to be settled, ibid. Lawrence unjustly deprives a great presbyter of his Church of communion, 642.

He sends to Rome a subscribed guarantee for condemning the Three Chapters, 682. He kept the oaths of this same guarantee, 719. Lawrence the presbyter, one of St. Augustine's companions, is commended, 1140. Lawrence, archdeacon of the Roman Church, is deposed, 1283. Lawrence, a most illustrious man, 1190, 1191. John, bishop of Laurium, 596. Laurio the monk, 177. Laus Pompeia, now Lodi, a city of Insubria, 701. Lazarus raised from the dead, 321. St. Leander, bishop of Seville, most familiar to Gregory, 345, 531, 532. Gregory's letter to him is supported by testimonies, 531. By the efforts of Leander, St. Hermenegild was led from Arian perfidy to the Catholic faith, 354. And his brother Reccared, 531.

Leander had been grievously afflicted by Leovigild, 348. The great charity of Leander shines forth in his letter, 1027. From the humility of his speech the loftiness of his heart is made plain, ibid. He suffers from gout, 1028. Gregory sends him some manuscripts, 532. Likewise the Exposition on Job, and the book of the Pastoral Rule, 777. And the pallium, 1028. Gregory asks for his prayers, 1027. There are three kinds of legates, 928. Legates 'from the side' (a latere) were of old sent not only by the supreme Pontiffs, but by emperors and kings, 758, 928. Hilarus the monk was appointed legate of the Apostolic See throughout Africa, 567. Two Cistercian monks were legates of the same See against the Albigensians, 567.

Ecclesiastical and civil legislators for the most part abuse their power, 1299. Gentleness is to be mixed with severity, 23. See Meekness. St. Leo the Great cut a brandeum (cloth relic), from which blood flowed, 710. St. Leo's letter to Flavian is called the Tome, 793. The Eastern Churches uphold the faith of St. Leo, 966. Leo, bishop of Catania, 1097. Being accused, he is ordered to come to Rome, 537. Wholly cleared, he returns to Catania, 597, 633. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Leo, a bishop in Corsica, 562. To him the visitation of the Church of Saona is committed, ibid., 564. The Corsicans are ordered to obey him, 564. Leo, bishop of Fano, 826. Leo, archdeacon of the Church of Miria, 735. Leo the acolyte, to whose care the Church of St. Agatha in the Subura is committed, ...

...(the Church of St. Agatha) in the Subura is committed to him, 698. Leo the paper-maker (chartarius), 1062. Leo the ex-consul, 489, 557. Leontia Augusta, 1301. Gregory congratulates her on the empire attained, 1245. Leontius, bishop of Urbino, 641, 774. Afterward bishop of Rimini, 825. Leontius is appointed by Gregory prefect of the city of Nepi, 576. Leontius the ex-consul, 946. His virtues are praised, 923 and following. He is called most glorious, 1190, 1191. See the alphabetical Index of the Letters. Leuparicus, presbyter of Saintes, 828, 829. The Levites who are said to have consecrated their hands to God, 70. What it signifies that the Levites minister from twenty-five years, and from fifty become keepers of the vessels, 213. The levity of the mind is to be healed, and inconstancy to be overcome, 61.

Levity of work and of mind is the companion of gluttony, 61, 62. It is a mark of excessive levity to believe grave evils which cannot be proved, 860. Leovigild, king of the Visigoths, deprives his son Hermenegild of the kingdom and kills him on account of the Catholic faith he had received, 34. Dying, he commends his son Reccared to bishop St. Leander, 318. The law of God was given for this reason, that it might forbid the sacrifices of Satan, 73. Let the law of Christ be fulfilled, ibid. God gave a law to man in order to recall him from sin, 82. The figural precepts of the Jewish Law cannot be kept according to the letter, 1213. Ecclesiastical laws become cheap through excessive dispensations or favors, 657. Things done against the laws are not only useless, but to be held as null, 932.

Human laws, when joined with the divine, are binding, 1299. The laws of princes are sometimes rightly brought in as aid to the canons, 1255. And are commended by the very authority of the canons, 1254. A collection of the imperial laws to be observed in ecclesiastical judgment, 1252 and following. Leah a symbol of the active life, 491. They are called 'libellatica' from the little documents (libelli) by which the leases of fields were written, 536, 1088. They are taken for the leases themselves, 536. Under the name of libellarius, 569. Why the libellatici were of old not chastised according to the stricter discipline, 503. A libel of defamation. See Contestation. What the book sealed with seven seals in the Apocalypse signifies, 448. The power of prohibiting books is in the supreme pontiffs, 843.

Liberatus the deacon, whose ambition is checked, 566. Liberatus the merchant, 538. Liberius, bishop of Cumae, 587. Liberius the patrician, founder of a monastery in Campania, 269, 946. He was praetorian prefect of the Gauls under Theodoric and Athalaric, 988. Liberty. The question of liberty—whether one is free or a slave—requires higher judges, 910. Libertinus, provost of the monastery of Fondi, 155, 156. His patience, 157, 160, 161. The efficacy of his prayer, 157. Sought by the Franks, he is by a miracle not found, 157. A wondrous struggle between his humility and his motherly piety, 160. He recalls a boy from the dead, ibid. His humility, ibid. Libertinus, prefect of Sicily, 651. Whether he was praetor, 652, 759.

In what year he was praetor of Sicily, 946. He is called ex-prefect, 945; ex-praetor, 1061. Gregory consoles him as he endures adversities, 1062. When Libertinus was acceding to the prefecture of Sicily, the whole province gave thanks, 1079. Libertinus, a magnificent man, 867. A pound is made up of seventy-two solidi, 570, 648. Licinianus, bishop of Cartagena in Spain, at what time he flourished, and by what kind of death he died, 620. He greatly praises the book of the Pastoral Rule, 620 and following. He contends that men less skilled must sometimes be promoted to orders, 622. He asks for Gregory's books on Job and other moral works, 622. Licinius, bishop of Angers, 1144. His lineage, 1146. At what time he was famous, ibid.

To whom the power of binding and loosing was given, 253. What it signifies to cut down trees in the forest, 32. Lilies as ornaments of crowns, 555. Lilybaeum, a city of Sicily, 661. The clergy of Lilybaeum receive permission to elect a bishop, whom they afterward ask Gregory to consecrate, 801. Bishops of Lilybaeum: Paschasinus, 661; Theodorus, 660; Decius, 801. See his entry. The tongue is to be discreetly bridled, not always bound, 54. He who does not restrain his tongue dissipates concord, 55. Intemperance of the tongue reconciles enemies, 1274. Intemperance of the tongue is struck with excommunication by St. Benedict, 253.

It is very difficult for the tongue of the worldly not to defile the mind which it touches, 313. A wondrous skill in all languages in an unlettered boy, 413. What fiery tongues signify, 840. With their tongues cut out by the roots, the bishops speak in defense of the truth, 348, 349. Lipara, an episcopal city on the island of the same name, 580. Agathus, bishop of Lipara, 665. What 'lippus' (blear-eyed) signifies, 12. Lirinus (Lérins), an island of Gaul, 1099, 1100. Why Lérins is called the island of St. Honoratus, 1101. The monastery of Lérins, a seminary of bishops and holy men, ibid. Lissus, a city of Illyricum, 600. John, driven from the Church of Lissus by enemies, is set over the Church of Squillace, on condition that he return to the former if it be freed, 599.

Whence Litania is so called, and what it signifies, 1138. It is wrongly called Letania, 1284. Litanies, among ancient authors, are called the solemn processions of clergy and people to an appointed place, 736, 819. How many solemn litanies there were from antiquity, 819, 837. Whether the greater and lesser litanies differ, 1283. What the sevenfold litany is, ibid. The greater litany is the same as the sevenfold, 1284. Mamertus restored the litanies, ibid. The ancient use of litanies, ibid. Litanies are appointed against the incursions of the barbarians, 1138. St. Gregory forbids litigation, 1122, 1139, 1183. He prefers to leave good legacies rather than to litigate, 1190. Let suits be ended by chosen judges or arbiters, 1122.

Gregory settles by his own authority a suit between an abbot and a subdeacon, 949. Letters dimissory. See Dimissory. Liturgy. See Mass. Locri, a city of the Bruttii in Greece, 891. Bishops of Locri: Dulcinus, 1063; Marcianus, 962, 1063. What place with God is, 967. Why the diverse grades of places were established, 89. Hidden places cannot save the soul without the grace of God, 849. Not places or orders make us near to our Creator, 879. It is either an oracle or a divine response, in loosened (prose) speech, 508; that is, eloquent, an orator, a seer, ibid. Londinium (London), the chief city of England, 1163. What is decreed concerning the bishop of London, ibid. Mellitus, bishop of London, 1287.