Metropolitans, Spanish, preside at the
legislative assemblies, iv., 153.
Metz, destruction of, by Attila, iii., 484
and note.

Meursius, treatise on Rhodes, v., 472
note.

Michael Angelo, vii., 337.
Michael, Archbishop of Athens (Akomi-

natos), vi., 435 note; defends the
Acropolis, 436 note, 505 note.
Michael Catharus, grandson of An-
dronicus the Elder, vi., 513 note.
Michael Doceanus, Catepan, vi., 185
note.

Michael I. (Angelus), despot of Epirus,
vi., 439 and note.
Michael II., despot of Epirus, son of

Michael I., vi., 458 note; war with
Theodore Lascaris, 478 note.
Michael I., Rhangabe (Emperor), elected,

v., 205; reign of, 205; superstition
of, 297; persecutes the Paulicians,
vi., 123.
Michael II. (Emperor), revolts against
Leo, v., 206 sq.; reign of, 208 sq.;
letter to Louis the Pious, 209 note;
Crete and Sicily lost under, vi., 38.
Michael III. (Emperor), v., 212 sqq.;
campaign against the Paulicians,
vi., 124.

Michael IV., the Paphlagonian (Em-
peror), v., 232 and note.
Michael V., Calaphates (Emperor), v.,
233 sq.

Michael VI., Strati ticus (Emperor), v.,

234 sq.

Michael VII., Parapinaces (Emperor),
V., 237 sq.; made Archbishop of
Ephesus, v., 239 note.
Michael VIII., Palæologus, reign, vi.,
458 sq.; recovers Constantinople,
459 sqq. and note; campaign of, in
Epirus, 478 note; his family and
character, 480 sqq.; his elevation,
482 sq.; entry into Constantinople,
484; blinds John Lascaris, 487;|

excommunicated by Arsenius, 488;
absolved by Joseph, 489; union of,
with the Latin Church, 491; releases
Villehardouin, ib. note; sends em-
bassy to Council of Lyons, 492;
persecutes the Greeks, 493 sq.; pov-
erty of, 502 note; restored the
navy, 531; Golden Bull to Genoese,
532 note; surprised by the Tatars,
vii., 22.

Michael IX., defeated by the Catalans,
vi., 503; associated in the empire,
511 and note; death, ib.
Michael, pretender, acknowledged by
Robert Guiscard, vi., 202; death of,

at Durazzo, 209.

Michael the Janissary, vii., 192 note.
Michael the Syrian, v., 18 note.
Middleton, Dr., his Free Inquiry, ii.,

31 note; on paganism, iii., 227
note.

Milan, Duke of, opposes Eugenius IV.,
vii., 106; troops of, before Ferrara,
113.

Milan, siege of, i., 305; imperial resi-
dence of Maximin, 408; edict of,
ii., 310 and note, 339, 340 note;
council of, 393 sq. and note; capital
of Emperor of the West, iii., 12;
Porcian Basilica at, 166; disorders
at, 167; taken by Attila, 495; by
the Goths, iv., 350; destroyed, 351
and note; taken by Alboin, v., 11;
by, Frederic I., 324; rebuilt by
Manuel, vi., 224.
Miles, i., 13 note.
Milesians, iii., 42 note.
Military force of the Roman emperors,
i., 9 sq.; whole amount of, 20.
Military officers, ii., 185.
Millennium, doctrine of the, ii., 25 sq.
and notes.

Millet, culture of, iv., 370 and note.
Milo, trial of, iv., 539 sq.
Milosh Obilic, Servian who stabbed
Murad Sultan, vii., 34 note.
Milton, ii., 4 note; iv., 463 and note.
Milvian Bridge, i., 124 note; battle at,

455 note; Vitiges at, iv., 334 and
note.

Mina, valley of, v., 351; Feast of Vic-
tims in, 370 note.
Mincius, iii., 499.

Minden, bishopric of, v., 308.
Mineo, taken by the Saracens, vi., 41
note.

Minervina, wife of Constantine, ii., 218
and note.

Mines, use of, at siege of Constantinople,
vii., 187 and note.

69.

Minority, Roman law distinguished two
kinds, iii., 239 note.

Mint, revolt of workers in, i., 337 sq.
Minucius, Felix, ii., 81 note.
Mirabilia Roma, vii., 316 note.
Miracles of the Primitive Church, ii., 30
sqq.; pagan writers omit to notice,
73; iii., 221 and notes; of the
monks, iv., 80 sq.; of Mahomet, v.,
367.

Miran, Shah, son of Timour, vii., 74 note.
Mirchond, his History of the East, v.,
518 and note.

Mirranes of Persia, iv., 292 and note.
Mirtschea the Great, Prince of Walachia,
at battle of Nicopolis, vii., 37 note.
Mirza Mehemmed Sultan, grandson of
Bajazet, vii., 62.

Miscreants, origin of word, vi., 307 and
note.

Misenum, a naval station, i., 19; re-

stored by Majorian, iv., 24; prom-
ontory of, 57.
Misitheus, minister of Gordian, i., 205
and note.

Misithra, Despotat of, province of the
empire in fourteenth century, vi.,
525 note.

Misnah, ii., 478.

Misopogon, Julian's, ii., 443 note, 444,
511 and notes.

Misrah, name of Memphis, v., 476.
Missionaries, Christian, ii., 61; amongst

the Scythians, iii., 452 and note.
Missorium, gold dish belonging to Toris-

mund, King of the Goths, iii., 355.
Mistrianus, ambassador of Licinius, i.,
466.

Mithras, i., 216; ii., 126 note; birthday
of, iii., 227 note.

Mithreum, iii., 211 note.
Mithridates, i., 39; gold bust of, iii.,
269 note; subdues Colchos, iv.,
400.

Moawiya (caliph), subdues Persia and
Yemen, v., 413; attempt on his
life, ib.; reign, ib. sq.; sends forces
to Africa, 493; his peace with the
emperor, vi., 4.
Moawiya, Ibn Hudaii, general of the
Caliph Moawiyah, v., 493 and note.
Mocilus, beacon of, v., 214 note.
Moctadi (Muktadi, caliph), marries the
daughter of Malek Shah, vi., 257.

defeated by the Carmathians, 53.
Modain, v., 54; see Al Modain and

Cresiphon.

Modar, a Gothic prince, iii., 131.
Modena and Parma, settlement of the
Taifale in, iii., 114 and note; Attila
at (?), 495; reduced by the Greeks,
v., 23; threatened by the Hunga-
rians, vi., 150.

Moderator, name used by the Pope of
the Greek emperor, vii., 89 and
note.

Modestinus, ii., 79 note; authority of,
in jurisprudence, iv., 491.
Mœotis, Lake, i., 348.
Mosia, i., 24 sq.; legions of, elect
Marinus, 257; invaded by the Goths,
265; regained by Claudius, 311;
revolt of the Goths in, iii., 103 sqq.;
Duke of, see Theodosius the Great;
Theodoric in, iv., 187; secunda,
267 note.

Moezaldowlat (Muizz ad-dawla), vi., 59.
Moez, Fatimite caliph, v., 418.

Mogan, plains of, Heraclius in, v., 88
and note.

Moguls, great, i., 226 note; successors
of Timour, vii., 74.

Moguls, see Mongols.

Moguntiacum (Mentz), taken by the
Alemanni, iii., 36 and note.
Mohadi or Mahdi, Abbasside caliph,
sends expedition to the Thracian
Bosphorus, vi., 36.

Mohagerians, or fugitives of Mecca, v.,
381 [Al-Muhajirun].
Mohammad, see also Mahomet.
Mohammad-al-Ikshid, founder of the
Ikshidid dynasty, vi., 56 note.
Mohammad I., Aghlabid (caliph), vi., 44
note.

Mohammad Ibn Kasim, conquests be-
yond the Indus, v., 440 note.
Mohammad, Mameluke (Sultan, A.D.
1311-1341), vi., 377 note.

Mohammad, son of Abbas, vi., 19.
Mohammad, son of Abubekr, v., 439 note.
Mohammad, son of Ismail, vi., 51 note.
Mohammad, Sultan of Carizme, iii., 91

note; defeated by Zingis Khan, vii.,
9; death, 10.
Mohtadi (Muhtadi) (caliph), vi., 50 note.
Mokawkas, an Egyptian noble, v., 477
and note, 479.

Moko, slave of the Topa princes, iii., 275.
Mola, surrendered to the Saracens, v.,
511.

Moldavia, conquest of, by Bajazet, vii.,
36 and note.

Molinists, iii., 431 note.

Momyllus, Greek corruption of Romulus,
iv., 56.

Monachus, George, iv., 258 note.
Monaldeschi, L., Diary of, vii., 267 note,
311.

Monarchianism, heresy of, ii., 367 note.
Monarchy, i., 65.

Monasticism, iv., 62 sqq.; in Egypt,
64; in Rome, 65; in Palestine, 66;
in Gaul, 67; causes of the progress
of, 67 sq.

Moncada, de, History of the Catalans,
vi., 504 note.

Mondars, dynasty of, v., 429 and note.
Money, use and value of, i., 238.
Mongols or Moguls, their connection

with the Tatars, iii., 74 note;
barbarous maxims of war, 450 sq.
and notes; conquests of, under
Zingis, vii., 1-23; derivation of
name, 3 note; division of empire of
the, 27.

Mongous, iii., 85 and note.
Monks, their legends, ii., 102; of Egypt,

401; iv., 64; serve in the army,
iii., 29; destroy pagan temples,
208; origin of, iv., 62 sq.; account
of, 64 sqq.; obedience of, 70 sq.;
dress and habitations, 71 sq.; diet,
72 sq.; labour, 74 sq.; riches, 75;
solitude, 76; visions of, 77; two
classes of, 78; miracles and worship
of, 80 sq.; suppressed by Constan-
tine V., v., 271 sq.; attitude of the
Saracens to, 443; lay-monks, ib.
note.

Monomachus, meaning of the name, v.,
234 and note.

Monophysite doctrine, v., 129; defined
by Severus, 163.

Monophysites, pillage

Jerusalem, v.,

135; history of, 141 note; massacre
of, in Persia, 157.

Monopolies, under Justinian, iv., 254.
Monothelite controversy, v., 149 sq.;

Greek patriarch a Monothelite, 522
note.

Monoxyla, or canoes, vi., 160.
Monreal, see Montreal (Chevalier).
Monstrelet, on siege of Constantinople,
vii., 170 note.
Montaigne, i., 289 note.

Montanists, ii., 20 note; excommuni-
cated, 55 note; on martyrdom, 113;
persecution of, by Constantine, 351;
in Phrygia, v., 143 and note.
Montasser (caliph, Muntasir), vi., 49 sq.
Monte Maggiore, battle of, between

Normans and Greeks, vi., 186 note.

Monte Majella, vii., 287 note.
Monte Peloso, Norman victory at, vi.,
186 note.
Montesquieu, i., 207; his Sylla and
Eucrates, 198 note; on Roman
military government, 207; on the
censorship, 267 note; on taxation,
ii., 202 and note; criticised by Ray-
nal, 414 and note; on decline of the
empire, 414; on English laws, 449
note; on revolutions of Asia, iii.,
79 note; on the Goths, 139 note;
on Armorica, 372 note; proposed
history of Theodoric, iv., 193 note;
on secret history of Procopius, 226
note; on Justinian, 266 note; on
crime, 537 and note; on climate,
vii., 219 note; on a passage of
Florus, 426 note.

Montfaucon, Father, edition of St.
Chrysostom, iii., 378 note, 395 note;
on the Coliseum, vii., 333 note; his
visits to antiquities of Rome, 337
note.

Montferrat, Marquis of, sends his
daughter to Constantinople, vii.,
101.

Montius, quæstor of the palace, ii., 265
and note, sq.
Montreal (beyond Jordan), lordship of,
vi., 331 note.

Montreal, Chevalier, Italian freebooter,
vii., 290 and note.
Monumentum Ancyranum, i., 2 note.
Monuments, Roman, i., 47 sqq.
Monza, Palace of, v., 29 note.
Moors and Parthians, instructors of
Commodus, i., 101.

Moors, wars of Antoninus against the,
i., 9 note; description of the, iii., 53
and note; preserved the Mahometan
religion, 218 note; ally themselves
with the Vandals, 426 and note;
Gelimer among the, iv., 311 and
note; origin and manners of, 316
and note; revolt from Justinian,
317; defeat of, 318; rebellion of,
419 sq.; conversion of, to Islam, v.,
501.
Mopsucrene, near Tarsus, death of Con-
stantine at, ii., 439.

Mopsuestia, in Cilicia, Etius at, ii.,

396 note; siege of, by Andronicus,
v., 248; by Phocas and Zimisces,
vi., 61; taken by the crusaders,
310; restored to the empire, 337;
name of, ib. note.
Moravia, i., 254 note.
Mordvans, religion of the, vii., 143 note.
Morea, the, see Peloponnesus.