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136 73, 24.Pandects. The term Pandects, from the, was applied to encyclopedic works, and the term is used by Justinian in referring to the digest of Roman law made by his orders from the writings of the Roman jurists.

73, 25.Tegni; the writings of Galen were known in the Middle Ages through the Arabian physicians, and the title of his, his best known work, was corrupted into Tegni or Tegne.

74, 1.Avicenna, the famous Arabian philosopher and physician of the eleventh century, drew largely from the writings of the Greeks.

74, 2.Almagest, cp. Chap. 1. 10. 6.

74, 17.Parthenius, a Greek poet, of whom a single line has come down to us in consequence of its adoption by Virgil into the Georgics (i. 437).

75, 17.Mother of God, "Theotokos." Nestorius, the Bishop of Constantinople, refused to apply the name to the Virgin Mary, and this heresy led to his deposition and to the separation of the Eastern and Western Churches. A great part of the life of S. Cyril, the bishop of Alexandria, was devoted to the contest with Nestorius, whose deposition at the Council of Ephesus he brought about in 431.

76, 16.Clement V. At the Council of Vienna in 1312, Raymond Lully obtained from the Council a decree for the establishment of professorships of Greek, Hebrew, Arabic, and Chaldee in Rome, Paris, Oxford, Bologna, and Salamanca, at the expense of the Pope and the prelates. Roger Bacon had urged Clement IV. to cause Greek, Hebrew and Arabic to be taught in the Universities. His Greek Grammar, together with a fragment of his Hebrew Grammar, has recently been edited by E. Nolan and S.A. Hirsch (Cambridge, 1902): these were perhaps the grammars referred to by De Bury (cp. also, "The Cambridge Modern History," vol. i., chapter xvii.).

74, 4.the children of this world, "hujus sæculi filiis," cp. Luke xvi. 8.