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augustine_hippo · c. 389 · score 0.02
Augustine to Maximus of Madaura. 1. Are we having a serious discussion, or do you simply want us to amuse each other? From the tone of your letter, I honestly cannot tell whether it is the weakness of your position or the charm of your personality that has led you to be more witty than weighty in your arguments. First, …
avitus_vienne · c. 494 · score 0.02
Avitus, bishop, to Bishop Maximus. Though I have not earned any letter from Your Apostleship to prompt this initiative, your reputation compels me to offer this page of dutiful service even without an invitation. For we are drawn to meet your spirit — if we do not merit your sight — by fame, even while absence holds us …
avitus_vienne · c. 507 · score 0.02
Bishop Avitus to Bishop Maximus. As far as it concerns this poor little body of mine, I am getting by with some small reserves of strength — though anxious, because I have heard nothing about your son's situation or the outcome of his hearing, since I was not in a position to learn. I have been occupied at the monaster …
gregory_great · c. 600 · score 0.02
Gregory to Maximus, Bishop of Salona. When our mutual friend the priest Veteranus arrived in Rome, he found me so weakened by gout that I could not personally answer your Fraternity's letters. Regarding the Slavic nation [the Slavs, who were pressing into the Balkans and threatening the Dalmatian coast], from which you …
augustine_hippo · c. 389 · score 0.02
If you have a taste for ridicule, you have ample material among your own gods: Stercutius the dung god, Cloacina the sewer goddess, the Bald Venus, the gods Fear and Pallor, the goddess Fever, and countless others of the same caliber, to whom the ancient Roman idolaters built temples and offered worship. If you neglect …
augustine_hippo · c. 389 · score 0.02
In that spectacle, if you truly are possessed by a god, you surely see what kind of deity he must be — one who robs people of their reason. If, on the other hand, the frenzy is only pretended, then what is the point of all this secrecy in a worship you boast of as public? And what good purpose does so degrading a decep …
augustine_hippo · c. 389 · score 0.01
2. As for your collection of certain Carthaginian names of deceased persons, by which you think you can reproach our religion in what seems to you a clever way — I am not sure whether I should answer this jab or let it pass. If these things strike your good sense as the trifles they really are, I have no time for such …