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18 results for "bishops"
1. Minucius Felix, Octavius, 2.3 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 188
2. Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, 4.26, 6.22, 7.12, 7.41, 7.43 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Humfress (2007) 180, 183
3. Gregory of Nyssa, Life of Makrina, 27 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 180, 181
4. Gregory of Nyssa, De Virginitate, 3 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 181
5. Augustine, Contra Litteras Petiliani Donatistae Cirtensis Episcopi, 3.16.19 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 188
6. Ammianus Marcellinus, History, 29.3.6, 30.4.21 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 55
29.3.6. Africanus, a busy pleader of cases at law in the city, after governing a province, aspired to the rule of another; but when Theodosius, general of the cavalry, supported him in his request, the kind emperor gave this somewhat boorish reply: Go, general, and change his head for him, since he wants a change in his province. And by this pronouncement I.e., use magic arts. an eloquent man lost his life merely for hastening, like many, for advancement. 30.4.21. And they have to deal with judges who sometimes are taught by the sophisms of Philistion or Aesopus, Lindenbrog thought Aesopus was the famous tragic actor, but that seems doubtful because of the connection; cf. xxvi. 6, 15, mimicam cavillationem ; Solinus, ch. x. (on Sicily). Valesius took him to be the celebrated writer of fables; Wagner believed that both Philistion and Aesopus were writers of mimes contemporary with Cicero. rather than reared in the discipline of your Aristides the Just or Cato. Such men, having bought public office for large sums of money, like tiresome creditors prying into the resources of every kind of fortune, shake out booty from other men’s bosoms.
7. Augustine, Confessions, 4.2.2 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Humfress (2007) 189
8. Petrus Chrysologus, Sermones, 152.5 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 55
9. Theodosius Ii Emperor of Rome, Theodosian Code, 16.1.3 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 182
10. Jerome, On Illustrious Men, 117 (5th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 180
11. Augustine, Letters, 105 (7th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE)  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 189
12. Asterius, Homilies, 2.5  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 55
13. Anon., Acts of The Council of Carthage (411), None  Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: nan nan nan nan
14. Epistulae, Historia Ecclesiastica, 5.16  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 182
15. Contra Academicos, Contra Cresconium, 3.46.50  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 189
16. Innocent I, Epistulae, 3.7, 37.5  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 180
17. Siricius, Epistulae, 10.13  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 180
18. Sozomenus, Ecclesiastical History, 2.3.10-2.3.11  Tagged with subjects: •bishops, forensic training of Found in books: Humfress (2007) 182