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10 results for "prohairesius"

1. Socrates Scholasticus, Ecclesiastical History, 4.26.6 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Prohairesius Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 31

2. Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations, 43.17, 43.20, 43.22 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Prohairesius Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 32, 33, 34

3. Augustine, Confessions, 6.7.12 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Prohairesius Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 32

4. Eunapius, Lives of The Philosophers, 484-485, 487, 483 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 32, 34

483. at any rate he poured it in, and the patient's stomach was at once expurged, he opened his eyes to the light and recognized his own people. Thus Aeschines by this single act buried his past errors and won reverence both from him who had been delivered from death and from those who rejoiced at his deliverance. For so great an achievement he was worshipped by all, and he then crossed over to Chios, only waiting long enough to give the patient more of that strong medicine, that he might recover his strength; and thus he who had been preserved became the intimate friend of his preserver.

5. Gregory of Nazianzus, De Vita Sua, 211-219, 221-264, 220 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 31

6. Gregory of Nazianzus, Letters, 192.3 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 34

7. Himerius, Orations, 54.2, 69.7-69.9 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 32

69.7. Come, then, before proceeding to the rites and the shrine, let me tell you what it is right to do and to refrain from doing. Let all initiates and those entering the higher degree of initiation listen. Throw the balls out of your hands. Put all your energy into using your styluses. Put the palaestra’s games behind locked doors, and let the Muses’ workshops be opened. Say good-bye to the streets, and stay at home more and write. Hate the vulgar theater, and give your attention to the better theater [of the school of rhetoric]. Let luxury and the pursuit of pleasure be removed from your labors; show me that you can be austere and can overcome luxury. This is my pronouncement and law—a great deal contained in a few words. Whoever of you listens and obeys will let Iacchus’s song sound to the full; if any of you disobeys and has taken no heed of what I say, I shall conceal from him the [sacred] fire and lock him out of the shrines of eloquence. 69.8. This pronouncement is for everybody, but it is especially directed, my young men, at those of you who are newly initiated and have recently come to me. of these new students, [Mt.] Argaeus sent one—a mountain at whose foot sprout golden saplings of my family. The peoples and cities of the Galatians sent another, and this is the first “colony” they have dispatched to learn rhetoric [under me]. Some come to the mysteries who live close to the river Caicus; and when this pair leaves us and returns to that river, I think that it will swell with golden waters. 69.9. of course, among the initiates there is also a chorus from the Nile. When I have bedecked them with the Muses’ garlands, I shall send them from the Ilissus [River] to Egypt with a lyre, so that, with Attic frenzy, they may hymn the Nile’s sea. This is my proclamation, and it has been given by way of a preface. Let me now reveal the sacred [rites] to the initiates both in my actions and in my speech.

8. Libanius, Letters, 390.5-390.7 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Prohairesius Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 33, 34

9. Libanius, Orations, 1.19 (4th cent. CE - 4th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Prohairesius Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 34

10. Olympiodorus, Fragments, 28 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •Prohairesius Found in books: Pollmann and Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines: From Cassiciacum to Confessions (2007) 34

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