1. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 1.20 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 286| 1.20. ποῦ σοφός;ποῦ γραμματεύς;ποῦ συνζητητὴς τοῦ αἰῶνος τούτου; οὐχὶ ἐμώρανεν ὁ θεὸς τὴν σοφίαν τοῦ κόσμου; | 1.20. Where is the wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the lawyerof this world? Hasn't God made foolish the wisdom of this world? |
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2. New Testament, 1 Thessalonians, 5.21 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 286| 5.21. πάντα [δὲ] δοκιμάζετε, τὸ καλὸν κατέχετε, | 5.21. Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good. |
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| 3. Plutarch, On Being A Busybody, 5 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 86 |
| 4. Tertullian, Prescription Against Heretics, 7 (2nd cent. CE - 3rd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 86 |
5. Lucian, Alexander The False Prophet, 47 (2nd cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 90 | 47. ridiculous. Coming across Epicurus's Accepted Maxims, the most admirable of his books, as you know, with its terse presentment of his wise conclusions, he brought it into the middle of the market-place, there burned it on a fig-wood fire for the sins of its author, and cast its ashes into the sea. He issued an oracle on the occasion: The dotard's maxims to the flames be given. The fellow had no conception of the blessings conferred by that book upon its readers, of the peace, tranquillity, and independence of mind it produces, of the protection it gives against terrors, phantoms, and marvels, vain hopes and inordinate desires, of the judgement and candour that it fosters, or of its true purging of the spirit, not with torches and squills and such rubbish, but with right reason, truth, and frankness. Perhaps the greatest example of our rogue's audacity is what 47. In this connexion, Alexander once made himself supremely ridiculous. Coming across Epicurus’s Accepted Maxims, the most admirable of his books, as you know, with its terse presentment of his wise conclusions, he brought it into the middle of the market place, there burned it on a fig wood fire for the sins of its author, and cast its ashes into the sea. He issued an oracle on the occasion:The dotard’s maxims to the flames be given.The fellow had no conception of the blessings conferred by that book upon its readers, of the peace, tranquillity, and independence of mind it produces, of the protection it gives against terrors, phantoms, and marvels, vain hopes and inordinate desires, of the judgement and candour that it fosters, or of its true purging of the spirit, not with torches and squills and such rubbish, but with right reason, truth, and frankness. |
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| 6. Prudentius, Psychomachia, 721-722 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •nan Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 90 |
| 7. Isidore of Seville, Etymologies, 2.24.4, 2.24.10, 2.24.14-2.24.15, 3.1.1-3.1.2, 3.71.17, 3.71.38, 9.9.24-9.9.25 (6th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 286 |
| 8. Isidore of Seville, Sententiae, 1.17.1-1.17.2, 3.12.5, 3.12.7-3.12.8, 3.13.2, 3.13.6, 3.40-3.41 (6th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 286 |
| 9. Augustine, Letters, 118.1.1, 118.1.3-118.1.5 (7th cent. CE - 7th cent. CE) Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 86 |
| 12. Seneca The Younger, Carmina, 7.25.5 Tagged with subjects: •tumour, swelling Found in books: Rohmann, Christianity, Book-Burning and Censorship in Late Antiquity (2016) 86 |
