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Complete Palladas, The
Palladas. Translated by Harold A. Lloyd

Number of quotes: 62


Book ID: 433 Page: 15

Section: 3A1,4B

9-393

We never had one magistrate who was

Both mild and clean of hand—such traits conflict.

The proud are pure while thieves are mannered mild.

States need both traits and hire both kinds of men.

Quote ID: 8771

Time Periods: 14


Book ID: 433 Page: 15

Section: 3A1,4B

9-393

We never had one magistrate who was

Both mild and clean of hand—such traits conflict.

The proud are pure while thieves are mannered mild.

States need both traits and hire both kinds of men.

Quote ID: 9767

Time Periods: 14


Book ID: 433 Page: 15

Section: 3A1,4B

9-393

We never had one magistrate who was

Both mild and clean of hand—such traits conflict.

The proud are pure while thieves are mannered mild.

States need both traits and hire both kinds of men.

Quote ID: 9773

Time Periods: 14


Book ID: 433 Page: 15

Section: 3A1,4B

9-393

We never had one magistrate who was

Both mild and clean of hand—such traits conflict.

The proud are pure while thieves are mannered mild.

States need both traits and hire both kinds of men.

Quote ID: 9788

Time Periods: 14


Book ID: 433 Page: 15

Section: 3A1,4B

9-393

We never had one magistrate who was

Both mild and clean of hand—such traits conflict.

The proud are pure while thieves are mannered mild.

States need both traits and hire both kinds of men.

Quote ID: 9873

Time Periods: 14


Book ID: 433 Page: 19

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-528

About the House of Marina

Because they’re Christian now, Olympians{19}

May live here unmolested where they won’t

Be melted in the fire to make small coins.

Quote ID: 8772

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 19

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-528

About the House of Marina

Because they’re Christian now, Olympians{19}

May live here unmolested where they won’t

Be melted in the fire to make small coins.

Quote ID: 9768

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 19

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-528

About the House of Marina

Because they’re Christian now, Olympians{19}

May live here unmolested where they won’t

Be melted in the fire to make small coins.

Quote ID: 9774

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 19

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-528

About the House of Marina

Because they’re Christian now, Olympians{19}

May live here unmolested where they won’t

Be melted in the fire to make small coins.

Quote ID: 9789

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 19

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-528

About the House of Marina

Because they’re Christian now, Olympians{19}

May live here unmolested where they won’t

Be melted in the fire to make small coins.

Quote ID: 9874

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 20

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-773

The clever smith forged Love{20} into a cooking pan

Since both such things can badly burn a man.

Quote ID: 8773

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 20

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-773

The clever smith forged Love{20} into a cooking pan

Since both such things can badly burn a man.

Quote ID: 9769

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 20

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-773

The clever smith forged Love{20} into a cooking pan

Since both such things can badly burn a man.

Quote ID: 9775

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 20

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-773

The clever smith forged Love{20} into a cooking pan

Since both such things can badly burn a man.

Quote ID: 9790

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 20

Section: 4B,3A2B

9-773

The clever smith forged Love{20} into a cooking pan

Since both such things can badly burn a man.

Quote ID: 9875

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 30

Section: 4B,3A1

10-90

We Greeks{33} have been reduced to ashes—we

Have buried aspirations of the dead

In times when all is turned upon its head.

Quote ID: 8774

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 30

Section: 4B,3A1

10-90

We Greeks{33} have been reduced to ashes—we

Have buried aspirations of the dead

In times when all is turned upon its head.

Quote ID: 9770

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 30

Section: 4B,3A1

10-90

We Greeks{33} have been reduced to ashes—we

Have buried aspirations of the dead

In times when all is turned upon its head.

Quote ID: 9776

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 30

Section: 4B,3A1

10-90

We Greeks{33} have been reduced to ashes—we

Have buried aspirations of the dead

In times when all is turned upon its head.

Quote ID: 9791

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 30

Section: 4B,3A1

10-90

We Greeks{33} have been reduced to ashes—we

Have buried aspirations of the dead

In times when all is turned upon its head.

Quote ID: 9876

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 31

Section: 4B,3A1

10-91

The person who would hate the man god loves

Commits of course the greatest foolishness

Since he thereby would fight the god himself.

One should instead embrace the man god loves

And not fall prey to envy’s senseless spite.

Quote ID: 8775

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 31

Section: 4B,3A1

10-91

The person who would hate the man god loves

Commits of course the greatest foolishness

Since he thereby would fight the god himself.

One should instead embrace the man god loves

And not fall prey to envy’s senseless spite.

Quote ID: 9771

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 31

Section: 4B,3A1

10-91

The person who would hate the man god loves

Commits of course the greatest foolishness

Since he thereby would fight the god himself.

One should instead embrace the man god loves

And not fall prey to envy’s senseless spite.

Quote ID: 9777

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 31

Section: 4B,3A1

10-91

The person who would hate the man god loves

Commits of course the greatest foolishness

Since he thereby would fight the god himself.

One should instead embrace the man god loves

And not fall prey to envy’s senseless spite.

Quote ID: 9792

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 31

Section: 4B,3A1

10-91

The person who would hate the man god loves

Commits of course the greatest foolishness

Since he thereby would fight the god himself.

One should instead embrace the man god loves

And not fall prey to envy’s senseless spite.

Quote ID: 9877

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 45

Section: 2E2

11-384

How can a monk withdraw in groups from life?

A crowd of “solitaries” is a lie.

Quote ID: 8776

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 45

Section: 2E2

11-384

How can a monk withdraw in groups from life?

A crowd of “solitaries” is a lie.

Quote ID: 9772

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 45

Section: 2E2

11-384

How can a monk withdraw in groups from life?

A crowd of “solitaries” is a lie.

Quote ID: 9778

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 45

Section: 2E2

11-384

How can a monk withdraw in groups from life?

A crowd of “solitaries” is a lie.

Quote ID: 9793

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 45

Section: 2E2

11-384

How can a monk withdraw in groups from life?

A crowd of “solitaries” is a lie.

Quote ID: 9878

Time Periods: 4


Book ID: 433 Page: 133

Section: 2D3B

After mocking suggesting V. go back to school to learn to speak and write effectively, he then says it is useless. “The old Greek proverb is quite true ‘A lyre is of no use to an ass.’”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Letter LXI, To Vigilantius, 4.*

Quote ID: 9838

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 133

Section: 2D3B

“Your tongue deserves to be cut out and torn into fragments.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Letter LXI, To Vigilantius, 4.*

Quote ID: 9839

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 133

Section: 2D3B

“Wherefore cease to worry me and to overwhelm me with your scrolls. Spare at least your money with which you hire secretaries and copyists, employing the same persons to write for you and to applaud you. Possibly their praise is due to the fact that they make a profit out of writing for you.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Letter LXI, To Vigilantius, 4.*

Quote ID: 9840

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 133

Section: 2D3B

“the devil who has never been convicted of greater blasphemy than that which he has uttered through you. Your insult offered to myself I bear with patience: your impiety towards God I cannot bear. ”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Letter LXI, To Vigilantius, 4.*

Quote ID: 9841

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 305

Section: 2D3B

“He shaved his hair once a year on Easter Day, and until his death was accustomed to lie on the bare ground or on a bed of rushes. The sackcloth which he had once put on he never washed, and he used to say that it was going too far to look for cleanliness in goats’ hair-cloth.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, The Life of Hilarion, 10.*

Quote ID: 9842

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 417

Section: 2D3B

“All at once Vigilantius, or, more correctly, Dormitantius, has arisen, animated by an unclean spirit, to fight against the spirit of Christ, and to deny that religious reverence is to be paid to the tombs of the martyrs. Vigils, he says, are to be condemned.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 1.*

Quote ID: 9843

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 417

Section: 2D3B

Jerome says Vigilantius is “This tavern-keeper” who is “dumb instead of eloquent… trying to blend his perfidious poison with the Catholic [universal] faith.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 1.*

Quote ID: 9844

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 417

Section: 2D3B

“There are bishops who are said to be associated with him and his wickedness.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 2.*

Quote ID: 9845

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 418

Section: 2D3B

“Possibly, in his malice, he may choose once more to misrepresent me and say that I have trumped up a case for the sake of showing off my rhetorical and declamatory powers in combating it, like the letter which I wrote to Gaul relating to a mother and daughter who were at variance.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 3.*

Quote ID: 9846

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 418

Section: 2D3B

Jerome mentions “the books which he vomited forth in drunken fit” which are full of “blasphemies”. He is a barbarian both in speech and knowledge.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 3.*

Quote ID: 9847

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 418

Section: 2D3B

“He certainly well represents his race. Sprung from a set of brigands and persons collected together from all quarters (I mean those whom Pompey… brought down from the Pyrenees and gathered together into one town, he has carried on their brigand practices by his attack upon the Church of God. … He makes his raids upon the churches of Gaul, not carrying the standard of the cross, but, on the contrary, the ensign of the devil. … Gaul supports a native foe, and sees seated in the Church a man who has lost his head and ought to be put in the straight-jacket which Hippocrates recommended.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 4.*

Quote ID: 9848

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 418

Section: 2D3B

According to Jerome, Vigilantius had written these things: “What need is there for you not only to pay such honor, not to say adoration, to the thing, whatever it may be, which you carry about in a little vessel and worship?” … “Why do you kiss and adore a bit of powder wrapped up in a cloth?” … “Under the cloak of religion, we see what is all but a heathen ceremony introduced into the churches: while the sun is still shining, heaps of tapers are lighted, and everywhere a paltry bit of powder wrapped up in a costly cloth is kissed and worshipped.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 4.*

Quote ID: 9849

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 418

Section: 2D3B

“Madman.” … Jerome says that Vigilantius “Alone in his drunken slumber” desires to be worshipped.

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 5.*

Quote ID: 9850

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 419

Section: 2D3B

“Are the people of all the churches fools because they went to meet the sacred relics and welcomed them with as much joy as if they beheld a living prophet in the midst of them?”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 5.*

Quote ID: 9851

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 419

Section: 2D3B

Jerome accuses Vigilantius of trying to “lay down the law for God”.

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 6.*

Quote ID: 9852

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 419

Section: 2D3B

“You say in your pamphlet that so long as we are alive we can pray for one another, but once we die, the prayer of no person for another can be heard.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 6.*

Quote ID: 9853

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 420

Section: 2D3B

“As to the question of tapers, however, we do not, as you in vain misrepresent us, light them in the daytime, but by their solace, we would cheer the darkness of the night and watch for the dawn, lest we should be blind like you and sleep in darkness. And if some persons, being ignorant and simple minded… adopt the practice in honor of the martyrs, what harm is thereby done to you?”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 7.*

Quote ID: 9854

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 420

Section: 2D3B

“Because we formally worshipped idols, does it follow that we ought not now worship God lest we seem to pay like honor to Him and to idol? In the one case respect was paid to idols, and therefore the ceremony is to be abhorred; in the other, the martyrs are venerated, and the same ceremony is therefore to be allowed.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 7.*

Quote ID: 9855

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 420

Section: 2D3B

“Throughout the whole Eastern Church, even when there are no relics of the martyrs, whenever the Gospel is to be read, the candles are lighted, although the dawn may be reddening the sky, not of course to scatter the darkness, but by way of evidencing our joy.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 7.*

Quote ID: 9856

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 420

Section: 2D3B

“Does the Bishop of Rome do wrong when he offers sacrifices to the Lord over the venerable bones of the dead men Peter and Paul, as we should say, but according to you, over a worthless bit of dust, and judges their tombs worthy to be Christ’s altars? … Thus, according to you, the sacred buildings are like the sepulchres of the Pharisees, whitened without, while within they have filthy remains and are full of foul smells and uncleanness.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 8.*

Quote ID: 9857

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 420

Section: 2D3B

“Oh, monster, who ought to be banished to the ends of the earth! do you laugh at the relics of the martyrs and … slander the churches of Christ?”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 8.*

Quote ID: 9858

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 421

Section: 2D3B

“I am surprised that you do not tell us that there must upon no account be martyrdoms, inasmuch as God, who does not ask for the blood of goats and bulls, much less requires the blood of men. This is what you say, or rather, even if you do not say it, you are taken as meaning to assert it.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 8.*

Quote ID: 9859

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 421

Section: 2D3B

“I see, I see, most unfortunate of mortals, why you are so sad and what causes your fear. That unclean spirit who forces you to write these things has often been tortured by this worthless dust, aye, and is being tortured at this moment, and though in your case he conceals his wounds, in others he makes confession. … Let me give you my advice: go to the basilicas of the martyrs, and someday you will be cleansed. … You who speak in the person of Vigilantius are really either Mercury … or Nocturnus … or Father Bacchus, of drunken fame, with the tankard hanging from his shoulder, with his ever ruby face, foaming lips, and unbridled brawling.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 10.*

Quote ID: 9860

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 422

Section: 2D3B

Jerome describes Vigilantius as “fighting against the blood of the martyrs” and being among “mad dogs which bark at the disciples of Christ.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 11.*

Quote ID: 9861

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 422

Section: 2D3B

“Belch out your shame, if you will, with men of the world! I will fast with women; yea, with religious men whose looks witness to their chastity, and who, with the cheek pale from prolonged abstinence, show forth the chastity of Christ.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 12.*

Quote ID: 9862

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 422

Section: 2D3B

“You are afraid that if continence, sobriety, and fasting strike root among the people of Gaul, your taverns will not pay, and you will be unable to keep up through the night your diabolical vigils and drunken revels.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 13.*

Quote ID: 9863

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 422

Section: 2D3B

Jerome accuses Vigilantius of defying the authority of Paul, Peter, John and James.

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 13.*

Quote ID: 9864

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 422

Section: 2D3B

Concerning the churches sending money to Jerome and the other ascetics in Palestine, “I say what the blessed apostle Paul says in nearly all his epistles.” That means the churches should keep supporting Jerome and those like him. Vigilantius did not think so.

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 13.*

Quote ID: 9865

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 423

Section: 2D3B

“Your viper’s tongue and savage bite.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 15.*

Quote ID: 9866

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 423

Section: 2D3B

“A monk’s function is not to teach but to lament, to mourn either for himself or for the world, and with terror to anticipate our Lord’s advent. … And so far chastens himself as to dread what is safe.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 15.*

Quote ID: 9867

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 423

Section: 2D3B

Jerome retreated to the desert “so that the eye of the harlot may not lead me captive, that beauty may not lead me to unlawful embraces. … I confess my weakness. I would not fight in the hope of victory, lest some time or other I lose the victory. ... You who fight may either be overcome or may overcome. I who fly do not overcome, inasmuch as I fly; but I fly to make sure that I may not be overcome. ... Moreover, what we have said must apply to avarice and to all vices which are avoided by solitude. We therefore keep clear of the crowded cities, that we may not be compelled to do what we are urged to do, not so much by nature as by choice.

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 16.*

Quote ID: 9868

Time Periods: 45


Book ID: 433 Page: 423

Section: 2D3B

Jerome accuses Vigilantius of having a “blasphemous mouth with which he pulls to pieces apostles and martyrs.”

*PJ Reference: Jerome, Against Vigilantius, 17.*

Quote ID: 9869

Time Periods: 45



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