{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/208/2080259.htm","path":"chr/ecf/208/2080259.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080259.htm","text":"Letter CLXXXVI. 2605\nTo Antipater, the governor. 2606\nPhilosophy is an excellent thing, if only for this, that it even heals its disciples at small cost; for, in philosophy, the same thing is both dainty and healthy fare. I am told that you have recovered your failing appetite by pickled cabbage. Formerly I used to dislike it, both on account of the proverb, 2607 and because it reminded me of the poverty that went with it. Now, however, I am driven to change my mind. I laugh at the proverb when I see that cabbage is such a \u201cgood nursing mother of men,\u201d 2608 and has restored our governor to the vigour of youth. For the future I shall think nothing like cabbage, not even Homer\u2019s lotus, 2609 not even that ambrosia, 2610 whatever it was, which fed the Olympians.\nThe Greek proverb was \u03b4\u1f76\u03c2 \u03ba\u03c1\u03ac\u03bc\u03b2\u03b7 \u03b8\u03ac\u03bd\u03b1\u03c4\u03bf\u03c2, vide Politian. Miscel. 33. cf. \u201cOccidit miseros crambe repetita magistros.\u201d Juv. vii. 154.\n223:2608\n\u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c4\u03c1\u03cc\u03c6\u03bf\u03c2. Ithaca is \u1f00\u03b3\u03b1\u03b8\u1f74 \u03ba\u03bf\u03c5\u03c1\u03bf\u03c4\u03c1\u03cc\u03c6\u03bf\u03c2, because it bore and bred hardy men. Od. ix. 27.\n223:2609 223:2610","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII: The L...","type":"page"}