{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/208/2080415.htm","path":"chr/ecf/208/2080415.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/208/2080415.htm","text":"If \u03b3\u03c1\u03b9\u03c0\u03af\u03b6\u03b5\u03b9\u03bd is the same thing as to gain, and this is the meaning of the phrase which your sophistic ingenuity has got from the depths of Plato, consider, my dear sir, who is the more hard to be got from, I who am thus impaled 3281 by your epistolary skill, or the tribe of Sophists, whose craft is to make money out of their words. What bishop ever imposed tribute by his words? What bishop ever made his disciples pay taxes? It is you who make your words marketable, as confectioners make honey-cakes. See how you have made the old man leap and bound! However, to you who make such a fuss about your declamations, I have ordered as many rafters to be supplied as there were fighters at Thermopyl\u00e6, 3282 all of goodly length, and, as Homer has it, \u201clong-shadowing,\u201d 3283 which the sacred Alph\u00e6us has promised to restore. 3284\nWith a play on \u03c7\u03ac\u03c1\u03b1\u03be, the word used for stakes.\n324:3282 324:3283 324:3284\nNon illepide auctor epistol\u00e6 fluvium obstringit restituendi promisso, ut gratuito a se dari ostendat.\u201d Ben. note.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Ser. II, Vol. VIII: The L...","type":"page"}