Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 03 — Section 2250
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 3
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 3
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17. I say nothing of the Greeks, since you boast of your knowledge of them, even to the extent of saying that, in attaching yourself to foreign literature, you have forgotten your own language. I am afraid that, according to the old proverbs, I might be like the pig teaching Minerva, and the man carrying fagots into the wood. I only wonder that, being as you are the Aristarchus [3028] of our time, you should have shewn ignorance of these matters which every boy knows. It is, no doubt, from your mind being fixed on the meaning of what you write, but partly also from your being so sharp-…
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