Nicene & Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Vol. 06 — Section 676
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Work: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers — Second Series Volume 6
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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers Second Series Vol. 6
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8. But let me continue the task which I have begun. Whilst I was in search of a suitable dwelling for so great a lady, whose only conception of the solitary life included a place of resort like Mary's inn; suddenly messengers flew this way and that and the whole East was terror-struck. For news came that the hordes of the Huns had poured forth all the way from Mæotis [2364] (they had their haunts between the icy Tanais [2365] and the rude Massagetæ [2366] where the gates of Alexander keep back the wild peoples behind the Caucasus); and that, speeding hither and thither on their nimble-…
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