Thursday, January 11, 2007
(8:48 AM) | Adam Kotsko:
My Quote-Mining Skills
In his Church History (Book III, Chapter 1), Socrates Scholasticus notes that "the people in general were exceedingly exasperated by the violence of the eunuchs."Tertullian stands against gluttony, "which led Aufidius Lurco to be the first to vitiate meat with stuffing, and by the aid of forcemeats to raise them to an adulterous flavour."