The Beard-Hater and Letters

...expelled Athanasius St. Athanasius of Alexandria (c. 296–373), a chief defender of Trinitarianism against Arianism, whom Julian the Apostate exiled for his influence., and finally in every way disturbed and afflicted the Church. It will therefore be useful to recall from these records both what the state of those times was and what the feelings of good men were. For indeed, how great a pleasure will it finally be for the Church—having endured and been liberated from such great evils—not only to remember the labors performed, but also to look upon the enemies by whom she was so often wounded now driven away, the camps deserted, and their leader prostrate and lying low? Just so, those Trojans, exhausted by the weariness of the long siege, rejoiced when they saw the enemies removed, as the same poet The poet Virgil. says in the 2nd book of the Aeneid:

Therefore all Troy original: "Teucria" released itself from its long grief:
The gates are opened; it is a joy to go out and see the Greek original: "Dorica" camps,
The deserted places, and the abandoned shore:
Here the band of Dolopians, here fierce Achilles used to pitch his tent.

Therefore, this pleasure will be added to the utility of history by reading these things. Wherefore, even if no grace of eloquence or genius appeared in these writings, nevertheless no one, I believe, should take it poorly that these benefits of utility and pleasure have been shared by us with them. As for the reliability of the edition, since I had obtained a single copy from the library of Petrus Ramus Pierre de la Ramée (1515–1572), a highly influential French humanist, logician, and educational reformer., and that copy was faulty in several places, the old reading...

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