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Footnotes

^[2487] [In Dr. Schaff’s History (vol. ii. p. 809) is just such a notice and outline as would be appropriate here.]

^[2488] St. Epiph. Hæres., 64, sec. 63. [But this seems only his nom de plume, assumed in his fiction of the Banquet.]

^[2489] St. Hieronymus, De viris illustr., c. 83.

^[2490] For the larger fragments we are indebted to Epiphanius (Hæres., 64) and Photius (Bibliotheca, 234–237).

^[2491] Epiph., Hær., 64, sec. 63. ἀνὴρ λόγιος καὶ σφόδρα περὶ τῆς ἀληθείας ἀγωνισάμενος. [Petavius renders this: “vir apprime doetus acerrimusque veritatis patronus.”]

^[2492] Hieron., Com. in Dan., c. 13.

^[2493] Id., De vir. ill., c. 83. Many more such testimonies will be found collected in the various editions of his works in Greek.

The Banquet of the Ten Virgins; Or, Concerning Chastity.

^[2494] [The idea, and some of the ideas borrowed from the Symposium of Plato, but designed to furnish a contrast as strong as possible between the swinish sensuality of false “philosophy” in its best estate, and the heavenly chastity of those whom the Gospel renders “pure in heart,” and whose life on earth is controlled by the promise, “they shall see God.”]

Introduction

^[2495] In Migne’s ed. Euboulion, but apparently with less authority; and probably because the name is connected with that of Gregorion. Euboulios is a man, and Gregorion a woman.

^[2496] [Gregorion answers to the Diotima of Socrates in Plato’s Banquet, and talks like a philosopher on these delicate subjects.]

^[2497] Hom., Il., iv. 3, 4.

^[2498] A personification of virtue, the daughter of philosophy. [i.e., of philosophy not falsely so called.]

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