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Preparation for the Gospel
Eusebius of Caesarea, tr. Gifford, 1903
Book 5, That, in Advising Men What to Do, They Were Guided by Ordinary Human Reasonings
‘FOR twenty days before the Dog-star rise, And twenty days that follow next thereon, In shady bower let Bacchus be thy leech:’1
‘A medical and not a prophetical answer given to the Athenians when troubled by the burning heat.
“Grandson of Presbon, son of Clymenus, Thyself, Erginus, would’st the race prolong: ‘Tis late; yet give the old plough a new tip.”
‘For a young woman to be wedded to an old man, if he desires children, this is the advice not of a prophet, but of one who understands nature. Desire, however, sets the weaklings beside themselves.’
Notes
- 225 c 6 Pausanias, ix. 37