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Works Tertullian (160-220) De patientia Elucidation - Of Patience

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(Under their chin, cap. iv. p. 709.)

The reference in the note to Paris, as represented by Virgil and in ancient sculpture, seems somewhat to the point:

"Et nunc ille Paris, cum semiviro comitatu.

Maeonia mentum mitra crinemq, madentem,

Subnixus, etc."

He had just spoken of the pileus as a "Cap of freedom," but there was another form of pileus which was just the reverse and was probably tied by fimbriae, under the chin, denoting a low order of slaves, effeminate men, perhaps spadones. Now, the Phrygian bonnet to which Virgil refers, is introduced by him to complete the reproach of his contemptuous expression (semiviro comitatu) just before. So, our author--"not only from men, i.e. men so degraded as to wear this badge of extreme servitude, but even from cattle, etc. Shall these mean creatures outdo us in obedience and patience?"

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De la patience
Of Patience
Über die Geduld (BKV)
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Einleitung: Persönliche Schriften (Über das Pallium oder den Philosophenmantel, über die Geduld und an seine Frau)
Elucidation - Of Patience

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