Note 019 Some flowers of rhetoric are Ancient Greek

and the bishops Ancient Greek

By Damascenus is styled Ancient Greek

(Opera, tom. i. p. 623.) Spanheim's Apology for the Synod of Constantinople (p. 171, &c.) is worked up with truth and ingenuity, from such materials as he could find in the Nicene Acts, (p. 1046, &c.) The witty John of Damascus converts Ancient Greek

into

, makes them slaves of their belly, &c. Opera, tom. i. p. 306.

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