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E06558: Aldhelm, in his prose On Virginity, names *Anthony ('the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356, S00098) as an exemplary virgin. Written in Latin in southern Britain, for the nuns at the monastery at Barking (south-east Britain), c. 675/686.
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posted on 2018-09-20, 00:00 authored by bsavillAldhelm, prose On Virginity, 28
Antonius, caelestis aratri stibarius et evangelici seminis sator, a quo primitus per Aegiptum fertilis coenubiorum seges et fecunda conversationis occa granigeris germinavit spicis [...] nonne propter egregiam animae pudicitiam ineffabili virtutum gratia praeditus usque supremos terrarum cardines rumore clarus percrebruit? Quod plenius de suorum virtute miraculorum Athanasius, Alexandrinus antistes, simplo volumine patefecit Euagrio in latinum transferente.
'ANTHONY, the driver of the celestial plough and the sower of the evangelical seed, by (means of) whom the fertile crop of cenobites and the fecund harrow of (monastic) life first put forth fruit with grain-bearing ears throughout Egypt [...] was he not, because of the surpassing purity of his soul, endowed with the ineffable grace of his virtues, proclaimed by his reputation to the further corners of the earth? As for the power of Anthony's miracles, Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria, treated this more fully in a single volume, (and) Evagrius translated it into Latin.'
Text: Ehwald 1919, 264-5. Translation: Lapidge and Herren 1979, 87.
Antonius, caelestis aratri stibarius et evangelici seminis sator, a quo primitus per Aegiptum fertilis coenubiorum seges et fecunda conversationis occa granigeris germinavit spicis [...] nonne propter egregiam animae pudicitiam ineffabili virtutum gratia praeditus usque supremos terrarum cardines rumore clarus percrebruit? Quod plenius de suorum virtute miraculorum Athanasius, Alexandrinus antistes, simplo volumine patefecit Euagrio in latinum transferente.
'ANTHONY, the driver of the celestial plough and the sower of the evangelical seed, by (means of) whom the fertile crop of cenobites and the fecund harrow of (monastic) life first put forth fruit with grain-bearing ears throughout Egypt [...] was he not, because of the surpassing purity of his soul, endowed with the ineffable grace of his virtues, proclaimed by his reputation to the further corners of the earth? As for the power of Anthony's miracles, Athanasius, the bishop of Alexandria, treated this more fully in a single volume, (and) Evagrius translated it into Latin.'
Text: Ehwald 1919, 264-5. Translation: Lapidge and Herren 1979, 87.
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Evidence ID
E06558Saint Name
Antony, 'the Great', monk of Egypt, ob. 356 : S00098Saint Name in Source
AntoniusRelated Saint Records
Type of Evidence
Literary - OtherLanguage
- Latin