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Letter XIII

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To Olympius.

As all the fruits of the season come to us in their proper time, flowers in spring, corn in summer, and apples¹⁸⁹¹ in autumn, so the fruit for winter is talk.

Notes

1890
Placed with the preceding.
1891
melon. But, like the Latin malum, this word served for more than we mean by "apple." So the malum Cydonium was quince, the malum Persicum, peach, etc.

Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series II, Volume 8, ed. Philip Schaff and Henry Wace (1890–1900). Public domain. Text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library.