Paulinus of Nola
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Paulinus of Nola describes him as aiming not only at a consulship, but also at a pagan pontificate, and reproaches and pities him for his behavior.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
Paulinus of Nola, always beflowered and elegant, wrote to Augustin: "Your letters are a luminous collyrium spread over the eyes of my mind."
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
The appeal had no effect, and no more had the epistles, in prose and verse, addressed to him for the same purpose by Paulinus of Nola.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Lanciani, Rodolfo Amedeo
So it was with St. Ambrose, with St. Paulinus of Nola, with Augustin himself, and Evodius and Alypius, his friends.
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
Paulinus of Nola gave himself as a captive in exchange for a widow's son at the time of the invasion of Alaric in A.D.
From The Latin & Irish Lives of Ciaran Translations Of Christian Literature. Series V. Lives Of The Celtic Saints by MacAlister, R.A. Stewart
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