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Closing the book, then, and putting my finger or something else for a mark I began--now with a tranquil countenance--to tell it all to Alypius.
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That I might give way fully to my tears and lamentations, I stole away from Alypius, for it seemed to me that solitude was more appropriate for the business of weeping.
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And it's why the Roman law student, Alypius, couldn't watch a gladiatorial show with calm curiosity: As his teacher St. Augustine wrote, Alypius "drank in madness without knowing it," became drunk on blood and pleasure, entered the Coliseum as one man but became, whether he wanted to or not, another.
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St Augustine`s Confessions, Book 9 details how in March 387, St Augustine, Alypius, and his son, Adeodatus, were all baptized in Milan.
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So I quickly returned to the bench where Alypius was sitting, for there I had put down the apostle's book when I had left there.
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It is possible to transcribe the piece into modern notation using tables given by Alypius in his "Introductio musica", probably compiled in the late fourth or fifth century C.E. Alypius presented the letter notations for fifteen "tonoi", each of which places the sequence of intervals in the Greater Perfect System in a specific range.
Archive 2009-04-01 Lu 2009
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Saint Alypius, his friend, too opened the book and read, "He that is weak in faith take unto you."
Saint Monica de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Saint Alypius, his friend, too opened the book and read, "He that is weak in faith take unto you."
Archive 2008-08-24 de Brantigny........................ 2008
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Psalms of David, those faithful songs, and sounds of devotion, which allow of no swelling spirit, as yet a Catechumen, and a novice in Thy real love, resting in that villa, with Alypius a
The Confessions 1999
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Which that I might pour forth wholly, in its natural expressions, I rose from Alypius: solitude was suggested to me as fitter for the business of weeping; so I retired so far that even his presence could not be a burden to me.
The Confessions 1999
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