Apologeticus

Somewhere about this period he wrote the work entitled Apologeticus, in twenty-eight chapters, to which Basil replies.

NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

"Apologeticus" was well calculated to infuse courage into the persecuted Christian, the "Octavius" was more likely to impress the inquiring pagan, if so be that more flies are caught with honey than with vinegar.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

"Apologeticus", addressed to the rulers of the empire and the administrators of justice.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

Two or three years later (about 200) Tertullian assaulted heresy in a treatise even more brilliant, which, unlike the "Apologeticus", is not for his own day only but for all time.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The "Apologeticus" was written before the edict of Septimius Severus (202), and consequently, the laws to which the writer took exception were those under which the Christians of the first and second centuries had been convicted.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

But the text of the "Ad nationes" must have been always rougher than that of the "Apologeticus", which is a more careful as well as a more perfect work, and contains more matter because of its better arrangement; for it is just the same length as the two books "Ad nationes".

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

This is not the case with the great Latin apology which closely follows them in date, the "Apologeticus" of Tertullian, which is in the uncouth and untranslatable language affected by its author.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

His first work was a severe arraignment of pagans and polytheism (Ad nationes), and this was followed in a short time (197) by his "Apologeticus", addressed to the imperial authorities.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Again, by means of books we communicate to friends as well as foes what we cannot safely entrust to messengers; since the book is generally allowed access to the chambers of princes, from which the voice of its author would be rigidly excluded, as Tertullian observes at the beginning of his Apologeticus.

The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury 2007

Apologeticus eorum qui Hollandix prfuerunt ab H. Grotio

John Adams diary 32, includes memoranda, 28 August - 14 September 1780 1961