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Evagrius Ponticus (a fourth century monk) summed up this view, saying "Do not define the Deity: for it is only of things which are made or are composite that there can be definitions."
Frank Schaeffer: Changing the Conversation on Religion (Before it Kills Us All) 2009
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My name is not Lucius Licinius Lucullus Ponticus, and I don't have any Lucullan feasts.
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After the light and knowledge of the Gospel, she grewe so skilfull in diuinitie, that shee wrote and composed diuers bookes and certaine Greeke verses also, which (as Ponticus reporteth) are yet extant.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Ponticus asserts, a long time; but Phanias the Eresian says not two full years; for Pisistratus began his tyranny when Comias was archon, and Phanias says Solon died under Hegestratus, who succeeded Comias.
The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003
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Horace recite; with Propertius, Tibullus, Ponticus, and Bassus he was on terms of close intimacy (_Am. _ iii. 9 is a lament for Tibullus),
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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When she was again produced for the third and last time, she was accompanied by Ponticus, a youth of fifteen and the constancy of their faith so enraged the multitude, that neither the sex of the one nor the youth of the other were respected, being exposed to all manner of punishments and tortures.
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The minor poets to whom he writes are Ponticus (i. 7 and 9), Bassus (i. 4), and a tragic poet,
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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Ponticus heroo, Bassus quoque clarus iambis dulcia convictus membra fuere mei.
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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The subject had been treated also by one Ponticus, the friend of
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal Harold Edgeworth Butler 1914
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Among them there were children like the slave Blandina and Ponticus, a youth of fifteen.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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