Small Asketikon/ Regula Basili 11.9-10

Item

Text Category
Literature: prose
Century Range
Precise Date or Date Range
366-397
Author
St Basil the Great, translated into Latin by Rufinus of Aquileia
Reference
Small Asketikon/ Regula Basili 11.9-10
Language
Latin (originally Greek)
Quotation
Sufficienter quoque etiam apostolus huiuscemodi usibus brevi sermone regulam posuit dicens Habentes autem victum et vestitum his contenti sumus, ostendens indumento solo quo contegamur indigere nos et non varietate aliqua vestis et *** ornamento *** eius ac decore iactari
Part of Speech
Type of Thing Ornamented
Visual Work: Clothing
Object/ Person Ornamented
Lavish clothing
Type of Medium Ornamenting
Visual Work: Embroidery
Medium/a Ornamenting
Unspecified - perhaps elaborate embroidery and expensive fibres, beading, etc
Person Engaged in Act of Ornamenting
Weavers?
Notes
Greek original in 366, translation in 397
Item Identifier
A02432
Determination
Interpreted from context