Religion

Book I, 33

by Anonymous (Greek Anthology) various, 7th c. BC – 10th c. AD

Translated by W. R. Paton (1916–18) · From The Greek Anthology (Loeb, vol. I, 1916)

Religion

On an Image of the Archangel How daring it is to picture the incorporeal! But yet the image leads us up to spiritual recollection of celestial beings.

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Ascribed to Nilus Scholasticus.

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