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St Photius the Great, tr. Freese, 1920; selections
49. Codex 49: Cyril of Alexandria, Against Nestorius
Read the treatise of Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, Against the Blasphemies of Nestorius, in five books. In these he preserves his characteristic style and curious phraseology. But he is clearer than in his letters to Hermeias1 and his work On Adoration in the Spirit. The language is ornate and elaborate, forced into agreement with its peculiar form, which resembles prose poetry that despises metre.
Notes
- Possibly the author of a treatise Ridicule of the Heathen Philosophers, but the time at which he lived is disputed,