The Lausiac History

OR

[i] In this mountain of Nitria there was an ascetic named Or, to whose great virtue the whole brotherhood bore witness, and especially Melania, that woman' of God, who came to the mountain before me. For my part, I never saw him alive. And they used to say this

^ S60 OuXovs KiWiaiv. The 66\os was a rounded and vaulted chamber. Cf. the bee-hive cells of the Celtic monks.

2 Vit. Ant. 60.

' 7} &v6puiTos Tov deov, "female man of God." For Melania see Ch. XLVI.

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of him in their stories, that he never lied, nor swore, nor abused any one, nor spoke without necessity.