Lives of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church That Flourished in the First Fou
Lives of the Most Eminent Fathers of the Church That Flourished in the First Fou
William Cave
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Ixxxiii. Ad Magn. Orat. Vol. Iv. Par. Ii. P. (). 5G. *■ Commonit. Adv. H. Xrcs. C. 24. » Lil). V. Cap. 1. TERTULLIAN. 319 African dialect, and owes not a little of its perplexedness and obscurity to his conversing so much in the writings of the Greeks, whose forms and idioms he had so made his own, that they naturally flowed into his pen ; and how great a master he was of that tongue is plain, in that himself tells us, ' he wrote a book concerning Baptism, and some others, in Greek : which coul...d not but exceedingly vitiate and infect his native style, and render it less smooth, elegant, and delightful ; as we see in Am- mianus Marcellinus, who, being a Greek born, wrote his Roman History in Latin, in a style rough and unpleasant, and next door to barbarous. Besides, what was in itself obscure and uneven, became infinitely worse by the ignorance of succeeding ages, who changed what they did not understand, and crowded in spurious words in the room of those which were proper and natural, till they had made it look like quite another thing than what it was when it first came from under the hand of its author.
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