Severus

And to Severus, who pleads forgetfulness, we shall grant pardon, saying that he who knows the hidden things will not overlook his own Church being injured by such a man — one who from the beginning acted uncanonically, who bound men by an oath contrary to the Gospels, who taught perjury by the transfer he made, and who now lies in feigning forgetfulness.

And I have subscribed in the presence of the brothers who were with me — our own Fronto, and the chorepiscopus Severus, and certain other clergy.

as Byzantium was to Perinthus, by the Emperor Severus, and Antioch to Laodicea, by Theodosius.

And yet the emperor Severus afterwards applied theserules to the natural acquisition of things, not only from motives of utility, but, as he avowed himself, from motives of equity and justice.

That I was granted such a brother — one able by his character to rouse me to care for myself, and at the same time gladdening me with his respect and affection.

From my brother Severus:

and when you see Severus, picture Crito or Xenophon;

“The rational soul has no priority over the body, nor has the body priority over it.

and Possession was allowed to be acquirable by the instrumentality of extranea persona, that is, of a person who stood in no relation of inferiority to the acquirer, which though a doubtful point in the time of Gaius, was finally settled by a constitution of the Emperor Severus.

But as it is, what sort of thing is it that the Lord was revealed in the twelfth year of Tiberius Caesar, while the substance, even up to the fifteenth year now of the emperor Severus, has not at all been discovered — which, surpassing the trifles of the Creator, would surely have ceased to lie hid, now that its lord and author lies hid no longer?

Did not Severus, the most steadfast of emperors, but yesterday, after so venerable an old age, abolish those most empty Papian laws, which compel a man to take up children before the marriage of Juba could be contracted?