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Often appears with: servants and instructions · priesthood and religious office · martyr cult practices · justice as a virtue · hospitality and the guest · honour and recognition · gift-giving and reciprocal obligations · festivals, games, and spectacle · courts, trials, and pleading · counsel and advisers to rulers · clerical prohibition of rituals · church memorial customs
Usually: narrative (2) · deception discovered (1) · temptation (1) · detachment (1) · humor (1) · praise (1)
Augustine recounts his mother bringing food and wine to churches for memorial rites, then stopping when Ambrose forbids it to prevent drunkenness and superstition, and redirecting charity toward martyrs and the poor.
in, through which she anticipated most confidently that I should pass from sickness unto health, after the access, as it were, of a sharper fit, which physicians call "the crisis." When then my mother had once, as she was wont in Afric, brought to the Churches built in memory of the Saints, certain cakes, and bread and wine, and was forbidden by the door-keeper; so soon as she knew that the Bishop had forbidden this…
After the ambassadors depart, Messer Geri hosts a banquet and has Cisti’s wine served to guests, but Cisti refuses to yield to the servant and forces an awkward correction that reveals Geri’s plan.
for a great while. So Messer Geri, having praised the wine not a little, came there to drink every morning with the ambassadors as long as they tarried with him. Now when the ambassadors had received their conge, and were about to depart, Messer Geri gave a grand banquet, to which he bade some of the most honourable of the citizens, and also Cisti, who could by no means be induced to come. However, Messer Geri bade …