Sunday, March 21, 2004
and now it's time for...'hey, hey--guess what i learned today?!?!'--today i learned what some of the manners were in augustine's house. in the words of peter brown, commenting on the account of augustine's life offered by possidius, his biographer: 'Possidius will dwell, rather, on the life that Augustine had created for himself and others in his bishop's house: on how he had written verses on the table to prohibit malicious gossip; on how anyone who swore would forfeit his glass of wine; on how they ate with silver spoons, but off simple crockery, 'not because they were too poor, but on purpose.''
