Extant Fragments: To Hermammon. 66

Dionysius · The Ante-Nicene Fathers Volume VI: The Fathers of the Third Century by Philip Schaff

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6. Then he further indicates the exact time at which he wrote this account, as follows:--And it occurs to me again to review the days of the imperial years. For I see that those most impious men, whose names may have been once so famous, have in a short space become nameless. But our more pious and godly prince has passed his septennium, and is now in his ninth year, in which we are to celebrate the festival.