While Augustine is off picking "suitable" women to please his shameful addiction to pleasure, he leaves me a list of monstrous vocabulary words for me to look up, otherwise his memoir becomes quite complicated. It's exhausting. I am left with a dictionary in hand page after page, reading how he lures in his next concubine(oh there we go another vocab word...... it means a woman who cohabits with a man without being legally married to him, so more or less a mistress in my own words).
Acquiesced: to comply (with); assent to without
Catechumen:(noun)
a person, esp in the early Church, undergoing instruction prior to baptism
Debar:(verb)
- To exclude or shut out; bar.
-To forbid, hinder, or prevent.
Calumny:(noun)
- A false statement maliciously made to injure another's reputation.
- The utterance of maliciously false statements; slander.
Alypius: A geographer and a vicarius of Roman Britain, probably in the late 350s AD. He replaced Flavius Martinus after that vicarius' suicide. His rule is recorded is Ammianus XXIII
laughter, gaiety, or merriment
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