Event Factoid
https://spear-prosop.org/3057-27Event Factoid: Due to the annoyance caused by Martyrius the poet,
Severus
condemned the practice of poetry, even among the clergy, as an
instigator of passions and fornication.
Sources:
- Ernest Walter Brooks,The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus, Patriarch of Antioch, in the Syriac
Version of Athanasius of Nisibis. Translation, Part I: Letters I.1-II.3, vol. 2.1 (London: Williams and Norgate, 1903), part: 1.27, p: 88-89.
