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event: Severus wrote a letter to Eugenia on the benefits of overcoming the passions. See factoid page
event: Because the woman was very beautiful, many of the men of Amida sought to sleep with her. When they could not prevail against her, they petitioned the governor of Amida to arrest her. The young man cried out in a loud voice that the woman was his wife. See factoid page
event: 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. See factoid page