Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers: Series II/Volume VIII/The Letters/Letter 13

by Philip Schaff et al.

Letter XIII.^[1]

To Olympius.

As all the fruits of the season come to us in their proper time, flowers in spring, corn in summer, and apples^[2] in autumn, so the fruit for winter is talk.

Footnotes

1. Placed with the preceding.
2. μῆλον.  But, like the Latin malum, this word served for more than we mean by “apple.”  So the malum Cydonium was quince, the malum Persicum, peach, etc.