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The Banquet of the Ten Virgins
St. Methodius of Olympus · c. 300
Modelled on Plato's Symposium, this is a dinner party where ten virgins each give a speech on purity and the life given to God. It ends with a hymn to Christ the Bridegroom.
St. Methodius was a bishop and martyr of the last great persecution.
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About this edition
From the Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 6 (1886), edited by Alexander Roberts and James Donaldson.
This translation is in the public domain. We took the text from the Christian Classics Ethereal Library and left out the editors’ footnotes.
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