To Olympius.

Letter XIII. ¹⁸⁹⁰

To Olympius.

As all the fruits of the season come to us in their proper time, flowers in spring, corn in summer, and apples ¹⁸⁹¹ in autumn, so the fruit for winter is talk.

Footnotes

124:1890

Placed with the preceding.

124:1891

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.