Note 481 — Chapter I · CONSTANTINOPLE IN THE SIXTH CENTURY[3] (continued 2)
Reading edition
Chrysostom, In Matth. Hom. xvii, 2 (in Migne, vii, 256). He inveighs against the farce of ascetics taking virgins to live with them, who are supposed to remain intact; cf. De Virginitate (in Migne, i, 533); also Cod. Theod., XVI, ii, 20, to which Godefroy supplies practical illustrations.