Excerpt from S. P. N. Joannis Chrysostomi Archiepiscopi Constanitnopolitani, Operum, Vol. 1: Homili� in Scripturam; Classis I, Homili� in Vetus Testamentum

Duoibus victoriam assecutis reges triumphales ponunt statuas2 aurigis vero et athletis imagines et columnas eorum victoria testes excitant principes, et inscriptione tanquam ore efficiunt, ut materia viotoriam praadicet. Alii rursus in libris et scriptis vict�rum laudem describunt, ' suas in laudando vires iis, qdi laudantur, maiores volentes 'ostendere. Pictores certe, statuarii, sculptores, populi, principes, civitates, et pagi, victores admirantur. Nemo autem fugientis, ejusque qui non bellum ges'sit, deseripsit imaginem, ut nunc David. Est enim Psalmus David, dum fugeret facie Absalom filii sui. Et quando laude dig nus est qui fugit? Quando dignus est habitus exul, cu ius nomen inscriberetur? Fugitivos seriptis li1teris pe1se �...untur, non honoranj inscriptionibus. Sed disce, 0 [pater.

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