Event Factoid
https://spear-prosop.org/3057-27Event Factoid: Due to the annoyance caused by Martyrius the poet,
Severus
condemned the practice of poetry, even among the clergy, as an
instigator of passions and fornication.
Sources:
- E. W. Brooks (ed.), Translation, The Sixth Book of the Select Letters of Severus Patriarch of Antioch in the Syriac Version of Athanasius of Nisibis vol. 2.1 (Oxford: Williams and Norgate, 1903), part: 1.27, p: 88-89.