“For they are both exactors of justice, they urge[1] us to the limit of justice.”[2] He is speaking about Gregory[3] and Basil.[4]
The unglossed headword, the noun
ἐκβιαστής , is attested only here and in the entry of Pseudo-
Zonaras’
Lexicon for the word
γραμματοεισαγωγεῖς , which corresponds with
ἐκβιαστάς and
παιδευτάς , i.e. teachers (of the forceful, insistent kind). It is closely connected with the concept of education, in its broadest sense, as shown in a reference by
Theodorus Studites (
Epistulae 384.52):
ἐκβιαστῶς, ἤτοι συμβουλευτικῶς , "that is to say advisory".
[1] The verb
νύττω is very common in religious, esp. Christian, contexts.
[2] George of
Pisidia,
Against Severus 652-3.
[3] Gregory of Nazianzus (329-389): see
gamma 450, and Nazianzos, the website of the Centre for the Study of Gregory of Nazianzus, at web address 1.
[4] Basil of
Caesarea (ca. 330-379): see
beta 150.
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