"tolle lege" (Aug., Conf. 8,12,29) - ein Würfelspiel?

Authors

  • Anneliese Felber

Keywords:

Augustine’s conversion, tolle lege episode, child’s play

Abstract

The short paper reflects on Augustine’s tolle lege quarrel. Proposing to understand legere in its original sense as “collect” it is possible to suppose a child’s play, e. g. a game at dice or a game with nuts.

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Published

2016-09-14

Issue

Vol. 23 No. 2 (2014)

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Articles

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Copyright (c) 2016 Anneliese Felber

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