CHAPTER IX. -- OR
[1] IN this mountain of Nitria there was an ascetic named Or, to whose great virtue the whole brotherhood bore witness, and especially Melania, that woman of God, who came to the mountain before me. For my part, I never saw him alive. And they used to say this |62 of him in their stories, that he never lied, nor swore, nor abused any one, nor spoke without necessity.