Nullam potentibus saeculi pecuniam, excepta solum esca si quos hospitio siscepisset, umquam dare solebat, sed ea potius quae sibi a divitibus donaria pecuniarum largiebantur, vel in usus pauperum, ut diximus, dispergebat, vel ad redemptionem eorum qui iniuste fuerant venditi, dispensabat.
Never was he wont to give any money to the great men of the world (making them only good cheer, if he had received any to hospitality), but rather such gifts as in money were liberally given him by rich men, he did either (as we have said) give them in a dole for the relief of the poor, or else he laid them out for the ransoming of those that had been wrongfully sold.
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