Jerome. Lives of Illustrious Men 28
28 Pinytus the bishop PL 23, 645
Pinytus of Crete, bishop of the city of Gnosus, wrote to Dionysius bishop of the Corinthians, an exceedingly elegant letter in which he teaches that the people are not to be forever fed on milk, lest by chance they be overtaken by the last day while yet infants, but that they ought to be fed also on solid food, that they may go on to a spiritual old age. He flourished under Marcus Antoninus Verus and Lucius Aurelius Commodus.
Pinytus Cretensis, Cnossiae urbis episcopus, scripsit ad Dionysium Corinthiorum episcopum valde elegantem epistolam: in qua docet, non semper lacte populos nutriendos, ne quasi parvuli ab ultimo occupentur die; sed et solido vesci debere cibo, ut in spiritalem proficiant senectutem. Et hic sub M. Antonino Vero, et L. Aurelio Commodo floruit.
Πινυτὸς Κρήτης, Κνωσσοῦ τῆς πόλεως ἐπίσκοπος, ἔγραψε πρὸς Διονύσιον Κορίνθου ἐπίσκοπον πάνυ κομψὴν ἐπιστολὴν, ἐν ᾗ διδάσκει, οὐκ ἀεὶ δεῖν τοὺς λαοὺς γάλακτι τρέφεσθαι, μήπως ὡς νήπιοι τῇ ἐσχάτῃ καταληφθῶσιν ἡμέρᾳ, ἀλλὰ καὶ στερεῷ βρώματι, ἵνα εἰς πνευματικὸν προκόψωσι γῆρας. Καὶ οὗτος ἐπὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἤνθησεν.