Letter 160
Nilus of Ancyra→Sophronius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the same person.
Scourging the leaping of the flesh and its shameful craving with the lash of fasting, let us also persuade it by reason to keep still.
Τῆς σαρκὸς τὸ σκίρτημα, καὶ τὴν αἰσχρὰν ἔφεσιν, τῷ τῆς νηστείας ἱμάντι μαστίζοντες, καὶ τῷ λόγῳ πείσωμεν ἡσυχάζειν.
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To the same person.
Scourging the leaping of the flesh and its shameful craving with the lash of fasting, let us also persuade it by reason to keep still.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Τῆς σαρκὸς τὸ σκίρτημα, καὶ τὴν αἰσχρὰν ἔφεσιν, τῷ τῆς νηστείας ἱμάντι μαστίζοντες, καὶ τῷ λόγῳ πείσωμεν ἡσυχάζειν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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