Letter 354
Nilus of Ancyra→Demosthenes|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Demosthenes, Father of the City [pater poleos, a civic magistracy of the late Roman East].
If you do not love the blessed and truly divine words of Scripture, you will be likened to the senseless and irrational beasts.
Εἰ μὴ τῶν μακαρίων, καὶ ὄντως θείων τῆς Γραφῆς λόγων ἐρᾷς, κτήνεσι τοῖς ἀνοήτοις καὶ ἀλογίστοις παρεικασθήσῃ.
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To Demosthenes, Father of the City [pater poleos, a civic magistracy of the late Roman East].
If you do not love the blessed and truly divine words of Scripture, you will be likened to the senseless and irrational beasts.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Εἰ μὴ τῶν μακαρίων, καὶ ὄντως θείων τῆς Γραφῆς λόγων ἐρᾷς, κτήνεσι τοῖς ἀνοήτοις καὶ ἀλογίστοις παρεικασθήσῃ.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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