Letter 356
Nilus of Ancyra→Asclepiodotus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Asclepiodotus.
What good does it do you to rule over your household servants, yet to be a slave to your own desires, as though to harsh mistresses?
Τί σοι ὄφελος τῶν μὲν οἰκετῶν ἄρχειν, ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις δὲ δουλεύειν, ὥσπερ πικραῖς δεσποίναις;
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To Asclepiodotus.
What good does it do you to rule over your household servants, yet to be a slave to your own desires, as though to harsh mistresses?
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Τί σοι ὄφελος τῶν μὲν οἰκετῶν ἄρχειν, ταῖς ἐπιθυμίαις δὲ δουλεύειν, ὥσπερ πικραῖς δεσποίναις;
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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