Letter 584
To Aeneas the Philosopher.
Wishing to please the destructive demons, you gladly slaughter calves and slay lambs upon the abominated altar; but your own irrational passion, and your immoderate anger, and the other absurd and lawless impulses of the soul, you are unwilling to kill.
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Latin / Greek Original
Τοῖς ὀλεθρίοις δαίμοσιν ἀρέσκειν βουλόμενος, ἡδέως μὲν τοὺς μόσχους καταθύεις, καὶ ἄρνας ἀποσφάττεις ἐπὶ τοῦ ἐβδελυγμένου βωμοῦ, τὸν δὲ σαυτοῦ ἄλογον θυμόν, καὶ τὴν ἄμετρον ὀργήν, καὶ τὰς ἄλλας ἀτόπους καὶ ἀθέσμους τῆς ψυχῆς ὁρμὰς ἀποκτεῖναι οὐ βούλει.
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