Letter 608
To Eustochius, Count of the Largesses [comes largitionum, the official in charge of the imperial sacred largesses].
If you continually seal both your forehead and your heart with the sign of the Lord's cross, the demons will flee from you trembling, because they shudder exceedingly at such a blessed seal.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ἐὰν συνεχῶς τῷ σημείῳ τοῦ Δεσποτικοῦ σταυροῦ
τό τε μέτωπον σεαυτοῦ καὶ τὴν καρδίαν σφραγίζεις,
δραπετεύσουσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ οἱ δαίμονες τρέμοντες, διότι
ἄγαν φρίττουσιν τὸ τοιοῦτον μακάριον σήμαντρον.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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