Letter 786
To the Same Person.
If no harsh wind has blown upon the sea, no waves would appear; and if no unclean demon has come to dwell among us, neither soul nor body will in any way be storm-tossed by the foul passions.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Μὴ πνεύσαντος ἐν τῇ θαλάσσῃ σκληροῦ τινος ἀνέ-
μου, οὐκ ἂν φανείη κύματα· καὶ μὴ ἐπιδημήσαντος
ἡμῖν δαίμονος ἀκαθάρτου, οὐδαμῶς χειμασθήσεται
τοῖς μιαροῖς πάθεσιν οὔτε ψυχή, οὔτε σῶμα.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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