Letter 820
Nilus of Ancyra→Thyrsus|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Thyrsus the Archimandrite.
Freedom of speech [parrhesia, familiar boldness of address] must not be granted to the young, even if they should appear to feign reverence, lest through them the enemy [the devil] rout us.
Οὐ μεταδοτέον παῤῥησίας τοῖς νέοις, κἂν ὑποκρί-
νεσθαι δοκοῖεν εὐλάβειαν, ἵνα μὴ δι᾽ αὐτῶν ἡμᾶς ὁ
ἐχθρὸς τροπώσηται.
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To Thyrsus the Archimandrite.
Freedom of speech [parrhesia, familiar boldness of address] must not be granted to the young, even if they should appear to feign reverence, lest through them the enemy [the devil] rout us.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Οὐ μεταδοτέον παῤῥησίας τοῖς νέοις, κἂν ὑποκρί-
νεσθαι δοκοῖεν εὐλάβειαν, ἵνα μὴ δι᾽ αὐτῶν ἡμᾶς ὁ
ἐχθρὸς τροπώσηται.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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