Letter 875
Nilus of Ancyra→Gigantius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Gigantios.
If you accustom yourself not to look upon the face you long for, you will assuredly quench the flame of passionate love, and you will heal the wound [the text reads "pity"; the sense is the wound of desire] through prayer and fasting.
Ἐὰν συνεθίσης ἑαυτῷ μὴ ὁρᾶν τὸ ποθούμενον πρόσωπον, σβέσεις πάντως τοῦ ἔρωτος τοῦ ἀνέμου τὴν φλόγα, καὶ θεραπεύσεις τὸ ἔλεος δι᾽ εὐχῆς, καὶ νηστείας.
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To Gigantios.
If you accustom yourself not to look upon the face you long for, you will assuredly quench the flame of passionate love, and you will heal the wound [the text reads "pity"; the sense is the wound of desire] through prayer and fasting.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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 συνεθίσης ἑαυτῷ μὴ ὁρᾶν τὸ ποθούμενον πρόσωπον, σβέσεις πάντως τοῦ ἔρωτος τοῦ ἀνέμου τὴν φλόγα, καὶ θεραπεύσεις τὸ ἔλεος δι᾽ εὐχῆς, καὶ νηστείας.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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