Domninus

Domninus is known only as a correspondent of Nilus of Ancyra (d. c. 430), addressed in five letters within the early-5th-century Galatian milieu around Ancyra. The address lines style him "Domninus the Younger, a Leading Citizen" (proteuon, a first-rank municipal magistrate), and one letter is directed to "Domninus the Presbyter," so the name covers a prominent local layman and possibly a cleric of the same name. Nilus writes to him as a spiritual director: he answers a query about chastity and bodily continence (letter 675) and returns repeatedly to a single counsel drawn from Acts and Luke, that one must not force matters or press God for marvels before the appointed time but wait in prayer and patience (letters 771-774). Beyond these letters he is otherwise unattested.