Nilus

A correspondent named Nilus appears as the recipient of letters in the corpus, associated with the circle of Isidore of Pelusium, the early-fifth-century priest and prolific letter-writer of the eastern Nile Delta. Several monks and clergy named Nilus circulated in the ascetic and ecclesiastical networks of late-antique Egypt and Asia Minor, and the figure here is most plausibly such a monastic or clerical associate to whom these letters of spiritual and exegetical counsel were addressed. He is not independently well documented: beyond his appearance as an addressee in this correspondence, little can be said with confidence about his offices, dates, or biography without conflating him with the better-known ascetic writer Nilus of Ancyra, an identification the evidence here does not establish.