15 surviving letters between Nilus of Ancyra and Ptolemy, spanning 415 AD.
“To Ptolemaeus, the senator.”
“To the same person.”
“To Ptolemy, a senator [a man of senatorial rank].”
“The inspired Isaiah says: "That they may say: There is nothing like this word, for which it is not possible to give gifts" [cf.”
“Some men, having put out from harbor in summer, were shipwrecked, while others, having sailed in winter, were brought safely through without danger.”
“Tell your companion that an unbridled hot temper becomes the cause of the greatest evils for human beings.”
“"If anyone is not circumcised on the eighth day," it says, "he shall be utterly destroyed" [Genesis 17:14].”
“To the same.”
“To the same man.”