Letter 1639: Even if, seized by an incurable madness as you are, the sane seem to you to be raving and those who admonish you...
How old are you? Why do you rage so? Why do you transgress the boundaries of your desires...
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Latin / Greek Original
S. ΙΣΙΔΩΡΟΥ ΠΗΛΟΥΣΙΩΤΗ
ἡλικίαν; Τί τοσοῦτον λυττᾷς; Τί τοὺς τῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν ὑπερβαίνεις ὅρους; Ἤ πέπαυσο τοίνυν τοιαῦτα δρῶν, ἤ εἶργε σαυτὸν τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου.
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