Letter 818: Virtue must be practiced with all one's strength — not merely admired from a distance.
To Zosimos.
Report to our friend with exactness the line-count [stichometry, the tally of verse-lines used to price and verify a manuscript] of the books which I have written out for you, so that forgetfulness, creeping in, may not bring loss upon you and upon him a verdict of ingratitude.
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Latin / Greek Original
Τὸν στιχισμὸν τῶν βιβλίων, ὧν γέγραφά σοι, τῷ φίλῳ δήλου μετ’ ἀκριβείας, ἵνα μὴ ἔρψασα λήθη, σοὶ μὲν ζημίαν, αὐτῷ δὲ ψῆφον ἀγνωμοσύνης (46) ἐπαγάγῃ.
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
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