Letter 390
To Komasius, a monk formerly among the rhetoricians.
Why do you diligently heap up for me the litter, and the ashes, and the great filth of the Hellenic [pagan] books, after your renunciation, in the monastery, to no profit, or rather to your harm? Answer us, O what vanity of mind and what wretchedness! [one word illegible in the source]
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Latin / Greek Original
Τοὺς φορυτούς, καὶ τὴν σποδιάν, καὶ τὸν πολὺν
βόρβορον τῶν Ἑλληνικῶν βίβλων, ἵνα τί μοι σπου-
δαίως συναθροίζεις μετὰ τὴν ἀποταγὴν ἐν τῷ μονα-
στηρίῳ ἀνωφελῶς, μᾶλλον δ᾽ ἐπιβλαβῶς; Ἀποκρί-
θητι ἡμῖν, ὦ τῆς ματαιοφροσύνης, καὶ τῆς ταλαιπω-
ρίας· ἀνθρηχαλακέντωρ.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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