Letter 532
To Soterichus the Deacon.
"As a door turns upon its hinge, says Solomon, so does the slothful man upon his bed" [Proverbs 26:14]. And Sirach likens the slothful man to a lump of dung [Sirach 22:1]. These things I direct against your slothfulness.
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Latin / Greek Original
« Ὥσπερ στρέφεται θύρα ἐπὶ τοῦ στρόφιγγος αὐτῆς, φησὶν ὁ Σολομῶν, οὕτως ἀνὴρ ὀκνηρὸς ἐπὶ τῆς κοίτης αὐτοῦ. » Βολδίτῳ δὲ κοπριῶν τὸν ὀκνηρὸν ὁ Σιρὰχ πρεικείρει. Ταῦτα δὲ μοὶ πρὸς τὴν σὴν ὀκνηρίαν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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