Roman Letters

Letter 746

Nilus of Ancyra→Felix|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
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To Felix the Presbyter.

At every season, but most of all when we stand for supplication and the psalmody of God, we must tread the upper air [walk aloft] with the mind and with the most sacred conceptions, and make no recollection of any object of the senses.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Ἐν παντὶ μὲν καιρῷ, μάλιστα δὲ ὅταν παριστάμεθα εἰς δέησιν καὶ ψαλμῳδίαν Θεοῦ, αἰθεροβατεῖν χρὴ τῷ φρονήματι, καὶ τοῖς ἱερωτάτοις νοήμασι, καὶ μηδεμίαν μνήμην ποιεῖσθαι παντὸς αἰσθητοῦ πράγματος.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: project source import

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