Letter 853
To Telemachus the Magistrate [protueuon, a leading civic official of the city].
The Law says, "Their sacred groves you shall cut down" [cf. Exodus 34:13, Deuteronomy 7:5]; that is, the throngs of the passions and of the pleasures you shall hand over to destruction through self-control and prayer.
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Latin / Greek Original
Φησὶν ὁ νόμος· « Τὰ ἄλση αὐτῶν ἐκκόψεις·» τουτ-
έστι, Τὰ τῶν παθῶν καὶ τῶν ἡδονῶν στίφη, δι᾽
ἐγκρατείας καὶ προσευχῆς ὀλέθρῳ παραδώσεις.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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