Letter 915
Nilus of Ancyra→Unknown|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
If the Prophet [David, in the Psalms] has said that the intelligible enemies have multiplied beyond the hairs of the intelligible head, consider against how many you have taken up war.
Εἰ ὑπὲρ τὰς τρίχας τῆς νοητῆς κεφαλῆς, ὅ Προφήτης εἴρηκε πεπληθύναι τοὺς νοητοὺς δυσμενεῖς, σκόπει πρὸς πόσους πόλεμον ἀνεδέξω.
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If the Prophet [David, in the Psalms] has said that the intelligible enemies have multiplied beyond the hairs of the intelligible head, consider against how many you have taken up war.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Εἰ ὑπὲρ τὰς τρίχας τῆς νοητῆς κεφαλῆς, ὅ Προφήτης εἴρηκε πεπληθύναι τοὺς νοητοὺς δυσμενεῖς, σκόπει πρὸς πόσους πόλεμον ἀνεδέξω.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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