Roman Letters

Letter 23: A benefactor's word and deed comfort Evagrius in the shadow of repentance.

Evagrius Ponticus→Unknown benefactor of Evagrius Ponticus|c. 390 AD|Evagrius Ponticus|From Kellia, Egypt|AI-assisted
Evagrius Ponticus; benefactor; repentance; consolation; cities; wisdom
Recipient identification follows the Evagrius CPG 2437 parallel edition where named; uncertain labels are recorded conservatively. Source text is Frankenberg's Greek retroversion from the Syriac transmission, licensed CC BY 4.0; source Syriac length 347 chars, Greek retroversion length 502 chars.
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You have comforted us well in word and deed, admirable man, and you have visited me while I was sitting in darkness and in the shadow of repentance. May the Lord repay you on my behalf, as richly as the giver himself is rich.

May I see you in the age to come set over five cities and over ten, and may we too be found there, taught and nourished by you. Bend down lovingly, lord, to visit the children of your children. Then you will know whether we, as strangers to knowledge and outsiders to the divine cities, ever dare anything unworthy of your wisdom.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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

Greek retroversion from Syriac transmission (Frankenberg 1912, TAN/TEI CC BY 4.0):

λογωι και εργωι καλως ημας παρακεκληκας θαυμαστε και επεσχεψας με εν σκοτωι τε και σκιαι της μετανοιας καθημενον. ο κυριος ανταποδοιη σοι υπερ εμου και ουτως περισσως ως πλουσιαζει ο δοτης· και ιδοιμι σε εν τωι μελλοντι αιωνι επι πεντε και επι δεκα πολεων εν αις και εχει ευρεθειημεν υπο σου παιδευομενοι τε και τρεφομενοι. κλινου κυριε αγαπητως προς τα τεχνα των τεχνων σου του επισκεψαι ινα γνως ει ποτε τι της σοφιας σου αναξιον ημιν τολμαται ως της τε γνωσεως ξενοις και των θειων πολεων αλλοτριοις

Syriac transmission available in the linked TAN/TEI source. The complete corpus is Syriac-transmitted; Greek survives only fragmentarily, so this display text is a retroversion witness.

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

    Initial corpus import from modern evagrius ponticus tan tei 13 32 v1.

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