Letter 172
Nilus of Ancyra→Aemenius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the Same Person.
Meekness happens to be the greatest good. It was this that the great Moses acquired, and so he beheld God, insofar as it is possible for a human being to see.
Μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν τυγχάνει ἡ πραότης, ἥνπερ ὁ
μέγας κτησάμενος Μωϋσῆς Θεὸν ἐθεάσατο, ὡς ἀν-
θρώπῳ ἰδεῖν δυνατόν.
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To the Same Person.
Meekness happens to be the greatest good. It was this that the great Moses acquired, and so he beheld God, insofar as it is possible for a human being to see.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν τυγχάνει ἡ πραότης, ἥνπερ ὁ
μέγας κτησάμενος Μωϋσῆς Θεὸν ἐθεάσατο, ὡς ἀν-
θρώπῳ ἰδεῖν δυνατόν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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