Letter 268
To Leonidas the Count [komes, an imperial official].
Fortune, which is also called Destiny [Greek heimarmene] among the senseless pagans [Greek Hellenes, here "pagans"], neither ever was, nor is, nor ever will be, nor may it ever appear. Only do not you yourself grant existence to this thing, which has no real subsistence, by following out of preconception the nonsense of the foolish pagans.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἡ παρὰ τοῖς ἄφροσιν Ἑλλήσι τύχη, καὶ εἱμαρμένη προσαγορευομένη, οὔτ᾿ ἦν ποτε, οὔτ᾿ ἔστιν, οὔτ᾿ ἔσται πώποτε, μήτε φανείη ποτέ. Μόνον μὴ σὺ γε ταύτῃ ἀνυποστάτῳ οὔσῃ παρέχοις τὴν ὕπαρξιν ἐξακολουθῶν ἐκ προλήψεως τοῖς τῶν ἀνοήτων Ἑλλήνων ληρήμασιν.
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