Letter 290

Nilus of AncyraEuthius|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted

To the Same Person.

You have written to ask for what reason I do not stop barking. But I have signified it to you many times: it is on account of your small-mindedness and your stinginess. For you will astound me if, even on just a few occasions, you would do battle and make war against your own hatred of mankind.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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

Γέγραφας, τίνος χάριν οὐ παύομαι ὑλακτεῖν; Ἀλλὰ πολλάκις σεσήμαγκα, τῆς σῆς ἕνεκα μικροψυχίας, καὶ φειδωλίας· ἐκπλήξεις γάρ με, εἰ γὲ κἂν ὀλιγάκις μαχήσῃ, καὶ πολεμήσῃ τῇ οἰκείᾳ μισανθρωπίᾳ.

Revision history

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

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

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