Letter 347

To Hippasius the Tribune. Just as there is a fasting from foods, so too there is a fasting from wrath, and a fasting from love of rule, and from envy, and from boastfulness, and from love of money, and from irascibility, and from drowsiness, and from sloth, and from meddlesomeness, and from harshness, and from all the rest that follow.

Ὥσπερ ἐστὶ βρωμάτων νηστεία, οὕτω καὶ θυμοῦ νηστεία ἐστὶ, καὶ φιλαρχίας νηστεία, καὶ βασκανίας καὶ κόμπου, καὶ φιλοχρηματίας τε, καὶ ὀξυχολείας καὶ ὑπηνλίας, καὶ νωθίας, καὶ περιεργίας, καὶ τραχύς, καὶ τῶν καθεξῆς.