Letter 355

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

To Callistianus.

Just as, in our craving for life, we are accustomed to eat and to drink, and likewise to speak and to listen, so too we ought to attend to the reading of the oracles of God [the Scriptures], insatiable in our disposition.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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

Ὥσπερ ὀρεγόμενοι τῆς ζωῆς ἐσθίειν, καὶ πίνειν, φράζειν τε, καὶ ἀκροᾶσθαι εἰώθαμεν, οὕτω καὶ τῇ ἀναγνώσει τῶν τοῦ Θεοῦ λογίων προσανέχειν ὀφείλομεν ἀκορέστως τῇ γνώμῃ.

Revision history

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

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

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