Letter 5
To Hephaestus, the scholasticus [an advocate, a man trained in law].
Do not speak so boldly, O man. For you ought to be ashamed with all your might, inasmuch as you praise the adulteries of your gods, and the corruptions of boys, and you worship the ruinous passions of obscenity, and are utterly unable to conceive of anything beyond the body.
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Latin / Greek Original
Μὴ παρρησιάζου, ὦ ἄνθρωπε. Αἰσχύνεσθαι γὰρ ὀφείλεις κατὰ κράτος, καθ’ ὅτι τὰς μοιχείας ἐπαινεῖς τῶν θεῶν σου, καὶ τὰς παιδοφθορίας, καὶ προσκυνεῖς τὰ ὀλέθρια πάθη τῆς αἰσχρουργίας, καὶ οὐδὲν παντελῶς δύνηι ὑπὲρ τὸ σῶμα διανοεῖσθαι.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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