Letter 605
To Thessalius the Fellow-Laborer [Greek: symponos, a comrade in toil; here an associate addressed by Nilus].
Let not your hand be eagerly stretched out for receiving, and drawn back for sharing with the needy; but just as you gladly take in the gains of mammon, so gladly furnish your expenditures to those in want.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Μὴ εἰς τὸ λαμβάνειν ἔστω ἡ χείρ σου προθύμως
ἐκτεταμένη, εἰς δὲ τὸ μεταδοῦναι τοῖς ἐνδεέσι συν-
εσταλμένη, ἀλλ’ ὥσπερ ἡδέως ὑποδέχῃ τὰ κέρδη τοῦ
μαμωνᾶ, οὕτως ἡδέως χορήγει τὰς δαπάνας τοῖς
χρῄζουσιν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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