Letter 78
To Firmus the scriniarius [a clerk and keeper of records in the provincial bureau].
Do not be in haste to become governor of the province through the patronage of that man, lest you be brought under another's rule, and fall, and be utterly humbled, and be brought to ruin beyond all expectation.
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Latin / Greek Original
Μὴ σπεῦδε γενέσθαι ἄρχων τῆς ἐπαρχίας διὰ τῆς προστασίας τοῦ προσώπου ἐκείνου, ἵνα μὴ ἀρχθῇς, καὶ πέσῃς, καὶ ἄγαν ταπεινωθῇς, καὶ ἀφανισθῇς παρὰ πᾶσαν ἐλπίδα.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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