Letter 1118: Vice needs no teacher — it comes naturally to our fallen nature.
The catena author presents the inscription of the epistle; but omits the first 5 lines...
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Latin / Greek Original
Р. 1118. - LIB. I, EP. 71
Catenæ auctor exhibet quidem epistola inscriptio-
nem; sed 5 linéas priores et ultimas omisit. Inci-
pit enim hisce verbis : Λατρείαν ἐνταῦθα, κ. τ. λ.,
p. 23, lit. B, lin. 1, et concludit in hunc modum, αὐ-
τῆς ἐνυβρίζεσθαι, lit. Β, lin. 6, 7.
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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