Letter 129: A distinguished man — upright in character and splendid in life (I will pass over his high office, for that is only...
To Zosimos.
To be caught in what is unbecoming is painful for those not too utterly insensible; to be put on trial is so for the more dignified; but to be merely suspected carries the greatest calamity for those who have ascended to the very summit of virtue.
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Latin / Greek Original
Τὸ μὲν ἐφ’ οἷς οὐ προσῆκεν, τοῖς μὴ λίαν ἀναλγήτως διακειμένοις, ἁλῶναι ἀλγεινόν· τὸ δὲ κριθῆναι, τοῖς σεμνοτέροις. Τὸ δὲ ὑποπτευθῆναι, τοῖς εἰς ἄκρον ἀναδεθηκόσιν ἀρετῆς μεγίστην ἔχει συμφοράν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern isidore pelusium workflow v1.
Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/PatrologiaGraeca (PG vol.78)
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