Letter 458: Do not mistake the delay of punishment for its cancellation, best of men.
To Heron the Statesman: Do not, like a bull, be both arrogant and a deserter of the herd...
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Latin / Greek Original
ΥΞΘ. – ΗΡΩΝΙ ΠΟΛΙΤΕΥΟΜΕΝΩ.
Μὴ ὥσπερ ταῦρος· καὶ ἀγέρωχος, καὶ ἀτιμαγέλας
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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