Roman Letters

Letter 476: The work of a grammarian, Ophelios, is not merely to be precise for its own sake.

Isidore of Pelusium→Ophelios the Grammarian|c. 412 AD|Isidore of Pelusium|AI-assisted
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Others are lavish and prodigal. Others do not even shrink from punishments. Others flatter...

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Latin / Greek Original

alii profusi ac nepotes. Alii ne ver-
ne supplicia 476 quidem horrent. Alii adula-

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Revision history

  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://archive.org/details/PatrologiaGraeca

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