Letter 499: The apostle Paul addressed this clearly, Isidoros: Christians who drag their disputes before pagan courts have...
To Ophelius the Grammarian, concerning kindness to humanity: One must, dear friend, make peace even with enemies who come as suppliants. For he who refuses to make peace, but rejects human beings who send forth the cries of necessity as suppliants, and who no longer from...
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Latin / Greek Original
ΝΕ΄. – ΩΦΕΛΙΟ ΓΡΑΜΜΑΤΙΚΟ.
Περὶ φιλανθρωπίας.
Χρὴ, ὦ φίλε, καὶ πρὸς πολεμίους ἱκετεύοντας
σπένδεσθαι. Ὁ γὰρ μὴ σπενδόμενος, ἀλλ' ἀνθρώ- D
πους ἱκέτας [τὰς] τῆς ἀνάγκης ἀφιέντας φωνάς,
καὶ μηκέτι ἐκ τοῦ ἴσου μαχομένους τιμωρούμενος,
καὶ μήτε οἴκτῳ καταιδέσας τὸν θυμὸν, μήτε ἐπὶ τὸ
τῆς φύσεως χωρήσας συγγενές τε καὶ οἰκεῖον, καὶ
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- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from Patrologia Graeca 78 OCR.
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