Nilus of Ancyra→Conon|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Conon the Illustrious. [illustris, a high senatorial honorific rank]
You grow rich unjustly, appropriating to yourself the honors owed to others. For having beheld a topsy-turvy spectacle, I was amazed, seeing the men worthy of admiration reviled in the present time, while seeing the worthless men praised. And this I think to be a contrivance of the demons; wherefore, lest, being glorified for many things to no purpose, you be punished the more grievously in the time to come, I urge you rather to perform the works of virtue, so that you may receive the glory becomingly and as is fitting.
To Conon the Illustrious. [illustris, a high senatorial honorific rank]
You grow rich unjustly, appropriating to yourself the honors owed to others. For having beheld a topsy-turvy spectacle, I was amazed, seeing the men worthy of admiration reviled in the present time, while seeing the worthless men praised. And this I think to be a contrivance of the demons; wherefore, lest, being glorified for many things to no purpose, you be punished the more grievously in the time to come, I urge you rather to perform the works of virtue, so that you may receive the glory becomingly and as is fitting.
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