Letter 177
To Marianus the Subdeacon.
Why do you feed your flesh so lavishly, when before long it will be food for worms?
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Latin / Greek Original
Τί δαψιλέστερον παίνειες σοὶ τὰς σάρκας σου, τροφὴν σκωλήκων ἐσομένας ὅσον οὔπω;
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- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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