Letter 474
To Symmachus the General [strategos, a military commander].
The character of true religion is composed of these two things: pious doctrines and good deeds. The one, therefore, ought not to be separated from the other.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ὁ τῆς εὐσεβείας τρόπος ἐκ δύο τούτων συνέστη-
κεν, δογμάτων εὐσεβῶν, καὶ πράξεων ἀγαθῶν. Θέ-
τερον γοῦν θατέρου οὐ χρὴ διαζευγνύειν.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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