Roman Letters

Letter 724

Nilus of Ancyra→Gregory (correspondent of Nilus of Ancyra)|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
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To the same person.

There are times when one nail has driven out another nail, and a second trial has driven away the former trial. Be humbled, therefore, and do not lose heart.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.

Latin / Greek Original

Ἔστιν ὅτε ἦλος τὸν ἦλον ἐξέκρουσε, καὶ πειρασμὸς δεύτερος τὸν πρότερον ἀπέκρουσε πειρασμόν. Ταπεινώθητι οὖν, καὶ μὴ ἀποδυσπέτει.

Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: project source import

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