Letter 787
Nilus of Ancyra→Theodore (correspondent of Nilus of Ancyra)|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To the Same.
Just as breathing is never untimely, so neither is the asking of mystical petitions from the Lord, even to one's last breath.
Ὥσπερ τὸ ἀναπνεῖν οὐδέ ποτε ἄκαιρον, οὕτως οὐδὲ
τὸ αἰτεῖσθαι παρὰ τοῦ Κυρίου αἰτήματα μυστικὰ
μέχρις ἐσχάτης ἀναπνοῆς.
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To the Same.
Just as breathing is never untimely, so neither is the asking of mystical petitions from the Lord, even to one's last breath.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ὥσπερ τὸ ἀναπνεῖν οὐδέ ποτε ἄκαιρον, οὕτως οὐδὲ
τὸ αἰτεῖσθαι παρὰ τοῦ Κυρίου αἰτήματα μυστικὰ
μέχρις ἐσχάτης ἀναπνοῆς.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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