Letter 812
Nilus of Ancyra→Thomas (correspondent of Nilus of Ancyra)|c. 415 AD|nilus ancyra|From Ancyra|AI-assisted
To Thomas the Logographer [a writer of prose and speeches, a clerk or chronicler].
The front parts of the soul we must understand to be the torch-bearing splendor of all the virtues, but its back parts every kind of vice.
Ἐμπόσθια τῆς ψυχῆς νοητέον τὰς πασῶν τῶν ἀρετῶν λαμπαδουχίας, ὀπίσθια δὲ παντοῖον κακίας εἶδος.
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To Thomas the Logographer [a writer of prose and speeches, a clerk or chronicler].
The front parts of the soul we must understand to be the torch-bearing splendor of all the virtues, but its back parts every kind of vice.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ἐμπόσθια τῆς ψυχῆς νοητέον τὰς πασῶν τῶν ἀρετῶν λαμπαδουχίας, ὀπίσθια δὲ παντοῖον κακίας εἶδος.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern nilus ancyra workflow v1.
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