Roman Letters

Letter 45: Evil men from outside are troubling our Church.

Synesius of Cyrene→Olympius|c. 412 AD|Synesius of Cyrene|Human translated
friendship
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To Olympius.

Evil men from outside are troubling our Church. Take action against them. Only nails drive out nails.

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

    Initial corpus import from Livius.org.

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