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Letter 77: Light and darkness do not wait for each other — by a law of nature, they avoid one another.

Synesius of Cyrene→Anysius|c. 411 AD|Synesius of Cyrene|Human translated
barbarian invasion
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To Anysius.

Light and darkness do not wait for each other — by a law of nature, they avoid one another. Returning from seeing you off, we ran straight into Andronicus [the corrupt military commander whom Synesius eventually excommunicated]. The contrast could not have been sharper.

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  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from Livius.org.

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