Letter 85: To my Brother.
Synesius of Cyrene→Alethius, (brother of Florentius)|c. 402 AD|Synesius of Cyrene
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Letter 85: A Recommendation
[1] To his Brother
Receive with the living letter also the lifeless one. The one is the charming Gerontius, the other these written lines. They are written to you rather that I may conform to custom, than from any necessity for communicating with you. [2] I live with you always in memory. This is what the young man will tell you with a much more powerful voice than ten thousand letters.
Letter 85: A Recommendation
[1] To his Brother
Receive with the living letter also the lifeless one. The one is the charming Gerontius, the other these written lines. They are written to you rather that I may conform to custom, than from any necessity for communicating with you. [2] I live with you always in memory. This is what the young man will tell you with a much more powerful voice than ten thousand letters.
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Letter 85: A Recommendation
[1] To his Brother
Receive with the living letter also the lifeless one. The one is the charming Gerontius, the other these written lines. They are written to you rather that I may conform to custom, than from any necessity for communicating with you. [2] I live with you always in memory. This is what the young man will tell you with a much more powerful voice than ten thousand letters.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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