Pylaemenes
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I had a large Egyptian rug — not the kind you put under a bedspread, but one fine enough to use as a bedspread itself.
Some letters dated last spring have just arrived from Thrace.
I have just sent you my treatise [A Eulogy of Baldness], written in Attic style and finished with care.
Here at last is that Anastasius [one of my dearest friends and an important courtier in Constantinople, tutor to the...
A man from Phycus — a harbor of the Cyrenaeans — brought me a letter written in your name.
I ask your friendship and protection for my dear Sosenas — born and raised amid learning, yet not meeting with the...
No, my dear Pylaemenes — I call the god who presides over our friendship to witness — I never dreamed of ridiculing...
Believe me when I say that I embrace Pylaemenes — soul to soul.
In Plato, we see Socrates, already advanced in years, still pursuing his intellectual passions.
I have two letters in circulation addressed to you: I am writing to both Thrace and Isauria at the same time, hoping...
Know that the definitions of geometry are infallibly true.
I received your letter in which you again accuse Fortune of mistreating you.
I believe that even in your Heraclea, no one is ignorant of the name of our fellow countryman, the philosopher...
Tell me: do you still stand firm in philosophy — the Pylaemenes I left behind, the newly initiated soul, the divine...
You are quite right to return to the capital.
A letter arrives from you once a year, as though the seasons themselves deliver it.