Libanius & Priscianus

You know better than most what it means to run a school in times like these.

When I first heard you'd gone all the way to the Danube itself, where the emperor displayed his arms and humbled the...

I have many reasons to respect Mocimus: he's been a friend since childhood, he never shrank from any task my uncle...

You asked me whether I expect you to master your responsibilities.

Miccalus comes to you from Olympius, from home to home -- and from one brother to another, in every real sense.

Theodotus and Charisius are brothers, and their profession is the same.

So you will not collect taxes twice, yet you keep asking for letters on matters about which you already have...

That you, surrounded by so many responsibilities and pricked by anxieties about the war, still take thought for how...

You know Gaudentius, that excellent teacher.

Now you are truly absent from us, since you have taken away the man who imitated you.

You ask how things stand with us, and I wish I could report only good news.

You will have heard the latest attacks on our profession -- the usual complaints from people who think that because...

I know. "Why do you tell me what I already know?

You received Maran kindly -- that is one favor I have already collected.

Lucianus, a man not blessed in everything, did not dare to approach me himself -- so thoroughly did he condemn what...

The son of the man bringing this letter is a student of mine.

Leontius is still carrying letters on the same subject.

The man who brings this letter is trustworthy and deserves your attention.

While others asked those arriving from there all manner of questions — "What of the Arcadians?

You know Maeonius the copyist.

Even if your office and the demands pulling you from every direction have driven Plato from your hands, Plato still...