Letter 33: To the most reverend Theodora.
To the most reverend Theodora 1
[362, about the same date as #32]
I was glad to receive all the books that you sent me, and your letters through the excellent
Mygdonius.2 And since I have hardly any leisure,— as the gods know, I speak without affectation,—I have written you these few lines. And now fare-
well, and may you always write me letters of the same sort!
1 The epithet as well as the preceding letter show that she was a priestess.
2 Mygdonius protected Libanius in Constantinople in 343. There is nothing to show whether Julian was at Antioch or Constantinople when he wrote these letters to Theodora.
Modern English rendering for readability. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek for scholarly use.
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