Letter 73: I have given orders for ships to be ready at Cenchreae [a port town southwest of the Isthmus of Corinth].
To Maximinus 2
I have given orders that there shall be ships at Cenchreae.3 The number of these you will learn from the governor of the Hellenes,4 but as to how you are to discharge your commission you may now hear from me. It must be without bribery and without delay. I will myself, with the help of the gods, see that you do not repent of having done your duty as I have indicated.
2 Nothing is known of Maximinus or the circumstances; if the letter is genuine, as is probable, it may refer to Julian's preparations for his march against Constantius in 361.
3 A coast town S.W. of the Isthmus of Corinth.
4 i.e. the proconsul of Achaia who resided at Corinth.
This text was transcribed by Roger Pearse,
2010, from volume 3 of the Loeb edition. This file and all material on this page is in the public domain - copy freely.
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