Letter 1023: A grateful report on Anatolius' advocacy, with a request to turn blame into forgiveness.

Good Priscianus reported what you did, though he was speaking to people who already knew it: what sort of man you were outside the council chamber in our friend's cause, what sort within it, what sort before the trial was about to be decided, while it was being argued, and after it ended as it did. For all this I am grateful to you and praise you, and I think the gods themselves praise it too, just as they praise what your brothers did for the same man. If they had not labored then and brought him care, doctors, sleepless nights, and expense, he would now be gone, or alive without a foot. Know, then, that the memory of these words and deeds will remain immortal with me. I am grateful to Priscianus as well, both for the pain he felt on our behalf and for the pleasure with which he described your actions. He did not merely describe them; he rejoiced as he told how we had been benefited by you and how you had won honor. Add this too: persuade the great council that what happened was neither my rash act nor the act of the man who traveled there, but the work of people stirred up who spoke in that way not from hatred, but because they could not see the matter clearly. Let no one blame me as though I failed to understand our own affairs, and let someone grant him forgiveness.