Letter 107: One favor I owe you thanks for; another I'm asking.
**To Archelaus** (359/60)
We owe you one debt of gratitude and ask another. For you received our friend Cyriacus warmly, assisted him in all his affairs, and granted every favor without hesitation — honoring me doubly, both by acting and by declaring that you acted on my account.
Now show yourself the same toward us in this second matter — or rather, better still — so that even the proverb may owe you thanks for proving it true. And surely it is nothing new if the good Archelaus takes his stand on the side of justice, having long traveled that road.
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