Letter 129: "A friend should stand by a man," as the saying goes.
To Eustolius. (359/60)
"Let a friend be at a man's side," as the saying goes. And you are to me both a friend and the truest of friends, so that you will spare no effort in anything where you can improve my affairs.
Receive Mocimus kindly on my behalf, then, and turn my chaff into gold. If the matter is perfectly easy, do it for that very reason — because it is easy. But if it is difficult, do it because you are a man who knows how to take pains.
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