Letter 130: Whatever kindness you do me, know that you'll have dealt not just with a relative but with someone who loves you.
**To the same person.** (359/60)
Know that in doing me a kindness, you will have obliged not merely a kinsman but also a friend. And I judge this latter bond the greater of the two, since I see many even now reenacting the example of the sons of Oedipus — blood relation does nothing to prevent it.
I am fond of you for many reasons, but especially because you display in a different walk of life the sharpness of your father's mind, from which comes your success.
As for Mocimus, I have urged him to take heart, assuring him that you will grant him the matter for which he has come and will not allow the produce of our land to go to waste. For you are well aware that whatever profit comes our way has found its way into your own household.
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"A friend should stand by a man," as the saying goes.
To the same person. (359/360)
If you call your one letter "many," well, I haven't received only this one.
You show me that you are no ordinary devotee of learning, composing letters at such an hour as this.
To the same person. (359/60)