Letter 165: The soldiers serving under Modestus have done me many favors.

To Andronicus. (358-361) The soldiers under Modestus have shown me many kindnesses, and in return for many they ask one, which I might be able to grant through you. Consider, therefore, whether it seems fitting to you that we should be willing to receive benefits but have no means of repaying them. The favor is this: that you not be harsh toward Leontius regarding the help which both many other things bring to him and a letter of the emperor.

To Andronicus (358–361) The soldiers under Modestus have done me many favors, and in return for those many favors they ask but one — one that I could grant through you. Consider, then, whether it sits well with you that we should be willing to receive kindness yet unable to repay it. The favor is this: that you not prove harsh toward Leontius in the matter of the assistance that is owed him — assistance confirmed by many other things and, not least, by a letter from the Emperor himself.

Ἀνδρονίκῳ. (358—361) Οἱ περὶ τὸν Μόδεστον στρατιῶται πολλάς μοι δεδώκασι χάριτας, ἀντὶ· δὲ πολλῶν αἰτοῦσι μίαν, ἣν διὰ σοῦ δυναίμην ἂν δοῦναι. σκόπει τοίνυν, εἴ σοι καλῶς ἔχει δοκεῖν ἡμᾶς εὖ μὲν πάσχειν ἐθέλειν, ἀμείβεσθαι δὲ οὐκ ἔχειν. ἔστι δὲ ἡ χάρις μὴ πικρόν σε γενέσθαι Λεοντίῳ περὶ τὴν βοήθειαν, ἣν αὐτῷ πολλά τε ἄλλα φέρει καὶ βασιλέως ἐπιστολή.