Letter 170: You know Gaudentius, that excellent teacher.

LibaniusPriscianus|c. 330 AD|Libanius
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**To the Same Recipient** (359/60)

You know Gaudentius, that excellent teacher. A certain farmer has taken refuge with him, and he in turn with me, and I now with you. Surely what you do every day you will do now as well: you will put a stop to violence.

The name of the man who needs help is Antonius, and he farms near Cyrrhus. The one doing him wrong — if indeed he is doing wrong — is Peregrinus, one of your own subordinates. Put a stop, then, either to this man's use of force or to that man's lying.

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