Letter 174: If we did not trust you completely, we would not have sent a servant and a ship to Sinope.

To Eusebius and Faustus. (360) If we did not trust you exceedingly, we would not be sending off a servant and a ship to Sinope. For we are not unaware that you are the city itself, and that whether you lend your aid, everything runs before a fair wind, or whether you set yourselves against it [things go the other way], — yet I write nothing blasphemous in a letter. But, O noble offspring, now [...] indeed. For even if what comes from us to you is small, still it is at least what we had.

**To Eusebius and Faustus** (360 AD) If we did not place the greatest trust in you, we would not be dispatching a servant and a ship to Sinope. For we are well aware that you *are* the city — if you lend your support, everything sails before a fair wind, and if you oppose — but I will write nothing ill-omened in a letter. Come then, noble friends, show us your care now. For even if our gifts to you have been modest, they were at least all we had.

Εὐσεβίῳ καὶ Φαύστῳ. (360) Εἰ μὴ σφόδρα ὑμῖν ἐπιστεύομεν, οὐκ ἂν οἰκέτην καὶ 10 πλοῖον εἰς Σινώπην ἐξεπέμπομεν. οὐ γὰρ ἀγνοοῦμεν ὡς ὑμεῖς ἡ πόλις, κἂν συλλαμβάνητε, πάντα ἐξ οὐρίων θεῖ, κἂν ἀντικρούσητε, — βλάσφημον δὲ οὐδὲν <ἐν> ἐπιστολῇ γράφω. ἀλλ᾿ ὦ γενναῖα θρέμματα, νῦν κομι- δήν. καὶ γὰρ εἰ μικρὰ τὰ παρ’ ἡμῶν εἰς ὁμᾶς, ἀλλ’ ἅ γε εἴ- χομεν.