Roman Letters

Letter 2: Olympius is taking refuge in you once again -- his champion on so many past occasions.

Libanius→Clearchus; then Elebocius|c. 372 AD|Libanius|AI-assisted
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To Clearchus. (372/73 or 382/84?)

To you, who have come to his aid many times, Olympius now flees again as an ally, hoping, from the help he has already received, to have it for setting matters right.

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Latin / Greek Original

Κλεάρχῳ. (372/73 νel 382/84?)

Ἐπὶ τὸν πολλάκις βεβοηθηκότα σε καὶ νῦν Ὀλύμπιος
καταφεύγει σύμμαχον ἐξ ὧν ἤδη τετύχηκεν ἐλπίσας εἰς τὸ
κατορθώσειν ἔχειν.

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Revision history

  1. 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import

    Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek/blob/master/volume_xml/libanius_10.xml

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