Letter 25: You show me that you are no ordinary devotee of learning, composing letters at such an hour as this.
To Parnasius.
That I am devoted to literature in no ignoble fashion, you yourself bear witness, since you compose letters at such an hour. [...]
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Latin / Greek Original
Παρνασίῳ. (358/59)
Οὐκ ἀγεννῶς μοι προσκεῖσθαι τοῖς λόγοις, καταμηνύεις δὲ
σὺ σαυτὸν ἀπὸ τοιαύτης ὥρας συντιθεὶς ἐπιστολάς. . . .
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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