Letter 268: I send you greetings through Hyperechius, who will tell you everything about us more clearly than any letter could.
To the same man. (361?)
Of the taxiarchs [company commanders] in your service, Herodianus is now one, but formerly he was at war [with me], and he is a man who does good, just as he was then one who caused vexation. As for me, formerly I praised him but did not love him, whereas now I both admire and love him. And I would wish that the brother of his wife be released from the fears which, being unjust, the emperor does away with: do you do away with them too.
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Latin / Greek Original
τῷ αὐτῶ. (361?)
Τῶν περὶ ὑμᾶς ταξιαρχῶν Ἡρωδιανὸς τὸ νῦν, πρότερον
δὲ ἐπολέμει, καὶ ἔστιν ἀνὴρ ὠφελῶν, ὥσπερ ἦν τότε λυπῶν.
2 ἐγὼ δὲ αὐτὸν πρότερον μὲν ἐπαινῶν οὐκ ἐφίλουν, νῦν δὲ
καὶ θαυμάζω καὶ φιλῶ. καὶ βουλοίμην αὐτῷ τὸν τῆς γυ-
ναικὸς ἀδελφὸν ἀπολυθῆναι τῶν φόβων, οὓς ὄντας ἀδίκους
ἀναιρεῖ μὲν βασιλεύς, ἄνελε δὲ σύ.
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