Letter 269: The man carrying this letter deserves your attention -- not because I say so, though that should count for...
Εὐσεβίῳ. (358)
Ἤρκεσέ μοι γνῶναι ὅτι δοίης ἄν, ἐπεί τοι καὶ τὴν
ἀρχὴν πείρας εἵνεκα ᾔτουν, ὅπως εἰδείην εἰ καὶ τὰ τοιαῦτα
δώσεις. μνήμη δὲ μισθῶν ὀφειλομένων οὐκ ἦν ἐσπουδακότος
λόγος, ἀλλ’ ἀνδρὸς ἡδομένου τῇ μνήμῃ τῆς συνουσίας. εἰ γὰρ
δὴ καὶ σφόδρα ὀφείλων ἐτύγχανες, τριπλῇ τετραπλῇ τ’
ἀπέτισας ἔργοις μείζοσι καὶ καλλίοσι τῶν Γύγου χρημάτων.
τοῦτόν τε οὖν ἔχε τὸν ἵππον ἕτερόν τε μὴ ζήτει. πᾶς δὲ ὁ
τῶν ὑποσχέσεων ἀκούσας ἀκούσεται τὸ ἔργον καὶ κοσμήσει σὲ
μὲν τῷ πέμψαι, τῷ μὴ λαβεῖν δὲ ἐμέ.
Related Letters
It seems we will always have trouble springing from Severus's character, and you will never be free of my letters on...
If I were able to share in the journey and the other exertions with Eustochius, you would certainly have me in...
"They lie who say you are the son of Zeus" -- someone once said this to one of the Heraclidae before Troy [a Homeric...
The very quality that makes you admirable as a governor -- your refusal to bend the law for anyone -- is the quality...
Since you love eloquence and honor those who practice it, I send you this young man with confidence.