Letter 292: We know how well you treated Alexander -- for the man who benefited did not hide it.
To Cyrillus. (360/361)
We know how well you treated Alexander -- for the man who benefited did not hide it. I was pleased both that he was helped and that he is a good man who acknowledges the favor. A man like that naturally deserves to receive the same treatment always, since having received it, he knows how to say that he received it.
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Latin / Greek Original
Κυρίλλῳ. (360/61)
Ἴσμεν ὅσα τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον εὖ ἐποίησας· οὐ γὰρ ἔκρυψεν
ὁ εὖ παθών. ἥσθην οὖν, ὅτι τε ὠφέληται καὶ ὅτι χρηστός
ἐστιν ὁμολογῶν τὴν χάριν. τὸν δὴ τοιοῦτον τῶν αὐτῶν εἰκὸς
διὰ τέλους τυγχάνειν· λαβὼν γὰρ οἶδεν ὡς ἔλαβε λέγειν.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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