Letter 41: It seems to me that you are being pushed to push me by your own sister, who is Philoxenus's mother.
**To Ecdicius** (358/359)
It seems to me that you are being stirred to stir me by your sister, the mother of Philoxenus. She does the same thing with my uncle, working through his wife. And he, being here in person, urges the very things you write — that the young man should become an orator under my instruction.
So tell Philoxenus's mother that her son, God willing, will become such a one as to satisfy her; for he has both the willing mind and the capable nature.
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