Letter 446: Clematius struck us as far more admirable -- not because he picked up rhetoric in Rome, as he imagines, but because...
Δατιανῷ. (355)
Πολὺ καλλίων ἡμῖν ἐφάνη Κλημάτιος οὐχὶ ῥητορικὴν
ἀπὸ τῆς 'Pώμης, ὥσπερ οἴεται, προσλαβών, ἀλλ’ ὅτι τἄλλα πάρ-
εργον ἡγησάμενος ἔργον ἔθετο τῆς σῆς διανοίας ἐπ’ ἀμείνοσι
μεμνῆσθαι. τὸ γὰρ οὓς προσῆκεν ἐπαινεῖν δι’ εὐφημίας ἔχειν
τῶν ἐπαινούντων ἀγαθόν, ὥσπερ, οἴμαι, τὸ ψέγειν τοῖς τοῦτο
ποιοῦσι κακόν.
ἡγοῦμαι δὲ καὶ πρὸς τὸ μέλλον ἀσφάλειάν
τε αὐτῷ τὸ πρᾶγμα καὶ ἐπίδοσιν ἔσεσθαι τῆς σῆς αὐτῷ χειρὸς
πανταχοῦ παρούσης καὶ τά τε δυσχερῆ παυούσης καὶ τὰ βελ-
τίω παρεχούσης
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This man needs your help, and he deserves it.
Since you began helping me long ago -- help through which I recovered what was mine -- a brief word will suffice.
Gregory to Datianus, bishop, metropolitan.
My dear Datianus, I come to you again in my affliction — and I am grateful that you are a man I can come to.
Perhaps you will be willing to help me even in the present crisis, keeping faith with me to the end and with all...