Letter 451: You found an excellent guardian for your son in the good Tatianus -- a man skillful at spurring on teachers,...
You found an excellent guardian for your son in the good Tatianus -- a man skillful at spurring on teachers, praising diligence in the young, and both spotting and correcting laziness. So I tell you to take heart: Alexander will not waste a moment of his time, with Tatianus keeping his eye and his mind fixed on the boy.
But I am puzzled that you found the boy such a fine overseer yet keep the boy himself tied up with your flocks.
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Latin / Greek Original
Καικιλίῳ. (355/56)
Καλόν γε ἐξεῦρες τῷ παιδὶ κηδεμόνα τὸν χρηστὸν Τα-
τιανὸν δεινόν γε ·διδασκάλους τε ἐπεγεῖραι καὶ νέων σπουδὴν
μὲν ἐπαινέσαι, ῥᾳθυμίαν δὲ καὶ ἰδεῖν καὶ παῦσαι. καὶ δή σε
κελεύω θαρρεῖν, ὡς οὐδὲ μικρὸν Ἀλέξανδρος παραναλώσει τοῦ
χρόνου τούτου τείνοντος εἰς ἐκεῖνον τό τε ὄμμα καὶ τὴν γνώ-
μην.
θαυμάζω δὲ ὅτι τὸν μὲν ἐπιμελητὴν ἐπορίσω τῷ νέῳ
γενναῖον, αὐτὸν δὲ τὸν νέον πρὸς τοῖς ὄις δήσας ἔχεις.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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