Letter 456: The loss in not having such a listener was mine, the speaker's.
The loss in not having such a listener was mine, the speaker's. You will have no trouble finding a more skillful orator, but I will not find a more sympathetic judge.
We have been expecting your son for some time and still have not seen him -- though he is a young man and we are his father's old friends. There is a place here ready to receive him, one that would welcome even his father.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed. See the 19th-century translation or original Latin/Greek below for scholarly use.
Latin / Greek Original
Ἑλλησποντίῳ. (355/56)
Τοῦ λέγοντος ἦν τὸ μὴ τοιοῦτον λαβεῖν ἀκροατὴν ἡ ζη-
μία. σὺ μὲν γὰρ οὐκ ἀπορήσεις δεξιωτέρου ῥήτορος, ἡμεῖς δὲ
κριτὴν οὐχ εὑρήσομεν εὐνούστερον.
τὸν υἱὸν δὲ πάλαι προσ-
δοκῶντες ὁρῶμεν οὔπω, καίτοι νεανίσκος μὲν ἐκεῖνος, ἡμεῖς
δὲ αὐτῷ πατρικοὶ φίλοι. τόπος δὲ αὐτόν, ὃς καὶ τὸν τοκέα
δέξαιτο.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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