Letter 466: While you have leisure, attend to your land and to a builder, so that when you return to public service you may have...

On my way to the school I ran into Julianus, who was urging Calykion toward the labors of rhetoric.

You inherited very little from your father, and what you earned by pleading cases you spent as a judge — so instead...

I had supposed your silence was due to some other preoccupation — and so it should have been.

If things had worked out and you had been part of the triumphant company that Themistius assembled around him, our...

If doing less than one's ability permits while willing counts as laziness, then I am far from that charge.