Letter 496: Oh, for those times when we were everything to each other!
To Basileios. (356)
Oh, for those times when we were everything to each other! Now we have been bitterly separated — you still have each other, but I have no one to replace you.
I hear that Alkimos dares youthful ventures in his old age and has flown off to Rome, leaving you the labor of looking after the students. But you, being gentle in other matters, will bear this without complaint — since you were not angry with us either for not writing sooner.
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Latin / Greek Original
Βασιλείῳ. (356)
Ὢ χρόνων νίνων, ἐν οἷς πάντα ἦμεν ἀλλήλοις. νῦν
δὲ διῳκίσμεθα πικρῶς, ὑμεῖς μὲν ἔχοντες ἀλλήλους, ἐγὼ δὲ
ἀνθ᾿ ὑμῶν οἶοί περ ὑμεῖς οὐδένα.
τὸν Ἄλκιμον ἀκούω
τὰ νέων ἐν γήρᾳ τολμᾶν καὶ πρὸς τὴν 'Pώμην πέτεσθαι περι-
θέντα σοι τὸν τοῦ συνεῖναι τοῖς παιδαρίοις πόνοι
σὺ δὲ
τί τε ἄλλα πρᾷός τις καὶ τοῦτο οἴσεις οὐ χαλεπῶς, ἐπεὶ καὶ
ἡμῖν τοῦ μὴ γράψαι πρότερον οὐκ ἔσχες χαλεπῶς.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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