Letter 5: You spoke ill of us, and we spoke well of you -- but no one will believe either of us.
You spoke ill of us, and we spoke well of you -- but no one will believe either of us.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ἀρισταινέτῳ.
Σὺ μὲν ἡμᾶς εἶπας κακῶς, ἡμεῖς δὲ καλῶς ἀλλ’ οὔτε σοί
τις οὔτ’ ἐμοὶ πείσεται.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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