Letter 589: You gave good counsel to a good man — you found what was right, and he did not reject it.

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

The reasons Iamblichus [a young kinsman of the famous philosopher, not the philosopher himself] set out, he will...

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

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.