Letter 604: Flourish in your own life, and in doing so make your father a happy man.
To Elpidius.
Be happy in your own life by making your father a happy man.
AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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
Ἐλπιδίῳ
Εὐδαιμόνει τῷ σαυτοῦ βίῳ τὸν σὸν ποιῶν πατέρα εὐ-
δαίμονα.
Revision history
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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