Letter 605: I sent you the speech — a small thing about great matters.
To Emperor Julian. (~360 AD)
I sent you the speech — a small thing about great matters. To make the speech greater, you are surely the master, if you grant what would make it so.
By granting it, you will show that you consider me a craftsman of encomia. By not granting it, you will leave room for other suspicions.
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Latin / Greek Original
Βασιλεῖ Ἰουλιανῷ. (360?)
Ἔπεμψά σοι τὸν λόγον μικρὸν ὑπὲρ μεγάλων πραγμό-
των. τοῦ δὲ καὶ μείζω γενέσθαι λόγον σὺ δήπου κύριος, εἰ
δοίης ἀφ’ ὧν ἂν γένοιτο μείζων.
δοὺς μὲν οὖν δηλώσεις
ὅτι με τεχνίτην ἐγκωμίων ἡγῇ· μὴ δοὺς δὲ δώσεις ἕτερα
ὑποπτεύειν.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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