Letter 605: I sent you the speech — a small thing about great matters.
To the Emperor Julian. (360?)
I have sent you the oration, a small one on behalf of great matters. But as to the oration becoming greater still, you yourself are surely master of that, if you should supply the things from which it might become greater.
If, then, you give them, you will make it clear that you regard me as a craftsman of encomia; but if you do not give them, you will give cause to suspect otherwise.
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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
- 2026-05-27v2.2.34-import
Initial corpus import from modern libanius retranslated v1.
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