Letter 61: I feel a mixture of joy and its opposite.
**To Olympius** (359/360)
A certain mixture of pleasure and its opposite possesses me. That Priscianus's fortunes are advancing — this is a festival for me. But that I am separated from the man who imitates my uncle in his devotion to my interests — this is no light thing for me.
Yet it was necessary that not only the foremost of physicians but also the foremost of rhetoricians should attend the emperor. And for this reason Olympius has long been close to him, and now the rhetorician has arrived.
You will make his new home no worse than his own by making your friends his friends in common. For you did not win your influence without effort, but he, through your power, will win his quickly. No one prepared such a harbor for you in advance — but he, from the fruits of your labors, will be crowned without raising a hand.
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