Letter 682: I do not wish to believe that you cared little for the affairs of Ulpianus and Palladius — that you neither honored...
To Ioulianos. (361/62)
I do not wish to believe that you cared little for the affairs of Ulpianus and Palladius — that you neither honored them as friends, nor respected them as rhetors, nor took into account that your companions share the same labors as you. For many say things that it would not even be proper for me to repeat, but I insist that none of this is yours to own.
Write, then, and send your testimony, and help both me and yourself.
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Latin / Greek Original
Ἰουλιανῷ. (361/62)
Οὐ βούλομαι πιστεῦσαι τοῦθ’ ὅτι σοι τῶν Οὐλπιανοῦ
καὶ Παλλαδίου μικρὸν ἐμέλησε πραγμάτων καὶ οὔτε ὡς φίλους
ἐτίμησας οὔθ’ ὡς ῥήτορας ᾐδέσθης οὔτε τὸ τοὺς αὐτούς σοι
πόνους πονεῖν τοὺς ἑταίρους εἰς λόγον ἔθου. λέγεται μὲν γὰρ
ὑπὸ πολλῶν ἃ οὐδὲ εἰπεῖν μοι καλόν, ἐγὼ δὲ μάχομαι μηδὲν
τούτων εἶναι σόν.
γράψας δὴ πέμψον τὴν μαρτυρίαν καὶ
βοήθησον ἐμοί τε καὶ σεαυτῷ.
Revision history
- 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import
Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.
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