Roman Letters

Letter 699: I have sent my brother to supplicate the god who dwells near you on my behalf.

Libanius→Heortius, of Themistius (a student)|c. 380 AD|Libanius|AI-assisted
friendship
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I have sent my brother to supplicate the god who dwells near you on my behalf. Join him in his petition, if you care at all about my well-being.

AI-assisted translation - This translation was produced with AI assistance and has not been peer-reviewed.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

Ἑορτίῳ. (362)

Ἔπεμψα τὸν ἀδελφὸν ἱκετεύσοντα τὸν παρ’ ὑμῖν ὑπὲρ
ἐμοῦ θεόν. κοινώνησον δὴ τῆς ἱκειείας, εἶ τί σοι μέλει τοῦ
ἐρρῶσθαί με.

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Revision history

  1. 2026-03-20v2.1.0-import

    Initial corpus import from AI-assisted translation from original text.

    Fields: letter text, metadata, source links. Source: https://github.com/OpenGreekAndLatin/First1KGreek/blob/master/volume_xml/libanius_10.xml

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