Letter 709: If you did not already know Theophilus, I would tell you that even when circumstances invited excess, the man...
Libanius→Celsus, governor of Cilicia|c. 381 AD|Libanius
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Τῷ αὐτῶ. (362)
Εἰ μὲν ἠγνόεις Θεόφιλον, ἐδίδασκον ἄν σε ὅτι οὗτος ἐν
καιρῷ παρέχοντι παροινεῖν μέτριος ἦν· ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ οἶσθα καὶ
διὰ τοῦτ’ εὖ ποιεῖς, διδάσκειν μὲν ἢ παρακαλεῖν οὐδὲν ἄν σε
δεοίμην, ἐπαινῶ δέ, ὅτι τὸν ἄνδρα τῶν προνοίας ἀξίων ἡγῇ.
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Τῷ αὐτῶ. (362)
Εἰ μὲν ἠγνόεις Θεόφιλον, ἐδίδασκον ἄν σε ὅτι οὗτος ἐν
καιρῷ παρέχοντι παροινεῖν μέτριος ἦν· ἐπεὶ δὲ καὶ οἶσθα καὶ
διὰ τοῦτ’ εὖ ποιεῖς, διδάσκειν μὲν ἢ παρακαλεῖν οὐδὲν ἄν σε
δεοίμην, ἐπαινῶ δέ, ὅτι τὸν ἄνδρα τῶν προνοίας ἀξίων ἡγῇ.
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