Letter 72: I did not advise you to leave your homeland, your home, your family, and your prospects -- nor would I ever give...

LibaniusAetius|c. 321 AD|Libanius
property economics

**To Aetius** (359)

I did not urge you to leave your homeland, your house, your family, and your prospects — nor would I ever give such counsel to a citizen who renders such great service to so great a city.

But since an adviser more persuasive than I has appeared, and something has seemed to you more august than your own dignity, I do not approve of the decision, yet I pray it may reach a good end. But even that will be in Fortune's hands.

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