Letter 8: You're being unfair when you call my inability "deceit.
**To Helladius** (353 or 354?)
You do me wrong by calling my inability deceit. The one belongs to what is hated, the other to what is pitied — yet you confuse things that cannot be mixed: misfortunes and villainy. For my part, I confess that I fell in love with Berytus for many reasons, and with Athens for every reason, yet was unable to visit either. I hear that even Hera was once bound and could not stir until the very one who had contrived her chains came and set her free.
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