Letter 822: This Aeneas is not a man of rhetoric, nor of wealth, nor of any other kind of power — unless one calls fairness and...
Μαξίμῳ. (363)
Οὐ τῶν ῥητορικῶι οὐδὲ τῶν εὐπόρων οὐ τῶν ἄλλην
ἐχόντων δύναμίν ἐστιν Αὶνείας οἶτος, πλὴν εἴ τις λέγοι δύ-
ναμιν τὴν ἐπιείκειαν καὶ τὸ εἶναι χρηστόν· ὡς ταῦτά γε αὐτῷ
πρὸς ὑπερβολὴν μεμελέτηται.
μαρτυρῶ δὲ αὐτὸς πειθόμενος
τοῖς μαρτυροῦσιν αὐτῷ φίλοις γε οὖσιν ἐμοί τι καἰ Ἀληθείᾳ.
καὶ πιστεύω γε τὸν Αἰνείαν τεύξεσθαι βοηθείας παρὰ τῷ τὸ
πράγματα πρὸ τῆς τῶν ἀγωνιζομένων ὁρῶντι τύχης.
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