Letter 933: Libanius explains a playful letter that was taken too seriously and asks Eustochius to help Antiochus.

I wrote to you as though you knew how to catch a ball. The whole thing was a game, inviting you to answer in the same spirit. But you almost imitated Ajax of Salamis, at least if I can trust the reports: wanting one thing and forced into another. And yet the second part of the letter showed the first part clearly enough. You should have honored the first part with laughter, and done so together with excellent Priscion. Since you were annoyed, however, and he was annoyed along with you, and since things that were not serious came to be treated as serious among you, I will not wrong the letter or erase it. Instead, one name will be put in place of another. That is easy enough: Eustochius goes out, Eustathius comes in. In return for this, free Antiochus from the troubles in which he has wrongly fallen from his proper rank. I hear that you have the power to secure this release.