Letter 96: Well, this particular labor has ended well -- the helmsman's skill proved stronger than the wild winds.
**To Modestus** (359/60)
Well then, that contest has ended happily, the helmsman's skill having proved stronger than the savage winds.
Come now, set right for us the city of Alexander too, as it rushes toward destruction — so that its people may be saved, and so that those who have the power of eloquent speech may have lofty things to say about you.
How I wish you had the power to bring even the dead back to the light! For surely you would have raised up the divine one for us first of all.
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