Letter 98: I'm calling you to do what you do best: defend those who've been wronged.
To Urbanus (359/60)
I call upon you to run your own race when I call upon you to defend those who have been wronged. This man Zenobius here has been wronged: though he governed the peace at Elusa with scrupulous care, he has been driven from his land by a man who knows how to buy such things.
Do not stand by and watch either this man suffer loss or me be made a laughingstock — I who am thought both to care for him and to have influence with you. And if you restore his land to him, secure the governor's goodwill for him as well, whether by speaking to him in person or writing to him in his absence; for it is better to obtain nothing at all than to obtain it at the cost of that man's enmity.
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